water & ice
A dreadful hike takes us to fairyland.
Enjoy!
Stuff you need to know, 2.15.23
Today's intelligence: Though a court decision on a deal that could end the fight over Rio Grande water distribution between New Mexico and Texas is months away, state officials recognize the need to spend millions to cut groundwater pumping below Elephant Butte. Plus: Proposed changes to the nomination and qualifications of state Game Commissioners move ahead at the Roundhouse.
Stuff you need to know, 2.13.23
Today's intelligence: why New Mexicans typically wait months to see a doctor, travel out of state to find one or use hospital emergency rooms for non-urgent medical needs
Stuff you need to know, 2.10.23
Today's intelligence: heighten awareness and precautions after rabies incident in Sierra County
Assaying Entropy XIII: Inconclusion
I return to the idea of entropy, this time as a measure of the increasing randomness in the universe, and I relate this increase to our gradual loss of social cohesion under the influence of individualism, to the breakdown of language in our culture, and to our carelessness about Covid.
Icy creek
During cold weather I love to walk along creeks to catch images of the infinite variations of the way water freezes.
Click on the images to enlarge them.
Stuff you need to know, 2.7.23
Today's intelligence: the arguments for and against the proposed settlement of the years-long Texas-New Mexico water dispute; and the financial and technical woes of Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic's similarly troubled corporate sibling
Assaying Entropy XII: Individualism, choice, and hierarchy
I continue my look at the sources of our present cultural impasse by examining in detail the incompatibility between an egalitarian democracy and individualism by examining the notions of rights and choice and how non-democratic hierarchies promote individualism.
Stuff you need to know, 2.6.23
Today's intelligence: An historic investment in land and water conservation programs that would leverage hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money for New Mexico is under consideration at the Roundhouse.
Stuff you need to know, 1.3.23
Today's intelligence: How southern New Mexico Senators are trying to pry loose Black Fire recovery monies.
Stuff you need to know, 2.2.23
Today's intelligence: the progress of bills introduced in the New Mexico House to create a better-run and less politicized state Department of Game and Fish and to get tougher on crime
Stuff you need to know, 2.1.23
Today's intelligence: concrete measures that New Mexico can take to manage more efficiently, equitably and resiliently water resources that are expected to decline by 25 percent over the next 50 years