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All in all not a bad day, just one to be glad to put behind me. This morning started out with a exhaustive check of snowmobile trail conditions and weather forecasts for the day. It was raining in Bartlett, but various weather sites were saying it was mostly snow west and north of here. So [...]
Looks like February vaction’s snowmobile trip will be rained out. Even here up in Bartlett the little snow fallen has been drenched by the rain. The only potential positive is it’s been cold enough that there is still about 2-3″ of heavy wet slush on the ground. If it gets cold enough soon we still [...]
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/security_group.html Primatologist Robin Dunbar derived this number by comparing neocortex — the “thinking” part of the mammalian brain — volume with the size of primate social groups. By analyzing data from 38 primate genera and extrapolating to the human neocortex size, he predicted a human “mean group size” of roughly 150. This number appears regularly [...]
The old thundernat.com has been having problems for awhile now. I had been thinking about moving it to a new server and software platform, and the latest bit of down time has given me the final incentive to do it.
