Brain decided to get in one last visual migraine before the end of the year.
At least now I know why I was so tired yesterday.
Funny how we still talk about “OOO” and “Vacation days” when we aren’t in the …
Funny how we still talk about “OOO” and “Vacation days” when we aren’t in the office in the first place and there’s nowhere to go on vacation.
Black Phoebe
Black Phoebe
Trachycarpeae
There are decorative palm trees all along the street. And some opportunistic seeds from them.
covid testing, variants
Cool: Even without specifically testing for the new covid-variant discovered in the UK, it’s possible to estimate an upper bound for its prevalence using standard tests.
Most covid tests look for several segments of the virus’ genome. Some of them look for one of the segments that’s changed in that variant. They’ll still match on the other segments, but not that one.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/30/22206522/coronavirus-test-variant-contagious-uk-gene
The Plague Year
Link: The Plague Year
Kid’s friend found the dullest “game” on Roblox and he insisted I join them. Now …
Kid’s friend found the dullest “game” on Roblox and he insisted I join them. Now the friend is bored and asking him to change to another game, but he wants to keep going with this one????
You Can Learn a Lot About Human Nature From Takeout Orders
You Can Learn a Lot About Human Nature From Takeout Orders https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/opinion/covid-restaurant-business.html
food, covid-adjacent, allergy mention
Honestly can’t be too upset at the grocery store substituting peanut butter ice cream (which would kill me faster than covid would) when they were actually able to include the Lysol spray can. I haven’t seen one of those since February.
Non-allergic neighbors got surprise ice cream.
I always like it when you can actually see the green in the post-sunset sky.
I always like it when you can actually see the green in the post-sunset sky.
Jupiter and Saturn (the night before the conjunction) are barely visible in the upper left.
#photo #night #twilight #conjunction
This cell reception is for the birds
One! Singular sensation!
One! Singular sensation!
A zillion starlings were moving back and forth between the greenbelt and an electrical transmission tower.
A flock of starlings
A flock of #starlings moving back and forth between the ground and an electrical transmission tower (neither of which you can see here, but that’s what they were doing).
American Pipit
Cassin’s Kingbird
Black Phoebe
American Pipit
Me: Closes laptop, walks to another room, opens it up again.Outlook: HOLD ON THERE! …
Me: Closes laptop, walks to another room, opens it up again.
Outlook: HOLD ON THERE! THIS IS A NEW NETWORK!* I NEED YOU TO RE-ENTER YOUR PASSWORD JUST IN CASE! AGAIN! AGAIN! ONE MORE TIME, JUST TO BE ABSOLUTELY SURE!
*(no, it isn’t)
Food, fire, Christmas
Atlas Obscura profiles an old Christmas party game where you douse raisins or nuts in brandy, light it on fire, and see how many you can eat before you get burned.