| | Summer break is here, woo hoo! Yesterday was the last day for the
teachers. The day before was the trip to Cedar Point. Both
were lots of fun, in their own ways.
Now I'm looking forward to the week because I'll have all sorts of time
to do whatever I want. One of the first things is to catch up on
my emails and reading on the internet. It usually takes me about
a week of surfing before I get tired of it.
On Friday is the Michigan Energy Fair. The fair is sort of a
conference, with three different 1-hour classes going on at time.
I've made my list of the most interesting sessions. There are
some about building a solar powered house, some about peak oil, and
others about wind power. I'm going to take some flyers and try to
get people all connected up so that we can chat about peak oil, work on
solving (as much as possible) the problem, and to get the word
out. I guess I'll be spending some time this week working on that.
My updated presentation about peak oil is going to be on TV in Grand
Rapids (channel 24?) in June. I'm seriously considering doing one
more rewrite to the presentation and then making it into a video
myself, to put onto Google Video and YouTube. Right now, the peak
oil videos there are a bit confusing or they don't really understand
the issue.
My students for their final exam all made webpages using
FrontPage. The topic for the web page was energy and peak
oil. Some of the students really seemed to understand a lot of
the ideas. I hope that helps them to talk with their families
when prices get so high that there is a lot of talk at home about it.
I hope all of the students have an interesting summer. I remember
being a tad bit bored when I was their age during the summer because I
lived out in the country and didn't have any neighbors with kids my age
very close. If I had a computer back then, I probably would have
been on Xanga everyday!  I guess that is nice that the
students can talk online. That gets me thinking about the
possibility that an energy crisis following peak oil will cause the
internet to shut down. I don't know how much energy it takes to
keep it up and running, but I'm sure its a huge number.
Ok then, eh? Stay safe out there!
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