The always insightful* Coco offers some helpful backstory to the institutional arrangements responsible for sucking water out of Albuquerque’s low-lying neighborhoods: One of the strongest reasons behind having growth management is to plan public infrastructure investment to assure adequate funding for replacement and repair of things like aging infrastructure that serves existing neighborhoods – like …
More discussion over on the Fix about my July 23 story on climate science.
For my friends who churn out words and wonder why, Aaron’s writerly observations on ambitions and life: I dream of writing the Next Great Marketing Brochure. I know exactly what it’s like: it’s about five hundred words long, and it’s printed on glossy cardstock. People line up at trade shows to get a copy, and …
animas_la_plata Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Calling Durango, Colorado, “the desert” is a bit of a cheat. Located on the edge of the San Juan Mountains, it averages 20 inches or so (50 cm) of precipitation a year, well above what might formally qualify as desert. But Durango sits at a fulcrum in the complex interplay …
Animas Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Among other things, we took a boat trip down the Animas River through Durango.You know it’s an urban float trip when the boatman points out that we’ll be passing the new Home Depot, but it was great fun. We took the train, too. More photos on our Flickr page once …
Over at Dave’s blog, some thoughtful comments from Malcolm regarding gender issues in the computer world: I’ve been using motherboards and daughterboards since I started playing with computer hardware. No fatherboard in sight, though. Come to think of it, most of the plugs on the back of my machine are female as well. I’m with …
Nora sends along this, a climate change threat of which I was unaware: I can’t believe a company like Amazon would promote global warming by allowing those bastiches at Dole to continue to melt icebergs just to get the head of lettuce that lies at the center. Sure, it tastes like ambrosia, but look what …
Today’s Journal letters page has some discussion of my climate science story from a couple of weeks back. I apparently don’t have many fans: John Fleck probably has a PR job on George W. Bush’s staff waiting for him after the spin he put on global warming science in the Journal. Hey, at least they’re …
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 …