Recent chuckle … a younger colleague was exclaiming over a wild looking ‘old airplane.’ I looked over his shoulder. A Lockheed Constellation. The first commercial airliner I ever took a trip on. And got vomitously ill in. I remember the odor of raw puke while looking at those awesome spinning props.
Dawn presages a day of much-needed moisture in New Mexico. iPhone 15 Max, Project Indigo app.
Ars is answering the question, “Do AI data centers use a large fraction of total U.S. water?”
Meanwhile, New Mexicans are asking: “Should we be building new water-intensive facilities in a state where the Rio Grande is DRY and we’ve not been able to meet downstream obligations SINCE 2020?”
I worked in Big Bend in 1978, walked its backcountry, and nearly died of dehydration after badly underestimating the desert. It’s a landscape that teaches with lethal honesty. The idea of carving roads and barriers is unnecessary, wanton destruction. I weep for Santa Elena Canyon. Guardian article.
Frighteningly dry in the wild canyon/forest areas of northern New Mexico. Normally, this grass is bursting green - no brown anywhere - and it should be knee-high, not ankle-biting length.
I was very heartened to see, on my recent flight from Minneapolis to Denver, that three (3) young 20- and 30-somethings in adjacent seats were sitting reading substantially thick physical books. One was even laughing at what they were reading.
There may be hope yet.
Social. “Algorithmic emotion markets.” Hmmm. Platforms monetize the ‘hottest’ of content.
Checking in via Ulysses
Ain’t been here in a while. Hooking up Ulysses App to see how simple it is. If you see this, that means I didn’t screw anything up.
Shake, shake, shake on thy birthday ...
Happy Birthday, Bill. I dream of the day I can come up with lines as beautifully wrought as: “Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.” — The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2
I have been thinking lately about ‘after’. Will large corporations now rely on remote workers, only maintaining coworking/meeting spaces as satellite locations? I can’t imagine they’d give up their ‘corporate headquarters’. The former would be significant cost-savings …
Designer News: Photoshop’s new transform behavior needs to be reverted. Kinda crazy-making, when key commands are reflexes like breathing …
Social media geotagging is a problem. All our ‘best kept secret’ places around Santa Fe now have streams of parked cars with empty MTB racks and out-of-state plates. Solitude, now rara avis.
So sad when a popular blog or feed, to maintain readership, starts peddling merch. They start off with quality and the personal stories associated, but after a period of time always devolve into “whatever our sponsors want to shove out the door.” Never ignore ‘reader value.’
Catapult: How I Learned to Tell Signal from Noise and Appreciate Calm. A good, short read for first thing in the a.m.
I’m still finding Wordpress folks thinking WP 5.0/Gutenberg is coming tomorrow (November 19). Well, it’s been rescheduled for November 27, subject to further change.
SF New Mexican: Drilling overwhelms BLM. Boy howdy. Check out satellite maps around Midland, TX to see what’s going on.