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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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¶Loaded Jonathan up and started home early this morning. Those crazy Harvard kids....
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¶I’ve been picking up found pennies for years, I think ever since I saw Grease for the first time when I was a teenager. Generally, I don’t believe in luck, especially as something that is a necessary result of some random event like finding a penny. But, like clockwork, I pick up every penny I find. I can’t help myself.
¶find a penny, pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck
¶I actually found one this morning in the parking lot outside my office. Autopilot kicked in; I picked it up, recited the rhyme above in my head, shoved it into my pocket, and went into work.
¶Later in the day I pulled the penny out as I reached for my keys. I suppose I had good luck today, all day long, though it’s hard to tell. I did have an idea, though. From now on, starting with this particular penny, I’m going to keep all found pennies together.
¶Why not.
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¶In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House and Senate have passed by unanimous consent a bill that would give the chief of the US Capitol Police unilateral control to ask for support from the National Guard or federal law enforcement in the event of an emergency.
¶Please tell me they titled this bill the Trump is the Reason (TREASON) Act of 2021.
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¶I arrived at the Charleston airport a few hours before my flight today, which means I listened to A few hours of Christmas music while watching planes takeoff and land, between emails and other work. It was surprisingly not annoying.
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¶According to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, this group — commonly known as the “nones” — now constitutes 29% of American adults. That’s up from 23% in 2016 and 19% in 2011.
¶“If the unaffiliated were a religion, they’d be the largest religious group in the United States,” said Elizabeth Drescher, an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University who wrote a book about the spiritual lives of the nones.
¶The nones are growing, thankfully.
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¶It certainly feels good to travel again…delays and all. Delta cancelled my flight from Atlanta to Detroit, so now I have to spend a few hours in the Atlanta airport. But, that’s alright…I can watch the Wings game I thought I would miss.
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¶There are some benefits to an early flight.
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¶We used to call morning flights “early morning airport missions” when the boys were young, in an attempt to make it easier to get them out of bed and on the way in the morning of a travel day. I’m on an early morning airport mission today, by myself unfortunately.
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¶I’ve let Daystream go before, and I missed it. I don’t want that to happen again.
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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¶I’m still not entirely sure what the so-called metaverse is, but I know one thing — I don’t want Facebook to control it.
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¶Yes, vaccine inequality is “a key reason for the emergence of the new omicron variant,” but vaccine hesitancy shares part of the blame, too. And this report ignores the possibility that the Omicron variant originated in another country and was merely first detected in South Africa. It’s entirely possible that the biological origin of this variant lies in a country where hesitancy to take the shot has stalled vaccine uptake despite widespread availability. I expect we’ll see more reports like the Dutch study that came out earlier this week, showing the presence of the Omicron variant within a country before the initial reports from South Africa.
¶Vaccine inequality is a major problem, but so is vaccine hesitancy.
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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¶I might need to alter my morning routine a bit in the coming years.
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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¶Teddy is a bit of a moving target these days–he’s still a young pup! I’m not sure why he was so calm this afternoon, but I was thankful to snap this pic of him on the couch with Renee while this little respite lasted.
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¶It’s ❌ichigan day!
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¶High noon on Thanksgiving: “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.” We left the house to drive to Thanksgiving dinner just in time to catch it on the radio.
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¶I’m pretty sure typewriters don’t spy on typists.
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¶”…the mission is essentially target practice.”
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¶Nice - electric boats are coming, too.
¶I spent a lot of time on an inland lake in Michigan as a kid, and can still see the film of gasoline that always seemed to spread behind our old Evinrude…and to which no one paid any attention. Boat people can connect with this visual because they’ve all seen it. I bet electric outboards will be well received once widely available and affordable.
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¶As well as a stunning technical achievement, the project and world record runs provided important data for our future electric power and propulsion systems for all-electric urban air mobility and hybrid-electric commuter aircraft. The characteristics that ‘air-taxis’ require from batteries, for instance, are very similar to what was developed for the ‘Spirit of Innovation’.
¶Development of electric planes seems to be moving along quite a bit faster than I though. And it seems like the technology will grow the field, enabling urban air-taxis.
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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