Day April 30, 2008

When I get to the bottom…

… I go back to the top of the slide. So, we sold or gave away half our stuff, loaded the rest in a 16 ft truck towing my car, and headed from CT to SF a few days ago,…

$200 a barrel oil?

“What is disturbing here is that things seem to get worse, not better,” an analyst at Goldman Sachs, David Greely, said. “These high prices are not attracting meaningful new supplies.” That’s because there isn’t any extra supply waiting for higher…

Green River WY

Yesterday was another long day of driving, through much of Nebraska (which 500 miles across) and stopped in Green River WY, a small mining town. Nebraska was quite flat, Wyoming started flat, but now the foothills of the Rockies are…

Urban food deserts

Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighborhoods with low…