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Stealing From Deposit Boxes With Fishing Wire And Hooks

March 9th, 2010 Greg Smith No comments

Some probably desperate and broke robber is trying to steal money from deposit boxes (in ATM machines) using fishing wire and hooks in Rio Rancho.

Rio Rancho police spokesperson John Francis said the man took fishing wire and fishing hooks to drop down deposit boxes to try to reel in money bags. Bank employees who would empty the deposit boxes the next morning told police they’d find the hooks and wires and that’s what tipped them off to look at their surveillance video.

Cameras at the Bank of America at High Resort recorded their suspect driving up in an older, white Chevy Suburban with red stripes on the side, opening the deposit box and going fishing.

Rotating Bites Of Different foods

February 19th, 2010 Greg Smith No comments

I spotted a Dear Abby column, in the Chicago Herald News of all places, where wives are enforcing specific rules during eating on their annoyed husbands.

Dear Abby: My wife has been criticizing my table manners ever since our wedding. When we’re having dinner, if we’re having meatloaf, broccoli and mashed potatoes, I eat all of my meatloaf and then all of my broccoli before starting on the mashed potatoes.

My wife claims it is proper etiquette to rotate one bite of each different food rather than consume all of any one of them before moving on to the next. I have never heard of this rule and neither has anyone else I have asked.

Am I violating a rule of etiquette, or is this something else my wife has “cooked up”? — Ruminating in Rio Rancho, N.M.

Dear Ruminating: I have never heard of such a rule either, nor is it mentioned in “Emily Post’s Etiquette (16th Edition).” Your wife may have cooked it up, but that doesn’t mean you have to swallow it.

Snow Storm In Rio Rancho

January 28th, 2010 Greg Smith No comments

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We are getting a nice steady snow fall in Rio Rancho today. Still debating weather I’m heading to Sandia Peak for some skiing today (I’m definitely going tomorrow).

The US 50 States Redrawn Based On Population

January 27th, 2010 Greg Smith 2 comments
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A map of the 50 states redrawn based on population has fascinated me. Mainly because the state of New Mexico gets obliterated into 4 other new states. It looks like Albuquerque and Rio Rancho get put into Llano Estacdo or “Staked Plains“.

It’s a suggestion by fakeisthenewreal.org to improve the electoral college system.

Rather than replacing a time honored system that, after all, has only broken down three times in over 200 years, the organization of the states should be altered. In 2000, the Census Bureau determined the United States population to be 281,421,906, distributed in 50 states and one federal district. The states ranged in population from to 493,782 (1) to 33,871,648 (2). This Electoral Reform Map redivides the territory of the United States into 50 bodies of equal size – 281,421,906 divided by 50 is 5,616,997. This map shows one possible way to redraw the fifty states (3).

