Nostr notes by Muro deGrizeco

Now I have a Jane's Addiction parody stuck in my head. (Dog ...

2026-04-09T15:07:37Z

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Now I have a Jane's Addiction parody stuck in my head.

(Dog barking, then song begins...)

"Been caught jamming once, when he left the mic.
I enjoy barking. It's just as simple as that.
When I see something, that I gotta bark at."

#HamRadio #QRM #dog

I'm at work, reading that ham's email about my QRM, on my ...

2026-04-08T15:31:52Z

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I'm at work, reading that ham's email about my QRM, on my phone.

Quickly call my spouse.

"Are you working in the home office? Ok. Is Kitty Fooble is next to you? Is he sitting on my laptop keyboard? Ah-ha! That's it!"

Then I explained.

"OMG! My fault, I left laptop keyboard exposed. Our cat is butt-typing the ionosphere via JS8! Hams everywhere complaining! Flip power switch! Unplug this and that!"

Ha ha ha!

Silly me.

Hey, so now you have a story with
#HamRadio , #Linux, and a #cat

#Cat story: Some months back, using a rescued e-waste laptop as a ...

2026-04-08T15:09:33Z

#Cat story:

Some months back, using a rescued e-waste laptop as a ham radio computer.

Running Debian #Linux, it sat on my office desk, with a tiny QDX digital radio on USB, squeaking out tiny 4 Watt QRP #JS8 signals into antenna coax.

JS8 is low speed chat mode, with relaying and stored messages, right? I would let it run all day, then check it once or twice a day, message scattered ops.

Well... One day I get WTF email saying,

"Dood, U Ok? You been sending nonsense last hour!"

Oh no!

"Who's a good dog? You are! All of you are! All the dogs ...

2026-03-06T01:17:42Z

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"Who's a good dog? You are!

All of you are!

All the dogs even existed are!"

And they lived happily every after.

2026-01-31T18:50:06Z

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And they lived happily every after.

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2026-01-31T18:48:06Z

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....annnnnnd the bombardier beetle. #glowfari #sfba ...

2026-01-12T04:36:23Z

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....annnnnnd the bombardier beetle.

#glowfari #sfba

"Oh! I should take a picture of that ant sculpture for ...

2026-01-12T01:38:26Z

"Oh! I should take a picture of that ant sculpture for myrmepropagandist (npub1ppe…qv2g) !"

Because #ants

Ceaușescu's last speech.

2026-01-07T17:29:01Z

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Ceaușescu's last speech.

All this effort, just to fire a taxi driver!

2025-12-21T18:47:20Z

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All this effort, just to fire a taxi driver!

When we adopted our tortie cats, the shelter had a questionnaire, ...

2025-12-18T16:55:05Z

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When we adopted our tortie cats, the shelter had a questionnaire, asking "Do you know how much these kittens will cost", to which I replied, "More than I can possibly imagine. Always more."

Years go by, and their needs become more extreme and absurd. Now the vet says they will require cat food that contains equal numbers of spin-up and spin-down electrons.

Petsmart said that it's probably a type of Science Diet cat food that they can special order for us.

#cats #electrons

Are you talking about the packaging of Trader Joe's products? ...

2025-10-25T12:30:51Z

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Are you talking about the packaging of Trader Joe's products?

That stuff is the worst! You try to pull apart the top of a bag of chips, and the chip bag shatters, like, tears apart. Then chips fly everywhere!

Safe Mode is where you carefully cut the top of the bag open with scissors, right?

Ah, that reminds me. I should see if I can find some dehydrated ...

2025-10-18T14:44:21Z

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Ah, that reminds me. I should see if I can find some dehydrated ukrainian chicory granules...

Or grow some chicory...

Better to go out to the bayside, hike up onto the hillside, ...

2025-09-28T18:41:47Z

Better to go out to the bayside, hike up onto the hillside, listen to the trees and rocks.

Quiet.

Then string a wire with lobes north and south, put my ears up into the sky.

Cold Lake Alberta, Mexico, Salzburg Austria, Wales UK

#hamradio #sfba #qrp

God rolling doobies?

2025-09-28T17:08:38Z

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God rolling doobies?

Was it at the Philly Pizza Company, I hope? ("Punk Rock ...

