Morning mutterings

[elainegrey]

Yay, i have my laptop back: logic board replacement needed. Then I needed to restore from backup, which i had gotten just before the last failure to reboot.

Skimming the wildfire incident reports in North Carolina is a bit too much like California. Currently there are five incidents, each involving thousands of acres, including onw that is 13 thousand acres. Four of the incidents have hundreds of folks assigned to the incident. I don't know if som of those folks handle multiple incidents at the same time (firefighters couldn't but someone managing logistics could be assigned to multiple). We're to the east of the drought, but it looms as a reminder to do something about collecting rain water.

I'm running SETI@home again. I have mixed feelings about the energy usage, but a nostalgic wish to be involved -- i was running the project in 1999 apparently. There's also http://www.climateprediction.net/ running on the same platform. If you happen to be running on either & on a "team", let me know. I'm on the Sluggy Freelance team and i haven't read that comic for YEARS.

Hoping for a good work day, in particular that the product manager is in a less aggravated state.

Comments

[weofodthignen]

I actually have a friend who may have to evacuate from the Party Rock Fire. Pics are scary.

I'm glad you're doing SETI@home again :-)

M

[zlabya]

Bad enough we had fires in California, but close to you too, that's awful. I hope you get plenty of rain soon to help preserve the trees.

[elainegrey]

My thoughts are with your friend. Today seems to be a bit wet, so maybe this will set back some of the fires.

[elainegrey]

Well, these NC fires aren't *that* close to me, but it's landscapes i hold dear.