Locator: 49982B.
NASCAR: I watched the entire race last night on YouTube.
Took about ten minutes. It was a ten-lap race.
The winner was the guy who didn't crash coming out of the last turn. That was the only "lap" he led. I think his name was Reddick. Yes, I just checked, Tyler Reddick. Michael Jordan's team.
According to Google: "Bubba Wallace had a heartbreaking 10th place finish despite dominating the race with a team-high 40 laps led and winning Stage 2."
Golf: an incredibly good tournament -- drama to the very end, and an incredible "bogey-save" by Jacob Bridgeman, literally playing his fourth (?) shot off the pebble beach on the 18th. Link here.
Reading this week:
- Matt Ridley's Genome, 1999; and,
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, Walter Isaacson, c. 2021. Notes here.
- an early post on CRISPR: link here. This was back in 2018! Whoo-hoo!
- CRISPR was all the rage in the 2010s. All of a sudden, the acronym is seldom heard/read in mainstream media.
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Back to the Bakken
WTI: $63.28.
New wells reporting:
- Tuesday, February 17, 2026: 26 for the month, 79 for the quarter, 79 for the year,
- 41962, conf, Kraken, Charity 3-10-15 3H,
- 41961, conf, Kraken, Charity 3-10-15 2H,
- 41878, conf, Petro-Hunt, State 159-92-36D-24-3H,
- Monday, February 16, 2026: 23 for the month, 76 for the quarter, 76 for the year,
- 41963, conf, Kraken, Charity 3-10-15 4H,
- Sunday, February 15, 2026: 22 for the month, 75 for the quarter, 75 for the year,
- 41333, conf, Hess, BW-Stoveland-LE-149-100-1003H-1,
- Saturday, February 14, 2026: 21 for the month, 74 for the quarter, 74 for the year,
- 41816, conf, BR, Rolla 6C,
