Just for clarity, China (#1) produces twice the carbon pollution as the US (#2), but China has 4 times the population of the US.
Deluxestogie Grow Log 2023
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I am accustomed to seeing vultures, with their dihedral wings, trace lazy circles high above the pasture, catching mid-morning updrafts from the sun's warming. There were none there today. In a cloudless, blue sky this morning, a single bird with huge, perfectly flat wings glided westward in a straight line. Just before it cruised out of sight, I caught a glimpse of its broad, white tail feathers, spread in a fan. A bald eagle. How lovely.
Bob
Bob
Laredo
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They are beautiful creatures. When I saw this post almost a week ago it made me realize that I hadn’t seen any bald eagles lately. I usually see them in the fall or winter roosting in my backyard trees that run along the river. I was just out for a smoke and one landed in a tree and let out a couple screeches. My neighbor got a picture of it. Not a good picture. We tried to get closer but the eagle wasn’t having it and took off.
That is part of their charm.
Back in December of 1998, while backpacking along the Escalante Route in the Grand Canyon, I saw a California Condor. So high up, and so far away, yet still appearing huge. From my trail log:
"Hiking along the western face of Mineral Canyon, we sighted, for a second time, a lone California Condor. Six of these nearly extinct birds were released near the Vermilion Cliffs after a captive breeding program. At both sightings, the condor never flapped a wing. It circled from one thermal to another, skirting the edges of the mesas. In the Canyon, where huge things appear to be small, the condor still appears large, holding its vast wingspan absolutely flat against the updraft. At both sightings, I was so excited that I failed to get a photo. The first time, I just forgot to. The second time, I was tardy in pulling out the camera, then missed a perfect shot directly overhead. Then the condor lazily circled into the late morning sun."
Bob
EDIT: My image of that condor is so vivid that today, after failing to locate my photo of it, I reverted to my old trail log, to identify the date on which the condor photo was taken. Alas, it is only in my mind's eye.
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The weather forecast was for 16°F overnight. According to my 3 different thermometers, it dipped to 12°F (-11°C) in the wee hours this morning. Now (at 10:30 am) it's already climbed to 34°F. Overnight temps will stay well above the mid-twenties for the next two weeks. It will be warm enough for a cigar or two on my front porch during the afternoons of about half of those coming days.
Bob
Bob
Homegrowngoodnes
Well-Known Member
I was born and raised in the northeastern portion of Central Pennsylvania. I have lived in the Florida panhandle for over 20 years now. While it doesn't get nearly as cold here as it does further north, my body protests a lot more than it used to! It has gotten into the upper 20s the past couple nights with highs in the 50s and I find myself experiencing a lot of pain and loss of motion due mostly to back injuries over the years. I don't smoke inside and have hurt too much to want to venture outside to partake!
When my son and grandson visited me in December a year ago, I noticed that my temperature requirement for sitting out on the porch to smoke a cigar (with my son!) dropped by quite a bit. I had to loan my teen grandson a heavy coat to sit out there with us. [No cigar for him.]
Our expectations and motivations truly modify our perception of pain, discomfort and limitation.
Bob
Our expectations and motivations truly modify our perception of pain, discomfort and limitation.
Bob
I typed, "kitten smoking a cigar". Six seconds later an AI image creator demo created this.
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Bob
"Rembrandt tardigrade eating a carrot".
Clearly, the AI doesn't understand how a human holds a lit cigar. Nor does it know that Sir Winston likely never smoked a cigar that narrow in his life.
Bob
EDIT: ALSO, the photo of Sir Winston is a sepia-tone black and white, while the cigar is in natural color.
Bob
EDIT: ALSO, the photo of Sir Winston is a sepia-tone black and white, while the cigar is in natural color.
Today looks like a perfect day to breathe. I'll give it a try.
Bob
With everybody traveling over the holidays, I decided to spend the morning on Mars. Very little traffic, and no tourist crowds.
I'm back home now, and, I have to say, home is a bit more cozy than Mars. (Best of luck, Elon.)
Bob
I'm back home now, and, I have to say, home is a bit more cozy than Mars. (Best of luck, Elon.)
Bob
Bob, I am truly impressed with your tolerance for low oxygen levels!With everybody traveling over the holidays, I decided to spend the morning on Mars. Very little traffic, and no tourist crowds.
I'm back home now, and, I have to say, home is a bit more cozy than Mars. (Best of luck, Elon.)
Bob
GrowleyMonster
Creator of the Imperfecto
The worst thing about Mars is you have to supply oxygen to get a cigar to burn properly.
