収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

northshore bike map release candidate 1

2024-05-01T11:05:02Z

This is a link to my new Greater Northshore bike connector map, built to link the long-maintained Seattle and new Eastside 2 Line Rail connector bike maps. Since we haven’t had one and nobody else is going to connect the dots, I decided I would.

The partially-covered white map at the bottom left is Seattle’s; and the lower-down equivalent on the bottom right is the very top of the 2 Line Rail Eastside map. Everything else is this map.

If printed at 300dpi actual, the map is 24″x10.4″ or 608x264mm in size. It should fold down nicely if you’re into that sort of thing.

NEW IN RC1:

Steepness markings, measured using Google Maps data and trigonometry, with the single- and double-chevron steepness indicators pointing uphill and scaled as per the 2 Line Eastside map.
A couple of very small corrections

What’s not listed: trails on private property and some completely isolated islands of quasi-bike-lanes that go nowhere.

Corrections desired.

Finally, thanks to the other contributors to this map:

Erik H on Facebook (Bothell additions)
@sip@social.ridetrans.it (Shoreline additions)

#BikeTooter #BikeMap #maps #Shoreline #LakeForestPark #Kenmore #Bothell #Woodinville

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

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full circle

2021-11-09T22:43:36Z

I know this is a weird thing to go off about, but I opened a new box of LED light bulbs and kinda freaked out because of old, old muscle memory.

At left is an old incandescent bulb I still have. At far right is the brand new LED. All the bulbs are in order of age/purchase, from ancient incandescent to the first reasonable-light-quality LED to an improved middle version (still quite heavy!) to a nice plastic bulb from last year.

The two on the edges are glass.

They’ve finally pulled off exact replacement. The texture and even the weight are right. (I checked; the LED is 3g heavier but I can't tell that just holding it in my hand.)

They've finally done it. It's so weird.

Full circle.

Wow.

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Useful resource post

2018-12-07T21:02:26Z

I'd reblog this, but you can't do that here, so I'm just going to link. mdlbear has put up a good compilation post on getting the best out of Dreamwidth, linking to a lot of posts and resources specifically aimed at people coming over from tumblr, but also from other social media servers.

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The headline says "probably," the reality is "all but certainly"

2016-05-28T16:57:37Z

Being the Only Woman or Person of Color Applying for a Job Means You Probably Won't Get It

A second woman for the same job multiplies an individual women's odds of getting the job by a staggering 7900%. A second person of colour in the pool multiplies the odds by an utterly blinding 19400%. And the odds of getting a job as woman in a slate with three men or a person of colour in a slate with three white people is statistically zero.

https://mic.com/articles/142185/being-the-only-woman-or-person-of-color-applying-for-a-job-means-you-probably-won-t-get-it

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la la la la lightbulbs

2016-05-27T23:37:21Z

A couple of weeks ago I needed to replace a floodlight and discovered makers have mostly stopped listing CRI numbers, which pisses me off, and that I think is probably because they've decided 80 is Good Enough, which - okay, it's pretty good, and it's a lot better than anything off a compact florescent bulb. But >90 bulbs are available and I want them!

So I started ordering high CR and replacing/relocating-to-less-important-area other bulbs and it's kind of got away from me a bit. Because if CRI data is going to be difficult to get I'm gonna buy a lot of bulbs that I know are right and install them because they will last a good little while, so.

(Don't get me wrong, 80 is entirely reasonable. But I can get 92-93 and I will pay extra for it, where 'extra' translates to "$1-2/bulb.")

I also figured out that what I was really doing when I was mixing colour temperatures of CF and traditional tube bulbs wasn't so much for the colour temperature itself as for filling in the gaps in spectrum and improving the overall CRI.

So if anybody in your house cares, these are good:

A19 60 watt equivalent: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O75K6AS/
A19 40 watt equivalent: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RQPHU5K/
BR30 (overhead can) 60/65 watt equivalent: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LTAOIA8/

"A19" means "ordinary bulb" for people who don't speak bulb types. The BR30s are not always as good in dimmers as the packaging says, according to reviews; I don't have any of that type dimmers, so I don't care.

If anyone is wondering, the CRI of LED filament bulbs is 80, which is, again, perfectly reasonable. But one can go above that if one so desires.

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2015 Honda Fit USB Power Capacity: 1A

2015-06-16T05:28:24Z

I wanted to post this somewhere so that the next person who goes looking for it can find it. It's not online anywhere - I know, I looked - and it took a week for Honda Support to look it up. They had to go ask Engineering, because nobody in support at any level knew.

The 2015 Honda Fit USB ports provide 1A (1 amp, one amp) of DC power, at 5V. If you want more than that, get a 12V Power Port to USB adaptor, and make sure that said adaptor provides the amperage you need. Here is one example. That's actually up to 4.8A because I believe in overkill, and my 12V port has plenty more power than that to provide, so we're nowhere near safety limits.

FYI.

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my latest obsession

2012-01-13T08:04:52Z

I recently found turntable.fm. It’s kind of a chat site except for playing music. Each room is a also DJ room; you can play music for everybody in your room, your own or from the site’s library. People can take turns playing DJ, and they make it easy to buy tracks you like, which is how they make their money and how they don’t get shut down. You need a US proxy server or a an IP in a block that is generally believed to be in the US because of DMCA bullshit, but if you have that, it’s pretty epic.

Here’s the thing; I live in range of KEXP and C89FM, two of the best independent music stations in North America. I listen to them! They’re locally programmed and that’s awesome, because they’re run by people who care about music.

But they each have their preferences. There’s a definite KEXP sound. Same for C89FM. Once upon a time, a decently-sized city would’ve had a few of these stations – if you were lucky, several – so you’d have non-generic options in the ways you don’t, generally, now. Most towns ended up with zero; we’re lucky even to have the two.

This brings some of that back. Different rooms, different DJs, taking turns, a lot of different styles. You guys, I have bought so much new music in the last couple of days it’s just stupid. And cool. Like a fez.

WE HAVE SHOW POSTERS! TAKE AND SHARE! Print some out for your bulletin board! You must have something, right? I know it’s the Friday of Conflikt, I take the gigs when I gets ‘em. NOT ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO CONFLIKT! So come here if you’re not, and bring a friend. Three bands, three sets, no cover! Show page here, poster:

Click image for the JPG; the PDF version is here.

Oh, I forgot; I’m DJ Solarbirdy on turntable.fm, and am usually in J-Pop-and-Anime or Indie While You Work. But I hang out in the K-pop room sometimes too and I will wander around. Wave if you see me. ^_^

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil. Come listen to our music!

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Mostly for my own reference: Ubuntu Studio 8.04 and Jack

2009-10-22T23:36:14Z

I'm not going to work on this right now, because I'm trying to make a CD, not tweak the DAW more, but here're some instructions for optimising Jack on Ubuntu Studio 8.04. I have not done all of this - mostly I still have PulseAudio running. But for future reference: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

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