Cal Young 🦖
@callie99.bsky.social
DC Area. Engineer. Nerd. I like numbers, critters, and ice cream.
Now for my story of the Turkey Cube.
I was living with my cousin in and old tupa in West Barnstable in the late 80s.
It had an old stove that looked kinda like this.
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I was living with my cousin in and old tupa in West Barnstable in the late 80s.
It had an old stove that looked kinda like this.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Now for my story of the Turkey Cube.
I was living with my cousin in and old tupa in West Barnstable in the late 80s.
It had an old stove that looked kinda like this.
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I was living with my cousin in and old tupa in West Barnstable in the late 80s.
It had an old stove that looked kinda like this.
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I have *crushed* a 550 page doc down to less than 200 pages.
My tool summary of the reduction: 50% was right/irrelevant, 30% was wrong/relevant, and 20% was wrong/irrelevant.
Also reduced page count and increased readability through technical editing.
My tool summary of the reduction: 50% was right/irrelevant, 30% was wrong/relevant, and 20% was wrong/irrelevant.
Also reduced page count and increased readability through technical editing.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I have *crushed* a 550 page doc down to less than 200 pages.
My tool summary of the reduction: 50% was right/irrelevant, 30% was wrong/relevant, and 20% was wrong/irrelevant.
Also reduced page count and increased readability through technical editing.
My tool summary of the reduction: 50% was right/irrelevant, 30% was wrong/relevant, and 20% was wrong/irrelevant.
Also reduced page count and increased readability through technical editing.
Doesn't happen often.
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Doesn't happen often.
He was such a good boy.
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
He was such a good boy.
While I'm wading through the huge complicated thing I'm working on, I will share a simple tool I keep next to me for these types of adventures. It's a modified Boston matrix. The quadrants are right/relevant, right/irrelevant, wrong/relevant and wrong/irrelevant.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
While I'm wading through the huge complicated thing I'm working on, I will share a simple tool I keep next to me for these types of adventures. It's a modified Boston matrix. The quadrants are right/relevant, right/irrelevant, wrong/relevant and wrong/irrelevant.
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I may do a thread on this. As usual, the journalism doesn't really capture what happened and why. Just finding a picture of before was hard. Lots of pictures of a hydro dam downstream. But here's what it actually looked like.
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I may do a thread on this. As usual, the journalism doesn't really capture what happened and why. Just finding a picture of before was hard. Lots of pictures of a hydro dam downstream. But here's what it actually looked like.
So the clouds are supposed to clear off around 11. Maybe I'll be aurora-lucky tonight.
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
So the clouds are supposed to clear off around 11. Maybe I'll be aurora-lucky tonight.
The sculpture is 32 feet tall and made of fiberglass.
It's nicknamed "Blucifer" because of its scary appearance and red eyes. It was installed in 2008.
It also killed it's artist Luis Jiminéz when a piece fell on him as he was finishing it.
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It's nicknamed "Blucifer" because of its scary appearance and red eyes. It was installed in 2008.
It also killed it's artist Luis Jiminéz when a piece fell on him as he was finishing it.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The sculpture is 32 feet tall and made of fiberglass.
It's nicknamed "Blucifer" because of its scary appearance and red eyes. It was installed in 2008.
It also killed it's artist Luis Jiminéz when a piece fell on him as he was finishing it.
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It's nicknamed "Blucifer" because of its scary appearance and red eyes. It was installed in 2008.
It also killed it's artist Luis Jiminéz when a piece fell on him as he was finishing it.
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I dont owe trivia today, but here's a little treat. FYI, I just got a big fast-burn project, so starting this weekend, I may be "missing" periodically.
Anyway... this is the Blue Mustang at the Denver airport.
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Anyway... this is the Blue Mustang at the Denver airport.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I dont owe trivia today, but here's a little treat. FYI, I just got a big fast-burn project, so starting this weekend, I may be "missing" periodically.
Anyway... this is the Blue Mustang at the Denver airport.
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Anyway... this is the Blue Mustang at the Denver airport.
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This is Heart Mountain. It's a curious formation of ancient rock overlying much younger rock. Not by itself, that weird. Things happen.
What is weird is how it happened.
About 50 million years ago, a huge slab of rock 500 square miles in area and about 3 miles thick....
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What is weird is how it happened.
About 50 million years ago, a huge slab of rock 500 square miles in area and about 3 miles thick....
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November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is Heart Mountain. It's a curious formation of ancient rock overlying much younger rock. Not by itself, that weird. Things happen.
What is weird is how it happened.
About 50 million years ago, a huge slab of rock 500 square miles in area and about 3 miles thick....
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What is weird is how it happened.
