Updating the Planet
Added Live from Silver City to the Planet. (WC: Silver City’s down in the southern part of my state, a town of about 10,000 or so.)
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Good Fire Coverage
I have a great frustration with traditional television news coverage of wildfires, because it generally leaves the impression of a chaotic, uncontrolled and unpredictable situation. Sometimes it is that way. But more often, the fire crews have a pretty clear idea of terrain, fuel load and weather. They know where the fire is now, and …
What I Want for Father’s Day
I want one of those really big-ass barbecues. The kind that’s all shiny metal, with a giant tank of propane or something, so I can cook lots of meat – sizzling raw flesh of dead animals. And a place to hold a keg of beer for me and my man friends. But it’s got to …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
On Greenland warming (hat tip Benny Peiser)
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
The problem with the U.S. Department of Energy. Perhaps subtitled: “Parking in 14 easy pages.”
The Ants
I timed an ant this evening, walking (if you can call it that – “drunkenly stumbling”?) across our front yard with an elm seed as big as she was. The ants have been with us forever, a big colony living under our driveway about midway between the house and the street. I’m pretty sure they …
Chess and Love
From the virtual lips of Johnny_Mango, a phrase that has never before appeared on the InterWeb: Armenian chess houligans.
Hot Day in New Mexico
From the National Weather Service PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 734 PM MDT MON JUN 5 2006 …RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR MONDAY JUNE 5 2006… LOCATION HIGH TEMPERATURE PREVIOUS RECORD ———————————————————— TUCUMCARI 103 100 IN 1980 PORTALES 102 TIED 102 IN 1990 DEMING 101 TIED 101 IN 1996 DEMING AIRPORT 100 99 …
The Old Schwartzman Property
Schwartzman Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Richard Metcalf’s story in Thursday’s Journal spurred me to ride down past the old Schwartzman property this morning, down in Albuquerque’s South Valley. It’s 500 acres of land, much of it still farmed, dating back somewhere into Albuquerque’s distant past when farming was what we did. According to Richard’s story, …
The Immigrant Threat to our Way of Life
Dr. Swamp Cooler today speaks bravely about the threat posed by immigrants to our way of life: The decision to issue Swamp Cooler Photo ID cards was made unavoidable due to the influx of migrants (California, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, etc.) who come to New Mexico with alien notions of air conditioning that have become a …
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