David Barbrow
@dbarbrow.bsky.social
Software engineer when I worked for a living. Now studying French, getting back to piano.
Languages are cool. Just trying to be kind.
Originally a yinzer, now Tucson, AZ and Ann Arbor, MI.
Also @dbarbrow@mastodon.social
Pronouns: he/him/il/le/lui
Languages are cool. Just trying to be kind.
Originally a yinzer, now Tucson, AZ and Ann Arbor, MI.
Also @dbarbrow@mastodon.social
Pronouns: he/him/il/le/lui
A strange, interesting historical trip today. The U.S. maintained 54 Titan II missile silos on 24 hour readiness. One silo, underground launch room, and missile remains, open to the public as a museum, In Sahuarita, south of Tucson.
After a simulated launch, the guide asks "now how do you feel?"
After a simulated launch, the guide asks "now how do you feel?"
October 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A strange, interesting historical trip today. The U.S. maintained 54 Titan II missile silos on 24 hour readiness. One silo, underground launch room, and missile remains, open to the public as a museum, In Sahuarita, south of Tucson.
After a simulated launch, the guide asks "now how do you feel?"
After a simulated launch, the guide asks "now how do you feel?"
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona: Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
The “Louvre Effect” - when you’ve seen a few dozen masterpieces, you have to take a break so that the next dozen masterpieces don’t seem ho-hum.
The Colorado Plateau: plate tectonics+rain+time has the last word.
The “Louvre Effect” - when you’ve seen a few dozen masterpieces, you have to take a break so that the next dozen masterpieces don’t seem ho-hum.
The Colorado Plateau: plate tectonics+rain+time has the last word.
September 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona: Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
The “Louvre Effect” - when you’ve seen a few dozen masterpieces, you have to take a break so that the next dozen masterpieces don’t seem ho-hum.
The Colorado Plateau: plate tectonics+rain+time has the last word.
The “Louvre Effect” - when you’ve seen a few dozen masterpieces, you have to take a break so that the next dozen masterpieces don’t seem ho-hum.
The Colorado Plateau: plate tectonics+rain+time has the last word.
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona: Arches National Park, Utah.
TIL about biocrusts, a mix of fungi, lichens, cyanobacteria and algae that live in the upper few millimeters of the ground in dry places (Moab!) that stabilize soil, capture water & fix nitrogen.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologi...
TIL about biocrusts, a mix of fungi, lichens, cyanobacteria and algae that live in the upper few millimeters of the ground in dry places (Moab!) that stabilize soil, capture water & fix nitrogen.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologi...
September 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona: Arches National Park, Utah.
TIL about biocrusts, a mix of fungi, lichens, cyanobacteria and algae that live in the upper few millimeters of the ground in dry places (Moab!) that stabilize soil, capture water & fix nitrogen.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologi...
TIL about biocrusts, a mix of fungi, lichens, cyanobacteria and algae that live in the upper few millimeters of the ground in dry places (Moab!) that stabilize soil, capture water & fix nitrogen.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologi...
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona: Canyonlands National Park near Moab, Utah. We live on an interesting planet.
September 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona: Canyonlands National Park near Moab, Utah. We live on an interesting planet.
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona. Third Stop: Kansas City for BBQ, baseball and Truman Library.
#1 - Arthur Bryant’s BBQ
#2, 3- Royals vs Angels
#4 - The Truman Museum and Library does a good job showing the ugly with the good.
How would history be different if FDR had kept Henry Wallace as VP?
#1 - Arthur Bryant’s BBQ
#2, 3- Royals vs Angels
#4 - The Truman Museum and Library does a good job showing the ugly with the good.
How would history be different if FDR had kept Henry Wallace as VP?
September 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona. Third Stop: Kansas City for BBQ, baseball and Truman Library.
#1 - Arthur Bryant’s BBQ
#2, 3- Royals vs Angels
#4 - The Truman Museum and Library does a good job showing the ugly with the good.
How would history be different if FDR had kept Henry Wallace as VP?
