October 17, 2019 Night

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Good evening! Rain and 46 degrees in Dormansville, NY. ☔ Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 29 mph 💨💨💨. Definitely can hear the wind roar around the truck cap tonight. Moon 🎑 is peaking out a bit through the clouds. The skies will clear tomorrow around noontime.

While the truck cap is warm 🚚 the wind really is loud 🍃 tonight. I am far enough away from trees I’m not really wor about one coming down. 🌲🌳

It looks like they got snow ⛄ in the High Country of West Virginia last night. Not a lot but maybe it’s good I went there last week rather than this week. Parents are making out okay on the cruise but apparently it’s been choppy with the Nor ‘Easter with the waves 🌊. Looks like nice weather for the rest of the week for them.

Starting battery 🔋 voltage looked a bit low on my truck but it’s creeped back up and I’m not that worried as the accessory batteries will still be charged enough in the morning in case it needs an additional boost. It will be fine I’m sure.

That On the Farm video I posted earlier 🐮 about wood chips livestock composting is kind of neat. Sucks that YouTube has banned videos of people working with and processing meat. I know Pennsylvania does a lot of road kill deer carcass composting. Composting certainly is better than just burial as you don’t loose the nutrients.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 9th. Northwest wind around 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Going to be mild but wind 🍃y make it feel cooler. All the rain we’ve had plus the wind has been tough on the leaves. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 74% illuminated. The moon will set at 11:47 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Sunday night with partly cloudy skies. The Beaver Moon 🌝 is on Monday, November 11th. The sun will rise at 7:11 am with the first light at 6:42 am, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 13 hours of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 51 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 7th. Northwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Despite the sun, going to be a chilly day with temperatures most of the day in the 40s with a stiff breeze. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 46 degrees. The record high of 84 was set in 2016. There was a dusting of snow in 2015.❄

In four weeks on November 14 the sun will be setting at 4:34 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 36 minutes and 25 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had cold, partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 33 and 22 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 49 and 32 degrees. The record high of 70 degrees was set back in 1973.

I have this rash on my face that looks like poison ivy. 🌿 Maybe I touched something out back. Not sure but I think it’s healing. Annoying though where it is.

Looking ahead, Halloween 🛥️ is in 2 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is a month away, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 6 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 7 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 10 weeks and National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 14 weeks.

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Coal Strip Mines In Penna

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This map shows the location of surface mining of coal by removing material which lies above the coal seam. Includes, but is not limited to, strip, auger, quarry, dredging, and leaching mines. You might get a better view of the mines by zooming in and switching to the satellite view.

Data Source: PASDA, 2018 Coal Mining Operations Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. http://www.pasda.psu.edu/uci/DataSummary.aspx?dataset=271

Getting FREE Wood Chips!

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The On the Farm Youtube channel has gotten a bunch of wood chips to start composting livestock mortality, to turn dead cows and deer guts into fertilizer that in a few years can be spread on the fields rather then just burying the carcasses and wasting their nutrient value.

Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 | WIRED

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Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 | WIRED

More than a year has passed since Bloomberg Businessweek grabbed the lapels of the cybersecurity world with a bombshell claim: that Supermicro motherboards in servers used by major tech firms, including Apple and Amazon, had been stealthily implanted with a chip the size of a rice grain that allowed Chinese hackers to spy deep into those networks. Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro all vehemently denied the report. The NSA dismissed it as a false alarm. The Defcon hacker conference awarded it two Pwnie Awards, for "most overhyped bug" and "most epic fail." And no follow-up reporting has yet affirmed its central premise.

But even as the facts of that story remain unconfirmed, the security community has warned that the possibility of the supply chain attacks it describes is all too real. The NSA, after all, has been doing something like it for years, according to the leaks of whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Now researchers have gone further, showing just how easily and cheaply a tiny, tough-to-detect spy chip could be planted in a company's hardware supply chain. And one of them has demonstrated that it doesn't even require a state-sponsored spy agency to pull it off—just a motivated hardware hacker with the right access and as little as $200 worth of equipment.