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Christopher "the" Agocs
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Big nerd who likes ships and airplanes. Recent Seattleite. Even more recent amateur radio operator. Send me fountain pen and bird pics. He/him

A dozen raccoons piloting a person-sized Eva.
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I emptied out my nightstand drawer looking for my earbuds. Didn't find them, but I did find these:
An old Seiko watch, a pair of gardening shears, three 18650 batteries, the car keys I've been looking for for months, and a chuck key, all laying on a paisley bed spread
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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It's always executive hour in here
A black cat peeking out of a cardboard structure that looks a little bit like a miniature Costco. It's called Warehouse Cat Scratcher
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I'm having mixed success on the Wayback Machine. Something like this?

web.archive.org/web/20160727...
Screenshot of Star Trek Gallery: Behind the scenes with a photo of, uh, I think the guy who played Kirk in the Kelvin timeline Trek movies? I'm not good at faces. It's a man wearing black posing near some hexagons
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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I was reading this skeet and out of the corner of my eye I saw this can of Pringles and I thought they were related
Witch Cabal, Ph.D.'s skeet juxtaposed against the next skeet in my skyline, which features a can of Beer Can Chicken flavored Pringles
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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For you.

Now I should get back to work
This is not a source of truth, it's a protest. Limitations to be aware of: I'm one person, and I threw this together in one night. It's imperfect. Most airlines don't publish their cancellations, so I'm querying an API that only gives me today's flights. United chose to publish their cancellations for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so I have included all of them. There might be duplicate records for codeshare flights, or codeshare flights might be missing altogether. Updating this data is expensive and time consuming, so I will probably only do it a few times a day. Basically, take the information here with a grain of salt. If you are checking the status of your own flight, go to your airline's website.
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Hey Andrew
A screenshot of the Vercel Edge Requests dashboard, showing sporadic activity over the last 6 hours
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I am in awe.
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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A screenshot of Panama, showing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and specific places where you can see the Pacific to the east and the Atlantic to the west
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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If y'all ain't on the sad dads discord, that's probably okay as it's not that interesting most of the time.

