The colors were so bright coming back this afternoon, I took off my sunglasses. Sunlight on trees made them look oversaturated.
Monarch Pass
Got some good sketches from the top by the gondola hut. Shavano Mtn had some fascinating clouds, and Lime Ridge let me work on drawing without outlines.
Outlines are kinda like the passive voice. They have their use, and I’m a strong defender, but most of the time outlines should be avoided. Especially with wooded crests, the outlines aren’t really there. Not drawing them takes much longer, so I don’t get things finished as well or as complete. The result does look better for smaller areas.
Sort of back
I’m still tootling around out here, but I have wifi. Maybe.
In the interests of finding the correct framing, I wonder:
How long to pursue something before changing plans?
What’s worth doing if it will never be a success?
Like, I’m not going to finish breathing. I won’t put breathing in the ‘done’ column, yet I don’t intend to quit. I’m not trying to be ghoulish here, but high altitude makes one consider breathing. Breathing is a thing. It’s hard to do. Breathing well, now that is pleasant. A little time spent at 14k, and breathing is quite the subject of consideration. But I don’t know how relevant breathing is to things like ‘should I do deep learning for this signal processing problem?’
I won’t beat sig.p. There will always be more signals to be processed.
I dunno. We are our thoughts, actions, and forms.
Vacation 2
Vacation
I’m going off into the mountains for a week (or so).
Supply and Demand
For efficient markets, if you want to lower prices you either reduce demand or increase supply.
For inefficient markets, if you want to lower prices you either reduce demand, increase supply, or increase price transparency.
Irony
One thing I really like doing is writing situations where people are embarrased because they’re being unreasonable, but establishing that they’re right.
Honda
Never buy Honda
Trusts
I want to create a series of trusts. The objective of each trust is to give the first person to do a thing a bunch of money. So I’d create the LC Mars Trust, and the first person to set foot on Mars would get a bunch of money. Same for the other planets and the Niner, the first person to set foot on all of them.
The most obvious problem is that I have no money, but I figure this will take a while to accomplish anyway. I’ll park my $1.12 in various investments and in a century when someone does it, they’ll get everything.
Homework problem: At 7% return, how much would they get? Assume volatility is small compared to compounding, and recall A=Pe^(rt).
Secondly, is setting foot on Jupiter reasonable? Or Uranus. Or Neptune. Maybe, MAYBE Venus, but I doubt it. Mars, Mercury, and Pluto are kinda possible, for a pretty wide latitude in the word ‘possible.’
But is that an engineering problem or a physics one? There is (probably) a rocky core at the center of the Jovians. Someone could conceivably plunge through the envelope and make it there. Now if we discover that, say, Neptune is gas all the way down, it ain’t happening. But if there’s a rocky core and it’s just hard to get to, that means it will take longer for the payoff to be obtained. Which means it will compound longer. And that’s half the fun.
Practice
There aren’t many things you can’t get better at if you do them a bunch of times.