…5/15–10: technological thoughts

50º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…hot air balloons over ABQ skies; Duke City woman was pulled over by a vehicle carrying six hooded men, who asked to see her driver’s license, then took a picture of it: this took place at Coors & Central; red light cameras will be removed from state roads, and three local intersections this week; Bill Clinton will be in ABQ this Tuesday for a political fundraiser; NM GOV will be attending a White House dinner; Duke City judge is stepping down for having made several legal errors in sentencing people; there were no records kept of the Native Americans who may have been exposed to Hepatitis or HIV when the same lancet was used to test for diabetes; will ABQ halt business with AZ?; flight diverted to SunPort, passenger was treated by Michael Jackson’s doctor;

dog pulled a bumper off a police car; BP lowering another tube to siphon oil, that attempted also did not work, never reached the broken pipe: very little has been done to how to stop an oil leak; 44K military helmets may be defective; maximum fee at an ATM should be fifty cents?; Episcopalians select a second gay person, a lesbian reverend, as bishop;

Australian teen is now the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around the world; space junk will not prevent Atlantis from docking at the INTL Space Station; more volcanic ash heading towards England & Germany; Stephen Hawking says time travel is possible, via a ‘wormhole’, but only one way…into the future; Cathay Pacific airplane diverted to a Vancouver airport after a bomb threat was reported;

…5/16–10: seek peace

50º in ABQ; 34% humidity at 6A…fatal pedestrian crash in NW ABQ; two hikers rescued from the Sandia MTN, they got stuck in the snow, and were saved by their cell phones; NM vs. Blue Cross: who will win; wind turbines near Tucumcari; NM has some of the largest cheese factories in the US; water will be released from the Cochiti Dam, so there will be more water flowing in the Rio Grande;

PA postal worker gets busted for hoarding mail, dating back to 1997; the $100K prostate cancer vaccine; when not a FED bailout for education?; now, huge plumes of oil beneath the Gulf of MX; cash being pulled from the stock market, blame the recent recession; Palin approved the AZ immigration law; seven year old girl killed when a Detroit police officer; AZ: ‘Ground Zero’ for immigration?; ‘Iron Man 2’ was number one in the box office, earning $53 million; while ‘some’ of the oil is being siphoned, more tar balls appearing on more Gulf shores: some of the plumes are ten miles long, yet there may be bacteria which will eat the fuel; ‘Gulf Aid’ fundraiser being held in New Orleans; the Tea Party has also removed an [R] conservative candidate;

Atlantis docked with the INTL Space Station today; volcanic ash closing N European airports; in Tokyo, robot performed the wedding ceremony; 5.7 quake shook Puerto Rico, the epicenter was near the city of Moca;