Traveling Babo at Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Traveling Babo at Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Originally uploaded by travelbabo. Big Toe’s cousin sent this postcard from a recent visit to Easter Island
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Sporting Figure Attends State Dinner
As we here in Albuquerque prepare to lament the loss of our beloved Albuquerque Tribune, let us raise a glass in toast to one of the Trib’s most accomplished graduates, Hank Stuever, who last night had the distinct privilege and high honor of covering the visit by some French guy to the White House for …
benthic bacteria
I was all excited at the prospect that humans aren’t causing global warming after all, that it’s really benthic bacteria. Then Roger Pielke Jr., suspicious bastard that he is, had to go and pour cold water over the whole deal. Turns out that the University of Arizona doesn’t really have a “Department of Climatology,” as …
Train Leaving On Track Five For Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga
I’m a New Mexican now, fully, but I remain a Californian by birth, family history, upbringing and nostalgia. That is where my family’s history comes together. My mother’s parents were part of California’s first great invention of itself in the early 20th century. My father came west after the Second World War to become part …
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On Dogs
Blog post of the week: David Appell’s riff on dogs and the fragility of modern existence. update: Shortly after posting, I saw this AP story: About 40 people, mostly Somalis, have drowned while crossing the Gulf of Aden on their way to Yemen in a desperate attempt to escape gunbattles back home, security officials and …
PR Spam
Great post from Chris Anderson that will be near and dear to the heart of every journalist I know: dealing with press release spam. This is where PR firms buy massive mailing lists of reporters and just send their “news release” about SoftwareVisCorpMeta’s new release 4.6.1, which has many interesting new features for the underwater …
Happy Halloween
On this most sacred of holidays, it’s worth pausing a moment to consider actual pirate attacks.
Big Toe and I. Bat at the Village Inn
Big Toe and Icebat at the Village Inn Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I was going through some photos I took Thursday night when I found this. Nora and I went to the Village Inn on Central, in part because they have sugar-free apple pie and in part because it’s an endlessly amusing place. Apparently Big …
Feedstuff
Went back to the full text in my RSS feed. Sorry for the delay, Luis. I just forgot.
Inkstain Founder Wins Emmy
I swear to god. I am not making this up. That’s Rob Browman on the left, who founded Inkstain with me back in 1998. Winning an Emmy. I swear to god. Rob’s a video producer now at MediaStorm. He and his colleagues won the Emmy for a remarkable piece about a young man’s emigration from …