https://interactive-lightning-map.vaisala.com/

Shows the average lightning events per square km per year, world wide. Interesting to see the variation - -and how little lightning is in Scandinavia. (Thinking about Thor....)

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Lessee: 4th of July: sat and poked at the internet. Not sure i can remember.... Probably some poking at Dad's email issue, then Dad called to wave off plans for the 5th to help him regain access to his email so he could assist his sweetie. Which was fine, as i had wanted to work then ( Read more... )

Scattered thoughts ( Read more... )

Christine's daily haiku/imagery/composition for Dec 19 has a bit of the season to it: https://17sounds.substack.com/p/the-ends-of-the-world A bit of bells in the soundtrack ( Read more... )

I asked the universe for a time line game and now have two. The first i found is  https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/  and i find that the NY Times has had one (and has learned from the viral behavior of wordle how to let people share results without spoiling the game for others):
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Today's random research: looking at buoy sea images in the Gulf of Mexico led to gazing at bathymetry along the continental shelf, led to "What are those round lumpy things west of the mouth of De Soto Canyon?" led to depressing research results about coral destruction after the Deepwater Horizon blowout but also learning the location was referred ( Read more... )

In my growing confidence that i am not the person who is causing the failure to communicate ( Read more... )

Google just asked if i trusted them with my privacy. Hahahahahahaha. No. I compartmentalize to the best i can: i accept that they know my location. I should probably get back in the habit of using other search engines ( Read more... )

I found myself talking about the movie Michael Clayton on Thursday with my dad and sibs. My opinion is summed up by this yard sign: https://shop.joemande.com/products/yard-sign . (Admittedly, since we are only 1/5th done with the century, the last line is questionable.) In ( Read more... )

I have been rolling my eyes at the Apple goggles generally, and then -- after reading about some sort of Zeiss lens eye correction that one will be able to add -- grumbling about accessibility. But then i thought, wait, shouldn't augmented reality be able to help correct vision? Here's a pre-Apple announcement article about just that. I ponder how ( Read more... )