Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
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ME: so what do you do
DATE: i'm an engineer
ME: oh nice i love trains
DATE: no like electrical engineer
ME: I know what makes them go cheryl
@DaveMasonDotMe Saw your lament and have the solution. I wrote up a little blurb on lunar photography long ago. It's actually straightforward to get the highest resolution from whatever optics you're using, whether cheap camera, fancy camera, or telescope. I also mention the usual pitfalls. Hope it helps: https://shuttersparks.net/shooting-moon/
@lovelylovely @GoatRoper @wolleysegap Well, you know, sometimes the genes just don't hook up in the best possible way.
@EarlDGray Yes, school brings facts into the discussion and that's a problem.
@kentborg @w7voa I'll bet it does. If not, it can certainly be fixed. Back in 2018 I restored a 1925 Radiola 20. https://kw2p.shuttersparks.net/the-radiola-20-a-restoration/
I started out with a crystal radio in 1958 and then became a serious shortwave listener in 1963 using a Philips Philetta. I wish I still had it. "Real" radios glow, warm your hands on a cold night, and smell wonderful. ;-)
@w7voa Yep. From back when they made "real" radios. ;-)
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Apple Sells Over US$1 Billion Of New iPhones In Russia During H1 2023
#Apple stopped selling #iPhone and other products in russia in March
In April this year, the company stopped providing warranty service for Macs and iPads in the country.
But that hasn’t stopped Apple from indirectly selling to russian market. russian retailers have been buying iphones and related Apple products from other countries via parallel imports
Read more here🔗 https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/apple-sells-over-us-1-billion-of-new-iphones-in-russia-during-h1-2023.html/
@w7voa I like the radio behind you in the photo. ;-)
@Holberg Yeah. My neighbor has one in black.
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A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.
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Good morning to NO ONE except MY GODDAMNED MAN Joseph Robinette Biden who successfully took on the thieves at big pharma and FORCED THEM to negotiate the prices of 10 drugs through Medicare.
The media doesn’t care but I do. You’re like Robocop but much slower.
@GayDeceiver Yup. West Virginia here.
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Thanks to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling this May, the EPA was forced to remove protections from most of America's wetlands this week.
Harlan Crow's firm lobbied for the rollback while he secretly plied Justice Thomas with gifts.
Anyone see a problem here?
@cobalt @grumpywitch @Manny Good luck! But be careful what you wish for. Thunderstorms these days are different. They play a lot rougher than they used to and it's going to get worse.
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Our society has lost its mind. We'd better start seriously figuring out how we're going to deal with this.
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Rep. Justin Jones has been silenced from the House on Monday. Democrats left. The public screamed.
#NewsChannel #JustinJonesSilenced #HouseDemocratsLeft #PublicScreamed #HouseSilencing #PoliticalOutrage #Politics #News
@Free_Press Lost five but how much Russian armor have they turned into scrap metal so far? We've seen how easy it is to separate the turret from the body on T-72s and that smoothbore cannon hits real hard.
@lovelylovely That one goes back 12, 13 years. They must be running out of ideas.
Phil Landmeier
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- Website
- https://shuttersparks.net
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
