midendian

Nerd, bear 🏳️‍🌈, hacker, cyclist, traveler, avgeek, geographer, San Franciscan. He/him. KJ6DYS. Landscape photographer and space-borne image sensor enthusiast.

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2024-09-14 22:26:21

back in the 20th century everyone used banks as examples of computer systems that required the highest standard of accuracy and uptime.
luckily in 2024 it's normal for banks to just randomly forget transactions and be offline every weekend for no particular reason.

2024-08-12 02:32:28

#SilentSunday #birds
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2024-07-06 03:06:59

When I was maybe seven years old I made it my mission to figure out how computers work. After many decades it seems unlikely I will ever recover from finding out.

2024-06-30 13:21:03

babe did you remember to turn off the gay lasers last night
#SanFrancisco
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2024-06-23 21:21:49

stroll through the Golden Gate Heights fog this morning. #SanFrancisco #birds
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2024-06-18 13:02:11

good morning #SanFrancisco
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2024-04-08 16:26:21

#SanFrancisco folks: no totality here but there is still some sun-eating. I’ll be with my NIR imaging telescope at the Hawk Hill parking lot in Marin.
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2024-03-20 03:48:05

happy equinox #SanFrancisco. (luckily the rain is coming back soon anyway.)
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2024-03-02 01:14:41

Nob Hill and Liberty Hill rainbow just before the thunderstorms tonight. #sanfrancisco
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2024-02-26 16:05:45

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@npub178r…qekt nicely done! I wonder if the guard house was in the original design.

2024-02-26 00:03:42

two weeks into the new year. no airplanes of note this weekend but some good birds.
#birds #sanfranciscobay #oakland
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2024-02-04 17:23:23

“good morning everyone, hope you enjoyed your breakfast. we’re going to spend the fifteenth hour of this flight trying to land at SFO.”
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2024-01-31 00:26:16

watching the clouds move in. #sanfrancisco #birds
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2023-12-24 17:03:00

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@npub1ema…z20p how about lows? Nights are generally warming faster than days

2023-12-22 19:02:37

lovely blanket of fog on the bay this morning.
#oakland #photography #infrared
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2023-10-23 03:54:02

I’ve lost the plot on the “enshitification” discourse but surely NFC zippers are adjacent. https://ykkasia.com/touchlink-a-zipper-puller-with-built-in-nfc-chip/
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2023-10-17 23:17:49

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@npub1ywy…cksd @npub1mnv…3992 when is the SPAC??

2023-09-28 03:14:19

went to SFO to catch some other things but then I realized President Biden was in town so had to stay for that... barely any light though.
#avgeek #planespotting
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2023-09-22 03:57:48

absolutely brilliant that the two greatest #SanFrancisco queer kink festivals overlap this year: Folsom and SF Muni Heritage Weekend. https://www.streetcar.org/muniheritageweekend2023/

2023-08-30 01:51:26

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@npub1py0…2dqu only has the Galilean moons but little tool to label them for you http://shallowsky.com/galilean/

2023-08-18 00:54:45

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@npub1ev6…nh08 archive.ph?

2023-08-18 00:42:37

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@npub178r…qekt @npub1pc7…r46d indeed, I wish my household switches were just verilog.

2023-08-12 17:20:36

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@npub1503…uxwg oh cool, is it TTL metering then?

2023-08-12 17:03:51

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@npub1503…uxwg what if you carried a 1 or 2-stop ND filter and jankily held it in front, to make sure you get less light total than two full exposures

2023-07-24 23:43:22

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hot box
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2023-07-04 01:47:03

this scrub jay kept me company on the balcony all afternoon, by which I mean menacingly stared at me while making 8-bit screeching and clicking sounds. #birds #sanfrancisco
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2023-07-03 15:24:52

@npub10mp…24py hey what’s the schedule for the lasers? (the internet has become unusable, maybe I should watch more TV?)

2023-06-30 06:18:49

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@npub1503…uxwg I love airplanes but I am baffled why we allow them to exist, especially so close to us. Even in our area they can be the loudest thing we hear at times. Like cars, I just can’t imagine cities allowing them in if they were proposed in modern times.

2023-06-30 06:08:43

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@npub1503…uxwg slightly before my time here, but always surprised me the mountain hasn’t been in the way more often 😬

2023-06-30 02:27:56

Yesterday was 25 years since UA 863 nearly catastrophically hit San Bruno Mountain after a troublesome engine caused some cockpit fumbles departing SFO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_863
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2023-06-27 05:35:43

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@npub1503…uxwg thanks! this ended up a bit 2007 HDR looking but whatever it was still nice to see.

2023-06-26 03:21:18

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last night to enjoy the rainbow though perhaps have to wait until the fog blows out. hope everyone had a great pride weekend! #SanFrancisco
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2023-06-24 06:57:06

looking great San Francisco
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2023-06-12 06:23:37

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@npub1ldk…5msg yeah like I said, fellow millennials.

2023-06-12 06:01:20

I can’t find anything with google search tonight because all the results are in Reddit subs that are now private in protest. Great work fellow millennials we finally killed the web 💪.

2023-05-17 18:32:25

Haven’t had a reason to be in a #SanFrancisco high rise in a while. #ARD23
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2023-05-01 02:44:17

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☁️💨🥶
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2023-04-30 22:40:09

Extra windy afternoon on Kite Hill (pictured kite quickly decided to find a new family). @npub10mp…24py
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2023-04-25 02:04:45

ok so what if we set up little video phone booths in the world’s big cities so the wild urban parrot populations could easily chat with each other https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/

2023-03-26 22:31:15

Southeast Farallons from San Bruno Mountain in near-infrared. Despite the clear skies this morning, the seeing was pretty terrible. And a bit late for whales I suppose. #[0] #[1] #[2]
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