#1 - Arthur Bryant’s BBQ
#2, 3- Royals vs Angels
#4 - The Truman Museum and Library does a good job showing the ugly with the good.
How would history be different if FDR had kept Henry Wallace as VP?
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona…
Second stop, Hannibal Missouri: A literary stop to visit the childhood home of Samuel Clemens.
Yes, the picket fence next to Twain’s house is whitewashed 🙂
Second stop, Hannibal Missouri: A literary stop to visit the childhood home of Samuel Clemens.
Yes, the picket fence next to Twain’s house is whitewashed 🙂
September 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona…
Second stop, Hannibal Missouri: A literary stop to visit the childhood home of Samuel Clemens.
Yes, the picket fence next to Twain’s house is whitewashed 🙂
Second stop, Hannibal Missouri: A literary stop to visit the childhood home of Samuel Clemens.
Yes, the picket fence next to Twain’s house is whitewashed 🙂
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona… First stop - Springfield, Illinois, the key site in the life of The Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. In my opinion, the greatest to ever hold the office.
Images: The Lincoln home, his work desk, the Old State House, and Representatives’ Chamber.
Images: The Lincoln home, his work desk, the Old State House, and Representatives’ Chamber.
September 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Road Trip from Michigan to Arizona… First stop - Springfield, Illinois, the key site in the life of The Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. In my opinion, the greatest to ever hold the office.
Images: The Lincoln home, his work desk, the Old State House, and Representatives’ Chamber.
Images: The Lincoln home, his work desk, the Old State House, and Representatives’ Chamber.
"Hero Sandwich Leading the People"
August 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"Hero Sandwich Leading the People"
"Safe for water temperatures up to 500°F/260°C"
You just have to keep the air pressure in your kitchen at 45 atmospheres for water to be liquid at that temperature.(*)
Protective suit not included with purchase.
(*) www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-poin...
You just have to keep the air pressure in your kitchen at 45 atmospheres for water to be liquid at that temperature.(*)
Protective suit not included with purchase.
(*) www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-poin...
August 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Safe for water temperatures up to 500°F/260°C"
You just have to keep the air pressure in your kitchen at 45 atmospheres for water to be liquid at that temperature.(*)
Protective suit not included with purchase.
(*) www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-poin...
You just have to keep the air pressure in your kitchen at 45 atmospheres for water to be liquid at that temperature.(*)
Protective suit not included with purchase.
(*) www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-poin...
Road Trip! Stop #6: Topiary Garden, begun in 1989 by the Columbus (Ohio) Parks and Recreation Department, is a recreation of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Ile de la Grande Jatte”.
The topiary project was conceived, designed, and executed by Columbus sculptor James T. Mason.
The topiary project was conceived, designed, and executed by Columbus sculptor James T. Mason.
August 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Road Trip! Stop #6: Topiary Garden, begun in 1989 by the Columbus (Ohio) Parks and Recreation Department, is a recreation of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Ile de la Grande Jatte”.
The topiary project was conceived, designed, and executed by Columbus sculptor James T. Mason.
The topiary project was conceived, designed, and executed by Columbus sculptor James T. Mason.
Road Trip! Stop #5: How would you write down a dance so that other people could look it up and perform it?
Turns out that people have figured this out.
At *cough* the Ohio State University *cough* library.
(All foreign travel can be enriching, and for Ann Arbor people, this is foreign travel.)
Turns out that people have figured this out.
At *cough* the Ohio State University *cough* library.
(All foreign travel can be enriching, and for Ann Arbor people, this is foreign travel.)
August 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Road Trip! Stop #5: How would you write down a dance so that other people could look it up and perform it?
Turns out that people have figured this out.
At *cough* the Ohio State University *cough* library.
(All foreign travel can be enriching, and for Ann Arbor people, this is foreign travel.)
Turns out that people have figured this out.
At *cough* the Ohio State University *cough* library.
(All foreign travel can be enriching, and for Ann Arbor people, this is foreign travel.)
