All posts by Paul Cipywnyk

Nature, Photography, Streamkeeping, Sustainability

Coho Salmon Smolt Release With Schoolchildren

We released beautiful Coho salmon smolts on Byrne Creek in Burnaby, BC, this morning.

Thanks to Isaac and Brian from DFO for bringing the fish, and thanks to the volunteers at Kanaka Creek who help raise them!

And thanks to the streamkeeper volunteers, teachers, and parents who helped supervise.

coho salmon smolts byrne creek burnaby bc

barred owl juvenile byrne creek burnaby bc
The kids were excited to see this Barred Owl juvenile on our way to the release site

 

Photography, Technology

Spring Cleaning the Photo Drives

Spring cleaning the photo drive(s).

I have a pair of 6TB external drives that I download (and mirror for backup) my photos to. They were nearly full, so eventually I’ll have to get a larger pair, but I wondered if I could delete some photos and put off that expense to later in the year.

It turns out that apparently I used to be much less stringent about immediately deleting photos I didn’t like, be they out of focus, repetitive, badly exposed, poorly composed, or whatever.

This evening in an hour or two I cleared nearly 100GB of space just by going through a couple of years of photos. I suspect a few more hours over the next few days and I’ll be able to clear another 100-200GB.

I also have an 8TB RAID NAS (Network Attached Storge) that I back up to.

You can never have too many backups!

Society

Putin’s Paranoia Includes Dead US Senator, DIA Official

Putin’s paranoia reaches new heights, or should that be 6-foot depths, as new Russian ban on Americans includes some dead individuals:

“Russia bans more than 900 Americans from entering the country, including President Biden and Secretary Blinken: Russia published its updated “stop list” on Saturday, banning a total of 963 American officials and figures from entering the country.

“The updated list included the majority of US senators and members of the House of Representatives, former and current government officials, journalists, military personnel, advocates, citizens, CEOs — and even a few deceased individuals.

“Longtime Arizona. Sen. John McCain and Defense Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Melissa Drisko, who both died in 2018, were included on the list. . . ”

(CNN)

I’m curious that if the “majority of US senators and members of the House of Representatives” were banned, who is in the minority . . . and more importantly, why?