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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 16/09/2026

I was enjoying a nice paella.

A sankey diagram showing the ingredients going into, and disposition of, paella.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 11/09/2026

Perfect timeline juxtaposition:

Dan Hon skeeting about not allowing nerds to create their friend/god in one thread, and then being proud of his robot son in another.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 21/08/2026

I hadn't seen this game before, thanks! I'll add it to my rotation.

Scoreboard for my outlier round showing 807

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 18/08/2026

I can't believe there's more than one forbidden image that could be in this thread. I better change the subject. How about a recipe for paella?

A sankey diagram showing ingredients on the left, paella near the right, and which stomachs the paella came into on the far right.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 19/07/2026

Or baby carrots and black olives make your bagel sandwich into an alien.

Bagel and egg sandwich with baby carrots and black olives fashioned into eyestalks

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 23/06/2026

This but black licorice flavor, and it's Chester Cheetah's cousin who is black with orange spots. Definitely crunchy though, licorice puffs are disgusting.

A bag of crunchy Cheetos with chester the cheetah on it

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 21/06/2026

They are perfectly cromulent. I used one when I was planning a Paella party.

Sankey diagram showing ingredients going into paella, and paella coming into various stomachs (through being eaten)

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 08/06/2026

Amazing things happening on the Bainbridge->Seattle ferry tonight.

Mt Rainier lit by sunlight in an otherwise mostly gray landscape near Seattle. Water in foreground and forested hills between the water and Rainier, and whispy etherial clouds give gray white and blue streaks above.

A small peninsula just out into the water with a few houses and trees. Reflective water in the foreground, mostly gray clouds above.

Sun setting behind dramatic looking clouds, a thin dark forested landscape between the sky and water of the Puget Sound in the foreground

Seattle skyline from the space needle to Lumen field as seen from a ferry. Sunlight reflecting off the buildings, water in the foreground, blue sky streaked with gray and white clouds above.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 06/06/2026

Oh my word. I’m a pilot and right now I’m showing $7/gallon. Retail prices for guys like me are apparently not what the big airlines pay. www.airnav.com/fuel/local.h...

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 06/06/2026

Am I doing the math wrong?

17845 USD / 2499 gallons = 7.14 USD/gallon

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 04/05/2026

What on earth man. It’s even numbered 1-2-3 for you.

Screenshot of the next two posts in the original thread

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 27/01/2026

Wikipedia for state capitals has this handy map of such states.

Map of US states, with states such as Oklahoma highlighted to indicate their capital city is also their most populous.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 27/01/2026

Just another day in paradise.

Sun setting behind clouds over waters of the Hood Canal. The water is glassy still and fills the foreground with reflections of the blue white and gray sky with a few fluffy clouds and a few feathery clouds. The right half of the horizon is covered by a thin forested peninsula with mountains of the Olympic range behind.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 23/01/2026

99% of the vote went to three candidates. It looks like the 2000 presidential race in California. (Link in alt)

List of results of the 2000 presidential election in California from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_California

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 27/12/2025

I settled for Washington beachfront, so I guess I lose.

A kayak sits on calm waters with the Olympic Mountains and a colorful sunset in the background.

Two people sit on a couch in a living room, with large picture windows showing a sunset over the waters of the Hood Canal with the Olympic Mountains in the background.

Sun setting behind Mt. Washington in the Olympic range, with the waters of Hood Canal and some trees and bushes in the foreground.

Misty clouds drifting over the Hood Canal with a pier in the distance and some small trees in the foreground

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 26/11/2025

By 2011 we were deep in the Great Polygon Shortage, as exemplified by the “Leap” sculpture at Sacramento airport installed that year.

Red rabbit sculpture at Sacramento International Airport consisting of a shockingly small number of polygons

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 09/09/2025

I set my chrome new tab url to roll for initiative. www.google.com/search?q=d20

A google search page for “d20” showing a 20 sided die that has landed on 7.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 04/08/2025

Cannot answer your question but can share an owl sculpture I saw today in Anacortes, WA.

Kinetic sculpture of an owl made of rebar and sheet metal. The head is mounted on a bike wheel hub so spins freely.

Wall card describing the owl sculpture - it is named Otis and the sculptor is Chris Cole from Bend, OR

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 25/07/2025

I will break my “owls only” rule to thank you for standing up for the only part of my life that is not privileged. I promise next time I’ll be back to owlply guy.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 24/06/2025

I had actual work to do today but....

Two beautiful spiral galaxies on a background of a zillion tiny galaxies

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 18/06/2025

WTB that platypus photoshopped into this image.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 01/06/2025

That, sir, is eminently bookmarkletable. Make a bookmark named "Bust paywall" with this as its path: javascript:(function(){location.href=location.protocol+"//"+'archive.is/latest/'+location.host+location.pathname})();

Screenshot of bookmark editor with this bookmark

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 14/04/2025

Battle Point (YTT 10) heading over to Dabob Bay at moonset/sunrise.

Torpedo trials craft Battle Point on the waters of Hood Canal at dawn, with a forested peninsula and Mt Washington in the Olympic range in the background. The sky is a mix of gray, rose, and purple, with a setting nearly full moon filtered through thin clouds.

Waters of the Hood Canal at dawn with a setting nearly full moon filtered through thin clouds. A forested peninsula and Mt Washington and The Brothers (mountain) in the Olympic range in the background. The sky is a mix of gray, rose, and purple.

Torpedo trials craft Battle Point on the waters of Hood Canal at dawn, with a forested peninsula and Mt Constance in the Olympic range in the background. The sky is a mix of gray, rose, and purple.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 13/04/2025

Wait, wasn't Oregon Trail the original FAFO simulator?

Oregon Trail tombstone:

Here lies douglips.com

Fucked around.
Found out.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 28/03/2025

Is this bad? This looks bad. www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 27/03/2025

Enjoying some amazing patio weather in advance of this storm that's supposed to hit soon.

An approaching storm in the distance with some blue skies and high clouds in the late afternoon. The water of Hood Canal reflects the sun, and a bare tree is in the foreground.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 23/03/2025

Had such a great time at #ATmosphereConf I forgot to take any useful pictures, so my commute photos will have to do. So many great talks, looking forward to tomorrow!

Sunrise on the Olympic mountains with whispy clouds and water of the Hood canal in the foreground.

A steel sculpture that looks a bit like a like-like from Breath of the Wild

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 16/03/2025

Caught one departing 3.5 years ago from my airplane. I didn't want to get too close to assets likely to be covered by air defense.

Hood canal bridge open with a submarine exiting and other boats escorting.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 03/03/2025

Goddamn that's an achewood level burn right there. achewood.com/2004/11/01/t...

Achewood comic panel where Ray is wearing a Fedora and asserts he looks cool, and Teodor says Ray looks like he rides a Goldwing and collects swords.

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Doug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 31/01/2025

My TV has a color fidelity problem due to OLED burn in that somehow conflicts with his makeup. I took this picture the other day. The color of his ear and temple and eye is what most white people look like on my TV.

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