Apr 28

Focused Cruise Ships

Posted by Simon

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.

Apr 23

Installation Number One

Posted by Simon

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

Apr 23

Gasoline Prices

Posted by Simon

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.

Apr 23

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

Winston Churchill

Apr 19

Change Is…

Posted by Simon

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.