Albany, NY

Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York’s Capital District. Roughly 135 miles (217 km) north of the City of New York, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. The population of the city was 97,856 at the time of the 2010 census.

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Wood water mains hundreds of years old found in Albany

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Wood water mains hundreds of years old found in Albany

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)- Wooden water main pipes were removed by the City of Albany Water Department while they were doing some work near City Hall. They said the wooden water mains are a throwback to the late 1700s. Fireworks celebrate NY reaching COVID vaccine benchmark

Tree trunks bored through the center were laid end to end, sending water from the Maezlandtkill, northwest of Albany, to a reservoir at Columbia and Stueben Streets. The Maezlandtkill was used as a water source from 1797 to the 1920s.

The County Courthouse occupies the site where the reservoir was located and eventually, the wooden mains were replaced with cast-iron pipes. The pond at Wolfert’s Roost Country Club is still fed by the Maezlandtkill.

I bet on nights like this is must be nice to have air conditioning

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I bet on nights like this is must be nice to have air conditioning. Even outside it feels like a swamp.

That said, I really don’t like all the energy that air conditioning uses and how it locks you away from the fresh air. I’d rather sit outside until it’s late, take a cold shower and then go to bed with the fan blowing on me. Or better yet be up in the wilderness in the Adirondacks.

And truth be told, I fear air conditioning has a weirdly addictive quality – people grow used to it and find it hard to give up. But I’m planning at some point to move to a more southerly latitude and if you want to live off-grid without a ton of solar, want to persue outdoor activities like having a hobby farm, you have to learn to accept the heat as part of nature.

The Ledge

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Lows Ledge is a popular place. But not tonight, mid-week hike after work.

Wednesday June 24, 2020 — Albany, NY

June 28, 2021 Afternoon

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A hot and humid afternoon. Partly sunny 🌞 around 93 degrees in Albany, NY. There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 70 degrees. The heat index is 99. The muggy weather ends Saturday around 3 am. 😓 Yes, it’s a hot day.

For the first time since I’ve been working downtown, I went for a couple laps around the Empire State Plaza Concourse. ❄️ Parts of concourse are frigid today, while other parts are quite warm. It was nice to get at least a mile in walking laps in the plaza, because it was too hot and I was too drowsy to go for my morning walk before work, after taking a sleeping pill last night 💊 so I could sleep well. Kind of nice things are getting back to normal.

Tonight though with the heat, I am not sure what the plans are. 📚 It might be nice to go down to the library, or I could go to the park if the heat breaks a bit by seven o’clock, although I don’t really have any good books to read — maybe I should go to the library. No masks are required in the library, and the desks are back and things are mostly back to normal.

Thru The Trees

How Are They Similar & How Are They Different

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Wayland v/s Xorg : How Are They Similar & How Are They Different

It seems like Wayland and other window servers have been talked about for much of the past 35 years to replace the X11 windowing system, but so far most people are still using Xorg as their primary windowing server on unix. I think X11 works well enough, and it has been extended and is widely supported. People may be critical about how there is no one widget set, but it seems like Qt and GTK+ apps play together pretty seemless, and any overhead  with X11 has been made insignificant with modern graphics cards.