Good morning.
We’ve a likelihood of snow today, of about an inch, with a high of nineteen. Sunrise this Saturday is 7:21 AM, sunset is 4:50 PM, and the moon is in a waning gibbous phase with 94% of its visible disk illuminated.
Guilty. Image via Wikipedia
Every so often, while film makers are recording penguins, a bird of prey, such as striated caracara, will come along and steal a hidden egg-cam positioned to film the penguins. When that happens, here’s the view of the theft and afterward from the purloined egg-cam:
In the checkered history of public spending, at least this was a good expenditure:
On this day in 1803 [1.18.1803], Thomas Jefferson requests funding from Congress to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Jefferson officially asked for $2,500 in funding from Congress, though some sources indicate the expedition ultimately cost closer to $50,000. Lewis was joined by his friend William Clark and 50 others on the journey, including an African-American slave and a female Indian guide named Sacagawea. The team, which Jefferson called the Corps of Discovery, first surveyed the territory that comprised the Louisiana Purchase, a vast expanse that reached as far north as present-day North Dakota, south to the Gulf of Mexico and stopped at the eastern border of Spanish territory in present-day Texas. The team then crossed the Rockies and navigated river routes to the Pacific coast of present-day Oregon. Upon their return, the duo’s reports of the exotic and awe-inspiring new lands they had encountered sparked a new wave of westward expansion….