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June 17th, 2007

The Sordid Story of Alligator Fudge


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This alligator is nut free

Since I have not found the term via Google anywhere on the internet I feel compelled to impart this legendary story onwards to the suceeding generations. 

Some friends by the name of Dana Henderson and John Holman used to love to perpetrate the following joke.  Dana would crap into a brown paper bag then offer it as “Alligator Fudge” to people.  If you were unlucky enough to take the bag and open it you would be hit with a malodorous wiff of fudge.

 

June 17th, 2007

Fear Not Pious Green Religion Adherents - You Just Got your Gasoline Tax Increase - De Facto


I just saw an arty linked in Yahoo Finance: Oil Industry Scales Back Refinery Plans

Exerpt here:

A push from Congress and the White House for huge increases in biofuels, such as ethanol, is prompting the oil industry to scale back its plans for refinery expansions. That could keep gasoline prices high, possibly for years to come. With President Bush calling for a 20 percent drop in gasoline use and the Senate now debating legislation for huge increases in ethanol production, oil companies see growing uncertainty about future gasoline demand and little need to expand refineries or build new ones.

Who in their right mind actually believes some government make-do is going to actually address a practical engineering problem like this????????   Only a fool. 

Thus a few years from now with no biofuels and too little refinery capacity we the people of the United States of American are going to be holding Da Proverbial Bag.  Gasoline is going higher, as the man from the Men-Swear-House says “I guarantee it”

Get used to it. Here’s yours.  BTW: Its full of alligator fudge.

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Alligator Fudge….YUM YUM!

June 17th, 2007

A Tour of my Gunn Collection - I am the Man with the Golden Gunn


A real RF nerd I am.  I just sold my Gunn collection. Who would have known that I was the man with the golden gunn ?  I am so glad I’m not normal.  I don’t need a TV to be entertained.  Why when there are so many voices in my head having conversations and listening to records?

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June 17th, 2007

The Cheerful Looking Fireworks that are Nukes


I saw this image of a nuclear warhead on a website.  Why are the warheads so triangular?  The nose cones of missles seem much more rounded.  I had to note this warhead because it looks like a type of Chinese firework.  Better have a long fuse! It might be considered an attractive nuisance.  Better keep me away from it as I’m a bit of a pyromaniac and thinking it was a relatively harmless black powder warhead I would be sorely tempted to light it off.

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