You Go, Tim
Props to Tim Schoeny, RGRT teammate and 2005 New Mexico Cyclocross 45+ champion. Though why anyone would run with a perfectly good bicycle is beyond me.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Forensics
Michael Fumento is taking up sock puppet forensics. But wait! Is that a rake I see lying there in the dark? Michael, look out! Thwack! Damn, too late.
Planning One’s Future
In which Nora talks to the Army recruiter: I wonder what happens to those files, anyway. Do they keep them to make sure our stories match up? If I tell the Air Force that I want to go to UNM and major in philosophy, will they know that I’ve already told the Army that I …
Societal Complexity
On our October trip, Lissa and I visited the Anasazi Heritage Center outside Cortez in southeastern Colorado. It’s a neat museum, built to record, preserve and provide public access to excavations done before the nearby McPhee Reservoir was filled. Adjacent to the museum, there’s a small pueblo room block that’s been excavated and then stabilized …
The Strange Case of Michael Fumento
There’s this strange sort of schoolyard bully pleasure in taunting Michael Fumento. I wonder, though, if we’re the bullies, or if he is. I sorta feel like the skinny guy, taking pleasure in the bully’s comeuppance. But I dunno. Maybe we’re being the bullies. Should I feel bad, picking on poor Michael? The thing is, …
Zelicoff on the Flu
I meant to blog this when it came out a couple of weeks back: Al Zelicoff’s take-down in the Albuquerque Tribune on “bird flu mania” So, are the fears justified for Washington’s preparations against the spread of this new “killer” influenza to humans? The short answer is no. The threat is extremely remote. It’s not …
Peak Oil
Kevin Vranes has noticed liberals noticing “peak oil”. I think he’s on to something interesting here.
Nature and the Press
It’s an odd day when I find myself agreeing with Benny Peiser on a climate change question, but his post Thursday to his CCNet list, in which he blasted media of coverage of the Nature paper on possible changes in the thermohaline circulation, seems on point. In fact, as I’ll point out below, there’s been …
Becoming a World Class City
Via Rich Burridge, an interesting experiment: how many Taco Bells within 10 miles of you? With their store locator, I found just 15. Rich found 23 around his house, but a little searching found as many as 51 (Hollywood and Manhattan). 15? That’s pathetic. Albuquerque can do better. All we need to become a world …
Outliers in Nature
A great comment from James Annan on the meta-issues about yesterday’s Nature paper on the possibility that the thermohaline circulation may be slowing: Their(Nature’s) deliberate policy to select only the most “exciting” results, which are then picked up and amplified by the press, pretty much guarantees that the outliers are given a prominence that substantially …