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(Update, June 17, 2013 @ 10 pm MDT: The Black Forest Fire — 14,280 acres burned; 502 homes destroyed; 75% contained.) Several of you have been kind enough to inquire about my welfare, given the size and number of wildfires currently burning in Colorado. Rest assured we in the Denver metro are in no danger other than … Continue reading »

I grabbed this screenshot from the Ingress (game) Intel map last night because I don’t expect to see something like this very often. It was a team effort by Enlightened agents to capture the necessary portals (green dots) and then link them to cover a huge portion of the state of Colorado (borders visible as … Continue reading »

It’s not news anymore — forest fires burning in Colorado. Again. After two days of triple digit heat and single digit humidity, with winds gusting to 30 mph or more, the number of fires last night was five. For most of the day yesterday, local TV showed homes and forests burning and residents fleeing, so … Continue reading »

Privacy advocates are understandably outraged over yesterday’s revelations of widespread spying on Americans by the Obama administration. Coming on top of last month’s allegations of spying on AP reporters, IRS misdeeds, and Benghazi bungling, it appears more and more as though the wheels have come off the Obama administration. At first it looked as though … Continue reading »

Last month’s post “Password predicaments” generated a lot of discussion on password managers. As a follow-up I refer you to an Ars Technica article that appeared yesterday — “The secret to online safety: Lies, random characters, and a password manager – Or, how to go from ’123456′ to ‘XBapfSDS3EJz4r42vDUt.’” It’s an in-depth discussion of password managers with detailed … Continue reading »

Just a screenshot I grabbed this evening from the Trail Ridge Road webcam. Thought others might enjoy it too. . ALSO ON PIED TYPE: RMNP’s Trail Ridge Road webcam is online for 2013 New webcam on Colorado’s Trail Ridge Road

Bear with me as I talk tornadoes. Again. I can’t help it. When you live most of your life in central Oklahoma, it’s vital to be interested in tornadoes. And apparently the interest doesn’t lessen when you move away. By now you’ve heard there were 13 deaths in the Oklahoma City tornado on Friday (the count … Continue reading »

Mike Morgan, chief meteorologist at Oklahoma City’s KFOR Channel 4, is taking a lot of heat for telling people to drive away from Friday night’s tornadoes. Did he or didn’t he? I suppose there’s room for misinterpretation. I suppose he could have meant drive south if you’re already in your car. After all, it was rush … Continue reading »

I was checking out my Ingress Intel map a few days ago and on the COMM I noticed the following remarks: “Anybody else hanging around?” “Nope, just an old lady and her dog.” Just an old lady!? For all they knew, that old lady could have been an L8 enemy agent. Those young geeks playing … Continue reading »

Apparently the comment spammers occasionally take time to read what’s been said about them. (I wonder if their bosses know they’re goofing off like that?) Here’s a comment that Akismet was holding for me this morning: Don´t consider every nice comment as spam, its not but here my two cents. It´s all about fitness mates! … Continue reading »

The webcam at Rocky Mountain National Park’s Alpine Visitor Center on Trail Ridge Road is up and running for the 2013 season. The URL is not the same as last year, so be sure to update your links. Remember, the visitor center is at 11,796 ft. and the plows just got to it last week. … Continue reading »

For those interested in the phenomenon of tornadoes, I suggest watching the live feed from Oklahoma City’s Channel 9. I guarantee you the locals do not watch cable news for their storm warnings — despite the expressed views of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News that they are “helping to keep Oklahomans safe” with their coverage. … Continue reading »

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Pink. What do you think of the color pink? What does it bring to mind? Does it remind you of anything in particular? Good things or bad things? Somehow I got onto this train of thought this morning, perhaps when I grabbed a pink patterned shirt from the closet. I have several pink shirts, purchased … Continue reading »

I am emotionally exhausted from seeing and hearing tornado news from Oklahoma City, my old hometown. But this morning I came across something different, a video of the tornado as seen from space — in its own way as frightening as the ground level shots. I don’t know how to embed it here, but you … Continue reading »