Curt Olson / is on Nostr

Cirrus Aircraft Engineer. FlightGear co-founder. Drone avionics and aerial mapping hobbyist, RC model airplane enthusiast. I can tuna file system but not a piano ... seriously, does anyone know a good piano tuner in the duluth/esko/cloquet area?

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2024-11-07 16:31:25

The yard is looking very #November, not much green left except for the pines (and the buckthorn which I am actively battling.) After rain over night everything is wet and drippy, but the sky is blue and the sun is up! Also, if you look closely, Luna is completing her morning security sweep of the yard. We sniffed where the deer walked through, and also sniffed where we met the skunk, but thankfully the skunk wasn't around. #Fall #Minnesota
Also I have been pondering asymmetry of power, character and moral failings of leadership, social implications of belief systems ... and wishing we could some how find a way to do better and avoid regressing into the same old traps and patterns we fall into throughout history. As crappy and maddening as things can be in the USA, we are still better off than a lot of systems historically, but we could do so much better if we could get past our thirst for disordered power and tribalism and all the other things that drag us down. And yet through it all we somehow manage to procreate just fine as a species so until we completely pollute and destroy the natural things we need to survive, I guess we are all doing pretty ok.
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2024-10-16 12:41:07

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I had to google what that was ... cool, good luck! Funny story (?) my big boss is a super geek the likes I've never encountered before. He's programmed special ring tones on his phone for different contacts that vibrate in morse code, so when he gets a call, he doesn't even have to take the phone out to know who it is.

2024-09-13 11:25:54

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My biggest gripe about many of the C++ extensions over the years is how unreadable (by humans) the code can become. I believe simple, concise, readable syntax is another dimension of coding safety.

2024-07-13 12:57:12

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Wonderful!

2024-07-07 18:46:35

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Sharpie the storm up to lake Superior and we'll show you what 40F will do to your weather.

2024-07-03 00:18:13

I spotted a few lady slippers along the roadside on my walk with Luna this evening. These are the MN state flower. I don't think I've ever seen these in person ... they were 10x bigger than I was expecting them to be. #BloomScrolling
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2024-05-28 12:21:17

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As a member of the covid generation, I feel compelled to purchase toilet paper whenever I see it on a store shelf.