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In the end, it was some disruption and time spent, but no immediate danger or loss of property. It actually turned out to be a good exercise in what we would need to grab and go in a future evacuation. We could have been out in 10 minutes if needed, but took longer to make sure we had what we wanted if we would be gone for a few days, not just what was essential. Many of our neighbors never left (the level 3 order was downgraded shortly after we had left).
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I had actually stopped to get a picture of the fire on the way home, right before the first evacuation order!
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That was an interesting few hours! I was on my way home from a hike when I heard that there was a level 3 (“GO NOW”) evacuation order at home due to a nearby wildfire m. I got home 10 minutes later, helped load up the car with the dogs and our emergency stuff, and turned around and left. We spent a few hours at a friend’s house and out to dinner, as crews worked on the fire and the evacuation order was downgraded to Level 2 and then Level 1. We just decided to come home and all evacuation orders have been lifted now.
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@kajord I suspect that it's results like those graphed below that are motivating the skepticism of satellite monitoring.... Note the Permian basin are the left two sets of columns
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So what can you do with a radiosonde if you find one? They can be reprogrammed with custom firmware (like https://github.com/mikaelnousiainen/RS41ng) and repurposed for amateur radio use. I am not sure whether it is a cost effective option given the many cheap ESP32-based boards available now, but appealing to reuse and recycle the waste from disposable sensors going up hundreds of times a day.
For now this one will sit as a trophy in my office though.
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If you are interested in finding radiosondes in your area, you can track them on https://sondehub.org
I was also running a little LoRa32 board with MySondy firmware (https://github.com/MirkoDalmonte/MySondyGO-Release), which helped a lot to pinpoint it in the field after it was too low for other sites to get locations. -
I recovered my first radiosonde today! Launched from Spokane, this one landed close enough to town to try to follow it, but a bit farther than predicted, so I chased it into Idaho. It landed behind a farmer's field, he drove me back in his four-wheeler to recover it after I explained what I was looking for. He may have been somewhat amused that I was looking for it on purpose, he has found them on his land before while working the fields.
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Tandoor looks decent, and can import a bunch of (~20) different formats, while exporting to 4. First strike against it, though, is that it failed to import my fresh Mealie backup (which it claims to support).
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Mealie #recipeapp cons, cont.:
- Formatting of instructions in the UI is hard to read, e.g. "Step 1" in huge heading font and the text of the instructions in a tiny font.
- Website scraping works great on NY Times cooking site, but hit and miss for others I've tried.
Not sure I want to commit much more time to updating recipes in Mealie. Still looking, next up to try is Tandoor (https://tandoor.dev) that looks promising.
Suggestions welcome from anyone who has an app they like!
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Cons to using Mealie as a #recipeapp so far:
- No standard import/export format. It can scrape some sites for import, and does a reasonable job on parsing cut-and-paste ingredients and instructions, but doesn't import or export structured data that work with other programs as far as I can tell. There are backups, but for Mealie only.
- Unit support is pretty basic, and no unit conversion as far as I can tell.
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Finally looking at ways to manage recipes after a long hiatus from a previous run of using a blogging tool. First up is the self-hosted #recipeapp Mealie (https://mealie.io), which is decent, looks nice, has recipe import, and some meal planning features. It was easy to install and get started.
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Does anyone out there in the Fediverse know anything about cycling Chinook Pass (Washington SR 410 on the east side of Mount Rainier National Park) before it opens to cars for the season? I believe it has been cleared to the summit from the east. Thinking about checking it out next weekend.
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A beautiful #SkySat image of recent pyroclastic flow on #Shiveluch #volcano. More details in @ewklemetti's article: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-most-active-volcano-youve-likely-dont-know
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I gave a lightning talk on a silly little way to hide data in NaN values in floating point arrays: https://github.com/kjordahl/steganan
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New (used) #gravel bike shakedown ride. Needs a little work on the geometry and probably a new saddle, but it should serve nicely for this season.
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So, I have managed to lock myself out of my own oven. It has been having trouble with temperature, occasionally overheating, so last night I decided to take out the temperature probe and test it to see if it is obviously the problem. It measured 1080 Ω, exactly what is expected at room temperature, so it is not likely the problem. While it was out, the oven fan came on, presumably because the open circuit made the oven think it was overheating. Unfortunately, in trying to shut off the fan, I managed to lock the oven door. Now it won't unlock, presumably because the temperature sensor is missing and its little electronic brain thinks it is too hot to open. So now it is just locked shut.
Help?
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CW: #USpol
There are Stand Up For Science rallies across the country tomorrow.
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#PalisadesFire blowing up this afternoon as seen by #GOESWest
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I have a doctorate in #geophysics and #oceanography and now work at Planet Labs PBC (planet.com) in #remotesensing and #software development. Previous research in #marinegeophysics and #tectonics. Open source #geospatial software, original author of #geopandas (though no longer an active maintainer). Professional interests in #scientific #computing #scicomm #dataviz #python #foss
Personal interests #backpacking #hiking #gravelbike #mountaineering #nordic #skiing
Inland NW
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So, I have managed to lock myself out of my own oven. It has been having trouble with temperature, occasionally overheating, so last night I decided to take out the temperature probe and test it to see if it is obviously the problem. It measured 1080 Ω, exactly what is expected at room temperature, so it is not likely the problem. While it was out, the oven fan came on, presumably because the open circuit made the oven think it was overheating. Unfortunately, in trying to shut off the fan, I managed to lock the oven door. Now it won't unlock, presumably because the temperature sensor is missing and its little electronic brain thinks it is too hot to open. So now it is just locked shut.
Help?
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So, I have managed to lock myself out of my own oven. It has been having trouble with temperature, occasionally overheating, so last night I decided to take out the temperature probe and test it to see if it is obviously the problem. It measured 1080 Ω, exactly what is expected at room temperature, so it is not likely the problem. While it was out, the oven fan came on, presumably because the open circuit made the oven think it was overheating. Unfortunately, in trying to shut off the fan, I managed to lock the oven door. Now it won't unlock, presumably because the temperature sensor is missing and its little electronic brain thinks it is too hot to open. So now it is just locked shut.
Help?
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So, I have managed to lock myself out of my own oven. It has been having trouble with temperature, occasionally overheating, so last night I decided to take out the temperature probe and test it to see if it is obviously the problem. It measured 1080 Ω, exactly what is expected at room temperature, so it is not likely the problem. While it was out, the oven fan came on, presumably because the open circuit made the oven think it was overheating. Unfortunately, in trying to shut off the fan, I managed to lock the oven door. Now it won't unlock, presumably because the temperature sensor is missing and its little electronic brain thinks it is too hot to open. So now it is just locked shut.
Help?
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So, I have managed to lock myself out of my own oven. It has been having trouble with temperature, occasionally overheating, so last night I decided to take out the temperature probe and test it to see if it is obviously the problem. It measured 1080 Ω, exactly what is expected at room temperature, so it is not likely the problem. While it was out, the oven fan came on, presumably because the open circuit made the oven think it was overheating. Unfortunately, in trying to shut off the fan, I managed to lock the oven door. Now it won't unlock, presumably because the temperature sensor is missing and its little electronic brain thinks it is too hot to open. So now it is just locked shut.
Help?
