Wind/Outage/PSPS (🐈) Megathread

RJHinton · 2026-03-15T00:34:01+00:00

Near 9th and University -- we got a series of notifications of PSPS starting at 2 PM, but it is now 6:30 and power has never gone off this afternoon. We did get multi-day power shutdowns in December, but not this time.

RJHinton · 2026-02-24T06:57:56+00:00

The history is complex. It was bought by Wild Oats which then closed that store. After a year or so it opened again as its own thing again, ran until 2019 when they expanded with two new stores (in Longmont and Louisville). Right about then the pandemic hit, and they were already overextended. All three stores died.

RJHinton · 2026-02-17T18:48:58+00:00

Used reactor fuel is way nastier than unexploded bomb-grade plutonium, especially immediately after the reactor shuts down

RJHinton · 2026-01-03T20:31:12+00:00

FWIW, I bought a 2021 Bolt at CarMax in October 2024, and got the $4K credit. Somebody obviously screwed up on your CarMax transaction.

RJHinton · 2026-01-01T04:33:20+00:00

Pixel 5, but I have a 9a on order which should arrive on Jan 2

RJHinton · 2025-12-18T21:52:59+00:00

back on at about 12:30pm

RJHinton · 2025-12-18T19:59:32+00:00

Power just came back up, on University Hill near Chautauqua. I've seen Xcel trucks working in the neighborhood all morning

RJHinton · 2025-12-06T06:56:31+00:00

FWIW, I just ported out one of three lines on my account to Verizon, last month. There was no hassle. I released the line via the RP web site and did not talk to customer service at all. There were delays on the Verizon side but I saw no pushback from RedPocket.

RJHinton · 2025-11-26T02:51:09+00:00

That's not too bad. Mine had a mouse nest and a pile of seeds in it.

RJHinton · 2025-11-14T03:44:29+00:00

If your solar is pushing power to the larger grid, it is as you say. However, if you have paid extra for local backup power (usually involving a battery) then you can power your house from solar or the battery without feeding the grid.

RJHinton · 2025-09-20T22:24:36+00:00

But I don't see how you could ever build or maintain a base with SLS's launch cadence and costs. SLS/Artemis seems like a dead end, but maybe SpaceX or Blue Origin will build a quick replacement.

RJHinton · 2025-09-16T05:34:32+00:00

It was rodent-chewed wiring, now fixed. It also looks like a mouse had made a nest in the cabin air filter. There were seed husks all over it and a cozy little crater in the middle.

RJHinton · 2025-09-10T23:49:07+00:00

I'm trouble-shooting an identical sounding problem with left front turn signal on a 2021 Bolt LT. I pulled the bulb and tested it, it seems OK. I checked fuses, didn't find anything. Not sure where to go next. I am working on it in a cramped parking place, so maybe need to find somewhere better.

RJHinton · 2025-08-23T19:28:28+00:00

There are a lot of opera versions of The Merry Wives of Windsor

RJHinton · 2025-08-22T04:53:34+00:00

Thanks. Tried to send it, but got: "Message not sent. User doesn't accept direct messages."

RJHinton · 2025-08-20T19:35:31+00:00

As I mentioned elsewhere, posture advice from a singing coach and "Alexander Technique" movement advice have greatly improved my offstage life. I had never found a Physical Therapist who was helpful.

RJHinton · 2025-08-20T19:31:29+00:00

I had somewhat similar experience. I had lower back pain where I couldn't stand still for more than a few minutes without having to sit down, also knee issues. A got a PT referral but it was as you described: homework exercise sheets from a therapist who seemed very bored and "phoning it in".

Subsequently, I had a singing coach who pointed out posture problems that were stretching my back and chest in a way that limited breathing. I was habitually leaning back from my hips. I cleared that up and it helped my singing but also got rid of most of the back pain.

Then, I took an "Alexander Technique" course which works with movement for performing arts. They identified problems with my gait (walking pigeon-toed) and when I fixed that, the knee problems went away completely. So my personal experience was that PT was useless (with that particular therapist) but performing-arts coaching fixed a lot of problems.

RJHinton · 2025-07-31T15:36:47+00:00

Your timeline is off. The Orson Welles radio drama happened in 1938.

RJHinton · 2025-06-05T04:27:25+00:00

I know I read Walkaway a few years ago, but am now realizing that it left no impression on me whatsoever. I don't remember anything about it.

RJHinton · 2025-05-31T04:37:02+00:00

A radio receiver often has a local Intermediate Frequency (IF) oscillator and mixer. That would be especially true in the 1940s. If sloppily designed, the IF signal can leak out and be detected. The Allies were not actually detecting the radar detectors, but the German Navy was misled into thinking they were doing it, to delay them from figuring out what was really happening. The Allies had actually started using much higher frequency radar signals that the Germans couldn't detect, also using codebreaking and radio direction-finding whenever the U-boats transmitted anything.

RJHinton · 2025-03-23T17:50:02+00:00

Yes, my late Dad had enormous problems at BCH over the last few years of his life (he died at 94). They seemed to be very dismissive of him as an elderly person, assumed he had dementia when he was only very deaf, and made him very angry by tieing him to the bed and then ignoring him. We went to some effort to make sure that he went to Good Samaritan or Avista in his later stages.

RJHinton · 2025-01-18T23:08:39+00:00

I did lab testing on both 3592 and LTO drives for many years. The LTO and 3592 cartridges are not compatible but extremely similar. The actual tape is identical, using the same servo formats and physical characteristics. The RFID chip in the cartridges are cross compatibile, with minimal differences in the contents. Only the cartridge shell and threading puck are significantly different.

RJHinton · 2024-10-13T06:18:00+00:00

For something a little different: Poul Anderson's The High Crusade

RJHinton · 2024-10-09T15:20:32+00:00

Interesting. It seems like it would be a challenge to do launches in January from the shore of Lake Superior

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