It's Hot as Hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. Or something like that. It has been a relatively nice, mild, wet, cloudy spring. Tomorrow is the first official (not full) day of summer, and today we are being beaten down by oppressive heat. Temperatures in the middle 90s, but the humidity is really high, the heat-index for Georgetown on the evening news was reported to be 111 degrees. Not as bad as Bastrop, where it feels like 118 degrees. It's Hot as Hell. Otherwise, we are all happy to have air conditioning, and we totally expect the set records this year for energy (particularly electric) consumption. There are lots of people moving to Austin and to Texas, so there is increasing demand on those resources. But, I also expect we will all do what we need to do, we just kind of hope we can avoid the rolling blackouts. On a positive note, you should set your recorders for Dr. Pimple Popper, tonight at 9 (CDST).Nexus -- Noun. 1. a connecting point or link. also a casual link. 2. a connected group or series. 3. center, focus. "Newfield's research grows out of his ongoing work at the nexus of the humanities and public policy." Jim Logan, The Current (University of California-Santa Barbara), August 31, 2017
Did You Know? Nexus is all about connections. The word comes from nectere, a Latin verb meaning "to bind." A number of other words are related to nectere. The most obvious is connect, but annex (meaning "to attach as an addition," or more specifically "to incorporate into a political domain") is related as well. When nexus came into English in the 17th century, it meant "connection." Eventually, it took on the additional meaning of "connected series" (as in "a nexus of relationships"). In the past few decades it has taken a third meaning: "center" (as in "the trade nexus of the region"), perhaps from the notion that a point in the center of an arrangement serves to join together the objects that surround it.
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