David E. Weekly

Happy New Year!!!

If you want a less polarized society, you have to become comfortable with disagreeing with your friends and agreeing with your enemies.

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I don't consider myself a desert person but Arizona has surpassing beauty.

The view doesn't get old from up here.

Cyrus, 8: "Dad, I'm depressed. The universe is very, very large and it makes me feel insignificant."

Me: "You are significant to me. And life is significant and rare in the universe."

Progress in image generation continues to astound. Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini 3.0 Pro to research and reason about material and to create and critique its own drafts. Outputs can be in 4k!

Here's a poster I made about quasars.

At what temperature Celsius does pure water freeze?

(You may be surprised that pilots will give a *very* different answer than the general public, and for good reason.)

Don't forget to look up.

I'm a huge fan of AngelFlight West - a network of pilots that provides free flights to cancer patients and those in need. Whatever your hobby and joy is, it is doubled when you find a satisfying way to share it with others. This morning Emma was excited to be riding up front with me!

Kind of neat that battery companies now version by year just like software. 😜

Brotherhood of Man, Anthony Stellon (1968) Franklin Square Park, SF

One of my hippie friends before my DC-SF flight had a pretty awesome typo: she wished me "sage travels". I think I want to make that a thing now 😂

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Sumo oranges are pretty ugly! But goodness are they tasty. And easy to open and eat.

A young professional asked me for books I wished I had read when entering the workforce: here was my short list.

What's on yours?

I'm a huge fan of OrangeTheory fitness. And not just because it's orange! Literally has changed my life.
Okay, and the fact that it is orange is fun too. Guess my car and I made their Instagram. 😆

Delighted to meet Congressman Sam Liccardo today at the SMCSBA Legislative Brunch!

Cloudy? No problem for the modern astrophotographer.

It has been a legit bucket list item to do a fly in ski trip. Thank you, Carl, for your friendship, piloting, and helping me check this one off.

Super trippy: seeing a Falcon 9 launch hundreds of miles to the south as we drove to our morning workout.

My future pilot.

In theory our plane departs in a few hours but I have never seen SFO so socked in. Hard LIFR.

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Maybe bringing the novice snowboarders with new equipment on a day like today was a reach.

Now you'll find me in vigorous agreement!

If you mean reading code, I disagree. I don't really follow as well reading or truly internalize much vs writing it.

Pedestrian-hostile architecture. Sometimes it happens by mistake. Sometimes it's more than that.

America: "We are very sorry we were poor stewards of your personal information and got hacked. As part of our court-mandated apology, please visit the following website to enter more personal information so we can give you five dollars on a debit card."

GPS: yes (very faint, civilian band is unencrypted)

ILS: probably no (highly directional, far higher power).

All hail the humble Brother printer. It just works. The toner lasts forever, practically zero maintenance, drivers work flawlessly out of the box on Windows and macOS.

Tire Assault Vehicle - Wikipedia

After the Space Shuttle landed the tires might burst and were at super high pressures. How to deflate them? Maybe...stick a drill on an RC tank toy?

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Hello, (bluesky) world.