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🇺🇸🌺 Cranky Cloud Yeller on Borneo 🌺🇲🇾
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60 yo. Yank happily self-exiled to Miri, Sarawak, GMT +8

Traveler & reader; explorer of my worlds. Former sailor & diver. Music fan. Hat wearer.

Autistic agoraphobe; DX @ 57

Just a strange guy out there looking for my peeps. Come, join me.
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Doubling up for a good cause...

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One of many hummingbird statues outside the Nacional Assembly in Quito, Ecuador. Each painted by a different artist. Actual size has the body at 4 to 5 ft. Long and the wind span about 10 ft. I truly hope Ecuador can recover from its civil unrest brought about by drug trafficking. It's a beautiful country.
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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One of the "wild' roosters that roam Arroyo Grande, CA It always gave me joy when I would see them on my walks. Far better to encounter these guys than Canada geese. A lot less shit is involved.
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
I believe that's a Hindu temple. With the full moon over the far left. Miri, Sarawak.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Sometimes relative numbers are more revealing and important than absolute ones...
Summary of the Google results showing that Dearborn Michigan has the highest proportion of Muslims among its population of any city in the United States. 55%.
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Okay which one of you folks here on Blue sky has been kissing, frogs and toads without taking your valtrex?

You gave the poor dude to wart on the tip of his nose!
Some type of toad in Borneo that I nearly stepped on. It appears to have a giant wart on its nose. Remember the campfire rule people, leave them in better condition than you found them. Take your valtrex...
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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A better shot, The wind is really blowing the clouds away quickly.
More clouds of the South China Sea, but the big cumulus clouds have drifted away leaving traces of sunset visible.
October 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Cloud compositions are hard, especially in low light.

But one must try.
Cumulus cloud dusk over the South China Sea
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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After the rain started...
Raining here now, no visible rain line on the water.
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Rain line visible on the South China Sea...it took about 1 minute for the rain to reach me.
Shore line with wave area, rain line, wind line at 5x zoom. Shore line with wave area, rain line, wind line.
October 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Finally a truthful article about the Nobel Prizes.

Economists, including me, really are weirdos.
"Pregaming the prize that matters" Headline in the Financial Times.
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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"Moonrise. Miri, Borneo"

(Not pastiche; homage)
A full moon just beginning to peek out of a set of clouds well above the horizon. A momentary site that I just managed to connect with a la Mr. Adams. But a much more urban environment than rural New Mexico
October 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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It's been too much time on the couch reading. So I thought I need to do something better than that.

Bought myself a fancy outdoor lounge chair at a nearby store for $125 bucks and put it on the balcony.

Now I'm going to spend my time outside reading. This is my view

Not bad.
The view from balcony in my new outdoor chair. The handrail is basically obscuring the last 200 to 300 m of the Miri River (Sungai Miri). From the foreground to the background is a handrail protective class fencing, then 200 m of trees with a little bit of the Pullman hotel visible followed by the tail end of the river and then the South China Sea. It's rather pleasant. Vitamin D uptake... But conveniently shaded
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Unsolicited vic pics
(all by the incredible Weegee)
October 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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"Sichuan" Pork. Spicy, delicious, but no Sichuan peppercorns ergo no Mala ergo just spicy delicious pork. Super yummy.

Cafe 138, Miri.
Pork, carrots, ginger, peppers, onion and a spicy brown sauce.
October 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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I have never seen cloud transitions like this. Those are cumulus clouds adjacent to and blending into some type of Stratus clouds that look like they're rain laden.

Strange and beautiful
Some fluffy white clouds transitioning to dark blue sky that looks like nimbo Stratus rain clouds
October 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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There's no arguing with Malaysian bathroom humor.
Sign up of a toilet says Hey sexy! Shut the door, drop your pants, climb on top of me, and satisfy your needs. Love always, Your toilet
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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An alternative angle. This was not shot in black and white. It's just night time with a right color balance and it appears that way.

I think I like this angle better
The same air conditioner complex taken half an hour later from a slightly different angle. It appears to be black and white but it's taken in color.
October 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Not at all unusual. Today was pretty pleasant. The breeze made things nice.

A little drizzle after dark. And for my late night munchie run, it's very pleasant.
Current conditions here in Miri. It's very comfortable in spite of the humidity. Relative Humidity rises at night as the temperature falls. I suspect the absolute humidity is pretty consistent throughout.
October 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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People ask me about air conditioning when they learn. I live in the tropics. Yeah we got a few.

Most of them are in room units that have an external condenser. For instance, my three-bedroom apartment has five different air conditioners so you end up seeing stuff like this regularly.
Individual air conditioning compressors on a wall in Sarawak. It's 1:00 a.m. but there's a lot of light in that alley.
October 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The vibe I'm bringing into October (and actually every month...)
A cat in Malaysia parked properly in the center of a parking spot. Just chilling. And, as all Malaysians do, it's parked front end out. Every local driver, would respect that as an occupied parking spot. You don't mess with cats here. Especially the s.
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Too happy with your bank, are they treating you fairly giving you good service? Well if you want to be pissed off again, come do business with us
A sign for Agro Bank (Sarawak, Malaysia)
October 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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The reality
Clear blue skies with a few little cumulus clouds. And a very strong and pleasant breeze making for a very nice day.
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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The claim
Current weather forecast saying that it is raining heavily in Miri.
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Same pool. No sunshine. No rain
The same pool as shown earlier. But now the water is basically still and flat across the entire length of the pool. It's night time and not raining. There are sconces on the six pillars. But on the front right one, the upward shining light and on the middle right one the downward shining light are both burnt out. That's just the way things are. Of no major importance but very typical. It certainly suits my mentality.
October 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM