Monthly Archives: April 2018

Parks

I’ve always appreciated the good taste and consistency of the National Park Service brochures.  (Laid out roughly geographically from my trip.)

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Peregrination III

Back at home, briefly, to do laundry and catch up with people before I continue my trip.  To quote yet again the wise words of Indiana Jones, “It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.”

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Array

With my uncanny ability to stumble on things I wasn’t looking for, heading west after visiting Trinity Site I found myself driving through the Very Large Array.  (Never realized that the dishes were on train tracks.  They can not only … Continue reading

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Priesthood

Serendipitously, I was driving around New Mexico while re-listening to a Seminar About Long Term Thinking that Neil Gaiman had given several years ago.  It reminded me about the Human Interface Task Force which the U.S. Department of Energy had … Continue reading

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Electrical

Saw this DeLorean in the parking lot at Trinity Site.  “Are you telling me this sucker is nuclear?”

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Mushroom

At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the first man-made nuclear detonation occurred when the Manhattan Project successfully tested a nuclear bomb in a remote location in the deserts of New Mexico.  Oppenheimer codenamed the test as Trinity. Twice a year—the … Continue reading

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Highway II

Like the highway looking down toward White Sands, but this time looking down toward the Valley of Fire.

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Cottonwood

It has taken me way too long to figure this out.  The Alamo means “The Cottonwood.”  Los Alamos means “The Cottonwoods.”  Alamogordo means “Fat Cottonwood.”

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Topology

Coming down the mountain from Cloudcroft, looking back at the Lincoln National Forest.  I always think of New Mexico as a flat desert, but it the north has beautiful pine forested mountains.

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Apple

Kill it!  Kill it with fire!  Or, sweet heaven, will that only make it more deadly by making it more delicious???

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Covenant

Visited White Sands National Monument.  Sand.  As far as the eye could see.  I let the grains slip through my fingers as if I had lifted them from the Ark of the Covenant.

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Highway

Coming down the U.S. Route 70 out of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, looking out at the White Sands and the San Andres Mountains beyond.

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Unidentified

Visited Roswell’s International UFO Museum & Research Library.Um.Nice mural.Kind of an adorable design, really.Okay, now we’re getting to the crazy stuff.“Head Rest.”  Clearly.Fox Mulder would be cringing at this point.This looks like one of those “There are 7 mistakes in … Continue reading

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Containment

What do they have locked up in the Roswell Correctional Center?  For the love of God, what do they have locked up?

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Rewrite

When my friends & coworkers at DreamWorks tried to create the animation pipeline for Oriental DreamWorks, we went with a “line-one rewrite” of the entire pipeline.  We wrote everything, from the first line of bash, from scratch. I regret this. … Continue reading

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