April 7, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Cloudy with rain showers and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. β˜” Calm wind. No full moon visible tonight. πŸŒ• Except maybe on Facebook. Neighbors had a fire πŸ”₯, I joined them for a while out back. We sat six feet apart. πŸ‘ͺ Nice night. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Sunday around 2 am. β˜ƒοΈ

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly after 2am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 43 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 1st. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 44 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 2018.

Tonight will have the Worm Full πŸŒ• Mokn. At 10 PM, the moon was in the southeast (124Β°) at an altitude of 28Β° from the horizon, some 226,471 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. πŸš€ But you can’t see it with the clouds. At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by September 26th. Buckle up for safety! πŸ’Ί The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Thursday, April 23. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 5:58 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:27 am in the east (80Β°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 42 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 7:05 am with sun in the east (86Β°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 55 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 10th. Light north wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1929. 4.5 inches of snow fell back in 1907.❄

The latest weekend forecast looks rather stormy and cold πŸ’¨so I’m not sure if I’m going to make any plans. I heard they might even get some snow up north. ❄ I was kind of hoping for an early spring. That said I could see hiking down by the Hudson River, maybe doing some fishing 🎣 and getting groceries at Aldi’s. I was realizing how much more you spend for lower quality food at Hannaford compared to Aldi – and heck they don’t even have people that check out your grocery at Hannaford unless you waiting in line for a while. 🍏

In four weeks on May 5 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (293Β°) at 8:00 pm,πŸŒ„ which is 31 minutes and 43 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 58 and 52 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 66 and 44 degrees. The record high of 91 degrees was set back in 1944.

Thirty weeks until the presidential election.β˜‘ Have you decided who you are going to vote for yet? I haven’t, I can see pros and cons to each candidate. I think certainly Biden would be better from a perspective on climate change, urban policy, criminal justice, and economic issues. 🏫Trump is better on the second amendment and limiting the size and scope of government. Then there are the options with the third parties.πŸ’­ Lots of options to consider going forward.

Looking ahead, Cinco de Mayo 🀠 is in 4 weeks, Flower Moon πŸŒ• is a month away, Strawberry Moon πŸŒ• is in 2 months, Primary Day πŸ—³οΈ is in 11 weeks, and Election Day 2020 πŸ—³οΈ is in 30 weeks.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…Only 44 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!πŸ¦…πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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Dog Brains Reveal How Much Human Language They Actually Understand

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Dog Brains Reveal How Much Human Language They Actually Understand

We love to tell dogs what to do, but we rarely consider whether they understand what we’re saying. Pet owners assume their dogs comprehend commands like sit, stay, or heel — even play dead and make me Instagram famous, for that matter — but without the ability to read their minds, no one can know for sure. An ingenious new study in Frontiers in Neuroscience, however, finds a way to determine which of our commands they actually understand.

Cicero (typography) – Wikipedia

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Cicero (typography) – Wikipedia

A cicero /ˈsΙͺsΙ™roʊ/ is a unit of measure used in typography in Italy, France and other continental European countries, first used by Pannartz and Sweynheim in 1468 for the edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares[1]. The font size thus acquired the name cicero.

It is ​1⁄6 of the historical French inch, and is divided into 12 points[2], known in English as French points or Didot points. The unit of the cicero is similar to an English pica, although the French inch was slightly larger than the English inch. There are about 1.066 picas to a cicero; a pica is 4.23333333 mm and a cicero is 4.51165812456 mm.

Cicero (and the points derived from cicero) was used in the early days of typography in continental Europe. In modern times, all computers use pica (and the points derived from pica) as font size measurement – alongside millimeters in countries using the metric system – for line length and paper size measurement.

Technology Connections – Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X

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This video is super cool. We're talking about refrigeration, and how the design of a refrigerator affects its energy consumption. Freezers are the perfect place to see this in action, so let's take a look!

Chest freezers are remarkably clever for a variety of reasons -- and quite energy efficient for what they do. Yet, they're not as popular as you might think, especially for primary storage of food, probably because it's a lot more rummaging through to find things. There really good to have if you have and harvest animals for meat.