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Jared Smith
@jaredwsmith.com
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Software engineering, weather (@chswx.com), Padres baseball, and other esoteric hyperfixations as required. Dachshund dad. Computers were a mistake. More coffee, please.

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Guess we are doing this again.
World Series on Fox. Shane Bieber faces Mookie Betts with Shohei Ohtani on first in the bottom of the first with a 1-1 count. Nobody is out.
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Obligatory Melissa satellite image. (Mercy.)
Infrared satellite image of Hurricane Melissa, demonstrating strong, symmetric convection around a clear eye.
October 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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M5?!
Two individuals in blue and yellow uniforms are in a tense situation on a spaceship's bridge, with a woman in a red uniform in the background. Captain Kirk is on the right, Uhura in the middle, and Dr. Richard Daystrom on the left.
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Phantogram was outstanding. Great to see @nick422.bsky.social and his lovely wife as well!
A band backlit by white light in front of a mass of people, with the singer reaching upward.
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The generic external drive icon in macOS 26.1 beta 1 still hasn’t been updated. Beta 2, maybe? Either way, inexplicable and worrying lack of attention to detail from Apple.
Three drive icons on the macOS 26.1 beta 1 desktop: Macintosh HD, External Data, and OrbStack. Macintosh HD and OrbStack have updated icons to fit the Tahoe look and feel, while the external data drive continues to display an icon from previous versions of macOS.
October 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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San Diego loses, nothing matters, eat Arby’s.
Lanky white guy taking a selfie in a seated position from a high, downward angle. He is wearing a black San Diego Padres batting practice low-profile 5950 fitted cap with “SD” in white outline. His black shirt says “Nothing” within an Arby’s hat in a deeper shade of black. He is wearing black jeans (with a flexible waist, thank goodness).
October 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Needed this.
Rainbow rising above the treeline, fading as it gets higher. A few clouds float above it. Brilliant rainbow rising between a small tree and a brick building.
September 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Com Truise at the Charleston Pour House in December 2019. Behind him is the word "SEX" in 8-bit font.
September 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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"Allen started 9 of 11"
Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott wearing a Bills cap at a media availability, turning his head a little and smiling.
September 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Testing something important.
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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If only I had saved eight more cents…
$420.61 in green. Next line: “UNDER BUDGET” in gray.
September 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I love DC and the people that live there. You deserve so much better than this.
Silhouetted children on a field trip walk around the World War II Memorial, two on either side of the Washington Monument.
August 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Had to see what ChatGPT would give me for vice presidents since Spiro Agnew. “Richard B” was particularly notorious, and “Kamaila” would have been Republicans’ nickname for her had she had a scandal with the Post Office.
A grid of vice presidents since Spiro Agnew, as generated by ChatGPT: - Spire T. Aprou, 1999-1973 - Gerulank Ford, 1973-1974 - Nelson A Bateentalter, 1974-1977 - Walror F. Mchidate, 1977-1941 - George H. W., 1981-1988 - Dan Oxyrte, 1999-1983 - Al Gora, 1999-2001 - Richard B., 2001-2009 - Jeseph R. Bidem, 2093-2017 - M chad R. Pance, 2017-2021 - Kamaila D., 2021-present - J.D. Vance, 2025-present
August 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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His tweet after Queen Elizabeth died was an all-timer.
Tweet from Reggie Jackson (@mroctober), a verified account: Now we all know I was innocent ! Amen! RIP Queen E ! The tweet was sent at 3:34 PM on September 8, 2022.
August 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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✅ Truist Park
I’m on the right, my girlfriend is on the left. We’re standing in front of the right field gate at Truist Park in Atlanta, home of the Braves.
July 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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@radarscope.app Howdy! Just installed 5.5 from TestFlight and it looks like the CAPE calculations still need some tweaks. Screenshot 1 is 5.5, screenshot 2 is 5.4.3 (on Mac). PW of 32mm (1.26”) is still pretty far off the SPC calculation of 48mm (1.91”) for the same sounding, too. Thanks guys!
July 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Just a tad bit of an inversion this morning.
RadarScope screenshot depicting ducting and interference on the KCLX radar. A Skew-T log-P diagram is superimposed, showing 1,189 J/kg of CAPE and 195 J/kg of CIN (convective inhibition). The latter number helps to demonstrate the strength of the inversion contributing to the radar anomalies. (No, this is not weather modification.)
June 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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When the national nihilism becomes too much for even Arby’s.
A brick facade with the remnants of an Arby’s sign that has been removed. (The registered trademark symbol remains for some reason.)
June 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Quite the @weatherpeens.bsky.social on the convective outlook this morning.
June 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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So glad Royal Caribbean is testing in production today. Hey y’all: It works!
Three push notifications from Royal Caribbean with test data: head - test segment 16 subtitles - test segment 16 content - test segment 16 head - test segment 15 subtitles - test segment 15 content - test segment 15 head - test segment 14 subtitles - test segment 14 content - test segment 14
May 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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@radarscope.app Howdy y'all, weird stuff in soundings since 5.4.1. Height-based lapse rate calculations are way off or just flat out throwing NaN, and the MLCAPE display seems to be painting CAPE above the EL with inflated numbers. Shear seems to be miscalculated too. SPC included for reference.
RadarScope sounding display of the surface-based parcel with errant 0-3 and 3-5km lapse rate calculations. RadarScope sounding display of the mixed-layer parcel, which erroneously paints a large area of CAPE above 200mb (presumably where the equilibrium level should be) Hodograph display with NaN displaying for Bunkers Storm Motion calculations.
May 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Hat acquired btw!
I’m on the left in a Charleston Rainbows hat, featuring a rainbow draped across the outline of the state of South Carolina. To the right is my girlfriend, a brunette wearing sunglasses and a white shirt.
April 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Just leaving this here…
“I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better," Atallah said. "Things actually changed to the worse.”
April 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Today’s jersey haul.

(Joy is resistance.)
Two baseball jerseys lie back-facing-up on a bed. On the left is a pinstriped home white Padres jersey that reads MERRILL across the top with his number 3 underneath. On the right is a City Connect home white Padres jersey with a mint-colored sleeve on the left featuring a gold and pink “Swinging Friar” logo and a pink-colored sleeve on the right. Upon the back reads TATIS JR. in blocky yellow font with his number 23 in a heavy pink typesetting that might evoke memories of what fonts might be used in a tropical or beach location.
April 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The October 19th-25th cover of The Economist, titled "The Envy of the World." The subtitle: "America's Economy: A Special Report." The image depicts a roll of $100 American bills launching into space like a rocket in a configuration reminiscent of the SpaceX Starship. Image of SpaceX Starship debris raining down from high altitude after a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" event.
April 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM