Day: November 20, 2021

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As I don’t like wearing the muzzle

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As I don’t like wearing the muzzle… 😷

It’s kind of rare for me to go down to the library to work on my laptop but I did for 45 minutes or so this afternoon – I wanted to download some data plus I just wanted to get out of my apartment for a while this afternoon. It also was a chance to get a few more steps in.

If muzzles weren’t required I’d probably go to the library more but these days I find I can do most things with my phone – and I have hot spot service too. I probably could get home internet but it’s expensive, uses a lot of electricity and I like the walk. 

Snow Depth – Saturday November 20

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I was looking at the snow depth map, noting the snow that is on the ground in the hilltowns and Western Adirondacks downwind of Lake Ontario. Doesn’t look real deep and probably won’t last all winter long — until more falls, but it’s still a sign of what’s to come. You can see the snow in the Heldebergs and Catskills from my office window.
 

The House of Documents

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The House of Documents

7/14/21 by Parsons Healthy Materials Lab

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125818012
Episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/695296/8856974-the-house-of-documents.mp3

In the 1970s, workers in PVC factories across the country began getting sick with a rare form of liver cancer. While the plastics industry claimed they were unaware of what was causing that cancer, internal documents told a different story. Today we’re telling a story about corporate concealment, cancer, and of course, plastic.

Inflation, the monster that eats everything, good or bad 👹

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Inflation, the monster that eats everything, good or bad 👹

IInflation makes everything more expensive, meaning that people cannot afford as much and must cut back. Previously affordable things must be scaled back, regardless if such scaling back is good or bad.

Inflation encourages conservation and cutting of wasteful spending but at the same time not all spending is bad. It encourages smaller cars and more insulation. It encourages people to reevaluate their budgets and work to live more within their means. 

Inflation means that some very good government programs like college tuition programs or open space conservation will be killed off or reduced. Public programs often are victims of inflation as budgets are busted. 

On the idea of an Adirondack Mountains National Park – – The Adirondack Almanack

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On the idea of an Adirondack Mountains National Park – – The Adirondack Almanack

The plan for a national park within the central portion of the Adirondack Park was released by the Office of the Governor and proposed as consisting of 1.12 million acres owned by the state as part of the Forest Preserve and 600,000 adjoining acres owned by timber companies and other private landowners to be acquired over time for the national park. The approximate boundaries of the proposed national park would be Saranac Lakes/ Lake Placid/High Peaks to the north, the I-87 Northway to the east, Indian Lake to the south, and Fourth Lake/Stillwater Reservoir to the west. The Laurance Rockefeller plan excluded from federal acquisition Lake Placid and four other villages, Saranac Lake, Blue Mountain Lake, Inlet, and Indian Lake, all envisioned to become the principal commercial service centers for the national