Fire Update:
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There's been more smoke again for the
last few days, but rain is in the
forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.
The 12mm of rain we had last Tuesday
was the most we'd had all year. Some
parts of the Bush Creek fire got over
20mm, so that was good. On the other
hand, a typical summer used to bring 3
or 4 really hard rainfalls, which
doesn't seem to be happening any more.
Solderpunk mentioned in his latest
phlog post that he has started
worrying about summer in advance.
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/talking-about-the-weather.txt
I dread it. Every year seems to bring
intense heat, widespread wildfires,
and thick smoke.
One of my friends at work showed me a
website run by NASA that shows exactly
where the fires are actively burning:
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/
If you zoom in, you'll see that you
can get very granular detail.
There's information for other parts of
the world here:
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/
Typewriter OCD:
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I've buried myself in typewriter
triviata for the last few days. There
is an active typewriter community
online and their kindness and decorum
is nice to see. Some of the typewriter
bloggers have feeds of each other's
posts, like the webrings of old.
Here are a few great sites to check
out:
The Typewriter Database
https://typewriterdatabase.com/
Welcome to the Typosphere
http://typosphere.blogspot.com/
(look for the blog list at the bottom
of the page and click on "show all" to
get a Bongusta-like/Antenna-like feed)
Typewriter Talk (a forum)
https://typewriter.boardhost.com/
Ted Munk's Blog
http://munk.org/typecast/
Munk runs the Typewriter Database and
has also produced a series of
typewriter repair manuals.