2025-09-26T15:16:02Z

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Was it at the Philly Pizza Company, I hope?

("Punk Rock Girl" by The Dead Milkmen)

I used to always carry around a flat USB drive with Debian Live ...

2025-09-24T01:17:11Z

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I used to always carry around a flat USB drive with Debian Live for utility purposes.

Oh. Hey.

It's in my wallet now. Ha ha!

It boots to a desktop, but was mostly for adhoc repair use.

Not street level #linux evangelism, which I don't do anymore

Good on ya! And for protecting yourself too!

2025-09-18T17:16:19Z

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Good on ya!

And for protecting yourself too!

Oh! That's the natural color of the caterpillar, a warning to ...

2025-09-08T00:33:19Z

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Oh!

That's the natural color of the caterpillar, a warning to predators?

To be honest, at first glance before I read the post, I saw the picture and just assumed that AI6YR Ben (npub1ucv…5a8g) had some scraps of brightly colored green lycra, and was now experimenting with sewing tiny clothes for insects.

I mean, he probably would, and it would be amazing...

It seems to me that you visit the same places, and share photos ...

2025-09-07T13:39:03Z

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It seems to me that you visit the same places, and share photos of them with us, over and over. I like that!

We get to see the sameness of the places.

We see how they change.

We get to see the change of seasons, the different light, the movement of the waters, the stillness, the sunsets.

Even though I likely will never go see your places, you have shared their beauty and I appreciate that. Thank you.

Kiddo got a sewing machine from neighbor, immediately began ...

2025-08-24T22:36:30Z

Kiddo got a sewing machine from neighbor, immediately began making tiny hats for the cats, with openings for their ears

#cat #hat #sewing

Enough humidity, the wet bulb temperature goes beyond the ability ...

2025-08-12T01:09:02Z

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Enough humidity, the wet bulb temperature goes beyond the ability of humans to cool themselves.

Then the area will simply no longer be habitable.

Predicted future wet bulb maps show eastern China, the Persian Gulf, part of India, the south eastern United States as becoming uninhabitable.

Sorry.

Bad news.

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2025-07-28T02:10:29Z

#bloomscrolling

Side question for other readers: If we handed a box of random ...

2025-07-20T16:21:45Z

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Side question for other readers:

If we handed a box of random parts and electronics to Ben and challenged him to "repair" it, do you suppose we could trick him into making a working gravity field inverter, or maybe an anticausal temporal displacer?

Could work. If anyone, probably Ben could!

Hmm. Oh. Possible problem with gravity field inverter.

"I left it warming up in back yard, where did it go?"

That is how I feel this morning.

2025-07-06T13:55:05Z

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That is how I feel this morning.

Ooh, pretty. I had a bag of ukrainian roasted chicory crystals to ...

2025-07-05T14:55:40Z

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Ooh, pretty.

I had a bag of ukrainian roasted chicory crystals to make ersatz coffee or victory coffee. I should get more!

Inulin was only issue, so had to be careful how much I drank.

Similar to eating too many tubers from...

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

It was lost between the couch cushions this whole time?

2025-06-28T18:14:24Z

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It was lost between the couch cushions this whole time?

Those are very pretty.

2025-06-21T14:46:39Z

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Those are very pretty.

What if I need to factor polynomials? Which deity can assist me?

2025-05-26T00:28:00Z

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What if I need to factor polynomials?

Which deity can assist me?

Walking, say hi or hullo. Biking, if close, say "bike on your ...

2025-05-25T20:38:07Z

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Walking, say hi or hullo.

Biking, if close, say "bike on your left, moving slow." and then say hi.

In car, little hand wave.

I hear you. I hope all turns out well, and salute your ...

2025-05-21T13:56:24Z

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I hear you.

I hope all turns out well, and salute your thoughfulness, kindness, and caution!

In our house, we call it "The Protocol", where if there's an exposure of one of us, we mask and isolate and test. I sleep out on the couch.

"The Full Protocol", when spouse and kid got #covid, that's when we mask and establish airflow through the house with positive and negative pressure areas, box fans in windows. It works.

It's one of those front yard library boxes, but for bees?

2025-05-18T14:31:46Z

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It's one of those front yard library boxes, but for bees?

Quick, make a wish!

2025-05-17T14:52:15Z

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Quick, make a wish!

I hear the ham radio special event station from there each ...

2025-05-10T23:24:52Z

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I hear the ham radio special event station from there each year...

I lift a glass then, to your mother on the occasion of her ...

2025-05-08T18:27:57Z

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I lift a glass then, to your mother on the occasion of her birthday, and for her sharing of stories.

Nice planet! I've lived on Earth all my life.

2025-05-04T01:52:43Z

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Nice planet! I've lived on Earth all my life.

It is ectoplasmic ghost poop, I think?

2025-04-28T07:05:42Z

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It is ectoplasmic ghost poop, I think?

Oh, I saw someone have a real positive interaction with an AI ...

2025-03-17T14:26:07Z

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Oh, I saw someone have a real positive interaction with an AI chat bot doing customer support.

It was during a Zoom meeting.

A demo.

The guy asked the trained AI a question about some software, got a reasonable answer to his question, and he declared triumphantly that this was the Way of the Future.

That happy someone was a CEO who was then going to get rid of Support staff.

Driving down into the Los Angeles area in the early eighties. ...

2025-03-13T00:55:51Z

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Driving down into the Los Angeles area in the early eighties. Down into the red haze, photo chemical smog, acrid to breathe.

Remembering German cities of that time that stunk of diesel.

Remembering cars of the seventies that only partially burned their gas, and chugged out hydrocarbon volatiles.

It was gross.

It's a difficult time. Yesterday, it was hearing about big ...

2025-02-28T13:24:05Z

It's a difficult time.

Yesterday, it was hearing about big cuts to Social Security agency personnel coming.

Social Security is a minimal American old age pension fund that workers pay into throughout working years. Dates back to the New Deal of President FDR. Every paycheck I ever had, has had a percentage to SS.

Yesterday, I was thinking,

"If that's stolen, then I don't get to retire?

I have to just work until I die?

Or I just die if I can't find work?"

#USpol #retirement

Old interview questions I sometimes used to ask: "What's ...

2025-02-11T19:35:17Z

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Old interview questions I sometimes used to ask:

"What's your fave linux distro?"

Then, "Cool. But tell me why?"

And lastly, "Now, tell me what you hate about it."

#Linux

Tabster Fooble yawns on his window throne, perhaps worn out by ...

2025-02-08T15:38:49Z

Tabster Fooble yawns on his window throne, perhaps worn out by the hard job of watching birds and squirrels outside.

#Caturday #catsofmastodon

Fame is a poison. What reasonable person would want to be ...

2025-01-23T18:31:33Z

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Fame is a poison.

What reasonable person would want to be followed by swarms of glassy enraptured floating eyeballs?

What person valuing themselves and those close to them, would want to worship such idols?

One creature lifted a different sort of projector. How to ...

2025-01-15T02:45:14Z

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One creature lifted a different sort of projector.

How to describe it?

A shaft of solid darkness flew out from the weapon, as if some careless editorial cartoonist had tipped over a pot of india ink, and a black streak ran right across their work, ruining it.

The darkness struck a group of news reporters, who shouted and were silenced.

When the beam stopped a moment later, they were all gone!

"Died in Darkness!" cried the beast.

"Fit to print!" called another.

#mastodon

It's hard to say. Were they aliens? Or some foul creatures ...

2025-01-15T01:30:14Z

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It's hard to say. Were they aliens? Or some foul creatures from a nearby dimension, not too far from our own world?

With flopping gelatinous bodies and writhing tentacles, they crawled forth, glistening and belching some grotesque mockery of human speech.

One beast raised and swiveled the beam apparatus, and croaked, "Hot? Or not?", then sent a searing light to vaporize those frozen in fear.

One chanted, "Vox populi, vox dei!", with flatulent malevolence, advancing.

#mastodon

Well, I was running across the fields, and I don't know how ...

2025-01-14T04:12:13Z

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Well, I was running across the fields, and I don't know how long, running, hiding, hungry.

Must have been days.

Those terrible things...

When they came down in Grovers Mill, we thought it was just a meteorite falling, a large one, to be sure...

But those creatures emerged and projected that awful beam that burnt up people, who screamed and ran, or stayed and burned!

So I ran until I fell into this ditch and met everyone here and you said,

"Welcome to Mastodon"

#mastodon

But kittens meowing, cows lowing, trumpet anthem fanfare like ...

2025-01-12T17:34:47Z

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But kittens meowing, cows lowing, trumpet anthem fanfare like Stuart Dempster music, or weirder music still, like humming of "Islas Resonantes"...

I got a car that sometimes runs on electric motor, so needs a ...

2025-01-12T17:21:04Z

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I got a car that sometimes runs on electric motor, so needs a pedestrian alert sound as a warning.

I wish I could change it up.

Something different than electro whine.

Shriek of Nazguls?

Looks like the glow of distant Mordor.

2025-01-05T15:20:04Z

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Looks like the glow of distant Mordor.

what is the tower in the middle of the frozen river?

2025-01-02T22:00:49Z

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what is the tower in the middle of the frozen river?

A old hippie I knew decades ago, told me about how he did a grow ...

2025-01-01T19:36:50Z

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A old hippie I knew decades ago, told me about how he did a grow in some thickets in the Santa Cruz mountains.

40 years ago?

A deer found it one night and happily stripped all the lush leaves off, munching it all up.

Then the deer fell over, terribly intoxicated, and spent hours just kicking about in circles, unable to stand up!

Poor thing!

When the old hippie visited his patch, all he found were broken stalks in a swirly mud wallow, like a tiny tornado had wiped him out...

I did not know that a sleeping deer would sometimes leave a bare ...

2025-01-01T16:06:29Z

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I did not know that a sleeping deer would sometimes leave a bare patch in the snow.

As time no longer seems to be advancing in orderly isochronic ...

2024-12-27T14:56:17Z

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As time no longer seems to be advancing in orderly isochronic units, and causality is obliterated, who can possible tell?

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

2024-12-01T00:13:50Z

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

I got a bottle of Cynar as present, have a little sip about once ...

2024-11-25T02:03:46Z

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I got a bottle of Cynar as present, have a little sip about once a decade. Not in a rush.

nice harvest, interesting basket.

2024-10-28T21:59:38Z

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nice harvest, interesting basket.

"Hello, Air Force 191 from Polar Expedition 6. Can you read ...

2024-10-19T17:28:20Z

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"Hello, Air Force 191 from Polar Expedition 6. Can you read me?"

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2024-10-19T04:31:51Z

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

As a ham radio operator, over the years one thing I've found ...

2024-10-19T00:54:32Z

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As a ham radio operator, over the years one thing I've found useful are "Powerpole" type connectors.

My batteries, small solar panels, radios, 12V power meter all have those installed on the leads.

It makes swapping devices about and experimenting a bit easier.

Good on ya! Make those antibodies!

2024-09-11T17:23:54Z

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Good on ya!

Make those antibodies!

Not long before that time, in an internal Slack channel for team ...

2024-08-20T02:31:59Z

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Not long before that time, in an internal Slack channel for team members in India, a chorus of heartrending horror.

Crying, begging for tanks of oxygen for a sibling, a hospital bed for a gasping parent, saying a close friend had just died, saying they had bad news, saying someone left orphans when they died.

So much pain.

After the main part of the sadness passed, and the voices quieted down, the bosses erased the Slack channel, as if nothing had even happened.

Corporate #covid

Huh, and my spouse and I were just talking about finding the mpix ...

2024-08-15T17:46:54Z

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Huh, and my spouse and I were just talking about finding the mpix vaccine for our family...

Is this kleptocratic deal, what the Russians refer to as a ...

2024-08-09T10:47:10Z

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Is this kleptocratic deal, what the Russians refer to as a крыша?

It is appropriate that the social contracts of a mobbed-up society should be disassembled.

Else, their evil spreads.

Stepped out in the back yard at dusk, admiring the garden's ...

2024-08-03T14:46:25Z

Stepped out in the back yard at dusk, admiring the garden's growth. The bean vines are climbing higher on the trellis extension I recently added, and seem to have further ambitions.

"Look at you! Reaching for the sky, like my antennas. Wait, are you trying to get onto my G5RV inverted-V? No, not okay! Get away from it! Bad bean! Shoo!"

#garden #Hamradio