The duplicity of Sasha

It’s been 13 1/2 years since I’ve started using Spotify. I clearly remember paying for premium (with student discount) specifically to play the 2nd law album on repeat.

Here’s a flower from the weather center. I thought it was pretty.

I chatted with The Weather Channel this morning about the exciting future of UAS-based weather sensing! Watch here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-paS... As a kid that grew up watching The Weather Channel endlessly, this is a weird full circle moment.

Life is weird.

Gonna be up early? I’m supposed to give a live interview with The Weather Channel tomorrow morning at about 7:40am!

New favorite David Payne quote, on chaser convergence: “Look at that, looks like a garage sale gone wrong”

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

AND THEN dragged out onto a raft, hoisted by a helicopter, and ultimately still have to go to a ship.

As a scientist I can accept that there is likely a very important reason for the stability collar and front porch to be such a complicated process. Arlene is not a scientist and not impressed.

Can you imagine entering the atmosphere at M33, burning through the atmosphere, being yanked-dropped-yanked by a series of parachutes THEN while you’re waiting to “deplane” boats circle your floating capsule rocking it with their wakes. 🤢

The NASA live stream commentator (Rob Navias?) has a voice that sounds a lot like NOAA weather radio. Every time he says “central time” I lol

Who will make it first? Me home from work or the NASA Artemis capsule to Earth?

NASA Worried Moon Won’t Remember Them https://theonion.com/nasa-worried-moon-won-t-remember-them-1849492372/

Rocket launch watching to storm chase watching

Eventful day! NSSL held a ribbon cutting for the new mobile radars. We did a nice instrumentation show and tell in support. Then day 1 of the VORTEX Anniversary Workshop. Also a nice little WSJ drone science piece has gone live! www.wsj.com/video/series...

Idk if there’s ever been a time when the NWC is hosting a workshop I have to be at and I haven’t been up to an unholy hour the night before. 🫠

First night in our new Costco split-king adjustable bed. I feel simultaneously blissful and elderly.

✅ Meet David Payne

After nearly 12 years in Oklahoma, I FINALLY got the opportunity to talk to David Payne, my fav OK weatherman. We took a nice little photo with their selfie station and I entered my phone number to get it…but the photo never showed up. I’m crushed.

Well this morning I found out I am just growing extra bone in my mouth. All I could think when the dentist told me was wow now my skeleton will look weird.

2nd year of college spring arrived in SW PA by March. I spent the rest of the semester day/porch drinking and swimming in the Mon…my best college memories. I’m outside reading a dissertation draft today and it feels exactly the same. Worried about climate change? Yes. Feeling nostalgic? Also yes.

Me craving a treat: oh I found these old warheads on my desk, I wonder how long warheads stay good… Internet: a nuclear warhead’s service life is a serious concern.

And we lost power

Returning from Hawaii to freezing temps should be illegal.

Tragically my ride is here. At least the breeze is nice.

Today I was within some 50 miles of an erupting volcano (Kiluea). Could I see anything at all? No. The roads also closed so no chance to get there. I still feel like being here should still count for some sort of bucket list item somehow. 🌋

Feeling sad this Hawai’i trip is winding down. One last full day today planned as a beach day and ending with a luau. I could extend this vacation indefinitely.

Turns out kayaking on the ocean makes me seasick 🤢

Started the day at a Kona coffee farm and spent the rest of it at beautiful Hapuna Beach. Really successful Hawaii day — except I definitely got sunburnt through multiple applications of SPF 50+.

BREAKING: We're suing West Virginia on behalf of the state's largest overdose prevention group to overturn a nearly 20-year ban on new methadone clinics. Restricting access to methadone isn't just dangerous — it's illegal under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Good night from Hawai’i

Less than 24 hours til I’m in Hawaii

Aaaayyyyy! It still works! It is actually 100% functional except the screen. Even the keyboard and trackpad still work, even though the laptop is literally bent—right between F9-F10.

Well tonight I ran over my work bag with an F250. Kindle, busted. Laptop, bent. Glasses, totally fine.

I do not follow this account. Still it appears in my discover feed regularly. But you know, I always stop to check the weather in Mpai Bay.

Walking out of the doctors office with an older woman. It’s currently 53 F, but it is gusting hard. We stepped out into the air and she SCREAMED “Oklahoma, get on ya damn meds. This is bull shit.” Good morning!

lol thanks Norman Regional Some 60% of the time it works every time kinda bill

I’m watching the ANTM documentary and holy shit. Coming up in the 2000s-2010s was…wild.

Really not loving the intense marketing of GLP-1 “subscriptions” to me as a mid thirties woman. GLP-1 meds are helping people, and that’s great! But I would be glad to avoid the massive body shaming exercise insisting that I (as a size 6) am “mid sized” and therefore should get an Rx to drop 10lbs.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Me on my first ever go around coming into Denver.

I just snapped back from a multi hour time warp where I casually was working on a puzzle after dinner and now it’s 1am

Me RN deep in vorticity worm dynamics youtu.be/hlos8imBu7E?... journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Our goose overlords have returned

Down a weird rabbit hole listening to the recordings on Voyager golden disks and honestly, they’re kind of scary. Like the sound of a chimpanzee would be horrifying if you are an alien and don’t know what a chimpanzee is. Also just a long quiet period with heartbeats. I would not contact us.

Discovering (beyond the em dash) that my writing style is frequently detected as likely AI. Cool. Cool. A draft of a paper just threw 71% AI generated content. The supposed “fingerprints” were adverb-adjective pairing and consistent language styles across paragraphs. Wtf

Suddenly remembered how good Random Access Memories. My office is digitally funky today.