July 2007
You know you spend too much time in Photoshop when...
You’re in the Finder and you select a group of file folders, expecting you can right-click on them and create a new Layer Group to store them in…
sleep!
July 30, 2007 in Design , In Real Life
Mexican State Oil Company: End of Mexican Oil In 7 Years
From Prensa Latina, the Spanish-language news service:
Mexican Company Predicts End of Oil
Mexico, Jul 27 (Prensa Latina) Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) announced that oil reserves may run out in seven years.
“Supplies of this economically exploitable resource are running out,” informed a report sent by the state owned company to the United States stock market.
Until December 31, 2005 the report says proven reserves were about 8.978 billion barrels, while yearly production was 1.322 billion tons. If this rhythm continues oil will run out in the time stipulated..
El Universal newspaper reports that experts of the PFC Energy Advisory company based in Washington pointed out that investments for PEMEX exploration is also running out of time.
Even if heavy investments were made now, new oil fields would take from six to eight years to be ready and, consequently, Mexico may have to import oil to satisfy the internal market, it warned.
The newspaper quotes Carlos Ramirez, PEMEX spokesman as saying that if necessary investments were made, this would provide another 2.9 more years to what is foreseen with the proven developed reserves.
The director of the state owned company, Jesus Reyes, insisted that these are difficult moments due to a reduction of production in Cantareli, the main oil field in the country.
Story from Sprott Asset Management’s Peak Oil Watch newsfeed - Sprott are a Toronto-based independent investment firm. Link via AltEnergyStocks.com.
Written English? Odds against you? CALL THE ANGLICIZER.
Our province has many universities and several colleges that turn out graduates in English Literature, TESL, Translation and related fields. (I myself have a minor in English Lit.)
So why do Quebecers still tolerate really bad English, especially on expensive marketing materials, posters, menus, consumer goods, and most irritatingly, on tourism brochures?
Continue reading “Written English? Odds against you? CALL THE ANGLICIZER.”
July 10, 2007 in Business Writing | ✍ 5
Under the Charlevoix Street Bridge
A video I did earlier this year. Patterns of light and reflections under the Charlevoix Street Bridge near the Atwater Market. Music by Boards of Canada (please don’t sue). Video hosting by Vimeo.
hotness is always the tiebreaker: a life in shirts
Global uber-hipster (anti-hipster?) Momus posted an interesting Flickr slide show of his rediscovered collection of vintage T-shirts, many of which he doesn’t seem to like much anymore.
In a decreasingly surprising twist of global synchronicity, my Keep Calm and Carry On and Designer Slash Model T-shirts arrived today. Ten years from now, will they be ironically retro, or just sad?
My upstairs neighbor Joern (a former Philosophy grad from Germany) has his own T-shirt silkscreening biz as well, so I’ll probably launch my own line of designer hipster meme shirts soon…. Watch this space.
