White Salmon and Black Swans
The conversation started innocently enough – we were entertaining out of town guests at a winery and restaurant overlooking Lake Okanagan. And, as often happens when people visit B.C., they ordered salmon.
“You know, I heard that not all salmon are pink. There are actually white salmon.”
“Really, I’ve never heard of that.”
“Well, let’s see if there really are white salmon.”
So, we turned to the arbitrator of all such things – Google. If it can be found on the web, apparently it exists. Which is an interesting behavior in itself, and a point I’ll come back to in a minute. But first, [...]
