The “special” at my local pizzeria went from $5.00 to $5.50 today.  I asked the guy behind the counter why the price went up.
“Ethanol,” he said, and shrugged his shoulders.
Which got me to thinking.  Lately, I’ve been pretty much immune to things like rising gas prices and fare hikes.  In fact, the last time I [...]

Is that a word?  Just googled it, guess it is…
Okay, now that the mic-check is over, I’ve got something to say.
I’ve been reading a lot about biomimicry lately.  Biomimicry, in a nutshell, is looking to nature for cues on how to design something.  The Wright brothers did a lot of this when they studied birds [...]

I’ve been on the fence about hybrid cars for a while.  Not that I don’t think they’re a great leap forward from SUVs, rather, I’m worried about how the auto makers are selling them.  The story of car ownership is often marked by a series of buck-passings, and make-it-throughs as a car goes from owner [...]