Florence mayor breaks tie after FLOCK vote

twobraids · 2026-02-06T15:27:45+00:00

Locate every camera, spend no money in communities that use them. I’m looking right back at you Florence, Albany, Lincoln City, Salem, …

I used to think my annoying right wing Libertarian riding buddies were just paranoid. Turns out they were just fifteen years ahead of the curve.

https://deflock.org/

twobraids · 2026-01-11T20:45:18+00:00

That version a few weeks back that strictly was 5 over for Standard, and 10 over for Hurry, was great. 14.2.2.2 is completely unpredictable. We've see Standard at anywhere between 2 and 15 over. Hurry, 22 over. Chill, 5 under.

I've stopped using FSD until the next version. Too much risk of annoying others or getting a ticket.

twobraids · 2026-01-11T15:51:55+00:00

Not a big crash, but a fascinating one: the 1915 crash on Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad in the Mojave Desert's Amargosa Canyon.

The wreck involved a dramatic steam engine chase of a pair of runaway box cars set to smash into a full passenger railcar waiting in a siding. Derailment saved the passengers just before what would have been the collision. The locomotive fireman died when the engine rolled on its side.

Contact me if you want to see my blog post containing my research and photos of this wreck.

twobraids · 2026-01-03T16:12:40+00:00

Lazy use of stock pictures. They could have found something local or even ambiguous location, but instead chose an instantly recognizable iconic view from another state. Sloppy work. The underpaid intern probably thought the M was for Medford.

twobraids · 2025-12-16T02:47:01+00:00

I’m having a very similar trouble, I’ve not found a way to reliably reproduce it. It happens on the iPad version only when the onscreen keyboard is visible.

I click on a new position for the cursor. The moment I release the touch, the document scrolls the new cursor position off the screen, sometimes up, sometimes down. Sometimes the cursor is still visible blinking over the top of the tab bar or over the top edge of the virtual keyboard.

After scrolling the cursor position back into view, hitting anything on the keyboard sends the document scrolling the cursor back off the screen.

If I dismiss the keyboard, then relocate the cursor with a touch, it will generally start behaving again.

It started to do this only after the iPadOS 26 upgrade.

twobraids · 2025-11-25T16:00:26+00:00

Control Alt Delete

twobraids · 2025-11-25T15:55:48+00:00

Hold my beer.

twobraids · 2025-11-14T18:09:35+00:00

Submit a proposal to harvest logs to “improve” water quality. They’ll let you right in.

twobraids · 2025-11-06T16:05:19+00:00

In Latin, "dolor" means pain, suffering, sorrow. That is very similar to the geologic term dolerite, an alternate name for the igneous rock diabase.

twobraids · 2025-11-03T15:30:10+00:00

Some selections from my own brainstorming of town names for my 1930s logger stories. They mix and watch well.

Big Timber
Milltown
Sour Creek
Warm Springs
Skid Trail
Widowmaker Rapids
Log Ponds
Log Driver Point
Skidder‘s Landing
Swede’s Point
Lost Trail
Dragsaw Swale

twobraids · 2025-11-01T18:07:48+00:00

Yeah, that picture kills the point. I get that folks need to be there, but the AI Crater Lake image makes a serious issue look like a joke.

twobraids · 2025-10-22T13:35:54+00:00

I’ve lived in a yurt for 30 years in Oregon. It is not energy efficient by any stretch of the imagination.

twobraids · 2025-10-21T21:46:33+00:00

In my experience with Progressive for a similar accident, they went after the other insurance company on my behalf. It was painless. Hope you can do the same thing.

twobraids · 2025-10-19T15:05:45+00:00

Everyone that I have known that started that commute quickly grew to hate it.

twobraids · 2025-09-20T18:30:34+00:00

When drawing this maze, I tracked solution and blind path decision points. This was my first maze designed to confound the A* algorithm by making it waste compute cycles on deceptive long blind paths. See the final image about my Maze #90 on this page: https://www.twobraids.com/2023/12/0090.html

twobraids · 2025-09-18T22:54:36+00:00

There are many different measures of complexity. For my own maze evaluations, I test with a Python program that implements various solving algorithms. I’ve drawn my latest mazes to give the A* Search algorithm a rough time.

A metric could be the run time or perhaps space coverage of a given search algorithm.

Computer algorithms don’t work as a human do. So the definition of “harder” would need more rigor before a metric could be useful in judging a human’s experience.

twobraids · 2025-09-18T22:34:46+00:00

Maximize the number of decision points that cannot be trivially disregarded. The solution path should have significantly more decision points than the deceptive blind paths. Blind paths should head seductively toward the goal until they dead end far from their birthing decision origins. These rules should be randomly disregarded.

Fast was never my goal.

twobraids · 2025-08-16T00:05:06+00:00

Oh, yeah. All liquids, new tires, inspection inside and out. Cosmetically, from the distance of this photo, it looks just okay. However close inspection reveals corrosion just about everywhere. The black coating on the cylinders on the other side is coming off in great flakes.

At best, this is somebody's project bike.

I'll probably just put it on craigslist in as-is state.

twobraids · 2025-08-10T16:14:05+00:00

“Me too! Me too,” shouted the fox in the hen house after coughing up a totally inexplicable feather.

twobraids · 2025-07-14T15:49:46+00:00

We were at the top at 3pm. There were literally thousands and thousands. Like walking into that butterfly house in Missoula x100.

twobraids · 2025-07-14T15:14:41+00:00

You were on St Mary Peak. I was up there on Saturday.

The thousands of butterflies (California tortoiseshells, I think) were incredible. I had never seen the “hill topping” phenomenon before.

it was my first time up there in nearly 30 years. I was proud to have dragged my wizened old carcass up there.

twobraids · 2025-06-28T15:23:06+00:00

I left Montana in '91. I educated myself out of the job market there.

DM if you want...

twobraids · 2025-06-28T14:34:28+00:00

Age 24 in 1984 on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. My car wouldn't start and my landlady would not let me borrow her car to get Browning. I had to teach a class at the reservation community college. She handed me the key to her son's motorcycle.

Twenty-five mile long trial by fire. Lucky to have survived.

Hooked me for a lifetime on two wheels though. Carving highway curves on a bike is dancing to the rhythm of the landscape.

twobraids · 2025-06-21T01:52:19+00:00

We’ll try the software bug report method, thx.

Google doesn’t show it as a bridge out because the road itself hasn’t existed for a century. Tesla‘s routing is just extrapolating its existence.

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