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Ron Da Bomb commented on sophie's blog post 'Morning Fix: Talking Code'

A big part of the allure for me is that you can't get them here. When I travel east of here, I'll stop at White Castle for some slyders. If either of these joints had a location in ABQ, I might eat there occasionally. I like burgers of all varieti...

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Ron Da Bomb commented on Masshole in Fringecrest's blog post 'I remember when, episode 2'

You are the first person to confirm that T'N'T Deli on S. Broadway was not a figment of my imagination. Have you tried Times Square Deli Mart on Central across from the U? (for sandwiches, not brownies)...The same family owns the Sahara Middle Eas...

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Ron Da Bomb commented on sophie's blog post 'Morning Fix: Talking Code'

Snapshot from a recent roadtrip...

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Ron Da Bomb replied to Benny the Icepick's discussion 'Rash of break-ins?'

Also, boned and deboned mean the same thing...

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Where I Live:: Far NE Heights

Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:: the food, the climate, the people

Relationship Status:: Single

What I'm Reading:: Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis, SQL 2K5 tech manual, The Essential Calvin & Hobbes

What I'm Listening To:: Stan Getz, B-Side Players, Ben Harper

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NM's Oldest No More

So for my Saturday morning walk, I decided to head over to Whataburger at Eubank & Candelaria for biscuits and gravy and a cup of coffee, only to discover along the way that an old friend is gone...

Businesses come and go, especially the mom and pops, but this one made me a little sad. I discovered this place almost by accident back in the mid 80's. Next door to the video store (see the blue door farthest east), there was a shop that rented PC software. It was borderline piracy. The way the… Continue

Posted on September 28, 2009 at 12:58pm — 9 Comments

Biggest headline ever?

With tomorrow's date (give or take forty years) and the recent passing of Walter Cronkite it seemed timely that while cleaning our office storeroom this morning we would come across an old Albuquerque Journal.

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Posted on July 20, 2009 at 12:30pm — 12 Comments

Oppie's Ride

"This 1941 Packard Clipper, extensively modified, carried J. Robert Oppenheimer and others to the Trinity test in 1945" -- Sandia L… Continue

Posted on February 6, 2009 at 4:13pm — 16 Comments

The Crying One

A friend of mine is taking a class at the U called Urban Legends. She asked me to recount an urban legend that I'd heard, and of course the most famous here in NM, in various forms is...

La Yarona, La Yorona, or more correctly La Llorona (the crying one)...

I first heard this story from my abuelita on my mom's side. Grandma on my dad's side was "gramma garcia" and on my mom's side, "gramma gramma".

In her broken english, gramma gramma terrified generations with her tale...

There was this wom… Continue

Posted on July 18, 2008 at 12:26pm — 31 Comments

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At 9:57pm on April 18, 2008, Adelita said…: Hi Ron da Bomb! I've added you as a friend. Glad you finally took the plunge and joined DCF.

At 9:56am on April 29, 2008, Grumpy said…: Hey Ron. Last Thanksgiving after our family meal my husband got all the parents (all over 80 years old) and siblings to sit down and put the DVD of Ozomatli in concert in San Francisco on our new Hi-Def TV. Trying to show off, of course and you gotta understand, we're definitely "white folks" and our parents are all from Tennesee and Louisiana. He was a little insulted that no one else was as impressed with Ozomatli as we are but the 'rents would have been more interested in a Glenn Miller concert. It was fun to watch their faces though as one by one they came to realize they would never understand what we were going on about. Glad you're passing good taste on to your son.

At 11:31am on June 28, 2008, Rudolfo Carrillo said…: I do like Mahler's choral work and yes it is mars (a recent photo, too). Thanks for reading.

At 2:52pm on July 25, 2008, Adelita said…: Hey Ron. The Bookworks website is back up and running. Just got an events email from them and checked their website too.

At 5:49pm on July 25, 2008, Barelas Babe said…: Lots of us geeks out there - I'm racing home this Friday night to read an intellectual biography about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem...

At 11:16pm on July 25, 2008, Barelas Babe said…: Not a math major, but a philosophy/biology major! I took logic as a grad student, and a metalogic course that was required for math and philosophy PhDs - that's where I discovered the joys of soundness and incompleteness. :) This book is an awesome read - written by Rebecca Goldstein (she's a philosopher). So math, logic, history of science, etc. All favorite subjects of mine, though I stopped my math sequence with 2nd semester calculus and switched over to logic, set theory, etc.

The common interests one finds on DCF!

So what exactly is it that you do for work? Engineering?

At 11:20pm on July 25, 2008, Barelas Babe said…: I forgot to add, I'm a bioethicist. Work mostly in ethics of emerging and converging technology - what we call NBIC stuff (nanotech, biotech, cognitive sci, info sci). I mostly do biotech, more specifically genetics, but dabble in the others as well. It's where my other academic area of interest, military/intelligence ethics, also comes into play.