Virtual Brush Box

Awareness of the outside world. Sample policy. Scintillation: Covid and Con Crud Mitigation Strategy. Summary of recent science on masking. BoingBoing: New study provides the “definitive answer on masks.” They work. Sandlin, May 24, 2024. Hat tip to B for second link.

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Virtual Tevis Cup 2024
100 Miles in 100 Days
10 April to 21 July

Rodney
11 miles this week, 58 miles total
11 outings – 9 handwalks, 2 ride

Milton
10 miles this week, 62 miles total
10 outings – 7 handwalks, 2 rides, 1 drive

Tuesday 21 May to Monday 27 May

Logistics

Tuesday. Milton walk in hand. Rodney got shod in the morning & got the day off. This isn’t as much of a hard & fast rule as it was with Previous Horse (oy!). Still it seemed polite to give him a day to adjust after spending three days shoeless on his delicate TB hoof.

Wednesday – Friday. Walks in hand, Rodney did two afternoon walks extra as catch up from the shoeless period.

Saturday & Sunday. Walk in am. Ride in afternoon.

Monday. Milton hitch. Rodney walk in hand.

Commentary

We have two routes for our walks. Five times back & forth along one long side of the pasture. Or along that side, around the corner, along the short side, return, repeat three times. Although they measure the same distance, the three-lap route seems faster. Perhaps because ya don’t have to count as high.

Lap, length, or loop?

TIL. In swimming, lap = length. A lap is NOT up & back. “In swimming, the term “lap” is used to indicate a single length of the pool.” NBC Olympics: Swimming 101: Olympic rules and regulations, Laps and turns, Goodman, Feb. 26, 2024. This is apparently a common error.

Possible reason for confusion. If you take into account that “Olympic swimming utilizes a “long course” pool, meaning each lap is 50 meters.” (ibid), then one has to swim two lengths of the average pool to equal an Olympic lap. I’m guessing here.

Therefore, our routes are 10 laps and 6 laps.

OTOH

On a track, a lap is once around, starting at point x, returning to point x. We increment our count at the same point each time, as we turn around & head away from the barn once more.

Therefore, our routes are 5 laps and 3 laps.

Lap, length, or loop? Depends. Are we swimming or running?

We have been counting them as 5 and 3 laps. We will continue to do so. I guess we are running.

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Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Serious blog, Schneier on Security, with weekly squid posts, SoS: tag squid. Hat tip to C & B.

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I go to a quilt store.

I buy horse supplies.

No one is surprised.

For Now

Back-up pointy tweezers for tick removal.

For Later

Seam rippers are a great way to undo braids. Am I braiding manes? No. Do I hope to be braiding manes? Yes. This was a purchase of hope.

Homespun Dry Goods
Childersburg, AL USA

Onwards!
Katherine

Book Arts of the outside world. The Met: Emulating Books: Book Objects from the Lynn and Bruce Heckman Gift

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Introduction To Bookmaking
David West
MakeBHM
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Class 1 of 4

The first class was a short introduction, a demo, and then right into playing with paper. Simple, quick books with pamphlet stitch, pictured above.

Slightly fancier kettle stitch.

I’ve made books before, but a) it never hurts to go over basics, b) there is always something new, & c) they provide all the supplies and equipment. No digging everything out and then putting it away when I’m done.

What I learned. While I love making books, I never know what to DO with them. I have so many commercial notebooks with only the first few pages filled in that I am loathe to “waste” my fancy, hand-made book on a project that will sputter partway thru. Instructor suggestion, make books with fewer pages. Fill ’em up. Move on. Make a new book. I am liking this concept. You will notice the dark cover book, the second one I made, has fewer pages.

Also, the weight of paper refers to the weight of 500 sheets of uncut paper. Of course, it’s more complicated than that, “The part that can get confusing when weighing paper in pounds is that not all paper types have the same basis size.” Strathmore: Paper weight: What does it mean?

Onwards!
Katherine

Conversing with the outside world. All Things Linguistic: How to interact with someone who’s just given a talk – A guide to academic conversations. Gretchen McCulloch, 2017. Also applies to non-academic conversations where the power balance is uneven.

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The Solution

Free time imperiled.
Words coiled. Plea! Where in the square?
Brow clears. Found one more.

My entry for Squaredle Poetry Contest 2024 to celebrate the second anniversary of the word game Squaredle. I was not among the finalists. Winners are on the Squardle Discord server. I don’t know of any open access site to see the winners. Titles, authors, & one poem, r/squardle: Announcing the Poetry Contest Winners!! (reddit).

Afterword

Part of the rules were to solve a special Squaredle puzzle and then use 5 words from the found list in your entry, 1 word if the entry was less than 20 words.

I had 15 total words and 6 list words, for an inclusion rate of 40%.

Free time imperiled.
Words coiled. Plea! Where in the square?
Brow clears. Found one more.

I may have the poetic potential of a lima (list word) bean, but I can make words jump through hoops.

Note. This was written before the haiku clarification proved by janpriddyoregon. I intend to implement the suggestions next time. Or try. [Horse Haiku]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. USGS: Stream Ecology. Who lives in your stream? Water Resources Mission Area, 2018.

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Lee Branch
Greystone Commercial Boulevard
Inverness, Alabama USA
May 2024

Photography a small creek as it winds through suburbia. Previous photo taken downstream, across the larger road. The location is hidden by the tree in the top center of this photo. [Tracing The Lee Branch]

Technical Details

Lee Branch GCB, f/11, 1/100 sec., 48.0 mm, ISO 100. Manual mode & auto-focus. Post production: resized, border, & watermark. No cropping.

Border colors. Gray for project, yellow for Nikon. [Photo Safari The First], [Quarry, Photography, Things]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. U. S. News: PHOTOS: at the Pet Gala, Fashion Goes to the Dogs, AP, May 21, 2024.

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POV Jasmine. You are 13-year-old Basset Hound. You have one eye and a wonky back end. It still takes two people to administer your daily eye meds.

You go, girl!

POV Rose. Greenery. Nom. Nom. Nom.

Lore says dogs eat grass when they feel sick in order to throw up. She isn’t sick, doesn’t throw up, and keeps chomping the scenery. Enjoy your salad.

POV supportive spouse. Are you feeling badly? Poor dear. Go buy back-up Covid tests, just in case? I’m out the door. Want to sleep in? I’ll try to be quiet. Clean up after the geriatric dog? Nope, you’re not that sick.

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. “Ugol’s law states that if you ask ‘Am I the only one who…?’ the answer is always no.” Tor.com: Do You Skim, Walton, 2010.

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Rodney is anxious about ridden walks in the pasture. I have no idea why. We started walking in-hand for the first few laps and have now graduated to riding all five. He takes comfort following but thinks Milton walks too slow. Can’t have it both ways, Dude.

Milton is chill. He recognizes that the activity is the same. Five laps (or three if we do the long route) at a walk, on a leadrope, under saddle, or pulling a cart. He seems to appreciate the regularity. This is what we do. He tolerates having to take point during the rides.

Lower the bar? We dug a trench and dropped the bar into it. Given that, Rodney and Milton are clearing the bar. Milton with more panache than Rodney.

Onwards!
Katherine