I originally started this blog item in January of this year, but put it on the shelf because even I wasn’t all that interested in it. Given the fullness of time and a few Middle Eastern political revolutions and the subject is back.
Archive for the ‘Who Knew?’ Category
$5.00 Gasoline?
Posted in Who Knew?, tagged cheap gas, oil patch on April 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Jed Clampett, Oil Millionaire
Posted in Who Knew?, tagged gasoline, petroleum on March 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you’re curious as to how Jed got there, he went through the same process that countless other land owners did when crude oil was discovered on their property.
Digital Maoism
Posted in Who Knew? on March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Now, of course, having such a problem textbook can be easily remedied by just culling out all the too white and too male stuff and putting in your own ideas. Nice in one way, but kind of tough on those who spent their lives studying a subject and trying to bring coherence out of the confusion.
Being For Something
Posted in Who Knew? on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Several years ago, my spouse and I came to an interesting conclusion; many of our friends were, ahem, liberals. This, in itself, was not a tragic discovery, just one which bemused us both. Being genteel people, we valued our friends for their friendship.
Independence Day
Posted in Who Knew? on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are a fortunate people.
You Can’t Make Somebody Love You
Posted in Who Knew? on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the fullness of time, Marc Anthony would move on to Egypt, gaining a nice house in Alexandria, a torrid relationship with one of the hottest babes of his time and a three movie deal with 20th Century Fox.
They Go Back Home
Posted in Who Knew? on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The immigrants’ presence here was always fluid since they had never made the thorough commitment to become a legal resident of the United States in the first place.
On Baltic Birch
Posted in Who Knew? on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As is woodworker custom in the late afternoons, beer was drug out and we were sitting on the loading dock and talking about things wood. He asked an interesting question. “Have you ever wondered why Baltic birch plywood varies so much?”
Beach Sand
Posted in Who Knew? on March 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps the brightest of all was Dr. Willis Adcock, who worked at the Standard Oil of Indiana research facility at Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the early 1950’s, Adcock left Standard and went to work with a startup in Dallas, Texas.
