I've been reading several interesting articles about the current run up in the price of oil. One can begin with 3 major theories about why this is so ( Read more... )

So...I am learning english. I have to learn english because I am teaching english. You see...right now english just comes out of a black box in my head. Thats really weird when you think about it. The concept of knowing how to do something without knowing the nature of what it is your doing raises all sorts of metaphysical questions. And shouldn't ( Read more... )

Because circumstances kinda require it I am attempting to learn japanese. One of the many aspects of japanese that blows my mind is the many personal pronouns. For example in english we have I. In japanese there are 4 or 5 references to self. From what I gather they mean the following ( Read more... )

I love that fact that people who are trained to kill people with guns, are suddenly struck down by a stray piece of propaganda. Please let it be true!!! People feel guilty for killing innocent people?!?! Thats just crazy.
Click this linkhttp://www.nationalcenter.

Propaganda sounds just as dumb coming out of Moore's mouth as it does coming out of Bush's ( Read more... )

   I have to counteract all the recent hippy gardening posts with a few downers. Here is a list of ways our nice cozy western lives could end. Not necessarily death but definately discomfort. This list runs from least to most, of my confidence I will see it in my lifetime.

Yellowstone Caldera - A true doomsday for the world.

The East Coast ( Read more... )

Stuff's been happening around here ( Read more... )

I planted sweet corn today. 3 varieties. Come buy some in August.

Ok I assembled all the ingredients for my beer. I have the equipment and the knowledge of what went wrong. Now all I have to do is overcome my fear and laziness.

On a side note Dave is busy completing Item #3

I spent much of the last two days in the garden. This spring we had spread horse poopy over where we thought the garden would be, but inevitably the garden spread beyond our manure blanket. The tomato's we planted outside of that poopy zone immediately began to die. I might as well have planted them in beach sand. I was shocked at how unfertile the ( Read more... )