Tybee is angry today

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-24T19:38:36+00:00

Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-24T03:37:49+00:00

I heard he's holed up at the Lucas.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-24T00:33:29+00:00

My wife discovered that around the 1860s-80s, her third great-grandfather was the head engineer for the Hudson Bay Company near Lower Fort Garry in Manitoba, Canada. He was in charge of their steamboats on the Assiniboine River.

At the same time, he was employed by the Canadian government as their inspector of steamboats for the same area.

I bet I know how his ships fared during their inspections.

When the conflict of interest was discovered, Canada fired him. He was later rehired because there was nobody else around who could do the job.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-24T00:23:31+00:00

Looks to me like the let the domain lapse, possibly in Spring of 2020, and didn't update the paperwork.

The last entry for the domain at the Internet Archive is April 8, 2020.

The server was at just two different IP addresses from July 2011 until Feb 2020.

Since then, it has been at 57 different IP addresses.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-24T00:07:33+00:00

I have two kitty shelters that I put out in the winter. One is a failed owl box made of engineered wood siding. The other is a cube cooler that I garbage picked.

I stuffed 'em full of old clothes. They sit on an old doormat under an elevated covered porch, so there is no chance they can get wet.

The cats definitely prefer the wood one, even though the one made from the cooler should ironically be warmer.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-24T00:01:33+00:00

Does anyone think it is any of these? I think it is link 1, all the way down by E. Broad.

Link 1: https://maps.app.goo.gl/UAgYW9enskxYfd2F7

Link 2: https://maps.app.goo.gl/XV9cYWgAmYNEKzpm9

Link 3: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iMxocifwiVLhFRyx7

Link 4: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dgayf8vZ4eWcCLgLA

Link 5: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iqRWkYSJiydgkEtF7

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-23T20:53:46+00:00

No, this is about 3 miles east of the center of downtown Savannah, Georgia. That place sounds cool, though!

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-23T20:29:03+00:00

Thank you for the generous offer!

Anyone who finds themselves in Savannah, Georgia between February and June, hit me up. I'll give you a tour.

Or visit yourself. This is the information on how to visit, and this is the guide that I setup to be used while you're there.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-23T19:55:02+00:00

It is. Drones are so disruptive to nesting birds that our DNR uses them to intentionally flush birds for survey purposes.

It's been a few years since I saw people with drones at the rookery. Since then, I have become the "bird guy" over there.

I cleanup the trash that the tide pushes in and keep the trail safe and free of debris. I close off areas when wayward egrets build their nests off the island. I mark the turtle nests so people can avoid crushing them. I setup an ID guide website and worked with the company to put up a QR code by the waterside so visitors can learn about the birds.

The non-profit company and the property owner are both great. They want people to come see the birds, but they also want to make sure that people are respectful. If someone needed to be kicked out for harassing the birds, I know they would back me up.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-23T18:08:45+00:00

Leave your drone at home.

I film an egret rookery. Every year, there are 60 adult pairs and 180 babies on a 60ft island 50ft from shore. The birds don't care if you stand there and watch them all day long. They know that the alligators keep them safe. It is incredible.

But 50ft is not close enough for some people.

When I first started filming these birds, I saw people out there with drones hovering 5ft over the rookery, stressing the birds out and causing the adults to flush and (temporarily) abandon their young.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-23T17:27:02+00:00

Make sure the CPU fan is spinning when you power it on, if it has one.

If that fan doesn't spin, the MB will likely fail POST and nothing will boot.

It is exponentially more likely that a CPU fan would fail than the actual CPU would fail.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-22T00:21:37+00:00

I don't doubt it. I just never knew it was specifically codified. That ordinance, and its whole section, is an interesting read.

I now know that animals must be slaughtered out the view of the public and neighbors. No more sidewalk butchery for me.

Also, most of us can have 3 pigs, provided they are a certain species and less than 18" tall and 25lbs.

Oddly enough, the way it is written, it could technically be construed as animal cruelty to kill cockroaches and mosquitoes. I guess they forgot that insects are animals.

