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akkana

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Linux/open source/Python geekette, mapping/GIS enthusiast (with FOSS tools), photo fiddler (mostly with GIMP), astronut, hiker and mountain biker, writer, speaker. Northern New Mexico. She.

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akkana, to Trains
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Sky Railway in Santa Fe,

akkana, to wildlife
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On our bike ride around White Rock yesterday, we saw three bighorn sheep!
https://shallowsky.com/blog/nature/white-rock-bighorn.html

akkana, to linux
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Cox Canyon near Aztec,

alan, to maps
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Cool map showing the date of the most recent total eclipse for every point in Indiana. Made by the Holcomb Observatory & Planetarium at Butler University.

Great concept, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen a similar map for a larger area, ideally an interactive map for the entire world where you can see the year of the last eclipse wherever you are. The data is available, so surely someone has made such a map?

akkana,
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@alan That is a neat idea, and I'd like to see a wider map too.

You say the data is available. Where? If there's already data for geographic paths of historic and future eclipses, then the map part should be fairly easy. But calculating that data is less easy: I just did a casual search and found some discussions and a few suggested code snippets, but no working code.

akkana,
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@kgjenkins @sara @alan Is there a way to get that data out of the walled garden of arcgis? I clicked around a bit but couldn't find a way.

akkana,
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@kgjenkins @sara @alan I can't figure out how to export anything from that xjubier page. I enter search terms, highlight all the corresponding eclipses, but "Build Google Earth KMZ file" is still greyed out and nonresponsive. Sure enough, if I highlight only four eclipses, the button un-greys.

Keith, I'll try your QGIS plugin suggestion when I'm back home on a more reliable (though slower) net connection.

akkana, to random
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Rim overlook at Capitol Reef.

brettcannon, to random
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Heard quite the horror story yesterday from a friend about how TD is trying to shake them down for some money after trying to leave the bank. BMO -- the bank they are moving to -- has stuck up for them.

I'm also still very happy w/ Vancity.

akkana,
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@brettcannon Funny, I'm trying to get out of BMO. The nearest branch is 1.5 hours away, which wouldn't be a problem except that you can't do anything by phone. Their phone lines are staffed by people who only know about credit cards, not about banking (e.g. they didn't know what a CD/Certificate of Deposit was). When I drove to the branch, they couldn't close my acct because the CD had auto-renewed, told me I'd have to come back the following week. Least competent bank I've ever dealt with.

akkana, to hiking
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Ridge above Red Wash Canyon.

akkana, to hiking
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the Box Canyon and Kitchen Mesa at ,

It took some exploring to find our way out of the box canyon to the top of the box: the old trail has washed out. Then more wandering to find a route around the deep canyon and over to Kitchen Mesa.

The top of Kitchen Mesa is startlingly white: the Todilto formation, dolomite and gypsum. The Kitchen Mesa trail goes through the old Ceolophysis quarry. The whole area is beautiful Colorado Plateau .

Looking up at a high sandstone butte in horizontal bands of shades of red and yellow, with a rounded white layer at the top
A hiker carefully descends through a steep, narrow slot filled with boulders
A valley surrounded by sandstone mesas. Just right of center you can barely make out two hikers.

akkana, to BikeRepair
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Please, need some help from experts (like @pws ):

I'm looking to put a better suspension fork with 1-1/8" steerer tube on an old Cannondale with 1-1/4" steerer.

I see lots of recommendations for the Problem Solvers 2-piece headset reducer, and it's cheap and simple, but that type of reducer doesn't have a curved/slanted seat where it would ride on the existing bearings. Do I need the multi-piece type of reducer that includes its own bearings?

Thanks for any advice!

a Problem Solvers 2-piece head tube reducer, showing that it has a right angle where I'd expect a slanted/curved bearing surface
the parts of a multi-part head tube reducer, including new bearings and the top plug that holds the headset together

atomicpoet, to random

Today’s movie is Desert Blue (1999) starring Casey Affleck, Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, John Heard, Sara Gilbert, and Christina Ricci.

This is considered an “arthouse” film.

It is about a cable TV starlet stuck in a small town who gets to know the local eccentric teens. Due to a chemical spill, the town is in quarantine and so everyone must stay put. Soon she finds herself falling in love with a loner.

