Oil hit $44.34/barrel yesterday. I know this is a bad thing for global poor and all, but it is times like this that my NHS bred nihilistic and masochistic tendencies come out... because I am damn glad of the oil price explosion. At the end of the semester I declared, "Here's to a $50 per barrel summer!", but my predictions may have been off: ( Read more... )

The website has now been moved to a new server! The Lair is now being hosted by Jefferson C. Post, whose website can be accessed by clicking the button above the Hammer banner. The advantage to the new server is that the site is now ad-free and comparatively free of space limitations. But don't worry, the site can still be accessed through ( Read more... )

My data is good! Yus! Had a scare when the WT numbers were 10 percent what I'd been expecting, but, as it turns out, the transducers measure in decimal feet instead of inches... so I won't have to throw out 2 months worth of GW readings in my lower wells. One of the three wells did produce garbage numbers because I failed to change the data ( Read more... )

Recieved the journals first comment yesterday (yay for Cornelius!). Decided to muck around with the livejournal aesthetics and found this pleasant grey and white on black color scheme. Sooper Spayshal Foor Shore.

A conversation with PlickMan regarding gun rights triggered the idea that it could be fun to write up a check list of "indications that a government is becoming authoritarian". In the conversation we concluded that one of the first things an authoritarian government would do is take away the citizens rights to fire arms. This may immediately ( Read more... )

Updated a weblink and added a banner to the front of the site, courtesy of Jefferson C. Post. You can check out his site
here or from the links page. I HIGHLY recommend watching the short movies in his Cinematic section.

Hammer Out.

I don't know exactly why this occurred but at some point during one of our hikes over the weekend I began thinking over the non-profit economy proposal from that last article of spring 2004, "Good and Good For You" and I realized that it might be a good idea to turn the initial businesses into a sort of investment bank, with the intention of ( Read more... )

Walking back to the lab after a falaffel lunch from Saheed's with Haas, Bill, and the injun I was talking to a friend and realized we staring at an enormous friggin' bird. We're talking about a hawk, or a falcon. I'll call it a red-tailed hawk, easily the largest and most extrordinay bird I've ever seen on the school's property ( Read more... )

I was sittin on the side of the street with my man Godzilla eatin pizza ( Read more... )

I can't tell you how sputtering mad I am right now. Senate has voted to up the maximum penalty for broadcasters violating the bullshit decency standards by 1000 percent, from $27,500 to $275,000. Unfucking heard of. And my governor, Mitt ROmney, is making an appeal to the US congress to get his bullshit gay-marraige ban ammendment passed ( Read more... )