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The Catskills, Mt. Tremper Fire Tower & Onteora Lake
This post is only about a month and a half late, but we're glad it's finally here.
Back on Memorial Day Weekend, Megan and I along with Sam and Melissa headed into New York's Catskills Mountains for some camping, hiking, and just plain-old outdoor relaxation.
Aside from the 4+ hour drive through Memorial Day Traffic, we eventually arrived at our weekend's campground, Kenneth L Wilson Campground.
The campground was small, and there wasn't much to do actually at the campground. But the campsites were well spaced apart, aside from not much vegetation between them.
We lucked out with some decently quiet neighbors, albeit a one night of shenanigans involving alcohol and smelly drugs weren't all too pleasant when trying to go to bed, thankfully it was only one of the nights.
We awoke Saturday morning and planned what we thought was a 3-mile hike up and down Mount Tremper to its fire tower, but this turned out more like 6-7 miles. It was actually a beautiful hike and wasn't terribly steep.
I was too chicken to climb up the fire tower, I have awful balance and coordination issues when I have a fear of falling, so I opted to hang out at the bottom and chat with the tower keeper who was hanging out at the top and unlocked the fire tower so people could enjoy the view.
After the hike, we headed back to camp and made some delicious foil-wraps. I'm still trying to convince Megan to do a camp-cooking youtube channel.
Sunday was a late morning, and a short actual 3-mile hike around Onteora Lake, I wish I had brought the kayak because this lake looked amazing, we saw some beaver houses (hotels, condos, townhomes, dens, what are they actually called?)
And right as we were leaving we stumbled upon a deer stair straight at us, I snagged a pretty sweet slow motion shot of it in the video above.
Back at camp, we made tortilla pizzas, which has now become a new requirement on all camping trips and played a few hands of Quiddler which I now know I am awful at.
That night, Sam and Melissa opted to pack up and leave because of the pending torrential rain the next morning, and we opted to stay because our gear does a bit better in the rain.
Of course, we awoke to exactly that, torrential rain, so we packed up quickly, and then drove the 3-4 hours home to end an otherwise perfect weekend.
Catch us in a few weeks as we head to Vermont.
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Pyrrosia angustissima (Giesenh. ex Diels) Tagawa & K.Iwats.
Pyrrosia angustissima (Giesenh. ex Diels) Tagawa & K Iwats, Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 26: 171. 1975; Ravensb. & Hennipman, Leiden Bot. Ser. 9: 297, f. 1 d,m,t, 2.b,k. 1986; Tagawa & K.Iwats., Fl. Thailand 3: 493, f. 50.1–2. 1989; Boonkerd & Pollawatn, Pterid. Thailand: 285. 2000. – Niphobolus angustissimus Giesenh. ex Diels in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1(4): 326. 1899, based on Polypodium angustissimum Baker, Ann. Bot. 5: 472. 1891, non Fée 1869. – Saxiglossum angustissimum (Giesenh. ex Diels) Ching, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 10: 301. 1965.
Rhizome long creeping, up to 1 mm or more diam., densely scaly throughout; scales narrowly oblong-subdeltoid with long-tailed apex and round base, entire, up to 5 mm long including the tails which are more than half the length, up to 0.7 mm broad, pale brown to brown with dark central portion. Fronds simple. Stipes indistinct or up to 2 cm long, densely scaly at base, stellate hairy or glabrescent. Laminae monomorphous, linear, round to moderately acute at apex, gradually narrowing towards base, involute, up to 12 cm by 4 mm, thick-leathery, sparsely stellate-hairy above, densely covered with short-armed stellate hairs as well as wooly hairs beneath, the margin usually broad and involuting to form a broad flap on the ventral side covering the sori in their early stage of development; veins hardly visible, forming loose anastomosis without free included veinlets. Sori elongate, at midway between midrib and margin of laminae, usually covered by the involute margin of laminae .
Distribution in Thailand
SOUTH-WESTERN: Kanchanaburi.
Wider Distribution
Warm part of China and Taiwan.
Epiphytic, very high on dead trees in deciduous or evergreen forests, 700–1150 m alt.
Proposed IUCN Conservation Assessment
Least Concern (LC). This species is widespread and not under any known threat.
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Penn State Altoona's Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology program (EMET) just expanded with the purchase of four FANUC industrial grade automation robots.
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Drawing the Soul Toward Truth: The Math of Ancient Greece
In my previous posts on the history of math, one theme that came up repeatedly was that the same mathematical ideas arose again and again in different periods and in different cultures. Classic examples of this include the decimal system of numeration, the concept of zero, the basic operations, and even more advanced ideas such as the Pythagorean theorem.Read more →
Algebra and Restoration
In the final chapter of The Crest of the Peacock, Joseph explores the mathematical contributions of the Islamic world, covering the eighth through the thirteenth centuries. One of the central players in this history was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, who was born in present day Iraq around 780.Read more →
Kerala and the Case for Transmission
Last week I wrote about ancient Indian math, which George Gheverghese Joseph covers in the eight and ninth chapters of The Crest of the Peacock. In the tenth chapter Joseph turns his attention to Kerala, on the southwestern tip of the Indian subcontinent.Read more →
What the Ancient Indians Knew
In the eighth and ninth chapters of The Crest of the Peacock, George Gheverghese Joseph turns his attention to the mathematical history of India.Read more →
Good Mathematicians Use Counting Rods
In my previous posts on The Crest of the Peacock by George Gheverghese Joseph, I summarized the mathematical developments of several pre-Colombian American cultures and of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures.
In the case of the former, it was clear that the math that developed there did so in isolation. In the case of the latter, we can trace clear connections with the West. China, where the book next turns its focus, is more ambiguous.Read more →
From Egyptian Frustums to Babylonian Sexagesimal
Before diving into the mathematics of the ancient Egyptians, here's an important question: Were they African? Let's check a map:
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When Clyde Died
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Math Before Math Was Math
For many people, the basic story of the history of mathematics is that Greeks came up with a bunch of cool stuff, it was forgotten for a long time, and then Europeans rediscovered Greek knowledge and ran with it from the Renaissance onward. But maybe that's not exactly right.Read more →
The Books I Read in 2018
I only finished a handful of books this year. I've listed them below, along with a few thoughts that I took away. There were also a few children's books that stuck out to me, and so I've listed those, too.Read more →
Where Our Donations Went in 2018
I know it seems arrogant to tell other people about your own charity. Not only am I bragging about having a few extra dollars to give away, but I'm even more superior because I'm using it to feed the hungry! Or cure malaria! Or whatever! For a couple reasons, though, this is a risk I'm willing to take.Read more →