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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 24/08/2026

live look at Bill, when no one is sending him enough amusement park law content

Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 19/08/2026

I've had a lawn mower bot for kind of a while now, running on a schedule 3x weekly in the back yard. Don't think I'll ever get used to my yard just…looking trimmed, all the time (don't you dare look at the edges I KNOW I need to do that still)

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 04/08/2026

anecdotally, after many dogs in my life, the one that leaves barely any impact is our current one — a hound with fairly short, wiry hair. (I do NOT recommend anything with soft fluffy hair if this is your concern)

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 04/08/2026

to be fair, sometimes D&Bs will let you put just a few tokens in and get a whole lot back, so it's really an apt study.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 29/05/2026

BREAKING: Capn' Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 25/05/2026

While I do agree that datetime and time zones can be quite challenging at times…promising to delivery my order 8 days before I ordered it seems a bit optimistic.

An order screen from the Chuys restaurant website, estimating that an order will be delivered from -11,525 to -11,510 minutes from when the order is placed.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 16/05/2026

my *favorite* Hutto Hippos fact (as a Greek major back in my uni days) is that our alternative programs school is RIver Horse Academy — the literal english translation of hippopotamus.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 12/05/2026

that city has NO BUSINESS having a 5-mile-long 45mph zone

screenshot of a wikipedia entry for Powell, TX

“Powell is a town in Navarro Country, Texas, United States. The population was 99 at the 2020 census.”

the population is highlighted in yellow and has multiple red arrows pointing at it

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 24/04/2026

There’s a proposition in my city to allow a company to put up digital billboards and the “how they advertise vs what the vote is” is just…a wild schism.

A photograph of two mailed postcards encouraging a YES vote on Prop A, with claims that it will reduce crime and improve traffic safety in Round Rock, TX, but without every specifying what Prop A actually does.

The literal text of Prop A, just allowing for digital signage and requiring it “prioritize public safety messaging”:

PROPOSITION A
SHALL THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE
CITY OF ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, BE AMENDED
TO ADD SECTION 14.16 TO ARTICLE 14 TO
ALLOW UP TO TWELVE (12) PRIVATELY
OWNED, OPERATED, AND FUNDED
FREESTANDING OFF-PREMISE DOUBLE-
FACED ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTERS
LOCATED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY ADJACENT
TO INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 35 AND STATE
HIGHWAY 45 WITHIN THE CITY AND ITS
EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION; REQUIRE
PRIORITY PUBLIC SAFETY MESSAGING; AND
LIMIT REGULATION OF LOCATION, SIZE, AND
SPACING TO STANDARDS ADOPTED BY THE
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION?

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 01/01/2026

On the one hand, I’m amused and ashamed that this argument worked on me. On the other…the site pushed me into buying them in the new year anyway? Time is fluid, I guess.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 13/12/2025

This has to be the absolute nerdiest @atp.fm t-shirt yet, and my friends that is REALLY saying something. Anyway, it’s perfect.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 30/11/2025

definitely worth a stop if you’re in the area. I personally recommend the omelet.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 15/11/2025

wild coincidence, but at my wife’s request, my oldest literally *just* finished painting this garden gnome as David.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 12/11/2025

Repost with an iconic fictional band

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 04/11/2025

Night flight requirements: ✅

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 19/10/2025

Flew my first solo XC today, plus had a nice stop for a plane-watching breakfast on one leg. Been building up to this day for a long while, and it did not disappoint!

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 21/09/2025

Flying over the cloud layer just never gets old

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 15/09/2025

If ever you’re passing through the area, the Llano airport is lovely. They have a free BBQ shuttle courtesy car you can check out to pop over to Cooper’s, and it’s well worth the experience!

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 03/09/2025

Love it when they add super-convenient new options

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 25/08/2025

(extremely Joe Buck voice) yes...oh god yes

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 25/08/2025

Flying near sunset for the first time and it was positively beautiful.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 24/08/2025

In our seats and set up with theater-gimme accoutrements for the KPDH Sing-Along. (My kids are like a decade older than most in here, but the music is a universal jam!)

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 23/08/2025

now THIS is a place GPT can deliver today. (is this TOO on the nose?)

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 17/08/2025

Good news — finally had all the stars align and got to do my first cross-country flight with an instructor! (Hello, Lake Waco) Bad news — my regular instructor is no longer at my school. :(

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 10/08/2025

to be FULLY fair, the vast majority of this 15-mile drive is through farmland

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 28/07/2025

Perhaps I should have included the pics…<facepalm>

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 22/07/2025

Meant to tell you — finally got the chance to meet your plane’s friend in person!

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 15/07/2025

Oh, and yesterday we toured some cool spots at NASA. Got to see the mission control for ISS ops, the fully-restored room from the Apollo and STS missions, and walk through a full shuttle-without-shell in a building.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 15/07/2025

Swung by the Lonestar Aviation Museum with the kids today. Planes, as it turns out, are kinda awesome.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 28/06/2025

Felt just about close enough to reach out and touch the sky today.

Left seat cockpit view of a Cessna 172 with a manual gauge cluster. At roughly 4200 feet in altitude, the view out the dash is distant buildings and fields well below, with clouds just above the plane.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 22/06/2025

@sirfahrenheit.bsky.social now i guess you’ve got TWO reasons to aim to get out of the country for a while

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 20/06/2025

(counterpoint) the people: We want good trains! USA: we have trains at home! the trains at home:

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 08/06/2025

Those crazy people let me fly a plane all by myself (first solo!)

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 25/05/2025

That last bullet on @marcoarment.bsky.social’s release notes!

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 03/05/2025

I’m rather direct with my favorite mode

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 25/04/2025

Found @sirfahrenheit.bsky.social's burner

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 08/04/2025

What is wrong with this picture (taken in downtown Austin)? Look closely.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 07/04/2025

perhaps I do not recall all JCNOs, but those I do recall should, in my mind, be stored in a bunker behind this sign

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 23/03/2025

The one that kills me is people naming apps “Smart <whatever>” — aren’t you clever! I can definitely remember which is which here, why would you name the app by brand? (sigh)

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 11/03/2025

The world (or at least the US) is kinda awful right now. But I DID get to tour Christchurch today, and that was nice.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 01/03/2025

When this film was made, this was made to be a comforting coda at the end of a story about the dangers of someone too reactionary having the ability to fire nukes. In 2025…it reads a bit differently.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 23/02/2025

Happy #SixPackSunday to those who celebrate. Today was perfect weather to get out there and nail some TOL practice. #GA #Aviation

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 15/02/2025

We started our Valentine’s Day off right, with the perfect love story. Huge kudos to @crobertcargill.bsky.social for making a beautiful genre fusion of a film that was well worth the wait.

Movie poster for the film “The Gorge”. Two observation towers sit on either side of a deep, fog-filled gorge as the sun ominously sets on the horizon. In the sky, Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy hover above larger than life, touching foreheads with eyes closed.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 09/02/2025

Time to watch some musical about…miserable people or something? Idk.

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Brad @bradsbrown.dev · 04/02/2025

@evilmopacatx.bsky.social you are particularly evil today, FYI

A view over a vehicle dashboard. In the foreground, a CarPlay map display showing jammed traffic taking 29 minutes to go 14 miles. In the background, a virtual sea of red taillights with bumper-to-bumper traffic ahead.

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