On Monday of this week, the server that hosts Weltschmerz crashed during an install of an Apple security update. It could not be recovered without a total clean reinstall, meaning this week really iSucked. My email was down. Only today was the blogging platform on which this site is based, Moveable Type, back up to speed. And I lost two weeks of updates, though I was able to retrieve the text (without links or formatting). So, my apologies that this week's installment is late. Such a massive crash hasn't happened before and I hope it won't again.

Like me, Cosmo does the math, though he makes it a lot simpler than my convoluted blog entry last week. The car he's driving is a Honda Fit, which is what I drive as a member of the Guelph Car Co-op. Good mileage -- only 6.5 litres per 100 km. That would be 3 meals per 100 km.

Still, for Cosmo, plagued by dreams of biofuel-caused hunger, that is too much. He vows to keep all his biofuel as food, powering himself not cars, on the 100-Litre Diet. And if the diet catches on, who knows -- maybe a book or movie deal will come out of it.

This series of four or five cartoons started last week, with a venti blue corn filleruppuccino, hold the oil sands.