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Mike Gerdts
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Software engineer working for NVIDIA. What I say here is me speaking for me, not my employer. Sometimes while not hacking for work or fun, I try to find fun places […]

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Is this a choose your own adventure game? If so, I’ll veer right.
Screen shot of a National Weather Service alert saying: weatherkit.apple.com Severe Weather Alert Winter Storm Warning Severity: Severe Significant threat to life or property Weather Event Onset 3:00 AM (CST), November 29 Description * WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 8 and 12 inches. * WHERE...Portions of south central and southeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...Until 6 AM CST Sunday. * IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult, especially during the afternoon and evening hours. Screenshot from Apple weather. The top half includes a graph showing precipitation all day long. Below it says Precipitation Totals LAST 24 HOURS • Wintry Mix <.05" NEXT 24 HOURS • Snow <1" • Wintry Mix .65" Forecast 25° now and snowing. Wind is making it feel colder, about 13°. Wintry mix expected around 9Am. Today's temperature range was from 24° to 28° and felt like 11° to 26°.
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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This isn’t the most spectacular #aurora photo of the night but it illustrates how light the landscape was from aurora light. It was odd to walk trails on a moonless night, 5 hours after sunset, with no flashlight. These auroras were not visible to the naked […]

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The night sky with silhouettes of leafless trees. The sky is split roughly in thirds with green aurora to the left clouds in the middle and purple aurora fading to black on the right.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Happy #fungusfriday to all who celebrate. I found this #fairyring in the woods along the #iceagetrail this morning. Quite a surprise.
About half a circle of mushrooms in the woods. The ring is maybe 15 feet in diameter and disappears into low foliage on the far side.
September 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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I think the Google #streetview camera was mounted on the car backwards when it went through #belleville #wisconsin. I was first tipped off when clicking on the forward arrow took me backwards.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4iLs7M9Jx6W9y1B98

Related, what’s going […]

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Screen shot from Google street view. The top shows a view looking at Duluth Trading Comapny’s outlet store. The bottom shows the position of the camera but thinks it is pointing the 180 degrees from where it is actually pointing.
September 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Today I found the Table Bluff segment of the Ice Age Trail, just a few minutes from home. What a wonderful trail.
I parked at the south end of the trail and then did a short climb. I looked back to see this beautiful marsh surrounded by oak savanna. Sandhills cranes could be heard in the distance. This valley between two ridges is completely hidden from civilization. Lots of prairie flowers as far as the eye can see. A nice single track trail through the woods. In this part the foliage along the trail is nicely cut back. A little while before this I had damp 6 foot tall grass drooping across the trail from both sides.
August 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I’ve paid for #alltrails every year for years, recently $36. I’ve submitted trail reviews and submitted new trails that became popular.

Several of the features that I’ve used are no longer available unless I pay more than 2x what my current subscription costs. Every time they prod me to upgrade […]
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July 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I don't know if anybody noticed #zerofs yet, but it seems there is a completely user space-implementation of #nfs and #blockstorage on top of #s3 #objectstorage: https://github.com/Barre/zerofs

Including a demo running #zfs on top of it which essentially allows geo-redundant ZFS volumes […]
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July 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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How tempting is this? No bids yet, $25 minimum. Must pick up near Madison WI.

https://swapauction.wisc.edu/Listing/Details/33990254/Mobile-Server-Rack-B4

#sunmicrosystems #retrocomputimg
Mobile Server Rack (B4)
Grey mobile metal server rack Untested Rolls smoothly Key Included Weight: 580 lbs. Missing back door
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June 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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I always trust google maps, particularly for telling me the speed limit.

#googlemaps #icantdrive55
Photo from inside my car while driving down a dirt road. The foreground shows Google maps running on the infotainment display. The map shows contour lines, the word “rerouting”, and a speed limit of 55. The background is out of focus but it is clear that it is a dirt road just wide enough for a single car. Trees and other brush protrude into the roadway. The blur mostly hides the weeds growing in the middle of the road.
May 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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If anyone knows a college bowler named Madisyn Gerdts, please let her know that every bowling coach in the country is trying to reach her at the wrong email address.

#bowling
May 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Typo of the day: nitlab

If I ever write a code review tool, that’s the name.
May 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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In the last 100 days or so my incoming spam call rate has increased from a couple per week to a few per day. Has anything changed?
May 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#sunset in #madison. #whitetaildeer
A spring sunset looking through the woods. The ground is coming to life with low green foliage that is a mixture of native wildflowers that have mostly not bloomed yet. A pair of hardwood trees frame the foreground with several whitetail deer and silhouettes of other trees in the background. The entire scene is in an elevated area so the yellow and orange hues of the sunset can be seen in the sky through the woods.
April 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Reposted by Mike Gerdts
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As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked, it could spiral into a possible pandemic

Avian influenza is constantly changing. Every new infection increases […]
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April 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM