Love that song! Believe it or not, K.D. Lang does a nice job on her “Hymns of the 49th Parallel.” I like Leonard Cohen’s version better, but Lang has some serious pipes. I think my daughters and I live and breathe with the music we love… keeps the heart pumping right.

Hell Jeff, just plain old chat about music is great – my kids say I’m way too serious anyway. And as for the Moody Blues being a soundtrack for life – YUP! I was a kid in junior high living in North Africa (Morocco) when it was released, and it was background for the GI’s and sailors I had for friends. It was background for my teen years – along with all the best music ever

I think you might be right about too much time… It seems I’m a voracious reader, and my family does the right thing and chases me out of the library and computer room with my books and magazines. It certainly is nice to hear that somebody thinks it might be worthwhile

Your video series on the energy post was certainly startling to say the least – especially since I’ve a math background applied to statistical and exponential growth patterns. Never thought about it much in terms of population – I thought Malthus was a loon – because I accepted that culling the herd was a given… nature always takes her course. It would be nice if we could choose instead, though I’m not sure we’re able.

I do hope we can look at some of our prospects for the future, make a realistic plan, and have it be “cool” too.

Steven

If there’s one thing I’m certain of, it’s that I’m supposed to be ashamed of my own culture in order to be more tolerant of the pride others have in theirs’. And I’d hate to be intolerant now…

And the reason I, personally, like the Moody Blues is that their music plays out like a soundtrack for life. You just let it play in the background and everything will be ok.

Sorry not much of substance to say today, Steve. I promise something better next time.

Either you have too much time to do all this thinking and writing, or, I have too much to be able to read it. I’m thinking with work as slow as it is for our company right now, I am reading more worthwhile stuff (like your blog) and in the end am better for it.
My wife and I were just discussing what to do in light of what we both have seen in professor Bartlett’s Lecture ( shameless plug for what I think is the most important post at my blog to date – http://ttoes.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/energy-for-life-or-the-new-dark-ages/ ).
We do create myths to placate our fears (read: Hope and Change) and convince ourselves they are real. We are not acting very adult about what is going on around us. I only hope more people will read, think and write about this as you are doing. Eventually, maybe enough people will do this that what is real will be thought to be real and it will be “cool.”

Tom