Thanks
If you’re the mysterious Garden Fairy who left that bag of delicious home-grown tomatoes on our porch, thanks.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Why Floyd Did It
We’ve discussed in the past here on Inkstain how Floyd did it. Now from Robbie Hunter, we get a better idea of why: Eddy Merckx has spent a bit of time with us over the past weeks because of his son’s attachment to the team. Yesterday we found out that the night after Floyd lost …
Naomi Oreskes Answers
Naomi “Don’t Call Me Nancy” Oreskes responded yesterday in the Los Angeles Times to Richard Lindzen’s Wall Street Journal claim that her Science magazine review of the climate change literature had been refuted: My study demonstrated that there is no significant disagreement within the scientific community that the Earth is warming and that human activities …
Yachting in the Desert
regatta Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. As I’ve mentioned previously, we don’t have a lot of water here in the desert. But we desert dwellers are people of vision. We build ponds. We race boats. (Well, they race boats. I just watch.) As yacht racing goes, the new pond at the north end of Tingley Beach …
Sunday Afternoon Crits
It’s a bit long for a crit course, but it was fun watching the boys have at it on the Champs-Elysées today. Great to see Ekimov hold the flag for us old guys, leading the peloton in, and even greater to see him bust a move there at the end to try to set up …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
One of the fundamental public misunderstandings about science, I think, is the difference between textbooks full of answers known and scientists poking blindly out at the fuzzy edge. That’s why the latest dietary study (“But I thought they said coffee was good for me!”) always causes such public puzzlement. That’s the premise I was trying …
Mann and Dahmer?
A week ago, I wrote a snarky post in which I implied that the criticism of Michael Mann and his hockey stick had gone beyond a debate about the science to become a personal attack. A thoughtful commenter suggested that perhaps I’d gone too far: “There has been little in there which is ad hominem, …
How Floyd Did It
Of course after his epic performance Thursday, there were bound to be questions about whether Floyd Landis was doping. Now new evidence has emerged.
The Saddest Thing I’ve Ever Seen
There’s this sound when a group of cyclists rolls off together, a rapid, random “clickclickclickclick” as they lock into their pedals. That was the sound this morning in the bosque, down by the Rio Grande Nature Center, as a group of cyclists mounted up for a ceremonial ride at the end of Paula Higgins’ memorial …
Ghost Mall
In which Nora chronicles our visit to the Ghost Mall. She was kind enough not to embarass me with the revelation that I bought a bunch of incredibly cheap T-shirts while Lady Foot Locker was in the final throes of going out of business. Which I guess makes me a cross-dresser.