Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random mutterings
81 kVp, 2.6 mAs, small focal spot
Last week the blog ticked over the 7 year mark and I managed to miss it. 7 whole years. Wow, that’s like ancient in Internet years.
On to year number 8.
In a Twitter response to the last blog post about gas prices, @LincJosh asked
I would like to see this with a price per barrel comparison! #rippedoff
Being the geek that I am, how could I resist this.
Plotted is the price per gallon of regular gasoline (solid line, left axis) and something called the “Weekly United States Spot Price FOB Weighted by Estimated Import Volume” (dashed line, right axis).
On a price per barrel basis (regular gas – solid line, US crude – dashed line),
The numbers are all ripped out of Petroleum Price Database kindly provided by the US Energy Information Administration and used in its raw unprocessed form.
When I first got the Camry, I decided to keep track of how much gas I was putting into it. It was a way of putting ThinkDB to work on my Handspring Platinum.
Although the graph only indicates what I’ve paid for gas over the years, it should track reasonably well with the regional and national averages.
Saturday’s bug invasion was followed yesterday with the appearance of similar but smaller bug carcasses scattered about the house. These new ones were about half the size of the ones I was squishing the other day. Haven’t spotted any new bugs crawling around since Saturday though.
Will have to check the garage and around the outside of the house and see if there’s anything going on.
Wonder if I should call the bug guy in to check things out.
Update: Bug guy confirmed that the bugs were Formosan termites that have been swarming recently. Said they sneak into houses, and then die because there are no good places inside houses to establish colonies. After checking out underneath the house, he said everything was good and that any other termites that get into the house will probably die too.