Happy Birthday to Eric Boucher aka Jello Biafra, former, lead singer and songwriter for the Dead Kennedys, founder of his own music label Alternative Tentacles, born on this day in 1958, Boulder, Colorado
📸 Karl Walter
programmer. vi since 1990. #rustlang #electronics #microcontrollers #iot #hamradio #ft8 #qrp #maker #projects #farming #flowerfarming #wa #camaswa #pnw #dutch
Happy Birthday to Eric Boucher aka Jello Biafra, former, lead singer and songwriter for the Dead Kennedys, founder of his own music label Alternative Tentacles, born on this day in 1958, Boulder, Colorado
📸 Karl Walter
Having a Blast on #MorseCodeDay doing a #MorseCode #parksontheair #pota activation with my #ft817 #qrp #qrpradio #amateurradio #hamradio
@ai6yr they would not look out of place next to an Eggbeater antenna!
omg we had Highland cow Dolly visit the #farm this morning!!
@ejo60 all plants grown from seed. also built greenhouse and greenhouse tables etc ourselves
Abstract paintings by Walla Walla artist James Lavadour, 2000s-10s, who grew up on the Umatilla Indian Reservation and whose work is inspired by the Blue Mountains and landscapes of Western Oregon.
Safdie Brothers-produced Andy Kaufman doco at Kiggins, #Portland/ #VancouverWA #film fam
https://www.kigginstheatre.com/now-playing
They’re growing up so fast! #gardening #greenhouse
Pic of the day: Yashica 72E and Kodak Ektachrome E200 film.
This may look like a #mosstodon entry, but it's actually a cushion plant (yareta) in the Chilean desert. They grow 2-15 mm a year and can be thousands of years old.
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #botany
@jpmens same - thought it was a typo and was supposed to be ‘Wix’
Fun fact: Dutch has a unique letter in its alphabet no other language has: the ij. The status of ij as a single letter has undergone considerable erosion, though, to the point where most official institutions now consider it not a letter, but a digraph of i and j. Computers and software have pretty much killed off ij as a single character, too - you just type a i and j separately (good fonts will kern them closer, though).
A vestigial element of ij being a single letter can be seen in Dutch capitalisation rules: in words starting with ij, both elements are capitalised: IJsselmeer.
Throughout this toot, I've used the official Unicode characters, so you can't copy just the i or j.
Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.
All the pixels, none of the upscale shopping, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655
Sending letters back in the day was much simpler. You did not even need a zip code!
The view this morning from the top of the driveway. The Alaska Range filling the horizon. Foraker, Hunter & Denali. #Alaska #Anchorage #Denali #Mountains #MyAlaskaWx
Random Nigerian fact for you:
During the civil war, Nigeria used starvation as a weapon of war. Over a million Biafrans died, mostly kids.
Eventually, the rest of the world came through with food donations. Norway, for instance, sent a dried cod product that they barely ate called stockfish.
That was 55 years ago. Now stockfish is an indispensable part of Nigerian cuisine. We spend tens of millions of dollars each year importing it from Norway.
I guess generosity pays.
My kid made a drawing and it’s beautiful