Day: June 3, 2019๐Ÿ’พ

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June 3, 2019 Night

Good evening! Mostly clear ๐ŸŒƒ and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west breeze at 9 mph. ๐Ÿƒ. A bit of a chilly evening but not that bad for June. My Monday headache returned this evening, I think I might just be allergic to Mondays.

Tonight will be mostly clear ๐ŸŒƒ, with a low of 45 degrees at 3am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 10th. West wind 5 to 9 mph. Chilly night for sure but not record breaking cold. In 2018, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1947.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon ๐ŸŒ’ with 3% illuminated. The moon will rise at 6:26 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Sunday night with showers is likely. The Strawberry Moon ๐ŸŒ is on Sunday, June 16th. The sun will rise at 5:19 am with the first light at 4:44 am, which is 24 seconds earlier than yesterday. ๐ŸŒ„ Tonight will have 8 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 6 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers after 3pm. Increasing clouds ๐ŸŒž, with a high of 65 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 2nd. West wind 7 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 66 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1919.

It seems like I’m not detecting the signal on the external temperature sensor I hooked up the other day. ๐Ÿ˜• I’ll figure it out eventually. Probably just a loose wire or bad connection.

I checked the truck cap and all is doing well with the battery. ๐Ÿ”‹ While it was particularly bright and sunny today, everything seems well charged and no odors from hydrogen. I’ll keep an eye on it though. Looking forward to trying it out at camp in a few weeks.

Weekend still looks pretty good. ๐Ÿ˜Ž Saturday, sunny, with a high near 76. Maximum dew point of 52 at 6pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Maximum dew point of 54 at 12pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 76 degrees.

I think I will do some trail work volunteering on Saturday and maybe the Gas Up on Sunday with dad. โ›ฝ It wouldn’t be a terrible weekend to go up North but maybe I’ll wait another week. Then next Monday is the oil change followed by the work picnic the following Tuesday.

In four weeks on July 1 the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm,๐ŸŒ„ which is 8 minutes and 43 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny and temperatures between 97 and 72 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 60 degrees. The record high of 99 degrees was set back in 1913.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunset ๐ŸŒ† is in 3 weeks, July ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿฟ is in 4 weeks, Cow Appreciation Day ๐Ÿ‚ is in 6 weeks, Last Sunset After 8 PM ๐ŸŒ† is in 10 weeks, Labor Day ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿญ is in 13 weeks, Last Sunset After 7 PM ๐ŸŒ† is in 4 months, Columbus Day ๐Ÿ›ฅ๏ธ is in 18 weeks and Election Day 2020 ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ is in 17 months.

Campsite Along Red River

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Inside a Huge PCB Factory

Ever wonder how those fiberglass boards that computer chips and electronics are soldered on are built? This video tours a Chinese PCB factory.

Map: Red Horse Trail

Did Cellphones Bring Down Crime Rates in the ’90s? – The Atlantic

Did Cellphones Bring Down Crime Rates in the ’90s? – The Atlantic

The intriguing new theory suggests that the arrival of mobile phones made holding territory less important, which reduced intergang conflict and lowered profits from drug sales. Lena Edlund, a Columbia University economist, and Cecilia Machado, of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, lay out the data in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. They estimate that the diffusion of phones could explain 19 to 29 percent of the decline in homicides seen from 1990 to 2000.

“The cellphones changed how drugs were dealt,” Edlund told me. In the ’80s, turf-based drug sales generated violence as gangs attacked and defended territory, and also allowed those who controlled the block to keep profits high. The cellphone broke the link, the paper claims, between turf and selling drugs. “It’s not that people don’t sell or do drugs anymore,” Edlund explained to me, “but the relationship between that and violence is different.”

It's often underestimated how much technology changed that ways of human relationships, and while I doubt cellphones entirely drove the drop in crime over the past two decades, all the evidence suggests that crime has dropped due to many different factors.