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A lot of the low hanging fruit is still dams that were made for non-hydroelectric, non-drinking, even non agriculural purposes. In the Northeast there are 19th century dams that originally powered mills before steam power. The barriers in some of these cases are just the cost of removing the dam, which can be substantial if it borders private property. Some of the flood control functionality is no longer necessary, because it can be migated and in some cases the land can just be bought out.

I had a GP-1 at one point. It would take several seconds to get a GPS lock, so about a third of the time my images had no GPS or I had to wait for the light to indicate it was working. Not very practical in my case. Also it connected via an awkward cable.

In Northwest Portlnd, Oregon the East-west streets were originally letters. A st, B st, C st, etc. They were renamed after people but they kept the first letter, so now its Ankeny, Burnside, Couch, Davis, Everett, Flanders, Gleason, Hoyt, Irving, Johnson... They get to have it both ways, and they could be renamed if there was a desire to do so without impeding the general purpose. (One of my joking tests to see if someone is a True Portlander is if they can get up to Marshall, Northrup, Overton, etc.)

I observed this in New England while living in a city with evenly distributed population. The polling locations were more abundant in the wealthier side of the city. This may not have been straight racism; there was no way for me to determine why this was the case. Looking at a map of median income and polling locations made it pretty obvious to me at least that polling location choice was biased.

Oops! Correction: It is a rangefinder but uses lidar to measure the distance rather than parallax.

This is a viewfinder camera with scale focus. Rangefinders have a complex mechanism to measure distance which would be beyond the scope of this project. In early Leica cameras, the rangefinder and view finder were separate mechanisms on the same camera, and were combined in the Leica M series in the 1950s.

I was in a second floor bedroom in an old creaky wooden house for the "Spring Break Quake" in Salem, Oregon in 1993. The whole house rocked back and forth and I got out of bed to see if there had been an explosion. Its spooky how people expect things of relatively low probability to just be zero. I turned on a radio and the DJ had interrupted the song to explain that an earthquake had occurred. The Willamette valley has lots of brick buildings that aren't really prepared for what's going to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Scotts_Mills_earthquake

Should we blame an old timey basic webpage for its lack of complexity or should we blame a modern browser for not accommodating the web in its most simple form?

I have a QoocamEgo and have found it pretty disappointing even at that price point. It takes about 30 seconds to start up, chews through battery quickly, and has poor autofocus. I set focus manually by guessing and then use "sport mode" (1/120second) otherwise it will use low shutter speeds which produce motion blur handheld. Also, even though it will shoot close up items, I've found that the offset is too great for most viewing scenarios. So, I would say composing images that include subjects 3m to infinity is about the best.

I walked by the Starbucks in my neighborood recently and there were about 30 customers inside sitting at long tables. Every single person was staring at an electronic device. Maybe that's how a public square works nowdays.

About a year ago, I had an opportunity to use an 8x10 field camera. This description is correct. I didn't have any film, so I loaded the film holder with paper and developed it under a safelight in the darkroom. This isn't a typical process though and film has very low ISO. I then contact printed through the paper. The resulting image wasn't particularly sharp. It was a fun exercise though, and I'd like to borrow the camera again. Using it is a very slow and formal process. The film is as one would expect, expensive.

I photo/video lights from Neweer that use a Sony standard battery which may or may not be made by Sony. This seems to be because media creators already have these batteries/chargers. So maybe sometimes the market does give people what they want. It has to be enough to influence the puchasing decision.

I was diagnosed with T2 last year, and started a CGM (Freestyle Libre 3) like you did. I started off with lists of foods I could eat, but the monitor let me see actual data on what was happening. Its not very accurate, but the absolute numbers don't matter as much as seeing the actual trend effect on my own body. I never let it go over 150, ever. I can eat some legumes in moderation, but your specific body may be different. I initially took Metformin, but discontinued. My last A1C was 5.1 and and endocrinologist I was consulting with put in his notes that my diabetes is "remission." So, if you're prediabetic, keep at what you're doing. I eat very little meat, btw, so while that might work for some people, its not strictly necessary.

The EPA Air Quality Index isn't everything, but it is a standard value displayed in a phone weather app. I'll notice in times and places when I suspect its bad. If you live outside a city in place without forest fires or other environmental issues you might not notice its there. Some people with respiratory issues monitor this stuff constantly.

Before that there was Powell's Techinical Bookstore on the North park blocks. That store had a cat named Fup that was really old. Every year, they would print birthday stickers for the cat and give them away. I still have one that I use as a bookstore from when the cat turned 18.

Freestyle Libre 3 only has a plastic filament and the plastic applicator pushes it in without pain. Very different than metal lancets (stick test). I can't feel it at all when its in the back of my arm. If I were worried about sweating too much and it not sticking I would get one of the third party over-patches that create a lager adhesive area. I might do that in the Summer.

I'm currently wearing the Freestyle Libre 3. It communicates with the app every minute. I have something between pre-diabetes and diabetes so I have a slight chance at being able to treat my condition with diet/weight/exercise. Its definitely changing my behavior--I'm aware that it is not as accurate as the stick test but I have a plot of my blood sugar throughout the day. Currently I'm consuming very little carbohydrates. I've learned from my own data what foods will cause my blood sugar to spike.

The app is missing some obvious features, and people are right to complain, but its way better it seems than devices that came before.

I think smoking has become much less common. I rent in Cambridge, MA and my lease prohibits smoking of any kind, which I think is standard. Once the landlord sent out an angry email threatening eviction if someone in our building didn't stop smoking. Smoking in the outdoor courtyard is also specifically forbidden.

I feel like it could be as simple as people poorer neighborhoods trying to buy the cheapest data/tv plan. In some countries this would be considered a necessity like electricity/sewer/water so from that perspective LA perhaps should force the ISPs to provide the same service all over the city.

I would “collect” them by taking photos.

Supreme court chief justice Oliver Wendell Holmes identified Boston as “The Hub of the Solar System", which is still somehow how people in the area think of themselves in my opinion. I live in the area. So it would be this:

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/theft

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-know-a...

The ACA was largely based on the Massachusetts healthcare plan, so they had already successfully implemented much of this.

Its micro four thirds so its a major crop of the 35mm frame. A normal lens will have the image angle of a telephoto. Its cool that they actually have it working though.

I agree. Optima is a humanist sans-serif but he doesn't seem to know that terminology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Humanist_sans-serif_t...

Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has a bench built by George Nakashima that guests cans sit on. Its one of my favorite things at MFA.

https://www.mfa.org/article/2020/bench-with-back

We totally do though...

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/30/boston-massachusetts-pf...

Yeah, if anyone can find any information about the source of the data that would be useful. They can say they're transparent over and over again, but that doesn't necessarily make it so. Also, if they're selling their information as a commercial service, their bias has to be taken into account as well.

That's a good option, because if there's a shop next door that takes cash I will definitely go there and tip in cash.

I also have an X-E3, which I recently took on an international trip. Its compact, but but a key feature is its low value which means its not especially precious. Its one of the best featured cameras where I wouldn't be upset if it was damaged or stolen; I could just buy another one. I adapt lots of lenses, even Leica M mount, but I like the Fujinon XC35mm f/2 which has the same optics as the WR version. I would like to see an X-E5 with the same control layout, but with IBIS.