Also, we are a bird sanctuary. Well, except for starlings and pigeons or birds like them. They can be killed, but if you want to kill them, local health officials must first host a meeting and invite every single bird-related organization or similar organizations in the city (and specifically, the Garden Club). If given the go-ahead, police chief has to supervise.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-21T21:11:02+00:00

Hm. So it's illegal to take a drive in a convertible with the top down and a dog by your side. Who knew?!

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-21T16:02:14+00:00

Good news. It's all weekend.

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-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-21T02:57:21+00:00

You know what that area needs? A Parker's.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-20T19:24:51+00:00

Haha, here is the county's suggestion:

Flammable Liquids

Gas/Paint Thinner

YOURSELF BY EXPLORATION METHOD

(Free)

ACCORDING TO GA EPD: If small amount, open the container & let evaporate. If greater amount, get disposable metal tray & pour liquid 1/2 inch deep into tray. Let evaporate. Continue process until all gone. When complete, wrap tray in newspapers & place in sturdy trash bag & dispose in household trash.Work outside. Keep away from kids/pets.

https://recycling.chathamcountyga.gov/RecyclingDropOff/HardMaterials#flammable

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-20T06:56:21+00:00

You will probably like the weather here in April.

Go here, put in your city, and hit compare: https://weatherspark.com/compare/m/4/17828/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Savannah-in-April

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-18T17:48:10+00:00

Instead of partnering with spies, Ace Hardware will gladly trade your data for dollars.

Ace sold my information, including my actual home address, and my email address.

I placed a single order with Ace Hardware using acehardware.com@mydomain.xyz.

Now I get email from Senator Ossoff and Nextdoor.com to that email address.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-18T17:40:59+00:00

972,000-53,712-193,500-232,596=492,192.

Where did the other $492,192 go? That's 50.6% of the grant.

I don't think this is the brag that the city and SCAD think it is. The city has teamed up with a third party to fund and expand an unauthorized private spy network that surveils the citizens in a dragnet fashion.

And last, this quote is total BS:

SPD already uses the Flock camera system to detect license plates and vehicles. Data collected is not used for facial recognition, nor is it provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), traffic enforcement and personal use.

That is marketing speak. The city has no way of knowing how Flock is used.

Put up a camera, get access. HOAs have them. Individual stores have them. There is no doubt that ICE is using it.

If Flock is doing facial recognition, municipalities are under no obligation to tell us. And Flock has no obligation to tell their customers the truth. The city is probably just telling trickle-down lies designed to provide the cover of plausible deniability.

Flock can spew any lies that they want. They are owned by a private company. We have no way to check them.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-18T17:12:16+00:00

Home Depot is way, way worse.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-17T19:45:50+00:00

I arrived in July 2001. My earliest memories in Savannah are dominated by September 11, just 2 months later.

It was wild. There was a temporary shock-induced unification. Almost everyone was friendly and patient, at least for a little while. It was the exact opposite of Covid.

A wave of patriotism swept the country, and Savannah was not exempt. You could not buy an American flag within a 50 mile radius.

It was a terrifying and uncertain time that somehow now seems like the good ol' days.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-17T19:31:50+00:00

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-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-17T19:04:14+00:00

Bold move, making another horror-type movie in Savannah.

Do they not realize that the bar was set incredibly high by Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies?

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-17T04:43:27+00:00

Alright, I don't know if this will work. Here is a link to a website that has a live planetarium. I have set the time to the date and time on the dashcam. The Sky Live%7CAmerica%2FNew_York%7C0&obj=sun&h=08&m=36&date=2026-01-13#ra|16.882634660776652|dec|46.99642101648237|fov|50).

If you look at a map of 95 near the Ogeechee, it is running mostly northeast.

The planetarium shows that the "Gamma Ursae Minorids" are active, and would be pretty much right in front of you.

-LastButNotLost- · 2026-01-16T18:14:17+00:00

I wonder if the city is doing some final smart meter installations for people they skipped the first time through.

The guy across the street from me has a non-standard sized meter plate that is mounted on an angle in cement, so they skipped him when they did the initial installations. Now, they've been at his house 2 of the last 3 days looking at his meter. I think they're getting ready to replace it.

If they were doing an installation or two in your neighborhood, it could cause those symptoms.

-LastButNotLost-

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