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Thu Jul 5 09:35:30 EDT 2018
Slept from twelve-thirty to seven-thirty. Woke briefly around four.
High of ninety-one today. 60% chance of thunderstorms.
Stopped at Starbucks on my way to work.
Work:
- Review invoices
Done.
- Finish SSH CA notes
Done.
```
$ ping -c 500 -ODq myhost
PING myhost.example.com (10.66.52.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
[1530800454.316922] no answer yet for icmp_seq=17
[1530800518.444930] no answer yet for icmp_seq=81
```
Ten-minute walk at lunch.
Hot.
Saw a goldfinch.
Home:
- A D&D thing?
Eh, not much.
- Go to bed early
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamen_Dialis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Triad#Archaic_Triad
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/?single_page=true
> Spiders have no wings, but they can take to the air nonetheless. They’ll climb to an exposed point, raise their abdomens to the sky, extrude strands of silk, and float away. This behavior is called ballooning. It might carry spiders away from predators and competitors, or toward new lands with abundant resources. But whatever the reason for it, it’s clearly an effective means of travel. Spiders have been found 2.5 miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.
> Ballooning spiders operate within this planetary electric field. When their silk leaves their bodies, it typically picks up a negative charge. This repels the similar negative charges on the surfaces on which the spiders sit, creating enough force to lift them into the air. And spiders can increase those forces by climbing onto twigs, leaves, or blades of grass. Plants, being earthed, have the same negative charge as the ground that they grow upon, but they protrude into the positively charged air. This creates substantial electric fields between the air around them and the tips of their leaves and branches—and the spiders ballooning from those tips.
Breakfast: cafe latte, sausage sandwich
Lunch: chicken shawarma bowl, coffee
Dinner: Philly cheesesteak
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