Wha?
Yep… so I’m going to be a father. A parent. A dad. An old man.
I’m very excited, but it’s still a distant 8 months away. I have a hard enough time paying attention to the next 2 weeks, much less something that is going to happen in 8 months. I don’t really know what to think, but my priorities have changed. I used to be very concerned with discovering fulfillment and challenge in my career, but it’s like overnight I have been armed with a greater sense of purpose and I now know what I want. My job has actually gotten easier due to this heightened sense of clarity. I am going to be responsible for providing for a family and I feel like this is why I was born. It’s really weird.
I’m also going to be moving to a new house in 2 weeks. I’ve got a lot to do.
I’m about to slip into a rant here. Just as a notice, if I ever hear any of you talking about global warming as if it were anthropomorphic or preventable or carbon dioxide emissions as if they are unnatural and bad then I am going to be a bit disappointed. The moment you start putting caps on the amount of fossil fuels (especially for the sake of a consistently refuted untruth) that can be produced and consumed is when you will start living a third-world lifestyle. Comparable alternative fuels do not exist and will not exist for the foreseeable future… so don’t hold out any hope. The energy release of gasoline combustion is way higher than any other easily controllable process that has ever been discovered and electric cars that require charging and periods of disutility do not count since you have just outsourced the “emissions” to a power plant (unless it is nuclear, which is unlikely).
June 13th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I’m going to miss you
It’s not like though we ever came much out of the house to party or anything. Johnsons tend to be homebodies . . . but we are thrilled about your soon arrival. It gets here quicker than you think; little Benjamin Cooper Johnson will be here July 10. Wow. I get to drag my child kicking and screaming into the covenant of grace in August; I think I will cry . . . best wishes Crum; keep me posted on the details.
June 15th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Congress just rejected a bill that would have freed up the Outer Continental Shelf for oil drilling. The shelf is conservatively estimated to hold about 86 billion gallons of crude oil (which is roughly 43 billion gallons of actual gasoline) as well as 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This crude oil would supply the entire USA for about 8 months. Not that this is a good long-term solution anyway, the fact that this bill didn’t even make it out of the Congressman’s subcommittee is kind of dumb.
Unless we start getting a lot more oil, everything is going to convert to electricity regardless. It’s the only thing that makes sense at this point.
Also, grats on Crum-spawn. We are all happy for you and look forward to his/her/their arrival.
June 15th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
if you are a risk taker, i think it would be a good idea to short-sale oil futures.
you read it here.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Man I cant wait for that kid! Soooo exciting!
JR, but it takes oil to create electricity. We dont just tap into electricity reserves if I am not mistaken. What the heck is wrong with these people? Why dont they even consider it?! Who voted for these yahoos?
June 19th, 2008 at 7:30 am
“JR, but it takes oil to create electricity.”
No it doesn’t.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Let me correct, it takes fuel to create electricity. I mistyped, although oil is also a fuel used in creation of enery. My point is, is that electricity is not a cleaner energy solution. Energy is converted into different kinds of energy. In order to create energy, it causes pollution as well. I dont understand the politicians that are against using available resources. Twas my point.
And in ANWAR, aside from the outer continental shelf, we would only use, what I heard is .01% of the land in ANWAR in order to get the resources.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I think water powered cars(and everything else) are the future anyway….
July 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I disagree, Brian. Water has little to no potential chemical energy on its own. Steam power requires a very powerful external energy source to be used (due to a very high specific heat) and is very dangerous. Likewise, hydrogen has been shown to be ridiculously inefficient as an energy source (more energy goes into it than comes out of it!). Water itself provides little to no opportunity for power unless you use it + gravity to power turbines (hydroelectricity), but even then it is much less powerful than fossil fuels or nuclear power. I think the future contains a LOT more nuclear power; the probe we will be sending soon to Mars is going to be powered by its own miniature nuclear reactor! That is the kind of tech we will be seeing in the future.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
*specific gravity, not heat
July 24th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I miss my time with you. I’m lost in the world of science and math without your guidance; I need you tomake sense of string theory and “negative mass.” Huh?!? Anyway, I was glad to hear that Jessi is doing well and ya’ll are settled in. Blessings Cruminsky. Keep in touch . . .
August 6th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
It’s high time for a new post. Hey, give a review on the new Opeth album. I think it’s amazing.