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Jèf Uphoff

@juphoff.bsky.social

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Principal Systems Engineer at @ctrliq.bsky.social. Lapsed astro/physics guy. Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke. Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Ump. Crazy cat gentleman.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 6h

Turns out there were QA scripts there that *required* cowsay! 😅

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 7h

As I was working to define the software manifest for Amazon Linux 2023 at AWS, I removed 'cowsay'.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth was immediate; the change was rejected udderly.

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 21h

gnu cowutils

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 7h

I've got good news. That democracy you like is going to come back in style.

🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ugh arm hurts Laura Palmer played by Sheryl Lee in Twin Peaks the Return aka season 3 text reads "I am dead, yet I live."

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 9h

Yup. Eagle’s Nest Airport in Waynesboro—houses with hangars!

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 9h

Nah. An airport that extends to the bus lines.

Downtown needs a runway!

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 10h

“Donald Trump is the cause of this mess” is similar thinking here in the U.S.

The rot already ran deep. He’s an effect of that, not the cause.

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 10h

Mid-continent fuel stop.

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 20h

Where girth lacks worth.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 20h

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 21h

I’m in Valentine, Nebraska.

It needed the action.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 21h

I just snorted water on the floor of this FBO. 😆

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 23h

[soulmate]

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

Proof of life. :)

(Also my oldest selfie--spring term, 1989!)

Hard to believe I was ever that young...

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

The Navy also sent me to the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport, Rhode Island for a year first to sand off my very-rough edges and get myself caught up academically.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

I straightened my dumb ass out, excelled during my enlisted service, made E-5 (PO2, equivalent of sergeant) by age 19, and kept graduating top of my class from all my technical schools (avionics).

I was the only dropout there, though a friend had finished but not graduated. He's an admiral now!

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, those were some still-fresh lessons when I was at Annapolis in the late 80s. 😐

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

Heh. I quit high school illegally (underage) and ran off and joined the Navy (also underage, but my parents were happy to sign the waiver paperwork).

By age 19, I found myself at sea in the middle of the largest naval surface action since WW2.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

My sister (5 years younger) and I are wildly different, too. We were far enough apart in age we never overlapped at the same school and had disparate peer groups.

She was considered a good, well-behaved kid; I was considered...well, pretty much whatever the various antonyms of that are. :)~

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

Avocado was an early favorite here. (Oh, the pictures...)

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

My two were close enough in age they tandem nursed for a stretch, and we co-slept, so it was a full bowling team every night, plus cats.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

Mine were about as different as two babies could be. And as adults, they remain so. They're really quite the study in contrasts.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely stormed the world in 1988 with this gem. (A key line is "Religion is the smile on a dog.") She and Paul Simon have been married for decades.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3...

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by EBNewBohemiansVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

Now I have an Edie Brickell ear worm. 😛

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

OMG, I love this.

(Similarly, a “mooch” is a cow sneezing.)

Spoontaneous @spoontaneous.bsky.social · 1d

A repost...

'Moof' ~ What a bucktoothed cow says.

A friend in high school doodled a bucktoothed cow with the word 'moof' next to it.

Carved in Mahogany with bone horns and found piano key teeth... with acrylic paint.

#spoon #spoontaneous #art #craft #woodworking #cow #woodenspoon #carving

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

My oldest was fussy and a wildly erratic sleeper. Tough kid. She’s mid-20s and still is. :)

My youngest went to bed relatively easily and slept well…until about 4am, when it became Studio 54 dance-party time.

He’s a serene adult—and an early-riser still, often up before dawn to meditate.

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