Posted on 06/09/2015 5:58:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The cause of an early morning fire north of San Diego was an electrocuted bird falling from an active power line
A bird carrying a snake in its talons struck power lines north of San Diego, sparking a hillside fire just west of The Merge.
San Diego Police arrived to the location on Dunhill Street near the intersection of Interstates 5 and 805 just before 6 a.m.
Flames were burning very close to businesses including the General Atomics building, officials said.
Officers called in San Diego Fire-Rescue crews who contained the fire within an hour.
Fire officials initially told NBC 7 a bird with a snake in its mouth was electrocuted on a power line and fell to the ground, sparking the fire. A photo released by officials later shows the snake in the hawk's grasp.
"A hawk that hit the high voltage power line, caught fire, and fell to the ground," SD Fire-Rescue spokesperson Lee Swanson said in a written release.
There were no structures damaged and no evacuations ordered.
This area of San Diego is home to many companies in the region's biochemical industry.
Not so much that I don't, it's just such a rare occurrence that for all practical purposes I guess I'm a Teetotaler..
I like dark ales/bock beer/Guinness.. About the only harder stuff I still like the taste of is Tequila..
We have a local microbrewery a couple of miles South and they grow their own hops (sign out front says 'Where Beer Is Grown'...) I haven't been able to find out how/where they sell their stuff though. I'm sure it would be a cut above Clydesdale Pee (or MeshugeMikey's Panther Whizz.)
If I ever manage to find out what their stuff is like I'll let you know..
(Ummm... wonder if you can ship that stuff. ;-)
I just put Kathleen to bed. In ten or fifteen minutes, she should be asleep, and then I’ll send the byos. I had some of my choir members over until 8-ish.
I still have 12 Points left. I’m going to have some toast and butter.
If you know the name of the brewery, the chances are pretty good that they have a website. Utah has a brewery (one of many) that I would like to spend a day or nine in, but I can’t get up there. And I am still looking for places here that sell the beers.
Yes, you can ship the stuff, but I believe you need a business license. If they have the license, check to see if there are any restrictions. Years ago, when I was working, I belonged to the Beer-of-the-Month club. I got two six packs of different micro-brewed beer, and I wish I had been able to keep up the membership. Some of the stuff was REALLY good!
I have been trying not to eat, but of course, the Pills Rule.
My back is hurting a lot, and since I can’t take the morphine at night, I have to take the Ibuprofen, and that makes my stomach hurt. Dang. I wish I were 20 years younger, with the knowledge I have now...
So in a little while, I will go to bed and hope my stomach will settle down a little so I can get a good night’s sleep again. How would it be for a whole weeks’ worth of sleeping well every night? The mind boggles...
How is the toilet training going? Or should I ask?
Dang. I just realized that the wind has picked up, and it’s whistling through the screen in the living room window. And of course, when I realized it, I began to listen and it is really ugly...
105.5, 11%, SW @ 9 —>22
I think I’m going to need another breathing treatment before the night is over. :o|
Bill had to change her ;-).
The toast was good. I’m sending the boys to bed and going myself. Hope you get a good night!
Jake wants to go out, but it’s 50% chance of rain. He can stay in and eat all the cat food.
I have a headache and I’m going to bed and listen to the wind. Maybe it will put me to sleep before my stomach gets too ugly.
See you tomorrow day!
OFF!
Panther Whizz is ..harvested ...from the D.C Zoo....
Ugh.
Adobe updater, “I, update bot, decided you reeeeeally want me to automatically install, AAAAALLL THE TIME! So I’ll do it while you are in the middle of something, fail, then hang your browser! Then your attempt to correct the botched install will fail due to my install program putting the ‘install complete’ hooks in the registry prior to actually being complete!”
Had fun last time it did that to me with Firefox.
I have flash set to beg me to update, that way I can watch it like a hawk.
However, it tries to default to “update automatically, and always at the wrong time” after every update.
