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Wed May 1 09:08:33 EDT 2019 Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. Woke briefly around three. High of sixty-eight and thunderstorms today. Work: - Review invoices Done. - Print disaster plan copies, send email Done. - Order a couple spare G3 dome cameras Done. - Order Cat6 modular plugs, jacks, patch cables Done. Fifteen-minute walk at lunch. Cloudy, but no rain yet. A bug flew up my nose. Home: https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_sapolsky-a-bozo-of-a-baboon > Once in the middle of the open savannah, a troop of about a hundred baboons was foraging over a couple of square miles, where they would come together at the end of the day. When you're foraging you get really hot, and so you sit under a bush and take a nap for awhile. I was doing a 30 minute observational sample on Benjamin, and during that time he fell asleep. As I sat there watching what was not one of the more riveting samples I've ever had, the rest of the troop wandered off. > Benjamin eventually woke up, right around the time I was finishing the sample. I realized I had no idea where the other baboons were and he had no idea either. He climbed a tree and gave a loud vocalization call. It's a two-syllable wahoo call, and you can hear it for a mile in any direction, and usually somebody yells back. But they were too far away to hear his wahoos. He was up in the top of the tree, and getting anxious, so I climbed on top of my vehicle with my binoculars and finally spotted the baboons three hills over, and moving away really fast. And we had one of those things—God help my Joe scientist credentials here—but we looked at each other, and I got into the car and started driving and he trotted alongside. > I waited for him, and at one point he crossed a stream and I had to go a half mile up to another point to cross, and he waited for me. Together we found the baboons. https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html Started watching season 2 of The Good Place. Smart and funny. On Debian: ``` $ update-alternatives --get-selections ``` Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 8/2, meat 5/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: banana, migas, cucumber, tomato, coffee Lunch: yogurt, apple, carrots Afternoon snack: grapefruit, coffee Dinner: pizza 115/74

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