Dan Piponi
@dpiponi.bsky.social
Disclaimer: My opinions are not my own. They're beamed to me by aliens.
Photographed from the driveway yesterday. Cute faces, both of them.
May 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Photographed from the driveway yesterday. Cute faces, both of them.
If he waited until October it would have come back anyway. Unless he's proposing we have it every month now.
April 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If he waited until October it would have come back anyway. Unless he's proposing we have it every month now.
Marin Headlands nr Sausalito
April 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Marin Headlands nr Sausalito
I was wondering how it did APL but I found a picture showing a keyboard legend for APL. Nice. My first computing job was APL...
April 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I was wondering how it did APL but I found a picture showing a keyboard legend for APL. Nice. My first computing job was APL...
One of my favourite logos though I was always a bit mystified by the show as a kid.
April 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
One of my favourite logos though I was always a bit mystified by the show as a kid.
Rough surfaces are typically "Lambertian". Here are some renders of Lambertian surfaces. Very different to specular surfaces.
From this paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
From this paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
April 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Rough surfaces are typically "Lambertian". Here are some renders of Lambertian surfaces. Very different to specular surfaces.
From this paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
From this paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Out with Argonaut colleagues, around 2000 AD, comparing tech. Palm, Psion, Nokia, Nintendo.
April 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Out with Argonaut colleagues, around 2000 AD, comparing tech. Palm, Psion, Nokia, Nintendo.
I have this neat bit of hardware that can compute tariffs
April 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I have this neat bit of hardware that can compute tariffs
An old one. Sadly one disease is still here and the other returned.
April 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
An old one. Sadly one disease is still here and the other returned.
What a beautiful horse!
April 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What a beautiful horse!
How we long for the carousel.
March 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
How we long for the carousel.
Yeah, wasn't sure everyone knows what the Overton window is but here's my picture of it.
March 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Yeah, wasn't sure everyone knows what the Overton window is but here's my picture of it.
Dems are right wing. That you don't call them right wing is a measure of the success of Republicans in shifting perceptions.
March 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Dems are right wing. That you don't call them right wing is a measure of the success of Republicans in shifting perceptions.
This one is from 2020
March 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This one is from 2020
Going through my old photos I found this from 2007. Bit dated now.
March 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Going through my old photos I found this from 2007. Bit dated now.
Photo I took in London. You may be asking "why?".
March 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Photo I took in London. You may be asking "why?".
Went to hang out with Yoda for a bit but it started raining.
March 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Went to hang out with Yoda for a bit but it started raining.
I'm actually partway through a reread of a "making of" and I thought this paragraph was interesting. It was basically an afterthought.
March 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I'm actually partway through a reread of a "making of" and I thought this paragraph was interesting. It was basically an afterthought.
I originally thought this material was so out of place in a spaceship and laser sword movie. But now I see that Lucas knew a thing or two about fake trade wars. He was preoccupied for much of his life with the subject of how democracy becomes autocracy.
March 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I originally thought this material was so out of place in a spaceship and laser sword movie. But now I see that Lucas knew a thing or two about fake trade wars. He was preoccupied for much of his life with the subject of how democracy becomes autocracy.
A plethora of cusp catastrophes from pointing a laser through a water drop.
March 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A plethora of cusp catastrophes from pointing a laser through a water drop.
Hike through the redwoods in Berkeley and you get to this sight.
March 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hike through the redwoods in Berkeley and you get to this sight.