Post pic of your 3rd Gen Taco w/ a scenic background...

Down in Long Beach today...

 

No smoke in the area?

Long Beach.

 

Eastern Sierra Mountains (Two different times of year)

 

Flagstaff, Arizona Cinders OHV area.

 

Naa not down there, at least today. I'd be surprised if they had any this week to be honest. The way the winds have been blowing most of the week took the smoke from the Eaton Fire (Altadena, Pasadena, etc) east/south east, and the smoke from the Palisades Fire west/southwest. I live in Burbank and I only smelled smoke one day this week which is surprising considering the proximity to the Eaton Fire and the size of both...





Took this last night from a high point in the lower Verdugo Hills; that's the Palisades Fire right as it was cresting over the hills. I don't rattle easily but with my GF in Studio City, the fire that popped up about 1/2 mile from her apartment, and the winds, it's some scary shit:

 

Thanks for update.

I have Family in Rancho and Alhambra.

I've been in touch with both and they are doing well.

 

I was just the other side of the Oakland Hills Fire back in the day.... 1991.... saw cars driving out of the hills with their
trunks on fire.... it's pretty scary.

 

Definitely scary. My folks home got burned down a handful of years ago in the OC. Ironically it's better to get torched to the ground than have bad damage from an insurance perspective.

Hopefully we have seen the last of the casualties from the LA fires.

 

Well, after a two year wait, we finally got some snow in the SE. It's still not the Tacoma, but it's a lot of fun, and I'm guessing most folks are here for the scenery and not the trucks..

 

I bet thats more fun than a Taco!

 

SE Arizona

 

Driving around some central Kansas farmland yesterday and I fell in love with this old stone structure with a collapsed roof.

 

If dark enough would make a nice foreground for a Milky Way Shot. Put a lantern inside or something and shine a flashlight briefly at the building
during the shot..... September around 8:45 pm is a good time to get it.

 

My how things change...

When I first got into the computer industry I remember working with 100MB disc packs which one would pull off of a rack, snap off a plastic bottom, screw the pack down into a drive bay, and then pull the plastic dust cover off. Once inserted you'd close the drawer or lid of the drive, spin the disc pack up (a process which required brushes to sweep the surface) and then launch the heads (a process where they would be inserted from the side of the drive into each of 20 platter surfaces, have the heads "crash" in the outer crash zone and then "fly" a few microns above the surface). The disc packs were thousands of dollars each and the drives were many tens of thousands.

I told you the above to tell you this; the company I work for was just absorbed into a large Indian company (roughly 1,000 times our size), and my work laptop just had a huge amount of security related bloatware added to it. It kind of boggles the mind my laptop has more power and storage than the full acre of computers and storage devices I worked in back in the 1970s, only to have the bloatware slow my machine down to something akin to an old IBM PC XT. Annoying. I did some analysis and the bloatware is chewing up so much memory it leaves no room for the applications I need to run to do my work, so, I decided to follow the old adage, "I'd rather ask for forgiveness rather than beg for permission", and I ordered a 64GB memory module for my laptop for a whopping $110. Back in the 1970s, a single computer couldn't even address a fraction of that much memory, and even if it could, I expect that much "RAM" would have cost somewhere in the millions of dollars, if not tens of millions.

 

And almost as expensive!

 

Been there but we used 20MB disk packs ( platters ). Then new drives came out to handle 300MB packs. Wow. I remember upgrading the entire
system with a new machine sporting 1 MB of RAM. That RAM board was 18x18 inches square, we were in high-cotton with that board.

We were limited to 2 character variable names and 2 character (flat) file names. The system could only open 4 files at a time so we had to constantly close
one 'channel' to open up another file, grab data, close that channel, and re-open the previous file.

I'm also old enough to remember gas at 38 cents a gallon.... heck I'm so old I remember when the dead-sea was still alive.

 

Geez, sorry folks, I posted the "My how things change..." post in the wrong thread.

 

I'll pardon us both...

 

Somewhere in Windrock.