IF you see me driving around in a Nissan Skyline GT-R then it is pretty direct trickle down. I doubt this will happen so no I think the trickle down isn't as great as some people put it out to be.

And to keep with my work brain being on I'll change my analogy:

The trickle down will be like 1000 psi of pressure trying to get thru a 5,000 psi rated BOP ram, the primary viton o-ring seal of the tubing hanger and the secondary plastic injection seals. (For you laypeople out there that pressure isn't going to get thru.)

Al, don't you work at a oil wellhead company? That's some pretty direct trickle down.

Most of Alberta's economy is based on oilsands development (which makes you wonder why we're in such a hurry to pump it all out as fast as we can with no regard to environmental impact or long-term sustainability (enviro or economic)) so just by living/working/studying here we are benefitting from some small amount of trickle-down. So we're all dirty.

I just read a really interesting book (The Golden Spruce) that talks a little bit about how people who are living in an area that is being environmentally raped for short term economic gains react. There is something of a mentallity where you feel like these resources are getting exploited so quickly that if you don't get in there and get whatever you can grab now as quickly as you can, then in 10 years your area will be ecologically destroyed, and you won't have benefitted from any of it while you chould have. And he was talking about logging on a small island off the west coast, where you could walk to the top of a hill and see that all (not just some, but all) the forests had been clearcut. So in Alberta, where very few see these oilsands projects first hand, how do we get people, especially oil and gas people who don't live here, to slow down or take an interest in the quality of land left over?

ps - big congrats, eric and taylor!!!! That's super exciting.

Paras, you're making me look like a loser. Stop it.

Only bright side of this is thru some really poor trickle down effect. Probally like a teaspoonful of water going thru 6 coffee filters I could be getting some of that dirty, dirty oil money.

U.S. urges 'fivefold expansion' in Alberta oilsands production:

U.S.and Canadian oil executives and government officials met for a two-day oil summit in Houston in January 2006 and made plans for a "fivefold expansion" in oilsands production in a relatively "short time span," according to minutes of the meeting obtained by the CBC's French-language network, Radio-Canada.

More anti-climactic than the cure for cholera being handwashing and gatorade?

(Oh, and if you're not careful, all your b are belong to s.)

Yeah, I heard that shit about cancer on the news a few days ago. They're like "CURE FOR CANCER???" and I'm like "HOLY SHIT" and then some dude with a heavy accent in a lab coat shows how they put a white powder (looks like crack) in a rat's water bottle in it's cage. And I'm like "that's IT? That's all there is to it???" If this shit works out, it will be the most anti-climactic fuckin cure in the history of the world. How many countless millions of people died of cancer... and here it turns out if we just put a little sprinkle of powder in their water we'd be gold. I mean, both my grandfathers died of cancer and it's like, C'MON! Gimme something impressive. The real slap in the face is that this powder (this so-called dichloroacetate) costs "pennies" to get. Apparently it's stupid cheap. I'd like to see an AIDS cure top that. What would it have to do to top that? Like, if you eat a blade of grass your AIDS is cured? Or what?

Also, slash-b is for losers Paras, not champions. Get it straight.

rawk on guys!

that's fantastic. i've been meaning to head on over to Blackbyrd and pick up the Hills Like White Elephants album, i enjoyed the tiger-striped tape so much...

oh, and i had something to share a long time ago, but haven't gotten around to mentioning it because it was kinda strange... and i didn't know exactly how to say it...

I was listening to Daryl Richel sub in for someone who was sick on the weekend... um, two weeks ago... he was playing 'weird music that isn't bad' and out of the blue, the advert was for the HLWE and Champion City... to which, once it was done, Richel commented on how buying new music was so passe, and that old stuff was where it was at... jokingly of course. but seriously guys, ads on the radio?? this is friggin' awesome! first CJSR then the world, right? ;)

University of Alberta scientists develop possible cure for cancer. Still no cure for... oh, wait.

(Disclaimer: I am overblowing it slightly for the lame Fark reference. Nevertheless, the premise sounds good: mitochondria are vital for apoptosis (cell death) and they are malfunctioning/non-functioning in cancer. DCA (dichloroacetate) reactivates them. It remains to be seen whether it will work when administered to patients rather than in vitro, and whether effective doses will have side effects. So, no cure for cancer, yet. But an intriguing development.)

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