The north coast of the goblin lands is an oceanic seacrust/seacrust subduction zone where the Fhysay crust is subducted under the Arsae crust. The obducting Arsae crust is pushed up, forming the goblinmounts themselves. This is a young and highly active boundary. The mountains aren’t tall compared to the neighboring Doon, but are extremely steep. Strong upthrust lifts them constantly, but strong weathering from the northern winds and storms cuts them down at the same time. The result is a rocky, barren mountain range with deep erosion cut valleys. There are relatively few signs of glaciation at lower altitudes and northern extrema, but at higher and more southerly peaks, glaciation is extremely common. Mountains that border the Shaggheritach are often horns, separated by U-shaped valleys unlike the Vs further north.
Status 1/14
Pool’s open. That’s nice.
Routines
Sometimes, when life gets me down and I need a little pick-me-up, I go stand outside in the rain to let a stranger stick a Q-tip up my nose. It’s just what I do. They swirl it around for a little while. Some are steady-handed, and some get a little squirrelly. Those swabbings wake me up like coffee never will.
I can’t take that away from the medical professionals. They look so happy to be in a little tent for eight hours a day, swaddled to the gills, and spending hours of their lives sticking Q-tips up noses. I feel like we have a bond, and that really keeps me going.
Sweet Cow
The ice cream place on Pearl St lists their hours as
Sun – Thu: 10am – 10pm
Fri – Sat: 10am – 10pm
Sorta weird.
Covid Vaccines
As things stand right now, I’m scheduled to get the Covid vaccine sometime in the summer.
Let me begin with: okay. If that’s the way it is, getting a vaccine within a year and a half of vaccine research starting is amazing. No complaints.
There are some rumors floating around that vaccines may be opened to everyone sooner. The train of logic is that only vaccinating the most at risk adds a choke point, so in order to get the most doses into arms, vaccinating everyone who might want it may be faster. More vaccinations lead to fewer deaths, hospitalizations, and infections, in order of importance, so open vaccinations might be safer for those at the highest risk than giving it to the highest risk population exclusively. While 90% vaccination/infection rates may be required for herd immunity, how significant are the damping factors of 10% herd immunity? 20%? 30%?
This is all speculation though. We don’t know, and the information to make these estimates as more that WAGs doesn’t exist. We also don’t know how significant that choke point is. Can we vaccinate the most at risk and other people without slowing down vaccinations for the high risk populations? I read a lot of people arguing with each other over this and don’t really think anyone knows. I don’t. In the US, the vaccine has been available for about a month. That isn’t a whole lot of time to extrapolate best practices for 330 million-ish people.
On an unrelated note, don’t you think the Underarmor athletic mask looks like a jockstrap for your face?
IDEs 2
Never speak of them. Never give them attention. They hear, and they will work destruction upon you.
Water Bottles
Nalgene bottles don’t really wear out. One lasts until you leave it in someone’s car or drop it off a ski lift.
Sometimes you can ride the lift line and look for the bottle. I’ve never found one again.
IDEs
Arduino has one of the more useful, accessible IDEs I’ve used.
Lobsters
Bull markets don’t die of old age. They must be killed.
They’re not immortal though. Nor do they live a long time. If we ignore the March-April dip, this one is around 12 years old, and that’s a very long-lived bull market.
The thing about lobsters is, they don’t die of direct biological old age, but they do die, they die of biological factors, and they can be killed. Infection, molting, predators can all kill a ‘biologically immortal[1]’ lobster.
[1] As a physicist it makes me so angry that the biologists have all the best names: Sonic the Hedgehog gene. Biological immortality. Goats.
What have we got? Big G and orthonormalized eigenfunctions.
1-6-2021
[A ton of negativity]
Joe Biden impressed me.