reading: Em Hall’s High and Dry, a classic on New Mexico water that’s one of those books that everyone says you should read. I am. paper of the day: ENSO as a mediator of the solar influence on climate, Julien Emile-Geay and colleagues, in paleoceanography last month: “ENSO may plausibly have acted as a mediator …
dad_train_4 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. It is very likely that this is the first view my Dad ever had of Albuquerque, riding the train across American more than three score years ago, a Pennsylvania boy on his way to California for the first time. I didn’t mean to get his reflection in the picture. In …
Much interesting discussion today about the issue of “framing” in the politics of global climate change – see, for example, Ellen Goodman’s column in the Boston Globe, along with useful discussion by Matthew Nisbet and Tom Yulsman. Useful stuff, but ignores the “sleeveless tops in February” frame. 🙂 From the Fix: What’s with the weather …
mooseOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. When I was much younger, I wrote, under the non de plume Fernando Schwartz, A Poem of Nature: The flowers and the trees The sky and the birds Look at the buffalo Traveling in herds. Nora’s recent post-it art seems a fine illustration.
Sadie in the snow Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. To measure your snowfall, pick an open area, away from the influence of buildings, trees, etc. Use a ruler or yardstick and take three separate measurements at widely separated spots. Average the results. Sadie does not care about this level of detail. Her concern seems to be …
Christmas Lights Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Happy Holidays from the Inkstain Family.
Nora told me what turns out to be a very old geekjoke yesterday, about how the only legitimate use of an HTML blink tag is as follows: Schroedinger’s cat is not dead. Unfortunately, (well, fortunately for you, dear readers, but unfortunately for the joke) WordPress won’t let me add a blink tag to the not, …
tree on San Mateo2 12-06 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Anyone have a clue what kind of tree this is? Photo by L. Heineman, fall 2006, on San Mateo NE in Albuquerque.
charger Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The artist L. Heineman made the decorations for our Thanksgiving table today in the manner of the season. We’ve a big feast planned, which is both cultural ritual obligation and genuine fun. This is an interesting time of year in a desert culture both removed from environmental but also steeped …
Because everyone has the attention span of a nine-year-old with a cocaine problem. (Hat tip Nora.)