Notices tagged with texas
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 19:37:47 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
For today's lunch, I'm trying #Whataburger. People from #Texas seem to think it is wonderful, but my experiences in #Louisiana were inconsistent. Maybe this location in #Alabama will be different. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 04:24:39 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/2023-apr-20 Annular solar #eclipse passing near #Australia, #Indonesia, #Papua_New_Guinea
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/october-14-2023 Annular #solar eclipse passing through #USA Four Corners region ( #Arizona, #New_Mexico, #Utah, #Colorado ), #Nevada, #Oregon, #Texas, parts of #Central_America, parts of #South_America
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/april-8-2024 total solar eclipse passing through #Mexico, #USA ( states of Texas, #Arkansas, # Missouri, and more ), #Canada
Having seen the 2017 "Great American Eclipse" from Cape Girardeau, #MO, I know that the four or five minutes of totality is worth all the effort it will take to get there. I do not know how worthwhile it will be to travel to see a partial or annular eclipse. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 00:53:22 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#USGS reports M5.3 #earthquake in western #Texas. Date & time: 2022-12-16 23:35:29 UTC / 2022-12-16 17:35:29 US-Central. Location: 32.176N 102.130W, 20.4km/ 12.6mi NNW of Midland #TX, 42.9km/26.6mi NNE of Odessa TX
Pager is green for both economic damage (<$1M) and estimated fatalities (0).
Inland, so no #tsunami. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ https://tsunami.gov/ -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Sep-2021 00:41:49 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Slowly assembling the team that will work here. K is here, but not in my building. I and E in my building, but are each being sent to take over another one soon.
Advance teams from another agency have shown up, but they (and most of around 50 other federal agencies) are preoccupied with #Louisiana right now. And I guess parts of #Texas, #Mississippi, #Alabama as well.
So far, no familiar faces from other agencies, but I seeing people from $EMPLOYER that I haven’t seen in person since 2015, 2017, 2019. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Feb-2021 03:10:28 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Interestingly, there's a move to switch major indoor appliances (stove, furnace, water heater) from natural gas to electric. I guess the #Texas experience says that may not be a good idea. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Feb-2021 23:01:45 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-blackouts-wind-turbines_n_602c4e16c5b62767c0aaa263 #TX blackouts are failures of all energy sources, not just wind and solar.
Article’s point is not supported by data, neither is the pollies’ point.
According to an #NPR broadcast last night, 40% of failed generation capacity was solar and wind and 60% was gas / oil / coal / nuclear ... but renewables are less than 40% of the total capacity. That means renewable sources failed at a higher proportion than other sources.
But either way, *every* generation source had its own failures, and this doesn’t even count the inevitable downed power transmission lines due to ice.
#Texas needs to take this opportunity to focus their attention on making their generation and transmission grid more reliable in every area.
(And frankly, I think #California could also benefit from learning this and responding appropriately, as our homes are also thinly insulated, and Cal-ISO already struggles during high demand days.) -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2020 13:02:13 UTC 
Douglas A. Whitfield
I am looking for someone to help out with the Creative Commons Community Music Awards for next year.
I would like someone to be the just for the US Southwest, which by our definition includes the states of #Oklahoma, #Texas, #NewMexico, #Arizona. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2020 18:53:11 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#NOAA / #NHC https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ :
Atlantic: #Hannah downgraded from hurricane to #TropStorm, the storm center has passed over southern #TX and is now over NE #Mexico. Rain and flooding across parts of #Texas and Mexico.
Central Pacific: center of #Hurricane #Douglas passed mostly N of the island of #Hawaii, but heading directly for other islands, including Oahu. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2020 06:20:04 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#TD8 forms in the Gulf of Mexico, expected to become a TropStorm before landing in #Texas, between Galveston and Corpus Christi #TX. Atlantic #TropStorm #Gonzalo expected to become a hurricane Thursday.
In the Pacific, #Hurricane #Douglas getting stronger, expected to become a major hurricane (category 3 or above) Thursday.
#NOAA / #NHC https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2020 19:52:52 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://playvicious.social/@MoMartin/104371792345372618
"... It's not my holiday, I know that. It's not for me, nor should it be, and I don't want to pretend that it is."
https://playvicious.social/@MoMartin/104371803841466861
"Which isn't to say that Juneteenth isn't an important holiday, or even that it shouldn't be a national holiday, as many people are proposing. Just that my personal connection to it, at this moment, is tenuous at best, and I'm discomforted by my fellow white people who may or may not be pretending otherwise"
He's wrong. If he's a US citizen, it is his history as much as it is mine and therefore his holiday. This is one of the consequences, IMO, of having "regular" history most of the year and Black history for one month. Black history (the history of Blacks in America) is American history, and should be integrated into the entire subject.
I grew up in #California, completely unaware of Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in #Texas. In fact, I discovered Juneteenth by being out of town. My mom got invited to a Juneteenth celebration and took one of my sons with her. I have not ever gone to a formal Juneteenth celebration, but I quietly celebrate it in my own mind.
Remember that slavery wasn't just forcing Black people to work for free, the same way we forced horses and mules and oxen to do the hardest part of our labor. It also meant that lower-skill / lower-income Whites faced unbeatable competition ... how do you earn enough improve your life when your employer / customer can give your job to someone else who will do it for nothing?
