Gilboa is a town in Schoharie County, New York, United States. The population was 1,215 at the 2000 census. The Town of Gilboa is in the south part of the county and is southwest of Albany.
ccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 59.3 square miles (154 km2), of which, 57.8 square miles (150 km2) of it is land and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) of it (2.63%) is water.
The south town line forms a border with Delaware County and Greene County. The Schoharie Creek flows northward through the town. New York State Route 30 is a north-south highway in Gilboa. New York State Route 23 cuts through the southwest corner of the town. New York State Route 990V is a highway running eastward from NY-30 in the southeast part of Gilboa.
Ducks spend a lot of time in water, nibbling at plants, bugs, and other shoreline inhabitants, If you let them wander in your vegetable garden or flower bed, they will help control garden pests, although you have to take care they don’t run out of other things to cat and start in on your pea vines or pansies. Muscovies in particular relish slugs, snails, and other crawly things. In fact, the San Francisco area once had a rent-a-duck service that loaned out Muscovies to local gardeners. Ducks also enjoy chasing flies, in the process offering not only fly control but also a great deal of entertainment, Ducks also keep mosquitoes from getting beyond the larval stage. Unfortunately, tadpoles will suffer the same fate.
Each area code in NY State has a little over 1 million residents outside of New York City, due to most of state traditionally having 7-digit dialing.
While in theory, within a area code can have 10 million numbers, there are restrictions on numbers that can be used in North American Plan, which gets you down to 7.9 million numbers. It wouldn’t work for example to give somebody the number 911-5424.
But it’s actually much less then 7.9 million numbers per area code, because they allocate numbers out of local exchanges, and many numbers remain unallocated but in ownership of local exchanges and carriers.
NYS Population by Area Code
Except for New York City-area codes, most areas codes in NYS have had between 1 to 1.5 million residents.
Areas with non attainment have emissions inspections but other areas often emissions equipment is clunky and works rather poorly. Automakers lobby for one standard but the problem is that one standard wastes fuel, reliability and performance in areas when the equipment is not neccesary.
Sure, I used other languages – Javascript, Python, C and even C++ but I really liked PHP for there being so many libraries and it being so easy to tie into web apps.
Python was fine but it was something that I used when choices were limited – like for QGIS scripting and automation. Then over summer vacation I got that book out of the library about data science and discovered the benefits of an interactive intrepter with Jupyter. Python’s data frames model with pandas is quite powerful. I enjoy working with them. But I also found matplotlib, the graphing and mapping libraries for Python to be often lacking when trying to output quality, professional looking graphics.
I heard a lot of good things about R so I decided to take it up last autumn, and I haven’t looked back…
R has a werid syntax but the pipe model that can be used throughout is incredibly powerful and ggplot2 with only a little bit of tweaking makes amazing graphs and maps that look like they came out of a professional GIS program. Things I used to do in QGIS, I’m increasingly doing with the R programming language and I even converting a lot of my PHP and Python code now over to R. I am really hooked on this language after struggling with it a bit at first.
I rarely get up that way in the Adirondacks because I don’t like driving on the Adirondack Northway, but there could be a lot to explore up that way, even if they’re isn’t the roadside camping nearby — unless I head back along Boreas Road and camp at one of sites along Boreas Road or NY 28N. That might actually be fun and hike the Roosevelt Truck Trail the next day.
Back in 2020, I hiked back to Hammond Pond. While I was there, I thought it looks interesting to hike back to Berrymill Flow and Moose Mountain Pond. I could stay at the lean-to there or in my hammock overnight. None of those hikes look particularly strenuous, and I think because they’re not mountain tops and are in remote country, they’re probably not super popular either. I would like to spend more time in the remote country, and with my rechargable lantern and battery pack, I probably wouldn’t need a big heavy lantern, and during the summer months could pack lightly, possibly without a big heavy pack frame — or at least not so heavily weighted down.
Although repulsive to consider, the truth is we’re constantly consuming food that’s laced with traces of feces, mostly from other humans. As soon as you accept that reality, you will realize that proper hygiene is the key to food safety.
~ From Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat and Pork by Adam Danforth
I read this Jane Jacobs book a few years back. I am starting to think she is right about the decay and rot that is creeping into contemporary society.
The following is a summary of Jacobs’ description of the decay in each area.
Community and Family People are increasingly choosing consumerism over family welfare, that is: consumption over fertility; debt over family budget discipline; fiscal advantage to oneself at the expense of community welfare.
Higher Education Universities are more interested in credentials than providing high quality education.
Bad Science Elevation of economics as the main “science” to consider in making major political decisions.
Bad Government Governments are more interested in deep-pocket interest groups than the welfare of the population.
Bad Culture A culture that prevents people from understanding the deterioration of fundamental physical resources on which the entire community depends.
But then again, if was sitting in the same seat in fifty years ago, the decay probably would have looked even worse — things weren’t exactly looking up when you looked out in the window of the world in 1969 with the Vietnam War underway, crime and inflation creeping in, and the wheels just about ready to come off the economy as the world plunged into the 1970s.
And she makes a still very valid point when it comes to ideology:
Overall, Jacobs argued that the very concept of “ideology” is fundamentally flawed and detrimental to both individuals and societies, no matter what side of the political spectrum an ideology comes from. By relying on ideals, she claimed people become unable to think and evaluate problems and solutions by themselves, but simply fall back on their beliefs for “pre-fabricated answers” to any problem they encounter.
