Thursday, December 13, 2012

∏º Celcius

They haven't cleared all the walking surfaces at Como Park yet. The snow is still making walking there a little difficult, but I did a little of it this afternoon. After all the sun was shining and the temperature was nearly πº C. That's somewhere between 37º F. and 38º F., a fairly nice day in December in Minnesota. Not enough to turn the water on the lake back into its liquid form, but who's complaining.

I trudged around for a while on my seven decade old lower limbs, noticing that the geese have gone away. I think they like at least a little open water for take offs and landings. I noticed, in the deep snow along the lake, bicycle tracks. Thick winter tired bike tracks where even trudging was difficult. Some guy must have been in need of extra exercise, because that path is on no one's path to work. Or maybe he was just showing off. I wish I had a photo of his passing by, but he was gone. And the trail itself doesn't make for much of a photo. Instead I took a picture of these two benches, sitting side by side by the lake, one of which hasn't been used since at least last Saturday.


A white Christmas is nearly assured in the Saintly City this year.

I found an interesting site on the internet, where one can spend endless hours in the interest of science.  It allows people with a little extra time to look at photos taken in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania with cameras that are triggered by motion detectors.  All you have to do is recognize the animals in the photos and report their number on the site.  It's called Snapshot Serengeti.  Lots of zebras and gazelles with an occasional lioness or elephant.

7 comments:

Retired Professor said...

Fat bikes are a big thing in bicycling these days. They're not actually fat bikes, but the tires are. Very fat, very low pressure tires. Used most commonly for snow biking. They've been around a while, but just recently caught on with the masses.

Lovely bench photo -- though it looks kinda cold to be bench sitting.

Retired Professor said...

Oh, yeah. Pi degrees is pretty funny. I think I may jog pi miles tomorrow.

Jimi said...

If you jog π miles, are you going in a circle?

Santini said...

Laughing...

Pretty much. The diagonal of a square involves a square root, and I'm not up for that.

Wicked Witch of the Midwest said...

Now, square roots is a concept I understand and see the applicability of. Oh, wait. When is the last time I needed to figure out a square root for a practical reason? Never. I guess I need to hang out with other English majors (where are the metaphors for those benches?).

Jimi said...

Bench metaphor? How about this?

The rational left bench, is unused, the one used to sit and compute pi, while the intuitive right bench was used to enjoy the wintry view.

That's all I've got for now.

Retired Professor said...

I use the square root function almost as often as I use Pi. Butternut lies at a diagonal, running SE/NW. Other streets intersect it forming lots of right triangles, with the opportunity to use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine the length of the hypotenuse. Maybe that's why biking is good for the brain.