Milk
Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz: Nothing will ever be the same. Nothing ever is … once your milk goes bad. Then it’s just too late. And nothing will bring it back.
Archive of entries posted on August 2006
Is the Drought Over?
Monday afternoon, I was sitting in a meeting of federal drought scientists up in Santa Fe when Nora pinged me this text message: Yes, it is raining really hard here. It was something of an understatement. When I got up Tuesday morning and checked my rain gauge, it had recorded 1.93 inches in the previous …
Water in the Desert
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 …
Flower Friday
sunflowers Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. This clump of sunflowers doesn’t seem to mind that its source of water is the concrete channel draining the parking lot in a semi-industrial Albuquerque business park. Another example of why I love alleys, bike trails, train tracks and other routes along the back side of society.
Word of the Day: Pluvial
The folks running the Climate Working Group summer retreat on drought were kind enough to invite me up to Santa Fe this week. I spent most of the time listening, but they also extended the huge kindness of inviting me to speak. I think they hoped I could explain the rituals of my somewhat mystifying …
The Strangest Mix
The PodGoober randomizer has just offered what may be the strangest mix I’ve ever heard: from the Kinks (All Day and All of the Night – what some might argue was the first punk song) to Benny Goodman. Bedlam.
Doping v. Real Medicine
There’s a fascinating anecdote in Peter Spotts’ Christian Science Monitor piece on athletes and doping. After publishing results of tests on a new compound that showed promise in growing extraordinary muscles in mice, University of Pennsylvania researchers were inundated with requests for information, but not from people in the medical community: After the university published …
Thursday Drought Watch
I’ve been much of the week up in Santa Fe at a workshop of drought scientists, and while we’ve been busy palavering, things have been changing on the ground here in the drought-stricken southwest. The greatest excitement was in Coronado National Memorial Park, near Bisbee in far southern Arizona, which got 12 inches of rain …
Zippy on Global Warming
Zippy’s concerned about global warming: I’m concerned about global warming, but I’m even more concerned about Al Gore’s love affair with his Powerpoint program. On the one hand, I don’t want to be underwater in 30 years, but on the other, can Al Gore sweep into the oval office on a wave of animated carbon …