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This very distinct and showy species of Solanum, with a bell-shaped corolla (an unusual form for a Solanum), will doubtless form an interesting addition to those at present in cultivation. It grows about 2^ feet high (such at least was the height of the plant from which our drawing was taken), and is covered on all sides with sharp setaceous prickles, the greater portion of which are confined to the stem and the calyx. We are doubtful whether this plant be the same which Dr. Brown has described in his Prodromus, and on that account we have not altered the specific name ” campanulatum;”” we should however rather expect it to be different, as he has described the stem of his plant ” caule herbaceo,” and states it to be an annual, whilst ours is certainly suffruticose.
Be sure to also check out my other Morse code game, Morse Codle, a daily Morse code Wordle puzzle.
This is a pair of games for playing with Morse Code. Since the games play the signals as sound, I recommend headphones (wired if possible for the latency) and a low volume. Game options are available towards the bottom.
Looking back over my 58-year lifetime I can see one, large, problem with today’s world. Our systems — governmental, political, economic — have become too slow and unwieldy for the world we live in. Despite their slow evolution over time, reality has far outpaced these systems’ ability to accommodate and react to the largest problems we face. We see this every day now, it seems. Whether we are talking about our reactions to the COVID Pandemic, January 6th Insurrection, Climate Change, or the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we see events quickly overrunning our ability to cope and react in a rational, yet quick, way.
Long term solutions when rapid solutions are necessary
Looking at Ukraine especially, our immediate responses were appropriate but fail to provide much, if any, relief in the meantime. Sanctions can help. Weapons and other aid can help, but these take time, energy — and often, politics — before they have their greatest effect. Meanwhile, people die. Our ability to react to this single, important, fact is a horrendous failure.
It is 2022 and we are still at a loss about how to handle a rogue leader or country who is determined to wage war on another country. With Ukraine, we are looking at a duplicate of Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. One leader, along with a fraction of the people, decides that their lives are worth more than others and will risk ant costs to achieve their goals. That invasion quickly led to the genocide of entire populations.
Yet, here we are. Our attempts at diplomacy — like Chamberlain’s — have failed because the aggressor cares nothing for sovereignty or human rights. Like any great bully, they will continue escalating their attacks until they are stopped. We have seen this all before, and yet we are making the same mistakes again.
One would hope that we had developed new, effective, ways of stopping war, but instead, our systems grind out the same solutions at the same slow pace. A vote here. A condemnation there. An economic sanction applied. It is frustrating to me — and deadly to the world.
It isn’t just the large things
While life and death situations are certainly the most pressing, we experience similar failures on a very personal level. The January 6th Commission continues to hold hearings over a year since the insurrection, and some individuals have been held responsible for their crimes, be we still don’t see the deep, fundamental, change we need to see in addressing the insurrection and the deep causes of division in the country.
We can talk all we want, but action is needed now. Leaders are needed now. As a people and country, we cannot wait. As a world, we cannot wait and those dying around the world cannot wait.
We can’t even seem to act against the smallest — yet costly — annoyances of our daily lives. We are bombarded with spam, lose our privacy to surveillance, and allow corporatism to control our lives in ever-increasing ways.
Laws are slow to be proposed, slow to debate, and slow to pass. In some cases, topics cannot even be discussed because politicians find them too toxic to their re-election. So, to ensure they keep their job, the problems continue. Too often, change is slow or stopped by relatively few people instead of serving the democratic majority, as intended. Our current systems seem almost designed to prevent progress and leadership instead of aiding them.
Governing for the future should be done by those who will live in it
Another aspect of this slowing is the relative age of those who are supposed to represent us. When a representative of any form is no longer able to understand the realities of how our modern world operates they become a detriment to the system. In the case of the Internet, for example, we have people with no clear understanding of how it works overseeing it. Even at age 58, I can clearly see where many in Congress today have fundamental knowledge better suited to 1962 than 2022. Yes, certain truisms remain in business and government, but most are thrown on the scrap heap in a decade or so. Yet, many still hold onto the ideologies of when they were first elected. This serves no one well — especially future generations, who will have to live in this stagnated, slow-moving, world.
In the coming days, weeks, and years, we need leaders who will attack our moribund systems, but national and globally, and develop them into systems that can react both quickly and over the long term. Otherwise, it is very possible that the long term won’t be a world worth living in.
THE WORLD IS SHIFTING focus again now, toward opening up this time, several months after much shutting down. But as we do, I for one hope we won’t go too fast–or turn too quickly away from awareness of the solace that the garden has provided and that it offers for us at all times, bad or good.
Adrian Higgins has been taking note of that in various ways in his columns for “The Washington Post” throughout the strangest and most chaotic of springs, exploring the garden as an anchor, a support. In his longtime role as gardening columnist there, Adrian always inspires readers to connect.
I was so pleased to speak with Adrian, whose thoughtful work has inspired me for years. He delves beyond just horticulture and great plants—though always serving up plenty of both—regularly exploring stewardship of the environment, and even matters of the spirit. That’s his mask on the fence post at his community garden plot above (photograph by Adrian Higgins).
Read along as you listen to the June 22, 2020 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).
The ways we respond to adversity can tell us a lot about ourselves. In times of uncertainty, chaos, or distress, we have the option to despair or to rally. The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of those times, and it has brought on acute challenges. The world went into lockdown, and our plans were thrown into turmoil. Many of us, myself included, struggled with a sense of powerlessness, feeling like the world was out of control with no end in sight. Then, much like after a forest fire, we started to see green shoots sprouting up: individuals who took action to make something great out of something terrible. People began collecting masks for healthcare workers. They joined with their communities to build learning pods. They started to create new companies, connect to new groups, and follow their passions.
A fence is a practical solution for creating a border between your yard and your neighbor’s or just delineating a space on your property. It can also be a finishing touch to any green space. Some fences are purely functional, and others are works of art. Whether you need to keep pests from feasting on your plants or you want to erect an architectural masterpiece to showcase your garden, here are ten garden fence ideas for your green space.
Angularis is a Tetris-like stacker game, but with shapes based on triangles instead of squares. You can rotate shapes left and right and move them horizontally and diagonally. This powers some crazy new moves.
Welcome to my series documenting life on our 66-acre Vermont homestead, which we moved to in May 2016 from urban Cambridge, MA. Wondering about the financial aspects of rural life? Check out: City vs. Country: Which Is Cheaper? The Ultimate Cost Of Living Showdown as well as my monthly expense reports.
By techiq@welchwrite.com (Douglas E. Welch) on Mar 21, 2022 03:28 pm
Masks are all well and good when it comes to reducing the spread of deadly pathogens, but they can make it harder to understand people when they speak. They also make lipreading impossible. [Kevin Lewis] set about building something to help.
The system consists of a small screen that can be worn on the chest or other part of the body, and a lapel microphone to record the wearer’s speech. Using the Deepgram AI speech recognition API running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, the system decodes the speech and displays it on the Hyperpixel screen.
Lately, I’ve been in the market for a houseplant to add some life to my small apartment bathroom. My two requirements: It must be able to survive in the windowless and humid atmosphere of a Manhattan bathroom, and it can’t be too spiky (lest I accidentally bump into it after a shower). I’ve finally found the perfect solution: the button fern. These petite houseplants have soft, velvety leaves and thrive in humidity. Here’s what you need to know before adopting your own button fern.
Rosanne has alwasy had a penchant for decluttering the house. Myself , less so, but as we get older we are paying more attention to clutter that we can easily get rid of. As I have transiitoned out of day-to-day computer work, I have been reducing my collection of backup tech to the bare minimum. I only really need 1 extra monitor, jsut in case we have a failure, but the reast, the oldest, get put out for the next thrift pickup or taken to ewaste. This applies to cables, too. I regularly purge older cables that we no longer need, maybe retaining one or two for backup purposes but not an entire box. — Douglas
The term “Swedish death cleaning” may raise some eyebrows considering these three words aren’t commonly used in the same sentence.
However, if you’re in search of a way to declutter the stuff your loved ones have left behind or looking to make the decluttering process easier on your loved ones when you pass, Swedish death cleaning may be just the thing to help.
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