Notices by Douglas (douglasvb@mastodon.social)

Does anyone have an inexpensive recommendation for a hand held 3D scanner that I could take sufficient data to use in SolidWorks or a similar piece of software to make a model of a file to 3D print?

Specifically I want to scan the geometry of the sunglasses holder on my truck so I can replace it with a custom switch panel.

#3Dprinting #Tacoma #3Dscanning

@ai6yr is literally everything contaminated coming from Indonesia?!

@skinnylatte @xabean @adamshostack I would love to find some good durian down here in Monterey. Never have found any durian as good as what I can get in Singapore 😭

The windshield wipers I got for our cars last year from #Costco were really disappointing. They were Michelin brand. They streak like crazy, chatter across the windshield unless there's a LOT of rain coming down, and in general are lousy.

What's good in blade technology these days? And where is a good place to get them?

Finally made it to the Yoda statue.

Kinda crazy that his story ended up being that of an ancient politician who refused to see the signs of an encroaching antithetical political philosophy and actively worked against saving his Republic through his actions and inactions. Then he ran away and hid at his vacation house until some new politician found him to get some advice. And then he died because the kid was so annoying.

#StarWars

We toured some printmaker studios this past weekend during the Santa Cruz Open Gallery weekend.

It's incredibly fascinating how people are making art prints. Most are doing linoleum blocks.

Quite a few are doing a subtractive method where they use one block that they carve away for each color layer. That means however many prints they start with is all they'll ever make of that exact design

Even the folks who have multiple blocks only do at most 50 prints before the blocks are too smooshed

It turns out the Monterey Bay Aquarium now has beer and cocktails for sale... And you can walk around the aquarium while drinking.

They're leaning in hard to the millennial market segment.

With what happened today, it reminds me of how I was on a 🔫📃 of a student at a prior university and all that the university did was tell me about it and that I should watch my back.

Campuses are generally not safe because they're open spaces. There isn't a big security fence and metal detectors. Campus police aren't everywhere at all times. And most of the time it's just fine.

But sometimes it isn't.

Not much growth in the #GarnetFire overnight. It continues to slowly back down a couple of ridges into Dinkey Canyon.

The fuel break that was built behind my parents place a half dozen years ago is having significant improvements made as the last line of defense. Lots of logging equipment and bulldozers and whatnot are in the area doing heavy work.

There's still no evacuation order but the campground and general store nearby are closed to everyone except fire fighters.

I suppose it's a good sign that the fire camp around the #DinkeyCeeek area keeps growing for the #GarnetFire. I would hope that they wouldn't put it right in the path of the fire.

But things aren't looking good at all.

I expect the mandatory evacuation notice for that area will happen tonight or tomorrow.

The shaded fuel break that was put on seven years ago very close to my parents property is now being prepped as a last line of defense.

The fire of still seven or eight miles away.

Waiting for the morning #GarnetFire update but from the overnight map update, it's clear they did back burns along McKinley Grove Road where the 11S12 road connects and out along 11S53. A spot fire slopped over 11S53. Hopefully they can catch that. Otherwise I would expect 10S24 to be the next place they try to catch it.

Hopefully the contingency lines downstream of Camp El O Win are done and ready. I wonder if those will get back burned today.

It's got a real Halloween vibe on the #GarnetFire at night on the fire cams.

This is burning into the bottom of Dinkey Canyon. There isn't a camera to look around the bend and up into the canyon to see how things are going there.

Those red dots are the fire coming down the ridge into Dinkey Canyon. 😬

#GarnetFire

The newest map of the #GarnetFire shows the fire is within a couple hundred feet of McKinley Grove Road on the southwest side of the straight stretch. Hopefully they can hold it there. Otherwise the fire will continue on until it hits the timberline in the vicinity of Nelson Mountain where I was a few weeks ago: https://mastodon.social/@douglasvb/114999823375544423

I'm pessimistic that the fire will stay out of Dinkey Canyon over the next 48 hours.

Well at least the pyrocumulous cloud coming off of the #GarnetFire is pretty in the evening light.

... If luck is on the side of the sequoias in McKinley Grove, the big thunder storms in the area will dump a bunch of rain soon and it'll all be over. Otherwise a bunch of new lightning fire starts might happen. And the downburst threat from a collapsing thunderhead or pyro cumulous cloud is a big threat.

A fire fighter had to be airlifted out today due to a massive reaction to a bee sting 😬

The evening #GarnetFire update will be very interesting.

... straight portion of road where it splits to go to Wishon Lake or Courtright Lake), it's getting close. The fire might be close to jumping that straight road, too. We'll know more when the next fire map comes out.

My parents took their 5th wheel to a campground about ten miles away so it's already staged there when the evacuation order comes. I think they'll pull my dad's friend's trailer out soon, too.

There was just a tiny bit of rain earlier but not enough to register in the rain gauge

It's not looking good on the #GarnetFire. There was a pyro cumulous cloud all day. Some spot fires got into Dinkey Canyon.

Sawyers are working along McKinley Grove Road felling dead trees and machines are going in behind to clear brush to get ready for a back burn either tonight or tomorrow.

The contingency below Camp El O Win is being extended to the south to tie in with lines coming from Wishon.

If the fire hasn't made it to the Helms Work Center near Wishon (southeast end of the ...

...if everyone gets lucky, this will be a repeat of the #RoughFire in 2016 when storms showed up and dumped somewhere between a half an inch and an inch of rain across the region which stopped that fire in its tracks. The #GarnetFire is burning at least partially in the same footprint on the south side of the North Fork of the Kings River

Otherwise if this is not a lucky day, the storms could cause high winds, lots of lightning, and big downbursts which would blow the fire out in all directions

The #GarnetFire looks like it's just tickling Dinkey Canyon north of Balch Camp from the overnight updated fire perimeter map. The fire camera feeds are inconclusive because it looks like there was a strong inversion overnight which kept the smoke close to the fire and makes it hard to see where the smoke is coming from.

There are big thunderstorms starting up in the valley to the west and some huge ones down by Palm Springs. I think the valley storms will miss but the others might hit...