ah man, we just missed each other. I moved to France almost a year ago. lemme know if you're back in europe sometime!
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=transporter11 Friday August 16th: 18:20 UTC / 11:20 PDT / 14:20 EDT / 20:20 CEST
is this where I put the news that I'm the commissioning lead for our next satellite to launch? transporter-11, be there or be square
I'm just going to leave this here. I don't know that we need to build a wall around the town square.
we're flying aboard SpaceX Transporter 10 from Vandenburg SFB in California.
launching a satellite next week. as flight director.
gregory also has a lifetime warranty. i've lived a cumulative few weeks out of their Border 30 and Border 18 bags, with no complaints (ok onetime i got caught in a massive downpour and umbrella priorities went to a girl i was with and not my bag and my computer took one for the team, but that's on me) never had a backpacking bag from them though. i have a newer rei trail 40 and it's fine but i'm a pretty casual backpacker. last trip was a 1 nighter in Point Reyes and it was great. also only worth it if you find it on sale. the older version was better and i regret returning it.
keys to my own apartment. in france. (i'm renting) (there's a terrace)
stay tuned. i may have a update soon also this totally says September 23 jobski jobski from the future
jobski
i am moving to France for work (same company) and a new adventure/chapter of life in early september. don’t hesitate to reach out if you’ll be in the Toulouse area! also had lunch with c_hawkthorne !
it was fun meeting c_hawkthorne in person!
that is my new favorite thing said about the carillon haha, thanks for listening!
delighted!
this recording is using the hardware already hooked up at this tower— I think they’re big PZM microphones? but I did take your advice and tested my mobile setup here and got some really decent results from that as well, so thanks! glad you enjoyed
My neck of the woods may have changed by the end of this year, perhaps, to some place with lots of wine and cheese. But that's still TBD. Keep me posted!
hey dude, sounds like you had a great time. wishing you well.
I had a great series of exchanges with an air traffic controller recently when I was giving my friend an air tour of the Bay Area. I was flying a Citabria--tailwheel airplane that's less common (and more fun ;) ) than your typical Cessna. Dude must have been excited to hear one on frequency on one of the first nice flying days in a while (torrential rains in California recently). He called me a "Citaaaaaahhbria" every single time he had a traffic alert for me. I responded in kind. It was a nice bit of levity in the sky. https://archive.liveatc.net/koak/KSFO-KOAK-Dep-Apr-09-2023-0000Z.mp3 (20:32)
I'm at SpaceOps 2023 in Dubai, where I just gave two presentations (my colleague couldn't make it so I presented his paper as well since I was a coauthor). The most amazing thing is that as I was wandering around the conference afterwards, meeting people, I'd go to introduce myself and they'd tell me they'd attended one of the two presentations and wanted to talk about it. Super crazy feeling.
here's a representative sample: In my case, a satellite mission patch (image / physical embroidered patch / stickers / etc), representing a particular satellite mission that I've worked on / flown.
I knock on wood. and I don't pin a mission patch on anything until after first contact.
Egg prices increased 8.5% in January from a month earlier and are up 70.1% over the past year, the highest annual rate since 1973. The deadliest avian-influenza outbreak on record has devastated poultry flocks across the U.S., leading the price of eggs to rise more than any other grocery item in 2022, according to Information Resources Inc. U.S. egg inventories were 29% lower in the final week of December 2022 than at the beginning of 2022, according to the USDA. Frozen, noncarbonated juices and drinks—a category that includes frozen orange juice—rose by 1.5% in January from a month earlier, and the 12.4% annual increase is the highest in over a decade. Florida orange growers are harvesting their smallest crop in nearly 90 years, the result of a freeze, two hurricanes and a citrus disease that is laying waste to its groves. Breakfast cereal increased more modestly in January from a month earlier—just 0.4%—but prices in the category were up 15% over a year, in part because of elevated global grain prices resulting from disruptions related to the war in Ukraine. Breakfast lovers might be better off just having a cup of coffee—but go with roasted, not instant. Prices for roasted coffee declined by 0.1% last month, but instant coffee rose by a 3.6% monthly increase for instant coffee. Several breakfast staples saw sharp price increases due to a perfect storm of bad weather and disease outbreaks—and continued effects from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
a piano tuner tuning 25 pianos a year? LOL
Side question, will the loudness wars ever end? Side side note, an ex was genuinely amazed at the sound a piano actually makes hearing me play on a grand piano--sympathetic resonance and all that. It's such a shame that so many people these days know nothing but shit audio fidelity and shitty compression--why?? Has technology truly regressed (not even talking vinyl--let's say the shift from CD to iTunes to Spotify) or are people just drawn to the least expensive thing and that's the driving factor? And yeah I have Tidal but look at the subscriber comparisons between them and Spotify... there's a noteworthy lack of... dynamic range that classical really needs.
a Belgian bank account might be a good idea
nor on that one!
hey cool, there was no 502!
how is it already tuesday?
except literally this comment's parent comment, for some reason. right now i'm posting from a plane if that changes anything (massive ping)