Notes From The Cave

There is something oddly satisfying about opening a mail app and finding no email. I think it is related to some form of PTSD of seeing spam.

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The regional round of the 2023 NCAA men’s ice hockey tournament was too predictable. Except for Cornell upsetting Denver, all higher seeds won each game. The games on Friday, including Michigan Tech versus Penn State, were blowouts, suggesting a huge difference between the top eight and bottom eight seeds in the tournament and over all in college hockey. The Frozen Four will be on April 6, Minnesota plays Boston University at 5 PM, Quinnipiac plays Michigan at 8:30 PM, the winners play each other for the national championship at 8 PM on April 8. I don’t know what it means, but Michigan Tech beat Boston University in early January.

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Populations are shrinking, but what does it mean over time?

Each month, Russia’s population diminishes by around 86,000 people (not including casualties from the war in Ukraine), Japan’s by around 50,000, and Italy’s by at least 20,000.

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The 2023 NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey tournament starts today at 2 PM with Boston University Playing Western Michigan, Michigan Tech played both these teams, beat Boston University and lost to Western Michigan. In the games I am interested in, Minnesota State plays St. Cloud State at 5 PM and Minnesota plays Canisius at 9 PM. Michigan Tech plays Friday at 5 PM. Go Huskies!

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I watched the final of the World Baseball Classic last night, and the semi-finals the days before. All the games we really exciting and bring good energy to the start of the baseball season. I know this will never happen due to obvious reasons, but I wonder whether the games would be better if they were played later in the season or at the end when presumably all the players are at the top of their game. Japan’s pitching really dominated. Happy that Kyle Schwarber had that big hit in the eighth inning to give us a chance, but up to that point it looked like the USA was completely out of the game.

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My social network for two is called text messaging. Lots of prior art here, I think. Others might use Signal, Slack or even MS Teams. Heck, email works.

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Just this past Wednesday I found myself in a conversation about what is woke and what is anti-woke, as the person who I was talking to didn’t understand. I think anti-woke as it is being used is easier to define. Basically, whenever someone is claiming they are anti-woke they mean they oppose the enforcement of beliefs upon themselves or others. For some it’s simply the label for ideas they don’t agree with or norms/rules they don’t want to abide by. I think at the root of this issue is a decrease in tolerance for each other. As an example, one side may say one must use proper pronouns in reference to a person, the other side says that one must not be forced to use certain words or have to listen to one other’s beliefs because listening is the same as indoctrination. There is no effort made to meet in the middle because each side wants their way, one side says they are just being polite, the other side says they are just using common sense.

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This YouTube video of A History of Rock in Guitar Riffs from 1965 to now is really cool.

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I expect the Silicon Valley Bank collapse is going to be quickly politicized. Before we get to who is doing what wrong, there should be an attempt to explain to the average American why it matters to them. These situations keep coming across as simply bail outs for rich people making mistakes, at the expense of the average person, and while that is true some times, it is not true all the times.

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Last night we had thunder and lightning during the snow storm, our first experience of thunder snow. Endured several brief power outages while trying to watch college playoff hockey. (Let’s go Tech!) Woke up to see some of our bushes crushed and several trees with branches forced low due to weight of the wet snow.

To say it’s been a weird winter is an understatement.

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