Week 25-26 - Curiosities
Greetings from the Mesa
We had a great visit with KP's mom this past week. Went for adventures several days in a row. It was great to be out and about and trying new eats, and just generally being out in public for the first time in a long time. It's going to take some getting used to! We watched the occultation of Venus and the Moon from the front of the newly opened Rio Lucero Farm store, which is a lovely new space in town. A new celestial event for me - I had no idea Venus was so bright in the daytime. Then later that night we watched the mini planet parade of the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury from the house. The weather turned hot, but we've had some nice afternoon thunderstorms to break up the heat. We enjoyed several days of mock mojitos with fresh mint from the greenhouse - refreshing! And, we are officially on fledge watch as there are 3 baby Says Phoebes in the portal nest, love their tiny grumpy faces. It's going to be a busy week ahead back in the studio as I've fallen behind on my creative projects. Summer is in full swing. Let's go!
Curiosities
- The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory. There has been a definite uptick in the chatter about the potential collapse of the AMOC. It's definitely concerning, and worth keeping an eye on, along with all the other climate changes...
- Rush has a new drummer and someone posted an all Anika Nilles video from her debut show in LA. Decent sound quality, and she's pretty rad.
- Drystone Diary - What is Drystone?
- Handy if you're on a mac and need to quickly process a folder of image files - SIPS. Scriptable Image Processing System. sips is used to query or modify raster image files (JPG/GIF/PNG) and ColorSync ICC profiles. Image processing options include flip, rotate, change image format/width/height. Its functionality can also be used through the "Image Events" AppleScript suite.
- The Taos 'Welcome Tree' has toppled. Unironically it was initially killed by water table drawdown.
Consuming
Reading: Pandora's Star (Hamilton), Mistborn (Sanderson), Songlines (Chatwin)
TV/Movies: The Boroughs, which I just learned has been cancelled for S2. Too bad, we are enjoying it.
Music: Nada, been too busy. I need to listen to some records!