A few weeks back Steve Bloom asked in the comments about drought in the United States in the 1950s. This is the big drought we talk about in New Mexico – more significant here than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. I ran across these maps today:
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reading: Tipped by the newly ubiquitous Kevin Vranes, I picked up The Wisdom of Crowds at the library yesterday, thinking it sounded all Gladwell. And who’s there on the back flacking it with a jacket blurb but Malcolm Gladwell. music: Bill Evans on a quiet Sunday morning while I drank my coffee and read about …
Discovered while adding album art to the podGoober, this non sequitur: Customers who bought Boulez conducting Stravinsky also seem to have an affinity for Sgt. Pepper. One wonders if Sgt. Pepper is one of those super-nodes, like Kevin Bacon or Paul Erdos.
Sea level rise.
Via the Journal’s Bruce Daniels comes word of a forecast for a wet spring: Who needs computer models and satellite imagery to tell which way the wind’s blowing? Certainly not Joseph Weldon Crim of Portales. Using what he calls a Plains Indian ritual passed down to him through his father, the 70-year-old Portales resident got …
Emily at New West on what drought looks like up close.
It’s a given here in the desert southwest that tamarisk, a tough little red-barked tree that grows along our river banks, is evil. A European immigrant that arrived more than a century ago, it now dominates the banks of our desert streams and rivers, choking out native cottonwoods and sucking up precious water. At least …
One thing that frustrated me in the creation of smart playlists on my new podGoober was the apparent inability to use both “ands” and “ors” for logical grouping of music: like “music by the Supremes or Frank Zappa” and “hasn’t been played in a week”. The iTunes software lets you “and” various criteria or “or” …
When you hear Harry Shearer’s real voice, which Simpsons character does he most remind you of?