I had a college chum named Brian Muir who was a serious Deadhead. During those years I was working in radio, as was Brian, and it was a tossup as to who was forced to deal with more offensive music. I was working for KEXI – “the valley’s entertainer” – a station that played “adult …
I’m crossposting this from the NukeBeat because I think it would be insanely cool to be the number one result when you google “radioactive animal carcasses”, and this blog has more googlejuice. No, that’s not an early ’80s British punk band. It’s the amusingly grotesque harvest of a nuclear waste cleanup project at Hanford: Carcasses …
When is a secret not a “secret”?
“Life is easy. Showbiz is hard.” – Bill Griffith update: OK, this is really amusing, the way the Zippy picture stretches down to the entry about drought in the west. Pray with Zippy!
weather: Looks like we’re on the El Niño one-storm-a-week track here, with another wet patch headed for New Mexico through the weekend. This’ll be the fourth in a row. book1: Andrew Revkin’s The North Pole Was Here. Don’t be fooled by the whole “children’s book” thing. It’s a ripping good read, and Revkin has clearly …
This is one of those Prufrock moments, when it is impossible to say just what I mean. From the paid job blog, on my old friend Ed McGaffigan: Reporters depend on the generosity of smart people, people who understand how things work and are willing to spend the time to help us understand it too. …
In which Malcolm Gladwell gives his less-well-paid brethren a nice slap on the back: We’ve spent a lot of time, post-Enron, criticizing the flaws in the investment community’s gatekeeping activities. But I think we should also recognize what the Enron case tells us about the value of newspaper journalism. Maybe, in other words, we have …
I don’t know if it’s true or just apocryphal, but someone told me yesterday that the word “albedo” came from Giuseppe Albedo, the 17th century Italian polymath who discovered snow. Whatever, folks in Albuquerque, unaccustomed to a blanket of snow that sticks around, are having a direct personal experience with albedo, which I used this …
Just waitin’ for the bus 1 Originally uploaded by nicholsphotos. Coyote Man? (hat tip DCF photo pool, which has been stormalicious these last few days)
Snow Fence Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The strange thing tonight, walking in the park in the snow, was how light it was.