Wires

I haven't been writing much lately. Just don't feel like it. Sue me.

So I'm going to leave you with this tribute to my wires. A truly amazing sight.

Enjoy!

Raikkonen Finishes Fantastic F1 Season!

One of the biggest sports stories of the year is one most North Americans won't hear of.

That's the result of this years' Formula 1 Racing Season.

Against all odds, my man, Kimi Raikkonen, feasting on the bad luck of Lewis Hamilton, won the fiercely contested World Championship with his win in Brazil today.

While most North Americans seem to like watching cheap low tech cars driving around in circles, real racing observers know that Formula One racing is the absolute pinnacle of the motor racing world.


The skill required to operate these amazing multi million dollar machines is beyond the imagination, perhaps only the skill of a jet fighter pilot could come close.

I've been following Formula One now for a few years and was becoming very bored watching Ferrari's Michael Schumacher win almost every race.

This year was different, it was amazing. Full of intrigue, bitter rivalry, dirty handed tactics, a Cinderella story (gone terribly wrong) and ruthless competitiveness.

In Formula One, hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. Twenty or so of the world's greatest drivers from all over the world competing for total supremacy.

In the end the sensational Rookie, Lewis Hamilton, ran out of answers and his inexperience cost him dearly, especially two weeks ago in China.

The Iceman, Kimi Raikkonnen prevailed. From being almost out of contention early in this year to World Champion, well for me that was the Cinderella Story.

The big question when this season started was: Could Raikkonen hope to fill the shoes of the greatest driver ever, the Wayne Gretzky of auto racing, Michael Schumacher.

The answer: Michael Who?

Congratulation Kimi!!

Let's Get Back to Nuclear Power

There are a lot of people violently opposed to Nuclear Power Production. They feel that the dangers of this power source far exceed the benefits.

Much of those fears are based on two incidents from the past: Three Mile Island (1979) and Chernobyl (1986).

The truth is that technology has come a long way since those incidents decades ago. It would be next to impossible for those series of circumstances to re occur with the knowledge and computer power of today.

So that type of "accident" should not even enter into the equation when debating the Nuclear Option.

Currently our power is mostly derived from two sources: Burning Fossil Fuels and Hydro Electric Power.

Both these methods cause havoc and irreparable damage to the environment and wildlife habitat.

Yet those that oppose Nuclear Power, the cleanest, most cost efficient and most environmentally friendly method of producing electricity, would prefer our world to be soiled by the current methods.

Alternative methods of power production such as Solar, Wind, Tide are so far off into the future that they cannot be considered serious sources for the next 50 years.

Hundreds of nuclear power plants have been in operation for decades throughout the world with no significant environmental impact other than the use of large amounts of fresh water for cooling.

Nuclear waste can easily be disposed of safely and for long term.

It's time to re-evaluate and put our biases and prejudices behind us.

Let's reconsider the Nuclear Option. It's not about bombs or radioactivity. It's about saving our Planet as we know it.

Dec 10

Since writing this post I found some support here.