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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Which version do you think I should work with?

Two folders, one "old" and one "newer but messy"

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

yes, let's set the size of the search box to fit 2.5 letters

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Do you think the magenta pixels represent values off the high or low end of the scale, or are they "no data" values?

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Not surprised this place didn't make it onto the list of "Top Places to Live"

Aerial image map with a label saying "Worstville"

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Does this mean the Catholic Church about to return to becoming the world's largest funder of the arts?

October 2, 2026 tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads "In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

What kind of updates are going to be made to an obituary???

Obituary website pop-up message asking for an e-mail address so that you can be notified about important updates to the obituary.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Map game idea: "Name this state border"

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

A disturbing UI trend is the search box that, when clicked, opens a hidden side panel that contains the actual search box.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

This may look unimpressive in the daylight, but let me assure you that seeing it just off the road at night was rather terrifying.

A much larger than life sculpture of Ronald McDonald with various fast food items with eyes and gaping mouths.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

To be fair, all regions of every map appear significantly smaller than they are.

"The Mercator layout ... Because of its projection style, however, regions near the equator appear significantly smaller than they are"

Excerpt from article in The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Didn't ArcGIS Pro used to have a basemap that used actual OSM tiles? Well, it now has basemap called "OpenStreetMap Style" which does not reflect current OSM data! LEFT: ArcGIS "OpenStreetMap Style" RIGHT: openstreetmap.org

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Minesweeper, but using gerrymandered congressional districts instead of a grid.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Uh oh! Multiple incoming weather warnings won't even display properly! I'll bet our power is going to go out soon...

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Would the real Executive Order 14420 please stand up? #executiveDysfunction There are at least 3 different EOs with the number 14420: edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-dome… […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

One of the student chimesmasters posted this about my musical compositions for our 21-bell tower... Not sure if I fully understand it.

KGJ composition starterpack with musical score snippets and various memes

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Forget about "_FINAL2" The new layer-naming convention just dropped:

screenshot of a GIS layer name that includes the phrase "pleaseGOD"

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Thanks to whoever decided to add these notes about when new features were added to #QGIS -- this is amazingly helpful context.

screenshot of the QGIS documentation for the "Concave Hull by Feature" processing tool, showing that the feature was added in version 3.44

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

What the hell happened to academia while I was on vacation???

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

@tomchadwin I dug up this 2011 photo of my build -- look at those primary colors! (Obviously no attempt at historical accuracy here.)

Photo of a Lego build mimicking the cover the original box, which is displayed on a laptop screen in the background. The model includes a farmhouse, barn, tractor, wheelbarrow, and several animals, including minimalist sheep made from as few as 6 bricks.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

This looks like a nice long day hike, right?

Google walking directions showing a 72 mile route (instead of what should be ~13 miles) due to connectivity issues in the trail/road network data.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Curious how this works... If I pay to "reject cookies", how are they going to know that my web browser should be granted access?

news website has an option to reject cookies for one euro

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

@underdarkGIS Great idea! I already use QGIS as a general-purpose tabular data viewer, so why not a PDF viewer as well?

QGIS screenshot showing a PDF of the musical score of Nicolaus Bruhns' "little" Prelude and Fugue in E minor

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

It would be amazing if someone actually has a disk or other copy of these pictures for the #appleII from 1984.

Part of article titled "Picture stimuli for the Apple II computer" by Kenneth A. Prill, University of Missouri, published in 1984 issue of "Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers". The list of 73 available pictures includes anchor, apple, arm, ashtray, axe, balloon, barrel, bed, belt, bird...

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

This 1971 CIA map of "Climatic Analogues" labels China with the names of US states, etc. having similar temperature and rainfall. From p. 53 of www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/PEOPLE…

Terrain map of China, with labels like "Nevada" in the west, "Minnesota" in the northeast, and "Puerto Rico" for the southern island of Hainan.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I guess we have different ideas about what "free" means

Screenshot of the NYT website, saying "You have free access to this story" but then it wants me to provide my e-mail address and log in to read it.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

It looks like someone has been on a mission to map all the barns in Cookeville, Tennessee

OpenStreetMap features tagged as building=barn, showing a very high density in Cookeville, Tennessee but relatively few elsewhere.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

I can only hope that those are cumulative totals for each round

An ad for "Lord of the Fries" fry-eating contest. Round one, 0.5 pounds. Round two, 0.75 pounds. Round three, 1 pound. Round four, 1.5 pounds. Round five, 2 pounds.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

It's amazing to see new work building off code that was last updated 36 years ago. mapstodon.space/@a2_4am@mastodon.so…

Changelog showing a change in 1989, followed by the next change in 2025.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I'm a long-time Apple ][ Plus user, but recently got an Apple //c. What is the M in the register dump? I can't seem to find it documented anywhere. #appleII

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

No, I'm not on Facebook, and don't even consider myself to be a "website designer", but I guess it is nice to be appreciated.

Facebook post saying "We have a lot of gratitude over here at the DCC for our behind-the-scenes website designer, Keith Jenkins. He's not on Facebook, but if you see him, give him a high five! Check out our updated website, ready to get filled with all the upcoming classes, workshops, and events happening at the DCC"

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Big fans of Thomas the Tank Engine, too

Unopened packaging containing train figurines of Thomas, Percy, Henry, et al.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

They also have what I can only describe as a shrine to Cal Ripkin Jr., complete with bobbleheads and over a decade's worth of mini figures, still in the original packaging.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Only because of the upcoming estate sale did I learn that our neighbors down the street were avid collectors of Porky Pig knick-knacks.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

When did people stop understanding how to calculate percentage change???

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

The world is going to hell, but at least I finally got my MDOS disk operating system for the #appleII working*, and it is super fast compared to DOS 3.3 and ProntoDOS! And it only takes up 1411 bytes of memory so far. * working on emulators, I still need to test on original hardware...

Timing statistics reporting that MDOS reads 11x faster than DOS3.3, 2x faster than ProntoDOS, and writes 13x faster than DOS3.3, 4.5x faster than ProntoDOS.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

I came across this political commentary embedded within an otherwise very technical discussion of disk drive timing. From James Sather's "Understanding the Apple II" (1983)

"100 microsecond waiting loop ... is part of the scheme by which the head is positioned while the motor gets up to speed, killing two welfare bills with one Republican."

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

After wasting a lot of time troubleshoot ArcGIS zonal statistics (I should have just told the student to use QGIS instead), I finally figured out that the ArcGIS algorithm doesn't work well with small building-sized zones. In this image, the grey buildings […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Trying to decide which of these 3 datasets is the least worst

Aerial imagery showing three different building datasets in three different colors. None of the buildings line up.

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