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Open tabs

There are only a couple of tabs open in my browser that are worth mentioning.

1. Researchers discovered that we humans prefer to walk to the left, period full-stop. Man, I love it when some new physics is discovered.
2. I have a couple of photographers open Brendon Burton and John Thomson (via KDO). I’m intrigued by both, but for different reasons.

Ideas

I had a couple of random ideas this week.

2. For some reason I wanted some random strings. I am not an expert in UUIDs or unique strings, but I kind of thought it would be fun to put together a single page site that collects a bunch of the functions for creating those. Every time you open the page it would (pseudo) randomly fill all the different hash values I could think of into copyable elements on the page. A bonus feature is that you could copy a link the page with the seed in the url so you could get back exactly that set of hashes again. I think I wanted to use the hash as a tag for a series of posts on this blog.
3. I fell down the sashiko rabbit hole this week. Of course in that situation I want the ultimate library of stitch patterns and history and applications and all the information there is to know about this beautiful technique. Not finding anything as deep as I wanted online, I naturally started contemplating making such a reference. I have yet to act on that impulse. I did find a few potentially good books that might suffice.

Request for X

Earlier this week, during the red flag warning, I wanted to keep an eye on the brush fires and such. I used to use Twitter for this, but that site is pretty locked down. I didn’t immediately find a good real time situation room type site for broad spectrum local area events and incidents. Any of you know of such a site, even if it’s not SFBA?

Open Thread

I want to try something new here, something a little community oriented. I invite you to share any old random thing you noticed or have open or want help with. Drop a comment and I’ll reply or try to help!

Dang, it’s hot! Today it was nearly 100 F, and for the next week it’s going to be in the 90s. My car said 102. That sucks. Along with that there was a red flag warning, a much higher fire danger due to some wind. Yesterday, on my way home from the office I saw a brush fire¹ near my exit, I smelled the smoke. I guess it was a homeless encampment. What a bummer.

And I’m watching the local weather forecast, and Darren² is saying the really hot weather is only for today. Tomorrow will be a bit cooler, and there is a return of the marine layer. The part of the bay that I am in will continue to be quite warm though.

Also, there are these waves out of the south from a winter storm almost a week ago near New Zealand. I was wondering where these big swells were coming from. Not really wondering enough to go look into it right now, but the answer just came to me anyway.

That’s pretty cool.