Updated just a few minutes ago: The Pioneer Fire has now grown in area to 1756 Acres. 250 personnel deployed. 0% perimeter contained. The SW aspect, typical lake winds and steep topography are exasperating the burning conditions on this early season fire. Lots of new closure areas and trails. The cl...

Driving up from Wenatchee last Monday (6/10), the smoke was already spreading regionally. Not especially of concern locally—but yesterday the fire doubled in size to around 700 acres due to the strong winds. It's a good wake-up call for us. At this point, its considered to have be caused by a struct...

Alice (of Alice and Wonderland fame) might have called it "curiouser and curiouser". Google, whose search engine accounts for more than 90% of the global market, has just rolled out an experimental search feature called "AI Overviews" that can supposedly take the "legwork" out of searching various t...

Zero dark thirty? Who knows?

Really, anywhere with an unobstructed view to the north and as little ambient light as possible should work. I always thought the top of Buttermilk Butte would be a great place to watch the skies at night but have never taken advantage of that and wouldn't even know if the road was passable. If this...

This could be visually interesting if nothing else. Beginning tonight (5/10), our planetary home could be effected by a fairly large geomagnetic storm—rated G4 on a scale of 5—as charged particles from the sun’s corona are flung out into space. This is advertised as the biggest solar storm to hit th...