Friday, January 30, 2009 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM
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Leasburg Dam, Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, January 25, 2009
How I saved a stamp
Having gotten my new MBR1000 router and USB760 modem up and running I immediately trashed the boxes and shipping stuff. When I finally got 'round to filling out Verizon's rebate form for the USB760 modem this morning I find the original bar code label off the box must be included to qualify for the $50.00 rebate. Right.
Night camp
Site 11 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Go to Leasburg Dam State Park website
- Locate Leasburg Dam State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Disaster and the Failure of Authority
Disasters are almost by definition about the failure of authority, in part because the powers that be are supposed to protect us from them, in part also because the thousand dispersed needs of a disaster overwhelm even the best governments, and because the government version of governing often arrives at the point of a gun. But the authorities don't usually fail so spectacularly. Failure at this level requires sustained effort. The deepening of the divide between the haves and have nots, the stripping away of social services, the defunding of the infrastructure, mean that this disaster—not of weather but of policy—has been more or less what was intended to happen, if not so starkly in plain sight.
The Uses of Disaster Rebecca Solnit, Harpers.org, September 9, 2005