doing something different with language
NEPA Number DOI-BLM-NM-F010-2026-0002-EA
Project Name Evaluation of Potential Revocation of Chaco Withdrawal
Project Type EA
NEPA Status In Progress – Public Review and Comment Period
Lead Office Farmington Field Office
Last Updated 7/19/2026 5:00:00 PM
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Of course commercial interests want to make use of natural resources … Read more...
The most frequent words people say about Kelly (Gilda Jo Grieshaber) are kind, sweet, and generous. She was the cool aunt, Aunt Glinda—the good witch from the Wizard of Oz, the dear friend who called three times a day, the nicest person you ever met. Her joy was in bringing joy to others; the best memories include her laughter.
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… Read more...“So he wants to die deliberately and he’s considering who to ask. These, I presume, are people or gods with whom he is close. The choices strike me as having an inherent performative quality. If he’s a god, other people
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… Read more...“…what does classified information do? I think the metaphor that we’re intended to bring to it is war, spying, national secrets, and the vulnerabilities of huge things like infrastructure. I imagine that the individual instances of it are far more idiosyncratic
A typo. Decided it could function as an (sortof, not quite) anagram.
Hang on. I’m gonna ask ChatGPT.
Bext is a portmanteau of next and best. (Not an anagram.) This is the bext christmas that I can remember. It’s perfect for my present circumstances, and is meaningful like some of my other favorite christmasses.
I started collecting the transcript links for the first season of the O’Parables podcast in one place for those who need or want to read them.
If you’re unfamiliar with Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993), it’s a fictional account of surviving societal breakdown which has uncanny relevance to today. The story spans a journey of three … Read more...
We’re in the lead-up to a tumultuous time.
I have been listening to the O’Parables podcast. Octavia E. Butler’s trilogy is prescient. She wrote it in the early’90s, set in the 2020s. She is literally describing conditions so many are already experiencing and most of the rest of us (the non-billionaire class) are heading into. The podcast features Adrienne … Read more...
Like all good students, they have questions about the introductory slide show. How detailed will the quiz be, do they need to learn every detail, how much they should try to memorize, etc. “It’s all over the place!” one of them exclaimed.
Another liked the game-type set up, the mystery of searching for the links and the fun of clicking … Read more...