Exile in Portales

*Widely quoted, and most often attributed to John Wayne, in the 1949 film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , written by Frank S. Nugent and Laurenc...

So. A couple of things. In my previous post I mentioned "Inertia" and I don't want you Gentle Readers to think inertia is a ba...

And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here? - David Byrne, " Once In A Lifetime " Well, the answer is pretty easy in a phy...

... the semi-tough steal shit from other bloggers. THIS is truly awe-inspiring and flat-out AMAZING: Now, izzat cool, or what ? The hat-ti...

This vid has the most amazing graphics when viewed full-screen in HD. And it discusses "things" that few of us can even begin to ...

Well, you're drunk in the alley, baby With your clothes all torn And your late night friends Leave you in the cold grey dawn Just seemed...

Yesterday I had another installment in my Adventures in Modern Dentistry , but this time it was kinda cool: LANAP . After LANAP, most pat...

We had some pretty heavy weather here on The High Plains of New Mexico this evening. Here's a view of the storm moving in: And here...

A friend sends this along... Yow. That IS remarkable, innit? (Y)Ezhov is a relatively obscure Rooshian, but here's what The Wiki sez ...

Google thinks I live in France. No shit: I normally never specify a place when I create these sorts of reminders for my calendar (in th...

... but I seem to be getting political again. Wazzup with that, I wonder? To answer my own question: I'm thinking the general sense o...

We were gonna take today off (in the blogging sense) since we (a) got an incredibly late start today due to an incredibly sleepless night an...

... while checking out a link to a link in comments on that water-slide vid at Lex's place. More fake stunts, but this one is way-cool:...

I mentioned in comments SN1 is in town, bedding the family down before he heads out to Kandahar. We fixed the world for quite a while last ...

That's a screen shot from memeorandum , date/time as noted in the upper right-hand corner (click for larger). The reddish links are thi...

Via Lex , who posted the link with the pithy post title "Math," followed with an oh-so-accurate summation: "It really is i...

Remember The Smoking Hot Cigar Chick I posted the other day? Well... here's a counterpoint: Kim is... ummm... much more like it, no? A...

It looks like it... at this writing... coz what you see on the right is what I see in my G-Mail box. This was a BIG DoS attack... from a R...

I've not had any comment on the "Birther" (or lately: Nirther, whatever the Hell THAT means) phenomenon here at EIP... but I...

... and I spent the entire time it took to drink my first cup (after answering comments) looking around on YouTube for the studio version of...