Cercedilla Field Notes: Wind

When I started the field note series I would not have imagined that one of the posts would be about “wind” but I have had an intense last 7 days thanks to the wind in Cercedilla and not for the first time so I thought it is a legitimate post from the field.
Last Monday (February 16th), as we can witness in the picture above, there were burst of winds (“Racha”) up tp 91 km/h (56 mph). I got a call from a kind neighbor (thanks Fernando!) to let me know a tree from my property had fallen and was resting on the communities telecommunication cables (fortunately not electric):

Read on for all the fun that ensued and for last years wind problems as well!

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Notes: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)

Today I read an article that in October Iceland officially classified the failure of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) as a national security risk. If the AMOC were to fail, temperatures in Iceland could plunge to -50º Farenheit and would glacier over.

I first heard about the AMOC in the highly recommendable book “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson. From what I remember is that he said: look at where England is and then trace on a globe to see where that lines up at on North America. Why is one a tundra and the other highly populated? AMOC.

Read on to see my notes on AMOC.

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Flipper 101 Uses

A while ago I saw a post where this guy did 50 different things with his Software Defined Radio (SDR) and I thought it was a really great idea to push something to the limit and explore it fully. So I have been wanting to do the same for my Flipper Zero, a “caprichho” (an extravagance or something I really did not need) that I bought over a year ago, and had fallen into the what I had seen people claiming on the internet: they were only using it as an over priced replacement for a remote control.
Unfortunately when I started this post and before researching my faulty memory remembered it as 101 things to do with SDR but in fact it was 50, but I already had started the post and although I almost certainly will set myself up for failure, but I will leave it at 101 uses for a Flipper!
The only caveat is that I will post this today (01/02/2026) with the tests I have done so far, and continue to add more as I go, updating this time stamp every time I add something: last update 16/02/2026.
Read on what will surely go down as my opus magnum!

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Pebble Round Vibe Coding

Eric Migicovsky had an incredible 2025: he announced the rebirth of Pebble, launched 2 new Pebble watches, shipped one of them, and launched a new weird wearable ring.
And then the SOB starts off 2026 with a bang by announcing a third new Pebble just on the second day of the year: Pebble Round 2! Oh man not sure if he can keep this up, but I sure hope so!
One of his rationals behind an early announcement of the Pebble Round 2 was to give people who have an open order for the Pebble Time 2 the option to switch their order to the Pebble Round 2, which after some internal debate I did. And the reason I did is because I really miss my Hamilton Khaki Automatic and thought: I bet I could program a watch face like it for my Pebble Round 2. The image above is the twelve iterations I did over a day, not programming but asking different AI models to do the heavy lifting for me. So read on for my experience!

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Holiday Season 2025

We have just finished un-decorating the tree, un-decorating the house, packed the boxes, and moved the tree to the terrace (where he will be happier as it is colder than the house) awaiting his pickup from the university students, so it is good time to reflect on how fun this silly season was, rather then be sad.

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