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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 03/07/2026

They’re erecting a giant guitar in Vegas

Oh, see the gee-tar of glass and steel rising high
I know there ain’t a fretboard, I don’t know why
It might look like a Gibson but its purpose is already charted
To prove the axiom that a fool and his money are soon to be parted

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 01/07/2026

Just going to ruminate while eating my

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 27/06/2026

The full setup in the Evo arena. Pretty cool seeing it from this side of things rather than on a twitch stream

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 27/06/2026

I’m at Evo for the first time

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 21/06/2026

If you like black and white pictures of dead trees, here’s another one

Well first off it’s black and white so you know that it’s all moody and artsy. But check this out, we’ve got ourselves a chain link fence in the foreground so we’ve got some local character for the composition.

Just beyond that fence is this gnarly old dead tree. What kind of tree is it? Couldn’t tell you, but that thing’s deader than a door nail, which is perfect for providing a moody subject for a photo such as this.

It emerges from some overgrown chaparral scrub, while the Cucamonga and Etiwanda peaks of the San Gabriel’s are parked back there in the background like they always are. Are those their official names? I really don’t know or care, but that’s what I call them so deal with it.

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 20/06/2026

Two laps into the O’Reilly Series Road Course at the Coronado naval base and a utility cover got flipped into the air and took out a car’s radiator.

A couple NASCAR officials stare at a utility cover port in the road. One carries a sledgehammer that hovers menacingly over the wayward cover, perhaps to intimidate, perhaps because it just feels nice to believe that applying percussive maintenance will solve the issue. Spoiler alert: it will not fix the issue. Fire must ultimately be brought to bear to make things right, much as it’s been since the dawn of man.

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 13/06/2026

Thompson Creek Trail, Claremont, California

The Thompson Creek Trail is a narrow asphalt path running parallel to a flood control channel as the hazy peaks of the San Gabriels loom in the far distance. This part of the trail gently curves to the right with a wooden fence and copious scrub on the right hand side of the path

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 07/06/2026

Sealed Mr. Do! for Super Nintendo at the SoCal Gaming Expo. $1,000 to break it out of its plastic coffin and slap it into a dodgy SNES

It’s Mr. Do! A seminal arcade game released for Super Nintendo. This one is encased within a plastic coffin to “preserve” its “value”. Someone graded it as a 9.6, which means something I guess. Video game sophisticates consider this one of the greatest video games of all time, which you’ll never appreciate if you purchase this and throw it on a shelf like a barbarian

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 01/09/2025

I can't emphasize how shocked I am by the radio propagation today. I'm transmitting 17-19 watts *at most* on a magnetic loop antenna inside my house, surrounded by hellacious RFI, and I've made contact with two operators in Japan today on 10M. Just an amazing couple of days of surprises

A world map showing pinkish-red boxes depicting stations that have heard my radio signal over the past couple of hours. The area encompasses the Pacific Rim

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 01/09/2025

I don’t know what’s happened but suddenly the east coast is on fire for me the last couple of days on 10M (I can never make reliable contact with them at night on 20/40M, it’s mostly the Pacific Northwest). Oddly, everywhere west of the Mississippi is quiet. I even made contact with Cuba today

A screenshot from GridTracker showing amateur radio grids overlaying a mao of the United States. There’s a bunch of colored boxes showing from which grid coordinates I’ve heard on my radio

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 03/08/2025

Boats bathed in golden light Taken at Kuhio Beach, Oahu with me phone

The silhouettes of boats are under the golden rays emitted behind clouds. Taken at Kuhio Beach in Hawai’i

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 01/08/2025

Anson Mount looks like someone familiar on this week’s Strange New Worlds, but I can’t quite put my finger on it

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 28/07/2025

This is from 2008. No theming, no building wraps, and lots of frustrated residents because the nerd thing is going on

