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Outside
Seventeen Year Cicadas
Seventeen Year Cicada, midway through transformation
A few days ago, the hatch of Magicicada Brood II began here in Virginia. These are the periodic cicadas on a 17 year cycle. It’s pretty amazing how many there are. They’re everywhere.
They’ve only started tuning up on their “singing” – in another week the noise will be deafening. Almost literally. At close range, a cicada can pump out 120 decibals. That’s enough to do permanent damage to your hearing.
Fiddleheads
End of Life
A term used in the tech industry.
Refers to the moment when additional investment in upgrades no longer makes up for the outdated fundamental underpinnings, and the product is allowed to die a natural death without further intervention.
Metaphorically, also applies to things like ideologies, relationships, and human beings. Indicates it is time to greenbox the old stuff and start over.
It should be noted, however, there is a small but devoted market for this discarded material within certain circles of the salvage culture for those things that have outlived their era.
The Amish, for instance, still use horses to great effect.
Orchards in Bloom
The girls came home from their separate away homes for the weekend. Amanda brought Paul, and we all had a little birthday get together. Storms knocked out the power again Friday night, but we happily made do with grilling and eating by candlelight. When the power finally back on, we just turned out the lights and kept going.
Reprieve
Winter took one last swing at us, then skulked off into the woods. Friday evening was snow flurries and sleet. Saturday was almost 80 degrees. Took only three days for leaves to bust out on the trees.
Found Sound as Remix
Go here:
http://5thingsilearnedtoday.com/blog/2013/3/22/4-sound-recordings-from-around-the-world
- Click Play on a recording from somewhere in the world.
- Wait two or three measures.
- Click Play on another.
- Then perhaps another, so they overlap.
- Listen.
- Report back.