Stephen's Thoughts

Reading this book isn't so much like reading as taking part in a myriad of simultaneous conversations as the characters argue, debate, fall in and out of love, drink champagne in cellar bars, and go dancing till the early hours of the Paris morning.

Antarctica Bound

Seeing a strong LDS symbol overseas, such as this temple, helps me appreciate that LDS leaders have more to consider than just the US when dealing with government policy controversies.

Two kinds of populism. The Peron model: Vote Socialism, tax the producers, redistribute the taxes to a surfeit of crony, unproductive government workers and the abundant poor. The Trump model: Undo the creeping Peronist Socialism advancing rapidly in the US. Uphill climb for DJT and his followers as it appears that a majority of Americans prefer the Peron/Biden populist model.

Three or four days of these types of seas is the cost you have to pay crossing the Drake to see Antarctica.

Celebrate Elon Musk seeking to hedge humanity extinction bets by populating a nearby planet.

To humans, landscapes seem immutable. "Ice-scapes" are ever changing. No human will capture this same image again.

Getting to know some of our fellow cruise goers was an important part of the Austral experience in Antarctica.

The Adélie penguin ( Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is its only habitat.