Random Thought Thread

Here in Denver, we woke up yesterday with 3" of wet, heavy snow. Generally cooler than we have it this time of year, or even 2 months ago. Very odd with only 3 days until Summer break. I think the pools open this weekend, too. They'll just switch from ice skating to swimming-mode.
 
It's cold here. Usually, by mid May I turn the heat off and set the AC. Not this year. Right now it's 49º and the heat came on.

Latest Conditions
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48°F 9°C
Feels Like 44°F 7°C Humidity 56% Wind S 10 MPH
Dew Point 33°F Visibility 10 mi.
Barometer 29.71 in. 754.6 mm - Rising Slowly
 
I'm in central California and live in a small town that's shown in my avatar. If you average all the hi temps for each month, the average high daily temp for any of the 12 months never exceeds 70. And as I recall, the highest average temp in the hottest month (Oct) reaches only 69.s

Right now (a little after noon) it's 58 (three degrees over ocean temp), low last nite 49.
 
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trevitrace said:
I was going to respond 'because Fibonacci' just for funsies but after looking to see if there was any legitimacy to my silliness I discovered there are theories about hive behavior that can be explained via the sequence.

Who'da thunk it? :D
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Nature is indeed very mysterious but Fibonacci, Pi and some other constants keep showing up in the strangest of places.

As far a bees go (let’s rename them for the sake of our tender Tony and call them Koa!) they’ve somehow figured out that structures shaped as hexagons are the strongest among geometrical structure where all sides are equal and touch without leaving gaps. The other two no gap option structures would be structures shaped as equilateral triangles and also squares.
 
TRfromMT said:
I hate bees. Even round cylindrical ones. I don't care if they follow a 'maybe not so random now that I think about it' pattern, the golden ratio, or anything else. I hate them forever. Even the good ones. They suck.

Did I mention I hate bees? I can hardly bring myself to type the word.
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I don't mind bees ... I'd rather not be putting new windows in and find a huge ass honeycomb in my wall but it happened ... luckily had a guy in the area that has bees and he came and moved them instead of having to kill them ...

now hornets ... well ummm ... I'll just say I could live without them ... they hit me so hard and fast they knocked me off a tractor when I was a teenager ... and I got a handful of stings hunting spring turkey season 5 or 6 years ago ... but I knew enough once they were stirred up to stand behind a big oak tree ... and it sounded like a heavy rain with hundreds of them hitting the tree on a dead strait line to where I fired a shot from ...
 
My aversion (loathing, abject disdain, pure hatred....) to any winged insect that stings is based on me falling into Yellow Jacket's nest when I was 4 or 5 years old, getting stung from head to toe, probably a hundred stings.

To this day, if a Yellow Jacket surprises me I almost break down crying as a grown ass man. I wish there were some kind of hypnosis or something that would help.

Last time I was stung I nearly died in the emergency room. I'm now allergic to them. That's also on my mind.

F*c@ing hate bees.
 
This has to be one of those "like" your post not because I like that you had to go through that ... but just to acknowledge I saw it and understand.

That's not good!!! ... but I totally understsnd my brother is highly allergic to bees ... we always had epi pens and I still carry epi pens anytime he is out with me and keep some at home as he does.

We discovered he was allergic goofing off on the neighbors chickem coop while gathering eggs I was maybe 7 or 8 my brother is 2 years older ...

but we both got stung several times but by the time we ran to the house mom was white and grabbed my brother and ran to the car and off too the ER we went ....so that can't be fun.
 
I lived in Goleta, PRK for 28 years without AC. We were about 1/2 mile from the ocean as the bee flies. In fact, there was one spot in my back yard where I could see the ocean. Several times a year we would get Santa Ana winds and the temperature would rise to 110º plus. It was dry heat.

Supposedly, on June 17, 1859, the temperature in Goleta was 133º. It probably didn't get that high, but it was quite warm.
 
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