(I'm purposefully not listing real boroughs to annoy the real new yorkers in the discord)
A discord screenshot powerbtn 6:22 PM i am fascinated by the nyc election mostly cuz i dont know what the boroughs stereotypes are Agocs 6:25 PM Yonkers: Fugeddaboudit Hell's Kitchen: Walking Here Coney lsland: Egg and cheese on a Kaiser roll Prospect Park: [on their cell phone in line for a halal cart] powerbtn 6:26 PM i should have said counties but i think it translates Agocs 6:26 PM Jersey City: Buck a slice Staten lsland: (spiritually Trenton)
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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yeah man that's why it's the first book in the series
A Youtube thumbnail. The video is titled "The Confusing History of Ender's Game (Series)", and the thumbnail has the text "Ender's Game was just the beginning..." The thumbnail features a (probably AI-generated???) pulp sci-fi style illustration of a translucent boy in front of some generic nebula/stars/etc with a tiny spaceship in the background.
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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CloudKitchens - Travis Kalanick - Software Engineer Hi Christopher, I work with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick at his new company, CloudKitchens. We’re building the infrastructure for better food, and here’s a peek into how it works. We currently have operations in a couple dozen countries and our scale, speed of growth, and the projected $1 trillion market opportunity require us to build a team of the highest caliber. I'd like to share more about what we're doing here, and your experience at Datadog makes me confident that at the very least we'll have a fun intro call. Up for connecting? Calendly Allen Chan. Hi Allen, I'd like to point you to this quote from Business Insider¹: "Over the past few years, Uber has attempted to redeem itself from a series of scandals, lawsuits, and investigations that came to a head in 2017 under the leadership of Kalanick." Why would I want to work for someone with that kind of track record? Why do you? Thanks, Chris 1: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-files-leak-secret-kill-switch-blocked-data-from-police-2022-7
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Is DMR cheating? Absolutely yes, but playing with a radio is playing with a radio and I finally made this damn thing work this evening
Photograph of a radio and an iPad screen. The radio display says TG 91 TS1 VU3ITI Varadan And the iPad is showing WPSD Dashboard for kk7pzu, and shows an Indian flag next to VU3ITI's name and location in India
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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To be fair, I did most of the 3D modeling during a boring meeting
Four plastic splints arranged next to a ruler. The two on the left are blue, and the second one is broken. The two on the right are white. A white splint on a bronze colored 3D printer bed, with stringy blobs and supports coming off of it.
October 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I'm very proud of the people down the street from my office for, once again, growing an absolutely massive pumpkin on the strip of land between the sidewalk and the road
An absolutely shitting huge orange pumpkin sitting on a freight palette and a piece of insulating foam. In the background you can see a yard with big sunflowers and part of a house. A chalkboard sign, saying Land O Giants And Maple Leaf Pumpkins Jack Skellington 774 lbs Final weight Jack won 3rd place and was 10% heavier than he measured, which means really thick walls! He will be carved and lit Halloween week
October 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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My transit-oriented toddler got to pick out a toy after getting his covid vaccine today.
A red toy articulated bus branded RoadMarks, with Downtown set as the destination.
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Hi it's me, the insane person standing in front of the coffee shop saying "Who's a handsome bird?"
Telephoto shot of a big black crow in a tree. The grow is sitting on a lichen -covered branch. He's facing right and leaning down to clean his break on the branch. Same crow, same branch. The crow is facing left, like a portrait of Washington. The tree's leaves are just starting to turn orange for the fall A very handsome crow looking at us The crow looking left again. Very handsome, very perfect bird. I love him.
October 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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From the boat ride home
Telephoto shot of a bulk carrier, lightly loaded, sailing on smooth water. Behind it you can see the shore line and hazy mountains Longer shot of the same bulk carrier, with mountains and a blue sky in the background Orange-y photo of the moonrise over the Cascade Mountains
October 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Some photos from Victoria, BC
A tree-lined ravine with a garden path running down the middle, nicely landscaped with grass and flower beds. It kind of looks like a mat painting from The Wizard of Oz Two orcas made of flowers supported by a grass-covered structure. Behind it is a grand old hotel and a clear blue sky.
October 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Boats n boats n boats
October 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Oh yeah I'm on a boat btw
Selfie of myself and my wife Sabrina in front of a long white wake though gray water, with a city in the background
October 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Speaking of Robotech, I remember a summer where every day I was trying to get home from summer camp in time to catch Robotech.

That led to a life of downloading Ranma 1/2 .movs from sketchy sources in late-middle and early high school.

qrt yadda yadda
cover of Robotech part 1: the macross saga a cartoon man in the cockpit of a red and white fighter jet. Behind him, several other fighter jets and human-shaped mechs
October 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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First sticker on the work laptop:

✅ Inclusive
✅ Vaguely threatening
✅ Pro-Train
A black laptop with a round, holographic sticker on it. The sticker is a circle made of railroad tracks, and it says "All Aboard means ALL", with ALL done in the progress pride flag colors. It is branded with the logo for the Northwest Railway Museum
October 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Decent conditions on 20m FT-8 tonight. I got into Florida on 8W Argentina 40W or so.
A map of North and South America, with lines from Seattle to Florida and Seattle to southern Argentina
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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My guess is, when your boat has this many radomes, it's pretty clear there some kind of signals intelligence going on.
BBC photo of the Russian research vessel Yantar, a pretty standard research vessel aside from the several radio masts and at least five white spheres or hemispheres used to protect big radio antennas.
September 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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This city still surprises me with how beautiful it is sometimes
View from the approach to the Washington 520 floating bridge where it crosses Lake Washington, facing west. The road goes down to the water level. There are several signs saying Speed Limit 60. The road cuts straight across the lake. The water on the left is blue and a little choppy, on the right is blue and smooth. Across the lake, you can see the tree-lined hills of Seattle. In the background, at least three different layers of mountains are visible disappearing into the blue sky.
September 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM