Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡

About me: Software Engineer, pilot/CFI, Libertarian, electronics, Ham, rocket/balloon tracker

Hi! I'm Ian Kluft. Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡 (npub1u6g…ajsh) is my Tech and local topics account, named for my Amateur Radio callsign
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2026-03-30 22:40:34 UTC

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No one was flying in or out of RHV at that moment because the storm was bearing down on the airport. (It was a day of thunderstorms everywhere in California due to remnants of a tropical storm, infamous for 1000+ lightning fires.) The direction of the photo to the west was toward SJC 30R/L arrivals. The big planes had weather radar in the nose well before 2008. So even though I didn't know status of SJC arrivals, I'm sure they briefly went into holding patterns or diversions.

2026-03-30 22:18:47 UTC

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I lived in the Berryessa district (which nobody even in San Jose had heard of until we got a BART station). But I was in your area for the June 21, 2008 storms which dropped some funnel clouds. I was at RHV Airport when the storms got my attention. Photographed a funnel cloud. I redeemed myself as a stormspotter: the funnel dissipated while I was on the phone with the City of San Jose's Ham Radio emergency communications director. He could have activated the EOC if it developed.
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2026-03-30 22:09:08 UTC

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I remember it. I was near home in east San Jose where an unusually strong thunderstorm got my attention: lots of lightning, clouds moving in opposite directions near each other = rotation, first time I saw backlit-green clouds. Then I drove away fleeing hail. Having noticed that, I flunked as a stormspotter telling a friend on Ham Radio, "If we were in the midwest, I'd think we were about to have a tornado." 30+ minutes before the tornado. 10 years later I got to redeem myself.

2026-03-30 22:05:44 UTC

@npub19xy…lkfq Since you're in the Bay Area now, you may be interested in some local weather history: the May 4, 1998 Sunnyvale tornado. https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/tools/decision/cases/980504/case.html

2026-03-29 23:54:02 UTC

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If you haven't already found it, the SF Bay Trail is a great cycling route for lots of future exploration of the Bay Area. Or actually it's a collection of great routes - there are gaps. The eventual goal is a continuous ring trail around SF Bay. There's enough of it built now to find the Bay Trail and/or feeder trails in all the counties that border the Bay. https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/regional-trails-parks/san-francisco-bay-trail
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2026-03-28 19:18:16 UTC

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"Link light rail opens across Lake Washington" by #Seattle #SoundTransit - A long-anticipated day has arrived for the Seattle metro area with Link Light Rail open over the I-90 floating bridge on Lake Washington, connecting Bellevue & Redmond to downtown Seattle. Both sides are commute origins and destinations. https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/link-light-rail-opens-across-lake-washington #transit #PNW
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2026-03-22 21:33:17 UTC

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"Seattle light rail is about to do something audacious and unique to transit" by [@TheSeattleTimes](https://flipboard.com/@TheSeattleTimes ) - Electric trains (or any trains) on a floating bridge will be a new thing. After many delays including re-doing faulty track construction, #SoundTransit Link Light Rail's "2 Line" opens across Lake Washington on Saturday, March 28. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-light-rail-is-about-to-do-something-audacious-and-unique-to-transit/ #Seattle #transit #PNW

2026-02-24 21:46:36 UTC

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🤔 Ummm... OK. Didn't expect that. The purpose of monospaced fonts is when columns of text need to line up, like in a text editor, or for symbolically displaying source code and program output because of their association with text editors.
When I'm coding, my text editor uses monospaced fonts. For other uses, proportional spaced fonts were made to be easier to read.

2026-02-23 02:01:55 UTC

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That's only true for sans-serif fonts. The "crossbars" are called serifs. "Sans" is French for "without". Though sans-serif fonts are intended for use in headlines, they're usually the default text font on web browsers from an ancient-digital era 20+ years ago when screen resolution didn't resolve serifs well. So the best suggestion is to configure your system and/or browser to display text in a serif font, and adjust Mastodon preferences to "use system font". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif

2026-02-10 23:28:57 UTC

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"Crosslake Connection simulated service begins Feb 14" by #Seattle Sound Transit - Sounds like 6-week operational nightmare: Link Light Rail "2 Line" trains will run the full route from Redmond to Lynnwood, kicking everyone off westbound trains at South Bellevue and eastbound trains at Int'l District because the segment between is only in testing. Cross-lake service, the world's first rail service on a floating bridge, is planned to open March 28. Good luck! https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/crosslake-connection-simulated-service-begins-feb-14 #transit #PNW
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2026-01-24 23:44:48 UTC