10 Interesting Links From January 15th

January 16th, 2010 Greg Smith No comments
  • Intel earnings surprise: we have lift-off – epending on how you look at it, Intel either turned in a monster of an earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2009, or it's finally pulled back up to 2007 levels—the former view gives you a whopping 875 percent jump in year-over-year net income, while the latter gives you essentially three "lost years," in which the company's revenues topped out (2007), then tanked (2008), then ramped right back up (2009). Either way, Intel has posted a "V-shaped recovery" that is gunning its stock up in after-hours trading.
  • MediaPost Publications AMC Mobile Tour Promotes ‘Breaking Bad’ 01/15/2010 – The lead character in AMC's "Breaking Bad" runs his drug-dealing enterprise from a revolting RV. To promote the third season, the network is going with a much plusher vehicle. Next month, a truck with a 90-seat theater — replete with stadium seating and high-def screen — will begin a coast-to-coast journey to plug the series.
  • Phoenix officer, blogger indicted on felony counts – Officer David Barnes, 42, is accused of being a primary tipster to the Web site badphoenixcops.com and with harassing two members of the department through an anonymous letter and emails.
  • Proof of Martians ‘to come this year’: Scientific American – David McKay, chief of astrobiology at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, says powerful new microscopes and other instruments will establish whether features in martian meteorites are alien fossils.
  • Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi out of ‘Spider-Man’ – Entertainment News, Film News, Media – Variety – The new untitled Spider Man film will center on the webslinging teen as he grapples with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises. Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin are producing.
  • Updated Dish, EchStar, Nagrastar To Receive $51 Million In Anti-Piracy Case – 2010-01-11 17:35:15 | Multichannel News – The decision, rendered by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, took aim at piracy software marketed as "Thedssguy and Veracity" that allowed viewers to bypass NagraStar's conditional access security and receive premium as well as regular channels that meant lost potential revenue of over $70 per month per viewer that did not have to pay to get its programming.
  • Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold – The folks who run the National Center for Atmospheric Research have a great rundown of the details of the AO Oscillation. In short, high pressure in the Arctic forces the jet stream south, and it drags cold air with it, chilling North American and northern Eurasia. In its opposite mode, those same regions tend to be much warmer. Right now, we're in such an extreme high-pressure event that the readings have run off the scale of NOAA's AO index. Fortunately for those hoping to warm up a bit, the AO is a weather event—it often changes states multiple times within a single season, and there's no clear evidence linking its behavior to climate trends.
  • From behind bars, hard-core ski bum defies authorities – The Denver Post – Since 1976, the 63-year-old has skied 120 days a season, shoveling snow and doing other odd jobs for a few bucks and skiing every day. What affirms his title as ski bum supreme is the fact that at night he retired to his car, parked close to the lifts.
    But now Toups' brawny 6-foot frame is wedged in a jail cell in Georgetown, imprisoned for the past 57 days on misdemeanor federal charges of camping on public land, possessing marijuana and assaulting a Forest Service officer.
  • Suspect caught after high-speed chase | KRQE News 13 New Mexico – Police started chasing the suspect on Highway 528 through Rio Rancho and then continue their pursuit on Highway 550. At the time, the suspect was reportedly driving more than 100 miles per hour.
  • Goldman sued by pension fund over bonus plans| Reuters – Such sums, and Goldman's practice of continuing to pay out nearly 50 percent of net revenue as compensation, show "scant regard" for the interests of shareholders, it said.

Stop-N-Go: In-N-Out Burger Want-To-Be in Albuquerque

January 11th, 2010 Greg Smith 1 comment

In-N-Out Burger hates Albuquerque. They refuse to build any restaurants in the State of New Mexico. (ok ok, perhaps they are trying not to go out of business by over expanding like Krispy Kreams. whatever). What happens where there’s unfulfilled demand? Knock offs, like Stop-N-Go that was found by KOB in southwest Albuquerque.

While In-N-Out Burger only serves burgers, Stop-N-Go serves wings. This isn’t a bad idea from my perspective. KOB fails to indicate if Stop-N-Go serves non-frozen meat, non-frozen french fries made right from the potato in the store and real ice cream shakes. So far the reviews on Yelp are not favorable.

It’s a bit far from Rio Rancho and doubt I will make it to that side of town unless I hear rave reviews. My waist line is better off in either case.

9 Interesting Links From January 8th

January 9th, 2010 Greg Smith No comments

Rio Rancho Received A Dusting Of Snow Overnight

December 23rd, 2009 Greg Smith No comments

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Rio Rancho and Albuquerque received a dusting of snow overnight. The city doesn’t have the capability to sand the neighborhood roads and they are very icy at the moment. I normally don’t need much of an excuse to avoid work in the morning, this morning I have a good one.

The weather report calls for more snow in Rio Rancho but I doubt we will get any more. It looks like the southern part of the state is getting the snow this winter and the sun is starting to show here.

Update: It’s been snowing all morning, I can’t believe the weather man was right.

