Cheap Shit from China Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. In a continuing series, I follow the big shipping containers of cheap shit from China one more step closer to their source. This is a China Shipping Line container ship on its way into San Francisco Bay. Previously in this series: Shipping the cheap shit back More …
reading: Endangered Species, Steve Younger’s discussion of the complexities of being a pacifist nuclear weapons designer reading II: Just finished – Howl on Trial, a collection of letters from in and around the time of the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, along with transcripts of the obscenity trial that are an absolute hoot. music: Epistrophy, …
Just an FYI, PlanetFleck will be shutting down within a day or two. I post this here because there seem to be four or possibly five people reading it regularly, but I only know who two or three of them are (and one of those is me). Its original purpose was to give me an …
Richard Kerr has an excellent article in today’s Science ((Pushing the Scary Side of Global Warming, Science 8 June 2007: 1412-1415, sub. req.)) looking at the discomfort scientists face in going beyond the IPCC’s conclusions on the extent to which sea level might rise over the next century. The problem here is how to approach …
Via Coco, another scheme (this one with private money) to get water from the sparsely populated western Colorado side of the continental divide to the heavily and rapidly growing east: Time will tell whether Aaron P. Million’s plan to bring water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to the Front Range will make him a legend in …
Big Toe in Chinatown Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Big Toe met up with us while we were in San Francisco. Before he came to Inkstain, he worked for some time for a jade importer in Chinatown, and he spent a few hours showing me around and introducing me to some of his old friends. The …
Thanks to Luis ((Luis Villa)) and some guy named Simon ((Simon Elvery)), Inkstain is now footnote-enabled. Yay Simon!
Fort Point Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Postmodernism is a notoriously tricky thing to define. Standing on Fort Point, poking out into the Golden Gate, looking for the place where Kim Novak jumped into the water in Vertigo, trying to commit suicide (Or was she?), only to have Jimmy Stewart fish her out, is a clear …
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Christie Chisholm has a great overview in this week’s Alibi of the city of Albuquerque’s San Juan-Chama water project. What I liked is the way she captured the complexity of this project. No easy answers, no free lunch when it comes to New Mexico water: Even though the city wants to drastically cut pumping from …
Lissa and I are making a quick trip to California, which has me musing on my roots. Joan Didion described those who created California as “not the self-satisfied, happy and content people, but the adventurous, the restless, and the daring.” I am anything but restless and daring (I hate moving across town), and I am …