Weather

The U.P. had an actual tornado this past week. It was major news. The Marquette Mining Journal has had it as a headline/front page news on their website for multiple days now. This area rarely experiences tornadoes. Granted, it was probably the lowest setting for a tornado, an EF-0, but the National Weather Service says, yes, actual tornado. Based on what was visible on social media, residents closest to the event reacted as though they've been tornado watching in Alabama or Arkansas for decades: lots of video taken by people who decided the best place to be while observing an approaching twister was on their front porch filming it. 

An appropriate graphic. Maybe

 I wanted to use this yesterday but couldn't figure out to do it using my phone. This notebook is a little more user friendly. 

Too many questions

 

 

One for the Ol' Buzzard

April's getting closer

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Speaking of planning

Independence Day

Geology tip

I'm going to remember this tip for the next time we visit the Grand Canyon.

Been there, done that

Any day now

Wondering about one's ancestry

We get a lot of requests at the museum for genealogy research. Every so often I'll end up talking with someone who's gone one step farther than just building family trees and spent money on DNA testing. One of my acquaintances, a sort of cousin, did that and ever since has bored the rest of us with her wondering out loud how she happened to end up with a high percentage of Azkhenazi Jewish genes when she thought the family tree was packed solid with Finnish Lutherans. I don't get the point of obsessing about it, unless she's planning to try to persuade the country of Israel that she's entitled to the right of return, but then I don't understand the simpler obsession with ancestry either. In any case, I figure that if I ever were foolish enough to spend money on DNA testing, this is the type of result I'd get.

Except mine would come back with a significant percentage of border collie instead of beagle.

Online marketing

I keep seeing ads for a "Baby Sale" at Macy's. I know the chain is in financial trouble -- people have lost interest in wandering through department stores so sales are down nationwide -- but didn't think things had gotten so desperate they'd decided to get into human trafficking. And why, I wonder, do the Facebook algorithms think I'm in the market for an infant? Or perhaps a toddler?

I must say the prices seem quite reasonable. Considering how many people there are who are desperate to have children, you'd think the going price would be a little higher. Then again, maybe it's like one of those infomercial deals where the product is totally free but you pay a gazillion dollars for the shipping.

Thought for the day