MrAlanCooper
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Back in the day I built a lot of software, then I designed a lot of software, then I designed a lot of software design tools. Now I'm retired on a ranch in […]
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Four days ago I found a beautiful Great Horned Owl hiding in the tall grass during broad daylight. Strange. He hopped away when I ventured close, but he didn't fly. The next day went back but he was gone. Today I went by and he was there but he was dead. Not a […]
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January 26, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Four days ago I found a beautiful Great Horned Owl hiding in the tall grass during broad daylight. Strange. He hopped away when I ventured close, but he didn't fly. The next day went back but he was gone. Today I went by and he was there but he was dead. Not a […]
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Clicking the BOOST button to UNboost a boost made me think of this famous cartoon:
January 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Clicking the BOOST button to UNboost a boost made me think of this famous cartoon:
NGL, Any proper wood shop is *supposed* to be ankle deep in wood shavings.
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
NGL, Any proper wood shop is *supposed* to be ankle deep in wood shavings.
Pretty chuffed with this bowl. It's the first turning I've made in four years. I was rusty so I approached it slowly and I did NOT poke my eye out. This is locally felled, air-dried California Bay Laurel (what the locals call Pepperwood). People generally use […]
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December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Pretty chuffed with this bowl. It's the first turning I've made in four years. I was rusty so I approached it slowly and I did NOT poke my eye out. This is locally felled, air-dried California Bay Laurel (what the locals call Pepperwood). People generally use […]
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Me protesting six years ago. I still think Sarah Kendzior described things first and best: "It's a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government."
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Me protesting six years ago. I still think Sarah Kendzior described things first and best: "It's a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government."
I'm reading The Haunted Land, a fine book about how Eastern European countries dealt with the after math of communism. It was written in 95 so the wounds of both communism and anti-communism were fresh. Along with much history unknown to (or misunderstood by) […]
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November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm reading The Haunted Land, a fine book about how Eastern European countries dealt with the after math of communism. It was written in 95 so the wounds of both communism and anti-communism were fresh. Along with much history unknown to (or misunderstood by) […]
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The Morning Westbound Hotshot pulls out of Whittier with a load of mixed house cars and several empty hoppers for Robinson Gap Coal Co. #railroader
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The Morning Westbound Hotshot pulls out of Whittier with a load of mixed house cars and several empty hoppers for Robinson Gap Coal Co. #railroader
Tax Billionaires into Millionaires
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Tax Billionaires into Millionaires
It took me all of two days to devour this book. Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge, by Becky Aikman
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It took me all of two days to devour this book. Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge, by Becky Aikman
The Westbound Hotshot heads up the Tuckasegee River Valley laden with heavy freight for Andrews and empty hoppers for the Robertson Coal Mine. #railroader
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The Westbound Hotshot heads up the Tuckasegee River Valley laden with heavy freight for Andrews and empty hoppers for the Robertson Coal Mine. #railroader
fucking metric now!
October 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
fucking metric now!
I'm very much enjoying Lucy Hughes-Hallett's weighty biography of d'Annunzio. She gives useful and interesting context for all of the cultural tics of this most astonishing man. d'Annunzio was a major cultural icon in the early years of the 20th century and the […]
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October 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I'm very much enjoying Lucy Hughes-Hallett's weighty biography of d'Annunzio. She gives useful and interesting context for all of the cultural tics of this most astonishing man. d'Annunzio was a major cultural icon in the early years of the 20th century and the […]
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I'm really enjoying Becky Aikman's latest book Spitfires, about the American women, shunned in the USA, who went to England to fly military planes for the RAF. I noticed that one of Aikman's previous books is called "Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma and […]
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October 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I'm really enjoying Becky Aikman's latest book Spitfires, about the American women, shunned in the USA, who went to England to fly military planes for the RAF. I noticed that one of Aikman's previous books is called "Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma and […]
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I was making No Kings protest signs for myself and a couple of friends but I kinda got carried away. I haven't counted but it looks like about thirty or forty and I'm still making 'em. I plan to give them away at the protest in Novato CA.
They are printed on […]
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They are printed on […]
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October 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I was making No Kings protest signs for myself and a couple of friends but I kinda got carried away. I haven't counted but it looks like about thirty or forty and I'm still making 'em. I plan to give them away at the protest in Novato CA.
They are printed on […]
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They are printed on […]
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Almost completed: The new Detachable Broody Hut for my chicken coop. I can put the detached hut in my warm workshop when the chicks are a day old. After 3-4 weeks I can move them outside (depending on weather). After 5-7 weeks I can open the side of the main […]
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October 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Almost completed: The new Detachable Broody Hut for my chicken coop. I can put the detached hut in my warm workshop when the chicks are a day old. After 3-4 weeks I can move them outside (depending on weather). After 5-7 weeks I can open the side of the main […]
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Here's one sign I'm considering for the No Kings demonstration:
September 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Here's one sign I'm considering for the No Kings demonstration:
Highly recommended!
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Highly recommended!
Way back in 1976 I hired my first programmer at my first software company. He was recommended by an old teacher of mine. When the candidate walked in the office he handed me his business card.
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Way back in 1976 I hired my first programmer at my first software company. He was recommended by an old teacher of mine. When the candidate walked in the office he handed me his business card.
Three chuffing locos put everything they've got into pulling a heavy freight up the 4.6% grade. I had to climb down the side of a steep ravine to get this shot of the engines on the old wooden trestle. #railroader
August 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Three chuffing locos put everything they've got into pulling a heavy freight up the 4.6% grade. I had to climb down the side of a steep ravine to get this shot of the engines on the old wooden trestle. #railroader
Train #2 Eastbound from Andrews behind big Pacific No. 92 descends the Red Marble grade with brakes smoking. #railroader
August 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Train #2 Eastbound from Andrews behind big Pacific No. 92 descends the Red Marble grade with brakes smoking. #railroader
Semaphores guide a manifest freight into Hemingway to hold the mainline for a meet. #railroader
August 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Semaphores guide a manifest freight into Hemingway to hold the mainline for a meet. #railroader
I'm not the first person to suggest that the California flag should have a beaver instead of a bear on it. Beavers largely created the geography of California (and the entire NA continent) while bears just ate and slept.
August 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I'm not the first person to suggest that the California flag should have a beaver instead of a bear on it. Beavers largely created the geography of California (and the entire NA continent) while bears just ate and slept.
The Dillsboro Switcher puts the now dark and empty westbound coaches to bed while a freight rounds the bend headed for Sylva. #railroader
August 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Dillsboro Switcher puts the now dark and empty westbound coaches to bed while a freight rounds the bend headed for Sylva. #railroader