About 4x the number that will fit on shelves in our library area of same.
This is a job we’ve postponed since moving here. We’ve tried about everything to figure how to sort this mess, but I think Jane is onto it. Three quarters of them have to go (to a library charity) and unfortunately a large proportion of the wrong books are occupying the shelf space. So Jane is clearing about 3 shelves for ‘this has to stay,’ which lets us sort forward and discard as we go.
It’s kind of like lawn mowing tall grass in one sense—that first you have to create a place to set the mower.
It’s a good winter project.
Right now it’s pre-winter gardening. Getting the wisteria trimmed back and the green trash filled before they do the last collection.
Peace, everybody.
My cookbooks are turning into pyramids in my dining room having overflowed the shelf space in the kitchen. The problem with vertical stacking is that I invariably want to look at a book that is near the bottom.
Washington Post – “If humanity survives the rise of artificial intelligence, the ravages of climate change and the threat of nuclear terrorism in the next century, it doesn’t mean we’re home free, according to Stephen Hawking.
The renowned theoretical physicist has gone as far as providing humanity with a deadline for finding another planet to colonize: We have 1,000 years.”
The sky has not fallen yet. I am not yet prepared to join Chicken Little.
I very much want to see us explore space, to get to Mars and colonize it, to become a spacefaring species.
I do recognize the great risk in having all our eggs in one basket on this planet.
But despite the risks of getting out into space and staying. But I think it’s the only way out, ultimately, along with changing how we as a species behave, as difficult and unlikely as that may be.
Sure, I get pessimistic or depressed about the state of humanity sometimes; more often than I want to.
Yet I also have to keep trying to move ahead, to change even my own bad habits, unlikely as that too may be, to make at least my own little corner of the world better.
I don’t want to be negative about our chances as a species or as individuals. There just has to be a better way. We do make progress. People do good things more than gets any attention. … And I have zero control over rocks falling from space, or my local weather or natural hazards, much as I might sometimes wish otherwise. … And really, I have enough of a hard time managing my life as it is, without trying to manage the planet or the cosmos. I would want to correct too many perceived wrongs, I suppose, or make life too much like my persoanl whims, probably more than I’d want to admit.
At any rate, the universe will go on, with or without humans in space. If we cannot get along with each other, or if some catastrophe beyond human control befalls us, then life in the universe will still go on.
Bah, humbug. — I like Tiny Tim better anyway.
We don’t have zero control for rocks falling from space. But you can’t wait for the sky to start falling to do something about it! That’s why the ESA is doimg the Asteroid Impact Mission, AIM, in 2020.
http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Asteroid_Impact_Mission/Asteroid_Impact_Mission2
Restating: I myself have zero control over any natural or man-made phenomena, except those I generate myself; and not always then, either. I do not believe any nation or international consortium or international mega-corporation has any real, sufficient control over such natural phenomena either, including the ability to deflect properly any asteroid or meteor or debris falling in from space.
While I’m glad if the ESA and others are working towards this (a better use for the Star Wars defenses, though that’s unrelated to the ESA mission), still, I don’t think we will have a working shstemin place for a long time to come; years or decades, probably, being generous.
And yes, of course I’d think it’s useful to be able to detect and deflect such things. Park that sucker in orbit at an L5 point, use it as raw materials to build space station parts or ships for Mars missions, or such-like. But all of those are proving much more challenging and error-prone than we’d thought. So…it’s going to take a lot more work to get there.
Also of note, an interplanetary spaceship, much less a station, or an interstellar starship, say, if we get that far, all need deflector methods of some kind to guard against micrometeorites on up to, oh my, that’s a big sucker, ain’t it?
Just a slightly diffent viewpoint or angle, from me.
I fully acknowledge my curmudgeon quotient is far higher than it usually is. Heheh.
K am all for workable solutions off-planet and on-planet, whatever gets us into a good, safe space exploration and colonization program; and whatever keeps us all civil down here on this little ball of earth and water and air we call home.
I am sure I am as prone to that as the next guy, by the way.
I wonder if we’ll get to Mars in the next 25 years. I also expect it’ll take a couple of centuries to get from interplanetary to interstellar exploration, beyond what amounts to a message in a bottle.
It’s a good question why we don’t know of any aliens visiting Earth. Possibly anyoe sensible declared this playpen off-limits until the species grows up. Not that that would at all stop every being from every species from taking a look-se.
Wow, I’m either very brilliant at the moment or very sleep-deprived. I’m guessing the latter. Bed for a while, LOL.
Does writing in two worlds at once not require lots of mental readjustment?
Shejidan site seems to be down.
I can’t get there either.
Hi guys
According to invision service notice board they lost a server earlier today and the comm cluster that supports Shejidan is presently in rebuild. Hopefully it will be back online asap
Notice of intent is being filed
Mule
they’re hoping to have the databases loaded by this afternoon. There was a hardware failure which resulted in a corrupted database, so they’ve repaired the hardware failure and were reloading the databases. This affected several different systems, not just the one Shejidan is using.
Toy Box Tales — It looks like it will be after Thanksgiving, but before Christmas, when I post an update for Robby’s Adventures; for Augie and crew; and possibly something new.
I keep wanting to do something more like a story with photos than a photo story, so I’m likely to try this.
Looking back at what I had posted, I think some redesign is in order, such as for the cast of characters in Augie’s crew and how things fit in. That may appear along with the update, as it seems like a better fit.
* I still have in mind to do a student reading or exercise on Mexican coins from the 1980’s and some from earlier in the 20th century. My photos were not as clear in contrast as they neeeded to be, and well, the thing kept growing, and I kept thinkig of more stuff, which told me I neeeded to do a rethink and startover. It’s coming, but later thanI’d wanted.
Estimated time of restoral is 10:00AM EST, today, Wednesday
Shejidan is back online……