things to work on if you buy "peak oil"

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2007/02/the_agenda_rest.html

I'm not really sure how pressing a problem this is. Like a lot of people, I have a job (and a professional background) that puts me in a rather bad way if it turns out that Life As We Know It is going to become considerably more decentralized and energy-poorer...so I may not think about it as much as I should.

Should this all go badly quickly, I will be able to serve as a particularly good (bad) example of why intelligence and forethought are not a substitute for actual preparation. *wry smile*

I'd certainly like to encourage better public transit and less use of cars. Sadly, while there are a few different light rail projects being proposed for the Seattle area, none of them would come anywhere near where we live.

(Side note: yes, there are a lot of wingnuts responding to the original post. I don't necessarily agree with all of his suggested courses of action, either. Regardless, it's good to think about these sorts of things at least occasionally anyway, and to consider what changes of course would at least bring us more in line with those courses of action, even if I'm not presently willing to drop everything and become a peanut farmer in Pasco or something.)

226

is apparently the smallest positive integer for which the person (people?) that put this page together could not think of a special property that it possesses. (And that's pretty special: there are only 52 such numbers in their list, which goes up to 9999.)

http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

Very math-geekily cool. I've got a fair background in mathematics and I haven't heard of a lot of the properties they're listing here. Fortunately, it's got links to most of them (although it does not link to a definition of a "curious" number, of which just one is listed. And, of course, now I must know. Heh.)