Today’s the last day to get Mara free on Kindle. The physical book is available too.
The world is hard. Be kind to each other.
Employment Statistics
I’d be interested in seeing retention numbers for people with offices, cubicles, and hot-swap desks.
Wavelets
A wavelet is a chunk of a wave. In theory, waves go on forever, but they don’t. Contraction from waves to wavelets is analogous to applying friction to Newtonian forces. The mechanisms seem quite different.
MPP
Honda is part of several consortiums of motorcycle and scooter producers* to develop and build swappable batteries. Honda just released a removable motorcycle battery. It may be a paradigmatic update.
Details as yet have been slim. I don’t know cells, Ah, mass, or so forth.
But it exists, and as claimed, it’s living-room chargeable. That would be delightful.
Consider me cautiously optimistic.
*Some, like Honda, make cars and so forth. As yet, the battery development seems focused on bikes and scooters.
eV
In what situation would eigenVolts be a valid unit?
Maybe Eigen Volts, eigen volts, Eigenvolts, or what have you. Unit-term capitalization plays fast and loose with rules. But whatever.
If you have a matrix of potentials, you might be able to address the matrix eigenvalues as eigenvolts, but you wouldn’t do that addressing the value itself. An eigenvalue of 2.3V would just be 2.3V. To meaningfully use a term eigenvolts, you’d have to….what? Be describing potential degeneracy?
There should be a situation wherein eigenvolts would be useful, but I can’t think of one.
Greetings
When you meet kids you don’t know, the best form of contact seems to be the high five.
Some kids, especially the small ones, try to hug everyone, and that’s nice. But some get very shy. You can see their minds working. “Who is this stranger? Why is he grabbing me? Why are my parents allowing this?” They don’t like it.
A similar train of logic applies to handshakes.
High fives seem to be the better course because the kid does all the fiving. You just stand there with your hand up. Kid gets excited? Great. Kid barely touches your hand? Still great. Kid hides behind a parent’s leg? Not a problem.
In general, I’ve found most do get a little excited because they’re the ones with power. They have agency, mild as it is, but mild agency is just right for smaller kids. They don’t go mad with power at high fiving an adult.
Well, some do, but those are mad with power to begin with. Also, how mad with power can a six-year-old get giving a high five?
Don’t answer that.
Music
I’ve been listening to a lot of early Greta Van Fleet recently. I haven’t gotten into The Battle at Garden’s Gate yet.
Notes
Mara ebook (Kindle) is free on Amazon for 5 days starting tomorrow. It’s really an adult book about children, but a kid-safe adult book. There should be another category for that.
The wrong movies get remakes. Good movies usually don’t need remakes. (Usually. Some movies were good when they came out and the remakes are good, like Jumanji. That was a technological update, which made sense) Bad movies don’t get them. Does anyone really want to see a Howard the Duck remake? But movies that could have been great but weren’t don’t get remakes, and they should. Someone should remake the Hobbit with a cogent script, pacing, and editing.
I need to go grocery shopping.
Northern Lights
A CME hitting Earth today was supposed to cause effects visible as far south as Colorado. I went as far out as Kenosha Pass but couldn’t find clear sky.
I’ve always wanted to see the northern lights.
Parenting
From talking to my friends, I think they aspire to improve their kids, teach the young, and make a better, wiser, kinder generation for the future.
Instead, they mostly try to teach their kids not to lick the wall sockets.
The kids hear ‘lick the wall sockets’ and run off to tell their mothers Dad said they can lick the wall sockets.
My friends who are Dads all look very tired.