Husband/Father/Nerd | Senior Technical Program manager@NCSA/UIUC.

Illinois
Joined February 2009
Best take on the AWS outage: "How did we let a book store control half the internet?"
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Deployed BirdNET-Pi in my backyard: RPi5 running TensorFlow Lite model analyzing 3-second audio chunks continuously. Auto-identifies 6,000+ species with confidence scoring. Real-time web dashboard. Contributing to BirdWeather citizen science. Data-driven birding! Quiet so far
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Peruvian owls always hunt in pairs because... They’re Inca hoots.
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Christopher Heller retweeted
AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone theregister.com/2023/07/17/a… A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing <- by me on @theregister
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He came from nothing. He conquered everything. From acclaimed director Ridley Scott, #Napoleon is exclusively in movie theaters this Thanksgiving. Watch the official trailer now.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS - #StarTrekProdigy Canceled At Paramount+ #StarTrek's first animated kid's show has been cancelled, despite being renewed for a second season in 2021. It is set to be REMOVED from Paramount+ in a few days. Season 2 will be completed and air at a later date.
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While enjoying the long weekend, it is important to remember the true meaning of Memorial Day and express gratitude for the sacrifices made by those who have given their lives to protect and preserve the freedoms we enjoy today.
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Impressive. We are fortunate to have Starlink available.
SpaceX's @Starlink is seeing hyper growth, adding over ~3,600 new customers per day. Customer total now stands at 1.5 million per SpaceX.
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YES.
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Well that was…something. Poured some life cereal into a bowl with milk, started eating and then saw little black shapes floating… looked very closely and they move… and have antenna.. yup just took a few bites of cereal with weevils in it.
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Lots of chainsaw action today
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Hey look, color plant things!
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Why do frozen breakfast burritos have oven instructions? The whole point is fast, if I had 50 minutes for breakfast I’d make my own damn burritos.
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Happy First Contact Day! (Art by Will Rios)
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Drone footage of the terrible destruction in Wynne, AR showing where the deadly tornado tore through the center of town throwing rail cars, destroying houses and damaging the high school. 2 known fatalities at this time. Live coverage from Wynne first thing in the morning on @weatherchannel. #tornado #arwx @NWSLittleRock @NWSMemphis
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That’s a little too close.
Little Rock tornado at CLOSE RANGE in Chenal... Video from Jc McInnis
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Thats gonna take awhile to clean up
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