Vermont
Vermont is so nice this time of year, things fell in place to visit Bryan, Ceredwyn and kids, and get 4 gallons of maple syrup. They've got goats now, plus the chickens, with an economic forecast more doomful than mine. But he's still touring around, promoting IT for colleges. Also visited 6 flags new england, before they close for the year, to see what they did with my plastic. Likewise Ghostly Manor, though 7 floors in Ohio had presumably auctioned off their castle, at their annual props auction. 6 flags had a great skit, a Trial for Sorcery of Abigail Dickenson. Her father the Puritan pronounces her a witch, and they lop off hear head with a guillotine. But that doesn't shut her up, and many curses ensue. She was so emo. They also had an undead Sinatra, Morrison, Elvis and Marilyn sing along, beyond awful. And then to Boston, to visit Corinna. But she was spending time in the hospital with Sean, so no tour of Harvard for me. He got better after I left. And the plan B, NYC detour will have to wait a few months.
Still pushing forward with the stained glass works, I stopped in Corning again, though the research library is closed for renovations. Grr! At least I got some answers, including some patent #s for float glass and hot molding. And yes, they still have the best glass collection on the world. Addicting, inspiring. For some of it, I can do better.
Arbitrarily, here are some conversational highlights:
Peak oil may yet make climate change legislation redundant, if we run out of oil before we hit a catalytic turning point. Not that anyone has a clue when that might be, considering that CO2 only follows temp in the short term, it's water vapor that's the primary greenhouse gas. And we live in one of the geologically brief periods between ice ages, for which we are overdue. But who am I to gainsay the popular hysteria? Of course solar output is perfectly constant, and has no effect on temperature.
We were mulling over the consequences of huge unpayable student debts even before I heard these twentysomethings having lunch at a museum, and one says "dude, i totally wish we had an armageddon. Spending the next twenty years paying off student loans is like, bullshit" Well, no longer will old geezers get to complain to spoiled youngsters about walking to school barefoot, uphill both ways. I wonder if our president will propose some fiscally imprudent but wildly popular bailout for them, right before the 2012 election. . .
lastly, Starbuck from Battlestar Gallactica is not a cylon or an angel, exactly. She's a Vorlon! That's why they keep Babylon 5 out of their space, to protect their hybrid experiments.
Still pushing forward with the stained glass works, I stopped in Corning again, though the research library is closed for renovations. Grr! At least I got some answers, including some patent #s for float glass and hot molding. And yes, they still have the best glass collection on the world. Addicting, inspiring. For some of it, I can do better.
Arbitrarily, here are some conversational highlights:
Peak oil may yet make climate change legislation redundant, if we run out of oil before we hit a catalytic turning point. Not that anyone has a clue when that might be, considering that CO2 only follows temp in the short term, it's water vapor that's the primary greenhouse gas. And we live in one of the geologically brief periods between ice ages, for which we are overdue. But who am I to gainsay the popular hysteria? Of course solar output is perfectly constant, and has no effect on temperature.
We were mulling over the consequences of huge unpayable student debts even before I heard these twentysomethings having lunch at a museum, and one says "dude, i totally wish we had an armageddon. Spending the next twenty years paying off student loans is like, bullshit" Well, no longer will old geezers get to complain to spoiled youngsters about walking to school barefoot, uphill both ways. I wonder if our president will propose some fiscally imprudent but wildly popular bailout for them, right before the 2012 election. . .
lastly, Starbuck from Battlestar Gallactica is not a cylon or an angel, exactly. She's a Vorlon! That's why they keep Babylon 5 out of their space, to protect their hybrid experiments.