Todd Clarke @ June 4, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I could have sworn we left it right here on the corner of Sinkhole Avenue and Dropoff Blvd…
This first appeared on one of my favorite gadget blogs, Gizmodo, and then was followed by a posting with more photos on the National Geographic website.
Before my friends in Albuquerque chuckle too much about those crazy places (like [...]
Todd Clarke @ April 2, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Posted in our sister blog, Todd Clarke’s Technology Corner, is an obituary of the man who developed the hardware for the first personal computer.
His fulltime job was as a scientist at Sandia National Labratories, but his interests were in developing computers that the public could use.
His company, MITS, developed the hardware, but he needed a [...]
Todd Clarke @ December 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Click on this link for an animated video showing county by county unemployment levels and watch as most of the country turns purple in unemployment.
Todd Clarke @ November 24, 2009 # One Comment
Pop Up from abw on Vimeo.
Believe it or not, this office folds flatter than an IKEA flat pack!
Todd Clarke @ November 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This make look like any ordinary residential area in California, but would you believe it if I told you it was actually a factory? Click here for more. I wonder why developer’s haven’t used this for industrial parks?
Todd Clarke @ November 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Hoover dam by-pass is under construction - Gizmodo (and my father-in-law) have forwarded some amazing photos of the construction of this bridge.
Todd Clarke @ October 27, 2009 # 2 Comments
Thanks to Richard David for turning me on to this article about the spaceports status…
Todd Clarke @ September 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
My friends and family will tell you that I’ve recently become a bit obssessed with Teardrop trailers - an offshoot of our family’s fabulous cross-country summer adventure.
My continual search for this perfect Teardrop trailer has yielded this trailer -
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I made a dozen or so trips to China, and can recall many amazing sites and feats [...]
Todd Clarke @ August 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A good friend, developer, proffesor and author friend of mine, Chris Lienberger, wrote a fabulous book titled “Option of Urbanism” a couple of years ago. One of the items I was stunned to learn is that GM designed and presented their vision of a future metropolis - centered around cars.
Some sixty years [...]
Todd Clarke @ August 19, 2009 # One Comment
from the Cool Hunter website comes a possible design for a new W hotel…
The website features several perspectives and layouts on this apartment, which looks like a cross between BladeRunner and Space 1999.
Hey - who is that in my shower?
Todd Clarke @ August 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In a copyright story by the Albuquerque Journal, the headline read “State: Almost Half of Class of 2008 Didn’t Graduate” and was followed by “Roughly half the students who should have graduated with the class of 2008 failed to do so, prompting a call to action by the state’s education secretary.”
While the headline is alarming, [...]
Todd Clarke @ August 5, 2009 # One Comment
Fire last night destroyed one of Albuquerque’s best loved medium sized apartment communities- the Castle Apartments. Located between downtown and old town at 1410 Central SW, the 20 unit apartment community caught fire around 8pm and continued to burn in the Wednesday morning.
Built in 1922, the 15,150 square foot apartments featured amazing built-ins and [...]
Todd Clarke @ August 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This doesn’t look so good…
Thanks to Gizmodo.com for the headsup on this diaster in Turkey!
Todd Clarke @ June 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
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Having visisted Graceland right before driving to Asheville, NC to see the Biltmore Estate, it was very clear this house was and still commands the status of an “estate”.
And I must admit that as a destination/tourist magnet, the property is one of the best run venues I’ve been to - on part with [...]
Todd Clarke @ June 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Our family was at Elvis former mansion and last resting place this week, Graceland , and I was struck by the fact that housing has changed a lot since Elvis’s hey day.
In 1970 the average house size was 1,100 sf. Today it’s over 2,200 sf. Elvis’s big amenities were 3 TV’s, and a hundred [...]
Todd Clarke @ February 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The video does a nice job of summarizing the acceleration of technolgy and its innovation. Couple that with changing demographics (for example, did you know there are more people who speak english in China, than there are people in the United States?
Todd Clarke @ February 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It’s true, many of us suffer from this disease- it is amazing - as a deadline approaches, so many of us end up giving the dog a bath, cleaning the house, filing paperwork, just about anything to keep us from focusing on the work at hand.
My wife, Kahleetah, and I think Sponge Bob typifies [...]
Todd Clarke @ February 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Wired Magazine has an article on the upcoming Terminator moved which has been filming in Albuquerque during the last year.
As New Mexico continues to beef up its filming resume, I remain amazed at how many buildings I recognize in various movies. Take this photo for example:
Although the photo shows a post apocalyptic scene of [...]
Todd Clarke @ December 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In a story created by the Daily News (yes created, not reported), the Daily News “stole” the Empire State buidling by filing fraudulent deeds on the property transferring ownership to themselves.
The story then goes on to report, that once ownership is obtained, its easy for the new owner to obtain a mortgage.
While I am not [...]