A comic that I will think about every day for the rest of my life, probably.

(Sauce: https://analognowhere.com/_/ogmxha/ )

Hear me out: why aren’t we just putting the environmental sensors *inside* the camera housings? Why, if I want CO2/PM2.5/Temperature/Humidity/Light/sound levels, must I use a separate sensor net, integration system, and control modules with an entirely different network or wiring? Why can’t we just shove that down the PoE line with TCP/IP instead of some proprietary bullshit?

We need more local sensors for local monitoring. The more plentiful and cheaper they are, the more distributed they’ll become.

This Seattle Times article talks about how a UW professor took local transit from Seattle to Portland.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-to-portland-what-a-12-hour-public-transit-trip-looks-like/

I love this. One of my favorite things to do in Bangkok was explore the city by taking different modes of public transport (buses, mini-buses, trains, tuk-tuks, motorcycle taxis, river/canal taxis, etc). It never occurred to me that you could use this method of travel to explore the United States.

The itinerary for the Seattle -> Portland trip:

7:30 a.m.: Take Link Light Rail to King Street Station
7:55 a.m.: Take Sounder train
9:11 a.m.: Arrive at Lakewood Transit Center
9:20 a.m.: Take Intercity Transit 620 bus to Olympia Transit Center (Note: The 620 bus no longer exists; It has been replaced by Route 600 and 610.)
10:04 a.m.: Arrive at Olympia Transit Center
11 a.m.: Take Lewis County Transit Green bus to Mellen Transit Station in Centralia
11:50 a.m.: Arrive at Mellen Transit Station
1 p.m.: Take Lewis County Transit Purple bus to Kelso
1:48 p.m.: Arrive at Three Rivers Mall in Kelso
3:40 p.m.: Take RiverCities Transit 45 bus from Three Rivers Mall to Longview Transit Center
3:52 p.m.: Arrive at Longview Transit Center
4:30 p.m.: Take RiverCities Transit 511 bus from Longview Transit Center to 99th Street Transit Center in Vancouver
5:25 p.m.: Arrive at 99th Street Transit Center
5:41 p.m.: Take C-TRAN 105 bus from 99th Street Transit Center to Southwest Fifth Avenue and Southwest Alder Street in Portland
6:13 p.m. Arrive in Portland

#pnw #seattle #portland #publictransport