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Lightning! And other science bits.
Fishing is still restricted off Fukushima. Notice that the radiation levels are NOT going down? Also, radioactive black crud found 100km SOUTH of Fukushima. They think it’s a fungus that likes radiation and concentrates radio-actives. Tokyo is 240km south of Fukushima, for reference.
There is a thriving bacteria community at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. As a thought exercise, explain why there cannot be life in Jupiter’s atmosphere, given that we’ve found bacteria that can individually tolerate all the conditions? We’d just need to find one that could tolerate ALL of them.
Here’s one that lives by geological heat.
Well, they’re finally officially calling it the Higgs. Well, A Higgs, at least.
An obvious consequence to mindless budget cuts: Brain Drain.
Good News: Though the vote was 9-8, Oklahoma kills a bill described as “anti-science.”
100Mw solar plant now online…in UAE!!! I’d guess their plan is to generate their needs via solar and export oil.
As a resident of the Land of the Crazy Winds, this does not make me feel good.
The Swift telescope discovers the youngest known supernova remnant in our galaxy, at something under 3000 years. 3000 years is NOTHING on the cosmic timescale.
I promised some interesting things on lightening. It shoots antimatter into space. And it may well be the cause of your headaches. It may tell us thundercloud height from space. This would enable more accurate weather forecasts. We’re making progress shielding solar arrays from it’s effects. And it just plain looks cool.
It’s no longer a fantasy that we could bring back extinct species. My bet is the Mammoth will be the first. We have the best DNA, a suitable surrogate in the elephant, and mammoths are cool looking and basically harmless to humans. National Geographic asks if that’s a good idea.
Evidence of water on Mars in massive amounts. As for life, the evidence gets stronger than it could be.
Lake Vostok life discovery questioned. I warned about contamination when I posted the first report.
This is bad. It’s spreading person to person, though slowly. 50% mortality rate so far.
Major solar blast cause of tree ring Anomaly? If so, it was about 70 times as powerful as the blast that took out Quebec in 1989. And only about 1300 years ago.
Boxturtle (I enjoyed this slideshow and music)
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Morning Pups!
No photo today, I was gonna use the cute squid but neither Kit nor myself could find a non-copyrighted photo. And all the approved photohosts are blocked here, so I can’t add one.
Boxturtle (maybe Kit will find something)
Thanks, BT, maybe a squid impersonator is in order. Flying spaghetti monsters share a lot of legs, bet there’s something in that photo gallery suitable.
Snow here, loving it; https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ufCVCSQIdUjmdMY13HLBpQ8szHUx-OY9EC-wKjAl8ho?feat=directlink
btw, the Harper budget cuts funding for freshwater research that has contradicted oil industry claims about tar sands work;
‘John Smol, a biologist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., said the Experimental Lakes Area is the best-known fresh-water research facility on the planet. Although he does not work there personally, he said he constantly uses the data obtained at the station in his own research and that is true of fresh-water scientists around the world.’
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/research-on-oil-sands-impact-cost-centre-its-funding-scientists-say/article4266918/?service=mobile
Good morning from my iPhone in the local Chrysler service dept. nothing like car probs out of town. So forgive me if I just lurk.
Ansel Adams would really like that photo. It makes me want to go hide in a nice warm kitchen with a cup of hot tea.
Boxturtle (Who am I kidding? I’d spend my entire day drying dogs off)
It’s much more important for the economic activity to proceed, as that generates cash that could be turned into campaign contributions. Corporatists everywhere are discovering that the trick is to prevent the evidence from being gathered rather than try to argue it in court.
You’ll note that the west coast radiation monitors are still mostly down for repairs. Have been since Fukushima.
Boxturtle (Thinks it would be nice if the corporatists had to live near the raw material)
Hope it’s a small one and resolved easily, and glad you’re not sitting on the side of the road. But having a cellphone has made that a whole lot easier to deal with.
Thanks, BT. That a lot of science reportage.
Still waking up here, sometimes I misread a line or two.
I read: 3000 years is NOTHING on the
cosmiccosmetic timescale.In PA, the first step was to take out real regulators in environmental departments, replace with industry shills, then move in fracking.
:-(
I try to pick a service location next to a Denny’s or such. Much more pleasant to hang out there.
