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Small potatoes.
You have 100 pounds of potatoes that are 99 percent water. After being left in the sun for a few days, the water content drops to 98 percent. How many pounds of potatoes do you now have? -
A brief update.
Tiff and I are getting married next Saturday, June the 28th. The following week we're moving to Huntsville, AL where I've taken a job as a project engineer.
I'm ready to get back to blogging. I'll get started once I start the job and get settled.
There is no certainty - only opportunity. Strive. -
And these folks want to be President?!
They want lower prices but don't want more production to increase supply. They want oil "independence" but they've declared off limits most of the big sources of domestic oil that could replace foreign imports. They want Americans to use less oil to reduce greenhouse gases but they protest higher oil prices that reduce demand. They want more oil ( Read more... ) -
Wilderness.
It is only through civilization that nature is considered beautiful. -
Societal Entropy.
There's no stopping people from getting the idea that the incredible wealth around them is available without production, or that "production ultimately has been solved" and society is merely a question of distribution. These periodic madnesses can be attributed to a sociological phenomenon analogous to entropy in the physical world. You cannot stop ( Read more... ) -
A take on Catholocism.
"Reading the papers or glancing at the television, one could have got the impression that His Holiness the Pope was the accepted moral tutor for the entire world, instead of the leader of a traditionalist sect that calls its ostensibly celibate and virginal officials by parental names like "Father" and "Mother" and opposes almost every kind of ( Read more... ) -
Roger Clemens' ass.
The US House of Representatives is now investigating Roger Clemens' ass. -
The Whole Idea.
From each as they choose,
to each as they are chosen.
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