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Sean Murthy
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Teacher, Researcher, Technologist

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Tech, edu, society, humor, justice, health, finance, entertainment, languages, culture…whatever

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Something I received yesterday.

#photography #amateur #stillLife #leaves #coins #Udupi #India
Two green betel leaves rolled inside out and tied with a short (beige) plantain string. The roll is placed on a brown wooden table top. Atop the roll is a small ball of sandalwood paste. In the foreground on the table top are five gold-copper like coins (actual ₹10 coins) that are spread horizontally like fallen dominos.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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My "office" for the next weeks. Grateful to have people who care enough to get me the space and make sure I'm comfortable there. 🙏🏽

#Udupi #India #office #workspace
A light-brown wooden office desk with a laptop on it. The laptop screen is open and is extended on both sides with add-on monitors. A black traditional keyboard on the desktop in front of the laptop. A black mouse on a blue mouse pad on the left. Beige walls with a green painting on the back wall. The painting depicts a scene from Hindu mythology. Dark brown floor.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Wait, there's also an "Accountant Squared" movie? 😲

Please, no more. I beg you. 🥺

#movies #posters #entertainment
Red and white text on gray background, part of a movie poster: BEN AFFLECK THE ACCOUNTANT ²
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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A cloud service just now surfaced this picture I took this day back in 2011.

#photography #amateur #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #cityscape
A view of a city skyline through the window of a highrise. Five multi-storey buildings of different heights and colors stand out.
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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#photography #amateur #WindowFriday #FotoMontag #travel #flying
A view of sky at sunset through an aircraft window from inside the aircraft as the aircraft is still at the gate. Orange and red sky in the distance, a white cargo van and other airport equipment in the foreground.
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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🛫 🪟 🌅

#photography #amateur #WindowFriday #FotoMontag #travel #flying
Back of two airplane seats with an inflight entertainment screen on each seatback, as seen from the aisle on board. The screens reflect light from the setting sun coming through the window behind (window not in the picture).
October 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I'm both sad and mad writing this commit comment, but it is true.🥺😤

#webdev #Jekyll #Liquid #GitHub #software_engineering
White text on gray background: Taking the path of least resistance. Liquid in Jekyll on GH Pages is too brittle and the dev-test cycle is just too long.
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Friends, I need #help w #Jekyll in GH Pages (no GH Actions) to:
1. Filter produce.yml to get only "active produce"
2. Print each active produce code (p2, p3) and name

I can't figure out how to use where_exp in this Jekyll doc. What is "item" there?

jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/...

#question #webdev 🙏
Syntax-highlighted YAML data on gray background. p1: active: false name: apple p2: active: true name: orange p3: name: banana
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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AI: use "minimal utility CS classes" like one class to set padding right, another for margin top, one more for height,...

Me:

(ofc this styling approach didn't start with AI)

#webdev #CSS #AI #LLM #sarcasm #opinion
A message bubble in an AI chat interaction, White text on gray background: Right, "When you park the car overnight, store each car part in a different parking level" approach. 😉
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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I managed to capture this "nerd moment" earlier this month showing digits 1 through 8 on the clock. 🤓 🕛

I tried again on Oct. 11th to capture 1 through 11 but the temperature reading is too sensitive. Not giving up though. 🤞

#nerd #moments #clock
Closeup of a silver-framed digital atomic wall clock with black lettering showing time 12:34:56 in the top row and the date 10/7, day TUE, as well as temperature 80.5 in the bottom row.
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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You should always have a backup fiddle because you'll never know when your main fiddle goes wonky.

downdetector.com/status/micro...

#AI #LLM #Copilot #Microsoft #technology
An area graph with white background. Area shared in auburn; text in white. Graph heading reads: Microsoft Copilot outages reported in the last 24 hours
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I've high confidence this parlor does *not* misspell tattoos. 😉

(Aug. 17, #Mysore #India)

#signs #travel #tattoos #spelling #business
Storefront with gray sign, white lettering. Text in Kannada followed by English: ವಿ ಟ್ಯಾಟು ಪಾಯಿಂಟ್ V TATTO POINT Artist Venki [redacted phone number]
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Today is "deepaawali" aka "diwaali", the #Hindu festival of lights. 🪔

Technically, today is the first of the 3-day #festival. It's customary for people to deck up homes with lights, and maybe also light fireworks, during the festival.

