Parental Advice
Words of wisdom I recently shared with my daughter: It’s important to never take blueberry swirl bread toast for granted.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Water in the Desert: Harry Reid Edition
Peter Waldman has a story in Portfolio exploring the role of the federal government in general and Harry Reid in particular in the growth of Las Vegas: In a city running out of water, massive housing projects rise in clouds of dust on the outer reaches of the Las Vegas Valley like stucco ramparts built …
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Things I Have Seen
Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I’m working on a piece for the newspaper about riding a bike. At the risk of giving too much away, I’ll say simply that it’s about going to places and seeing things. Such as these things, seen today: ice: It’s been dry for a couple of weeks, but the concrete flood …
Back to the Blog, Back to the Bike
I woke up Sunday morning for the first time in year without thinking about what work I needed to do that day on the book. The manuscript sits in a stack on the shelf next to me. (They want it printed on paper in addition to being burned onto a CD! How quaint!) I took …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
On the city of Albuquerque’s greenhouse gas reduction claims (adwalled): It is a claim every Albuquerque resident who cares about global warming could be proud of: Since 1990, city residents have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent. It is also untrue. See also ethanol vehicles.
Fleck Feels Ready to Make His Mark
From the Guardian: ‘He is doing tremendously well and long may it continue. He’s in at the deep end, but he’s not out his depth. Some days he’s doing everything, scoring goals, playing passes and it’s great to see. It’s good experience for him right now being about the first team.’ HT Dave
Haberdashery
Died in a haberdashery accident.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Soda Straw Edition
I’ve always been fascinated by astronomy’s variable sky community – the folks who look for things that change. Most traditional astronomy involves parking a big telescope on a single object and watching it for a while. But the variable sky – things that change on time scales ranging from minutes to hours to days – …
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Using Tax Policy To Fight Peak Oil
I’m not sure how effective this will be, but the government of Indonesia seems hell-bent on making sure more of the carbon trapped beneath the Earth gets out in a timely fashion: Indonesia has been offering incentives, particularly for oil and gas, seeing them as strategic businesses that could impact the country’s revenue. Finance Minister …
On Colorado’s Climate
An interesting search string that brought a reader to Inkstain over the New Year’s holiday: colorado climate why does it change so much What a great question.