😂 Years ago, our staff had a nice photo of one of our weather stations in large poster size displayed behind our booth at a conference. Someone then pointed out that in the background of that photo there were two cows doing what cows sometimes do.

My dad shared some great wisdom with me today: "Did you know that people who have more birthdays live longer?"

Ad infinitum.

Hear me out: Vietnamese pho broth and Mexican black beans. 😋

Take that, Tuesday!

Yesterday I asked my phone a question about the lotion ingredient "hyaluronic acid", but what it heard was "highly ironic acid". New indie band name?

Frens

TIL my family's favorite comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy, are also beloved in Mexico and Latin America. They are called "El Gordo y el Flaco" (The Fat One and The Thin One). Turns out, they filmed some 1930s scenes multiple times in various languages, including Spanish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMkD...

The new manager at our NWC Flying Cow Cafe made and is selling fried pies for Pi Day (tomorrow is March 14). If they sell well, she may try selling them each week. This is peach.

Good evening friend.

Take that February!

Ten years ago today

I was today years old when I learned that scissor-tailed flycatchers (Oklahoma official state bird) are routinely seen in the Yucatan peninsula during winter. 🐦 🇲🇽 ❤️

I recently joked with a coworker that Vibe Coding has been around a long time, except that it used to be done during an outage due to some existing terrible code requiring a fix in the middle of the night, and back then it was called Rage Coding. 😉

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Happy UTC / GMT / Zulu New Year for those who celebrate. 0000z at the NWC did not disappoint.

This photo is not blurry.

Good advice for old professionals, too!

I am so privileged to work around such fantastically smart people. Some time ago Marina gave me a quick overview of some of her research and I was 🤯. Congrats to her and you all on getting this toward publication!

Okay, I am tired. I walked out of the NWC with Chris Karstens, but when I saw him my brain said @plustssn.autumnsky.us, so I began chattering away complimenting him on his aurora photos. Afterward, I told Chris "Hey, it could be worse. At least I didn't call you @pmarshwx.com!" 😉

Earlier this month, when paying a bill online, I happened to click the "Choose Currency" button for the payment website. The web browser's suggested choices for currency were, um, interesting.

October 21 marks 20 years since an incredible record was set in my beloved #IslaMujeres. On 21-22 Oct 2005 this weather station set the Western Hemisphere 24-hour rainfall record, 1633.98 mm (that's over 64.3 inches in 24 hours!) during Hurricane Wilma.

I had visitors stop at my house this weekend, on their way south. #MariposaMonarca 📷: courtesy my friend Jessie

Estoy en el lado sur de OKC para #FiestasOKC y es lo maximo. I'm at the annual OKC Fiestas De Las Americas on SW 25th and it is the best.

Seen in the NWC Flying Cow cafe. I'm not saying that this is actual @mesonet.org Ticker material, but given where the author is from, I'm not saying it's not, either. 😉

What caught my eye was that there was a bee on this sunflower, but it flew off the instant before the photo snap. Have a bee-utiful day, friend.

TIL that bread pudding is big in Mexico and the rest of Latin America. At a supermercado in Moore, OK, in the pan dulce area, there was this stuff called budin de pan. It's bread pudding made of previous day's leftover rolls + lots of coconut and cinnamon. OMG SO GOOD. Tasty rabbit hole of learning.

/bin/bash

We have nice sunsets at my work.

Okay, that looks cool.

Feliz cumpleaños a mi lugar favorito. / Happy Birthday to my favorite place. #175

Beauty can be found everywhere. I'm at a gas/petrol station. In one direction are the pumps. In the other, this.

Here comes the rain!

Saw this awesomeness and thought of @billymcpherson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-iA...

I just learned that today, July 16, is World Snake Day. My Mesonet friends know that can only mean one thing.

Marvin the Martian: "Where is the Kaboom?"

Random shower thoughts: Can rattlesnakes get rabies? In case you're wondering, the answer is apparently no.

Glorious.

I saw this as I left work. Life is short and fragile. Life is also beautiful. Live. Just like this little one, go out there and live.

My parents are moving some stuff they have at my house. Mom found some phone books and we wondered if OKC will accept them for recycling. It then occurred to us that if we called to ask, there is a non-zero chance that a young person answering the call would have no idea what we were talking about.

Yesterday had the perfect evening for Champian Fulton at Jazz In June in Norman.

We're doing surplus at work and it's finally time to send this little one on its way. After nearly 26 years, it still works like new and has been used until now, because it readily accepts funky video frequencies from various rackmount servers at which expensive KVM systems balk. #GotOurMoneysWorth

Apparently for something this important, Amazon is getting straight to the point.

Hey @deke-arndt.bsky.social, Gary and I were at lunch and well... Missing you and the Justins!

The clouds this evening... 🤩

Today my my mom got a bag of grapes out of the refrigerator, bit into one, and immediately spat it out. It was a black olive. Happy Mothers Day!

TFW @jonblatho.com is doing a deploy to prod and someone starts playing the theme to Interstellar on the atrium piano downstairs. Appropriate.