I like to make a variation zuppa tuscana (the olive garden soup) in mine.
1lb spicy italian sausage
1lb bacon, cut small
4-6 big potatos depending on size, cut small
1 onion, diced
1 bulb garlic, crushed
1 cup heavy cream
1 big box of chicken broth
1 bag spinach
Crushed red pepper
Brown the sausage with red pepper first then remove. Start to cook onions and garlic then add and cook bacon. Add broth and potatoes. Once potatoes are cooked add sausage back in. Finish with heavy cream and spinach. The whole bag of spinach seems crazy at first but it will shrink fast.
I mean homepage looks very sleek and I had a sudden urge to set it up :-) , but tbh, having HA set up for both browser/tablet and phone, I don’t think I’d ever actually look at homepage…
Old public clocks sometimes use the mains frequency as a clock signal to maintain correct time. At the end of the day, the power authority is supposed to adjust the signal slightly to make sure these clocks maintain the correct time.
So I built a device that analyzes mains power supply phase variance with microsecond resolution. It's accurate enough that I can see the power authority turning on and off supplementary turbines to keeps the mains frequency correct.
That's how I determine my level of trust in public clocks.
Well, that and maintaining sub-relativistic velocities relative to them. Which is pretty easy honestly. If you're having problems with this, you've probably ceased to be biology or chemistry and started being physics. So you probably have more pressing concerns than keeping time!
I built it myself. I used an optoisolator to convert the sine wave of AC power to a series of pulses, and also for safety reasons (it communicates data over light pulses, so that the mains power circuit is completely electrically isolated from the stuff I might touch). Then I used a microcontroller to precisely time the deviation from 50Hz, and output a serial port via MAX232. A desktop computer logs the data and gives me a real-time graph of the deviation. I might have some sample files lying around somewhere.
The microcontroller (ATMEGA16) ran at 20MHz using a crystal oscillator, and with some slightly funky tradeoffs, I was able to get a time resolution of 50 nanoseconds with an error of about 20 parts per million. If it deviates too far from 50Hz, I get nonsense measurements due to the tradeoff though (I trade measurement range for precision).
The original idea was to analyze tiny variations in phase at extremely short time scales to use the mains power transmission lines as a sort of large antenna array. Then use that to study space weather (e.g. solar wind, flares, etc.) more cheaply than sending up satellites. As a hardened skeptic, I originally built it as an elaborate practical joke due to all those 'Mayan Calendar Doomsday 2012' folks. You see if the world did end, I would have been in a position of absolutely dreadful embarrassment. So I built it as a sort of 'doomsday detector'.
Sadly, that component of the project never worked. I ran it during some solar activity peaks, and was unable to correlate the measurements taken by satellites to anything I found. It does still allow some weird things though, like I can apparently create a phase variance 'fingerprint' and use that to conclude whether a video was recorded in my city, and at what time. I've heard of some people doing that to youtube videos.
I can also get an idea of the power draw of the city I'm in. As people draw more power, the phase drops, then the power authority turns more turbines on. When the load lightens, the phase goes up, and I can see those turbines being turned off. This is sort of fun to turn on and watch if you get home early, you can see everyone else getting home and turning stuff on.
Gorgeous! How’s the hike out to that spot? I really want to go there, but I’m kinda clumsy with an injured ankle so I’m wondering if I’d be able to do it.
It’s long, and high elevation. You can check AllTrails for specifics. National Weather Service for weather at the top (for wind, temp, etc).
If you’re already at altitude, I’d say pace yourself and don’t go in alone. Bring water and proper gear / hat. I see many with hiking polls (often use them myself since I injured myself on a descent once).
Main thing I think is be ready to call it a day the moment it gets too hard. It will be difficult to extract you the further out you are.
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