@mikamckinnon.bsky.social Fascinated by the variety of glacier-transported rocks on the north slope of Mt Daniel in Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Sorry for lack of scale; the longest dimension of the very rusty one is ~10cm, ~30cm for the banded one, and ~1m for the pink one. How far did these travel?

It’s never been fixed in a major lineage before, though it had two (three?) tries at it. Haven’t looked yet which variants those were. (From cov-spectrum.org)



I have an Awair Element; I can’t speak to the absolute accuracy of its readings, but it certainly detects when I’m cooking. Spot when I made breakfast!

www.getawair.com/products/ele...

Not the point, I know, but here’s a much prettier owl I saw yesterday evening on the bike trail at the east end of 520.

Not as nice as your photos; smartphone camera in marginal light (+bike headlamp), but I couldn’t not take the photo after it flew down and perched right in front of me.

I don’t think there’s anything surprising about current levels, looking at the Biobot year-over-year plot?

Been following you since early Covid Twitter. Very grateful to you and the others there for showing to how avoid infection, still at zero! Glad to have you here now.

There’s a comic for that, by Jens von Bergmann github.com/mountainMath...

Seriously? No one planned for throwback uniform day, much less a team sale?

If we lost the best logo ever to these jokers I will be so mad.

Four years in, “there will be a peak around January 1st” seems a safe prediction. But not “there won’t be any other peaks”, nor “you don’t have to worry about it except during peaks”.

Consistently more deaths from Covid than influenza in the 0-17 age group, from www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vs... (note 2023 numbers are for a partial year, and they stopped updating this page in September)

Great game, OL Reign!

Biobot posted an update on the bird site:

SIPmask valves are the answer to dehydration! sipmask.com Not affiliated with them other than as a happy customer. Me on my most recent flight with valve installed.

The US wastewater data doesn’t show *only* winter transmission, but the case to expect a winter peak is about as strong as it can be with only three years of data. From biobot.io/data/

And Google has updated.

This would be a new shape for OL Reign. Curious to see if they actually play this way or if Google is just confused. I checked, they don’t claim this was their shape for any previous match, official lineup cards listing 4 forwards notwithstanding.