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astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
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have now officially been to all 50 states. so i’ve got that going for me. which is nice. however, this means i’ve driven the entire alaska highway and spent 3+ weeks in 🇨🇦 and have not seen a single moose. wtaf?!?

the vibes at these campgrounds in the yukon are pretty immaculate. unlimited free firewood, too!

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro

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ran into some traffic in northern BC 🦬🇨🇦

kinda digging it being this light at 22:00. glad the van has great blackout shades, though…

and here we go…

the “goats and glaciers” viewpoint had neither goats nor glaciers, but was still very pretty. and just barely escaped last year’s massive fire…

yup, i’m definitely in canada, eh 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

hanging out with family in millarville and learned about a local hero via a can of a local IPA. an emancipated slave, john ware, came to alberta and taught people how to cowboy: parks.canada.ca/culture/desi...

Every 10-20 years, a breakthrough technology promises non-developers to finally create software without needing to hire programmers. So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up). Every. Time.

glacier national park is pretty zen in the off-season… 🏔️

RIP the mount and computer for my seeing monitor back in south africa… 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

1 year ago ~to the day~

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long-time bucket list item: ✅ concert at red rocks

funny, this oversells what mars is really like…

Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn

based on my experience living in 🇿🇦, the only thing more universally adored across race and culture than mandela was a braai.

if a white sox fan with a direct connection to god can't kill jerry reinsdorf, religion is 100% confirmed fake

your Pope Name is the last thing you ate + the number of letters in your first name and that would make me Pope Biltong VII...

i’ve seen PCA, which i’ve been using for decades, rebranded as AI so, yeah, bullshit rebranding is very much a thing…

what hobo thinks of stopping at buc-ee’s…