The world sticks to the paved roads. The roads are paths paved by industry. The paths are trails widened by the marketplace. The trails are hacked by the Weird, who leave the paved road for the sake of curiosity and wonderment. Where the Weird go, the world follows.
Here’s an interesting fact for you: the purpose of gasoline rationing during the Second World War was not to conserve gas, but to conserve TIRES. The primary source for natural rubber at the time was Southeast Asia, much of which was under Japanese control.
“So?”
So…if supply is scarce and you can’t control production…then the only alternative […]
Many people are up in arms about $4.00-per-gallon gas. Not me. I’m trying to figure out how we can emulate that nonsense.
Seriously. How can we raise your prices by 100% over a two year period, and have people continue to increase consumption?
How did the oil companies do it? New markets opened up as several […]
Well, it’s been a while, but after fixing the technical difficulties, we’re back online with the blog. So I’d like to open with Stonehenge.
Stonehenge is an incredible feat of human engineering. 40-ton stones from various places in England and Wales dragged to Salisbury and erected into a massive structure using stone-age technologies. It’s perfectly […]
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