Notices by Douglas (douglasvb@mastodon.social)

@mlanger ... way even when I tell it to take me on highway 101.

And highway 17 is a much more treacherous road especially at night or during rush hour.

It's been doing that for about a year now. It drives me nuts. And people who have flown into SFO and then driven down to see us have been lured onto that route not knowing.

Luckily I'm an obsessive map reader and I enjoy exploring alternative routes when I'm out and about so I understand where I'm driving. Otherwise yikes!

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@mlanger is that Google maps?

The route planning on Google maps has gotten incredibly bad in the last year. Whatever AI or algorithmic 🐂💩 they've done is hot garbage.

For instance every time I drive from SFO down to Monterey, it tries extremely hard to route me over highway 17 which goes over the Santa Cruz Mountains and claims it's the fastest and most efficient route versus the much less mountainous and much faster highway 101 route.

And the worst is it will silently reroute me... (1/n)

@ai6yr @EricFielding @max_in_somer @raymondjohnson so all we need to do is have really good dumplings somewhere accessible by bike and freeways will be taken over by cyclists? 🤔

Here's a little #MountainMonday for you from #KingsCanyonNationalPark at the top of #BlueCanyon close to #FingerPeak on the way over #HummingbirdPass

This was from back in July 2016 when my dad and I went on a little jaunt through the backcountry through some of his old wilderness ranger patrol district.

Check out these #succulents ! This is peak #bloomScrolling material.

@ai6yr @mattblaze for all you know, dearly departed uncle Jimmy put some det cord inside that radio chassis in his later years when his mind started slipping but he still has a few boxes of the stuff from the surplus store after Vietnam.

(My parents moving boxes my entire life have been old det cord boxes because of reasons 😅)

@ai6yr @chris even if most of it is intact, a control cable melting could be enough to disable the generators. Or a coax cable could melt and kill the transmitter. Or the AC in the comms bunker could fail. Or etc etc etc.

For that matter, backup generators fail to work about 10% or more of the time. I've found that to be true across the nuclear power industry, hospitals, data centers, and the defense sector over the last 15 years.

Oliver and Winston are plotting something

#CatsOfMastodon

Oliver is not so sure about his festive shirt. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Oliver is thinking about #caturday #catsofinstagram

@croyle @chargrille I'm curious who transmitted it to them. They both got it at the same time along with a friend who has been staying with them. They've had a bunch of family visiting all summer (including me a month ago). My guess is someone had an asymptomatic infection.

The way they found out they had COVID was my uncle having trouble standing. He went to the hospital and they found he was dehydrated. And then they tested for COVID and found that. So he's in the hospital until he's better.

@croyle @chargrille my aunt and uncle both have COVID. My uncle ended up in the hospital. Hopefully it works out okay for them. Being about 90 is tough.

Time for a #caturday post of Oliver. He likes doing rawr arms when he's sitting on a specific table and his mom walks by. He won't do it to me.

@Amber @ai6yr ? bring? back? the ? lake?

We picked up another inch or two of snow overnight at #ForkedMeadow #California

It went down to 14f overnight and is curently 18f.

The weather forecast for the Forked Meadow / #DinkeyCreek / #ShaverLake area now has a #BlizzardWarning for Monday through Wednesday and they're saying 3-7 feet of new snow in that time period will fall.

It's time to get out for more diesel for the snow blower and other supplies before the next storm rolls in.

#CaWx