"Crosslake Connection opens March 28" by Sound Transit - The next phase of the 2 Line in #Seattle will open March 28 across Lake Washington between downtown Seattle and Bellevue via the I-90 floating bridge. Delays in construction around the bridge prevented the entire 2 Line from opening all at once, leaving a gap in the light rail network at the lake. 2 Line trains will run between existing terminus stations at Lynnwood and Redmond. https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/crosslake-connection-opens-march-28 #transit #PNW
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2025-12-15 21:27:22 UTC

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Since Mint is based on Ubuntu, you've still got a connection to a for-profit entity. It funds development from its commercial distro and support contracts. It's a mixed bag but has its benefits for the Open Source community. An analogous situation exists for my Linux distro Fedora which is developed by a non-profit organization that was established by and is largely funded by Red Hat. But Red Hat is now a division of IBM. IBM didn't destroy RH, but seems to have let RH modernize IBM.

2025-11-30 05:36:43 UTC

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So their political opponents are metering out hints of what recipe they plan to cook him in like a Bond-movie supervillain dramatically giving away their plan before carrying it out...?

2025-09-24 18:44:26 UTC

I explored the Redmond Caves in Redmond, Oregon (near #KRDM Airport, served by Alaska, AA, Breeze, Delta, United). These are some small lava tubes worth a quick stop. Bring a flashlight/headlamp and a spare when exploring any cave.
If you think Redmond sounds familiar, this is not the place. You're probably thinking of Redmond, Washington in the Seattle metro area where Microsoft HQ is. This Redmond is in Eastern Oregon.
#volcano #geology #Oregon #PNW
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2025-09-10 19:51:26 UTC

"First powered light rail vehicle crosses I-90 floating bridge" by Sound Transit (Seattle) - With overhead catenary lines powered, a Link Light Rail vehicle tested crossing the I-90 floating bridge on Lake Washington between Seattle and Bellevue in preparation for early 2026 opening of the full 2 Line. It crossed at increasing speeds from 5mph to 55mph. Testing at night allowed observation where electrical arcs occur, for adjustment of the lines. https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/first-powered-light-rail-vehicle-crosses-i-90-floating #Seattle #transit #PNW
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2025-08-29 00:05:09 UTC

"Link 1 Line service to Federal Way begins Dec 6" by Sound Transit (Fediverse presence not found #FPNF - if you know them, invite them) - Seattle Link Light Rail 1 Line extension from Angle Lake (near SeaTac Airport) south to Federal Way is now scheduled to open December 6. So it will open before the 2 Line extension across Lake Washington from Bellevue to downtown Seattle, expected in early 2026. https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/link-1-line-service-to-federal-way-begins-dec-6 #Seattle #transit #PNW
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2025-08-25 20:15:30 UTC

34 years ago, August 25, 1991: Finnish university student Linus Torvalds announced he would post source code of an experimental OS kernel he wrote. It was posted to the university's FTP server in September where the sysadmin nicknamed it #Linux. Torvalds thought it was done. But code contributions started arriving and never stopped. He still leads #kernel development today from his home near Portland, Oregon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech #TDIH #history #PNW

2025-08-19 20:45:36 UTC

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I figured you wanted to know about it.

2025-08-19 20:37:44 UTC

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The difference was pointed out to me long ago by a geology professor at College of the Siskiyous (yes, I started college in a town called Weed). The day before a field trip around Mt Shasta, he showed us the seismograph on campus, and jumped up and down in front of it to show it had no effect on the sensor. The next day during the field trip we saw the site of the seismometer. When he jumped up and down, he said, "now it's showing up on the seismograph we saw yesterday at the campus."😀

2025-08-19 20:33:02 UTC

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minor nit and suggested correction: in the paragraph about more quakes being displayed near Seattle and Mt Rainier, it's because there are a more seismometers there. That's the name for the sensor. Seismographs only display data where seismologists work or for public display, not necessarily near the sensor(s). Though your point is correct that more sensors in those areas mean more and smaller quakes can be detected.

2025-06-19 03:05:31 UTC

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"Link light rail will be suspended between Capitol Hill and SODO for the weekend of June 21-22" by Sound Transit (Seattle) - Another cracked rail and another downtown #Seattle weekend light rail closure to repair it. Shuttle buses will handle Capitol Hill to SODO, connecting the separated northern and southern sections of the 1 Line. https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/link-light-rail-will-be-suspended-between-capitol-hill #transit #PNW
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2025-06-03 03:29:22 UTC

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I actually can believe that. I've been in Portland for a year and a half (since the day 737 MAX doors were falling on the city). I remember your warnings about the then-upcoming ice storm during the following week led me to finish bringing the first load of stuff just in time before the flash-freeze hit. Then 6 months after I got here, you were leaving Portland. So that is indeed a year ago. But you're still Oregonian even though you live in Canada.

2025-05-13 22:55:26 UTC

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A little less hypothetical scenario... when I've bought System76 laptops before, I installed Fedora.
In your scenario, if I could just pick one, compromise of computing power and battery life points at Darter Pro 16in.

2025-04-15 03:15:52 UTC

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How much does the value of the property go up by claiming a view of whales?

2025-04-08 21:49:10 UTC

"1 Line service disrupted for repair work from April 14 to 23" by Sound Transit (Seattle) - Closure will facilitate emergency replacement of a cracked rail on the southbound Link Light Rail track in the tunnel between Pioneer Square & Int'l District stations. Regular trains north of Westlake and south of Stadium. Shuttle train on northbound track between them. Expect crowds & delays, or use alternate travel. https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/1-line-service-disrupted-repair-work-april-14-to-23 #Seattle #transit #PNW
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2025-04-02 03:17:54 UTC

Bike ride by PDX Airport this evening at golden hour. #KPDX #aviation #avgeek #cycling #Portland #PNW
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2025-03-25 19:54:42 UTC

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My best catch for "sounds like more than 2 engines" was in 2007 when I was studying for my instrument rating written test at outdoor seating of a Peet's Coffee in Santa Clara CA, occasionally noticing the endless stream of 737s and A320s departing SJC. Then "more than 2 engines" got my attention. I saw a 747SP with a livery I didn't recognize. It turned out to be the infamous flight where Fry's flew their new-to-them 747SP N747FU VFR (!!!) on the Bay Tour. And I saw it take off.

2025-03-24 22:34:05 UTC

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"That sounds like more than 2 engines..." Seen on my bike ride: US Air Force KC-135 aerial tanker on approach to Portland Air National Guard Base at Portland Int'l Airport #KPDX. #cycling #Portland #PNW #military #aviation #avgeek
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2025-03-24 22:30:30 UTC

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#Cycling in #Portland vicinity this afternoon on the Fairview-Gresham Trail in Gresham, Oregon. Behind the fence in this view is TriMet's Gresham rail yard with 4 parking tracks occupied by MAX light rail vehicles. #transit #PNW
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2025-03-24 22:27:14 UTC

#Cycling in #Portland this afternoon on the Springwater Corridor rail trail. #PNW
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2025-02-25 15:18:31 UTC

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"Damaging winds cause widespread power outages across Portland metro, Southwest Washington" by Oregon Public Broadcasting OPB (PBS Portland) - Over 1200 separate power outages affecting over 100,000 customers (homes & businesses). Most caused by trees or tree limbs falling on power lines. https://www.opb.org/article/2025/02/24/damaging-winds-power-outages-portland-metro-southwest-washington-storm/ #weather #ORwx #WAwx

2025-02-25 01:45:39 UTC

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45 minutes into the power outage, the utility updated the status with the cause everyone could easily have already guessed: high winds. No ETA for power restoration. 🥱 #weather #ORwx #WAwx #pdxtst

2025-02-25 00:54:05 UTC

Power out in ENE Portland among scattered outages around the area just before NWS briefly issued a severe thunderstorm warning. Storms quickly moved NE into WA state. #weather #ORwx #WAwx #pdxtst

2025-01-16 02:17:07 UTC

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#Seattle's #SoundTransit announced another short-notice Link Light Rail weekend shutdown. Again for construction to connect the 2-Line (Lake Washington bridge extension) with the existing 1-Line in downtown Seattle, this shutdown will be from 10pm Friday, January 17 through Sunday, January 19. https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/link-disruption-20250117 #PNW #transit
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2025-01-08 21:35:24 UTC

#Seattle's #SoundTransit announced Link Light Rail will shut down between Westlake and SODO stations in downtown, replaced by shuttle bus, from Friday January 10 at 10pm through the end of Sunday January 12. Construction to connect the 2-Line extension (Lake Washington bridge to Bellevue & Redmond) requires shutting down power on that segment to install new overhead power lines at the 1- & 2-Line junction. https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/link-light-rail-service-will-be-temporarily-suspended-7 #PNW #transit
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2025-01-08 02:41:28 UTC

"C++ Committee Divided on Memory Safety Plans" by [@TheNewStack](https://hachyderm.io/@TheNewStack ) - ISO C++ committee division over memory safety does not bode well for the future of the language. With major corporations and government agencies advising against new code in C++ due to its role in so many #cybersecurity vulnerabilities, they should be treating this as their last chance to change course. C++26 features will be finalized by the end of 2025. ⏳ https://thenewstack.io/c-committee-divided-on-memory-safety-plans/ #CPP #CPlusPlus #software #engineering #tech
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2025-01-08 02:25:39 UTC

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They've been known for worse. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/25/172869585/horsemeat-found-in-ikeas-meatballs
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2025-01-02 22:11:54 UTC

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I dunno about "like" but I was among many cyclists in Northern California who had to get N95 masks in 2018 due to the recurring smoke events. The usage pattern as we cyclists compared experiences became using an N95 (or better) mask at AQI>=100, limit distance of rides at AQI>=150, don't ride at AQI>=200. #cycling
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2024-12-27 04:14:21 UTC

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Heh. I don't see the point to a poll since it's nobody else's business. Choose what you need or want.

2024-12-15 05:03:03 UTC

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Keep in mind the "Mayday: Air Disasters" show covers accidents in each episode significant because of how the industry learned from them. Many things which make flying safer today, such as reading back radio clearances or Crew Resource Management procedures, were from lessons learned in accident investigations. Aviation started becoming safer when investigations changed from blaming someone to finding the real cause(s) behind the errors and recommended measures to avoid them.

2024-12-13 19:53:42 UTC

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You're probably right - lots of people will react like that. But the more one learns about the safety training of the pilots and cabin crew, the more reason there is to keep calm and let them handle it. Or in case an emergency escalates, maintain your calm so you can help others.
But it's mostly pilots, crew and avgeeks who can think like that. Anyone who has a fear of flying would have to get past that first.

2024-12-13 17:55:32 UTC

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An issue with a door is a lot different than with a door plug.
I looked up the diverted flight on that route. I see the pilots arrested the climb at 10,000ft, low enough that passengers and crew can breathe. So that sounds like a cabin pressurization issue. Yeah, they couldn't proceed with that problem. In a case like that, the need to divert is obvious. They got everyone safely on the ground.
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2024-11-25 14:11:01 UTC

"AI-Generated Homogeneity" by Marketoonist comic - While #AI algorithms can have strengths, "thinking outside the box" isn't one of them. When given that unrealistic expectation, AI becomes #AggregateInferiority. https://marketoonist.com/2024/11/ai-generated-homogeneity.html #tech #oops
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2024-11-19 19:39:24 UTC

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I certainly appreciate your insights. I arrived in Portland the same day 737 Max doors were raining on the city. (OK, only one.) That first week, you alerted me to the upcoming ice storm. I was able to plan for the first load of stuff to be unloaded before it. But I cut it close. The flash freeze hit while I was on the bus back from dropping off the rental truck. Above freezing boarding the bus. Last few blocks walking home it was 25F/-4C and winds gusting to 30mph/48kph/26kts.

2024-11-19 18:52:51 UTC

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Understood. Then do your best to ignore/mute/block the toxic elements.
For me, it's been 8 years since I decided to walk away from FB's toxicity. They made it many times worse by taking 2 years to honor my repeated account deletion requests. Never never never again. https://ikluft.github.io/socialmedia.html#others
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2024-11-19 18:46:02 UTC

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You could step away from FB. It is toxic.

2024-11-15 01:43:04 UTC

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There's an art to storytelling. 😀

2024-11-15 01:37:04 UTC

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Ah, OK. Failing to turn it on is a lot better than starting a fire, which is what I imagined it meant. Sounds like you did too when you first got the message.

2024-11-15 00:43:38 UTC

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😮 Glad to see there's no disaster story to go along with that. Dangerous learning experiences as kids is something that spans all generations.

2024-11-13 03:11:11 UTC

NWS Portland issued an Urban & Small Stream Flood Advisory for northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington effective until Wednesday 4:15pm PST. https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=ORZ111&warncounty=ORC051&firewxzone=ORZ684&local_place1=Mt%20Tabor%20OR&product1=Flood+Advisory&lat=45.4973&lon=-122.59 #ORwx #WAwx #weather
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2024-11-08 04:10:39 UTC

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Fry's never had a Milpitas store. But not far from there was their San Jose store on Brokaw Rd, which was also the company headquarters. (Everyone figured out the mystery owner of the 747SP was Fry's from the registration address at 200 E Brokaw Rd, San Jose which was Fry's HQ.)

2024-11-08 03:36:27 UTC

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Sounds like Weird Stuff, Halted or any of the other surplus electronics warehouse stores.

2024-11-08 02:30:50 UTC

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Some time between 2008-2010 I was on a SWA 737 from BUR to SJC and spotted an opposite-direction 747SP zip by about 1000ft below on the same airway. I couldn't quite recognize the markings. But it wasn't a NASA logo so it wasn't SOFIA. So it just about had to be the Fry's bird N747FU, also based in California. After landing I looked it up and confirmed it was the Fry's bird. It was being ferried from SJC to its hangar in SBD after dropping off its owners. 3 minutes at cruise altitude!

2024-11-08 02:12:42 UTC

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Yup. I've seen SOFIA in person too.
https://files.pnw.zone/media_attachments/files/113/444/909/627/609/305/original/7a5b8fb37977dfb4.png

2024-11-08 02:07:56 UTC

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Yeah, well they had to sell everything before they went bankrupt. At the time NASA still had big plans for SOFIA and began to get an insatiable appetite for 747SP spare parts.

2024-11-08 02:02:05 UTC

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Fry's Electronics made enough money for a while that in 2007 they added a 747SP to their fleet of business aircraft. It was painted white with a blue stripe, often adding decals for whomever they were flying... Ballet San Jose, NHL San Jose Sharks and later flew the Fry's logo when flying SJC-LAS-SJC daily during CES. Originally registered as N747FU, later re-reg as N747A. https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/6123504

2024-11-08 01:49:19 UTC

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Fry's supermarket was a different company founded by the parents of the brothers who started Fry's Electronics.

2024-11-02 19:03:52 UTC

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There are DIY projects all over the web to convert them to VOIP phones. Or personal assistants. Or jukebox controllers. Or, whatever... https://hackaday.com/2015/03/09/convert-a-rotary-phone-to-voip-using-raspberry-pi/

2024-10-30 20:50:45 UTC

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So apparently the timing of the two may not have been a coincidence after all. The smaller quake in the Ochoco Mtns which was removed, considering the timing, could have been a triangulation error of the larger more distant quake.

2024-10-25 06:20:04 UTC

You know Autumn has properly arrived in the Pacific Northwest when...
The forecast says 100% chance of precipitation all weekend. (forecast by NWS Portland, mirror bot [@nwsportland_bot](https://pdx.social/@nwsportland_bot ) ) #PNW #weather #ORwx #WAwx
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2024-10-20 14:22:32 UTC

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I found this blog helpful when I transferred my local-topics account to follow my move to the Pacific Northwest. https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration

2024-09-21 22:49:38 UTC

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In case there was any doubt the #Simpsons came from #Oregon, look at street and park names in #Portland. #PNW #entertainment
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2024-09-21 22:47:03 UTC

A town called "#Springfield" gets itself in the news and suddenly there are comparisons to the #Simpsons. The show didn't admit which town it was named after, at least not for 25 years. There were hints. Revealed 12 years ago it's #Oregon. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/matt-groening-reveals-the-location-of-the-real-springfield-60583379/ #PNW

2024-09-21 01:02:04 UTC

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The energy demand from servers is real. The market demand for AI products that consume it is up for debate.

2024-09-21 00:42:26 UTC

"Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI" by @CNBC - A side effect of #AI processing is energy consumption of vast numbers of new servers. Enough demand for #nuclear #energy. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/20/constellation-energy-to-restart-three-mile-island-and-sell-the-power-to-microsoft.html #business #tech
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2024-09-05 19:18:39 UTC

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If something unfamiliar claims to be a response, it's a common spam trick. Don't follow links. Incinerate it.
FYI, the URL uses WebSocket protocol apparently to conceal whatever it points to. It may be best to replace the image with a blurred link so it won't be propagated here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket

2024-09-01 04:16:28 UTC

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Fortunately your subject stayed still. That's a really nice shot.
I heard jets this afternoon, grabbed my SLR camera and got these pics from the backyard of the USAF Thunderbirds flying over the house on their turns into PDX. No time to think but fortunately I didn't take time to try the cell phone. It wouldn't have been the tool for this task. https://avgeek.social/@ikluft/113059321551871773

2024-08-07 02:48:55 UTC

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Culture shock setting in...

2024-08-02 20:55:46 UTC

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I wonder what caused such a big landslide during the dry season.