SWCAMBORNE

Here is a business idea for those of you in the travel industry.  Run cruise vacations that are extremely focused.  Some examples:

• Surfing the South Pacific
• Diving the South China Sea
• Shopping Paradise: Hong Kong to Singapore

The target market is probably big enough now with the aging baby boomers.  The boats would have to be outfitted correctly.

This is a picture of the first completed installation by the Men of Stone

This is the stone shown being recovered in the photo set on February 13, 2006. It is installed in its custom pool with the water flowing down it. We learned a lot about how to do the operations required to build a natural stone fountain and are now starting on our next batch of four stones.

Here is an idea that might help stabilize oil prices. Allow individuals to buy gasoline at todays prices for delivery in the future. Gasoline Futures for everyone.

People on the East Coast can pre-buy home heating oil and lock in a price. Why can’t we do that with gasoline? Economist could probably predict the effect on the price of gasoline? Both in the short term and in the long term.
People could buy coupons or credits on their credit cards for a specific number of gallons of gasoline at some specified or unspecified future delivery.
I believe that futures markets tend to stabilize prices. An easy test would be the heating oil price fluctuations in various markets versus the percent that is pre-sold all compared to the fluctuations in gasoline prices over the same period.

A fanatic can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Winston Churchill

I have been working a lot on my Radical Migration site Radicalmigration.com and will be getting the separate site for CodgerDivers.com going soon. Note that the pictures on cellphonehenge are done through flickr and are much faster loading than with the old method. Progress is being made. Thanks to my web dude Matt Geldin for patiently teaching me how build my site.

One thing only I know and that is I know nothing.

Socrates

These are some pictures from the cellphonehenge installation in Pasadena last weekend: If you click on any of the pictures you will be taken to the Flickr site and can see a slide show of all the cellphonehenge pictures

An aerial view of cellphonehenge note that the phones in the outer ring are older and therefore it is assumed that it predates the inner ring and the altar phone.

This view shows the “Avenue of Pagers” leading up to the henge.

This view from the west show how the light from the setting sun at the summer solistice shines through the Motorola arch and on the altar stone. The astronomical knowledge required to build these ancient henges was phenomenal.

Thanks to Lillian and Rebecca for there help constructing the henge, to Nurit for her patience and good humored acceptance of the phenomenon and to Shari Cates for collecting many of the phones over the years.
Other historic henges that will appear soon are: Umbrellahenge, Potatohenge, Brickhenge and of course the Stonehenges. Both the original in Washington State, USA and the copy in Salisbury Plains, UK.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretsky