diff --git a/2022-02-17.md b/2022-02-17.md index 2c777d9..4ad91ff 100644 --- a/2022-02-17.md +++ b/2022-02-17.md @@ -4,4 +4,32 @@ I *like* modeless [links](#links). It feels like how [footnotes](#footnotes) bui Of course, even the author [elsewhere likes the idea of playing with the function of link text](https://subconscious.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-links). -[This](https://subconscious.substack.com/p/wiki-as-a-commons?utm_source=url) would certainly be of interest to y'all -- considers [commonses](#the commons) and [wikis](#wikis)... \ No newline at end of file +[This](https://subconscious.substack.com/p/wiki-as-a-commons?utm_source=url) would certainly be of interest to y'all -- considers [commonses](#the commons) and [wikis](#wikis)... + +Via [kottke](https://kottke.org/22/02/do-you-know-where-youre-at): + +> In 1981, Coevolution Quarterly published a 20 question quiz written by Leonard Charles, Jim Dodge, Lynn Milliman, and Victoria Stockley that is designed to reveal how well you know your local natural environment. Here are the questions: + +> Trace the water you drink from precipitation to tap. + How many days til the moon is full? (Slack of 2 days allowed.) + What soil series are you standing on? + What was the total rainfall in your area last year (July-June)? (Slack: 1 inch for every 20 inches.) + When was the last time a fire burned in your area? + What were the primary subsistence techniques of the culture that lived in your area before you? + Name 5 edible plants in your region and their season(s) of availability. + From what direction do winter storms generally come in your region? + Where does your garbage go? + How long is the growing season where you live? + On what day of the year are the shadows the shortest where you live? + When do the deer rut in your region, and when are the young born? + Name five grasses in your area. Are any of them native? + Name five resident and five migratory birds in your area. + What is the land use history of where you live? + What primary ecological event/process influenced the land form where you live? (Bonus special: what’s the evidence?) + What species have become extinct in your area? + What are the major plant associations in your region? + From where you’re reading this, point north. + What spring wildflower is consistently among the first to bloom where you live? + + +I feel *emotionally troubled* about how few I can answer! I wonder if anyone else is similarly spurred to put this together for [Seattle](#seattle)... They're obviously not all of equal weight; it's far more embarrassing that I can't tell you the dates of first and last frost than our shortest-shadow date. \ No newline at end of file