This is the third in a three-part series on my Memorial Day 2008 camping trip to Assateague Island National Seashore. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Sorry for the delay, but here are the photos from our third day at Assateague. The wind was pretty crazy on Monday, so I didn’t [...]

This is the second in a three-part series on my Memorial Day 2008 camping trip to Assateague Island National Seashore. You can find Part 1 here. I didn’t really plan on waking up this early: checking my watch, it was only 5:40, an ungodly hour that I try to avoid at all costs. I had [...]

This is the first in a three-part series on my Memorial Day 2008 camping trip to Assateague Island National Seashore. You can find Part 2 here and Part 3 here. As I alluded in a previous post, I spent the weekend camping at Assateague Island National Seashore. My sister organized the trip, her fifth-annual Memorial [...]

So, according to my WordPress dashboard, this is post 1,000 at Live from Silver City. Therefore, via Kevin Drum, here’s some cats to mark the milestone. It’s an old one (I haven’t had my camera during recent trips to Baltimore) but it’s a favorite, so I hope you enjoy it. I’ve definitely come to the [...]

So, I turned 29 on Tuesday – my last 20-something birthday, as my mom said. I don’t have much to reflect on the milestone, if it is one. I’ve become more cognizant, perhaps, of the fact that I am an incredibly lucky guy: I have a fantastic job doing work that I feel is worthwhile, [...]

Nixon had taken just about every possible position short of withdrawal—we should escalate, we should negotiate, we should bomb more, we should pause the bombing, we should pour in troops, pouring in troops would be a scandal. Liberals who paid attention were enraged. They congratulated themselves for spotting the hustle. It hardly bothered Nixon; their [...]

Some photos taken since the last photodump. I’m actually without camera this week, because I lent it to Meredith for some work-related stuff. It’s been an interesting few days: I’ve been reading more (since I’m not spending evenings working in Photoshop) and trying to bone up on my photoblog reading (I’ve been pretty inundated with [...]

My mother has had what we in the scientific community would classify as “poor vision” for a while now. It was especially hard for her to see well at night, and she couldn’t read the cable guide (even on a 27″ TV). When walking somewhere after sundown she needed somebody to help with things like [...]

From a post on superdelegates: Since we joined with our partners to begin the Superdelegate Transparency Project, we’ve seen a number of proposals on how superdelegates can follow the “will of the people.” DemConWatch characterizes one group of supers who will vote for the “pledged delegate leader” the Pelosi Club, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). [...]

I had a great Saturday in D.C. this weekend. An old friend from Silver City is a fellow at the National Academies of Science, and she’s spending four months here in the city. With our busy schedules, of course, it’s been hard getting together, but Saturday the stars aligned. Being a fellow, she was able [...]

Here’s the cats hanging out on the new chair up at Meredith’s place. The photo is a week old (as most of my cat blogging pictures are) but I was so in love with this shot I wanted to post it for you. The new furniture was definitely a big hit (see below) with the [...]

So, since I last blogged I went to Brooklyn, saw The Little Mermaid, went to the Natural History Museum, walked across Central Park (again), went to the Met, saw the Guggenheim (wow, oh wow, was this an incredible exhibit), had a slice, went to the UN building, went to the top (well, almost) of the [...]