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rekiwi
@rekiwi.bsky.social
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Tech writer, cyclist, solder junky, woodworker, airplane nut, dad, hubby, half-Kiwi (mom's side). Not in priority order. (he/him)

Profile pic: bearded white dude with maniacal expression; hair, eyes, teeth glowing blue under blacklight.
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Post a famous bathroom scene
Early scene in Scarface (1983) drug deal gone wrong, Tony and Angel are taken at gunpoint, Angel is secured to a shower rod, Tony is forced to watch as Angel is dismembered with a chainsaw
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Post a famous bathroom scene
Vincent D'Onofrio as Gomer Pyle in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) sitting in the dark in the barracks head (bathroom) on a toilet looking diabolic in the light from a flashlight with a rifle propped against his toilet & shoulder.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Missed the cherry on top.
Tiny "BIKE LANE" sign well off the side of the road apparently trying to indicate a worn out painted bicycle lane down a huge multi-lane stroad that cut across a merge lane.
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Found a cheap Halloween costume that fit! Of course it severely limited mobility, interaction, & (most important) access to food & drink. Plus the battery pack pooped out after an hour. Still, it was fun while it lasted & I could pop home & return as "generic RenFaire guy" to continue the revelry.
Sneaky pic taken by my daughter of me in profile from knees up in an inflatable cartoon hippopotamus costume at a back yard Halloween party.
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The chef of our work cafeteria has labeled me. I feel seen.
Selfie of an overweight, middle-aged white dude with a graying beard, glasses, and a slight smile. Office and drop ceiling in the background. He's wearing a green short-sleeved button-down shirt with a large safety orange sticker with "BIOHAZARD" text and symbol stuck to the left chest of his shirt.
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"I do not think it is radical to want to avoid suffering, especially while eating." There is so much truth here, put so eloquently, that it makes my heart sing.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton in the film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" holding a can of beer and cigarette in one hand while pointing emphatically with the other hand.
October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Wife caught me throating a stromboli at the birthplace of stromboli: Romano's in Essington, PA. Amazing food & the nice folks gave two weary travelers table service right up to closing.
Man sitting in a booth in a well lit family restaurant shoving a delicious stromboli into his face
September 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Split image: Top is closeup of the motion tracker display from Aliens (1986) showing no movement contact blips, caption "Good times". Bottom is closeup of same motion tracker showing a large number of contact blips, so many they clump into a single mass in places, with a distance reading, indicating that a large number of xenomorphs are converging on the scanner's position, caption "Bad times". Humor is in understatement and reference to events in the movie.
September 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Giant pandan waffle.
A stack of 4 green pandan waffles on a plate.
September 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Meme of American football player being interviewed quote "They had us in the first half, not gonna lie"
August 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Glad to hear you're OK. I did the same with my 4 extra teeth 8 years ago or so. Everything turned out well and I got to have chocolate shakes for supper for a few days (spooned because the dentist didn't want me using straws). And, yeah, cats are buttheads.
Closeup of Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Aliens talking to her cat Jones "And you, you little shithead, you're staying here."
July 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Daughter is in Dublin, Ireland working an internship, enjoying public transport & sausage rolls. Her workplace is next door to "one of the best bakeries in town", per her advisors. I am so envious on so many levels. #ireland #sausageRolls
Portrait of a sausage roll on sheet of branded brown paper on an aluminum tray on a rustic wood table, the sausage roll is nicely browned with an egg glaze that holds a sprinkling of sesame seeds. One end of the sausage roll shows hints of the roasted sausage inside. It looks delicious.
June 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Finally something more than painted bicycle gutter on El Camino Real from Mountain View through Palo Alto. Should make the ride a bit safer along this busy central corridor.

#bikeCommute #cycling
View from the curb down northbound El Camino Real towards Castro Street in Mountain View, California at 4:30am darkness showing a wide bicycle lane with wide reflective posts atop a protective barrier bump to separate car traffic from bicycles.
June 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Happy Friday! Sometimes Past Phil is a legend. All too often, Past Phil is a bastard.

#techWriterLife #technicalWriting #computerHumor
Donning clown makeup meme illustrating the steps to becoming a complete clown: 1. I'll remember what this code does (sponging white makeup on face 2. after all, I wrote it myself (adding eye, cheek, and mouth details) 3. and it's unlikely anyone else will work on it (face complete, donning frizzy rainbow wig) 4. I don't need to leave comments (clown makeup complete with red clown nose)
June 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Favorite annual event on my bike commute: jacaranda trees in bloom on First Street in downtown San Jose. I have to go a little out of my way, but it's worth it.

#bikeCommute #cycling #flowers
View down a 2-lane urban street at night flanked by jacaranda trees covered in purple/violet blooms.
June 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Reliable supply of small onions: check.
Reasonably priced, high quality malt vinegar: check.

I taste so many pickled onions in my future.

First batch from this recipe: www.sarsons.co.uk/recipes/pick...
Close up of Ball-brand mason jar on dark granite countertop filled with pickled onions in dark malt vinegar and mustard seeds closed with a purple plastic screw-on lid.
June 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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A silver metal corkscrew with a realistic duck as the handle.
May 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Microsoft Clipper with dialog bubble: "My I interrupt you forever? Yes / Yes"
May 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Prominent pic in an article on koala culling with the caption "A kangaroo climbs a tree." As a tech writer, I understand how this happens. Still makes me cringe.

#technicalWriting #technicalWriting #cringe

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Pic in an article on koala culling with the caption "A kangaroo climbs a tree." The animal in the pic is a koala.
April 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Spring break hijinks: my daughter crafted a cutout of Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2. The plan is to place him at the end of the hallway to spook visitors. (posted with permission)

#rdr2 #redDeadRedemption2 #arthurMorgan
College student standing with a life-sized cowboy Arthur Morgan cutout standup in a brightly lit kitchen. Arthur Morgan is the main protagonist in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. College student sports a big smile.
March 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Tried a different route this morning and made a friend.

#bikeCommute #cycling #sculpture
Large, rusty plate-steel scupture of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at night lit by a bicycle headlamp and standing in the landscaping of a light industrial building.
March 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM