Andy Valencia ✅ @vandys@mst.vsta.org

Tried my hand at a Negroni for the first time tonight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negroni

Wrong type of glass, will need to fix that!

Beautiful Sunset here on Vashon Island (Seattle area)

My bday gift:

Security camera above the door of one of my outbuildings.

It occurred to me that the whole Covid enforcement thing has consistently targeted specific kinds of gatherings: family/friends, bars, and churches. Which are exactly where people might talk and start to reject what's being done.

From the No Agenda podcast:

Just finished a first round of actual dev work on a Raspberry PI-400. It's a Pi4 built into a keyboard, running of an SD card. It easily has enough performance to compile/debug, run Firefox or Chrome, and in general be a desktop machine. I'm very impressed!

First fire of the season

Playing some late night rock on tilderadio.org!

WWII, detonation during attempted disarming. Nobody hurt.

Merry Christmas, Luke!

(as forwarded to me from my daughter)

I remember when the subject of knife fights came up, and my father (LT., USMC, ret.) proceeded to give us a primer on how to fight with edged weapons (hint: upward strokes work better than downward).

I'm pretty sure my mother pulled him aside shortly afterward.

I believe this is the moment when Pelosi realized that she would cause harm--or even death--to any man, woman, child, citizen, or alien. She decided to foster any lie, and support any violence. Without code, without reference to her oath of office.

2020

On a lighter note, baby shrews

Of course Reddit has a subreddit for parrots who party...

Cool slowmo video from reddit of a drop of water falling onto a sharp point.

Our local green space (Fisher Pond) appears to have an old bunker of some sort?

I'm happy some of us still know how to have fun...

Walked to our local pond, "Fisher Pond". Old maps called it "Frenchman's Pond", but not even old timers can say why.

Massive water lily presence. I think it's going to become "Fisher Meadow" in a couple decades.

I was an avid boater

Took a walk to the local pond (well, the trails in the surrounding forest). I'll get to the pond itself tomorrow.