CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • KISS: Light it Up!

    Years ago there was talk of dressing the many urban trees of Bolton Ave and Downtown Alexandria with white lights. This is not to say we want to go the Natchitoches route and start looking like someone crapped Christmas all over us (no afront to Natchitoches — I love your Christmas crap). However we need something — well lots of things to liven up our downtown area. We also need to draw people there, to give them something special and a nice sedate classy white light show would do that. We have some other great features from our downtown areas…

  • KISS ME CENLA!

    I first heard the acronym KISS from a physics professor at Northwestern. I had come home for the summer and was knocking out a few core requirements through their 3-week summer courses. This guy teaching the class was a bit crazy but a really great teacher. He had to deal with people taking science classes that just were absolutely not cut out for critical thinking. So that said, he was probably much more sane than the rest of us. When a student was just really over complicating things he would tell them KISS — Keep it simple, stupid! Ok, not…

  • The Future of Louisiana’s Biofuels Industry Has a Past As Well

    Biofuels and Agrifuels (as seems to be becoming the more accepted term) has been a common topic in the news and on this blog (here) and (here) and will continue to be a topic of great discussion for the near future and perhaps a permanent fixture in our energy and agriculture future. I happened to run across an interesting article in the Lafayette Daily Advertiser that spotlights Louisiana’s previous flirt with biofuels. This was definitely one of those Tim Allen noise type moments because honestly I had NO idea Louisiana had ever had a biofuels industry. Well, unfortunately I was…