Jeff

I'm an engineer / scientist / inventor who now mostly focuses on writing & music. Also, I'm a dragon, sort of. And sometimes confused, sort of. From time to time, I shall be posting photos of trees, cats, raccoons, owls, and deer from my tiny refuge of Jeffendell. (Plus some music, possibly.)

The royal whiskers

Radioshack opens up that old warehouse they've forgotten about for the last 40 years.

Oops, I left the light on in the tree again. #autumn #nature #trees #Seattle #pnw #nokings #photography #love #eastcoastkin

I love that you can show a dangly toy to a kitten for the first time and they instantly understand What Must Happen

In honor of the passing of the great Walter Koenig, please enjoy this clip from The 1987 Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention VHS featuring Walter Koenig and his son Andrew (who we all knew and loved as Boner on Growing Pains) attending the con.

If anyone has Prime Video and wants to watch this, it's leaving Prime in 6 days, so you better hurry. Definitely worth it.

"Star Catchers" (c.2020/21) Art by Jungsuk Lee (Endmion1) #MenWithCats

"Moonbathing" (c.2020) Art by Maggie Vandewalle Highlighted artist for the month of Spooktober, Maggie Vandewalle. #HighlightedArtistOfTheMonth #MenWithCats

2:30 am bedtime. Running late all day today :\

Pansies. Inspired by Amsterdam city flower pots 🌸

Louis Comfort Tiffany had his gardeners cut fresh flowers at his Long Island estate and ship them to his New York studios nearly every week. The designers worked from the real thing, wilting on the bench. Pansies became one of the best sellers. 16 inches tall, 16 across.

This is a famous Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) in its autumn colors, located in the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon (USA). The tree is a popular subject for landscape photographers. The photographer behind this particular shot is the American landscape photographer Mike Putnam.

Just finished watching Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Really enjoyed it. Very well done. Fantastic actors. Great acting. A small story, really, but then it's a movie, not a book, so that's completely appropriate.

How does novel-november.com ensure safety in the forum? Permanence and visibility: Although comments may be edited, previous versions remain visible, and mods will see the entire comment history when reviewing reports. #NovelNovember #NotNanowrimo www.novel-november.com/moderation/c...

Switzerland 🇨🇭 Sheep 🐑 commute

I'm ready for Christmas music.

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Stained glass artwork by English artist Tamsin Abbott. The #Fullmoon in October is known as #HuntersMoon #WomensArt

Microsoft, McDonald's, Verizon, and Others Tell Crypto Platform Not to Tokenize Their Stocks https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-mcdonalds-verizon-and-others-tell-crypto-platform-not-to-tokenize-their-stocks-2000830368

Most of them look annoyed?

To tweety or not to tweety.

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Will the banks lose power to distributed stablecoins backed by by purchased US treasuries? Hmm. youtu.be/dg9Ezg_RS6E?...

Most people won't notice or even pay attention. They'll continue blaming bad politicians and think they can fix things by voting for their side, who when elected will somehow do better, because they care about people more. But that still won't work. youtu.be/gVksaXViB4E?...

mood… art by Loré Pemberton

October weaves its magic spell… art by Emily Duffin

Wondering if this guy has ever heard of "The Tragedy of the Commons" and what might be needed to avoid it or reduce its harms. Anyway, super interesting stuff here, but are they mostly academic / scifi ideas or real possibilities? And how soon? youtu.be/t8KXQrHPmrg?...

Interesting theories. Maybe some amount of truth in each of them? youtu.be/8cufVZ_Q39s?...

5:30 pm -- Audiobook playing in my pocket, a cup of coffee in my hand, big Jagger cat curled on my lap, plus a common roll ... outside on a Saturday in October.

Wishing you all a lovely autumn weekend…hugs to you all ♥️🍂 (art Joy Laforme)

Did you know… there used to be a pool up behind the Hollywood sign? It was built in 1939 as a glamorous backdrop for early b&w TV broadcasts, which featured "bathing beauty" segments to help sell products on air.

Yummy :))

One thing I've noticed when listening to audiobooks is that I need to slow down playback speed when I'm tired. Usually from 1.0 speed to 0.9 or so. If I don't like the book but still want to finish it, I try speeding up the playback to 1.5 (50 percent faster). But if I'm tired, I can't do that.

Amazing: Europeans were the Elves. Canadians were the Hobbits. (Canada was the Shire.) Angela Merkel was Gandalf. And if you had to go to Washington DC, you were going to Mordor, where (Orange) Sauron ruled. youtu.be/pDZ7BaZDoe8?...

Considering all the stuff people insist will bring political victory to the left, this discussion seems really educational. Climate change and a focus on what's seen as "weird social issues" won't win elections, even when they're correct. youtu.be/btknAGmBiD4?...

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Hmm. "Can Free AI Clones Really Replace Photoshop? I Put LightCraft and PhotoCraft to the Test | PCMag" share.google/UazRSzZQc139...

Hearing your Smile...🌺 #Photography #BeachLife #Nature #Canon

#Poetry #Painting #Nighttime THE HARE I saw an old witch-hare this night... And she eyed the moon so bright And I whispered "Wh-s-st! witch-hare," Away like a ghostie o'er the field She fled, and left the moonlight there. - Walter De La Mare 🎨 Rachel Wright

Nope. "OKA’s Mori is a digital companion to brighten solo living" share.google/EAtaL1oGuN0h...

Saw this at a theater with my grandmother years ago. She came here from Austria when she was a kid, and cried all through the movie.