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rdrr said:
Let us know how your signal is impacted in heavy rain, but I think that might be a rare occurrence in AZ. I am not sure if that would still be a problem with the low orbit satellites, but it seems like it would.
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Only one day, but we had some moderate rain last night and didn’t notice any dropouts while streaming Andor.

And right now it is not permanently mounted. Just basically the RV version of the antenna that you can just set on the ground.

And when we get rain, we get rain. Usually a heavy downpour that will last 30 minutes and flood the arroyos.

I know the cableco made a big deal about rain fade on DirecTV and Dish systems, but I have had DirecTV for 30+ years and yes it happens, but the 3 days cable internet was out for an ice storm far exceeded in total time my rain fade outages.

It is an interesting question as I didn’t notice rain fade outages from my WISP. But I will pay attention going forward.
 
Herdfan said:
Only one day, but we had some moderate rain last night and didn’t notice any dropouts while streaming Andor.

And right now it is not permanently mounted. Just basically the RV version of the antenna that you can just set on the ground.

And when we get rain, we get rain. Usually a heavy downpour that will last 30 minutes and flood the arroyos.

I know the cableco made a big deal about rain fade on DirecTV and Dish systems, but I have had DirecTV for 30+ years and yes it happens, but the 3 days cable internet was out for an ice storm far exceeded in total time my rain fade outages.

It is an interesting question as I didn’t notice rain fade outages from my WISP. But I will pay attention going forward.
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All I know from my days on working with Satellite communication equipment, was I hated really bad down pours (think midwestern tornado season), and winters. We had to support a lot of FAA weather stations and the weather data was transmitted via satellite. Weather did impact the communication, but again this was late 1990s. The winter issues besides the snow storms, was the bigger dishes filling up with snow, and the LMBs getting covered with ice, especially in areas like Grand Forks ND.

It sucked being on-call in the winters for this company, because you knew your sleep was going to be interrupted all week.
 
rdrr said:
Let us know how your signal is impacted in heavy rain, but I think that might be a rare occurrence in AZ.
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I have been in Arizona during "Monsoon Season", which is what you call "Summer". It does not rain constantly, but when it rains, it is fucktastic.
Eric said:
it is just the ugliest vehicle ever created (and I've lived through the AMC Hornet and the Ford Pinto)
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Pacer? How about Aztec? Still, not as bad as Deplorean.
 
My patent case against apple involving the M- and A-series packages is done, as the parties have settled. I can say no more, of course. Now I have some more free time, though.
 
Cmaier said:
My patent case against apple involving the M- and A-series packages is done, as the parties have settled. I can say no more, of course. Now I have some more free time, though.
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Nice! Can we go after Trump for freaking us out about losing all our stock money now?
 
Had an amazing Mom's Day weekend, we drove to a run/trail/huck event about 1-1/2 hours way, stayed close by since it started at 7a, had a blast that (Friday) night, found this insanely good pizza/bar joint. Loaded up :D

It was Mother’s Day and Mexican themed! Mike (the event coordinator) made breakfast burritos (that we skipped, 6a, spicy, bad mix :D )


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The wife did a half marathon and crushed it! I did the back trail ruck/hike (7K), we got hit by some bad weather, which made it even more fun. The trail was really a trail, not packed, lots of loose sand, wet, some areas had pretty big elevation changes, rocks, some bridges across a little creek that runs through the area.

Oh, and we took the Wrangler, did not avoid any mud :D It looked like a proper Wrangler when we were done.

Waiting for Mom from our lovely daughter when we got back on Saturday ❤️


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Eric said:
Nice! Can we go after Trump for freaking us out about losing all our stock money now?
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A bit of good news today:

Apple: +6.31%
TI: +8.71%
Oracle: +4.58%

Still a ways to go from a few months ago.
 
Really wish we had another grocery chain in Canada - as the two big ones are thoroughly committed to screwing every nickel out of us.

Superstore (Loblaws) - aka - the George Weston company - originally got their start as Weston's Bread - which makes WonderBread - has raised the price of ground beef by 50 cents twice in the last 3 months. It was $7.50 - today it's $8.50. (I can remember it being $6 not that long ago)

They also used shrinkflation - over a year ago, those packages were 500g (Canada moved to metric, when, back in the 80's?). Then they changed it to 454g (one pound). This morning, with the latest increase, they've also shaved it down to 450g even. (yep - gotta snake away that extra 4g as well).

