Miscellany redux
Jun. 5th, 2009 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidScientists have found the oldest patch of ground that has been continuously exposed, which is in a desert, and apparently most of the oldest exposed land is desert (not what I'd expect, given how much of many deserts involves sand or other particulates). So if there's all that history, I could imagine a world where certain talented people (psychics?) can see after images of what happened before; it would be interesting to see how densely this place would be populated. And how images would appear with excavated ground/sites. (Life would be whole lot easier for archaeologists...)
Cool word of the day: helictite, including fish-tail helictites, looking like stone fish made it partly into the wall of a cave before running into problems. (For the Krayzen folk: I imagine a High Eld suddenly turned into a fish getting halfway into the All-Stone before expiring and somehow becoming stone.)
I'm pondering the Tour de Shuls at the end of the month. It's for a good cause, and presumably the snacks would be kosher :-). Looking at the different routes, the macho side of me wants the 75 mile route, but most of me thinks that's foolish, since I'm not quite ready for that plus biking to/from Needham (another 20-25 miles), and it would be challenging to get to the start by the 7 A.M. check-in. Plus I think it would be mentally harder to have a route that gets as close as Newton, then head away from homeward... Anyone else considering this ride, at any length?
Via Trainingmom, some very cool signs in parking garages.
I got faked out by the weather report, and didn't bike in today, expecting rain by now. On the plus side, at least I managed some time on an exercise bike. Not as good, but it's something.
Cool word of the day: helictite, including fish-tail helictites, looking like stone fish made it partly into the wall of a cave before running into problems. (For the Krayzen folk: I imagine a High Eld suddenly turned into a fish getting halfway into the All-Stone before expiring and somehow becoming stone.)
I'm pondering the Tour de Shuls at the end of the month. It's for a good cause, and presumably the snacks would be kosher :-). Looking at the different routes, the macho side of me wants the 75 mile route, but most of me thinks that's foolish, since I'm not quite ready for that plus biking to/from Needham (another 20-25 miles), and it would be challenging to get to the start by the 7 A.M. check-in. Plus I think it would be mentally harder to have a route that gets as close as Newton, then head away from homeward... Anyone else considering this ride, at any length?
Via Trainingmom, some very cool signs in parking garages.
I got faked out by the weather report, and didn't bike in today, expecting rain by now. On the plus side, at least I managed some time on an exercise bike. Not as good, but it's something.