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It Happens In Many Years

 So, I decided to chronicle it for myself:  Lake Champlain freezes over and it doesn't go into the records as being frozen over.  This shot is from this morning:  Feb 6th 2022.

And yet, this site does not show the lake as closed:

  

Added: As of Feb 20 2025, the same site has no call for 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025.  It looks like it's frozen right now.

Feb 26, 2025

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Should have gotten this in 3, but was really struggling.

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One of my daughters texted me her attempt at this edition:  She led-off with Reads!  This seems like a massive coincidence.  My opening word allowed for about 1,500 different possibilities and hers allowed for any 5-letter word--so maybe 50,000 choices.

News Flash: Any Category or Grouping is Artificial

Any grouping of things can be considered an artificial construct: Whenever we categorize, there will be edge cases.  Take the elements: In the periodic table, We categorize them into metals and non metals, but elements on the border between the two, don't show the clear-cut distinctions we see from elements in the heart of their category.

To carry the analogy further.  The table was set up based upon the characteristics of the elements.  Later, when atomic theory came along, the arrangement of the elements agreed perfectly with the number of protons in each element.  It makes sense that atomic structure and behaviour would agree and it assures us that the arrangement was more like rational than arbitrary.

In a similar fashion, you can look at linguistic dendritic trees, which happen to agree very closely to genetic relatedness dendritic trees.  So the groupings may be artificial, but they are clearly based in reality.

To get to the Goldberg fiasco--she's sort of right and wrong at the same time. The German NAZI's certainly thought of Jews as a race and persecuted them as such.  On the other hand, while there are certainly Jews of all races, in Europe they were close to 100% Caucasian.  Goldberg was wrong to think of the NAZI genocide as white-on-white hatred, since the NAZI's thought of Jews as an alien race.  That doesn't change, just because 80 years later very few people think of Jews as a race.

Wordle 24

Got it in two, two days in a row on 02-02-2022!

 

155 LBS Is Par for me.

 At some point in most clean and jerk workouts, usually toward the end, I make 155 Lbs.  It's generally a struggle and I rarely make a heavier lift than that.

I normally lift on alternate days, so there were 15 workouts in January.  I made 155 on 11 of the 15 workouts.  In all, I made 155 or higher, 26 times.  The low end of the range is zero, which happened in 4 workouts and the high end of the range is six, which I did in one workout.

2010 Calling

I spotted this old image (from our trip to India in 2010) on Facebook and thought I ought to save it where I can find it again...

Wordle 23

 

My 4th in two, out of 23 games.  It's taken me 6 only one time.

The Pond

Our local pond, a week or so before it was ruined by 15 inches of snow.  Super out-of-practice ice skating, but at least, serviceable. 

 

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Wordle 21 The Symmetry