With, I’m sure, a direct input channel from the white hut...
At Panther Whizz QUALITY CONTROL...is Everything!!
I am probably crazy for asking.
There’s a little thingie in my system tray telling me I can upgrade to Windoze 10 for absolutely freely nothing. I haven’t clicked enough to see if they ask for a credit card “just in case” but the stuff I’ve seen on the Interwebs make it look like it’s legit.
So, anyone planning on trying Windoze 10? They’re still trying too much to make a PC behave like a phone (IMO) but they’ve heard us on the Windoze Hate so the worst of the worst is gone (it would have been really hard not to improve Windowze Hate).
Will it make my 8GB Windoze 7 machine slow to a crawl? Can I make that personal assistant thingie go away (what do they call it, Cabana)? And can I use good software instead of the Microsquish software they pre-load?
Anyone daring to go there?
I think that my current eXPerimental computer system should answer that question for you.
Windows 10 has automatic updates by default, and you can’t change it.
Oh, and your video drivers get “updated” too, as a bunch of nvidia users discovered.
Now whether or not they have changed that yet I am not certain.
But several “important “ updates that got pushed into the users were nagware designed to nag you with that message once win10 was released.
It was advertised as an update to “improve” the update experience and make it “easier” to update to 10.
Why would you think that asking about anything the evil empire does is crazy?
There’s a little thingie in my system tray telling me I can upgrade to Windoze 10 for absolutely freely nothing.
Here's what I have gathered so far. The 'free' thing is true and good for a year, so you don't need to run over the cliff with the lemmings right away. Also it seems that it will stay free meaning that they won't come back in a year and want you to pay for it. I think the 'Get WinX' thing that you are seeing looks at your machine to see if it can run WinX before it starts nagging you to take the leap but I'm not sure of that. I have at least one machine here that runs Win7 fine but the processor is incompatible with WinX. Since I knew it wouldn't run WinX I didn't let WinUpdate install any of the Get WinX 'important' updates. If I had I would know for sure about that. I suppose I could go to Win Update and let it install the Get WinX stuff and see what happens...
I have a machine here that I am seriously thinking of allowing the update on but as with anything Windoze, I'm not going to rush into it. Reports for the most part say that they have fixed most of the egregious crap they foisted off in WinhAte, and WinX is supposedly faster than Win7.
One down side is that it seems you cannot 'deselect' any updates, although I did read somewhere that there's a way around that. I saved a link to that article in my email for my future reference so I should be able to find it for you should you want it. Supposedly the install routine figures out what kind of device it is being installed on and configures WinX accordingly for either a touch screen or a desktop.
My take for now? Sit tight and wait for the reports of the earlybird lemmings. Since you have that year, and since you have Win7 which I guess is running fine you can afford to hang back and let others play guinea pig. Presumably if your machine runs Win7 it should have no problems with WinX although earlier configurations might not. For instance, AMD PhenomII socket AM3 stuff should run WinX, but earlier AthlonII socket AM2 stuff might not. Don't know the cutoff point with Intel chips since I don't build machines with Intel stuff. That's an economic decision - I can get more processor for a given price with AMD - if someone wanted a screaming gamer machine and cost was no object I could be coerced into using an Intel chip.;-)
Most programs should run on WinX if they run in Win7. I don't know if WinX has a compatibility mode like Win7 Pro does (you know - 'run as Win 98' or whatever). WinX no longer has Win Media Player so if you use that, you'll need something to replace it (like VLC media player).
If you are seriously considering doing that I'll feed you info as I hear it, and since the machine I'm talking about on this end is a 'sacrificial lamb' (meaning not my main box) I have the luxury of experimenting with it. Maybe you can wait until I do this machine and give you a report so you don't leave yourself dead in the water?? (Unless you are really really in a rush - my time frame is going to be somewhere between now and when I get a roundtuit.. ;-)
Today's plush kitten is from England. She will fix your computer for you.
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