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Resurrection!
Oct. 23rd, 2007 10:01 amLots of dust, a few snips of cat hair, and 2/3 a can of air later, Mr. Roomba's as good as new and cleaning the house again. ^_^ Yay!
Oct. 23rd, 2007
CA Wildfires
Oct. 23rd, 2007 12:51 pmIf you haven't been following the news about the wildfires around LA and south-western California, the satellite photo below tells the picture pretty well.
Note that the fires are producing the white smoke that looks nearly like rain clouds. I believe the tan streaks off of Mexico are sand and dirt being blown by the winds. Red spots are where the fire is currently burning. If you click on the image, you'll get a higher res version from NASA, and if you pick "250m pixel size" you'll get the highest available.
If you live in SoCal, expect asthma and allergy problems. Apparently most of the soot particles are small enough that they'll go right through normal dust masks. If you have birds, get them out of the region, North or East, if you can.
Note that the fires are producing the white smoke that looks nearly like rain clouds. I believe the tan streaks off of Mexico are sand and dirt being blown by the winds. Red spots are where the fire is currently burning. If you click on the image, you'll get a higher res version from NASA, and if you pick "250m pixel size" you'll get the highest available.
If you live in SoCal, expect asthma and allergy problems. Apparently most of the soot particles are small enough that they'll go right through normal dust masks. If you have birds, get them out of the region, North or East, if you can.
Vocabulary feeding the hungry!
Oct. 23rd, 2007 04:39 pmTest your vocabulary and feed the hungry simultaneously!
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jethereal, though I'm sure framefolly won't turn down a time-waster. ;) Yoinked from the_xtina here.
ETA: After donating some 200+ grains of rice, I'm hovering at level 39-40. Not quite as awesome as you,the_xtina, but pretty damned good for a scientist. And I'm sure I'll get there if I don't get bored first. :-P Meanwhile, I'm tempted to calculate these grains of rice in a more meaningful unit, such as volume or mass...
ETAA: 700+, and I'm bouncing from 39 to 43. :-P
Just for you,
jethereal, though I'm sure framefolly won't turn down a time-waster. ;) Yoinked from the_xtina here.ETA: After donating some 200+ grains of rice, I'm hovering at level 39-40. Not quite as awesome as you,
the_xtina, but pretty damned good for a scientist. And I'm sure I'll get there if I don't get bored first. :-P Meanwhile, I'm tempted to calculate these grains of rice in a more meaningful unit, such as volume or mass...ETAA: 700+, and I'm bouncing from 39 to 43. :-P
B/c one of my ftf friends who haunts this blog is always talking about it, when I stumbled across an Enneagram test, I took it. I'm an Eight supposedly - MattJ, what did you think I was again? I needa read more about this thing.
( full results of test )
( full results of test )
Palomar at risk?
Oct. 23rd, 2007 07:39 pmGoddamnit, didn't this happen just a couple years ago? They really oughtta remove the forest around it and not let it grow back.
On FreeRice level 44 "littleneck" came up. One of the choices was "quahog," which I knew was a clam - I knew this from elementary school, when we learned that wampum was a type of currency used by some Native American peoples where they made beads out of quahog (clam) shells and since there was less of the purple part of the shell, the purple beads were worth more than the white. They were in bead form so the women (I think, maybe men) could wear them in necklaces.
So, "littleneck" had four choices including "quahog". What made me choose that one was that I'd learned about Indians using quahog, presumably Indians native to the region of the US I grew up in. Plus there was a town nearby called Little Neck. So yeah, I picked littleneck = quahog, and it turns out I was right. I'm surprisingly pretty good at reasoning out these words, even when I don't know most of them.
So, "littleneck" had four choices including "quahog". What made me choose that one was that I'd learned about Indians using quahog, presumably Indians native to the region of the US I grew up in. Plus there was a town nearby called Little Neck. So yeah, I picked littleneck = quahog, and it turns out I was right. I'm surprisingly pretty good at reasoning out these words, even when I don't know most of them.