The San Diego Gaslamp district in July 2008

The metro station at the San Diego Gaslamp and Convention Center in July 2008

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 28/07/2025

I haven’t been to Comic-Con in 15 years and it funny to see how the surrounding area has changed to accommodate the event. The vibe shifted from “oh yeah, that’s going on right now” to “keep out the cars and build giant themed areas” It’s both nicer and kind of weird at the same time

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 22/07/2025

I was digging around looking for something else and found an SD Unicorn Gundam that I completely forgot about, so I put it together. Also, I hate stickers and this little dude is 90% stickers

A black and yellow SD unicorn Gundam festooned with stickers from head to toe

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 18/07/2025

I believe this is a Night Heron, a juvenile perhaps? 📷: Canon Eos Rebel T3i

Close-up of a bird with brown feathers in front of a pond

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 16/07/2025

Amazon's website went live 30 years ago today. I first become aware of them from their ads on C|NET and other sites but didn't order anything from them until 1996. They only sold books and you could pay with a check

My first order from Amazon -- Star Trek The History of the Future and The Return

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 14/07/2025

I reached a post milestone

A screenshot with the number of posts appropriately above my pinned post

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 14/07/2025

I was going through old issues of Wired from the '90s and gotta love that graphic design fad featuring dense, dark collages with duotone photos and multiple-typefaces. It was everywhere for a couple of years, especially in places where they wanted to project an edgy, underground aesthetic

a collage featuring a pastiche of images, typefaces, and subjects

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 06/07/2025

Good ole Dodger Stadium. Always a huge crowd in attendance. Ohtani pitched two great innings but only had one hit batting. One of these days I’ll see him hit a home run

The infield and grandstands of Dodger Stadium as seen from the left field seats

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 06/07/2025

For my final hike before Fall, I went to the top of Potato Mountain (3,399 ft)

A graffiti-covered stone base amidst dirt and scrub. The San Bernardino mountains are in the distance

The graffiti covered concrete base, but in black and white. That makes it look cool. The Santa Ana mountains are in the distance

A bunch of placards and potatoes have been placed atop the concrete slab

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 05/07/2025

Here’s a similar shot of the Las Vegas Strip from about 10 years ago with fireworks going off

Fireworks over the Las Vegas strip. The Luxor is to the left and the MGM Grand is at the right

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 05/07/2025

Back when David Copperfield was the headliner at the MGM Grand

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 05/07/2025

A shot of the Strip from the place I lived in Vegas on July 4th, 2014

The Vegas strip from Paris Las Vegas on the left and bending around to the. Keith to end of the Strip at the Stratosphere

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 03/07/2025

An example of the AI videos I see:

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 03/07/2025

I have a DMR radio whose configuration has been an adventure in itself, but I also made a hotspot from a pi zero + MMDVM hat, and installed pi-star to act as a hotspot/gateway for the radio. After a couple of weeks, I’m hearing and talking to people from around the world on my cheapie radio

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 27/06/2025

I made this Yagi antenna out of PVC and measuring tape to see if I can catch one of the NOAA satellites (if I’m lucky) and possibly download their image data (if I’m extraordinarily lucky). It’s extremely easy to tear down/transport, as well as adjust the tape elements

A Yagi antenna which has a long central PVC tube crossed at three points with strips of measuring tape that act as the receiving elements

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 25/06/2025

On the recent hike it was pretty hazy out and the vegetation is starting to dry out. Nice view of the San Antonio dam.

A vista of a valley extending out to a suburban landscape. Dry, tan vegetation frames the foreground of the picture

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 20/06/2025

This just popped-up in my photo widget: SSB Goku from Wondercon back in 2022

A giant model of Goku as a Super Saiyen Blue. He’s wearing an orange jumpsuit with a black belt and has Blue Spiky Hair indicative of a successful Super Saiyen transformation

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 09/06/2025

Went walking around the Claremont Wilderness trail this weekend and these flowers were in bloom all over the place

A mile marker sits along side a trail with mountains in the background under a blue sky

