Harold Asmis @hasmis@social.cleverlibre.org

#physics **Indoor air quality** For those being forced to go back to work. From the experience of my neighbours, you'll be back sick from covid a week later. I am impressed with a new generation of air quality monitors, at about $40 cdn. Quite the competition, so it will be going down.
I had the dubious honour of being in the first of the 'new wave' efficient office buildings in the 70's. Many people had to quit their jobs because they got so sick. For huge floor of 500 people, they recycled all the air through cheap filters, and had an opening of less than a sq ft for fresh intake. It was a soup of disease.

#physics #weather **Empty Arctic gets attacked by sharks** The pattern this year has been for the Arctic to fill, like a pool, with extremely cold air, and then spill it all out in high-velocity channels. Now it is empty, and all the plumes are coming in. We don't know if it will start the filling process again.

@Iwillyeah @rastinza When we can we use ripe tomatoes and mix in other surplus veggies, like zucchini. Then we puree it all with a hand blender.

#physics #weather **California** Just to admit I was wrong, the big storms in the Pacific are still forming, but the path is now to Alaska. This brings Toronto a lot of NW clippers, very cold. However, the rain all bypasses callie, and they can be dry again. The mechanism is that the Arctic cold air well seems to have emptied again, and cold air through the Bering Str. isn't pushing down the storms.
The Europe cold air streams seem to be done, but that might just bring in the 60 below Siberian stuff.

ps.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/01/entering-resting-phase.html

I like my predictions.

**Going into resting phase now** As someone just said, you use up all your juices and need to rest. The Great Story can go on without me for a while.

@hjcksn What they now call 'absolute sea level' is not rising. That's the measured level from the centre of the Earth. What everybody is in a snit about is 'local sea level' which they have shortened to just 'sea level'. It is important in geophysics to know the difference. There are lots of places in the world that are sinking, due to tectonic forces. This causes the 'sea level' to rise. There are lots of places that are rising.

#physics #weather **A bit more on the blog** I am giving up on the California report, and maybe, Europe.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/01/calicanes-have-convection-to.html

@EggKnees @MrsDi @edutooters And then we made little jets from computer cards, and shot them with elastics through an open window, at the passersby. Extra point for impact! I mean, really, walking by an engineering building -- what do you expect. We ran very fast. Computer cards were banned after that. :)

@EggKnees @MrsDi @edutooters Oh, that happens all the time.

**Tech problems** My neighbours are very active 80+ and own a Mazda 3. It's a fob arrangement like my Toyota. The same as everybody, when one fob runs out of battery juice, they just go to the other one. Now, suddenly no fob works and they run to me. I showed them the key thing. Yeah! Then I took the fob apart (nasty) and the coin battery was bizarre, not in my collection. I had to do the overnight thing with ammie. Anyway, she comes running back with --there's no key thingy for the engine and trunk. So, you have to hold the dead fob real close to the ignition switch, and make sure the car is unlocked to open the trunk. whew!

**Madonna goes on tour, doesn't destroy the world** Unlike *some* people we know.

@EggKnees @MrsDi @edutooters Half the class had HP calculators with Reverse Polish notation, vs. Texas Instruments. Such huge fights between rich and poor. The slide rule had great errors with decimal places. :)

ps. The last big creative cycle had all the monopolies collapsed - Fairchild, Xerox, IBM, att, government, etc. Right now, all the monopolies are super-powerful.

@Xna_NaJu @academicchatter @academicalnerd @academicsunite @academicworld Yes, we should strive to be totally ridiculous...

#physics Longer paper on our sad state of 'creative destruction'.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/01/incremental-improvement.html

@Xna_NaJu @academicchatter @academicalnerd @academicsunite @academicworld All typos are a copyright thing.

@Xna_NaJu @academicchatter @academicalnerd @academicsunite @academicworld It's one of those 'homan chaos' things.

@kateslade Are you going on to post-post doc?