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Thu 21 Mar 2019 09:20:41 AM EDT Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. Woke briefly a couple times in the night. High of forty-nine and mostly cloudy today. Work: - Update redec units Done. - Review Scott's PTO Done. - 10 AM manager meeting Done. - Review +$25K PO's Done. - Work on thin clients Done. https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/amd64/apb.html Twenty-minute nap during lunch. Twenty-minute walk. Cloudy but not cold. Saw several robins and several blue jays. Heard a woodpecker and a red-winged blackbird. Home: - Change sheets and towels Done. - Car title? No. - Go to bed not late https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-egyptian-statues-broken-noses > “Egyptian state religion,” Bleiberg explained, was seen as “an arrangement where kings on Earth provide for the deity, and in return, the deity takes care of Egypt.” Statues and reliefs were “a meeting point between the supernatural and this world,” he said, only inhabited, or “revivified,” when the ritual is performed. And acts of iconoclasm could disrupt that power. > “The damaged part of the body is no longer able to do its job,” Bleiberg explained. Without a nose, the statue-spirit ceases to breathe, so that the vandal is effectively “killing” it. To hammer the ears off a statue of a god would make it unable to hear a prayer. In statues intended to show human beings making offerings to gods, the left arm—most commonly used to make offerings—is cut off so the statue’s function can’t be performed (the right hand is often found axed in statues receiving offerings). > “In the Pharaonic period, there was a clear understanding of what sculpture was supposed to do,” Bleiberg said. Even if a petty tomb robber was mostly interested in stealing the precious objects, he was also concerned that the deceased person might take revenge if his rendered likeness wasn’t mutilated. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/scientists-think-theyve-solved-one-mystery-of-easter-islands-statues/#p3 > The volcanic islands of Hawaii have an unusual feature, where fresh water flows down through the volcanic tubes into the ocean. "There's actually places offshore where freshwater will be flowing," said Lipo. "Fishermen will know you could scoop water right from this spot in the ocean and it will be fresh." > Fresh water is also a limited resource on Easter Island. With his graduate student, co-author Tonya Broadman, Lipo decided to investigate whether the same thing might be happening there and discovered it was, based on the conductivity measurements they made of how salty the water was along the coasts. "At low tide, when the saltwater's down, fresh water pours right out at the coast," he said. > Lipo and Broadman meticulously mapped out where those fresh water sources were located all around the island, and wherever they found fresh water pockets along the coast, they also found ahu. > "The fresh water location is the strongest component of determining the location of ahu and moai." Vacuumed, washed dishes, changed sheets and towels. Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 5/4, dairy 7/2, meat 5/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: migas, banana, carrots, mandarin, tomato, spinach, coffee Lunch: carrots, tomato, banana, mandarin, yogurt Afternoon snack: coffee, grapefruit Dinner: pizza

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