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Andy Arthur

November is around the corner. 🍂 The colors are rapidly fading, the nights are growing long, the politicians are doing their thing, the tricker-treaters and manure spreaders their thing too. The woods soon will be full of the sounds of rifle fire, and the chill of winter and snow will be flying shortly.

High Temperature by Population – Continental US – October 31, 20243

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High Temperature Above Population Population Above Percent Above
25 21,220 327,058,841 100.0%
30 215,295 327,037,621 100.0%
35 1,845,044 326,822,326 99.9%
40 8,144,265 324,977,282 99.4%
45 9,869,044 316,833,017 96.9%
50 15,615,877 306,963,973 93.9%
55 12,164,844 291,348,096 89.1%
60 13,333,672 279,183,252 85.4%
65 41,774,202 265,849,580 81.3%
70 44,444,529 224,075,378 68.5%
75 93,845,023 179,630,849 54.9%
80 64,703,034 85,785,826 26.2%
85 19,451,411 21,082,792 6.4%
90 1,631,381 1,631,381 0.5%
Andy Arthur, 7/27/23. Data Source: 2020 US Census – NWS Digital Forecast Dataset

Saving Files 💾

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Bill Atkinson says the concept of saving files, was a bad design compromise that was implemented due to slow speed of file writes on floppy disks — that risks the loss of hours of work.

A much better system — not practical in era of floppy disks and non-threaded processes — would require you to set the file name when you opened a new document, then the file would be automatically journaling, and if the program crashed or computer lost power, you would loose very little data.

Auger Falls Via Griffin (East Side)

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Auger Falls Via Griffin (East Side)

A little used way of hiking back to Auger Falls via NY 8 and Griffin and the Auger Falls Snowmobile Trail. You can either park on NY 8 or at the Griffin Parking lot, then hike back from there. It's about two miles, hiking along an old woods road. The best views of the falls are short bushwhack from the the trail when it runs along the river, heading south along the river, until you are looking directly over the falls.