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Theodore "Ted" Logan

@jaeger.festing.org
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It's never too cold to go to the beach (but it might be too cold to get in the water). I used to work in Big Tech and now I work in Startup Tech. Married to a librarian. sfba.social/@jaeger and jaeger.festing.org

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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 03/10/2026
In retrospect I suppose I could have expected Twin Temple, a band that advertises itself as a satanic do-wop band, to spray stage blood into the audience at the end of their show. I was close enough to get splattered. At least I assume it was stage blood.
A satanic do-wop band on stage: saxophone, keys, goth lead singer, guitars, drums
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 27/09/2026
Hey @petersagal.bsky.social cat gentleman here, this is my cat Rio.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 11/09/2026
It was great to meet Fuzzy at the con!
A mascot of a fox waves at the camera standing next to a bearded white guy with glasses and a goofy grin
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 28/08/2026
Flying into SNA this afternoon I looked out my window and saw a building that looked familiar … because I had been looking at the map of Worldcon and the complicated grid that is the Anaheim Hilton triggered my memory, next to the convention center and Disneyland #worldcon
View from a plane window of the Anaheim Convention Center and Disneyland California Adventure and Disneyland
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 10/08/2026
I’m at Outside Lands! It’s crowded and noisy and expensive so it’s not for everyone but I’m enjoying myself. #OutsideLands
Selfie of a bearded white guy in front of an artistic windmill built in the middle of a field surrounded by peopleThe main stage at Outside Lands, in the polo field at Golden Gate Park
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 30/04/2026
That’s the picture I had in my head, though I was wrong. It appears that I was led astray by the art in a book I read when my kids were little.
Cover of a children’s picture book titled “When Dinosaurs Came With Everything” with a painting of a kid on a swing attached to a dinosaur’s tailPage from the picture book depicting a kid leaning out the window of a minivan using a doughnut to lure a small dinosaur with a large crest on its head. The copy calls it a baby hadrosaur.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 18/04/2026
Fear is the mind-killer
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 29/03/2026
From now on this is the only way I will travel
A 1914 Stanley 606 Roadster steam car, sitting in a museum. It’s black and looks like an old car but the rounded hood hides a noncondensing steam engine burning kerosene.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 01/02/2026
I went to the @bart.gov garage sale today and got a set of glasses with what looks like a very old logo, maybe predating the interlinked “ba”? Any idea when it’s from?
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 07/01/2026
Fungus growing on a stump in my yard after winter rains #fungifriends
Yellow-fringed burnt orange fungus growing out of a tree stump on the ground surrounded by leaves
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 27/12/2025
The Way Things Work (the original edition) is my origin story. Along with the Basic Training column at the back of 3-2-1 Contact magazine in the 1980s.
Cover of The Way Things Work, illustrates with machines making up the letters in the words
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 17/10/2025
Flew United today and the napkin made me think of the recent @flightradar24.com podcast discussion of the airline’s mew routes.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 12/08/2025
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is:
The Washington Monument at dusk, a few years ago
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 31/07/2025
Puzzled Panther opening for Golgol Bordello at the Mountain Winery above Saratoga
A rock band on stage in an outdoor amphitheater in front of a stone building
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 30/05/2025
My view earlier, on N107SY
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 24/05/2025
This is a better picture
A black housecat sits on a lap alerted to something while her human reads a hardcover novel
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 24/05/2025
Sitting on my couch reading @tkingfisher.com’s A Sorceress Comes To Call with my cat lounging on my lap it’s easy to imagine that the cat is my familiar (and then I’m vaguely worried what my cat is going to do with her magical powers)
A black housecat sits on a lap, very contented with itself.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 22/04/2025
Can I block an entire exchange of spammy calls?
Screenshot of a call history with a bunch of spam calls allegedly from Kent Ohio. All the phone numbers are different but they’re all in the same exchange.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 11/04/2025
It’s time to go back and remember the true lesson of Settlers of Catan: Trade is good and enriches everyone.
A Catan game board in progress. This one is actually Cities and Knights of Catan but the point about trade being good actually stands.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 08/04/2025
Mushrooms growing under an oak tree #fungifriends
Round brown mushrooms on the ground
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 07/04/2025
Is this what winning feels like? I’m already tired of winning.
Screenshot of the iOS stock app showing huge losses in the first 20 minutes of trading on Monday 7th April
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 05/04/2025
My amaryllis is blooming and it’s impossible for me to look at it without thinking “plant sex”
A pink-and-cream amaryllis flower in bloomA pink-and-cream amaryllis flower opening
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 03/04/2025
Just a reminder that Congress can put a stop to this madness any time they want, and they're choosing not to.
Stock chart of the S&P 500 down 4.04% in early trading today. It's a bloodbath and it's all the fault of the tariffs announced yesterday.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 01/04/2025
I am backing the Long List Anthology Volume 9 from @diabolicalplots.com and I hope they make the physical copy stretch goal because I've collected them all and there's still room on my shelf for a new volume www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...
