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millerdl

@millerdl@mathstodon.xyz

type 2 fun enthusiast // Bogdanovist // statistician at Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland

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sometimes you're on vacation and you think "which (of the lower 48*) states have cities named after them?"

https://gist.github.com/dill/236a929e85983d53a654e25b9a70044b

  • sorry HI and AK, I'm on vacation and I didn't want to spend time going inlaid maps. I will do better.

map of the lower 48 showing a highlighted state with all the cities which roughly match their name as points.

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Back at it again!

Inside of King Street station in Seattle. It’s kind of old fashioned fancy with high ceilings with fancy moulding on the ceiling and big wooden benches

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What I will never do vis a vis trainposting

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TACOMA DOME

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fuck https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/

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shot//chaser

A book called “the surprise attack in mathematical problems” by Louis a Graham

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hm. Just realised that when our dog sitter asked how the journey was going I probably shouldn’t text her back with a photo of my feet (demonstrating legroom!).

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Stopped in Havre, MT. Another 1.5 lengths of the train. There’s a big old train.

A very large steam train, painted black with “GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY” logo with a goat in the centre

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Montana continues to be flat. For now.

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Will we get to Glacier National Park before it gets dark? Probably not?

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I think it just snowed a little? If not it was very large rain.

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No, it was snow!!

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Shelby, MT

Another small brick building painted blue with a penguin next to a cursive sign reading “refrigeration a/c & heating”

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Now passing through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfeet_Nation

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We made it to Glacier National Park, but there is minimal signal.

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Pics before I run out of signal

Evergreen trees in the foreground. In the background huge mountains covered in snow. The snow and the clouds above have taken on a golden sunset colour.

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Heading for Whitefish, MT. Then across the Idaho panhandle, then to Spokane where the train splits and we say goodbye to the Portland folks.

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Woke up in Washington state! Still dark and still a way from Seattle…

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View out of the back door of the train ❤️

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It’s happening!! 🚆🚆🚆

I’m getting the train from New York to Seattle over the next ~80 hours!

Thanks to @Gaelan for the really good info on planning the trip!

You all may want to mute me for the next few days if you don’t want a LOT of train chat!

(I’ll try to confine it to this thread, which I’ll pin.)

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The parks service have invaded the observation car and are talking loudly about “glaciation” and “westward expansion”

(I don’t hate the parks service but it’s nice to have some time where you’re not being talked at and just allowed to stare out of the window.)

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brb getting cancelled for hating science outreach

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“Winona, Minnesota” is extremely fun to say.

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The Mississippi is WIDE. Getting dark here but we’re whizzing up one side of it right now.

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@nxskok that’s the one!

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@nxskok it’s now called the Empire Builder? Still fairly problematic…

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