Harvey & Tom Ball Mountain
Looking South-East towards Massachusetts.
Taken on Saturday April 2, 2011 at Beebe Hill State Forest.
North from Mt Rainer
5 Things I Learned the Hard Way While Raising Pigs – Modern Farmer
My farm vet dissuaded me from purchasing a boar to start my herd by sharing horror stories about their razor sharp tusks and unpredictable nature. He said he’d personally rescued a guy from being trampled to death by an angry boar. So I decided to start with a sow. A pregnant sow. Ms. Piggie, as I named her, was a chocolate brown duroc-Yorkshire mix, with a mane of black hair running down her back. She was beautiful, all 350 pounds of her. This may sound strange, but I think pigs have the most human-like face of any animal – if you discount the snout and focus on the eyes, you’ll see what I mean. Ms. Piggie had these incredible eyelashes, just like Jim Henson’s muppet. The economics sounded promising: Pigs average about 10 babies per litter, so for the price of a few weaners I would end up with 10 pigs, plus a mama that I could breed again the next year, and the next, and the next. As with my goats, I would just rent a boar when the time came. That day never arrived, however, as my time as a pig farmer lasted just one stressful year. Here’s a few of the lessons I learned along the way.
Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers | Ars Technica
Almost every aspect of our daily lives is now shaped in some way by computer code. Yet the average person on the street has no idea how this all works or just how much influence developers now quietly wield in society. Tech journalist Clive Thompson is on a mission to change that with his new book, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. Before he was a tech journalist, Thompson was a high school hacker who taught himself to code on early personal computers like the Commodore 64. His prior book, Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better, pushed back against the doomsayers convinced that new technological tools are rotting our brains, arguing that such things actually boost our cognitive abilities. With Coders, "I wanted to give the average person a glimpse into who coders are, why they have the priorities they have, what their passions are, what their blind spots are," he said. "So that the average person can understand a little bit more the warp and woof of this digital world that coders have created for us."
April 10, 2019 Morning
Good morning! What day is it? A fairly Groovy Hump Day, of course. All thanks to NPR at quarter to six this morning. Three weeks to May 🕊. I’m all for spring. Mostly cloudy and 38 degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 2 am. ☃️
I am off to work early this morning, as I expected to do a video shoot 🎥 but that got canceled. But I have a busy day ahead so I might as well get into the office 🏢 and git r dun. We keep inching towards the weekend. I have defensive driving on Monday which sucks but saves a lot of money 💵 but sucks. I will bring a notepad 📒 so I can draw pictures as I watch the same boring old films 📼 over again. I guess it makes me a better driver 🚙 but the truth is I try avoiding as much as possible especially in the urban areas.
Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 51 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 31st. Northwest wind around 11 mph. A cold, blustery spring day although the sun is helping a lot. A year ago, we had mostly sunny. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1922. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄ Six years before where talking about making mountains ring and angels sing. 🎶
The sun will set at 7:31 pm with dusk around 8:00 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 45 degrees. Last night definitely was a pretty sunset. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 10 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over yesterday.
I probably will do my evening walk tonight 🌃but I’m going to have to bundle up a bit. The stars ✨ and spring peepers last night were nice. Frof
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 27 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 21st. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 21 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1874.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until May 🕊 when the sun will be setting at 7:55 pm with dusk at 8:26 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 74 and 43 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 2001.
How do you demolish a skyscraper? – BBC News
The tallest building ever intentionally demolished was the 47 floor Singer Tower in Manhattan, the only other tall buildings ever to be taken down are the World Trade Center by terrorists. Relatively little thought has been given to demolition of skyscrapers, especially in dense urban areas where they reside.
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The song sometimes called the "hippie national anthem" can be found in all kinds of places. It's been used on The Simpsons and in Forrest Gump, recorded dozens of times by the likes of The Kingston Trio, The Dave Clark Five, Jefferson Airplane, The Staples Singers and the Carpenters (twice). You may have even heard it in a Walmart commercial a few years ago.
The song has gone by a few different names: "Let's Get Together," Everybody Get Together." But the best-known version is called, simply, "Get Together." It was recorded by The Youngbloods in 1967 — the same year as the Summer of Love, where it would become a constant presence.