I tried posting a comment last week over at Tim McGivern’s blog, but it seems to be caught up in some moderation queue either technological or human, so I thought I’d throw this up here instead. Tim took a shot at the Journal for its “feckless” coverage of the meth problem. My comment was that …
Johnny_Mango (historyblogger? – Chantal is right, let’s just dump the labels and go with “writer”) on the old Confederate encampment in the south valley bosque. The Ghosts of 1000 Texans Still Whisper in the Bosque. I’ve ridden past there a hundred times. Who knew?
A cool talk tomorrow evening (Thurs. 11/10) in Albuquerque on bats, swallows and the stuff that lives in caves. The speaker is Diana Northup, a cave biologist at UNM and one of my favorite scientists. She’s speaking to the local Audubon Society. From the press release they sent me at work: “Sight Unseen: The Life …
A pretty important story from Elaine D. Briseño in today’s Rio Rancho Journal (sub. req.): Enrollment numbers for the 40th day of school show Rio Rancho needed more than a thousand new desks. Officials expect it will need thousands more in years to come. Enrollment figures released by Rio Rancho Public Schools show a surge …
Johnny_Mango called it the best tree in Albuquerque. Up along the north diversion channel bike trail, it’s a sweet spot of shade with a lovely log bench. But for the last couple of years, it has been the site of a strange struggle. For a long time, the bench sprouted banana peel stickers. Someone was …
Via Luis, a trail of bread crumbs leads to Paul Graham: Actually, the fad is the word “blog,” at least the way the print media now use it. What they mean by “blogger” is not someone who publishes in a weblog format, but anyone who publishes online. That’s going to become a problem as the …
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