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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My daughter and I actively share an Amazon account, and it’s easy to pick out which of us is behind the various “About You” entries, but this one is slightly ambiguous…and it got me laughing.

From Amazon’s “About You” page:

Product Preferences: May have had temporary gothic fashion explanation

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Age yourself with a childhood crush.

The late-1970s Denver Broncos defense was nicknamed the Orange Crush.

I wasn't a fan, but they *were* a crush from my childhood.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An afternoon tea snack I had in a hotel in Japan a couple of years ago. :)

A little ice-cream bear with eyes, nose, ears, and toes, atop a cookie and in front of a cored apple and ice cream and cookie with various other small cookies decorating the periphery.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The supine Superintendent [pic] was one of my NAPS ‘87 and USNA ‘91 classmates. I’ve decided to skip our 35th reunion this month. The reception would be at his official Academy residence. We also have a 4-star war-criminal classmate, ADM Mitch Bradley, of Caribbean boat double-tapping murder fame.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent Lieutenant General Mike Borgschulte on the sidelines together at a football game.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Growing yourself flowers works, too! (Granted, these are also a cactus.)

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If I can get the weather for it, I'm hoping to do something like this early next month.

A North American outline map depicting a flight route from Roanoke, Virginia to Iowa City, Iowa to Longmont, Colorado to Reno, Nevada to Hayward, California to Salem, Oregon to Victoria, British Columbia to Calgary, Alberta to Regina, Saskatchewan to Winnipeg, Manitoba to Grand Forks, North Dakota and then back to Roanoke.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My neighborhood spot does ‘em right.

A dirty martini with 7 olives on a kitchen skewer.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

De facto, that becomes unilateral disarmament of the oppressed. So not in my book.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me just outside that city in Florida some years ago and paying homage to a scene from "Deliverance." :)~ www.maptap.gg October 2 100🎯 94🏅 99🔥 94🏅 96🔥 Final score: 962

Pic of me in the late '00s standing on a foot bridge over a river in Florida with a banjo in my hands; I'm hanging it over the side of the bridge.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s no way those are legit data points if a 2.1km altitude change is being shown in 1 second. That’s Mach 6 straight down. Altitude-reporting & plots have noise and sampling errors in them. My own plane was shown spiking to 30,000+ feet and back earlier this summer due to an avionics glitch.

A time plot of altitude and speed for my plane when its encoding altimeter acted up recently and showed a nearly vertical climb from 10,000' to over 30,000 and then wandered around for awhile. At ATC request, I shut off the electronic system that reports altitude via radar and made verbal altitude reports until I landed. I immediately replaced the malfunctioning encoding-altimeter unit.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We'd been partying and got hungry for takeout.

The Spice Clowns at a late-90s Virginia Pep Band Halloween party. I was Redneck Spice. Because of course.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can seriously rock a plaid shirt.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My sister was greeted by this railroad-ballast-stone frog on her screen door a couple days ago.

A small gray tree frog on a white-painted wooden screen door.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now I want an ice-cream bear...um...bar.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ran across a couple of friends here feeding a Chipmunk. 😃

Lisa Corker and Katie Mack in flight suits standing in front of a 1956 de Havilland Chipmunk on static display that they flew in for the day from the Canadian Aviation Museum in Windsor, Ontario.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Peanut butter and pickle, though!

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And the perfect breakfast-cafe unisex sign…

A unisex-bathroom sign at Biscuit Head in Asheville, North Carolina—it’s a framed photo of a plate with two sausage links and two fried eggs.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have this sticker on my personal Mac.

A light-blue sticker on a MacBook that has a wrench icon at the top and reads, “MOVE CAREFULLY AND FIX THINGS”.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Coincidentally, my second Mooney, an '83 M20K/231, is now C-GNOM and based out of Springbank (CYBW), and I've seen it over this region of highway on many of its flights. :)

A terrain map with an aircraft flight track overlaid upon it. It shows a flight from Springbank Airport, near Calgary, Alberta, out over the eastern edge of the Canadian Rockies and the Trans-Canada Highway, and then back to Springbank.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes timeline synchronicity is just *chef's kiss*.

Two back-to-back timeline posts:

- Picture of a sign reading "Toilets For Competition use only" with a comment above, "Time to lock in."

- Headline: "Taco Bell offering discounts in fight to gain back customers after diarrhea outbreak."

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I like the paint job--reminds me of how I repainted my old 231.

A 1983 Mooney M20K/231 in flight, landing gear retracted. It was registered as N3655H when I owned it, then re-registered as C-GNOM when I sold it to a Canadian gentleman who moved it to Calgary.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two of my favorites--one from 1989 at NAS Kingsville, Texas when I got to fly a TA-4J as a Midshipman; the other from 2022 and the day I arrived home with my current Mooney. (Neither was taken by me.)

Me in an olive-drab flight suit, with a helmet under my arm, standing in front of a nose-on, orange-and-white Navy TA-4J, on a concrete ramp in Texas under a hazy blue sky. The plane's canopy is open, and there's a boarding ladder against it.

A shot looking forward at a blue-and-white Mooney Ovation from its port quarter. It's parked on an airport ramp under an early-evening, scattered-cloud sky. The sun is about to set beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance, just to the right of the plane's tail. There's a warm, orange "golden-hour" glow in both the sky and reflected on the ramp's asphalt. And electric tug is parked in front of the nose of the plane, prepared to tow it to a parking spot.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Similarly, on an iPhone there are some top-level AI toggles, but to really turn it off you have to go into the configuration settings for each individual app and turn it off there. For some reason, this comes to mind....

A screenshot that reads:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What is it with neon signs on brick walls in bars?

A purple neon sign on a brick bar wall. It says, “Send Nudes”.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like having a beard--I just wish it weren't where most of my grey has decided to collect! I don't have much in my hair--temples, mostly. So I keep the beard trimmed short to at least minimize it. :)

At my home-office desk in a three-piece, multi-stripe charcoal suit and tie. Note how most of my grey collects on my chin thanks to my beard.

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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A tuxedo kitten relaxing atop a radiator in front of a window.

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