Don is offering a free thermometer with just about any order from WLT on 24 & 25 December (see the banner). I have to say that I am surprised. They sell for about $20 each, and they are not baby thermometers to toss into a drawer. They are large, wall thermometers like the ones I used to see on the exterior wall of gas stations and small stores during the 1950s. They often advertised Coca Cola.
I've had one on the wall at the end of my hallway for about a year. It's over 17 inches tall. From my favorite living room chair, I can look down to the end of the hall, and see it.
Bob
I've had one on the wall at the end of my hallway for about a year. It's over 17 inches tall. From my favorite living room chair, I can look down to the end of the hall, and see it.
Bob
Yesterday, while preparing dinner, my intention was to make a burrito of some leftovers. Upon opening a refrigerated bag of 8-inch flour tortillas, I noticed that the top two had been soaked by water condensation from the interior surface of the bag. I carried those two tortillas out to my front porch, and launched them like Frisbees, far out into the yard.
This morning, I saw that one of the tortilla Frisbees had vanished entirely, while the other lay exactly where it had landed, but with half missing.
The above image near the missing tortilla indicates that a dog may have been there. Likely a domestic pet, since the poop is relatively uniform, and free of the bone fragments and fur bits usually found in coyote poop.
The partially eaten tortilla retains marks of a small bite radius, made with smaller teeth.
Bob
This morning, I saw that one of the tortilla Frisbees had vanished entirely, while the other lay exactly where it had landed, but with half missing.
The above image near the missing tortilla indicates that a dog may have been there. Likely a domestic pet, since the poop is relatively uniform, and free of the bone fragments and fur bits usually found in coyote poop.
The partially eaten tortilla retains marks of a small bite radius, made with smaller teeth.
Bob
Quasar
Well...my "Quasar" is a 40 year old mini-fridge. It is the refuge of all my saved tobacco seed, and resides in a less than reputable (and otherwise useless) nook in my kitchen. In this tiny fridge, I hold samples of many hundreds of tobacco varieties. So far, I have had no difficulty germinating seed stored in there for over a decade.
The "dry boxes" always include a pack of desiccant, in addition to being jammed with little seed bags, subdivided into freezer Ziploc bags. Every individual bag of seed is carefully labeled. Some day, I'll get around to making a comprehensive index of where to find what. Though the point of the fridge is cold, the most important aspect of tobacco seed storage is dry, dry, dry.
[Dry boxes are often found in sporting goods stores or departments, and assumed to be used in boating, canoeing and kayaking.]
Alas, my Quasar has to be manually defrosted about once a year. So I like to coordinate this with the inevitable search for seed to use in the upcoming season. It's a holiday event. Tra la la la la. I remove all the dry boxes and other containers, switch off the power, then put down a square baking dish and towels to catch the ice melt.
Just like the winter solstice at Stonehenge, this view of the mini-fridge empty happens only once a year.
This takes about a day to drip dry. Then everything goes back in, often undisturbed for another year.
Bob
Well...my "Quasar" is a 40 year old mini-fridge. It is the refuge of all my saved tobacco seed, and resides in a less than reputable (and otherwise useless) nook in my kitchen. In this tiny fridge, I hold samples of many hundreds of tobacco varieties. So far, I have had no difficulty germinating seed stored in there for over a decade.
The "dry boxes" always include a pack of desiccant, in addition to being jammed with little seed bags, subdivided into freezer Ziploc bags. Every individual bag of seed is carefully labeled. Some day, I'll get around to making a comprehensive index of where to find what. Though the point of the fridge is cold, the most important aspect of tobacco seed storage is dry, dry, dry.
[Dry boxes are often found in sporting goods stores or departments, and assumed to be used in boating, canoeing and kayaking.]
Alas, my Quasar has to be manually defrosted about once a year. So I like to coordinate this with the inevitable search for seed to use in the upcoming season. It's a holiday event. Tra la la la la. I remove all the dry boxes and other containers, switch off the power, then put down a square baking dish and towels to catch the ice melt.
Just like the winter solstice at Stonehenge, this view of the mini-fridge empty happens only once a year.
This takes about a day to drip dry. Then everything goes back in, often undisturbed for another year.
Bob
Why does AI so often create such weird hands?
Although you may care about the proper number and shape of extremities and appendages on a particular species, AI has a more psychedelic take. You have 5 distinct senses, while AI invents synesthesia with non-senses. I've seen AI generated images with people seated backwards on a park bench. It doesn't care. On the above, Tardigrade image, where did that hand holding the carrot come from?
