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Today’s activities: Running: 6.77 miles (10.9 km), burning 1261 calories Walking: burning 173 calories Eating: took in 2413 calories Goal: net 2330 calories at most

Wellness Journal for January 3, 2020

Over the winter break, I have picked up my little muon detector data side project that started in the spring term of 2020. A few days ago, I remarked on how I wanted to take account of “weather” in the data – variations around a daily expectation given seasonal conditions […]

Muon Weather and Seasons

It’s December 29, it’s about 60F outside, and I had a fantastic 7-mile run today. It’s been rough-going for outdoor exercise lately, with the weather conditions swinging between the 30s and the 60s, but today’s running conditions were just perfect. My mile times are terrible, owing to fact that despite […]

Good run

I am spending some time playing around with the cosmic ray muon data from an instrument in the SMU Physics Department. That instrument is located in the basement hallway of Fondren Science Building. I already setup a “dashboard” of information derived from the instrument, available here: https://blog.smu.edu/saso/projects/muon-observatory/. If you want […]

Muon Weather: Fun with a Muon Detector, Analysis Code, and …

Documenting the Failures of Collin County Health and Political Leadership

It is important to know that you are not alone. For months, I have watched as public health information was stripped from the Collin County COVID-19 dashboard. It now consists of little more than the number of hospitalizations … which, of course, have grown tremendously in the months since this […]

Documenting the Failures of Collin County Health and Political Leadership

“Ring-a-round the rosie … “ The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn won’t be this visually stunning until the 2080s, when Jodi and I will both be long dead. The skies are clear over North Texas, and we resolve to take out our telescope and setup in a nearby park […]

Ashes, Ashes

The coronavirus has continued to burn through the United States. Americans divided and unable to agree on even basic science-based measures to mitigate the pandemic, have been dry kindling to this slow, patient, steady forest fire of infection. A large segment of the population has chosen to live in ignorance, […]

COVID journal: Day 269

Scenes from Thanksgiving VII

Scenes from Thanksgiving VI

Scenes from Thanksgiving V

Scenes from Thanksgiving IV

Scenes from Thanksgiving III

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