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

https://xkcd.com/2881/

akkana, to hiking
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Ridge above Red Wash Canyon.

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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Men flooded this year's Grace Hopper conference, taking away spots from women and harassing, shoving and otherwise keeping women out of the recruiter/interview areas. What a dismal fiasco. https://www.404media.co/grace-hopper-celebration-conference-anita-b-2023/

akkana, to random
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"Did you know that the person with the highest levels of plutonium in her body after the atomic detonation at Trinity Site was a woman from Truchas?" A fascinating article on plutonium contamination and downwinders, leaving lots of questions still unsolved. https://searchlightnm.org/buried-secrets-poisoned-bodies/ #NewMexico #LosAlamos

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 random
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Rim overlook at Capitol Reef.

akkana, to random
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I decided I needed to finish converting my best photos from this year into desktop wallpaper. Which turned into an odyssey of trying to port my #GIMP wallpaper script to the new API for the upcoming GIMP 3.0 release candidate. I eventually got it working (after much struggle), and just finished converting images. Here are a few of my new desktop backgrounds.

Sandstone slickrock with blue sky and cumulus clouds, at El Malpais
A seemingly barely attached rock on the edge of a cliff, overlooking a trail where a hiker walks. El Morro.

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

akkana, to random
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I gave a Toastmasters talk on a book I greatly enjoyed: Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English by Valerie Fridland. My book report: https://shallowsky.com/blog/speaking/likeliterally.html

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Gates of Hell

akkana, to Trains
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Sky Railway in Santa Fe,

akkana, to random
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Really enjoying following the toots from the Artificial Light at Night conference. I want to boost everything -- but instead, I'll just recommend following #ALAN2023 if you have any interest in dark skies or #LightPollution .

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

akkana, to linux
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Cox Canyon #arch near Aztec, #NewMexico #hiking #SilentSunday

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 Bloomscrolling
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The hedgehog cacti are finally starting to bloom. The prickly pear too: these prickly pears more often have yellow flowers, and I don't know what makes them sometimes orange instead. #bloomscrolling #NewMexico

Orange flower on a prickly pear cactus.

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 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 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 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.

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?

#eclipse #maps #cartography #gischat

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 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 #geology is cool. #hiking #NewMexico #snow

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.

bookwar, to random
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Is there a resource where you can upload, share and discover hiking routes in somewhat like wikipedia-style?

I am using Komoot app currently. It is good, but i don't feel like investing my own time and data to a closed paid platform with no ability to export and share the content freely.

akkana,
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@clacke @bookwar One of the reasons I like using #OpenStreetMap instead of proprietary maps is that I (and other people) can add trails that are missing and correct trails that are wrong. So it ends up showing a lot more trails, more accurately, than something like Google maps.

There are several phone apps based on OSM. I use #OsmAnd but I don't use it for editing the map (though you can); I record my track and then make my changes when I get back to my computer.

akkana, to Bloomscrolling
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Hedgehog #cactus update: three of six buds blooming now. (The other two hedgehogs that flowered this year are already done.) I like the "onion dome" look of the buds too.
#bloomscrolling

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