All Clear – I Think

Haven't yet had a chance to look around outside yet – just getting daylight here – but things seem more or less OK this far east of landfall.  In many ways a replay of 2020's Hurricane Zeta (#6, #7), but worse for those near the X.  These October storms that come up from near the Yucatan Peninsula are unpredictable and dangerous.

Will give it a look as soon as we have good daylight.

ps later Saturday: 40 mph sustained with 55 mph gusts, tides 5' over normal.  The Hole overflowed onto Bay Avenue, but just barely.  Here's a photo of the trash line, right down the middle.

The Terabyte Coffee Machine

Article at cybernews.  TLDR: An internet-attached Keurig machine blurped out an astonishing amount of data over the users' home network connection.  Probably a bug.  Wry commentary follows.

Do you ever look at something and think to yourself, "This makes no freekin' sense."?  I don't mean the fact that a coffee machine pushed out 1,000 gigabytes of data in ten days, that was almost certainly a glitch in its network system.  I mean, why in the name of St. Kaldi would anyone hang a coffeepot on the internet?  When a heat-producing device is at hand and best operated by hand, does it in any way shape or form need this capability?  It's akin to having a remote control for a car radio, except worse because it reaches out into the rest of the world – and lets that world reach into your coffee pot.

Look, the internet of things has its uses, but you'd better have some competent programming and real security to back it up.  A coffeepot isn't worth the trouble.  Best comment is in the inset image.

Back to your regularly unscheduled October Surprise hurricane.

Close.

As of right now, things are probably OK, but we'll see.

Will be busy for a couple of days, might need a little maneuvering room here.

A Link To: A Media Guide to Amateur Radio

Suitable for emailing to your favorite media outlet, with its own pdf link included, at KB6NU.

Good stuff, both for media folks, or just good background in a compact form for everyone else.

In other news, rain rain go away.

Looks like it will be a few more day.  [sic: dropped the 's' to keep the rhyme]

When cool weather gets here, I just can't say.

Two antenna climbs scheduled for first clear day.

Well that was pretty bad, but being rained in since last Thursday does something to people.  Storm drains here are being pressed to their limits, even after all of the repair efforts by the City over the past year.  Good thing those repairs have been made, we'd be somewhat literally up the creek without 'em.  "Pack it up, see what tomorrow brings."

Raccoons Borrowed My Bike – The Comic Series

It's somewhat less literal than the title, mostly drawings of animals and off-road bikes & related gear, with wry commentary below about the sort of riders and other people who do something somewhat related to the critter in the cartoon.  Best bike art I've seen since the early days of Dirt Rag.  It was supposed to be compiled into a book, but I can't find an actual working link anywhere.  If I can, I'll post it – right after I buy a few copies.  Anyway, here's the link to the 12 installments of 5 series at nsmb.com.

 

A small sample of what's in store.  Still can't find the book though.

Two Transportation Reveals Set For November

• REO Trucks has their initial design for their new Runabout scheduled for sometime this November.
• Surly Bikes has... something? scheduled for announcement on November 2nd.  No idea.

In the market for one, probably not in the market for the other.  We shall see.

Coffeeneuring '26

Briefly, the rules have been announced here.  Starts October 10th, runs thru November 25th.  Give or take; there seems to be some play in the rules with "Early Bird" this and "Secret Bonus Day" that.  Eight rides of at least 2 miles each, eight cups of coffee.

My "probably not" thoughts here.  OTOH, maybe I will this year.  You never can tell until these things happen, or they don't.  Maybe start it and fail to complete.  That sort of fits the mood of life these days anyway.