We can celebrate Juneteenth if we choose, regardless of one's ancestry, simply for what it represents: that we as a nation are committed to trying to live by those words from the Declaration of Independence: We hold that all [people] are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. If your connection to those words is tenuous, you are in the wrong country and the wrong side of history.
And so, no matter what race or color you are, whether you are White, Black, Brown, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, or any other color or race, Juneteenth applies to you as much as to anyone else.
I have no opinion on whether your state should make it a holiday. You can celebrate it without a holiday, by commemorating the ideas that it represents and committing to uprooting the vestiges of slavery in your life, your family, your community. I do recognize that we cannot have 365 officially recognized holidays each year. -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2020 17:43:54 UTC
Douglas A. Whitfield
Starting to think about doing CC Community Music Awards by state for the 2022 edition. If we did that, would anyone be interested in taking a state? I'm not asking for you to commit right now. I'm just trying to gauge interest.
#Alabama,AL
#Alaska,AK
#Arizona,AZ
#Arkansas,AR
#California,CA
#Colorado,CO
#Connecticut,CT
#Delaware,DE
#Florida,FL
#Georgia,GA
#Hawaii,HI
#Idaho,ID
#Illinois,IL
#Indiana,IN
#Iowa,IA
#Kansas,KS
#Kentucky,KY
#Louisiana,LA
#Maine,ME
#Maryland,MD
#Massachusetts,MA
#Michigan,MI
#Minnesota,MN
#Mississippi,MS
#Missouri,MO
#Montana,MT
#Nebraska,NE
#Nevada,NV
#NewHampshire,NH
#NewJersey,NJ
#NewMexico,NM
#NewYork,NY
#NorthCarolina,NC
#NorthDakota,ND
#Ohio,OH
#Oklahoma,OK
#Oregon,OR
#Pennsylvania,PA
#RhodeIsland,RI
#SouthCarolina,SC
#SouthDakota,SD
#Tennessee,TN
#Texas,TX
#Utah,UT
#Vermont,VT
#Virginia,VA
#Washington,WA
#WestVirginia,WV
#Wisconsin,WI
#Wyoming,WY -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2019 18:20:43 UTC 
Stephen Sekula
From MarchForScience https://twitter.com/MarchForScience on Twitter: "Data released this month by the Electric Reliability Council of #Texas shows wind created 22 percent of the electricity used in the first half of the year, edging out #coal by 1%." #greenenergy #windpower https://www.kut.org/post/texas-has-generated-more-electricity-wind-coal-so-far-year?fbclid=IwAR2fOCD720OknO0xCajIROLGn_G2T-BOCZVnqkJQzOGpKTqziLi68BODz0Q -
SDF.ORG (sdf@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2019 16:26:41 UTC 
SDF.ORG
From April 2003 - Western Electric demarcation box originally installed at Sojourn, Addison then moved to McCallum Blvd, Richardson #texas was purchased at the Southwestern Bell #surplus store in Desoto (along with many other things) and was used between 1993 and 1997. It supported 10 #dialup telephone lines (SDF had 8+1+ISDN). It is probably still mounted to the side of the building. #sdf32 #history #phones #bbs
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Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2019 22:30:42 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From SMUPhysics https://twitter.com/SMUPhysics on Twitter: Prof. Joel Meyers discusses the science goals of next-generation cosmic microwave background research efforts. Thanks to @UT_Dallas for hosting the outstanding Building #Astronomy in #Texas Symposium! #BAT2019 https://twitter.com/SMUPhysics/status/1089288915150876673/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/54000 -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2017 00:51:19 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From Twitter https://twitter.com/: #TxWx #texas https://twitter.com/JesseWFAA/status/940055904669409280/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/45295 -
NewsStream (newsstream@quitter.im)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Aug-2016 22:01:16 UTC 
NewsStream
‘C*cks not Glocks’: #Texas students carry sex toys to protest campus gun carry law http://on.rt.com/7nii https://quitter.im/attachment/205015 -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Aug-2016 12:42:13 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From Twitter https://twitter.com/drsekula:
RT @bhamiltonTV: A glorious #Texas sunrise captured on my way to shoot a story for @wfaachannel8. #iamup #goodmorning #sunrise https://t.co/EEjp0xdyvv https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/14631 -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jun-2016 13:53:00 UTC
Stephen Sekula
My first weekend in #Texas with (1) my biological clock set for this timezone and (2) seeking shelter from 37C temps. #IntlTravel -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Dec-2015 20:21:33 UTC
Stephen Sekula
Dec. 21 and we are sitting out on a patio in 66-degree blue-sky weather eating burgers. #texas -
Moving (some day) To Federati...can no longer change usernames (daw@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2015 01:43:38 UTC 
Moving (some day) To Federati...can no longer change usernames
We've narrowed it down to various cities in a few of these states, but in case anyone is curious:
#Kentucky
#Illinois
#Wisconsin
#Minnesota
#Michigan
#Ohio
#NorthCarolina
#SouthCarolina
#Virginia
#Delaware
#Maryland
#Texas
#Washington
#Oregon
#Hawaii
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