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sailorbp

@sailorbp.bsky.social

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Semiconductor engineer in the PNW via SF Bay and from VA. avatar photo: Stork Billed Kingfisher perched on a branch, orange beak, yellow body and head, blue wings. banner photo: Dusk on the Kinabatangan river, with Jupiter and Venus

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sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe throw in some Fritz Leiber?

Cover image of Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber, the face of a woman surrounded by brightly colored abstract images

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

On the left a skeet by AltTaxPro about “Lindor Ass White Chocolate Truffle” (sic), on the right a bag of Lindor Assorted Truffles

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Thanks, found a beloved friend of my parents

AIDS quilt panel with the name Arnold Buckendorf in gold letters against a bright red background with cards labelled Family Work Church Friends

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Marvin the Robot from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In expiation I do not have a picture of the statue of Toussaint L’overture from the NMAAH, but I do have a picture of Rumors of War…

Large bronze statue Rumors of War by Kehinde Wiley at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: a young black man in modern street clothes with braided hair rides on a prancing horse, looking back of his shoulder

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I took my sons to the Tulip Festival in Woodburn Or yesterday!

A field with rows of orange, pink, red and white tulip flowers, with trees and buildings in the background

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Here is a Paradise Flycatcher posing for us in the Deramakot forest on Borneo...

White bird perched on a twig with a long forked white tail, shiny black head with beak open showing a green mouth interior... incredibly cute!

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sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Apple Maps still has the old name…

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Aldo Nadi, 1920 Olympic champion in 3 team weapons and winner of a real duel.
By Agence de presse Meurisse - Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19309268

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

@worstjourney.bsky.social got a package today!

Cover photo of The Worst Journey in the World volume 1, the graphic novel of Cherry-Garrard’s book of the same name

Book opened to a 2 page image of a sailing ship entering an open lane in a huge ice field, also used on the cover

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Found the pictures I took… “Annabelles Butterfly Dance”

Poster of a dancer with both blue and red images showing her in different positions… blue with arms up, red with arms down

Poster illuminated with blue-green light showing her arms up

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The first non-timeshare computer I worked on was a pdp-11, but the Atari ST was the first I owned

Atari ST microcomputer: Grey computer monitor with a green and white display, behind a grey combined keyboard + processor and mouse

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Interesting, on Apple the social media ranking does not even show X…

Apple app store ranking of social media apps listing in order of Threads, Bluesky, WhatsApp, Facebook without X on the listing

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

But sometimes there is this going on outside:

A wide green band of aurora with a wing tip silhouetted in front of it

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sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Took this out the window of my flight the other night

Green streaks of aurora with the wing tip of an airliner

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sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Abbbott covid test with positive result dated 9/18

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

I never petted her but we had a kitchen spider in the window over our sink for long time…

Golden Orb Weaver spider in kitchen window

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Doonesbury's Mark Slackmeyer yelling "That's Guilty! Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!"

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sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Trudeau has the perfect image for this day:

Doonesbury's Mark Slackmeyer sitting at his radio booth desk shouting "THAT'S GUILTY! GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!"

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

We had a giant Gooney statue on Midway, sadly it rotted away from termites

Statue of Laysan Albatross standing with its beak in the air, about 8 feet tall?

sailorbp @sailorbp.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

This queen was in our kitchen window for 6 months, she helped with the fruit flies we get here in the summer

Orb weaver spider