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Mon Mar 22 06:00:01 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from nine-thirty to six. Woke once in the night. Mostly sunny until late afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- - follow up with Lori et alia about payment type change Done. - review Bullseye invoices Done. - 7172, TT phones Done. - revenue management Not much. Ten minutes on the exercise bike at lunch. Home ---------------------------------------- - Grocery delivery 9–11 AM Done. My allergies are starting to act up, I think. Scratchy eyes the last few days. Didn't get out for a walk today, but spent a few minutes pacing on the balcony after work. Partly sunny, pleasant. Saw a raptor of some kind gliding high in the sky. Washed dishes. https://sarkos.tumblr.com/post/646360285058416640/jenniferrpovey-weasowl-catchymemes-human-vs > > Every year, in a small Welsh town, there is a race between riders on horseback and runners on foot. Evidently he above subject came under some discussion in a bar, and a bet was made, which resulted in a challenge people have recreated every year since. The race features dozens of horses versus a similar number of runners, and while a horse usually wins, it is always pretty close, and SOMEtimes, sometimes a human runner wins. > > The race is 22 miles long. It is shorter than a standard human marathon. This is so that it is fair to the horses. A typical marathon is 26 miles long. A healthy distance for a horse to undertake in a single day for the purpose of travel is between 20 and 30 miles, but only if they walk at least part of the way. The years a human runner has won the race, the weather has been hot, as heat also favors human runners. > > Interestingly, if the race is only ten to fifteen meters, 30 - 45 feet, a human can also win against a horse, which takes longer than a human to get up to full speed. > > This fact of human capability for pursuit hunting and distance running is also part of why we have partnered with dogs for so much of our time on this planet. Dogs and wolves also engage in pursuit hunting, and sled dogs in particular can run miraculous distances due to some very interesting biological processes. > This is important if you are measuring travel time in a medieval environment. > > Day by day, it is not faster to ride than to walk. It is easier, but it is not, especially in rough terrain, faster. Horses are much faster over short distances, but can’t beat a bunch of guys on a fast march for a full day travel. > > And if you are in bad terrain where your horse or mule can’t actually go faster than a walk, then it takes about the same amount of time. In fact, a string of pack mules moves at about 3 miles per hour, which is the same speed or even slightly slower than a human walking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon https://kottke.org/21/03/how-to-safely-remove-bees-for-relocation > Working without a beekeeping suit or even gloves, Thompson begins by locating the hive with a thermal imager, cuts open the floor, and gently lifts up the flooring to reveal the hive. After transferring the hive’s honeycomb to a new box hive, she cajoles the bees into their new home through the use of smoke, relocating the queen, and even scooping them in there with her bare hand. She ends the video with “and it was another great day of saving the bees” and that’s 100% right. ZSHEXPN(1) describes globbing. https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2021/03/pulp-fantasy-library-she.html > Robert E. Howard, for example, was an admirer of Haggard, and took up his theme of civilizational devolution with gusto. Thus, it's quite possible Gygax never read Haggard (or didn't think him significant enough to mention) and only came into contact with his ideas through intermediaries like Howard or Merritt. > Needless to say, their adventures are fraught with peril, starting with a shipwreck on the coast of east Africa. The trio survive, along with the Arab who captained their ill-fated vessel, and make their way on foot into the interior of the continent. There, they are captured by people called the Amhagger. whose ruler is a fearsome queen known simply as "She-who-must-be-obeyed." Perhaps unsurprisingly, in a novel filled with coincidence and happenstance, the queen turns out to be the legendary sorceress they were seeking – Ayesha, the titular She and perhaps the most fascinating character in the entire novel. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429207 > dang 9 days ago [–] > If curious, past related threads: > Get Started Making Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965386 - Sept 2019 (184 comments) > Learning Synths - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20272346 - June 2019 (172 comments) > Get started making music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299628 - May 2017 (461 comments) > > flycaliguy 9 days ago [–] > > And here is the PDF of Sound on Sound’s guide to synthesis, commonly touted as the best. https://www.blipinteractive.co.uk/community/index.php?p=/discussion/372/sound-on-sound-synth-secrets-pdf Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: pineapple, cucumber, coffee Lunch: carrots, two hot dogs Afternoon snack: apple Dinner: -16

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