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Nerd, bear 🏳️‍🌈, hacker, cyclist, traveler, avgeek, geographer, San Franciscan. He/him. KJ6DYS. Landscape photographer and space-borne image sensor […]

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First time going for a run in snow this morning. Realized this probably wasn’t very Germanly when a door man shouted at me to note how cold it was. All melted by evening though.
A Berlin commercial district with the sidewalks covered in a bit of snow except where the sweepers had been through. An u-bahn station and old church in the background. A vividly blue mobile construction machine with various attachments sits on a snowy street. Two people in hiviz stand admiring it. A building labeled “satellite office” where I suspect many fewer satellites are operated than in the building a few blocks away. Same old church but now at night with a brightly lit Christmas market
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I’ve been watching JAG as sort of background entertainment while gaming. This episode aired in 1997 and here we see an establishing shot of Heathrow. Two problems. British Airways didn’t unveil this livery until 1999 and that’s Terminal 5 which opened in 2008.

I’m […]

[Original post on mas.to]
Screenshots shot of Heathrow Terminal 5 from above, showing planes in the 1999 livery.
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#silentsunday #czechia #railtravel
A stone dam with utility buildings guards a river below a dramatic rock holding a castle. Sun sets on frosty trees on the mountains in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I ♥️ this so much.

Fran Sans is a typeface by Emily Sneddon inspired by the displays on the now-retired #sf #muni Breda light rail cars.

Process post: https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay

News story […]

[Original post on sfba.social]
On the left, a photograph of the letter N, as rendered on the SF Muni Breda train display, in bright yellow. On the right, a thin line drawing for the Fran Sans typeface’s letter N, as inspired by the photo.
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Prague is beautiful but cold.
Numerous stone bridges follow a river to the horizon in winter morning light, lined by countless old buildings. Also some birds. Numerous old buildings, some with steeples, to the horizon where there’s a bunch of goofy modern hi rises. Many copper domed buildings in a city skyline except one enormous radio tower on a distant hill. Distant castle lit in blue with some yellow lit buildings in the foreground.
November 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Up to Prague for the weekend. Always sad to see yet another airline Okidata retired.
Photo from an airliner window above the wing. A tilted horizon with an Italian coastline and storm clouds in the distance. Photo of a plane in front of a cold sunset. People disembarking on airstairs from each end. An okidata microline dot matrix printer sits next to the bin behind an airline gate desk.
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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bryan.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy
#trains #amtrak #transit
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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lovely run around some of Rome’s greatest hits this morning.
A medieval skyline ending in a basilica, interrupted by 5G towers and large construction cranes. Statues of naked men with abs befitting the beef industry. Except there’s also horses in water I dunno I’m bad at tourism. Fountain statue with guys on rocks and palm trees trying to avoid noticing the lion kneeling down to drink from the pond. Very old stone arch bridge crossing a calm river. Autumnal leaves line the far banks. More old buildings in the background before a sizable mountain under clouds at the horizon.
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
beautiful hill climb run as the fog settled in this morning. #sanfrancisco
A city street pays little attention to the steep hills under it. Big leafy trees and a blanket of utility cables obscure a pinkish morning sky. Mid century fever dream of a boulevard with sidewalk and railing curve down a hillside. A city in fog and dawn light in the distance. Leafy neighborhoods lead to a central business district at the horizon with a thick fog settling into the middle at sunrise. A distant large pointy mountain in the distance is centered above a churning blanket of fog. A hilly unaffordable neighborhood in the foreground.
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Mr. Tiff https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/ #retrocomputing
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November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Lovely 13 km walk around some of the literal high points of #sanfrancisco today. One of those days where October Summer is struggling to stick around—low angle sunlight but somehow still warm. First up is of course Mount Davidson. Still some fog to make it […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Trees covered with vines and dense ground cover backlit by a low sun scattering into fog. Same but with an enormous log cut to allow a trail. Concrete cross rising between trees A small dog with big ears standing on a boulder above a steep cliff, demanding a human to photograph them.
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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congrats to all the finishers of the new york marathon today!

a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons

https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
Fewer people should run marathons
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November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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some big middle fingers to changing times.
A carpet of city rides up a hill on one side and out to an estuary on the other. Clouds whip at the horizon in predawn light. A central business district lit pink at dawn. One large tower peeks above a drifting fog separating it from the others. A wealthy neighborhood with large trees still in shadow in the foreground.
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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love a good mildewed barley plot.
Plot showing the impact of image distortion on the radiometry of hypothetical 225 foot fields (modeled as square wave). High levels are labeled as sand, low levels as barley, and middle levels as mildewed barley. From a delightful 1974 paper on balancing SNR and resolution by Ms Virginia Norwood.
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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feeling like Charles Darwin today

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything"
Cursive written by Charles Darwin that reads: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything"
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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distant lands

#sanfrancisco #corvids
A city skyline rises above the bare dirt, separated by a raven Islands and a fishing boat on the ocean near sunset, houses and tree covered hills in the foreground A saturated yellow ball on one side and some red purple arcs on the other; in between: Air France. A raven in floof mode stands on some red rocks with the moon behind
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Guillermo del Toro on "AI":

«“AI, particularly generative AI — I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested,” del Toro said. “I’m 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. … The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on […]
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October 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Coffee mug that reads: I accidentally became important at work and it's ruining my life
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Once again another "I'm in the wrong field" paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222500507X
Bar chart captioned "Lateral bias in sleeping positions of domestic cats." showing a preference for leftward (266 instances) over rightward (142 instances) sleeping positions.
October 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I hope this email finds you well, and me, never again.
Screenshot of a 1981 document: “Destroy this report when no longer needed. Do not return it to the originator.”
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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dark and stormy day on Montara Mountain but still a lovely hike as always. #pacifica
Dirt trail between coastal scrub leading toward a cliff revealing distant shorelines and headlands Large yellow slug looking towed the camera and fondling about and definitely not eager to sell me Slurm. Image from an AlertCalifornia camera looking toward cloudy skies and distant mountains and shorelines. A small figure waves from the service road. Tall trees open to reveal silhouettes of distant mountains in rainy skies.
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Making the video about it turned out to be almost as hard as the original hike, but the video covering my San Francisco Bay circumnavigation is finally up!

https://youtu.be/1MUSqkcd7n8
October 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Mt Whitney from just east of Lone Pine near the old rail station in 865nm near-infrared.

#infrared #MountainMonday
Some lumpy hills sit above a flat basin of scrub. Beyond, a bunch of old granite boulders frame a steep road switchbacking up an enormous mountain range, coming to a triangular sort of ridge near the center. Taken 1 Oct 2025.
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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[MH, exercise]

This is an unpaid plug for the C25K running program.

In the process of digging out of a particularly gnarly major depressive episode, I had to restart every good habit from scratch. C25K took me from actual couch to actual 42.2K in a little under a year’s time, with no injuries […]
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October 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I guess it was only a matter of time before stores gave up keeping the red buttons charged and make you hit the API endpoint yourself.

(“Want a Locked Item?” also sound like the title for a millennial’s autobiography.)
Crap photo of a sign that says: Want a Locked Item? Scan to Notify an Associate
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM