Thursday, November 24, 2022

Well, more likely corn...but...




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  1. Is Long COVID Part Of The Historically Tight Labor Market? Signs Point to Yes. [Click] How big a part isn’t clear, but it is probably millions of workers.

    ---Alan

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  2. Russian Oil Disaster - [Not Enough] Ships to Transport Oil to China & India as European Ban & Price Cap Loom [Click] Early on in the war it was pointed out by geopoliticians that there were simply not enough oil tankers in the world to carry Russia’s oil exports to China and India.

    ---Alan

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  3. Denisovan, Neanderthal and Australian Ancestry Found in Ancient Native Americans [Click] It’s early days in genomic analyses of ancient Native Americans, but this is certainly very interesting.
    ---Qlqn

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    1. Qlqn = Alan's new code name. In the article linked above, note that Austonesian ancestry is not found among ancient natives of North America.

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    2. {listener}

      What does Qlqn stand for?

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    3. It stands for bad aim on the keyboard with the left pinky.
      ---Alan

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  4. It's about 11AM, quality control on the pumpkin pie has been donethe festive bird is in the oven and should be ready about 2:30 PM.
    Very nice weather-- a little hazy, but it promises to be fairly warm in the afternoon.
    ---Alan

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    1. {listener}

      Gorgeous sunshine here!

      We had a simple repast of Wheatloaf, potato, squash and cranberry sauce. (I plumb forgot to cook the peas.) Later we’ll have squash soup and probably break into one of the pies.

      Saving the big meal for Sunday, in hopes that I’m no longer unwell and contagious.

      I sure wish I knew how I got this and what it is. I only know it’s not Covid because I’ve tested 3 times in the last 3 days.

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  5. CNN has called Alaska's House race for the Democrat, although the article doesn't say anything about the actual results of the ranked-choice count. I suspect they are simply saying that Pelota was close enough to 50% on first-place votes that she didn't need many from the rourth- and third-place candidates. But they could have said that the day after the election.

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  6. Mysterious “Archaic Homo Sapiens” Lived in Europe 350,000 Years Ago [Click] More information about that ancient skull found in Greece a while back. Certainly it is farther evolved than Homo erectus, but not yet modern Homo sapiens. (The information about the hollow brow ridge is new to me.) I am skeptical about any human family trees that invoke Homo heidelbergensis, which seems to just be a catch-all term for early Neanderthals. (The type specimen for “H. heidelbergensis” consists of a single jawbone.) I will probably not live to see many Pleistocene hominid remains recovered in the Indian subcontinent, but anticipate that they might be very informative. For now there seems [IMO] to be no truly compelling evidence that H. erectus, neanderthalensis, denisovensis, and sapiens are distinct species— especially if one hews to the old definition of a species as a group that is capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring. Vide Homo bodoensis [Click]

    ---Alan

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  7. A quarter to four here; I figure the turkey can come out of the oven about 4PM, then the dressing in pans goes in, gravy and mashed potatoes get started, and all should be ready to consume by 5PM or so.
    ---Alan

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    1. Bon Apetit and Happy Thanksgiving to you and Miyoko!! 🥧

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  8. Had fresh meat in a stew--deer meat is we call it. Prolly close to what the prilgrims called it, lol!

    Both my kid and his Dad called to wish me happy Thanksgiving.

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  9. Turkey at top of thread was NOT near so fat; wild turkeys are pretty stringy. . . . .

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  10. I was replacing a dish in the china cabinet and realized a particular keepsake wasn't there any more. Fingers crossed that it shows up again some day. While rooting around in a box with various other keepsakes I found something that I thought my brother had taken and probably sold long ago--our great uncle's father's Boer War expeditionary medal. It has three bars for specific campaigns-- Transvaal, Orange Free State, and Natal.

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    1. Anonymous = Alan
      Unfortunately the medal lacks its ribbon.

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  11. Re the caption: The Americans didn't actually feed the undocumented immigrants. They had provided very useful tips on what to grow and how, but these immigrants -- like today's -- were hardworking and mostly managed to grow their own food by harvest time.

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