love this joke (just like I loved your post at http://shrughes.com/p/how-to-vote-on-hacker-news/) and I agree the word "hack" has become tarnished as of late on HN. I think hardik988 was genuinely asking about how to hack together some sort of smart local grid application to control all the equipments around his home though. That's one of my fantasies too and I just haven't had time to do it but one day...

In the meantime, here is a couple of great places for tips on that: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http://ieeex... http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/tag/toaster/

if you want to control the utility down the road too ;-) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=power-hacke...