This is rated 6.1 on iMDB so it’s considered better than average – but we’ll see.

akkana,
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@losttourist @atomicpoet @organicmaps I seem to remember that the movie was filmed in California's Mojave desert -- which mostly has no cellphone reception once you get away from the interstate. Poor/no cell reception, especially for data, is very common in the US desert southwest. I use which has offline maps (and paper are fun too).

akkana, to hiking
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to the Broken Mesa yesterday. Most of the snow and mud is gone, and the weather was perfect -- we finished just before the wind got high.

A hiker walks along a trail on a steep cliffside, with a deep canyon to the right.

akkana, to firefox
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Starting to run across more websites that don't work on (even with default settings and no JS/ad blocking). Latest were a bank and a video doctor consultation. Sigh. Feels like I'm back in the good old "only works with IE" days.

akkana, to hiking
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Our planned hike up the Long Trail in Bandelier fizzled when it turned out the ranger's report "all the trails are snow-free" actually means "the Long Trail is ice and snow over its entire length". So we opted for a shorter hike on the always-beautiful Frey trail.

In the photo, see that white stripe going up the mesa to the left? That's the Long Trail.

akkana, to random
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We just caught a mole in an indoor mousetrap! (Live trap.) First time I've seen one in . Crappy photo while it's still in the trap; I may or may not manage to snap a pic fast enough when we release it.

Searching for species turns out to be difficult: 99% of the hits for mole new mexico are for the Mexican food dish.
mole "new mexico" -chicken
does a little better, and gets a UNM page that says there are no moles in NM. Hmm.

akkana,
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@deshipu Neat, thanks for the ID! A shrew is even more interesting, and I don't think I've ever seen one before.

I did get one decent photo when we released it, which I'll upload momentarily.

akkana, to MTB
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Yesterday we explored the White Ridge Bike Trails, north of Albuquerque near San Ysidro. Some trails were much easier than expected; others so much harder that we ended up stuck in a box canyon and had to take the long way out. The Dragon's Back was fun, though.
https://shallowsky.com/blog/bike/white-ridge-bike-trails.html

akkana, to Geology
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Valles Caldera yesterday. It's just part of the crater of the supervolcano. The mountains in the background are resurgent domes (which rose after the last major eruptions), and the little dome in the foreground is the youngest of the resurgent domes, Cerro La Jara.

akkana, to random
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Loving today's XKCD. I have so many friends I never realized I had!

https://xkcd.com/2881/

paul, to random
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Great article about polypharmacy, the taking of multiple medications, typically four or more, at the same time from @TheConversationUS

As people age, medications might not be needed or patients might not be taking them, or less than prescribed.

Personally, every so often, we do a "medication holiday" where we test the efficacy of the drug regimen I am on, to get the maximum result with the least drug
🔗 Boomers have a drug problem, but not the kind you might think ·

https://theconversation.com/boomers-have-a-drug-problem-but-not-the-kind-you-might-think-127682

akkana,
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@paul @TheConversationUS

"You can also check the PIMs list, also known as the Beer’s List." Not from that link you can't, at least not without paying a substantial fee. Is the list available without a paywall?

akkana, to random
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Apparently it's ... so here, have an Amanita muscaria.

akkana, to Geology
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We were supposed to go for a snowshoe hike to Cañada Bonita today, but when we got up there and felt the crazy ice wind, we rebelled, and ended up diverting to White Rock where we had a delightful hike on the Broken Mesa/Lion Cave loop. No snowshoes required, but ice spikes were helpful. Plus, the is cool.

A "window" (hole) and little caves in a mesa made of volcanic tuff. A small dead juniper in the foreground.
Interesting anticline where the Caja del Rio basalt wells up, with a layer of Bandelier tuff on top. Snow in the foreground.

akkana, to Battlemaps
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Chilly day -- it didn't break freezing today, and the forecast for tonight's low is 2°F!

Here's a video from several years ago of the movement of glaciers on our metal roof.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6q6Cl-uvk

akkana,
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Is there a way to embed youtube videos in toots, or do you just have to link it and hope it gets some boosts so it magically gets an embed?

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