About 50 million years ago, a huge slab of rock 500 square miles in area and about 3 miles thick....
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Fall treat: fried apples.
4 - 6 firm baking apples. These are Braeburns, which are also good hand apples. Slice up. You can peel them if you like.
4 - 6 tablespoons butter
Tablespoon of cinnamon. You can use less or more to taste.
1/4 cup of sugar. You can use brown or white....
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4 - 6 firm baking apples. These are Braeburns, which are also good hand apples. Slice up. You can peel them if you like.
4 - 6 tablespoons butter
Tablespoon of cinnamon. You can use less or more to taste.
1/4 cup of sugar. You can use brown or white....
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November 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Fall treat: fried apples.
4 - 6 firm baking apples. These are Braeburns, which are also good hand apples. Slice up. You can peel them if you like.
4 - 6 tablespoons butter
Tablespoon of cinnamon. You can use less or more to taste.
1/4 cup of sugar. You can use brown or white....
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4 - 6 firm baking apples. These are Braeburns, which are also good hand apples. Slice up. You can peel them if you like.
4 - 6 tablespoons butter
Tablespoon of cinnamon. You can use less or more to taste.
1/4 cup of sugar. You can use brown or white....
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I went with this on a whim.
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I went with this on a whim.
It is generated under very specific conditions. You need a barchan formation, which are U-shaped dunes. You need 1) specific surface and shallow subsurface conditions, 2) rounded silica sands, 3) a minimum dune height, and 4) sand moving downhill.
Here's a barchan.
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Here's a barchan.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It is generated under very specific conditions. You need a barchan formation, which are U-shaped dunes. You need 1) specific surface and shallow subsurface conditions, 2) rounded silica sands, 3) a minimum dune height, and 4) sand moving downhill.
Here's a barchan.
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Here's a barchan.
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btw, if you were wondering about him going on about the giraffe and elephant IQ test yesterday, it's a dementia screening. And he must have done poorly because he said the "questions got harder" after the animals.
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
btw, if you were wondering about him going on about the giraffe and elephant IQ test yesterday, it's a dementia screening. And he must have done poorly because he said the "questions got harder" after the animals.
This one just wants some aspirin and nap.
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This one just wants some aspirin and nap.
Back to the currents. The cold Benguela current upwells along the coast here and flows north. It dissipates along the Angola coast. The water on the Namibia coast is cold.
The winds coming off the desert are hot and dry.
So the combination creates dense, frequent fogs along the coast.
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The winds coming off the desert are hot and dry.
So the combination creates dense, frequent fogs along the coast.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Back to the currents. The cold Benguela current upwells along the coast here and flows north. It dissipates along the Angola coast. The water on the Namibia coast is cold.
The winds coming off the desert are hot and dry.
So the combination creates dense, frequent fogs along the coast.
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The winds coming off the desert are hot and dry.
So the combination creates dense, frequent fogs along the coast.
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The coast has an enormous number of shipwrecks.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The coast has an enormous number of shipwrecks.
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The coast is where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic. It is largely undeveloped. Some pictures showing the desert dunes, the narrow beach, and heavy surf.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The coast is where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic. It is largely undeveloped. Some pictures showing the desert dunes, the narrow beach, and heavy surf.
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I know you all know where it is, but here's a map anyway.
There's a Skeleton Coast park in Namibia, but this fascinating coastal area extends along the Atlantic coast from South Africa to Angola.
Look at the map of the coastal currents too.
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There's a Skeleton Coast park in Namibia, but this fascinating coastal area extends along the Atlantic coast from South Africa to Angola.
Look at the map of the coastal currents too.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I know you all know where it is, but here's a map anyway.
There's a Skeleton Coast park in Namibia, but this fascinating coastal area extends along the Atlantic coast from South Africa to Angola.
Look at the map of the coastal currents too.
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There's a Skeleton Coast park in Namibia, but this fascinating coastal area extends along the Atlantic coast from South Africa to Angola.
Look at the map of the coastal currents too.
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This is a fun topic. Behold the national animal of Bhutan. The takin, which looks fictitious but is totally real and huge.
Bhutan's national animal, the takin, is the largest mammal you've never heard of share.google/kKannYgtst6n...
Bhutan's national animal, the takin, is the largest mammal you've never heard of share.google/kKannYgtst6n...
October 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is a fun topic. Behold the national animal of Bhutan. The takin, which looks fictitious but is totally real and huge.
Bhutan's national animal, the takin, is the largest mammal you've never heard of share.google/kKannYgtst6n...
Bhutan's national animal, the takin, is the largest mammal you've never heard of share.google/kKannYgtst6n...