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midendian

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Nerd, bear 🏳️‍🌈, hacker, cyclist, traveler, avgeek, geographer, San Franciscan. He/him. KJ6DYS. Landscape photographer and space-borne image sensor enthusiast.

(Also same name on sfba.social.)

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midendian, to SanFrancisco
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watching the clouds move in.

Raven looking at the Golden Gate Bridge from the headlands
Boiling clouds on the horizon above the golden gate with green hills in shadow in the foreground

skinnylatte, to random
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The vast majority of tech billboards in the Bay Area just point to how engineers who run companies historically devalue marketing. Wtf are they even saying?

‘SOC2 that doesn’t suck’
‘npm i ai’
‘HR: be a Humongous Reformer’

The Intercom one is also bad but it’s so bad I don’t remember now

(I mean I get it so no need for reply guys to explain ahahahah)

midendian,
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@skinnylatte I think the engineers mostly hate these too. The original intercom one I really thought was satire.

midendian, to SanFrancisco
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quiet parrot.

cc @suldrew

cute green parakeet with red head sitting on a power line

midendian,
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poking around the map this afternoon I realized I’d never been to Holly Park. super clear today, even my phone could see the radome on Mount Tam.

View from holly park looking to burns vista park on the right (prominent apartment building is 555 buena vista).

kyleve, to random
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Some shots from yesterday and today ☀️☀️☀️☀️

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midendian,
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@kyleve love the @SutroTower pic especially!

midendian, to planespotting
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big photo dump on flickr of less-interesting extra-nerdy airport stuff if you think you might be in to that sort of thing. https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=80321933%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=&min_upload_date=1704182400&view_all=1

EVA Air pax and Cargo waiting to depart KSFO.
Swimming bird with yellow beak and green eyes
United 737 departing with United 777 landing in the background and Air New Zealand lining up for approach

midendian, to random
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this must be what it’s like for normies trying to listen to air traffic control

petes_bread_eqn_xls, (edited ) to random
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Have you ever regretted not bringing your personal laptop on vacation?

midendian,
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@petes_bread_eqn_xls no but only because I’ve never not brought one 😅. editing photos without a keyboard is slow and clumsy.

brunoph, to random
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Transit nerds: what’s up with DC Metro trains always taking like 10 seconds to open the doors after stopping? I thought it might have been a forgetful operator, but it seems every single train does that?

midendian,
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@brunoph the answer is very dumb but apparently they’re bringing back the auto doors soon https://www.wmata.com/about/news/ADO-operator-certification.cfm

midendian, to Oakland
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lovely blanket of fog on the bay this morning.

midendian,
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nothing unusual at SFO today, just a nice afternoon at the park. some good dogs (not pictured).

Alaska (Skywest) arriving in front of an Alaska 737 at SFO
Japan Airlines 787 departing SFO with the San Francisco skyline in the background.
Zipair 787 arriving at SFO with the Oakland skyline in the background.

midendian, to random
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happy almost-solstice

midendian, to planespotting
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weekend airplanes. air quality has been a bit grim lately but the winter light is still lovely.

@JetTip

United 757 and A320 in the latest livery landing in parallel with a United 787 in the Unitednental livery in the foreground.
Kalitta 747 freighter at sunset with an orange Oakland skyline in the background. Paint includes the yellow DHL tail.
ITA Airways A350 in striking metallic blue livery with green-white-red tail accelerating past the San Francisco skyline at sunset.

midendian,
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@doug @cvvhrn @connorcrosby @tsturm still my favourite of the genre, from 2016.

geographile, to random
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It'll be interesting to see what holiday travel and socialization does to this chart

https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@covidsewage/111596132331344418

midendian,
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@geographile that recent spot where the green line more than doubled over night was the Wednesday before thanksgiving if I remember correctly 🙃

midendian, to SanFrancisco
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it's very-long-range-telephotography season in San Francisco again. here's the Point Reyes lighthouse in near-infrared from Grandview Park, about 55 km / 34 miles away.

midendian, to random
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Vaguely-threatening vegetable. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asparagus-farms-california_n_7029836

LibrarianRA, to food
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What's for dinner?
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1960 Del Monte Green Beans with recipe ad
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midendian,
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@LibrarianRA

midendian, to random
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went to my “want to go” map to add a pin for the original El Torito of bootable CD-ROM fame and realized I’ve already eaten there several times without realizing it. it appears to be a much better restaurant now.

https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/111516285779147860

midendian,
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(Had lunch at what was once the CD-ROM-related El Torito this week and can confirm it is better than the original restaurant.)

mattblaze, to random
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For wet sensor cleaning, I use the VisibleDust stuff. I generally use the orange swab sticks with the "Sensor Clean" solution. The swabs are crazy expensive, but you can re-use them by removing the wipe and covering the paddle with a PecPad. I use the vibrating handle they sell, which seems to work pretty well at dislodging even stubborn grime. It takes some practice to figure out how much pressure to apply when swabbing the sensor (more than you think). Two passes is usually sufficient.

midendian,
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@brunoph @mattblaze I’m still not convinced it’s not a gimmick but I’m sure it was a sufficient placebo that it reduced the camera maker’s return/service rate substantially

midendian, to random
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"that ain't no crow bar... this is a crow bar."

midendian, to SanFrancisco
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🎇

midendian, to random
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Didn’t get a pic before it turned off its lights and siren but I am cracking up at the concept of an armored Honda Odyssey.

GayOldTime, to gay
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An artist's impression of the elusive gay dandy in his natural environment ✨

midendian,
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@petes_bread_eqn_xls @GayOldTime haven’t you noticed that money is worth less there due to the lower air pressure

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