Fire Update:
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There's been more smoke again for the 
last few days, but rain is in the 
forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.
 
The 12mm of rain we had last Tuesday 
was the most we'd had all year. Some 
parts of the Bush Creek fire got over 
20mm, so that was good. On the other 
hand, a typical summer used to bring 3 
or 4 really hard rainfalls, which 
doesn't seem to be happening any more. 

Solderpunk mentioned in his latest 
phlog post that he has started 
worrying about summer in advance.

gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/talking-about-the-weather.txt

I dread it. Every year seems to bring 
intense heat, widespread wildfires, 
and thick smoke. 

One of my friends at work showed me a 
website run by NASA that shows exactly 
where the fires are actively burning:

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/

If you zoom in, you'll see that you 
can get very granular detail.

There's information for other parts of 
the world here:

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/



Typewriter OCD:
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I've buried myself in typewriter 
triviata for the last few days. There 
is an active typewriter community 
online and their kindness and decorum 
is nice to see. Some of the typewriter 
bloggers have feeds of each other's 
posts, like the webrings of old.

Here are a few great sites to check 
out:

The Typewriter Database
https://typewriterdatabase.com/

Welcome to the Typosphere 
http://typosphere.blogspot.com/ 
(look for the blog list at the bottom 
of the page and click on "show all" to 
get a Bongusta-like/Antenna-like feed)

Typewriter Talk (a forum)
https://typewriter.boardhost.com/

Ted Munk's Blog
http://munk.org/typecast/ 
Munk runs the Typewriter Database and 
has also produced a series of 
typewriter repair manuals.