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Imagine you are listening to the radio. Have you ever found it irritating that when they play translations of people speaking in a different language, they play a couple of seconds of the original person’s voice.

I was listening to PRI’s – The World on WLRH while driving the other day. It then struck me that the 2 second preview they play is to help the listener to differentiate between different people who might be speaking. If multiple people are voicing their comments, and there is only one translator, the only way to differentiate between them is by the preview audio sample that is played before the translation takes over.

I’ve used Mach 3 since I started shaving. It worked well for a long time. Then, my stubbles grew thicker, and Mach 3 lost its sharpness after a few shaves. This led to unsatisfactory shaves. I switched to the the Shlick Quattro – I like this blade (i’ve been using this blade for about a year and a half).

I have now started using the straight edge razor – yes, very old school! (FYI, I’m using a razor with disposable blades).

It is very involving, but I feel great after. I’ve managed to nick myself in several places, but hopefully my technique will get better with time and I don’t cut myself at all!

Unfortunately, I don’t think this can be a part of my daily schedule. It is very time consuming. Shlick for the weekdays, straight edge during the weekends!

I’ve had a few discussions with my colleagues at work regarding the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less campaign, mostly headed by Newt Gingrich.

I’ve tried to research this more, and have found this:

Most of this is based upon this paper:
Coats, R. Morris and Pecquet, Gary M. (2008): The effect of opening up ANWR to drilling on the current price of oil. Unpublished. The rejection letter is interesting.

The price points for the above work is based on this published paper.

Conrad, Jon M. and Koji Kotani (2005). When to drill? Trigger prices for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Resource and Energy Economics 27:273-86.

Over this week, I am going to try and see what kind of assumptions have been made, and if those assumptions are valid as it pertains to ANWR. Keep looking.