Chas has joined the local volunteer fire department and thinks he may get called to duty during today’s Red Flag alert. Early this morning I saw a couple of Army Blackhawk helicopters headed south to help fight a big fire at Ft. Carson. Cowboy poets get a fair amount of press – Baxter Black used …
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Ugly Bat Boy
I will not argue with the assertion that this is the ugliest cat in the world.
Denver Public Art
As Connie will be glad to tell you, this horrific horse perched outside of Denver International Airport drives me nuts. Officially known as “Blue Mustang” it is especially obnoxious after dark when the orange eyes light up. I have offered to contribute to a fund to buy C-4 to blow it up. The NY Times …
Fretmarks
Pluvialis is posting again. Except I just noticed she dropped her nom de blog and is just regular Helen now. Go on over and welcome her back.
Pruning
This warm spell we’re having came at just the right time for me to get to work on the peach trees.
“Oldest English Words” Identified
I stumbled across this piece in the BBC website that discusses a computer-enabled mathematical model that analyses the rate of change of words in English and related languages. It appears to be me that this is a new application of glottochronology , a technique that has been around for quite a while. The researchers at …
Rocky Mountain News, RIP
This isn’t unexpected, but Scripps finally announced they are pulling the plug tomorrow on Colorado’s oldest newspaper, founded 1859. When I first moved here in the 1970s, I much preferred the tabloid Rocky to the Denver Post, but it’s been evident in recent years that the owning chain has been starving the poor girl to …
Philip Jose Farmer, RIP
This esteemed science fiction writer died yesterday at age 91. I especially enjoyed his “Riverworld” series of novels that featured Sir Richard Francis Burton as a main character. Phil Farmer and I are not related, but when I was in graduate school at CU – Boulder, I remember meeting his step-daughter at a party. How’s …
Landscaping Crew Discovers Clovis Cache in Boulder
Exciting news – the Denver Post and NY Times picked it up, but the best account comes from this press release issued by the University of Colorado. A cache of 83 lithic tools was discovered by Brant Turney’s landscaping crew while they were working in Patrick Mahaffy’s yard in Boulder last May. Mahaffy contacted the …
Feeder Friend
Black-capped chickadee.