One Mile Walk

#1022576

November 30, 2021 at 4:22pm

I don't write letters. Well, maybe you can consider journaling as letters to myself. My handwriting is really just fast lower case printing. The only thing I do in cursive is my signature. And that now is becoming infrequent with the advent of the electronic finger wave. Rather than letters, I'm more comfortable with email and blogs. I can prep my response, fix faux pas, and check spelling (I'm seriously dyslexic) before sending it out. How anyone can type realtime in a chat... [Read more]

#1022537

November 29, 2021 at 9:45pm

Bright sun in the face, 38°F, no wind, and clear sky. Why can't people be like that? Pleasant, a little reserved, don't talk incessantly about themselves, and will discuss any other topic intelligently. Sort of rules out most newscasters. I see andiprescott is restarting his blog 'Returning'. Sent him a comment: Yep. I did the same thing. Quit doing much on WDC many years ago. Couldn't afford the $49.95/yr for an upgraded account, so lost most of my stuf... [Read more]

#1022485

December 1, 2021 at 7:16pm

Ops, not much today. Being the housekeeper has levied a claim on my activities. Didn't even get to walk the mile. I had a conversation last Thursday, with my big daughter, about the future of work and the economy. What happens when the pandemic is over? I say there is a precedence to look at. The women who went into industry during the WWII had to do the work while the men were all out being killed. It had to be done. But when the war was over, most put down their welder hoo... [Read more]

#1022419

November 27, 2021 at 2:58pm

About 11:00 I asked, "Alexa, walking?" It said, '30°F, overcast with 20% chance of wet snow. Take a good coat.' Oh, I like gadgets. Before deciding if I should do the 1 mile, I shoveled the walkway... Not bad, took 10 minutes. Biggest problem was the leaves I didn't rake up last month. Wasn't too cold, as long as the wind stayed low. Do I need this exercise? There's a warm bed just inside the door. Well, I went anyway. The town sent a... [Read more]

#1022382

November 26, 2021 at 10:48pm

It was 38°F and misting when I left at 10:30 this morning. It wasn't hard raining, wasn't below freezing, and the wind not bad. I thought a simple coat along with a wide brimmed hat would do for the walk. There were no puddles, but the cars made that hiss passing by. Just sort of raw. There were three nearby houses yesterday with an above average number of cars around them. Today they are gone. I hope the T-Day gatherings were for love and not obligations. How confusing ... [Read more]

#1022296

November 25, 2021 at 11:06am

Let's say the speed of light is 'faster' now than far back in time. An equally simple interpretation would be if the light speed was maybe 'slower' back then. An object would appear not quite so far away, but receding faster, if you measure it using our local faster speed of light. The speed of light may still depend on the 'tension' of the spacetime matrix. But like the frequency of sound goes 'down' the looser the string is in a guitar. Now I ... [Read more]

#1022269

November 24, 2021 at 8:20pm

Now, I'm an engineer, not a scientist. Engineers are not usually seeking to understand how the universe works. We are normally only looking for ways to build or fix things. We use the laws of physics to do that... usually. But, if the physics is too complicated, we have been known to use guesses and extrapolations of simplified physics to approximate solutions. Sometimes we get burned without good physics. But, if you can build it, and it works, fine. Let the physicists figure out... [Read more]

#1022187

November 23, 2021 at 10:28am

Last Friday I came back home and the wife asked, "What's new out there?" I thought about a minute, then came up with a dozen small things I had notices in the last month or so. Here's one: "The neighbor, two houses down, hooked up to city water. I wonder if it's because the state tested some wells and found PFAS contamination one point above the limit." "Should we do the same?" "Are you kidding? That'll be $6,000."... [Read more]