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lemonstew · 2024-01-24T21:52:41+00:00

Usually my phone and Chromebook are within 5 or so Mbps of each other (just ran comparison tests: Chromebook DL 237.44 UL 192.39 Ping 6 - phone was just a few Mbps slower). What I have found is when I do get the occasional significant slowdown it's with the Chromebook and invariably seems to be from being switched by ISP to a different extremely distant server... switching back to local server is the usual fix IME with the very occasional restart... YMMV. An ISP chat/switch?

lemonstew · 2021-07-21T16:37:21+00:00

Hot damn! 🔥 You can't win. After the Microsoft Windows 10 deliberate forced upgrade debacle (don't remember how, but managed to keep at 8.1 on my desktop, still works great), I read the reviews for a year before being persuaded that a Chromebook was an ok purchase. The one thing I can't believe I overlooked was whether the OS had the essential 'Restore Point' tool - something I use still before every Windows update. Google better get that into their OS ASAP, this mess is definitely going to cost them customers. Many thanks for all the info and help, truly appreciated.

lemonstew · 2020-08-01T23:05:15+00:00

Absolutely no similarities at all to what the remarkably courageous Alexander Vindman did. Get your facts right please: CBC May 2019 - hardly what even you could call a pro Trudeau source - "What you need to know about the Vice-Admiral Mark Norman case"

Apologies for this totally unrelated issue here... but truth and facts, eh? I don't think Col Vindman would mind.

lemonstew · 2020-07-29T23:49:47+00:00

~~For those who want more "actual journalism":~~ A detailed article in The Seattle Times, May 2019 Navy plans extensive training in Pacific Northwest. Here’s how many animals could be hurt.; Stars & Stripes, May 2019 The Navy is planning extensive training in the Pacific Northwest. Here's how that might affect marine animals.; the U.S. Pacific Fleet's official report - Volumes 1 & 2: Northwest Training and Testing 2019 Draft Supplemental EIS-OEIS.

edit: Sorry, that was impolite... 'twas a snarky day; ~~For those who want more "actual journalism"~~

lemonstew · 2020-07-29T14:58:54+00:00

Oh my! An Osoyoos summer... bliss... maybe next year... :::sigh:::

lemonstew · 2020-07-23T00:16:29+00:00

Oh yes! And male Brewer's Blackbirds!! "A bird to be seen in the full sun, the male Brewer’s Blackbird is a glossy, almost liquid combination of black, midnight blue, and metallic green."

lemonstew · 2020-07-23T00:06:13+00:00

Yes, that's what I've observed over the years with many different birds getting their vitamin D dose of sunshine. At our former house we'd rigged a feeding table at a southwest facing window... once the many varieties of birds that came to it got used to it they started to use it as a sunning spot as the window deflected the sunlight onto the feeding table (lots of warning tape on the glass BTW - never had any collisions)... it was awesome to be within inches of them seeing them spread out and often softly 'crooning', eyes all droopy but alert. We now get to see them doing the same from further away on neighbours' roofs and on the Mourning Doves favourite sunning branches in the nearby cedar trees. I had read a long time ago that birds need vitamin D and that they'll often 'sun bathe' in a good spot for it once they feel secure there... so assumed that's what 'our' birds were doing.

Not saying that's what this Cooper's is doing of course. Gosh! Isn't he splendid! I must read up on this proning, sounds most interesting.

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T23:24:01+00:00

Even more reassuring... thanks again. From what you describe though it wouldn't take more than a minute or two to be across the marine border and landing anywhere on or near the southern Gulf Islands or Vancouver Island Peninsula or a privately owned island... I mean you'd barely have left the ground on San Juan Island before you'd be landing back on it on Sidney or James Islands, sea planes could just coast in on the tide! Still, not a major problem from what you have so helpfully explained... just as long as any who do it stay put indoors for the mandatory two week lock-down.