Road Trip #2! James A. Garfield National Historic Site
Among the most scholarly of Presidents, he spoke French and German, and read Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Garfield supported civil rights for African-Americans. Shot six months after his inauguration, treatment at the time hastened his death.
Among the most scholarly of Presidents, he spoke French and German, and read Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Garfield supported civil rights for African-Americans. Shot six months after his inauguration, treatment at the time hastened his death.
August 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Road Trip #2! James A. Garfield National Historic Site
Among the most scholarly of Presidents, he spoke French and German, and read Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Garfield supported civil rights for African-Americans. Shot six months after his inauguration, treatment at the time hastened his death.
Among the most scholarly of Presidents, he spoke French and German, and read Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Garfield supported civil rights for African-Americans. Shot six months after his inauguration, treatment at the time hastened his death.
Road Trip! Stop #1: Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Home
Union officer, abolitionist, President
“The money-piling tendency of our country is changing laws, government, and morals… The new tendency is a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.”
- Rutherford Hayes, 1890
Union officer, abolitionist, President
“The money-piling tendency of our country is changing laws, government, and morals… The new tendency is a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.”
- Rutherford Hayes, 1890
August 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Road Trip! Stop #1: Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Home
Union officer, abolitionist, President
“The money-piling tendency of our country is changing laws, government, and morals… The new tendency is a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.”
- Rutherford Hayes, 1890
Union officer, abolitionist, President
“The money-piling tendency of our country is changing laws, government, and morals… The new tendency is a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.”
- Rutherford Hayes, 1890
"Men and women are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights.
The end of all political associations, is the preservation of natural and imprescriptible rights; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression."
The end of all political associations, is the preservation of natural and imprescriptible rights; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression."
July 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Men and women are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights.
The end of all political associations, is the preservation of natural and imprescriptible rights; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression."
The end of all political associations, is the preservation of natural and imprescriptible rights; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression."
When is a door not a door?
May 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
When is a door not a door?
A well-spent afternoon at John King Used and Rare Books in Detroit, Michigan
March 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A well-spent afternoon at John King Used and Rare Books in Detroit, Michigan
Can the bsky community converge on a way to handle "block and move on" messages that doesn't involve showing trolls' posts?
November 25, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Can the bsky community converge on a way to handle "block and move on" messages that doesn't involve showing trolls' posts?
Thanks, blocked, and I've been following the best practice of blocking and moving on.
Can the bsky community converge on a way to handle trolls that doesn't involve showing their posts?
Can the bsky community converge on a way to handle trolls that doesn't involve showing their posts?
November 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Thanks, blocked, and I've been following the best practice of blocking and moving on.
Can the bsky community converge on a way to handle trolls that doesn't involve showing their posts?
Can the bsky community converge on a way to handle trolls that doesn't involve showing their posts?
"Flying Bobby", just having scored the Stanley Cup winning goal in 1970. (Photo taken by Ray Lussier.)
November 23, 2024 at 2:28 AM
"Flying Bobby", just having scored the Stanley Cup winning goal in 1970. (Photo taken by Ray Lussier.)
Bach's tour dates for 2025?! Seriously, Deezer?
Eat your heart out, Mick Jagger. Good old Johann Sebastian has you beat by 258 years.
Eat your heart out, Mick Jagger. Good old Johann Sebastian has you beat by 258 years.
November 1, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Bach's tour dates for 2025?! Seriously, Deezer?
Eat your heart out, Mick Jagger. Good old Johann Sebastian has you beat by 258 years.
Eat your heart out, Mick Jagger. Good old Johann Sebastian has you beat by 258 years.
This is a versatile medium
September 16, 2024 at 9:39 AM
This is a versatile medium
Toured the Carrie Blast Furnaces site in Pittsburgh, my home town. Highly recommend.
riversofsteel.com
riversofsteel.com
July 25, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Toured the Carrie Blast Furnaces site in Pittsburgh, my home town. Highly recommend.
riversofsteel.com
riversofsteel.com
Allow me to contribute to the discourse :)
July 17, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Allow me to contribute to the discourse :)