Our local Honda dealership purchased the prisoner chairs surplused from our black prison sites. Only way those chairs could be THAT uncomfortable.
Boxturtle (and the darn TV in the waiting room is locked on Fox)
Morning, Ruth.
Bah bah bah Brrrrrrr.
You can keep the snow, which I know you enjoy. I’ve got little green things growing in my kitchen. It’s so cool. It’s working. :)
I originally wrote it as comedic time scale, didn’t catch it until the last proofreading. Normally, my poor spelling enables the spellchecker to catch mistakes like that.
Boxturtle (Accidental humor)
The route home travels through miles of farmland so I didn’t want to risk the 3-hr. drive home to my own trusted mechanic (prob a lot cheaper than a dealer). Waiting room is pretty nice. But no wireless :-(
Snow on the garden is a nitrogen fix, glad spud turned it this past week, too. It’s too gorgeous for words, and I love it, but also am glad the roads get cleared and we can drive places.
Just followed the corona virus link. That is frightening!
Sometimes the funniest lines are accidental, the comedic possibility chart.
Waiting to get a car fixed is much nicer inside than outside, proven rule. Glad you caught it in time. Gotz coffee?
Good morning firedogs. Thanks for the post and host BT.
Of course there was water on Mars. There was probably life on Mars. Could still be life on Mars. Life could exist on Jupiter, too.
Coronavirus – 15 cases in 6 months? Why so few and far between?
Cartoon squid makes me happy.
W00t! There IS wireless in this waiting room! I saw someone else with an iPhone, but then someone had a laptop out, so I tried my iPad and here I am. This place gets a gold star!
Gotz hot tea. Teevee NOT tuned to Fox (but ESPN, so…). Comfy chairs. Even Ethernet jacks in the walls. $99 just to have the eval, but applies to the repair. Maybe 2 gold stars.
What the life form is fascinates me, we might just be missing something.
Good morning everyone.
Thank you for the post BoxTurtle.
msmolly, good to see you! I thought of you yesterday when reading about the plane crashing into homes in South Bend. Glad you are safe.
Hope the trouble with the car is not serious and you get back on the road and have safe travels.
BoxTurtle, you must be a favored son. I just refreshed and you are on the front page AGAIN. Congratulations.
I have asked to change the station, been okayed for it, in my own garage waiting room and a few motel breakfast rooms.
What scared me the most about it was the speed and ease with which the Saudi authorities suppressed the initial reports. And they didn’t really have any economic reason for doing so.
Imagine the pressure China might feel with another variant of bird flu. That’s a lot of money and a lot of food to have to cull.
Imagine our current USDA trying to handle a hoofnmouth epidemic politically to farm state senators whose votes Obama needs.
Boxturtle (I think they’d just submit a report to cover their butts)
Well that was dumb at #23. I forgot where I was at in the scheme of things. Sorry, my bad.
Thanks! Car is 2007 PT Cruiser but only 71K miles on it so prob nothing enormously wrong. Random engine surging, RPM goes over 4000, then sounds like it shifts gears (it’s an auto trans). Prolly a vacuum leak or something.
No harm. No foul.
It’s early yet. :)
And the scientist who discovered it and posted on an online forum was fired. Why??
You are among friends, safety zone.
At the very least you got the car to a service dept. before anything bad could happen.
In spite of it all you have a comfortable chair, wireless in the waiting room, and best of all you are with us this morning.
Sending you a hot cup of tea by way of the pixels.
Question for BT:
Is the Higgs the same as what some have called the God Particle?
Assuming there is life on Mars, the current plans for sample return do not make me feel safe. We need to treat whatever we bring back as Biosafety IV until we know more.
15 REPORTED cases in 6 months and the initial reports were ruthlessly suppressed. I suspect there are more, but it seems reasonable to assume that while it can spread person-to-person it’s not particularly contagious. Right now, the assumption is that the reservoir species is a bat and there’s not a lot of bat/human contact.
Boxturtle (I like bats, but I’m starting to be impressed with how many diseases they harbor)
Thank you demi and Ruth, you guys are so forgiving, I hope we get to meet in person someday.
Hmmm…I just refreshed and it’s Fatster at the mothership. I’ll never get frontpaged without a cool picture. :-(
Boxturtle (Were you looking at the MyFDL frontpage?)
And my son is picking me up to go to breakfast in a few. So it’s (almost) all good – except for the repair of course.
Bats consume huge amounts of insects, from which they get the juices of whatever those insects consumed, think mosquitoes. The base source is warm blooded, as in, you n’ me.
Sure to happen one day, still thinking eagles.
Good question. I’m assuming the Saudi authorities found it embarrassing somehow.
Boxturtle (Look at how many reports our government suppresses for that reason)
BoxTurtle, that was a stupid comment from me this morning. I forgot where I was at in the scheme of things. I call it “Sometimers” and it will not be the only mistake I make today either.
Yes. But God particle is short for goddamn particle, and indication of the frustration it created amongst the physics community for decades.
The next interesting question would be are there more than one flavor of Higgs? Some theories postulate more massive variants, to the extent of assuming there’s a different Higgs for each family of quarks. This would be the up/down Higgs, the next most massive would be the strange/charm Higgs. Assuming theory is correct.
Right now, the money is on only one Higgs and this is it.
Boxturtle (The discovery knocked some of the more exotic theories into the dustbin)
That’s why I like bats. They eat things that eat on me. You’d think that stomach acid would kill most of the bugs, but at least some clearly survive.
Boxturtle (Anything that eats mosquitoes is okay in my book)
Ruth, that would be great! I am really looking forward to meeting JC in person later this spring. msmolly said she would like to try to make it to a meet-up too. Eagles in Decorah, Iowa, and there has been talk of a meet-up north of Madison, Wisconsin which would be easier for msmolly and nonquixote.
I think oldgold is closer to Decorah, if I remember correctly and this morning, I would not place any bets on that memory thingy.
I would have to add, if Spring ever arrives. Snowing like crazy right now, plows have been out for the last two hours.
Beats biting each other directly, anyway. Yes, talking about bugs/bugs.
Just let me know, it sounds like worth making the trip.
Good Morning!
Boxturtle, if you are gonna do science, you gotta get the scientific notation correct.
100mw is 1/10 of a watt. 100Mw is 100 megawatts.
On another note, I gained another great-grandchild last week! A boy.
So far, my off-springs consist of 8 boys and 4 girls.
*mutter* nit-picker *mutter*
Boxturtle (GREAT-GRANDCHILD?!? Wow!)
Congrats! can you keep their names straight? (nudge)
If Starbuck hadn’t said it, I was going to, at the risk of being #1 on your list of nit-pickers.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp811.pdf
Always enjoy your Monday posts though.
Good AM, BT.
I’m so glad to see you make the distinction between “the” Higgs and “a” Higgs. So many discussions make it sound like an unseen presence hovering over the entire universe giving us our mass (or allowing priests to say mass, as one wag put it in these pages). Of course, the “God” particle idea noted by demi @ 32 feeds this sense of it, whereas a candidate for an example of it is actually based on a hypothesis about a confluence of tracks in detection devices at a given time and place.
I blame my shift key.
Boxturtle (Actually, I blame Obama)
Thanks, nice to know. Can we now not give a Higg? or is it the Higg. (Cannot resist a bad joke.)
and the bat that ate it?
My personal belief is that it is The Higgs, one and only. I could be convinced otherwise. When the LHC powers up again, it should be able to locate the next heavier Higgs if such exists.
Thought experiment: The reason we can’t go faster than light is because one set of equations give an imaginary mass due to the square root of a negative number. What if all the equation is telling us is that at speeds in excess of light, we leave our Higgs behind?
Boxturtle (Negative energy made no sense until we realized the math meant positron)
Ruth, that would be awesome if you could make it too.
How about Spuds?
I know I would like to meet in person the many folks who are on this site.
‘at speeds in excess of light, we leave our Higgs behind’
Atheist speed!
Congratulations on your new addition to the family.
I always say, enjoy them because they grow up so fast.
With Ruth you get spuds. (quoting him)
Just let us know when you have date and place set up.
Uuuuuugggggghhhhh.
doG will get you for that. As soon as he catches up.
Boxturtle (Need to make up a Prof Higgans joke, but don’t remember My Fair lady well enough)
Double the fun.
I am defering to JC as to a date for Decorah.
There is a Seedsavers near there which started this whole conversation about getting together, then Brunch, Eagles and whatever and now it has expanded to oldgold,msmolly,nonquixote,you,Spuds, this is getting better all the time.
Actually, I think the idea has grown to two meet-ups, one in Decorah, Iowa, and another somewhere north of Madison, Wisconsin for the convenience of everyone.
So far, sorta! The newest one had no name at the time of announcement. I’m sure there is one today.
Hafta go check.
Off to the grind at Intel this morning.
Have a nice day, pupses!
bats consume 35 times their weight in insects per night
(bats are my squid :D)
Good Morning Box Turtle and Firedogs -
the Coronavirus sitch (sweet jesus, why did I click on that one first ?!?) may be even worse – Jeddah is the gateway for millions, let me repeat that, millions of pilgrims making their way to Mecca for Hadj from all over the planet
I will drive anywhere (she says, still waiting for car repair diagnosis). But at least I’ve been fed now…
But the article said no increase after the Hajj pilgrimage, which surprised them.
Whew! I am working but had to check in when I heard that a plane crashed into a house in South Bend! I was kinda hoping you were still in Indy or on the road, even.
Even though I know the chances of your house being the one hit are small, it made me nervous till I saw your fonts there.
Thanks for letting us know you are safe, Molly.
Going poof to play phone tag with officials. Nice post, Box Turtle; wish I had time to follow links.
Oh, and since economics is pseudo-science, does the impending meltdown of Cyprus’s banks because of the latest stupid bank bailout count for today’s post?
Yeah. But it’s not clear how contagious it really is. Very few cases, and only one confirmed person-to-person transmission.
It’s clearly very deadly. 50% mortality puts in in the class with Black plague and some of the hemorrhagic fevers.
Hopefully, they will have a better grip before the Hadj starts this October.
Boxturtle (Waiting for Obama to drone Jeddah to prevent terrorists from having bio weapons)
Morning, I was out late watching for a glimpse of the Norhtern lights.
I took Ruth’s car in for some new rear tires last week. I won’t mention where. They had Faux on the TV. I ran her up six channels and down six channels and was treated to a black screen. Just Faux. So I turned it off….permanently. I have very strong fingers so I just pushed the button in and waited for the crunch. Ooops
thanks. good. clearly, my scan of the article was crap
hope you’re okay and on the road soon
Nothing is off topic!
I wonder if we’re going to see bank runs in other countries. Certainly, any EU depositor now knows where he stands. I’d be moving my money to a mattress.
Boxturtle (never mind that Cyprus might explode)
I sometimes wonder if watching Faux is a local decision or if the orders come from corporate. It sure seems like the 1% like us to watch Faux.
Boxturtle (I used to watch Faux, but Fringe got cancelled)
Hey, Kit got me a photo! It’s not a piglet squid, but it’s cool!
Thanks, Kit! I take back half the nasty things I’ve said about you!
Boxturtle (I get to pick which half I take back, however)
i’ll go with the 1st choice, RC; now that I think about it I’ve been out of physics for almost 40 years, and I don’t give one either.
And I have no idea what BT is talking about @ 54.
Back now having tried again to get bird shots, meaning pics, will post in a bit.
Have the ideal savings hidey hole – safety deposit box on the animal rescue with 300 dogs. Yes, economics is science, and I just demanded a demonstration model to show trickle down works, at another blog. That should shut that up, right?
Will look forward to Iowa or WI, whichever, let me and spud know.
The equation:
m0 = m1/sqrt((1-(v**2/C**2))) mo= mass apparent to observer, M1=mass, v = velocity, c= speed of light.
So if V=C, we end up dividing by zero. If V > c, we end up with with the sqrt of a negative number.
This is the equation that says we can’t go faster than light. Or at the speed of light.
The postulate is that all the imaginary is telling us is that we’ve left our Higgs behind and are thus massless.
Boxturtle (it should be noted that making assumptions about negative square roots is questionable)
LOL! Riiight! I made the mistake of reading the comments at the link on tornados (waiting for the phone to ring…you gotta give the person you’re trying to reach a few minutes to call you back before you bug them again, right?). The first dozen at least were all climate change deniers lobbin insults.
That said, it does bother me when someone at a science website makes factual errors – no question that Joplin was not the “single deadliest” tornado, though not goiing to take time to see which was. Making errors like that just gives the pouncers material to pounce on, and damages your overall credibility.
Excellent post this morning, BT.
Lightening and migraine…I believe it.
Great science today, Boxturtle.
Sigh, a bit blurred, cardinal flying
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9ZxdZHT2hSCGvuCr8w3V4A8szHUx-OY9EC-wKjAl8ho?feat=directlink
If someone dies with a safety deposit box in just his/her name, the box is sealed until the tax man can make sure nothing is hidden there. I went through that with my father, had to open the box in the presence of a bank examiner.
Always list someone else as able to access your box and avoid that problem.
Boxturtle (Cost me a half day of work to find the only thing in the box was a copy of his will)
Oh, I got mass. It’s on my behind. Just sayin’
Come sit here by me… oh, dear, no room. ;-)
It seems to me that the change deniers have quite a team together. They can pollute that comments of any post on climate change withing minutes.
Somebody should tell them that it doesn’t matter to climate change if you believe in it or not.
Boxturtle (perhaps they’ll get the message when the tropics hits Texas)
I totally understood all of that.
Like a boss.
Good point, thanks. Some one who realllly likes dogs.
Heheheh. The corned beef and cabbage last night didn’t help. How was your festive meal?
heh.
Today’s forecast: 92.
(but, but…snow!)
Yeah, I suppose I should have said when the tropics hit Texas. Because Dengue fever (a tropical disease) is already endemic in Brownsville, Texas and insects are living year round as far north as Tennessee.
Us pet owners are gonna hate life when the fleas start living year round.
Boxturtle (On a positive note, we’ll see some cool birds as the tropics moves north)
I’ve got a class of enthusistic 8th graders right now hoping get out of school early cuz of freezing rain.
I just wanted to chime in on Decorah. If we choose Decorah old gold maybe could come but it would be farther for Molly and Ruth, and nonquixote. AC2 sounds like he’s up for either.
Oh, yeah. We are pretty close to sub-tropical. Too dry for tropical: officially our zone is “semi-arid.” That will have to be updated.
Fleas year-around? Tell me about it. It’s another of the frustrations that sometimes drive me to mutter, “I gotta move back north…”
We actually had pancakes with the real local maple syrup, and sausage, while I collected comments to use when I do make some soda bread. Not really very Irish. But good.
When we get solider planning going, it might work out some of us can drive together, have to wait and see, too.
When we lived in D.C., occasionally it felt downright tropical, humidity and temps. Of course, it started out a swamp, and I wasn’t making that up.
New Jersey(n): The swamp that separates Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Boxturtle (DC is absolutely miserable in summer)
Way OT: In S.A., are you near the Baptist University campus there?
I think it is sort of south, but not sure. Thanks.
The Garden State is all mulch?
Speaking of mulch and soil.
With these babies a’growin’, I need some soon help with pulling the grass out of the garden area.
Any volunteers?
Pretty much. There are a couple of cities above sea level and a few highways that are generally above as well. Generally.
I do not know if this is true, but I was once told that you cannot walk from the seashore to the border without the paved roads. There’s simply no other dry paths.
Boxturtle (thinks the jersey Devil must be an amphibian)
Ruth – yes, I know. DC used to be (still feels like) a swamp. Before air conditioning, other countries classified a diplomatic hardship post, mainly for that reason. I think. It was known as a cultural swamp before the late 60′s, too.
RevBev…yes, the Baptist U you’re thinking of is on the south side. I’m on the north side, but within the (original) loop, I 410. I pass the campus going south.
You attending something there and need a place to crash?; )
from the seeashore to what border? with PA? or NY? or Delaware?
I don’t think that’s true, although must confess I’ve driven rather than walked it. There are certainly swampy marshy parts, but the western part of the state, along the PA state line, is not marshy. North and South Jersey are pretty different, though. No pine barrens in the northern part. They’re oriented differently, too…toward New York or Philly (not about marsh, though).
Drinking holidays are good for the coffee biz. Heheheh. Revel on, people. Revel on.
The intent was seashore to Pa. I don’t know that it’s true, it was told to me by a New Yorker who wanted to use NJ as NYC’s landfill.
I think they still want to do that, fwiw. Here in Ohio, we’ve blocked NYC trash by “selling” all the space in the landfill to local interests. Otherwise, the commerce clause forces us to accept all out of state trash. And NYC will pay to truck their trash out of state.
Boxturtle (I fear one day we’ll simply designate a foreign banana republic as the US landfill)
S’cool, I’m only taking back whatever percentage will fit in that 320 pixel square photo. So not much. Better hope I haven’t been talkin’ smack about you. :)
Seriously, you’re welcome. Glad to help the ‘Over Easy’ crew.
We wanted squid, tho! Snif.
Be careful what you ask for…;) Thanks, that’s very kind.
Yes, actually, but I do not know alot of details. Sometime
in June…just thinking and can let you know more. Many thanks.
B
Any “smack talking” you might do is almost certainly copyrighted by my wife or my sister. Both of whom are old enough to hire lawyers. So be careful!
Boxturtle (Otoh, my sister has a reward for any new insult that could be applied to me)
I think we could have had the squid if I’d just been smarter than a box of rocks. I searched everywhere, could find nothing. But if i had just read the entire story, rather than speedread it, I’d have seen the nickname “piglet squid”. Searching that got me dozens of hits.
BoxORocks (All together now: D’OH!!!)
ot
What I’ve been doing;
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/IRZjbty8gBeOSOBK6prNbw8szHUx-OY9EC-wKjAl8ho?feat=directlink
I love goldfinches. One of my favorite sights is seeing my finch feeder fully occupied with upside down finches.
Boxturtle (When I was a kid, those were called “Wild Canaries”)
You are right. NYC is desperate for landfill space. Remember the traveling garbage scow? When was that, the ’80′s or 90′s? The scow full of garbage that couldn’t dump in the ocean anymore, and wasn’t allowed to land anywhere.
I forget how it turned out…
Ruth! Goldfinches! So pretty arranged on bare branches like that! Oh, they arranged themselves? What a sense of composition they have!
you funny. you capitalist, you. ; )
That’s what spud called them once, when we were out looking at the fields, and I finally figured out what he meant, yep, goldfinches.
Glad you liked that, they’re beginning to realize that I’m not sitting there trying to catch them for lunch, so they’re relaxing and making a nice scene. Good instincts.
LOL! They thought you were a cat? Perhaps you were sitting with Ms. Kitty, and they assumed you were a subspecies?
(just kidding. my imagination flew away with me for a minute there).
Try putting a shotglass of seeds on the table in front of you. I’ve heard they’ll come right up to it, though I haven’t had any success.
Boxturtle (Wonder if adding caraway seeds would work)
Make that damn dirty capitalist.
Nah, you’re a sweet, friendly capitalist. ; )
Not according to some hippy lady who came in recently. Mr. is still smarting from being accused of being a capitalist.
Hee hee. Poor mister. Did the hippy accuser buy anything from him? Hope so. Soothes the nasty words, huh? (I hope)
Whew. Been on the phone all day, it seems. My Spanish is flowing nicely, even rolling r’s pretty well. Now if I could just hear like I did 30 years ago….
(I miss edit!)
Forgot to say: I got a payment that needs to go to the bank. So I’m a capitalist, too. ; )
Hippie Lady?
WTF does that mean?
If this progressive blog isn’t full of hippie ladies, I don’t know.
Words. They are important.
Hippies are still cool to some around here.
Time flies faster than my behind when I am having fun, I guess. Here it is evening in the great laker’s region already.
Ms Calvos garden nitrogen fixer with a good snow fall is a bit shy of that recommended but I guess every little bit helps.
Lightnin’ striking again and again,
Science and entertainment. Thanks BT
demi: I thought of that, but figured that particular customer wouldn’t include demi’s mister. He probably has to look respectable at work, after all.
nonquixote – that’s so fascinatiing. In all my years in snowland, it never occurred to me the snow was fixing nitrogen in the soil.
Gosh, I missed what you were saying.
Sorry.
Actually, Demi’s mister mostly works from home and stays as comfortable as possible. Which is pretty much. :)
More Lightnin’ more nitrogen?
About four inches of heavy nitrogen carrier has fallen since noon. it appears that it is affixed to healthy soils through microbial action in the absence of contaminants or man made toxins.
Hello tejana.
Hiya, nonq. mcat staying snug by a warm spot, rather than head outside to explore? Heh.
Here, we are definitely experiencing spring. Windows open, even sweating a bit. Forecast was for 92, though I don’t think it’s that warm. Sounds good when you’re in a snowstorm, but to me, it means summer will be here soon…and that is not fun. Windows closed again, air conditioning on, skyhigh electric bills. But for me, no a/c is not an option. Unless I care to just sit and sweat and do nothing cause it’s too.damn.hot.