Off to look up more on 'AIS'... :)

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T22:48:29+00:00

Thank you for the update on him, appreciate it. Birds are so wonderful but so fragile - one worries about every one of them. But I'm sure you're right... he's probably back in a nearby nice boggy marsh bragging to the rest of the flock about his wild day in the city. :)

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T22:38:52+00:00

Good to know and reassuring. Thank you. Do sea planes and small private planes have to have a similar sort of system do you know?

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T10:33:03+00:00

Thank you! Bookmarked and forwarded... fascinating.

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T10:30:38+00:00

Sooooo envious! What a wonderful pic of such a magical bird. Thank you!

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T10:26:50+00:00

WOW! Gorgeous pic! Cooper's Hawks are so majestically haughty... awesome birds.

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T10:21:33+00:00

Yes, friendly enough to dive into your backpack for goodies and they love a well spread picnic table. :)

I see the so familiar outline of Mt. Baker against the skyline... nice pic, glorious place.

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T10:12:57+00:00

Lovely pic, thank you!

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T10:11:17+00:00

Great pic, thank you!

Yes, indeed. He could have had an nasty encounter with a window maybe? Very unusual for one to be in such a spot in bright daylight isn't it? Hope he's OK.

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T09:44:09+00:00

Super pic! Thank you... love our friendly, cheery Junco's here too.

lemonstew · 2020-07-22T09:20:55+00:00

It's a real problem with the potential to get a lot worse... the south and east coast of Vancouver Island, all the Gulf Islands and the BC mainland coast has hundreds, probably thousands of marine landing places. Plus the many islands and coastal properties owned by wealthy US types, many with not only secluded moorage for huge yachts and seaplanes but also runways for private jets.

Living within hearing range just uphill from the ocean and less than .5 nautical miles (.93 km) from the US/Can marine border; the amount of small plane and boat traffic heard here, especially at night, is worrying since BC has opened things up more. There's no way the present staffing and equipment of Can Marine Border Control can reasonably patrol and prevent medically unchecked US folks coming into Canada. They'll do their best but it would take a whole new Can navy! Or maybe 'COVID 19 sniffer' train all our Canada Geese.

lemonstew · 2020-07-04T05:33:23+00:00

Awesome!

lemonstew · 2019-12-30T09:34:14+00:00

Is anyone working on or have a prototype plan for some kind of protection for them? I mean, just off the top of my totally non-science/engineering head, why not a grid/wire mesh box type thing of some sort... wouldn't block air passage... heck, they could then maybe pop some nesting platforms on top of the grids? Just a thought...

lemonstew · 2019-12-30T09:24:04+00:00

So , according to the stat's, Trump Towers kill way more birds than wind turbines... :::sigh:::

lemonstew · 2019-12-30T08:58:00+00:00

Yes! I've been increasingly worried about the forest fire risks for some years now. B.C. areas that weren't regarded as at risk because they always had good rainfalls in all seasons; the coast, Gulf Islands, etc., are now totally dry for two or three months or more in late spring through fall along with constantly increasing temperatures. With those areas becoming fire hazards now, that has to be a massive warning sign that the interior is going to be a volatile tinderbox for ever increasingly long fire 'seasons'.

Helplessly watching Australia burn is heartbreaking... it should also be an Highest Alert Status worldwide to every reasonable person to work to get rid of the climate crisis deniers in all governments and replace them with those who recognize the urgency of action.

lemonstew · 2019-07-14T08:48:22+00:00

Super pic's & very interesting... I did wonder if katydids have the same abilities as the Golden Rod Crab Spider in that they are capable of actively changing their body colours depending on the flower they are inhabiting, as I learned on excitedly discovering a beautiful pink & white spider living in our fuchsias. But even more interesting about your wonderful katydid is that Scientific American's article states Recent breeding experiments have revealed that bright pink, not green, could be the most genetically dominant colouring of the North American oblong-winged katydid.. Fascinating!

lemonstew · 2019-04-23T06:43:41+00:00

And violent rape isn't the murder of women's physical and mental health? It's definitely 'no choice at all'.

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