After a deer goes down….
Interesting time-lapse video of a dead deer being recovered by the forces of nature ...
November 9, 2018 7:45 pm Update
“The crayon on the wall he slashes, deep upon the advertising, a single- worded poem comprised of four letters.”
October 29, 2019 Night
Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 50 degrees.
It is a very pleasant evening for late October. If I wasn’t tired 😴 I might sit out back. But I’m still adjusting to the earlier work hours and recover from that cold. It continues to look like after these mild days it will be bitterly cold but snow free for a while to start November. At some point I’ll need the heat on but at least one night left for sleeping with the windows open.
I went for my evening walk 🚶 and it’s not a bad night 🌃 despite the clouds ☁. Last night I saw a big rig 🚚 hauling silage and tonight the air smells like wonderfully fresh chopped silage 🌽. Yum 😋. Some happy cows there. 🐮 Rode the exercise bike for a while 🚲 and made pasta salad for dinner with lots of broccoli.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 51 degrees at 6am. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 18th. Maximum dew point of 51 at 4am. South wind 5 to 9 mph. In 2018, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1969.
Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 11% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:10 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Sunday night with showers is likely. The Beaver Moon 🌝 is on Monday, November 11th. The sun will rise at 7:25 am with the first light at 6:56 am, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 13 hours and 33 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 65 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 4th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 12pm. Light south wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 80 was set in 1946. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1925.❄
Tomorrow after work I’m heading over to John Wolcott house 🏡. He’s going to have to give me a ride back to the bus as it will be pitch black by the time I get done. 📚 I haven’t done much with his files 📂 in a while but I think things are wrapping up quickly.
In four weeks on November 26 the sun will be setting at 4:25 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 27 minutes and 33 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 46 and 35 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 44 and 29 degrees. The record high of 67 degrees was set back in 1979.
Looking ahead, Election Day 2019 🗳️ is in 1 week but I don’t care because I Early Voted ❎, Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ is a month away which sometimes is a good day for hiking and camping, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 6 weeks which is somewhat similar to today, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 8 weeks and I was thinking won’t be long until I start seeing Christmas lights 🎄, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 9 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 11 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 12 weeks and 37th Birthday 🎉 is in 3 months.
What Is Benzene? | Chemical Safety Facts
As a building block chemical, benzene is reacted with other chemicals to produce a variety of other chemistries, materials and, ultimately, consumer goods.
Benzene is used to make other chemicals like ethylbenzene, cumene and cyclohexane, which are then reacted and used in the manufacture of a variety of materials and plastics such as polystyrene, ABS, and nylon. There can be many steps in the process that starts with the benzene molecule and ends with a completed material or consumer product. For example, benzene is a building block used to make ethylbenzene, which is then used to make styrene, which is used to make polystyrene. The end material, polystyrene, is a completely different material chemically than benzene.
For consumer products where benzene is used as a building block or intermediate, the benzene is typically fully reacted in a closed system, with little to no benzene remaining in the finished consumer product.
Benzene also is used to make some types of lubricants, rubbers, dyes, detergents, drugs, explosives and pesticides.
Colors Off Spruce Mountain
Sticking Your Head Into the Sand Over Oil
There is a popular Internet meme that goes along these lines:
“I am poor. So when I hear my car making a noise,
rather then taking it to the repair shop, I just turn up the radio.”
This kind of reminds me of the hype over fracking for oil and gas. It was a good distraction for a while — and indeed the United States got a big boost in it’s oil production for a while — it seems like as fast as the oil glut came it is now going away. A booming global economy has expanded the world’s thirst for this economy, and with Middle East production on a decline, it seems like it’s only a matter of time that we remember the serious energy crisis our world faces in the future. ⛽
There are politicians all over that like to believe we live in a sea of oil, and that suburbia will last forever. Indeed, a good portion of the green minded people think that once we switch over to electric plug-in cars powered by distant solar cells, motoring can go on care free, with no concerns about the resources being consumed or emissions being produced away from the tailpipe. But at some point, no matter how long you stick year head into the ground, our long term habit of expanding the population and feeling richer by burning more oil each year, will come to bite us. 🐲
Nobody knows when the global oil crisis will truly bite us. High oil prices once again may spur conservation and innovation like new fracking techniques 🛢 but the truth is the oil fueled party can’t go on forever. I like my big jacked up truck, but I’m not stupid — I know the world of ever growing demand for oil is going to be confronted by reality at some point. And the next result isn’t going to be pretty. Climate change, expensive energy, massive reductions in consumption are going to be the future. While there may be some benefit to some, the next effect will be serious impacts to millions who are forced to make dramatic changes in how they live and go through life.
Facebook Comments
I recent months I stopped answering Facebook comments, 💭 especially if they are policy or political related — and up for debate. Instead, if I think I have something to offer to the discussion, I will write a short essay for placing on my blog. This breaks the cycle of silly back and forth on a comment thread, 😡and lets me me carefully think about the issue in ways that aren’t so snippy and nasty. ⌨