Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
on the evolution of the U.S. nuclear weapons budget – the latest bit of punctuated equilibrium
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Happy Together
Lissa at the Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Back to work on the morrow, I’ll leave my weeks’ vacation with one last bit of business. There are competing tales of the origin of the fortune cookie. Everyone agrees it was born in the United States, but beyond that its history …
Albuquerque Bicycle Map
Albuquerque Bicycle Map Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The city of Albuquerque has published a new bicycle map. I point this out because I went on a wander this morning on the bike, deciding to follow the green “bike route” signs north out of my neighborhood. It was a bit of an adventure, especially the part …
Cheap Shit from China
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 …
Daybook (Nightbook?)
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, …
Shutting Down PlanetFleck
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 …
Scientists, the Public and Risk
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 …
Quenching Front Range Thirst
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
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 …
Footnotes
Thanks to Luis ((Luis Villa)) and some guy named Simon ((Simon Elvery)), Inkstain is now footnote-enabled. Yay Simon!