6 posts from February 2008

Via Wired regarding the ethanol. Should ethanol or other biofuels be even discussed as it inflates corn prices for food while not really saving us or the environment from the bigger picture?  Am I wrong on this, or perhaps biofuels are simply a waypoint to energy independence.  

Edit: Here's a Flickr link from the march.

Happy Birthday Nicolaus Copernicus.  Most famous for challenging the church's notion that the earth was the center of the universe in his now famous On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, published after his death.  

I've been using CulturedCode's organizational program Things, in beta, since going public in January.   I cannot recommend a program more for productivity than this one.  If you're disorganized like I am this is a godsend.  I just hope they integrate iCal and Mail with the elegance and refinement already shown in the program. Mac OS X only.  Download beta, full version Spring 2008.

As a DS guy I sometimes look over if the other yard is greener, and sometimes I think it is.  This looks great.

Relationships are a funny thing.  My wife and I dated for a long time and one of the things that was a ritual for us was to read Jeff Smith's Bone together.  It came out only six times a year so when it came in the mail we savoired every page.  We read the comic aloud like some sort of play and each character had a voice.  The memory of it gives me a warm smile.

We stopped reading Bone long ago.  We have a child now and a new house.  We worry about the mortgage and if Joaquin is adjusting well to everything.  I think it's time we returned and finished the adventures of Fone, Phony, & Smiley.  We were younger then, but no nostalgia or waning for the past, just love.  It'll be good to see our friends from Boneville and wonder no more what happened to them from there to here.  Great read published by Scholastic, link to Amazon.