Over at Dave’s blog, some thoughtful comments from Malcolm regarding gender issues in the computer world: I’ve been using motherboards and daughterboards since I started playing with computer hardware. No fatherboard in sight, though. Come to think of it, most of the plugs on the back of my machine are female as well. I’m with …
Nora sends along this, a climate change threat of which I was unaware: I can’t believe a company like Amazon would promote global warming by allowing those bastiches at Dole to continue to melt icebergs just to get the head of lettuce that lies at the center. Sure, it tastes like ambrosia, but look what …
Today’s Journal letters page has some discussion of my climate science story from a couple of weeks back. I apparently don’t have many fans: John Fleck probably has a PR job on George W. Bush’s staff waiting for him after the spin he put on global warming science in the Journal. Hey, at least they’re …
Just a note to let y’all know that, according to sources close to the Duke City Fix, the web site hasn’t been taken over by Roswell aliens, and is in the process of being (heheh) fixed, and will be back on the air within the next few days.
Fellow New Mexico bloggers: CNM needs your help. Google CNM – the community college formerly known as TVI – and you find the College of Naturopathic Medicine, but no reference on the first page of hits to Central New Mexico Community College. Link to it. Let’s see if we can get CNM’s Google ranking up …
Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz: Nothing will ever be the same. Nothing ever is … once your milk goes bad. Then it’s just too late. And nothing will bring it back.
Monday afternoon, I was sitting in a meeting of federal drought scientists up in Santa Fe when Nora pinged me this text message: Yes, it is raining really hard here. It was something of an understatement. When I got up Tuesday morning and checked my rain gauge, it had recorded 1.93 inches in the previous …
Minnow Intake Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Normally fish live in rivers and the like. It’s a pretty straightforward thing. Here in Albuquerque, we’re building a sort of quasi-river for them instead, on account of the actual river is sort of messed up. This is the new intake structure, down in the south valley, for the …
sunflowers Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. This clump of sunflowers doesn’t seem to mind that its source of water is the concrete channel draining the parking lot in a semi-industrial Albuquerque business park. Another example of why I love alleys, bike trails, train tracks and other routes along the back side of society.
The folks running the Climate Working Group summer retreat on drought were kind enough to invite me up to Santa Fe this week. I spent most of the time listening, but they also extended the huge kindness of inviting me to speak. I think they hoped I could explain the rituals of my somewhat mystifying …