Aimless Thoughts: Thanksgiving
There’s an inside joke my coworkers have about me, which they’ve always been good about explaining to new hires. Basically, they use me as a thermometer. You know it’s cold if Max is wearing long sleeves. I think it’s overstated, personally. They’re not wrong that I’ve got an unusually high cold tolerance. They’re not wrong that I’ve spent a lot of time outside in short sleeves while it was actively snowing. But that’s only because a lot of the light snowfall we see these days happens when it’s barely below 32. You better believe I wear more than that when I shovel, when there’s high wind, etc etc… It always gets me thinking about the cold. You ever think about how cold the universe is? The universe is so fucking cold that most of the plainly visible regular matter out there is held in literal balls of fire and it’s still cold . Industrialization has ushered in an exceptionally hot era of Earth’s history, but even during an ice age our world go...