A stack of sci-fi books on a shelf
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 25/01/2025
Every day for the foreseeable future
A two-panel image from Star Wars Episode I. A character asks, "My lord, is that ... legal?" A hologram of future Emperor Palpatine answers, "I will make it legal!"
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 23/12/2024
In Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park near Santa Cruz, on the trail above the San Lorenzo River, a series of mushrooms on a decaying stump, with a bonus banana slug #fungifriends
Several pale orange mushrooms and a yellow banana slug. It’s cool and humid in the forest, in between winter rain storms in the redwood forest in the coastal California mountains.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 22/12/2024
It’s damp out. The sky doesn’t really look that bright but the driveway is quite dark.
A long driveway at night in the rain
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 19/12/2024
New backyard mushrooms! The rains have come and the fruiting bodies have emerged! #fungifriends
Three red cap mushrooms emerging from the ground under a small light in a suburban backyard
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 14/12/2024
Home Front on stage at Catalyst in Santa Cruz
A band on stage
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 14/12/2024
Before tonight I had not seen the lead singer in a punk band do the splits while dancing and singing in the set
A punk rock band on a low stage in low light, fronted by a woman screaming into a microphone
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 19/11/2024
New glasses dropped
Selfie of a bearded white guy with glasses sitting on a park bench under overcast skies
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 06/11/2024
With everything else going on this morning the power’s out so I’m making coffee outside on the camp stove
A coffee percolator sits on a dual-burner propane stove on an outdoor patio surrounded by leafy shrubs
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 05/11/2024
Rio looking for scritches while getting her picture taken
Closeup of a black housecat standing on a railing, presenting the top of her head to the human holding the camera who is inexplicably not scratching her head yet
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 05/11/2024
In case we need more cat photos today this is Rio
A black housecat sits on a railing looking aloof
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 02/11/2024
Today in blue skies: “Node” at Yerba Buena Station in SoMa
A spindly chrome sculpture reaches for the bright blue sky in front of a glass walled building
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 16/09/2024
In related news I just picked up a horror story about the Birdsite, and how the world’s whiniest billionaire destroyed my favorite social networking platform.
Hardcover book “Extremely Hardcore: inside Elon Musk’s Twitter” by Zoë Schiffer, depicting blue feathers on a white background
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 16/09/2024
It's such an honor to have been here since (checks notes) earlier this year and I'd like to thank all of my followers (including the bots) and all of my followees (excluding the bots); but especially Bluesky and its SREs for making this site possible.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,042,028!
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 31/08/2024
I have a few chillies in my garden.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 03/06/2024
I went to the Santa Cruz Pride parade today and I discovered the secret gay agenda!
A marcher in a pride parade carrying a sign reading "The Gay Agenda":
Monday: Be Gay
Tuesday: Tacos!
Wednesday: Be Gay
Thursday: Be Gay
Friday: Super Gay
Saturday: Super Gay
Sunday: March for our Rights!
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 20/04/2024
Just in case
Trump on the White House lawn yelling at a kid mowing the lawn, with the text: "IS THIS A DANK MEME? I NEED TO KNOW IN CASE I'M UP FOR JURY SERVICE"
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 04/04/2024
Just finished reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, a murder mystery with weird plant magic. And themes of empire, body modification, neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, and kaiju. I can confirm that I very much enjoyed this book.
The cover to the book “The Tainted Cup” by Robert Jackson Bennett. A drawing of a goblet on its side with a flowering plant growing out of it.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 16/02/2024
I did not know that I needed to hear a punk cover of “Knights in White Satin” and yet it turns out that I did.
OG punk band The Dickies cover “Knights in White Satin”, composition credited to Justin Hayward, originally performed by the Moody Blues
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 16/02/2024
Today in “meaningless achievements”, Strava has awarded me for running on a tiny trail in Seabright.
“You just claimed the title of Local Legend on Lower Ocean View trail.

Your 7 efforts mean that you’ve completed the most efforts on this segment over the past 90 days.

Way to earn the laurel crown. How long can you hold on to it?”
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 15/02/2024
New drama in the Hugo Awards
A flaming dumpster
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 07/02/2024
Today in blue skies
A rainbow above a mostly-cloudy sky, but the landscape is well lit indicating there’s sun off camera
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 03/02/2024
Victory the team from my general area defeated the team not from my general area!
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 03/02/2024
It appears to be some sort of sports-ball!
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 31/01/2024
San Lorenzo River is forecast to rise substantially but stay well below flood stage, so that's nice. (Probably still enough to flood the pedestrian underpasses, though.)
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 31/01/2024
Going to be a wet few days in Santa Cruz.
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Theodore "Ted" Logan @jaeger.festing.org · 26/01/2024
#ProofOfCat Rio lounges in front of the fire.
A black house cat lounges on a furry white blanket in front of a gas fireplace
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