Category: home
05/29/10 02:16 - 76ºF - ID#51756
Bear!
Permalink: Bear_.html
Words: 49
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: home
05/29/10 06:01 - 59ºF - ID#51754
Oil, coal & gas
There are acts of nature beyond man's control.
Oil in water is one of them. The stuff is about as easy to clean up as molten lava. Here's the only number you really need to know about this subject:
14
That would be 14 as in 14 percent, as in the amount of oil recovered after the Exxon spill. Exxon spent more than $2 billion. It skimmed like crazy. It washed beaches. It steam-cleaned rock. It swabbed cliffs. It hauled off driftwood and oil-soaked boom and anything else it could get its hands on that had oil stuck to it, and it got 14 percent of the oil. America doesn't seem to understand -- and journalists who are supposed to know more than the average man in the street truly do not not seem to understand -- once the oil is in the water, we are not getting much of it out. We are screwed.
Massey Energy Co.
Shell Oil bought East Resources for $4.7Bn today. East is pretty much owns the mineral rights in Tioga County. In other words, Shell now owns Tioga County. <blink>
In 1792, coal was discovered in Bloss and became a dominant economic force until the early 1980s. There are some mining activities still occurring in the western half of the county. This weekend is the 18th Annual Blossbu*g State Coal Festival . Tioga County Concerned Citizens Committee is still working to clean up the acid mine drainage that makes the Tioga River "dead" from Fall Brook to Mansfield. (See (e:heidi,49800) - the river rocks are orange from the AMD and the falls stink of sulfur.) As if that environmental damage isn't enough, that same creek, a tributary of the Tioga, which becomes the Chemung, which turns into the Susquehanna, which drains into the Chesapeake Bay, now sports foam discs (probably Airfoam HD) from nearby gas well drilling.
It's all tied together for me.
Permalink: Oil_coal_amp_gas.html
Words: 358
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: home
05/28/10 04:07 - 77ºF - ID#51745
Midnight moonlight
Gordie the Chicken Whisperer is planning to sell eggs at the Bloss farmers' market on Saturdays. He gets 20-30 eggs a day from the chicken coops at the office. Organic, free range.
Bodhi's 7 weeks old!
Permalink: Midnight_moonlight.html
Words: 52
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
05/18/10 01:06 - 56ºF - ID#51675
Agricultural subsidies
Permalink: Agricultural_subsidies.html
Words: 15
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: school
05/10/10 05:27 - 51ºF - ID#51537
22.5 hrs
Tomorrow I have an exam from 9am - 4pm on zoning & land use.
Permalink: 22_5_hrs.html
Words: 25
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: home
04/23/10 03:06 - 57ºF - ID#51442
Bodhi!
Permalink: Bodhi_.html
Words: 15
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: tech
04/12/10 03:50 - 53ºF - ID#51382
EEEPC help?
Permalink: EEEPC_help_.html
Words: 83
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: home
04/09/10 12:09 - 41ºF - ID#51355
The Pentiyum
Permalink: The_Pentiyum.html
Words: 16
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: home
04/07/10 03:09 - 54ºF - ID#51347
Bodhi!
But there's something wrong with his lungs. Jill got out of the hospital today, but he was transferred to a larger regional medical center with a NICU a few hours after the c-section. At first they said he had pneumonia, then that he had fluid in his lungs from the c-section, and now they said something about emphysema. *worry worry*
Permalink: Bodhi_.html
Words: 73
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: cranky
04/05/10 10:50 - 50ºF - ID#51338
"young lady"
I'm so stressed (again). I had a final paper due last week that I totally procrastinated on and I don't think I did very well because I didn't think through the issues sufficiently. Oh well, it's only 1 credit and doesn't really count for anything. A B is sufficient.
I have a final tomorrow at 6. I had a 12-hour day today, starting with the 440 client and ending at 8:15 in my oil & gas law class. I (politely, via email) called the prof out on being wrong on PA law about oil & gas severance and property taxes and he still couldn't admit he was wrong, and gave this convoluted answer about "in theory, PA has no property or severance tax on oil & gas" uh... there's not a huge difference between theory and reality on a statement like "we conclude that there is no authority for imposing a real estate tax on such [oil & gas] interests" IOGA-PA v. Fayette County (2002). The reality *is* that there's no tax on oil & gas in PA, unlike coal, limestone and other hard things underground that people want to dig up and burn or use. He described the final paper and gave the deadline. The deadline is really unworkable for me, given that I have to go out of town this week to deal with all my clients at home for quarterly tax filings, so I asked for an extension - the first time I've ever asked for an accommodation - and got turned down flat, even though he had said to contact him if there was going to be trouble with the deadline. wtf. it's okay to get sick right before the deadline, but not to be responsible about it and say that it's not workable in advance. I just love all the assumptions about "this is what *real* practice is like" and "it's about being disciplined". baloney. like he knows what -my- life is or will be like. i'm not a cookie-cutter 20-something with no fucking experience.
approximately April 17 I'll have a chance to breathe for one day before tackling the backlog of schoolwork that's accumulated during this out-of-control semester. I hope to be done with finals by May 14. and then i'm going to spend the summer dancing in the sun. or in the rain. or by bonfires. or in lafayette square.
Permalink: _quot_young_lady_quot_.html
Words: 442
Location: Buffalo, NY
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