Best wishes to all who observe this festival. ✨

#diwali #india
A garage attached to the front of a house with colorful strip light around the garage door.
October 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Then, France: Let them eat cake. 🥪
Now, USA: Let them eat $hit. 💩

USA the clear winner. 🙄

www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

#USA #uspol #NoKings #shame #history
Black text on white background: President Donald Trump shared an apparently AI-generated video of himself wearing a crown and flying a fighter jet dumping what appears to be waste onto “No Kings” protesters after the nationwide demonstrations Saturday.
October 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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OK, I'm confused. Which season is it now ⁉️ 😕

(That's 24° C and 33° C)

#weather #unseasonal #forecast #temperature
White text on blue background showing weather forecast for two days. One line per day. Temperature in ° F. Sunday, Oct 19 77/54 Monday, Oct 20 91/61
October 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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"there are many rogues
throughout our Country that aren't forced to serve seven years in prison"

I know. One of those "rogues" might even be(come) President. 🤷‍♂️

#USA #uspol #GeorgeSantos #Santos #justice #sarcasm #shrug
Black text on white: George Santos was somewhat of a "rogue," but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren't forced to serve seven years in prison. I started to
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Friday sunrise in the neighborhood. 🌅

(picture edited for privacy)

#photography #amateur #sunrise #tower #stillLife
A row of 2-storey residential duplex homes each with a garage in the front. A large water tower behind the homes. Blue sky as orange-red light shines on the homes and the tower.
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A temple tower seen from another temple on a hill.

(Aug. 14th, #Bengaluru #India)

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #photography #amateur #temple #ISKCON
Long shot of beige high-rise residential towers with a relatively smaller Hindu temple tower in the front. Blue skies with dark clouds. Trees on both sides closer to the camera.
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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10.2km nonstop fasting hike in the prairie by the lake on Tuesday at sunrise. Great views throughout. Felt good to return to the trails after a long time. 🌅

Love the "rainbow" at the bottom right corner of the first pic. 🌈

#photography #amateur #hiking #health #nature #sunrise #rainbow
Wide shot of a prairie at sunrise. A field lit in red, orange, and other sunrise colors on the right, a gravely trail on the left. Trees on either sides. Mostly orange sky in the back. A prairie at sunrise. A field lit in red, orange, and other sunrise colors on the right, a gravely trail on the left. A sparse tree in about the middle obscures the rising sun. A white-bellied bird sits at the tip of a slim and tall tree with bushy branches. Clear blue skies. Closeup of a "purple pineapple" thistle which is nested in prairie grass. A smaller thistle in the back.
October 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Yes, use AI to organize tabs and save time because placing a tab in a group is such a demanding and complex task. 🙄

#AI #hype #Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge #technology #misuse #sarcasm
White text on black background: Automatically create tab groups based on tab similarity with the assistance of Al to save time and stay organized with Edge. Click [icon] and select "Organize Tabs."
October 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Subtitle blooper: Jackie (Rohr) says "Ah, the girlfriend" as he looks at the body of Jimmy (Ryan).

And the caption attributes the line to...😅

(City on a Hill, S2 E4, ~15:00)

#blooper #entertainment #TV_Show #Showtime #PrimeVideo
Screengrab showing a mustachioed white male in profile. The man has his next bent, wears a wooly topcoat, red shirt, and a tie-dyed kind of neck tie. White subtitle reads: [Jimmy] Ah, the girlfriend.
October 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Try this if Ayurveda does not work for you. 🌿🧼

#Ayurveda #soap #India #silly #marketing
A green cardboard box for bar soap. White text on left. Picture of oil pouring out of an open coconut shell into a traditional brass vat. A hand drawn red arrow pointing at the text "Double Ayurveda" CHANDRIKA AYURVEDIC SOAP FOR PROBLEM-FREE, GLOWING SKIN. With Neem & 2x Coconut Oil Double Ayurveda 80+ YEARS OF REAL AYURVEDA
October 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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This famous exchange in Bond movies.

Bar tender: Would you like some content?
Bond: Video. Standard and not High Def.

#Prime #AmazonPrime #Bond #movies #joke #quotes
Movie synopsis on Amazon Prime. White text on black and red background: prime Dr. No HD * 4.7/5 106 min 1963 Action PG On a mission in Jamaica, ultra-suave Agent 007 finds mad scientist Dr. No concocting a plot to derail the U.S. space program and take over the world.
October 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Such lovely colors. 🎨

BTW this saree once adorned the idol of Sri Durgaa at Kamalashile. Awesome that someone gets to wear it.

maps.app.goo.gl/6H66JqAfFDPP...

#photography #amateur #fotoMontag #photoMonday #India #saree #clothing
A tri-colored silk saree spread lengthwise to dry across two chairs inside a home. Saree colors left to right: matte red, light blue with gold embroidery, and dark blue. The entire length of the saree has gold embroidered border.
October 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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15.6" Acer portable monitor for $90? Run, don't walk, to a Costco warehouse.

#technology #Costco #savings #gadget #monitor
A mostly green cardboard package for a portable monitor. Black text on white. The main text reads: 15.6" Full HD Portable Monitor
October 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM