Duke City Fix

I’ve been negligent in mentioning a new cityblog, Duke City Fix.

It’s an independent cityblog (hard to find those!) with a swarm of bloggers who focus on Albuquerque.

Chantal Foster and crew have just done a bang up job with it, in terms of content and also in terms of customizing Nucleus so nicely for it.

Even if you aren’t that interested in Albuquerque, I’d encourage you to click over and take a peek at what they’re doing. Because

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Danger Train: Collision #87 (15)

Early in the day, the southern end of the the light rail line was shut down by a big rig that took out the electric.

However, that in itself was not world class.

So, later, the northern end of the light rail line was shut down courtesy of collision #87 (unless METRO has been less than forthcoming about reported accidents again) at Main and Alabama. The accident took place about 3:30, meaning that (unfortunately) I narrowly missed a chance

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Polk Audio R50

Just after Thanksgiving, I bought an early Xmas gift for myself from Fry’s (shocker!) that I thought was an incredible steal — Polk Audio R50 tower speakers for $79 each (and if you follow the old link, they’re back to $199 now).

I just got a Fry’s email, and those puppies (in black, not cherry) are on sale now for $69 each.

I’ve been really impressed with these speakers. They were a steal at $79. Fry’s is practically

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Draft Day

Jimmy Johnson shares his “draft formula for success” on the Fox Sports site today.

Both the Cowboys and the Texans need some success in today’s NFL draft.

The Texans have done a decent job with their top picks, but have not done so well (in my view) with other high picks.

The Cowboys have been an absolute disaster in the draft since Jimmy Johnson left, and Bill Parcells’ pick of Jacob Rogers last year (who couldn’t actually play the

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