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 31/05/2025

Got a new desktop wallpaper

a silver and orange unicorn gundam is observed by a uniformed man and his cat in silhouette

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 31/05/2025

I've abandoned all the contemporary notetaking apps and just use vimwiki syncing with Nextcloud for notes at this point. It produces markdown text files that can be edited with any text editor, so it works great for me. It's also extremely fast. Reject GUI, return to Terminal:

a terminal window showing links in a vimwiki

a terminal window showing orange text on a black background

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 30/05/2025

Steve Wozniak was an idol of mine when I was growing up and I’ve made no secret of my admiration of his work throughout the years. So when I was recently gifted this schematic of the Apple I signed by Woz himself, I was jazzed. This is awesome

A schematic of the Apple I, designed by Steve Wozniak and signed by Woz himself

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 29/05/2025

It was cloudy during most of my recent hike on the Claremont Wilderness Trail, so I took pictures of the wildflowers instead. This is the fuel for wildfires once they dry out in the summer

A cluster of yellow flowers from long, green stems. My phone says this is called “sticky monkey-flower”

A cluster of short, stubby white flowers on thick, long, green stems. The phone says this is called “California Cudweed”

A thick, green sagebrush-looking bush with voluminous weeds all around. A mountain looms in the distance

Large clusters of short, stubby, white flowers on long, green stems. The phone says it’s called “California Cudweed”

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 28/05/2025

After a lot of troubleshooting, the old 3D printer just would not operate again, so in a rare instance of thinking, “thank god I got the extended warranty” I turned it in for credit and got a Bambu A1 to replace it. It’s pretty spiffy

A 3D printer with a gold colored printing plate. Requisite inaugural Benchy printout sits completed upon the plate

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 23/05/2025

Some pics of the battleship Missouri with the Canon Powershot A560

The gray bow and port side of the USS Missouri. The ship number is 63 and the 16" guns can be seen, as well as the bridge and antenna towers.

The 16" guns of the USS Missouri from turrets one and two. The three guns from the turrets extend upward at a 30 degree angle. The bridge and antennas are aligned with the guns in the background.

The bow of the USS Missouri seen from the deck. The deck itself is composed of thin wood planks, kind of like what you'd see at the bowling alley, but faded to a light gray color. Cylindrical vents extend up from the deck and a large antenna is toward the front of the bow

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 20/05/2025

Looks like I forgot to include the picture of the actual Arizona Memorial itself. This was also taken by the Canon PowerShot A560 from the pier that the USS Missouri is moored

The USS Arizona Memorial, as seen from the USS Missouri pier.

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 19/05/2025

I've begun taking my old Canon PowerShot A560 with me to take pics, mostly because I've always liked the pictures it took in all their 7 megapixel glory. I'm going to post batches of Hawaii pics I took with it this morning (I've only cropped these, no other editing done) #canon #powershot

Sea, sky, and land meet abruptly. An an ancient lava flow, now gray with obvious layer deposits dominates the foreground, leading back to a hill with vegetation that suddenly stops at a deep blue ocean under a light blue sky

Sea spray and foam crash upward as waves strike the base of a rocky outcrop

Sea foam green is a real color as seen here in the aftermath of the ocean violently meeting ancient volcanic rock rising from the ocean. Two intrepid explorers observe Poseidon's eternal battle against terra firma

time-worn rocks thrust upwards at a striking 30 degree angle in front of a blue ocean. A shock of green in the lower left corner provides evidence of life in an otherwise austere landscape

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 18/05/2025

Halona Beach Cove, Oahu

A dark, rocky outcrop juts out into the sea, with white foamy water crashing upon the bottom of the outcrop. The rocky hill rises above an aqua-marine lagoon and a small beach

A dark, rocky outcrop juts out into the sea. Waves crash upon the rocks, forming white foamy water swirling about its base.

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Pauliegon @paulie.cool · 18/05/2025

Halona Beach Cove looking toward Sandy Beach - Oahu Hawai’i

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