Thu May 23 08:56:15 EDT 2019

Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty.
Woke briefly around two.

High of seventy-six today, with thunderstorms before noon.

Saw a duck flying across Twelve Mile on my way to work.
Got into the office a few minute early.

Work:
- Order new butt set
  No, fixed the old one.
- Test ActiveSync autoconfig more
  Done.
- Work on leasing desktops
  No.

Our receptionist, Sherri, has a ninety-year-old husband with dementia named Lester.
She's had a hard time finding reliable carers for him.
Bob had an idea for a spin-off of our office show: Lester spends all day riding around with our delivery driver Chuck.
It'll be a buddy road comedy, like Every Which Way but Loose.

Soldered alligator clips on the end of a cable.
Not the prettiest solder job, but it worked the first time.

Twenty-five-minute walk at lunch.
Rain gave way to a warm, sunny, windy day.
Saw a turkey vulture and a couple butterflies (Painted Ladies?).

Home:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19990488
https://grapee.jp/en/114838
> While some species of bamboo produce blossoms as often as once every three years, many of them flower at extremely long intervals, between 40 to 80 years. In the case of madake 真竹 Phyllostachys bambusoides, pictured at the top of this article, they only flower once every 130 years!
> Perhaps even more surprising than the long intervals at which they flower is the fact that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, no matter where they are in the world. Although the mechanism has yet to be explained by science, many believe there is some kind of natural "alarm clock" in the plant's cells causing the behavior. The depletion of bamboo can have considerable environmental and economic impacts.
> In many parts of the world where bamboo thrives, the blossoms are therefore dreaded as harbingers of bad luck, Japan being no exception. According to an article in weather news site Tenki.jp, in the 1960s, one third of Phyllostachys bambusoides in Japan died, wreaking havoc on industries and local crafts which used the bamboo species as their primary source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_blossom#Impact
> For example, devastating consequences occur when the Melocanna bambusoides population flowers and fruits once every 30–35 years[6] around the Bay of Bengal. The death of the bamboo plants following their fruiting means the local people lose their building material, and the large increase in bamboo fruit leads to a rapid increase in rodent populations. As the number of rodents increases, they consume all available food, including grain fields and stored food, sometimes leading to famine.[7] These rats can also carry dangerous diseases, such as typhus, typhoid, and bubonic plague, which can reach epidemic proportions as the rodents increase in number.

A small Google tour inside Crary Science Center at McMurdo Station, Antarctica:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/McMurdo+Station,+Antarctica/@-77.8472812,166.6679417,2a,75y,158.71h,84.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3uVOgTZxRYmCsLeNsdZpDQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0xaf773973ada5b34d:0xe241f2716549c551!8m2!3d-77.8418478!4d166.6866302
Another (Berg Field Center):
https://www.google.com/maps/place/McMurdo+Station,+Antarctica/@-77.8479564,166.6760912,2a,75y,123h,59.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skmdPbkCllSXP_nbukv8Q2w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0xaf773973ada5b34d:0xe241f2716549c551!8m2!3d-77.8418478!4d166.6866302
https://www.google.com/maps/place/McMurdo+Station,+Antarctica/@-77.8475464,166.668048,2a,75y,56.02h,84t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sQO5QDliX6pUAZ6zkXiHi_A!2e0!3e2!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DQO5QDliX6pUAZ6zkXiHi_A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D52.746265%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0xaf773973ada5b34d:0xe241f2716549c551!8m2!3d-77.8418478!4d166.6866302

Watched some anime.

"extremely stable genius"
Good grief!

Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 5/4, dairy 7/2, meat 4/3, nuts 0/0.5

Brunch: celery, cucumber, banana, Mandarin, migas, coffee
Lunch: yogurt, apple, Mandarin, celery, carrots
Afternoon snack: coffee
Dinner: pizza

100/63