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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 26/09/2026

Me: <shook AND annoyed>: WHAT THE F*** is WRONG with you? Child <gleefully>: I don't know, but you raised me. There's a lesson in this somewhere. But I don't know what it is. Yet.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 26/09/2026

It's 10:30pm, the house is dead quiet, and I'm editing photos at the dining room table. My 19yo grown-ass adult child strolls nonchalantly into the kitchen and lets loose an absolutely EARTH-shaking belch. I swear to God the windows rattled...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/09/2026

...while simultaneously doing everything I can to convince my own squad that no, they can't just go try to blow up the Death Star all by themselves, no matter HOW many womp rats they use to bullseye in their T-16s back home.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/09/2026

Squad leader trying desperately to convince rebel leadership that this thermal exhaust port right below the main port leads directly to the reactor system...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/09/2026

...personally responsible for at least one teacher quitting.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/09/2026

Hard same. Speaking from first-hand experience I would bet this is probably a lot more impactful on Jane than her kiddo. It wasn't until my senior year that my ADHD caused any problems for ME, although in hindsight I am 100% certain it drove my poor parents up the wall, and I suspect I may be...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/09/2026

No clue, but if either of my parents were still alive, I would first suggest that you ask them, and then I would text them and apologize (again).

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/09/2026

...then when another one escaped in 2007, the news talked about the 1991 escape and I will admit I was more than a little surprised to learn it wasn't just my buddies trying to prank me. I certainly ran into plenty of skunks and racoons out there, but no chimpanzees, real or imagined.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/09/2026

I heard rumor of something similar regarding a cow and a sabot round on either Crittenberger or Lonestar range in 1991. I figured it was just another rumor. To be fair I I totally thought the stories about an escaped chimpanzee running loose at Camp Swift was BS back then too, but...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/09/2026

I suspect my wife and kids would tell you this is reason #1,274 why having a photographer in the family is annoying.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/09/2026

Well, it's that time of year here in the Pacific Northwest, where my desperate attempts to cram in a few more golden hour outings before the days get too short practically guarantees that dinner is either late or cold every night. #photography #pnw #fall #goldenhour

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 13/09/2026

Husky Stadium, shot from the Burke-Gilman trail ramp at dusk, Thursday September 10. #uw #huskies #universityofwashington #gohuskies #udub #pnw #fall #dusk #fall

Husky Stadium at dusk, with a dark blue sky and the lights creating a beam effect through light fog.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/09/2026

Same here. And not too long after our second kid got her license, my wife and I both had a couple too many drinks on date night and called kiddo 2 to come pick US up. In hindsight, it occured to us that we should have done that on purpose to show them we were dead serious.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/09/2026

In any case, I concur with Shanna Banana: outstanding shot.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/09/2026

I am not sure where those pilings are, but I take a ton of photos down at the Edmonds (WA, USA) waterfront. I feel like the great light and prolific interesting subject matter here are like some kind of photography cheat code or something.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 11/09/2026

Bit of an ominous-looking cloud rolls into Seattle just after sunset, taken from the UW ramp on the Burke-Gilman trail near Husky Stadium, just before 8pm Thursday September 10. #wawx #clouds #uw #photography #ominous #fall #sunset

A dark cloud on the left takes up about half of the frame, with the mostly clear sky sunset still relatively well-lit on the right. The photo was taken facing the west. Streetlights line the concrete ramp to the Burke-Gilman trail that curves a bit to the left as it crosses the street below (street below is not visable).

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 09/09/2026

The wildly differing outcomes are all plausible, and humans generally don't do well with uncertainty. I am the self-proclaimed WORLD CHAMPION of tolerating uncertainty, and even I won't deny having an anxious moment or three lately.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/09/2026

I also grew up north of Houston a few years after the film's setting, so I have some nostalgia for it. And if you want to go the OTHER direction, apparently Dark Sky has my cousin working on a rotoscoped version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/09/2026

My cousin was head of animation for that film. If you want something to take your mind OFF of the Flock cameras, Apollo 10 1/2 has a lighter vibe and similar animation style, and was also written and directed by Richard Linklater.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 25/08/2026

I bought a Nikon Z50 under similar circumstances. Chose Nikon just because 20+ years prior I shot with a Nikon SLR. I am so happy with the APS-C form factor that I no longer expect to "upgrade" to full frame. I DO wish this Z50 had IBIS, though. The XT-5 looks sweet. Welcome back to the hobby.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/08/2026

And sometimes conviction is enough.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/08/2026

But if you KNOW you're pretending, it's probably because you already know the customers, the next funding round, or whatever outcome you need to get back to engineering vs. vibing just isn't coming and you've already given up. If you're intending, expecting, or hoping: you've still got conviction!

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/08/2026

I'm 90% sure Claude Code with Opus 5 would tell me "PRETEND" is "load-bearing" in this claim -- and to be fair, just replacing "PRETEND" with "expect", "intend" or even "hope" changes the calculus on that "ngmi" outcome considerably, in my experience.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/08/2026

If you look at what it did and go "aw shhheee... why u do me like dis", deploy it to production and PRETEND like you're going to get it fixed but know very well you're not, also likely at a small growing startup, but maybe getting a little desperate, and maybe ngmi.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/08/2026

If you look at what it did and go "aw shhheee... why u do me like dis", deploy it to production and THEN get it fixed...also Software Engineering (likely at a small fast growing startup)...and...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 21/08/2026

Time lapse of the pyrocumulus cloud from the Little Giant fire in Washington state, taken from just north of the Kingston ferry terminal Thursday, August 20, 2026. #pyrocumulus #wildfire #littlegiant #wawx #watchduty #mountpilchuck #pugetsound #photography #pugetsound #washington #fire #kingston

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 20/08/2026

I'm not sure if the funniest part was that it was 1990 and yet the only cartridge we had was Zelda II, or the fact that we were so loopy from no sleep that when we fell in for return formation our squad leader was worried we were drunk.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 20/08/2026

In AIT, we had a four day weekend. Three of us didn't have anywhere to go. We technically weren't allowed TVs or video games, but one battle buddy got a TV and another an NES and we played four days straight with almost no sleep. They boxed them up and shipped them home before return formation.

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Jim Hammerand @jimhammerand.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Venus showed up for tonight’s Edmonds moonset #wawx

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 16/08/2026

The M/V Puyallup departs the Edmonds ferry dock under Venus and the crescent moon after sunset on Saturday August 15, 2026. #edmonds #ferry #pugetsound #moon #venus #puyallup

A Washington State Ferry, The M/V Puyallup, at the Edmonds ferry dock, with Venus, the crescent moon, the Olympic mountains, and clouds with a pink and blue sunset in the background. A handful of people milling about on the jetty at Brackett's Landing North are silhouetted against the ferry's lights reflected in the water of Puget Sound.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 15/08/2026

Me, last night after sunset: "I sure do love to stay out and watch the Perseids every year, but I'm going to bed. Not going to see any meteors through all this smoke." The Perseids: www.kiro7.com/news/local/d... #meteor #meteors #fireball #perseids #smoke #wawx

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Did you see it? Fireball lights up the sky over WA

If you happened to be awake and looking at the sky around 12:50 this morning—you got one heck of a show!

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/08/2026

The coral snake story, and the article about his WW II service barely scratches the surface. He was shot down MORE THAN ONCE. When he was like 90 he was arrested for trying to stop the demolition of a building. The stories go on and on and on. They really do NOT make them like this guy anymore.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/08/2026

There used to be a photo of the (clearly dead, a shovel was involved...) coral snake posted in the physics department with the caption "Coral snake bit Gruebel. Guess who died?"

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/08/2026

This thread reminded me of one of my physics professors, Dr. Gruebel, who was essentially invincible. www.dailysentinel.com/life_and_ent... He got bitten by a coral snake while working at the SFASU observatory one afternoon. For him it was NO BIG DEAL.

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Professor saw action at famous battles of WWII

Grade school in Wisconsin was a dreary place to be in 1941.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/08/2026

I only know of one friend (and separately, one of my college professors) who actually got a venomous bite, and neither from cottonmouths. Pretty much everyone else I grew up with has a handful of close call stories...although none quite as good as this kid's 😂.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/08/2026

Fair point, but speaking as someone who grew up in Davy Crockett National Forest and as a child found way more cottonmouths in unexpected places* than I can count on all my fingers and toes, this may still qualify as one of the nonstop horrors. *thankfully, never inside my headgear

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 05/08/2026

I mean, I know he does it for the lolz, but I definitely remember the feeling of being simultaneously drunk enough and hungry enough to have done this all entirely unironically at least a couple of times in college.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 05/08/2026

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 05/08/2026

I feel like "Can't watch the abandoned out of control rocket crash into the moon because of all this wildfire smoke" should definitely be one of the higher levels on the qualitative dystopian scale.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 29/07/2026

I did some analysis on this a decade ago for a remote sensing project I was working on and my mind is STILL boggled at the thought that ~1kW/m2 of incident solar radiation is entirely reasonable. That's basically like having a layer of microwave ovens spaced a meter apart from each other.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 29/07/2026

American cold war nuclear weapon mishaps. In other news, I have only been asked to host my company's Friday all-hands trivia exactly once.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 28/07/2026

I think the best part of this whole thread is that I've read at least 50 of these so far and I haven't yet come across a single "Huh? What are you talking about?"

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 28/07/2026

Same. When my oldest graduated High School, she got a ton of awards for a firefighting academy co-op. At the ceremony, one of the other parents congratulated ME, and I was like dude that's HER -- about the only thing I can take credit for is occasionally giving her gas money so she could GET here.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 28/07/2026

Sure, behavior modification is like psych (and parenting) 101, but once my kids figured out they actually had some agency, it went from psych 101 to something akin to a post-doc, real quick.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 28/07/2026

This is a little abstract and I don't have time to list ALL of my specific answers anyway, so I will go with this: Nothing has ever made me doubt my own ability more than trying to get my kids to do stuff they just didn't want to do.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 28/07/2026

I was already starting to understand that when our second kid was born. Then it was just blatantly obvious. Totally distinct personality from her big sister, even in the womb.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 22/07/2026

Just another stunning Edmonds waterfront sunset. This place is a cheat code for beauty, and especially with the cool breeze tonight, it was another all-around spectacular summer evening. We are lucky to be alive; we are lucky to be here, now. #edmonds #marina #dock #sunset #boats #photography

Sailboats in their slips at the Edmonds Marina dock just after sunset, with a deep orange glowing sky near the horizon, transitioning to blue. The Olympic Mountain range is in the background, across Puget Sound. There are a few distant wispy clouds out over the Olympics.

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