LOCAL: I flew at sunset in “sport mode”. Hoping to fly somewhere close to the river just above the fog level this week. I ran 1.8 miles, my first run in maybe four months.
I recently added Vemno to my list of payment options. Trying different weather feeds for the home page “weather” button. Changed the aspect ratio on some home page images. Other than that, there is zero local action.
DRONE NEWS: Japanese drone acts as a portable lightning rod to cause lightning to dischagre. Deployment along storm fronts to control lightning blasts. Please send a bunch to Tampa, Florida! World’s First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone Protecting cities and infrastructure with a lightning drone—toward a society free from lightning damage | Press Release | NTT
SCIENCE: Public access to drone research. Drones | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
The Synergistic Effects of GCPs and Camera Calibration Models on UAV-SfM Photogrammetry More spots on the ground marked with florescent paint and altitude readings needed for photogrammetry.
ART: I painted Matala Beach on Crete, an island of Greece. Some Deadheads stole all my camping gear near here during my visit ages ago. The occasion was unexpectedly fortuitous. In order to survive without my gear, I had to get a local job and find shelter, so I ran a youth hostel for a month, and that month turned into a year as I realized I was having too much fun to leave.
Midjourney is running a new model, and it is fantastic. I experiment with inputs from text and image prompts, sometimes blending the two.
Falcon P & O 
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