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Thu May 12 09:10:18 EDT 2016
Slept from ten-something to about seven.
Thunderstorms today. High of seventy-seven!
Goals:
Work:
- Contact LexisNexis about login
- Review invoices
Done.
- Check Dreamhost renewal
Done.
Updated credit card info for auto-renewal.
- Fair housing test
Done.
Twenty minute walk at lunch. A bit warm and humid. We haven't gotten any rain yet.
Hmm. iptraf is a nice little console network monitor. There's also a iptraf-ng fork. Not sure of the difference.
Home:
- Work on diary static generator
Done.
The question of whether it's save to use a malachite stalactite as a dildo gets an thorough scientific examination, and touches of parallels to the Flint water crisis:
http://www.metafilter.com/159464/Is-This-Rock-Safe-for-Your-Bush
http://kellysue.tumblr.com/post/144217226048/sigridellis-astolat-badscienceshenanigans
Gah. What is up with the Firefox scrollbar? Left-clicking above or below the bar takes you to that location on the page rather than one page up or down. My muscle memory is too ingrained from _years_ of it working the opposite way to tolerate this.
Hmm. It's evidently a GTK3 thing.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/295988/how-to-fix-gtk3-scrollbar-behavior
Edit/create ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:
[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-living-in-romanias-poison-cave
"The desolate field is completely unremarkable, except for one thing. Below it lies a cave that has remained isolated for 5.5 million years. In the lake room, the atmosphere is heavy with harmful gases, principally carbon dioxide as well as the hydrogen sulphide from the water. Despite the dark and the dangerous gases, Movile Cave is crawling with life. So far 48 species have been identified, including 33 found nowhere else in the world. In most caves, animals get their food from the water dripping down from the surface. However, Movile Cave has a thick layer of clay above it, which is impermeable to water. Instead, the food comes from the strange frothy foam sitting on top of the water. This floating film, which looks like wet tissue paper and can even be torn like paper, contains millions upon millions of bacteria known as 'autotrophs'. Rather than using light as an energy source, the Movile bacteria use a process known as chemosynthesis. These chemosynthetic bacteria help explain why the cave is so large and the air is so thick with carbon dioxide. 'Sulphuric acid actually erodes the limestone, which is gradually making the cave bigger,' says Boden. 'The process releases carbon dioxide, which is why levels are so high.' 'It's very likely that the bacteria have been there a lot longer than five million years, but that the insects became trapped there around that time,' says Murrell. 'They could have simply fallen in and become trapped when the limestone cast dropped, sealing the cave until it was discovered again in 1986.'"
Diagram cross-section of the cave:
http://www.speologie.org/pe%C5%9Ftera-movile
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