Dan B.
@birchall.bsky.social
Village idiot in a series of extremely smart villages.
Likes: Earth, images, music, space, tech, travel, words
Dislikes: Abuse & Spam
Likes: Earth, images, music, space, tech, travel, words
Dislikes: Abuse & Spam
But Szmyt had another day where he scored ALL his team's points!
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
But Szmyt had another day where he scored ALL his team's points!
And then there was a time where bands would drop a non-anthem that long in the middle of a concept album and no one would realize it was that long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9v6... 🤔
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
And then there was a time where bands would drop a non-anthem that long in the middle of a concept album and no one would realize it was that long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9v6... 🤔
It is because of you that I finally googled en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowbar... and now know what people I work with mean when they say that word.
Crowbar (circuit) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
It is because of you that I finally googled en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowbar... and now know what people I work with mean when they say that word.
Are you having a meal, or looking for something to throw at a federal agent?
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Are you having a meal, or looking for something to throw at a federal agent?
"madness45and47" - which is totally a non-MAGA would pick - thinks political consulting firm SRG Dynamics is "Hakeem Jeffries' team" as opposed to a company that dealt with many candidates, and thinks that the letter they sent asking Epstein to donate to a DSCC/DCCC dinner was Jeffries' idea. 🤪
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
"madness45and47" - which is totally a non-MAGA would pick - thinks political consulting firm SRG Dynamics is "Hakeem Jeffries' team" as opposed to a company that dealt with many candidates, and thinks that the letter they sent asking Epstein to donate to a DSCC/DCCC dinner was Jeffries' idea. 🤪
“Oh no, it won’t fit on the punch cards.” 🙄
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Oh no, it won’t fit on the punch cards.” 🙄
Governor Morrisey of West Virginia ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in that state. (Governors have the authority to do that within their states; Morrisey had ordered flags flown at half-staff for a week earlier in November in honor of Steve Lipscomb's actions at the Rolling Thunder Mine.)
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Governor Morrisey of West Virginia ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in that state. (Governors have the authority to do that within their states; Morrisey had ordered flags flown at half-staff for a week earlier in November in honor of Steve Lipscomb's actions at the Rolling Thunder Mine.)
It's probably to late to stave off or even much delay getting to 69999 and having to switch to alpha-5 or whatever. Unless they were to start reusing catalog numbers... sacrilege, I know. 😉
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It's probably to late to stave off or even much delay getting to 69999 and having to switch to alpha-5 or whatever. Unless they were to start reusing catalog numbers... sacrilege, I know. 😉
Aka 38077 to some of us at other points on the spectrum... also, HST not UTC?
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Aka 38077 to some of us at other points on the spectrum... also, HST not UTC?
As Gerard Kuiper realized in the early 1960s about entirely different things, the view is better from Maunakea. 😜
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
As Gerard Kuiper realized in the early 1960s about entirely different things, the view is better from Maunakea. 😜
I dunno, @alyankovic.bsky.social, this really sounds like a problem only you would have. 🤔 😉
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I dunno, @alyankovic.bsky.social, this really sounds like a problem only you would have. 🤔 😉
Before 1997, direct-to-consumer TV ads for pharmaceuticals weren't allowed in the US. They're still not allowed in most countries.
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Before 1997, direct-to-consumer TV ads for pharmaceuticals weren't allowed in the US. They're still not allowed in most countries.
Given the sentence structure, I would expect him P78 to be an expert on Dagobah and the Force.
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Given the sentence structure, I would expect him P78 to be an expert on Dagobah and the Force.
Ann, given that Congress's Thanksgiving recess starts no later than Monday, isn't a pocket veto a very real probability here?
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ann, given that Congress's Thanksgiving recess starts no later than Monday, isn't a pocket veto a very real probability here?
Confused, I thought his name was John James Audubon.
(Daniel Webster was a great dude too; I think he was the one who made fun of my family's nose.
(Daniel Webster was a great dude too; I think he was the one who made fun of my family's nose.
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Confused, I thought his name was John James Audubon.
(Daniel Webster was a great dude too; I think he was the one who made fun of my family's nose.
(Daniel Webster was a great dude too; I think he was the one who made fun of my family's nose.
We're a year past peak now, right? The last two maxima, I was nocturnal and looking at everything out there BUT the sun, so I don't know either!
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
We're a year past peak now, right? The last two maxima, I was nocturnal and looking at everything out there BUT the sun, so I don't know either!
@mattotaiyo.bsky.social already hinted at it, but I believe the X-class event in May of 2024 did result in a pinkish glow to the north (which is to say, away from the volcano!) from the Maunakea summit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciSk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciSk...
The Aurora Observed from Maunakea, Hawai'i, by the Subaru's All-Sky Camera on Maunakea 2024-5-11
YouTube video by 管理人_SubaruTel_StarCamAdmin
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
@mattotaiyo.bsky.social already hinted at it, but I believe the X-class event in May of 2024 did result in a pinkish glow to the north (which is to say, away from the volcano!) from the Maunakea summit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciSk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciSk...
I had to google some acronyms there - I've been involved with many things, but ILRS isn't one of them. 😂 I mostly speak 2-line element sets. Yeah, sounds like something got gummed up. I don't know who makes HTS CPFs.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I had to google some acronyms there - I've been involved with many things, but ILRS isn't one of them. 😂 I mostly speak 2-line element sets. Yeah, sounds like something got gummed up. I don't know who makes HTS CPFs.
Ah, SIC codes. I know NORAD numbers. AFAIK, people in the pipeline from taking observations to publishing the catalog are still working despite the shutdown, though I'm not sure about contractors, or the Space-Track folks at Aerospace in California. 🤔
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Ah, SIC codes. I know NORAD numbers. AFAIK, people in the pipeline from taking observations to publishing the catalog are still working despite the shutdown, though I'm not sure about contractors, or the Space-Track folks at Aerospace in California. 🤔
ILRS? Is it mostly the LEO ones? Can you still do GEOs and MEOs with corner cubes, and maybe LAGEOS 1/2?
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
ILRS? Is it mostly the LEO ones? Can you still do GEOs and MEOs with corner cubes, and maybe LAGEOS 1/2?
I took the kids to grandma's for Columbus Day, while my wife stayed home. I'll let you guess what we returned to. 🙄🎄
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I took the kids to grandma's for Columbus Day, while my wife stayed home. I'll let you guess what we returned to. 🙄🎄
The usual threshold for "Classic Rock" is a minimum of 20 years old, 30 being even better. 30 years ago, we already had the earliest releases from Foo Fighters, Korn, Nickelback, Papa Roach, Rammstein, Sevendust, Staind, and System of a Down. Man, "Classic Rock" just keeps getting better! 🤘
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The usual threshold for "Classic Rock" is a minimum of 20 years old, 30 being even better. 30 years ago, we already had the earliest releases from Foo Fighters, Korn, Nickelback, Papa Roach, Rammstein, Sevendust, Staind, and System of a Down. Man, "Classic Rock" just keeps getting better! 🤘
As Faith No More said, "What is it? It's it."
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
As Faith No More said, "What is it? It's it."
The movie was so much better.
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The movie was so much better.
"That's not a mushroom, it's a badger. Next... also a badger, not a mushroom. And then there's another ten badgers. Wait, this next one IS a mushroom, and so's the one after it! But... another dozen badgers before the next mushrooms? You people are singularly bad at this."
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"That's not a mushroom, it's a badger. Next... also a badger, not a mushroom. And then there's another ten badgers. Wait, this next one IS a mushroom, and so's the one after it! But... another dozen badgers before the next mushrooms? You people are singularly bad at this."