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Electrical engineer. Politically further left than most. Bleed Dodger blue. Splitting time between Portland, Oregon and Santa Barbara, California.
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Nightshift by the Commodores is the finest, smoothest song ever written and performed. That’s a hill I’m willing to die on. 😎 youtu.be/FrkEDe6Ljqs?...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Is there anything more disrespectful than walking away from the squat rack without putting away your plates? Put me in a foul mood this fine Sunday morning. Rerack your damn weights, yo! Don’t make others clean up after you! 🤬

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Why does the Dodgers-Braves game have a 715 pm ET start on a freaking Saturday?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

The final words of “The Velvet Queen,” the amazing documentary on the snow leopard: Revere what is in front of us. Hope for nothing. Delight in what crops up. Have faith in poetry. Be content with the world. Fight for it to remain. Quite possibly the finest documentary I have ever seen. 🐆🌿🌎

submitted 233 days ago • 0 comments

The end of the seminal Watson & Crick DNA paper in Nature : "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.” Is there a more profoundly understated sentence anywhere in the scientific literature?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

theonion.com/we-need-more...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

My son just informed me that his first-author paper submission was accepted for publication. This will his 2nd first-author peer-reviewed paper to be published. He has at least one other manuscript in prep for submission. Not bad for a junior in college. I hope it helps his grad school applications!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Powerful.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Pied-billed grebe in the UC Santa Barbara campus lagoon. The area around Campus Point and the lagoon is an extremely productive birding location. Easy to get 50+ species on a 2-hour birding walk around there. #birds 🦉 Canon R7 + RF100-500L.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

It is spring time and the red winged blackbird males are on full display with their epaulets and their song. Here is a magnificent specimen, photographed in Goleta, California. Click on photo for larger image. Canon R7 + RF100-500L. #birds 🦉

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Post a warning.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Mockingbird males have started their courtship singing. Bachelors will sing through the night. Goodbye to sleep for me! May need to go the store to buy a fan just to drown out the sound! 🥱🦉#birds

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments