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danyork

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I look for patterns. I connect dots. I share what I see.

Working for a bigger, stronger open #Internet for everyone. Writes on #InternetAccess, #DNS, #AI, #WordPress, futures. Focused on Low Earth Orbit (#LEO) satellites at Internet Society.

#Wikipedia editor. Volunteer with #Rotary, #ITDRC, #IETF.

Speaker, author, podcaster, livestreamer.

Been online since 1980s - still remember USENET and UUCP. Lives in #Vermont. Spricht Deutsch et un peu de français. Enjoys #curling.

#tfr

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We have high wind alerts and as I watch the trees blow outside my windows... I'm also thinking about how many old trees we have around... and about how all our power lines are above ground on poles.

So if I'm not online later... there's a reason... 🙂

#Vermont

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@Schouten_B @timoj To be fair, in many newer developments in Vermont, they are burying all the utilities when they are building out the lots. However, I live in a development of around 70 homes built mostly in in the 1960s and 1970s.

Amusingly, if I walk to the end of one road in our neighborhood, I reach a point where 8 or so homes were added maybe 20 years ago. And... ta da.. the wires dive down from the poles and go underground for those few homes. 🙂

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VERMONTERS - you can RECYCLE YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES at various locations. In Chittenden County, CSWD is running a program with “Astronomers without Borders” and has collection bins at all their locations, many local libraries and a number of other locations mentioned here: https://cswd.net/recycling/cswd-collaborates-with-astronomers-without-borders-to-give-solar-eclipse-glasses-another-use-2/

#Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2024 #Vermont

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Quick photo of today's solar eclipse over DFW airport

danyork,
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@mattblaze Based on your comments before the eclipse and similar comments from some others, I did something similar for my first totality experience. I had a tripod set up and did take a few shots, but spent most of the three minutes just looking around taking it all in. It was amazing!

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My only good shot from totality (after I remembered to take the filter off the lens! 🤦‍♂️🤣). Totality was amazing and so I was drinking it all in. Temps dropped a good 10 degrees F, mosquitoes came out, the birds stopped singing, everyone’s solar lights came on, and it was incredibly dark. Really amazing!
And then it was over and everything started returning to normal!

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I played a bit with TikTok last night and compiled a series of photos showing the progression of the eclipse here in Vermont:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLAsPGud/

There was of course only one song that could be used as the musical background 🤣

Not that I was just pointing an iPad with an added optical lens up at the sky. I wasn’t aiming for high quality photos… just more to have some memories of an amazing experience.

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And so it begins in #Vermont !

#Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2024

danyork,
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@ondrej Wait… are you in Plattsburgh, NY??

danyork,
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@ondrej Oh, wow! I was only about an hour away from you (but across the Lake)!

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I am amused by the suggestions from Vermont state agencies that people should bring a paper map in case GPS stops working. After 17 years with smartphones and Google/Apple Maps… ** do people even know how to read paper maps anymore? ** 🤣

#Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #Vermont

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@amcasari Yes, our cell networks weren’t built for this volume. It would be interesting (stressful!) to be in a network operations center today watching traffic volumes across the networks!

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@MicroCheapFx That IS an excellent question!

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Waking up to bright blue skies in Vermont for Eclipse Day! Hoping they will stay that way… although current forecasts call for high, translucent clouds to come in during the early afternoon. (Which still should be okay for eclipse viewing.) The fun begins around 2:20pm, with totality at 3:26, and then it all ending by 4:30-ish.

#Vermont #Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2024 #Totality

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That moment when you take your first look at your work messages and remember that for probably 99% of the world, today is just another Monday. 😀

It’s a little different for us here in northwest Vermont (and many other places) because…

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@amcasari Yes, it looks amazing today! Looking forward to it!

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And tomorrow, how many times will these songs be streamed?

  • Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
  • Dark Side of the Moon (album) by Pink Floyd

😃

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Today’s mission is simple: figure out where the sun will be in the sky starting around 3:00pm-ish so that we can plan where best to watch tomorrow’s big event! (Without actually leaving our neighborhood 🙂)

#Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #Vermont #SolarEclipse

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@gcvsa Ha! 🤦‍♂️ OF COURSE there would be apps for this! Thanks for pointing it out.

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Should I Stay (In) or Should I Go (Out) Now? The Vermont Eclipse Dilemma - what happens when you have 10s or 100s of thousands of people driving to an area where the roads are more meant for maybe hundreds of vehicles??

https://www.danyork.com/2024/04/should-i-stay-in-or-go-out-now-the-vermont-eclipse-dilemma.html

#Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #Vermont #SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2024

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As the #Eclipse mania continues to build and build and build…..

Monday will be here soon!

#SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2024 #TotalSolarEclipse #Totality #Vermont

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This is so, so very true..

From: @monsieuricon
https://social.kernel.org/objects/b48cb5ed-e156-40f6-93c6-506a1cb6ae17

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ABC News has declared that we are in the best spot in the US to see Monday’s eclipse:

  • Burlington, Vermont: Mostly clear, best spot to see eclipse

Let’s see if that forecast holds on Monday!

(And how many more people will now come here!)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/solar-eclipse-weather-forecast-see-event/story?id=108756487

#SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2024 #Eclipse #Vermont

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@abhayakara May the traffic work out for you!

Where are you heading?

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It’s 5:45am here in northern #Vermont. We have about an inch of snow on the ground and the snow heavily coming down.

Now is the moment when we parents are just waiting … and waiting… for the phone call.

Will school be canceled today? Or will they just go ahead with it?

We should know soon, we think… but meanwhile we wait for the calls…

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"WHAT...Snow and mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 7 inches and ice accumulations of a light glaze. Winds gusting as high as 55 mph through tonight."

It's only raining and windy right now here in northwest ... but it's looking like a mess over the next 36 hours...

https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=VTZ005&warncounty=VTC007&firewxzone=VTZ030&local_place1=Shelburne%20VT&product1=Winter+Weather+Advisory&lat=44.3828&lon=-73.2256

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