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.
Peter Rice in the Albuquerque Tribune today today has an upate on the Albuquerque giant scissors phenomenon: For official ribbon cuttings, Kerby Moore had been borrowing a jumbo-sized pair of scissors from the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, but those events are becoming so frequent that she’s ordering her own.
There’s a story I heard once about John Coltrane: that he spent his whole musical career looking for the right saxophone mouthpiece. He was searching for the sound he heard in his head. I was thinking of that Wednesday morning, curled up in the den reading as the snow fell outside. I’m in the midst …
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Bee Clue CandyOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Do you need some refreshment in your weariness? The only way of knowing the interest just by experiencing. Storage method: avoid the sunlight (Hat tip The Mother of The Boy, who has serious goofball cred.)
They are ritualized art, the movie summaries in the daily TV listings – usually less than 10 words to summarize an entire film. Today’s favorite: Patton: Gen. George S. Patton fights World War II.
The Internet has made it too easy to be a quack. In my desk drawer at work, I have a wonderful collection of old UFO nuttiness from the early 1990s. It’s wonderful stuff – wildly imaginative zines full of poor writing, even poorer graphical presentation and absolutely wonderfully muddy thinking. Back in the day, you …
if you please, for the 32 journalists who died this year serving you in Iraq: Violence in Iraq claimed the lives of 32 journalists in 2006, the deadliest year for the press in a single country that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever recorded. In most cases, such as the killing of Atwar Bahjat, …
From today’s Zippy (link will point to a different comic after 12/19/2006): Griffy: It isn’t what you say, Zippy. It’s how you say it. Zippy: Noam Chomsky! Noam Chomsky! Noam Chomsky!