Archive for February, 2009

The forgotten land war: New Mexico, 1967

Posted by Phil on February 26th, 2009

Rio Arriba County Courthouse, Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico. Image from GhostTowns.com. I was doing some readings for my Insurgency class (some time ago) and noticed this intriguing snippet, a quote from Gurr’s Why Men Rebel (p. 263-4)in O’Neill’s Insurgency and Terrorism (p. 58-9), in a discussion of how infrastructure or the lack of it affects [...]

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Electronics, GeoCaching and More (Photo Post)

Posted by Luke H on February 25th, 2009

Here’s a photo post of some of the things we’ve been up to since our last update. No longer being a Poor Student, I decided to splash out in January and become a consumer electronics junkie. Here’s my first new cellphone since 2001 and my brand-new laptop. My new cellphone has GPS (as well as [...]

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Normal Service Shall Resume … Now

Posted by Luke H on February 25th, 2009

Ok people, we’re back. I know we’ve been quiet here, and I apologise. First we had to recover from the election, then there was the Christmas holidays (most of which I worked through) as well as brewing beer and spirits, going camping, hanging out with friends and family, and trading furiously on iPredict. (Not to [...]

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