http://tomprice.org opinions, works, images of Tom Price Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:27:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just read this single line in National Geographic and boy howdy did it catch my attention, given its sweeping implications, and the source: "By 2010, according to James Mulva, CEO of ConocoPhillips, nearly 40 percent of the world's daily oil output will have to come from fields that have not been ... http://tomprice.org/2008/05/19/what-how-soon-youve-got-to-be-kiddingnope-sorry-kids/ If you're not already paying attention to what's going on with Peak Oil/Energy/Money/Food, you really should be. Here's a primer: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...eo.html www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...41.html www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Bre...html patrick.net/housing/crash.html I don't believe it's fear mongering, it's just fact: we've all experienced the housing/credit crush, now fuel is spiking and food along with it. And with that is going to come some ... http://tomprice.org/2008/05/01/time-to-start-planning/ My day gig, Black Rock Solar, just got picked to be a partner producer of sorts for the ROTHBURY festival. Which is quite incredible, really, considering we've only really been officially cooking for what, three weeks? A month? Anyway, great to be asked, great gig, their website makes the place look like ... http://tomprice.org/2008/02/13/rocking-rothbury/ As news of the failure of the internet percolated around the interwebs today, a dropped anchor off Alexandria causing this disruption, I was reminded of a remarkable story 11 years ago in Wired, called Mother Earth Mother Board, in which Neil Stephenson tracked the "meat space," or physical nature of ... http://tomprice.org/2008/01/31/communications-down-in-alexandria-not-the-first-time/ The news from South Carolina is staggering: 54% of the state voted for Obama, more than Edwards and Clinton combined. Do I miss Bill Clinton? Yes. Do I want his wife to be president? No. But President Obama, perhaps w/ Clinton as VP? John McCain could exhume Reagan's fetid corpse ... http://tomprice.org/2008/01/26/say-it-out-loud-hes-barack-and-im-proud/ Reconnecting with an old, old friend whom you've no spoken to in almost ten years, only to find you've not skipped a beat, is the Best. Thing. Ever. http://tomprice.org/2008/01/20/no-more-callers-please-we-have-a-winner/ Most often, Mark Morford's columns fill me with rage. But today, just a glimmer of hope. Here's the whole thing, and for those too lazy to read that much, here's the nut graph: "However, we do seem to be at this weird flash point, a privileged moment in political history where the ... http://tomprice.org/2008/01/16/a-glimmer-of-hope/ After watching the spin and 'analysis' that passes for reflection in our media, I feel compelled to offer up my own thoughts on all of the candidates, in no particular order. Obama--brilliant, but too young. he has the poise to be handling it well, but he's not seasoned enough. too bad, ... http://tomprice.org/2008/01/06/the-candidates-in-brief/ Want to know why Iowa voted for that ridiculous, ignorant, squirrel-cookin-in-his-popcorn-maker, Mike Huckabee? Cause if they didn't, his boy CHUCK NORRIS, ACTION HERO FIGHTER!!, seen here right behind Huck, as always, lurking, poised-- would have kicked their ass. New Hampshire, you're next! http://tomprice.org/2008/01/03/two-buck-huck-and-chuck/ My good friend Steve Jones had a story fall through at the last minute for his Green City column at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and so he ended up taking what was going to be a story about the Black Rock Solar project, and padded it with a lot ... http://tomprice.org/2008/01/02/aw-shucks/