Blog of Billy

I'm really distressed to discover that "strike on box" matches mean what they say. Even after hours of searching, I have found nothing that lets them light other than the actual sticker-strip thingy on the box itself. Being all too Boy Scout-ish for my own good, I much prefer "strike anywhere" both for aesthetic joy in its multi-colored tip and its sheer usefulness.

There is a mouse running around the ceiling tiles at work and it is really freaky to see little furry feet wrap themselves around the grating of the air conditioning vents from the other side.

I really don't know how I feel about the whole gas prices thing yet. My first instinct, of course, is to condemn anything that a consortium does to change the market price of something away from it's labor-based value. The problem that I have is that the higher that the price of gas goes, the quicker other forms of engines (read: renewables) get built. Even gas-electric hybrids seem like a wasted step to me, and resources that could be better spent developing cheaper, more reliable, and safer fuel cell based automobiles. I mean really. The stuff runs on industrial waste. Captain Planet would be doing some kind of hover-jig thing. Still, there are people who are advocating a 1-day "boycott" of gas in an attempt to do something about the prices. Understanding that the only way to effectively boycott is to actually consume less gas in a long-term and real way, as opposed to throwing a 24 hour hissy fit, I still think I'll take part to fiddle ever so slightly with capitalism and to see if it gets noticed anywhere, unlike the last several...thousand email-based protests. It won't accomplish anything but making some people feel a little better and more political, but at least we are the fool and not the knave.

Merry Lizzimas to all.