BBC Radio Scotland morning call in show having snow-day nostalgia, "is this taking you back to the days of lockdown?"
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excitement in #theHarbour
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-bomb-squad-scrambled-harbour-30670431
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My friend Geoffrey built a house out of shipping containers in Hamilton, Ontario. He did a very good job of insulation and heating and ventilation. Now the energy company is bothering him for using too little energy.
"2nd year in a row, 3rd of 4 Enbridge wants to audit our connection because our bill doesn't rise much when it gets cold and stays under $100."
Saving the climate? An audit for you!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/container-house-finished-1.6334106
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Tonight's bedtime reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
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Heading through to Glasgow for the MASTS Annual Science Meeting [1] today to tell a mathematical story about salmon, featuring some lovely illustrations by @rek. It is about a detail that comes up when trying to understand the effect of salmon farms on the wider ecosystem and involves a neat (I think) mathematical trick [2].
[1] https://masts.ac.uk/annual-science-meeting/
[2] https://codeberg.org/rbem/copepod-master/
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This is not a good morning
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Just rebuilding the raw water pump, facing it on the lathe at the Edinburgh Hacklab and cleaning up the inside… Just hope the tiniest bit of material taken off the inside doesn’t cause problems fitting a new cam plate (the bit that makes the impeller impel…#theBoatyard
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That feeling of relief when you fix the firewall rules on a router in a remote place on another continent and find that, no, you have not in fact broken things and locked yourself out...
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Mer Veille
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The Bandwagon
Claude E. Shannon
1956
Accessible version: https://reimbar.org/papers/bandwagon/
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Well. I didn't expect to spend all evening writing a 2000 word story. Now saved in an HTML file here: https://river.styx.org/stennis.html
@ai6yr @hannu_ikonen
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The sheriff of Hancock County did not return my pass. He told me that he was upset that I had moved "his" resources, especially across state lines.
He then told me to get out of his county by sundown.
Which I did.
EOT
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That is the end of this story, but for a post script. I returned some days later to Stennis. I was spotted and told to go to the EOC to find the sheriff.
Uh oh.
The sheriff asked to see my ID. I showed him my pass. He took it from me and inspected it.
"Who are you working for?" he asked.
"Uh, nobody, really..."
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We drive, slowly, through the deserted streets to Malik's place which is a hive of activity.
The driver looks dubiously at the collection of activists and punks and hackers and hippies, and looks at his watch. He is in a hurry. Don't worry, don't worry, and we take him into the back yard where the cajun chef is making gumbo again.
In a little more than an hour, or maybe it was a little less. In about an hour, the trucks were emptied and everyone was fed.
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The soldier walks towards the driver's side of the Jetta. I roll down my window and becon him over.
"Is this your truck?" he asks, gesturing to the tractor-trailer.
Me, very nervous but trying not to show it, "yes".
I show him my pass.
He waves us through.
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At length we came over the bridge to the East bank of the river where Algiers is, the same bridge that Nazis had put a roadblock on some days earlier to shoot at black people trying to evacuate the city, and off the highway, to the checkpoint. It was after curfew. We stop.
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The driver was nervous. After the experience of not moving for a week, what would happen when we got there? He couldn't afford to wait around. Were we sure we could unload I forget how many tons of supplies? Would we know how to navigate a route through the city that he could follow? We reassured him.
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So, off the convoy drove, into the setting sun, white Volkswagen Jetta with myself in the front passenger seat, cube van, and refrigerated 18 wheel tractor trailer, stuffed with supplies, towards New Orleans.
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The following day started early. I don't remember how early, but it must have been early. Maybe not. It will have been morning at any rate.
We got the cube van again, went to collect the cooks, and headed to Stenis to meet the driver.
It took until nearly nightfall to get all manner of supplies organised and packed into our convoy. I forget what. Food, cleaning supplies, bleach, more medical supplies, that sort of thing.
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On the way back to where we were staying, we talked about what had happened so far. By and large, Mississippi was well-supplied. There were few people in the shredded places. No birds. In New Orleans there were chronic shortages. If we had the use of a very big truck, could we fill it with stuff?
Phone call to our new friend from Québec, and he agreed to delay leaving for a day.
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