Yeah, my personal website construction is about at the “How the project leader understood it” stage. But soon, soon, it’s going to look like customer billing.
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Ya know, I’m not so sure how bad I want my driver’s license back if this is what’s out there waiting for me.
Just to be clear…
“Celar” is spelt wrong, it’s supposed to be “cellar”, and I wouldn’t know what I’m supposed to keep my cellar up to anyway. Wait, what? I don’t even HAVE a cellar. How the heck can I keep something I don’t have?
And I’m not sure what this means, but it probably ain’t good.
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More or less my state of mind this morning (Wednesday, June 8) as I’m trying to think up things to write for today’s (June 11) Saturday MOT.
But at least it’s way better than this day:
The day Quincy, CA, made “Worst Air Quality Index in the world.” Wildfire smoke from the North Complex Fire, a.k.a. the Claremont/Bear Fire.
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I think I’ll just go take a walk/bicycle. With the camera.
[Couple of hours later]:
Ay-yup. That worked.
Baby ducks, baby ducks!
Flaming Torch Lily; Genus Kniphofia
Giant Red Poppy
I’m feeling much better. Attitude adjustment:
In the Great Scheme of Things, I am that unforeseeable factor, the dust in the gears that guarantees unpredictability. Life is not a clockwork orrery, but rather a divergent multiple-body problem, a “sensitive dependence upon initial conditions”. Maybe I’m just the Lorenz Attractor.
Watch the whole video. The colors alone are totally worth it. (You can cut it off at the 11:40 mark if you want to skip the commercial.)
I just love this guy’s (Veritasium) channel. New stuff!
SCIENCE!
This works now:
