A Bug I saw on my motorcycle ride this evening.
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Bob Tregilus
@elaterite@mastoart.social
mastodon 4.7.3I follow science, history, & photography toots. Now retired, I've been a: mechanic, construction worker, cab driver, laborer, fabricator, electrical engineer, cable technician, community organizer, lobbyist, podcaster (energy & EVs), fine art framer, & professional photographer (among many other things). Linux user since the '90s. I use Darktable to edit photos. I'm an open culture advocate & my photos are in the public domain. I'm a Nov '22 dead bird site migrant. #NoAI #OpenCulture
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Where I hang my hat::
Middle San Juan region
Profile photo:
Photo of a man standing on the rim of a crater with a snow covered volcano behind him.
Header photo:
A house sized boulder in a flat lake under an orange sunset in the mountains.
Canyon De Chelly a couple of days ago.
#Travel #RoadTrip #Landscape #Desert #Canyon #Photography #Darktable
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Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" (Shiprock, NM) is a 27 million year old volcanic neck in the northeast portion of the Navajo volcanic field.
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#VisitWithRespect #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Landscape #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Got mine today, flu and COVID. 🙂 Got'em both in the same arm. Only slightly sore, so far. 🤞
Took a little leaf-peeping drive up into the San Juans today. They're starting to turn up high around 2743m (9,000ft).
#Travel #RoadTrip #Mountains #FallColors #Fall #Autumn #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
Sandstone swirls and curls in Canyon De Chelly, Arizona.
#Geology #Landscape #Travel #RoadTrip #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Darktable
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@danlew@androiddev.social Had to look that up. Yup, software update bricked their refrigerators.
Begs the question: Why does a refrigerator need anything more than a mechanical thermostat to set the temperature of the freezer and refrigerator and a mechanical switch to turn the light on and off?
I hate this timeline so much...
https://www.techspot.com/news/113978-samsung-confirms-faulty-update-bricked-smart-refrigerators-promises.html
#AI #NoAI
With all of the rain, I drove over to Canyon De Chelly to see if any of the dryfalls or pourovers were happening. The one I was hoping would be a nice waterfall was just a trickle, but I found a couple of others that were flowing pretty good. Anyway, first, here's a nice ancient cliff dwelling.
#VisitWithRespect #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Landscape #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable
Wow, look what I found! But it's certainly not as big as I thought it would be. And I didn't think I'd find it in Brookings, Oregon, either. 🤔
Just your standard photo of Yosemite Falls on one fine spring day eleven years ago.
#Water #WaterFall #Landscape #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable
Donuts or ice cream?
Donuts or ice cream?
I found this nice photo of a Crotaphytus collaris (collared lizard) that I made when I took a Bloomberg reporter out on a recon of the first Tesla Gigafactory under construction east of Reno. Yours truly broke the news. Back then I was heavily involved in the energy / EV space. This was back when we all knew Musk was a mercurial employer / person, but before the world found out he would happy commit--in my opinion--crimes against humanity.
#WIldlife #EV #Energy #Photography #Darktable
Nice scarecrow! Or is it a scare dinosaur for scaring avian dinosaurs? A scareaviandino!
(Phone photo.)
Uh-oh!
A debt-fuelled boom
"More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything..."
"They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal."
"Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic..."
Via: @SrRochardBunson@universeodon.comhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/korean-markets-threatening-upset-tech-boom/106981956
#Tech
Yesterday, at 4am, the Senate confirmed the president's personal defense atty as the next US Atty General, then they all left town on recess. I don't understand how congressional Democrats have the organizational ability to get elected but have no clue how to force the media to properly cover the Regime's coup. Me? I'd organize my colleagues, campout on the Capitol steps 24/7, & make noise until the media properly covers what's going on in DC. Why are the Dems so inept? Thoughts @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social?
Once upon a time, eleven years ago, my strawberry patch looked like this. I learned after they started dying back several years later that you have to cut the runners once the new plant has established itself. Leaving it connected to the old plant will cause it to die when the old plant dies. Strawberry plants only live 5-8 years--so cut those runners!
#Strawberry #Gardening #Fruit
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@AkaSci@fosstodon.org Wow, that Apollo 12 SCE to AUX story is really amazing. Good thing that EECOM engineer John Aaron had experienced a similar failure during testing and had a fix!
It's a rare appearance of the Mono Lake tufa goblin quartet!
#BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Geology #Photography #Darktable
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@jackdaniyel@mastodon.social I know. It's criminal. Police and fire all have websites, why don't they use them for emergency information? And/or why don't they operate and control their own Mastodon server that everyone can get info from without an account? I hope you have filed a complaint with your local elected officials.
I can't even being to tell you how much I love this! This sign is on a bridge that crosses the Animas River. In the upper left corner it says, "Aztec Ruins National Monument." The bridge is on the route of the Old Chaco Road (850-1250CE) & the Old Spanish Trail (1829-1850). The little group of lights seen above the right side of the sign is where I now live! The Aztec Ruins (structures) are in the dark on the far right. (Note: The structures are Ancestral Puebloan , not Aztec.)
(Phone photo)
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@studiofox@beige.party @Tamami@mastodon.art But AI is enormous with trillions of tiny bytes of data and it doesn't do any of that fucking shit. Why is that? 🤔
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@corbet@social.kernel.org Ha ha ha, that's great! And my defense would be: "Oh, shit, I'm sorry, I was really nervous and I'm super-dyslexic, and darn if I didn't give you the wrong code. Sorry." 🙄
"What about the people who don't read?"
"There's a movie."
Lol😂
#Monsterdon
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social We need an unprecedented voter turnout & at this point I don't see that happening. So many people seemed disengaged and unaware of the danger. 2/2
It's like what Tuco said in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: "When you got to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
#Monsterdon
Need to watch this at 144p with a lot of snow. Then the special effects will look real!
#Monsterdon 👻 😱
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Well, now, this is a depressing statement: "It can be naïve or misleading to aid attorneys in legal argument when legal argument increasingly seems to be beside the point for those in political and judicial power."
Good grief, it's like a funeral procession!
#Monsterdon 👻 😱
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@Jonricha@hoosier.social Eastern Sierra Hwy 395 between Lee Vining and the June Lake Loop. That cabin, however, has since collapsed. 🫤
Yup, a scene from what will happen when AI takes over.
#Monsterdon
Ouch!
#Monsterdon 👻 😱
Oh! My computer clock is wrong? ...hm?
#Monsterdon 👻 😱
Darn, no cell signal?
#Monsterdon 👻 😱
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Thanks for the response! One of the problems the Dems don't seem to recognize is that their floor speeches & interviews do not reach the broader public. And with the oligarchical takeover of the media, the only way to reach the public is by doing something dramatic. The media would have a hard time ignoring a hundred Dem congresspeople camped out 24/7 on the Capitol steps--during recess! To rephrase the Sagan standard: Extraordinary crises require extraordinary responses. 1/2
Welp, those ain't dinosaurs!
#Monsterdon
Vincent Price was a good guy (as far as I know).
He was a big supporter of the arts. "Price also spent time working as an art consultant for Sears, Roebuck and Co. From 1962 to 1971, Sears offered the "Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art", selling about 50,000 fine-art prints to the general public. Works that Price selected or commissioned for the collection included some by Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí."
I got to frame one a couple of years ago. 🙂
#Monsterdon 👻 😱
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@ItsTheManOnTheMoon@timeloop.cafe Good grief, but it figures, the House on Haunted Hill (Ennis House) is a Frank Lloyd Wright design. I have yet to see a Frank Lloyd Wright design I like. Via Wikipedia: "Even before its completion, the house had shown signs of poor workmanship; for example, the blocks began falling apart before the Ennis family moved in. One critic wrote that the building looked like 'a ruin under excavation' when it was being completed." 😂
#Monsterdon
Or may be the movie's title should have been: They Came from Andromeda?
#Monsterdon
Psycho zombie ghosts with axes! Bring it on!
#Monsterdon
Or movie's title could have been: My Really Bad LSD Trip.
#Monsterdon
Mid-century Mayan Revival, architecture.
#Monsterdon 👻 😱