Author Archives: Alaska

Wilensky said that work done in the rugged Mokelumne River South Fork canyon terrain late Monday may have saved the towns of Wilseyville and West Point. “Air attack was spectacular between 5:30 and six last night,” Wilensky said during a … Continue reading →

Here’s some actual footage of Da Plane. You will want to crank the bass. Worth 27 seconds of your time. ALSO: Whatever crews put out the flames in the middle canyon and Sandy Gulch grasslands, thank you! https://mobile.twitter.com/mattlucas6/status/643593905984835584/video/1j

This guy just dropped a load on a river canyon a couple miles from our place. Fire advanced within the last hour to a mile from a different direction. Crews are on it…

…unless you defect to, say, Russia. But Hillary can’t do that. Oh, would that the delightful piece quoted below prove to be prescient. I am sure that casual mishandling of classified data is rampant among the political elite in DC, … Continue reading →

I’ve run into a couple of DC-connected folks who are generally favorable to privacy rights, but when you bring up Snowden or Assange they growl and mutter something about “not what he seems.”

A delightful long-form review that somehow left me aware of the rapidly fading relevance of the memories of my generation. All the while I was grinning wildly and laughing at snark and old tech. Can’t stop thinking about it, now.

Dilemma for airshow photog: to extend, or not? With f-stop comparisons. Worth the read.