Buggs' Blog

Coffee - ** *T*he funny thing about ordering coffee in Australia is that the coffee shops are sort of a cross between serving coffee European styled or American st...

Michelle Obama and Jill Biden: The Troops Need Us - The following essay penned by Mrs. Obama and Dr. Jill Biden was published in the September 3rd print edition of USA Today. This has been a summer of homecomi...

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Sparce Parse - Trust that my dealings with events of late* are only slightly more engaging than witnessing Albuquerque's impact fees, along with planning and civics, get fl...

White Seamless Link For Photoshop World :: - Thanks to everyone who came to the white seamless session yesterday at Photoshop World. I thought I would give you all a quick link to the tutorial here on...

Globalfoundries Recruiting In Albuquerque - Globalfoundries, Formally AMD, is recruiting in cities that have Intel factories for their Fab 8 factory in New York. Including Albuquerque. Brightsideodth...

Holiday Weekend History Blogging: The Spanish Influence In New Mexico; Fact Or Fantasy; Readers Lead The Great Debate - Estevan Rael-Gálvez There are more than a few armchair historians among our blog readers, and it seemed just about all of them jumped out of their easy chai...

An Eye Popping Photoshop World! - I get notions, and they stay with me. One has been, for a while now, to come up with a decent portrait of Russell Brown, the wonderfully mad genius of Phot...

Solar Gold - This is a damning report by the Associated Press on the performance of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on siting of renewable solar energy projects on f...

A Case of Excessive Coziness with Oil and Gas - By Tracy Dingmann Once upon a time in a little New Mexico town, a man who worked for the Bureau of Land Management took money and favors from the oil and g...

Gregory Heisler Whiteboards Guiliani Time Cover - Any time Gregory Heisler gives one of his iconic photos the BTS treatment we pretty much pre-empt the regular programming and turn the joint over to him. A...

[DOC] Frivolous Lawsuits? - Here's a story I put together for broadcast on how much the City of Albuquerque has had to pay out in lawsuit settlements/judgements over the last year and...

Tomas Whitehouse’s Self-Taught Journey to the Pros - For someone who’s been a guitarist in a punk band, an actor, and a professional critic of high-quality single malt Scotch, Tomas Whitehouse’s work doesn’t ...

Business as Usual - John Dantis' desk isn't even cleaned out yet and the county is back to its old tricks again. Our Eyes tell us that County Manager Thaddeus Lucero has decid...

Obama: Conrad Ernest Candelaria Nominated US Marshal - What’s Wrong With This Picture? I’m not big on repeating press releases, but here is one that says everything that needs being said from the White House Of...

Lighting links this week - Latest news about Cokin, Honl, Innovatronix, PocketWizard, Westcott. Plus: shooting monolights with a shotgun, and a DIY Radiopopper PX project.

Seriously? - It looks like the New Mexico's "golden ticket" is struggling on more than one front. But, at least someone is still writing fantasies for media distributi...

Land office lawyers call AG's claims ludicrous - Attorneys representing the State Land Office say because Land Commissioner Pat Lyons is granted ”complete control over the care, control, and disposition ...

¡Mayday! – Red Carpet Affair - Something 'new' music wise for a few of you. ¡Mayday! – Red Carpet Affair, off of their Technology EP. I hear you might be able to download it here. [[ Thi...