The Thresher – YouTube

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America lost two nuclear-powered submarines during the 1960s. The nuclear reactors remain underwater to this day. Phil Ochs did a song about each of them.

"Portsmouth town on the eastern shore / Where many a fine ship was born. / The Thresher was build / And the Thresher was launched / And the crew of the sworn."

More about the sinking of the Thresher. http://ussnautilus.org/blog/the-loss-of-uss-thresher-ssn-593/

More about the nuclear reactor that remains underwater. http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20130310/NEWS/303100355

Upcoming Holidays – March 9, 2022

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  • One month – 7:30 PM Dusk 🌇 – Sat Apr 9
  • Seven Wednesdays until Arbor Day 🌳 – Apr 27
  • Eight Wednesdays until 8:30 PM Dusk 🌆 – May 4
  • Eight Wednesdays until 8 PM Sunset 🌇 – May 4
  • 12 Wednesdays until 9 PM Dusk 🌆 – Jun 1
  • 12 Wednesdays until June 🍹 – Jun 1
  • 13 Wednesdays until 8:30 PM Sunset 🌇 – Jun 8
  • 19 Wednesdays until Ugly Truck Day 🚚 – Jul 20
  • 21 Wednesdays until Campfire Day 🔥 – Aug 3
  • 31 Wednesdays until Columbus Day 🛥️ – Oct 12
  • 32 Wednesdays until Average High is 60 🍂 – Oct 19
  • Eight months – Day After Election Day 🛀 – Wednesday Nov 9
  • Nine months – Average High is 40 🌨 – Friday Dec 9
  • Nine months – Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ – Friday Dec 9
  • 41 Wednesdays until First Day of Winter ☃️ – Dec 21
  • 42 Wednesdays until 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 – Dec 28

How I got interested in GIS 🗺

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How I got interested in GIS 🗺

I have no formal GIS training, as things were still pretty primitive back when I was in college in the early 2000s especially when it came to web services, online data and open source software. Computers where a lot less powerful back then. I remember vaguely hearing a bit about Remote Sensing when I was involved in the Environmental Science Club in college, but it wasn’t something I ever used. 

I picked up QGIS in 2010, as I was looking for a way to make my own topographic maps, as I wasn’t happy with what you could get on the Internet. I learned I could FOIL the primative campsite shapefile from the DEC and get data from there to help find campsites. I was pretty good at map and compass stuff from  my years in Boy Scouts. Over time, I’ve branched out into other GIS areas. I’m always been very interested in land use but also demographics.

More recently I’ve been doing more automation of processes, using Python and R statistical language to do some map plotting and a lot of Census data gathering and processing. I like working with R it’s fast and easy to implement code in. I’ve also lately been doing a lot more with Leaflet and web services more generally. 

I don’t do anything professionally with maps, it’s just a hobby.