Kraken Permits -- For Calendar Year 2020 -- As Of Mid-November 2020 -- November 14, 2020

Note: in a long note like this, there will be content and typographical errors. If this is important to you, go to the source. 

A reader noted that Kraken had no active rigs in North Dakota.

I replied with this bit of good news. Kraken has a number of new permits in 2020.

January 14, 2020	37340	L	Kraken	Littlefoot LW 25-36 2TFH	MNT	Sanish
January 14, 2020	37341	L	Kraken	Bigfoot LS 23-22 2TFH	MNT	Sanish
January 14, 2020	37342	L	Kraken	Littlefoot LW 25-36 1H	MNT	Sanish
January 14, 2020	37343	L	Kraken	Bigfoot LS 23-22 8H	MNT	Sanish
January 14, 2020	37344	L	Kraken	Bigfoot 23-11 6TFH	MNT	Sanish
January 14, 2020	37345	L	Kraken	Bigfoot 23-11 5H	MNT	Sanish
February 5, 2020	37360	L	Kraken	Wallace 7-6 5H	WMS	Oliver
February 5, 2020	37361	L	Kraken	Wallace 7-6 4H	WMS	Oliver
February 5, 2020	37362	L	Kraken	Wallace 7-6 3H	WMS	Oliver
February 5, 2020	37363	L	Kraken	Wallace 7-6 1H	WMS	Oliver
February 26, 2020	37414	L	Kraken	Redfield Central 24-13 2H	WMS	Lone Tree Lake
February 28, 2020	37443	L	Kraken	Redfield Central LW 24-13 1H	WMS	Lone Tree Lake
March 12, 2020	37441	L	Kraken	Cass 9-4 5H	WMS	Oliver
March 12, 2020	37442	L	Kraken	Cass 9-4 4H	WMS	Oliver
March 12, 2020	37443	L	Kraken	Cass LW 9-4 1H	WMS	Oliver
March 12, 2020	37444	L	Kraken	King 8-5 4H	WMS	Oliver
March 12, 2020	37445	L	Kraken	King 8-5 3H	WMS	Oliver
May 13, 2020	37572	L	Kraken	Raymond 21-16 2H	WMS	Oliver
May 13, 2020	37573	L	Kraken	Raymond LW 21-16 1H	WMS	Oliver
May 13, 2020	37574	L	Kraken	Fairbanks 20-17 6H	WMS	Oliver
August 26, 2020	37807	L	Kraken	Raymond 16-21 3H	WMS	Oliver
August 26, 2020	37808	L	Kraken	Raymond 16-21 4H	WMS	Oliver
August 26, 2020	37809	L	Kraken	Raymond LE 16-21 1H	WMS	Oliver
August 26, 2020	37810	L	Kraken	Washburne 15-22 7H	WMS	Oliver

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The Literature Page 

Noam Chomsky.

From Steven Pinker's 1994, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. This has always been one of my top-shelf books but now that I am experiencing first grade all over again with Sophia and coincidentally and simultaneously learning Spanish with her, the book becomes interesting again.

"Noah Chomsky is currently among the ten most-cited writers in all of the humanities (beating out Hegel and Cicero and trailing only Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, the Bible, Aristotle, Plato, and Freud) and the only living member of the top ten." -- page 23.

If one were to give full credit where credit is/was due, there were no less than four or five writers for "the Bible."

It's, of course, disconcerting and concerning that Marx and Lenin are in the top ten list. 

Note who is not on the list: Homer. Oh. My. Goodness. And then that reminds me of James Joyce. 

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The Movie Page

I happened to catch a godawful film, Berserk, last night on TCM. For reasons unexplained I watched this movie to its end. The star of the movie was Joan Crawford -- yes, that Joan Crawford -- and it was her penultimate film. 

What caught my eye was a very obvious Pepsi-Cola product placement: a teenage girl at the circus drinking Pepsi out of a can. It was so obvious it could not be missed. After the end of the movie, the presenter, or host, Ben Mankiewicz explained that Joan Crawford's fourth and last husband, Alfred Steele, had been the CEO of Pepsi-Cola until his death. 

From wiki:

He graduated from Northwestern University in 1923, where he played football, and became an ad executive. He first worked for The Coca-Cola Company, as vice president of marketing. 

He became the CEO of the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1949. Under his management, sales tripled between 1955 and 1957. He reduced the sugar content of Pepsi products and introduced them to developing countries. He worked for Pepsi until his death from a heart attack in April 1959. 

He was the fourth and last husband of actress Joan Crawford (married May 10, 1955, in Las Vegas). 

Herbert L. Barnet, Steele's handpicked successor as chairman and CEO, appointed her to the Board of Directors. 

In Joan Crawford's later career, product placement for Pepsi can be seen in several films, including Strait-Jacket (1964) and Berserk! (1967). 

Crawford would remain on the Board of Directors of the Pepsi-Cola Company until her forced retirement in 1973. The two had their ashes interred in a crypt together upon Crawford's death in 1977. They are interred in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. 

His crypt marker incorrectly lists his middle initial as "M" for no explained reason.

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College Football

With most college football games of any note canceled (or postponed) today because of Chinese flu, we are pretty much forced to watch a 1-4 team (Baylor) play a 2-5 team (Texas Tech). Wow, it's going to be a long, long winter.

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Out And About

I've never seen Target so busy ... at least not since last Christmas. Wow, it was busy. On the way home, I stopped by our local Lego mini-figures and bricks store and bought a great winter-scene set. The set is not yet retired but on-line it is sold out.

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A Musical Interlude

Tennessee Flat Top Box, Rosanne Cash