Sorry. I tend to rant when summer’s hot breath is nearing. Smokey is in the bay window, right on the center windowsill, cause I wouldn’t let him out today.
I am waiting to see if a fax is going to go through or not.
And trying to organize all these papers, sorta kinda.
Nope. Didn’t buy a thing because she wanted a steep discount, like more than wholesale. Then she accused us of being capitalists.
These things happen occasionally in this part of the country where every person you meet is more of a DFH than the last one. It is unique in the USA, I believe. Anyway, I laugh it off because I had a good Marx teacher (Richard), but Mr. took it really personally.
I’m using hippy as a semantically reclaimed word since I grew up with parents with one foot out of the commune. I’m a hippy in spirit if not in looks or of the appropriate age.
He was a good teacher, wasn’t he? Mister sounds like his heart is in the right place.
Would love to hear more about your parents sometime. Mine were about as far removed from hippy as chalk from cheese, although my mom was pretty much a free spirit, as much as she could be with a controlling husband.
Snug as bugs here, thanks. We had toasted garlic (homemade) bread with ham and bean soup I thawed for supper, along with a couple slices of jack cheese. Mug of steaming tea next to me and M was just checking out the window view for any signs of movement out on the fresh snow.
Kitchen clean up and we are then pulling the Yamaha electric piano apart to fix two keys. Youtube instructions make it look rather easy. My teen helper is removing a few screws at the moment. A very good evening to everyone.
Ooh, both of you sound like your family histories would be verrrry interesting.
Ysd, I love your phrase, “one foot out of the commune.”
Honestly, I think there are lots of us in 2010′s who may not visibly conform to the stereotype “hippie” look – but that would be a little silly after 40+ years, even I think. But under the updated look, we are still trying to live by the values we learned in our twenties.
Btw, Richard Wolff had a short article on what’s wrong with capitalism somewhere mainstream over the weekend. Can’t remember now, and my history (internet) is often curiously blank.
The worms may just be turning.
I think the Cyprus outrageous demand (for the few who hear about it) has stunned a lot of people who weren’t paying close attention. There may yet be pitchforks.
ROFL! For me, those would be “famous last words.”
You, however, are clearly far handier than I. And at your youngun’s age, I had probably never touched a screwdriver.
Buena suerte, and have fun.
I dread the heat and humidity too, tejana. Last two summers were so dry, it was wonderful, but I could feel a hint of that old muggy feeling yesterday early in the day. Hair started getting just a little frizz, sigh. Dried back off as the day went along, though. I can handle the heat if it’s dry.
That soup and bread sound good, nonqui. Thought about you this afternoon when I saw a couple of recipes for croutons. Thought about how good they would be, made from home baked sourdough. Fed my starter twice today and it was very happy. I think that is how the ancient Egyptians made beer. Could have poured that top, light brown/clear alcohol-y smelling layer off and had it for cocktails :)
She had a shop class last year and was plenty wary of the power tools. I relayed that info to the shop teacher and he assisted and directly supervised her the first couple times. She was behind with her projects as she let all the guys in class have first dibs on the power tools, but did manage to get everything finished eventually. Content with a regular screw driver at the moment, even though I brought out a small battery operated one if she was so inclined.
One minute twenty-six seconds, we’ll likely take a bit more time.
Go worms, go!
That Cyprus thing knocked me on my rear. Think they have extended the bank ‘holiday’ through Thursday. Pitchforks, indeed.
Let me know how those drinks sit with you, please. The piano is on the table and someone told me she could handle it herself. Oh wait, I think we are already good to go on getting the screws back in. I am going to assist holding it while the screws go back in.
Niters people.
*burb* nI mean, *burp* :)
You’re a good dad.
I’m out, too, pupses. Sleep tight.
Good evening, OmAli
This thread is really running long today. I have actually been home almost an hour since leaving this morning and the thread still lives!
We have the humidity but not the heat…yet.t Hood picked up over a foot of snow this weekend. It only rained here.
Looked back before closing up shop. So good to see you. I saw that you mentioned Intel. That sounds good.
Would love to see the mountain in fresh snow. Loved seeing Rainier years ago.