Not a good year globally speaking

Spanish friends asked what do Americans think of the new NYC mayor. I said everything you can imagine, based on their prejudice. Now let’s see him get to work.

11 years ago (not to the day) with some eager academic presenters.

Joined the retired mountainbike group and they stopped for an extended snack at 10:30. Was someone’s birthday, oh, man.

Bill Gurley: there is absolutely no interest in investing in any non-Ai ventures m.youtube.com/watch?v=D023...

6 years ago today. My first gravel bike, which did not last long and was sold to upgrade to a Giant Revolt.

Stormy weekend

No Santa bikinis this year, as the cold front finally reached us.

I don’t get it. Little Santa believers don’t know or care about NORAD. Who is the audience for this critical military operation?

First LinkedIn connection (who never did get me a job! 🤪 )

(Not) getting into the Christmas spirit.

Crazy airline system… I am booked via single airline but multiple stops served by different ‘partner’ airlines. Some allow me 2 bags x 23kg, others 1 bag x 32kg. I should perform magic between flights.

I don’t care at all about the Bears but that was a hell of a throw and catch for OT win. #NFL

Happy Solstice!

Christmas spirit in Castellón last night. That’s a female “tuna” or troubadour group.

Atención españoles

Cooling centers are a good idea, but if they are just going to count already open public buildings like libraries…

Now NCAR? Does the opposition party have any real plan for stopping the slashing and burning? Is the system really that broken?

Yep

Our sadness goes to 11.

people, people,... Juice comes from fruit not plastic bottles.

Reminder about FAIR data principles and implementing them in your GIS projects. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

3 days later, not clear

7 years ago, Gulf of Oman, among hundreds of small jellyfish

Brown murder details finally trickling

A hard maybe. ?

What the hell

LLM, RAG, MCP? This IBM video does a nice job at comparing RAG and MCP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95M...

and the teachers have fast access to all published research

7 years ago, Dubai

Well, there’s that

It’s easy to make a bad paella. This actually had good flavor but was mostly wrong.

8 years ago, hiking overlooking LA

2nd Call for Papers: 2026 AGILE Conference on GI Science. Deadline coming soon! (Jan 5) agile-gi.eu/conference-2...

How nice to see our UJI Geotec masters students featured as UN Mappers of the Month! maps.un.org/news/un-mapp...

The ArcGIS Pro add-in for GeoParquet is sweet. Thanks, Overture Maps. www.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...

The summary video (made by NotebookLM) of my students' anonymized notes, my PPTs, and additional content from my Intro to GIS: Desktop to Cloud course. Many details left out, but still an interesting story in the end, www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzS0...

Tsunami warning in northeast Japan.

Today is a national holiday in Spain: Feast of the Immaculate Conception. For most people just a long weekend.

In Spain you can get an MBA for €4000

Every day they spin the wheel and come up with a new random diversion.

You need to have a friend in Lisbon

“Freak subtropical blast” brings temperatures in the 20s this weekend

FIFA World Cup rapidly gaining ground on EuroVision in terms of ridiculousness.

Pueblo + beach

Genius

Doris (artist Ana Sansano)

Celebrating their 1st Anniversary. Too hot for jackets today

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Talk about enshitification: FIFA peace prize. 😩🤡