mariachis Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I have ridden my bicycle in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico, for many years, and I can confidently say that yesterday was the first time I have ever been serenaded by mariachis as I rode. (Miguel and I were riding past the Alameda Open Space Saturday, where a bunch of …
Over where they pay me, I’ll be doing an on line chat tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. MDT on the science of the monsoon. If needed, I’m fully prepared to defend the ill-defined term.
Just a note to let y’all know that, according to sources close to the Duke City Fix, the web site hasn’t been taken over by Roswell aliens, and is in the process of being (heheh) fixed, and will be back on the air within the next few days.
Fellow New Mexico bloggers: CNM needs your help. Google CNM – the community college formerly known as TVI – and you find the College of Naturopathic Medicine, but no reference on the first page of hits to Central New Mexico Community College. Link to it. Let’s see if we can get CNM’s Google ranking up …
Minnow Intake Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Normally fish live in rivers and the like. It’s a pretty straightforward thing. Here in Albuquerque, we’re building a sort of quasi-river for them instead, on account of the actual river is sort of messed up. This is the new intake structure, down in the south valley, for the …
regatta Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. As I’ve mentioned previously, we don’t have a lot of water here in the desert. But we desert dwellers are people of vision. We build ponds. We race boats. (Well, they race boats. I just watch.) As yacht racing goes, the new pond at the north end of Tingley Beach …
In which His Noodliness visits Albuquerque’s west mesa.
Since last November, I’ve been spending odd bits of time here and there hanging out with a group of bright teenagers who do math competitions. They’re a wonderful bunch of kids, nurtured by a great group of adults. (Journal photographer Marla Brose has been working on this with me since the beginning, and her pictures …
Could one of you please make a blood donation? Thanks. Here’s the deal. I experienced a bit of a misadventure Wednesday morning when I went in to give blood. I’ve got difficult veins, and the phlebotomists just couldn’t get a good one Wednesday. After ten minutes of so of poking around, with very little blood …
From Norris Hundley’s account of the November 1922 meeting of the Colorado River Commission at Bishop’s Lodge: Herbert Hoover and his fellow Colorado River commissioners approached the Santa Fe conference on November 9 with a mixture of seriousness and optimism. The chances of success seemed unusually favorable. The public also sensed that an agreement was …