Grahame

Fish and chips @

Vanilla honey lavender / pumpkin

The rain has improved the air quality

Visiting Brits this weekend, so playing tourist. Went to the top of Mt. Tam, Saw San Francisco / Bay Area views I can see Skylark / rancho borago / Fairfax from here

Happy Birthday Peter, You purple ramen eating, cool cat! *birthday noise*

Happy Birthday, Peter!

Happy Birthday, Iain!

Happy Birthday, Carl!

Happy Birthday, Vicki!

(Continually) Updated aggregate of affected wineries, etc. https://sf.eater.com/2017/10/10/16451014/northern-california-wine-country-fires-affected-restaurants-wineries-businesses

Not the pumpkin (but I can always come back) @ where else

One local resident / celebrity is OK https://murraypark.nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=45119018 https://murraypark.nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=34211094 https://murraypark.nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=47411037 (Lets just say, a turkey with three dedicated threads, and over 120 replies, on nextdoor.com, is big with people with time on their hands) But I think they may be contemplating getting away from the area.

Indeed. Re: above http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Cannabis-harvests-threatened-by-Sonoma-County-s-12263991.php

via: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/wildfires-running-amok-in-california

Steve, You of all people should know the technical term is "flaming".

re: melted wheels / rims Melting point of Al (the element, not our beloved DOTU) Aluminum 660°C 1220°F https://jalopnik.com/the-tennessee-wildfires-are-so-hot-theyre-melting-car-w-1789542112 no doubt more images will surface Some here from local news(paper) Devastation of local residential and commercial areas is heartbreaking. http://www.sonomanews.com/topics/?t=OCTOBER_FIRE No respite, tomorrow. This seems a bit too familiar, but we're out of the worst of it thankfully and now .. Closing in? latest updates here : https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&mapcenter=0&cityid=314

@mikeymad T-1000 remains in the car park/parking lot - eek!

https://mobile.twitter.com/Weather_West/status/917420404611751936 https://mobile.twitter.com/Weather_West/status/917420404611751936/photo/1 You can make out the south end of the sf bay , and Monterey bay on the coast. North Bay , SF peninsula covered in smoke. elevation map, for comparison

Awoke to a pervasive smell of smoke, and sky’s that were clear blue yesterday, now a hazy grey. Marin County Fire, Marin County AGENCY Marin County is experiencing heavy drift smoke from several large fires from Sonoma and Napa. Residents and visitors will smell smoke. Red Flag fire conditions are in effect for Marin County. High Fire Danger is expected throughout this weekend. Call 911 only if you see a fire or a visible building column of smoke. Live updates ... https://mobile.twitter.com/nwsbayarea The horror for stretch (and others)

No skateboarding involved.

Jeff, Can you buy A Hope, Or A Chance?

Salted caramel and black blackcurrant Cabernet

Jeff, Don't confuse Stretch's Gym bike with his Beer bike

Re: 1. "Cloud" needs to be your own service account. etc Multiple Services - avoid single point of failure (assuming you can determine they use disparate systems. Doesn't help if they are all (virtually) hosted by "BigCloudCo" But at this point you are moving from a "HomeBrew" solution to a startup business plan. Indeed. But does it matter? In a large enough system, something is always going wrong. So deal with it. To the point where you don't notice. Netflix is the tech poster child for such issues. "3. The best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly." "One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most — in the event of an unexpected outage." https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws-1f2a28588e4c