Several of my recipes reference the 500g of hamburger - so I'll have to make some adjustments there.

I think it's time to find a good local butcher and stop buying my meat from the chains.
 
I haven’t posted in a while, but that’s because my mother passed away sometime overnight between the 9th and 10th earlier this month. So I’ve been taking some time off. Trying to stay busy, and catch up on all the house/car maintenance that I’ve been procrastinating on. Dealing with the cat who seems to be dealing with arthritis too.

Still sucks to lose half of your direct relatives in the span of 6 months.
 
Nycturne said:
I haven’t posted in a while, but that’s because my mother passed away sometime overnight between the 9th and 10th earlier this month. So I’ve been taking some time off. Trying to stay busy, and catch up on all the house/car maintenance that I’ve been procrastinating on. Dealing with the cat who seems to be dealing with arthritis too.

Still sucks to lose half of your direct relatives in the span of 6 months.
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Understood, I'm sure it's been a rough time but glad to see you back around.
 
Nycturne said:
I haven’t posted in a while, but that’s because my mother passed away sometime overnight between the 9th and 10th earlier this month. So I’ve been taking some time off. Trying to stay busy, and catch up on all the house/car maintenance that I’ve been procrastinating on. Dealing with the cat who seems to be dealing with arthritis too.

Still sucks to lose half of your direct relatives in the span of 6 months.
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Take all the time you need. Self-care is necessary.
 
Have had a pretty grueling shooting schedule over the last month but it looks like several of my shots will be used for a television ad promoting San Francisco.

They take all of the raw footage straight out of the camera and then have a team of professional colorists who go to work on it, I just got a preview of what they do and it's pretty amazing. Once it's released I'll share if I can.
 
Eric said:
Have had a pretty grueling shooting schedule over the last month but it looks like several of my shots will be used for a television ad promoting San Francisco.

They take all of the raw footage straight out of the camera and then have a team of professional colorists who go to work on it, I just got a preview of what they do and it's pretty amazing. Once it's released I'll share if I can.
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“San Francisco: now with 70% fewer needles”
 
Cmaier said:
“San Francisco: now with 70% fewer needles”
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Typical doom scroll clickbait crap we see from right wing idiots who have never been to the city, ignoring the 99.9% of the city that's vibrant and safe. Fortunately we're seeing far more positive stories these days.
 
Eric said:
Typical doom scroll clickbait crap we see from right wing idiots who have never been to the city, ignoring the 99.9% of the city that's vibrant and safe. Fortunately we're seeing far more positive stories these days.
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Spot-on. I've made thousands of photographs (candids and engaged portraits of strangers) in San Francisco, in many neighborhoods including the Tenderloin, at all hours. Zero issues. Shoot out in the open and give people respect and you'll get it back. Sneaking around, pretending you're not taking pictures, etc, etc and you'll likely be challenged.

This summer I'm hoping to do one or two more SF photo projects, publish two books, and give the profits to a SF charity, like what I've done in the past.
 
Eric said:
Typical doom scroll clickbait crap we see from right wing idiots who have never been to the city, ignoring the 99.9% of the city that's vibrant and safe. Fortunately we're seeing far more positive stories these days.
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Thinking of moving to the marina once my kid goes to college. My wife is big on the idea.
 
Citysnaps said:
Spot-on. I've made thousands of photographs (candids and engaged portraits of strangers) in San Francisco, in many neighborhoods including the Tenderloin, at all hours. Zero issues. Shoot out in the open and give people respect and you'll get it back. Sneaking around, pretending you're not taking pictures, etc, etc and you'll likely be challenged.
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We think alike, I put on a high visibility vest, have all of my paper work and am out there in front of God any everyone like I belong there. I have the same experience with people generally being fine with me, some even come up to talk or whatever too. Most of my work is around large crowds these days so you really have to be okay with that sort of thing to do it.

Citysnaps said:
This summer I'm hoping to do one or two more SF photo projects, publish two books, and give the profits to a SF charity, like what I've done in the past.
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Wow ambitious, can't wait to see what you come up with.
 
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