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This is my new boss. She's worked at Mono County Office of Education for 17 years, so I know her well. I think she'll do a good job, so I was happy with the appointment.

 

It's important to elect sane people to your local school board, and not insane culture-warriors, so please take a look at the interviews. These three candidates are entirely normal, and NOT the ones you need to look out for.

Jason interviews Karen Keehn and Steve Elia for school board. Both are former teachers IN the district, and are excellent candidates who volunteer throughout our community, and have for decades.

For city council, Dennis Freundt, co-owner of the Bishop Grocery Outlet store, and is another perfectly sane candidate. I hope you hear what they have to say, and vote for sanity, and not some crazy idiot pushing conspiracies or culture-warrior BS.

 

Firefighters from Inyo and Mono counties are staffing 12 different trucks/crews that have been deployed to the Line Fire in San Bernadino County.

 

Enjoy the Millpond Festival!

 

BISHOP, Calif., September 9, 2023— Inyo National Forest timber management staff have made a special firewood collection area available within the Lakes Basin starting Monday, September 9 at 6:00 a.m. until the end of fuelwood collection season, or until the supply runs out.

 

She represents Inyo and Mono counties in the state legislature, and the incident reportedly happened while visiting Inyo county.

 

Another near tragedy. Glad this one worked out for the hiker.

 

Pretty sad story - please be careful on 395...

 

This all-female quintet, first made waves in the burgeoning Los Angeles music scene in the late 1980s, back when the Palomino was ground zero for the post-cowpunk California country scene.

Now having re-emerged as Mustangs Of The West, they’ve got a new Americana country sound and a record deal with 3 albums on Blue Elan Records/KZZ Music. Founding Mustang and lead guitarist Sherry Rayn Barnett reunited the group with lead vocalist/writer/acoustic guitarist Suzanna Spring and bassist/vocalist Holly Montgomery – inviting new members Aubrey Richmond (fiddle/mandolin/vocals) and Suzanne Morissette Cruz (drums/percussion/vocals) to complete the new lineup. Suzanna Spring’s original songs bring the heart and soul of the group together.

 

Howard Scheckter, local weather legend, passed away August 25, 2024. He posted his final report on his mammothweather.com website. You can click the link to read it. We'll all miss him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I also have the Virtuoso+, which was my first step beyond the blade grinders I had always used, and it's a big upgrade. You're going to really notice the difference in brews. Congratulations!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I did see this: Baratza single dose hopper with bellows. I don't have one, but that may be something I get later. I suppose a bellows might be decent at getting the last bit of coffee out of the burrs. It's not too expensive, so perhaps I'll give it a try...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s the first guitar my parents ever got me - a 1983 Aria Pro IIrs “Wildcat.” Made in Japan (in the famed Matsumoku factory), it’s a Strat copy with dual humbucker pickups, and a push-pull volume knob that will coil-split either, for a good single-coil sound as well. For an inexpensive instrument (I think it was around $200 in 1983) it’s very well built. That’s why I’ve kept it all these years…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I guess my only question is, why is this happening when there is literally no wind blowing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Well, I can say definitively that I know what is making that clicking sound. It's hard to see since the cable is in silhouette, but there are silver-colored spirals wound around the cable, and the sound is made by the plastic sheathing of the black cable wobbling inside of those metal spirals. The spirals are made of aluminum, I'm pretty sure. Those spirals are put there to stiffen the the hanging cable, and appear on the hanging cable between every set of poles (not just these, that are wiggling). There are two spirals mounted on each cable between the poles. I assume the spirals are mounted there to provide damping, just in case the wind does cause the cable hanging between the poles to swing too much. But, there was no wind blowing when I shot this video (Dec 5, 2023). The voice you hear is mine, just speculating on what might be causing the oscillating cable...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No, I've never tried to quantify the variables in that way. Just out walking the dog, and notice this strange behavior from time to time. I always assumed the poles were placed a specific distance apart, but honestly, I'm not sure. I suppose if I ever have the urge to pace it out to get a good estimate, I will...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm. It's odd that this isn't ALWAYS vibrating, but it IS only between these two poles that I've noticed the vibration. But why not between other sets of poles? And since the cable vibrating the most isn't a power cable (I believe it's fiber, but it could be copper - but it's definitely telecom, since it's not insulated on the top crossbar, as the other power cables are), it can't really be much power going through it. I'm kind of hoping someone else has seen similar behavior somewhere else. You can see the anti-wind-twist devices (don't know what else to call them) bolted to the other telecom cable (sort of diamond-shaped) and they will cause the cable to stabilize when the wind is really blowing, but you can see the wind isn't blowing at all, and the cable continues to vibrate quite noticeably. I really do hope someone else has seen something like it elsewhere...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Time After Time is underrated. Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell. McDowell, playing H.G. Wells, invents the Time Machine, and then Jack the Ripper uses it to go to the future. H.G. Wells follows him to stop him, and he meets Steenburgen in “modern” times (the then-current 1980’s.)

Fun movie - a sci-fi thriller, I guess you’d call it. Still one of my favorites, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ditto! Was waiting for logins to get fixed on v.19x instances. Thanks so much!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's good to hear. Looking forward to the actual release update, since I'm not on the beta, and therefore can't log into my home instance until that gets fixed. Appreciate hearing that part is fixed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks. I'm fortunate to live in the area, and just happened to be able to pull over and take this one. Not too bad for handheld, I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, down for any v.19x instance for me as well. Avelon seems to be struggling to keep up. Had to switch to a different app to log into v.19x instances (using Voyager seems to work on any flavor instance right now). Been several weeks that Avelon is broken on v.19x instances…

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