10 Interesting Links From December 18th

December 19th, 2009 Greg Smith No comments
  • Children die by dozens as adults snap | KRQE News 13 New Mexico – "This has really been the year for tragedy for children in Albuquerque," Pat Davis, a spokesman for District Attorney Kari Brandenburg, told KRQE News 13. "It's been so extraordinary we don't want to see this happen again."
  • 2011 Ford Mustang: Five-Point-Oh is now 412 hp – To Ford Mustang fans, 5.0 means a lot, and the new 2011 5.0-liter V8 Mustang will deliver 412 hp, company officials said on Thursday. The information was supposed to be embargoed until Dec. 28, but news leaked out shortly after the announcement in Dearborn, Mich.
  • Business On The Wild East’s Frontier – Forbes.com – I am riding along with a team of 10 American officials from the smallish but distinctly upscale town of Rio Rancho, N.M., population 80,000. The officials have come–the first of many planned reciprocal visits–to begin sister-city procedures with Hunchun.
  • Phoenix explosion sends man to hospital – A garage storing black powder and other ammunition exploded in east Phoenix, setting the house on fire and sending a 57-year-old man to the hospital.
  • Mesquite blog: Long hair gets pre-kindergarten student kicked out of class | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News – Four-year-old Taylor Pugh, in prekindergarten at Floyd Elementary School, likes his hair long – just below his ears and along his collar in the back. He likes it longer in front. That length is outside the school district's dress code so the boy has been having lessons alone in the library. And his mother says the district has said he will be kicked out of school completely on Tuesday.
  • seMissourian.com: Local News: Sonic employee charged with cooking meth in restaurant – Cape Girardeau police officer Eric Ralls responded to a call at 1:57 a.m. Thursday and upon arrival reportedly found Dennie L. Bratcher, 27, a shift manager at the restaurant, cooking a batch of methamphetamine, according to the probable-cause statement.
  • 6 Adorable Cat Behaviors With Shockingly Evil Explanations | Cracked.com – Cats have many different ways of communicating, but the meow is every cat's go-to vocalization when it wants to tell us something; be it, "I'm hungry," "pay attention to me" or "I just took a dump, go clean it up." However, far from the one-dimensional barking sound that dogs use to communicate, cats are like living stereo equalizers that are able to fine tune the pitches and tones of their meows… so they can better manipulate you into doing what they want.
  • Arizona sheriff ups the ante against his foes — latimes.com – But he has escalated his tactics in recent months, not only defying the federal government but launching repeated investigations of those who criticize him. He recently filed a racketeering lawsuit against the entire Maricopa County power structure. On Thursday night, the Arizona Court of Appeals issued an emergency order forbidding the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office from searching the home or chambers of a Superior Court judge who was named in the racketeering case.
  • CreditBloggers: A Great Gift For Kids: A Box of Boxes – My dad always said that we played more with the boxes than items came in than with the toys themselves. Once again, I had to learn things the hard way. So here is my frugal, creative holiday shopping idea for parents of young children: give your kids a box of boxes.
  • Credit Card Skimmer Found On Gas Pump – Portland News Story – KPTV Portland – Vancouver police said the skimming device had been plugged into the wiring behind the panel of a gas pump at the 7-Eleven at 5600 E. Fourth Plain Blvd. It didn't impact customers' ability to purchase gas and it was well hidden from view, according to officers.

Children Need To Be Taught The Truth About Dinosaurs

December 13th, 2009 Greg Smith No comments

The local TV news stations KRQE has a news story about a preview event for the “Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular” show at the Santa Ana Star center in Rio Rancho. The show uses a combination of actors in costumes with animatronics to show very realistic dinosaurs which can walk freely.

In the preview event the video very clearly shows that they have what is reported to be a baby tyrannosaurus rex who interacts with children. Although the tyrannosaurus rex is not real, The children are allowed to pet it like it’s some sort of giant two-legged kitten (I have a kitten, they act just like this). The fact is that the tyrannosaurus rex is a very dangerous species of dinosaur much like all dinosaurs are.

Clearly the producers of Walking with Dinosaurs do not want children and adults to know the truth. If a child was to approach a real tyrannosaurus rex in real life, like they are in this preview event, the child would most likely be eaten. Parent’s need to teach their children the truth about how dangerous Dinosaurs are because clearly the makers of Walking with Dinosaurs cannot.

Update: More details of the show are on the Rio Rancho Observers website.