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Saturday
Life in the Bubble and Living on Rodeo Time
I have written about a hypothesis that the Portal Rodeo area exists in a bubble moving at close to the speed of light and as a result time has slowed, see here and here for some background. And I'm not the only one who has noticed this strange phenomena of slow time in the area, see the comments to this post. Originally devised as a way to explain why it takes so long to get anything done down here, I continually look for evidence of a time differential that support the notion of the bubble. Photographic evidence of the bubble has taken the form of steam trains traversing the area and duplicate images spaced 70 years apart showing little change in the landscape. But a recent event provides another piece of evidence for the existence of the bubble. A World Was II convoy recently made an appearance in Rodeo NM. Described in article written by a local photographer in the December issue of Desert Exposure (page 42), the event caused quite a stir locally. The convoy stopped in Rodeo along Highway 80 (an original east/west transcontinental driving route) for lunch at the Rodeo Tavern and was greeted by local residents decked out in period attire (or it could be just normal work attire and another indication of the bubble). In either case, from my perspective, it is just one more piece of evidence that time has slowed in this little corner of the bootheel of New Mexico and things do happen down here, eventually.
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I bet that is Statia's article! She told me she was too late for November so that it would appear in December issue. I'll contact her about getting a copy. It's an "eye test" on here, but then again, I am computer illiterate.
ReplyDeleteYep, it is Statia's article. You can zoom in on the page once it comes up. It took me awhile to find the controls. There is a little slider (magnification) bar at the bottom left you can enlarge the image to a readable size.
ReplyDeleteYes, Statia told me to use the plus sign. It enlarged a page but I could not find how to go to the next page. I'm going to get a copy today in "downtown" Rodeo I hope and read it that way, the old fashioned way.
DeleteIt took me awhile to figure out the page controls, since getting closer to the screen to try and read it wasn't working nor was squinting. Having a hard copy is easier to deal with.
ReplyDeleteGot my hard copy yesterday. Thank you Statia for the deliveries here locally. I was surprised the article seems to be on one page after seeing so many pages in this blog. I'll read it today.
DeleteOh, I see, this blog has the entire newspaper of 52 pages. Since Statia's article is on page 42, I'm glad I have a hard copy although I have looked at the article about the bird count and more.
DeleteI tried to get the embedded copy to open directly on page 42 with the article but was unsuccessful. So those reading it here have to use the embedded controls to skip to that page, a hard copy is better.
ReplyDeleteWell if computer expert B Alvarius could not do it, I'm glad I opted for the hard copy. I consider myself somewhat "computer illiterate"
DeleteI'm far from computer literate and believe computers are just tools to be used and manipulated. When I get frustrated with trying to solve a programming problem I just turn the thing off, walk away, and go do something else.
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