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Eric Perlman πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@perlman.bsky.social

Trains, planes & bicycles. Vegetarian food. Portland, OR based after two decades in Baltimore. Find me on Mastodon: @perlman@urbanists.social

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Shift

If you bike, take a look at www.shift2bikes.org for bike related happenings. We're not quite to pedalpalooza yet, but things are ramping up. This past Saturday had nine events.

07.04.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Endless vegetarian food -- you could easily go only to pure veg restaurants. Suggestions would depend on where you'll be and types of food you enjoy. Take a look at HappyCow for everything from food truck to upscale options. Plus, almost everywhere else is veg friendly.

07.04.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Boarding pass for DOH-SEA with "roasted red sweet pepper and goat cheese ravi" printed on it

Boarding pass for DOH-SEA with "roasted red sweet pepper and goat cheese ravi" printed on it

A first for me: verbose meal selection printed on a boarding pass.

"Boarding group ravioli may now board..."

23.01.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can we work on faster trains instead?

20.01.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Once upon a time (96? 97?), my friends and I registered zorg.edu (The Zorg Marine Biological - if I recall correctly.) It survived a few years, until we failed to show any form of actual academic affiliation. πŸ™ƒ

13.01.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
View of San Francisco from west

View of San Francisco from west

view of SF and golden gate bridge

view of SF and golden gate bridge

View of Lake Tahoe

View of Lake Tahoe

I'll never grow old of looking out the window; plane or train.

13.01.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nope -- FRA-CLT

09.12.2024 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Can of coca-cola with "alto em" visible

Can of coca-cola with "alto em" visible

Text on the back of a brazilian coke can

Text on the back of a brazilian coke can

It's been a long time since I've been served a foreign soda on a US flag carrier. πŸ‘ for a Brazilian Coca-Cola on AA!

It's silly, but made my day.

08.12.2024 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Regional trains are underrated. I'm quite content listening to music while staring out into the German countryside.

04.12.2024 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Startseite Mit dem Γ–PNV unterwegs in Hamburg und Umgebung - Fahrplanauskunft und Fahrkarten fΓΌr Bus, Bahn und FΓ€hre.

HVV (hvv.de) continues to be one of the easiest ways to grab a Deutchland-Ticket: immediate purchase of a prorated ticket in-app (with Paypal payment) and immediately able to cancel (if it's before the 10th).

Now to ride some transit! πŸš‚πŸš‹πŸšŒπŸš‡

03.12.2024 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right on red needs to go away. If drivers stop at all, it's only after pulling all the way into the crosswalk.

It's a pleasure to bike in Europe without this behavior!

22.11.2024 06:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Color portrait of scientist Eric Perlman in a Berlin beer garden.

Color portrait of scientist Eric Perlman in a Berlin beer garden.

Portraits of peeps here on Bsky:

@perlman.bsky.social

bryanwjones.com/2022/08/not-...

#engineer #scientist

19.11.2024 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh, I get the rare color photo :)

21.11.2024 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ice cream sundae with cherry on top on an airplane

Ice cream sundae with cherry on top on an airplane

Last night's dessert brought me right back to the 2010s! (Those who know...)

17.11.2024 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah… it’s not pretty.

I don’t think we have a best practices for this. @joshmoore.bsky.social may have more thoughts on this…

Most tools currently check for .zattrs or zarr.json to determine the version.

12.11.2024 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You’ll find .zattrs with the Zarr v2 version of the data, which we currently reference from images.jax.org: storage.googleapis.com/jax-public-n...

12.11.2024 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Part of the problem is that the NGFF challenge data is in Zarr v3 format. Instead of .zattrs, you get zarr.json: storage.googleapis.com/jax-public-n...

12.11.2024 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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OME-NGFF Workflows Hackathon 2024 November 18th - 22nd | University of Zurich, Irchel Campus

I suspect we'll make progress at next week's OME-NGFF hackathon [ ema.uzh.ch/RM3FJ ]. Java is one of tracks, and John will be in attendance... I'm hoping we get standardized support for transforms done (including both multiscale and multimodality)

11.11.2024 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Correct. Data listing *is* disabled, but that is not a problem for NGFF. Fortunately, one does not have to guess filenames, thats's what the spec is for.

Can you try the links at bsky.app/profile/perl... ?

11.11.2024 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

We don't allow data listing. If you click through the links above, the NGFF validator has no trouble accessing the data.

What Zarr client or viewer are you using to access the data? The N5-Java libraries used to expect local filesystem semantics (like list) but I thought that had been fixed.

11.11.2024 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
OME-NGFF validator

Here are validator links for both versions of the data:

v2: ome.github.io/ome-ngff-val...

v3: ome.github.io/ome-ngff-val...

11.11.2024 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

What Zarr library are you using? Does it support v3 w/ sharding?

Can you try the Zarr v2 version of the data?
storage.googleapis.com/jax-public-n...

11.11.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
View of Gas Works Park in Seattle from a Kenmore air sea plane flight

View of Gas Works Park in Seattle from a Kenmore air sea plane flight

View into the cockpit of a Kenmore flight

View into the cockpit of a Kenmore flight

I am team window all the way. It's easier when there are no shades and you can look forward as well πŸ˜‰. (These are from my flight to Friday Harbor Marina from South Lake Union)

29.07.2024 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The staff at BWI were happy to be working again. (It was sad to hear that contract staff were basically unpaid for the duration of the grounding.)

28.01.2024 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I'll be on one in a few hours! Today may be my first Alaska travel day of 2024 to go remotely close to plan. 🀞

28.01.2024 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My upgrade cleared on AS379 shortly before cancellation. Now I get the pleasure of flying a day later on AA through ORD in coach. πŸ™ƒ
(The phone agents are working hard today!)

06.01.2024 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
"Dear passenger,
We’re currently expanding our fleet and are in the process of installing Wi-Fi on board all new aircraft. Your flight, FI597 on 02-January-2024 will be operated on one of our new Boeing 737 Max aircraft that unfortunately doesn’t have Wi-Fi yet."

"Dear passenger, We’re currently expanding our fleet and are in the process of installing Wi-Fi on board all new aircraft. Your flight, FI597 on 02-January-2024 will be operated on one of our new Boeing 737 Max aircraft that unfortunately doesn’t have Wi-Fi yet."

This is the message I got for Tuesday's flight. TF-ICH is 5 years old! I received the same message on the outbound as well for two flights (one of which I did not take [strike irrops])

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks they send the broken planes to BWI. :P

04.01.2024 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

7 MAX (one of which worked) and 1 767. Two of the flights generated an advance e-mail that the "new" aircraft would not have wifi. (2019 vintage). The network itself shows up about half the time.

It's very unimpressive :P

04.01.2024 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Airplane map showing airplane off of the coast of africa.

Airplane map showing airplane off of the coast of africa.

Picture of remaining flight time with bogus data.

Picture of remaining flight time with bogus data.

@wandrme.paxex.aero Are you still the expert on airline WiFi deployments? As of this trip, Icelandair is 1/8 for functioning WiFi on my flights in the past year. It's embarrassing when things like the wine list have QR codes.

Hell, today the map has my KEF-BWI flight stuck off of west africa.

04.01.2024 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Eric standing with Bryce Canyon in the background. A warning sign has fallen over and down the ravine.

Eric standing with Bryce Canyon in the background. A warning sign has fallen over and down the ravine.

Eric in the Zion Narrows

Eric in the Zion Narrows

Just lurking! But, while I'm here: I just got back from the southwest corner of your state. Absolutely fantastic.

01.12.2023 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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