2008 has been an interesting year. Just the other day, I was debating whether to turn up the thermostat. Then I realized natural gas prices has fallen 25% (now it's more like 40%). Majority of the power plants, as they were, use turbine engines that burn natural gas, which means the price of natural gas directly translates into the price of electricity. So I turned the temperature up a comfortable margin (enough so that I won't have to leave my desktop on at night as a radiator).
Cost of living is going down, which means more discretionary income. Auto-makers are going bankrupt, which means 2009 is going to be a good year for buying a car as car companies try to offload their inventories, or other methods of augmenting their cash-flow (as long as their suppliers don't collapse before they do). Yes! 2009 is a year for shopping! Now just patiently waiting for the stock market to hit its trough and load up as it rebound...
Here are my moments of clarity for 2008:
Books:
Garner's Modern American Usage
Blogs:
ESWN
Literature:
The London Review of Books
Movie:
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Language Police:
"Recital is the unsophisticated assassination of poetry."
