Photos of New Orleans, LA My first morning in New Orleans I rolled into ACME company for a oyster po boy for breakfast. Oysters for breakfast sound a little odd? They are surprisingly good fried with toast, and family tradition for the morning of Christmas eve. I figured the po boy was a pretty good …
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Energy assumptions
Jim Kunstler’s latest post is typically inflammatory, but definitely makes for some good reading: The price of oil is up 53 percent over a year ago, creeping up now toward the mid-$90-range. The news media is still AWOL on the subject. (The New York Times has nothing about it on today’s front page.) The dollar …
Qualcomm evacuation for the San Diego fires
Photos of the Qualcomm evacuation for the San Diego fires This morning I bought a bunch of supplies and brought them down to Qualcomm Stadium, where there are a lot of evacuees. It was a long (2.5 hours) process, but everyone seemed to be in relatively good spirits. There are a lot of volunteers doing …
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CA oil rigs – remove them, let them be reefs?
As anyone who has driven through OC to the California central coast knows, there are lot of offshore oil rigs out there. The UT has a great article on the debate over what to do about the California oil rigs once their life span is up. Some want them dismantled, but as the article shows, …
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Personal responsibility
I went on a dive to the Yukon and the Ruby E this weekend. Two guys on the same dive boat were visiting San Diego and decided to go diving. Nice enough guys, but I noticed the following as everyone was getting ready to go out to the wrecks: 1) Wetsuits were on backwards, hoods …