Midweek Memes

Embracing Unpredictability

Ahh but perhaps more people simply noticed the portal after 2020…

I thought this map of Ebola hotspots overlayed with arsenic exposure sites (from gold mining) was interesting.

I saw eight cats. There’s probably more depending on creative you are in what looks like a cat and how much you’ve had to drink…

Here’s to embracing the present moment in all of its glory…

I did use an AI summary to make the maths easier here. At current prices versus the 1 gram each crisp US$100 bill weighs, it’s $50 million versus $68 million for gold. But how easy is the latter to transact with daily?

I went through this exactly on the US Visa scheduling website: I was provided with this crazy password of non alpha numeric code which only worked as the password if it was copy and pasted in directly from the original intake email. Any attempt to type it in manually came back as invalid password. I even tried pasting from a Google AI summary and still it didn’t recognize it.

That’s a gentle reminder that computers don’t think like us, or, for that matter, think at all.

It’s definitely been a back to nature time lately. The gentle waves seem to provide great healing. I suppose I have heard about the World Cup going on, being hosted primarily in the US, with some games also in Mexico and Canada. Most Americans don’t even know what that is. I’m hoping the visa woes players, staff and fans are having to visit the USA (and some resultant bad press) is ultimately helpful to my husband’s cause.

With the official USA 250 Jubilee celebration right around the corner, though, Trump could use a ceasefire on any terms and call it a W no matter what it says. I as always pray for peace.

It looks like the reseeding efforts on the Nai Yang coral reef are paying off a bit. I covered the die off in late 2024 with updates in 2025.

What Happened to the Coral Reef?

Now there is official information on it, with the coral die off mostly blamed on (you guessed it) climate change. Now it wasn’t abnormally hot when the coral reef died suddenly around early November of 2024. There was, however, an extreme amount of rainfall in September of 2024, even for monsoon season in Phuket. Could it have caused excessive storm and sewage runoff with a weeks long delayed reaction? Maybe.

They are now officially calling the Nai Yang Coral Reef a Coral Cemetary. Then again with plans to renovate Sirinat National Park and install a rolling pier, would they really want the coral reef growing like it was before?

Perhaps life finds a way…

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