Golden crepuscular rays shining down over the English countryside at dawn as seen from the window of an airplane.
Sunrise over England at 10,000 feet.
03.11.2025 14:59 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@stangunn.bsky.social
IT/Library guy at UVA. Woodworker ordinaire. Recovering Texan now living in Virginia.
Golden crepuscular rays shining down over the English countryside at dawn as seen from the window of an airplane.
Sunrise over England at 10,000 feet.
03.11.2025 14:59 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
17.09.2025 11:00 β π 5502 π 1690 π¬ 34 π 71Brightly colored orange and yellow Chicken of the Woods mushrooms growing on a downed tree trunk.
Chicken of the Woods mushrooms spotted on todayβs trail walk.
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27.08.2025 21:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
You mean something like this? A Raspberry Pi Zero or even an ESP32 should be able to do it, and both are low-power.
www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/z...
CamelCaps FTW
15.08.2025 01:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't know if this is quite what you're looking for, but this was a book I used to assign to my students. It covers the technology developments that led to the modern Internet and it's a fascinating read.
bookshop.org/p/books/wher...
I have a lot of ruth for what youβre saying. It was a word with a lot of feck and gorm. Luckily I kept my couth intact and was kempt by the end.
02.08.2025 13:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A red-tailed hawk sitting on a brick wall under some trees.
Met a red-tailed hawk walking around UVA Grounds this morning. We interrupted her trying to grab a squirrel and she wasnβt very happy about it.
07.06.2025 16:34 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As Jod is my witness, it will always be a hard βGβ.
26.05.2025 21:28 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If your model requires that you ingest the entirety of copyrighted works then you should pay the creators for it. This is not, by any definition, Fair Use.
26.05.2025 18:32 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Copyrighted works do not fit the description of βpublic dataβ. And if you need them for training your model then you should negotiate to reimburse artists and authors for their use.
26.05.2025 17:58 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Four pieces of crown molding cut and labeled as samples to correctly duplicate the angle and direction needed for inside and outside joins.
I donβt do trim work very often, and I always second guess myself and do the cuts wrong. So for this crown molding I made four (really six) reference pieces. #carpentry #woodworking #diy
28.04.2025 18:20 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ah. Weβve reached βdepressionβ in the cycle of grief, then. Progress.
03.04.2025 19:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Burning it is the only option now.
03.04.2025 18:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I remember going to see Survival Research Labs in Austin many years ago. Glad to see these guys are still around, and apparently still intact.
13.03.2025 15:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0About nine years ago I ordered a refrigerator from Loweβs. After several weeks and multiple assurances it would arrive βsoonβ, I went up to the store and they admitted they accidentally ordered a Canadian model and it would never come in.
25.02.2025 23:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ah. Great point.
07.02.2025 19:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Those are both perfectly reasonable exceptions, in the "not wanting sharp pointy things unscrewing themselves and spinning off in random directions" sense. I still don't understand propane tanks.
07.02.2025 17:52 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Not to mention fittings for propane tanks.
07.02.2025 15:03 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That looks amazing! What kind of wood did you use?
06.02.2025 21:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Woodworking jig to hold two mitered pieces of wood at a right angle.
Two sides of a box with mitered edges held in place with a custom jig.
Something I wish it hadnβt taken me so long to learn about woodworking is that youβll probably spend at least half your time building jigs that make it possible to build the thing you wanted to make in the first place.
Thereβs probably a metaphor in there somewhere. #woodworking
I used it for several months when it first came out, but switched over to Strava when I was training for a 25K. Now that Iβm more of a casual runner I should go back.
20.01.2025 17:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I forgot about this app! Maybe this is the motivation I need to start running again.
20.01.2025 17:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Like real fusion, alternative voting methods are always ten years away.
18.01.2025 12:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bought a new hot water heater a couple of years ago and the salesperson at Loweβs tried to upsell me a model with Bluetooth for an extra $125. I donβt want to talk to my water heater. I want to install it and ignore it for another ten years.
05.01.2025 12:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Golden Retriever laying on a blue and white rug in the foreground while a Briard puppy occupies a chair in the background.
Lazy Monday.
23.12.2024 15:35 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Commodore VIC-20. The whole computer is integrated into a single unit with a keyboard on top. The computer is beige with dark brown keys and four orange function keys on the right side.
When I was 15 I worked all summer at a catfish restaurant so I could buy a Commodore VIC-20.
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