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These Failed Designs for the Interstate Sign Are Oddly Disorienting

| December 30, 2018

These Failed Designs for the Interstate Sign Are Oddly Disorienting

I just wish they would have kept the state names on the interstate signs after 1978, as interstate numbers are reused in different states. You can't take New York Interstate 88 to Illinois Interstate 88, nor can you take New York interstate 86 to Idaho Interstate 86. Maybe at some point New York Interstate 99 will connect to Pennsylvania Interstate 99 but that's likely a decade away as several major upgrades to US 220 will be needed to make it a reality.

How Quickly Climate Change Is Accelerating, in 167 Maps | WIRED

| December 30, 2018

How Quickly Climate Change Is Accelerating, in 167 Maps | WIRED

"Blue stands for cooler temperatures, and red for warmer ones. Over time, these maps get really red."

December is tough for solar power, even on a fairly sunny day.

| December 30, 2018

December is tough for solar power, even on a fairly sunny day. I had to start Big Red up.

Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common – Times Union

| December 30, 2018

‘I see no way out’: Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common – Times Union

I think a lot of the problem is those big color televisions that people have with the nauseating pictures that tell people 24-7 to buy, buy, buy. Plus how so much of our youth are indoctrinated by slimmy college loan officers that push debt as an acceptable thing to utilize from the youngest of adult years.

I am kind of glad I decided that I went to Cherry Ridge Camping Area in Madison County rather than the East Branch of the Sacandaga River / NY 8 this weekend.

| December 30, 2018

I am kind of glad I decided that I went to Cherry Ridge Camping Area in Madison County rather than the East Branch of the Sacandaga River / NY 8 this weekend. As scenic as the Adirondacks and the East Branch are there is the constant drone of traffic and trucks downshifting along NY 8 versus only a handful of hunters pickups here. Camping on the East Branch at times feels like camping in the median of an expressway. Plus in many ways the scenery of Madison County is rather different from the Finger Lakes where I was two weeks ago. And much less snow.