Canadian Geek, not a geek in a can. Ph. D. in Chemistry from SFU. Plays tabletop RPGs. Crystallography nerd. Moved to @canageek@wandering.shop
British Columbia, Canada
Joined November 2008
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BC Wildfire Service has classified the Kalamoir Park Wildfire as being held, meaning it is expected to remain within its current boundaries.
Conditions continue to be favourable, and crews are now mopping up and assessing safety in the area. Based on this progress, changes to evacuation orders are anticipated later this evening.
Sign up for updates at coemergency.ca/subscribe to receive timely emergency notifications as conditions change.
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RELEASE
The wait is over. After nearly 5 years of tireless work, we are proud to release Fallout: London.
gog.com/en/game/fallout_lond…
youtu.be/rahBCfRdVac
*Stay safe. Mind the gap. And thank you.*
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Welcome 2024
A new wildfire has been discovered north of Lytton, burning in the Skoonka Creek area on Saturday.
The fire is burning west of Highway 1 and is currently listed as out of control by BC Wildfire Service. Currently 30HA in size.
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Under Justin Trudeau, for every affordable home that gets built. 11 affordable homes are sold off.
They're bought up by corporate investors - who increase rent.
Rich investors are getting a ton of help from the Liberals - while you get none.
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For the past month, every time I've walked past a gas station with my girlfriend, I've turned the price of gas into a spot for a fictional Ontario FM radio station
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About 10 fire trucks and 4 police stationing at Glenrosa fire hall. It’s getting busy
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This is the McDougall creek fire heading down into powers creek Glenrosa . This is the concern here
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More than 120 firefighters and 38 pieces of equipment from across the region have returned to West Kelowna
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⚠️UPDATE: #BCHwy1 #BostonBar TO #Lytton - will be CLOSED TONIGHT (Tue Aug 29) 8:30 PM - 6 AM TOMORROW (Wed Aug 30)
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There is debris flow risk due to forecast rain.
#HopeBC #FraserCanyon #BCTrks
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All of Glenrosa and everything North of HWY 97 in west Kelowna added to Alert. Winds are violently picking up
Oh, one last #crystallography thing while I'm here: I've written some software that takes PXRD output files and extracts the experimental parameters used to run the experiment, and makes a nice PDF.
I'd like to support more file formats such as #Rigaku *.ras and *.rasx files, but I need more examples and information on how they were run so I can learn how they store information. If you'd like to help with this, please get in touch. #RealTimeChem #Xtallography
If anyone wants to try it out, bitbucket.org/pxrd-report/px… - I can also help you get it running if you aren't used to using python; At some point I'll see about getting it made into a single exe.
There are no more evacuation alerts on my side of the lake, so I can stop checking twitter to get the latest wildfire news. So I'll be going back to Mastodon: @canageek@wandering.shop if you want to stay in touch.
And yes, I hate that is by far the fastest way to get news. Thanks to @Okanaganscan for their faster then official posts as well.
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In the latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics by @compoundchem, learn about some of the chemical recipes behind common kitchen shortcuts: brnw.ch/21wBVy6
ALT Infographic detailing the chemistry behind four kitchen chemistry hacks. The first is slowing fruit browning. Fruits brown due to the oxidation and polymerization of phenols. Adding acids, such as lemon juice, wrapping the fruit in cling film or otherwise blocking oxygen slows browning by reducing the activity of the polyphenol oxidase enzyme.
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We apologize for providing the incorrect phone number in this morning's press conference. The correct number to speak to a remote ESS Representative is 1-800-585-9559.
Visit cordemergency.ca/ to stay up-to-date.
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Just in: BCWS says limited growth on the Clifton and McKinley fires over night. Fire was burning rank 2 towards homes overnight #kelowna #lakecountry