Christopher Mark Rose

@chrisrose.bsky.social

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Spec fiction writer, engineer, owl. Stories in Asimov's, F&SF, Interzone. Avionics in NASA spacecraft. #ViableParadise #SFF #VP23 #SFWA #Codexian #SciFi #CharmCitySpec #writingcommunity BLM 🇺🇦

A 2024 Kia EV6, in a color called 'yacht blue'. Capable of going 270 miles on a charge, of charging 10 to 80% in 17 minutes flat, and doing 0 to 60 in (so I hear) 4.4 seconds.
Screenshot of a 'culture' piece in WIRED, entitled A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art. /eye roll emoji/
Album art for WENDY CARLOS BEAUTY IN THE BEAST, depicting longAlegged white birds fishing i no a stream, framed by the padding of an early microchip.
Album cover for Wendy Carlos' first album, Switched-On Bach. Prominent on the cover is an image of an early Moog synthesizer.
Mr. Boddy, dead on the floor of his mansion, surrounded by suspects in a still from the 1985 film Clue.
Photo of the end of a garden hose, with cool, clear water pouring out. Fresh, drinkable water is one common good among many our government provides.
Photo of the Statue of Liberty taken from low on the island on a cloudy day.
The Rushford Concert Band, playing from a bunting-festooned gazebo in front of town hall, Rushford, New York. I played trumpet during high school and whenever I could get back. That band is 165 years old this year.
Two rabbits on the run through our side yard after receiving a bork—
Quote from a 6/30/26 Washington Post story entitled"Trump begins construction of unannounced White House helipad": "The new helipad, which the White House has yet to announce, is intended to address a long-running problem: The new generation of Marine One helicopters runs the risk of burning the lawn. The VH-92A Patriot, manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft, have exhaust vents that aim heat down, making grass-scorching likely."
Two fawns, still in their spots, stand next to one another in tall grasses and stare at the photographer.
Screenshot from an item in the opinion section of today's Nee York Times: "INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT (AUDIO) Is It Time for a New Sexual Revolution? 58 MIN LISTEN"
A screenshot of a Facebook item inviting me to add as a friend the beloved educator and studio potter John Neely, who unfortunately passed away in June of last year.
The top exterior surface of Chris's laptop showing stickers from NASA missions like DART, Parker Solar Probe, IMAP; a sticker that says "BOOKS. BALTIMORE. COMMUNITY." from the Ivy Bookshop; a 'Beyond encryption' sticker from Viasat; Balticon; Lehigh University; the monsters from the recent Chesapeake Shakespeare production of The Tempest; City of Angels Pipe Band, the Ace of Wanda from the tarot, and etc.
Green plastic, faux-verdigris bird bath with a nickel, a quarter, and a penny in it. Water looks pretty clear!
Two large bowls of gooseberries (I think) and one smaller one of dark purple currants.
Video from the birdfeeder near our house. A male cardinal shells sunflower seeds with his beak, sharing some of the results with either a female or immature cardinal (hard to tell in the light)
Willow the dog, lying on her back on the living room carpet, waiting for someone to give her belly scritches—
A driveway in front of a suburban home. One half of the driveway is taken up by a bright blue dumpster (empty) with no phone number or identifying information on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My scuffed up but still functional iPod, 160Gb, model A1238
Actor Stanley Tucci looking dapper.
a turtle that my son took this picture of yesterday, while on a walk.
A hole in the process of being dug.
Promo graphic for Charm City Spec. A black crow and a white dragonette vie for control of a golden polyhedron. Text says "6pm July 11th, The Ivy, 5928 Falls Road, All are welcome" and lists readers for the event: Jo Miles, Ray Nayler, Nicole M. Wolverton, JB Aris, and Andrew Farkas.
A quite evidently blue automobile, reflecting the green grass and trees that surround it.
Sale Sterling Silver Jumping Hare Studs (earrings, just to be clear)
Map from Wikipedia entitled "Expansion of Five Nations Territory during the Beaver Wars"
Image of the Banana Splits back in their prime, when they could fill whole stadiums just by themselves!
Infographic of electrical resistor codes, but the scaling factor (4th color stripe) is off by two orders of magnitude. Typically a resistor has three, four, or five stripes of various colors that, when decoded, will indicate the resistance value and precision.
top EXCLUSIVE (clipped from the Washington Post) "Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. "The buck stopped here," she wrote in her goodbye email. Red arrow points to a mysterious glyph on the lapel of the President's likeness.
"You are to detest these birds. They must not be eaten because they are detestable." (LEVITICUS 11: 13-17)
WHEN WE WERE REAL, by Daryl Gregory
A Subaru Legacy that was struck by another vehicle while parked on the street.
Vlasic Kosher Dill Spears
THR TEMPEST BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | DIRECTED BY IAN GALLANAR (put on by the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company) graphic shows a wary sorcerer giving a side-eye to the reader, and more distantly, a vessel with tall sails being tossed on a stormy sea.
Front page of a menu of Earl's 'Real Food Family Reataurant' and Country Music Museum, where I worked a stint the summer before I started college in 1985. Earl Northrup and his wife Marilyn are pictured standing at a cash register. Mrs. Earl once told me "We love your guts," in front of my sister, and that expression has become a family saying.
Photo of Jeffrey Ford's amazing new collection PANDEMONIUM WALTZ on the seat of my commute vehicle.
casually-drawn sketch of a hapless-looking young man working at an ice cream stand. The list of flavors behind him includes coconut shard, yukon gold, bodegaberry, mothball medley, bitcoin, health queen, hardtack, amnesia, xenon, violet permeation, kasha cheesecake, tsunami, tumbleweed, gowanus surprise, concoction, microchip mint, consolation prize, placebo, quark party, etc.
Photo of a trade paperback, the novel entitled KREE, a Post-Exotic Novel. It's authored by Manuela Draeger and translated by Lia Swope Mitchell.
A screen grab of a portion of the purported Epstein suicide note, showing a scrawled sentence: "They investigated me for months—FOUND NOTHING!!" Somehow the syntax strikes me as weirdly familiar.
A used-looking gray rectangular carpet.
Kind of trippy abstract image, clusters of orange circles on a darker red background.
Little purple flowers growing on an island in the parking lot
Photo of tulips, blooming a delicate pink color, on our kitchen table.
someone's hand pointing enthusiastically at a big engine that COULD BE YOURS!!
Megan McArdle, in the Washington Post, asking the completely disingenuous and farcical question "Is the Supreme Court as political as Americans think?" So glad I cancelled my subscription when I did.
Headline copy from Slashdot: "China's CATL Reveals 621-Mile EV Battery, Under-7-Minute Charging"
The last lines from the first book of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. The bit I highlighted reads "Let go of the desire for more books and die content, thankful to the gods."
A red male cardinal mugs for the birdfeeder's camera while gorging itself on seed, only to be chased away by a red winged blackbird.
Father and son team, having recently finished building a birdhouse for a school science project.
Casserole filled with pollock, tomato pieces, capers, raisins, lemons, and other mysterious ingredients.
Two flying saucers descend to a woodland field. A human stand nearby, seemingly unafraid. The text says " WHEN WE SAY EVERYONE IS WELCOME, WE MEAN EVERYONE." Charm City Spec logo in the corner.