John Morris

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lapsed electrical engineer; still not enough paid music gigs to quit the day job; builder of rule engines and tools to help people get jobs. he/him

The bottom of a concrete house foundation with a plastic sewer pipe sticking out from under the foundation edge and failing to connect to the matching city sewer pipe. They miss by several inches. It’s possible they were properly connected before the house leveling last week, but I don’t know for sure, and it doesn’t really matter. It’s also possible this is the only problem with the pipes under the house, but I won’t bet on it.
An electric utility guy holds a freakishly long collapsible insulated pole up to the power line fuse, preparing to disconnect power.
Three guys are partly visible from their backs as the work on leveling a house foundation. Each guy is in a separate hole, working a jack that’s lifting the house. There’s lots of coordinated team work to keep from lifting unevenly.
a small residential side yard, with one wall of a house on the left, a fence with tall crepe myrtle trees to the right, and an enormous pile of dirt in the middle covered with a plastic drop cloth. There are some pieces of plywood covering up holes in the ground dug to reach the house’s concrete slab.
A plastic toy record player with a tiny collection of toy records
an update card for macOS Tahoe 26.4. The description says, "this update introduces 8 new emoji, along with other features, but fixes, and security updates for your Mac."
A bookshelf with some old medical textbooks
Picture of a small black plastic box camera, shown by itself and also in a couple of configurations with attached flash
A big reddish decorative bow with a gift tag attached. The tag says it’s from Pippin.
The top of a five gallon diesel fuel tank in a tiny Ford tractor. The cap is lying next to the filler hole. You cannot peer into the hole and judge the fuel level.
front cover of an “official giant collectors’ edition” of a TRON promo magazine from 1982. There’s a dramatic futuristic picture from the movie on most of the cover, and a footnote promising a “full color poster inside.”
front cover of an “official giant collectors’ edition” of a TRON promo magazine from 1982. There’s a dramatic futuristic picture from the movie on most of the cover, and a footnote promising a “full color poster inside.”
front cover of an “official giant collectors’ edition” of a TRON promo magazine from 1982. There’s a dramatic futuristic picture from the movie on most of the cover, and a footnote promising a “full color poster inside.”
A Hitachi 1” helical scan videotape recorder from the late 1970s. It’s a compact portable device with the two tape reels stacked one above the other, with the same spindle axis, to save space.
A little old Ford diesel tractor with an also little box shredder is parked in some freshly mown grass. There’s a wire fence behind it. You can’t tell from the picture, but one of the lift arms has sheared off at a ball joint, so there’ll be no more mowing for a while.
A guy is standing in the shadow next to a tree, playing a tuba. A little white horse is raptly listing from a dozen feet away. She had come over from another part of the pasture when he started playing, as she usually did when there was tuba playing. There are a couple of big red plastic bells attached to the gate she’s standing next to, so she looks extra festive, and it must have been Christmas time, even though the live oaks have their leaves and the grass is green. She was a sweet horse, and we’ll miss her.
diagram of the 16 pins and their signal names on an Intel 4004 microprocessor. Pins 1-4 are data bus, 16-13 and 11 are memory address and control, two phase clock is on 6 and 7, 8 is sync output, 9 and 10 are reset and test inputs, and power is 15V across pins 5 and 12.
diagram of the 16 pins and their signal names on an Intel 4004 microprocessor. Pins 1-4 are data bus, 16-13 and 11 are memory address and control, two phase clock is on 6 and 7, 8 is sync output, 9 and 10 are reset and test inputs, and power is 15V across pins 5 and 12.
A black and white tuxedo cat named Potter sits up straight on a desk, tightly between a beige keyboard and a bright ladybug mouse.
Weasley, an orange and white cat, is asleep in a people bed. His head Is on the pillow, covers are pulled over most of the rest of him, with one front leg draped over the edge of the comforter. He’s posed like the kitten on the Chessie System emblem.
Black and white picture of a young woman with her head fallen down on a tabletop with some poster project in progress. She stopped working because a small orange cat is on the table, too, helping too much.
a student loan summary card that shows a green check mark over the words, "Your loan balance is $0"
Top cover of a Millennium Falcon plastic model box, showing a picture of a completed and carefully painted model it also says the model is over 18 inches long.
Picture of a front yard with yellow leaves covering the yard, driveway, and sidewalk leading to the front door.
Henry the one eyed tuxedo cat beats up a leather belt that has been menacing him on the bed
A white guy with glasses and a big white bandage on the left side of his nose is in a hospital gown and hospital bed withs couple tubes going down the collar of the gown. He’s grinning lightly at the camera, a mix of tired, worried, and pleased that it could have been worse.
A silhouette of a cat gently knocking a GOP elephant symbol off the edge of a table, captioned with “November 5, 2024; the revenge of the cat ladies’ cats”.
A 5.25” floppy diskette on a wood desk with a label that says “10-19-85 APPLEWORKS PROGRAM DISK”, and also “BAD” in a different color ink
Henry the black and white cat took over my work from home desk chair. Here, he’s curled up in the chair next to a desk. Eventually I let him keep it and got another for me. Now Henry is usually in his chair next to me for about half the work day.
Henry the black and white cat sits up on a bed feeling tricked by whoever put the plastic cone around his head. He gazes accusingly with his remaining eye and shows off his shaved wrist.
Ginny the self satisfied orange tabby cat looks straight at the camera as she sits on a nest of warm bright Christmas lights
Flash, and orange and white tabby with a plaid bow tie sits like a polite loaf peeking out from under a Victrola cabinet. He might be waiting for a storm to pass, but he’s usually politely under a bed when there’s a storm.
Ginny the pale orange kitty liked to help with practice, so she’s perched on a sofa arm looking at the camera waiting for someone to pick up the tuba standing on the floor behind her.
A picture of engraving on the bell of a 1929 Holton baritone horn that only partly succeeds at capturing the beauty of the design
A satin silver baritone horn is propped up against a plastic picnic bench
flyer for the Austin Brass Band fall concert, October 16, 2023, 7pm, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 14311 Wells Port Dr, Austin, TX.
Ginny the orange kitty is draped over some guy’s shoulders. She’s paying no attention to the photographer.
A small diesel tractor sits on a concrete pad in the shade with a box shredder, ready to get to work if someone would just close it’s good.
Tuxedo cat Henry helps untangle some multimeter leads
Inside the tubing of a rotary valve tuba, three rotors have metal caps with engraved floral designs