Dan Moore

@danm628.bsky.social

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Retired principal engineer. Who is quite willing to bore you with how communication systems work. And old computer history, at least the parts I was involved in. Here to read what some of my favorite authors write.

Picture of a Hummingbird. Bright red neck. Wings flapping very rapidly. Perched on the top of a small branch. I took three shots of this Hummingbird. This is the second. First shows no flapping. I moved forward a few inches. This picture. Third picture is the branch. No bird. All using my 11 shot per second DSLR. I was using a long lens on a DSLR and was roughly 20 feet away. And in a very short distance I went from ignore to fly away.
Clark’s Nutcracker. A grey body with dark, almost black wings.
An AT&T 630 graphic serial terminal. Orange monochrome display. Large half sphere mouse. Two serial ports. Landscape mode, so taller than wide.
Map of the continental US showing timezone boundaries. Which often follow state borders instead of the ideal locations.
A picture of Frieren from the anime Frieren: Beyond Journey's End She is an elf with white hair wearing a mostly white outfit with gold trim. Wearing black leggings and brown boots. And holding her staff in front of her. Looking at you like you are a small bug about to be converted into bug goo.
Picture of a hummingbird on a tiny branch.
Black and white photo of Grace Whitney who played Yeoman Janice Rand in the original Star Trek series.
A Great Blue Heron in flight. In the background you can see water, the Columbia River.
Cover art from Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here. Two men in suits are shaking hands. The man on the right is on fire.
Map of the US showing the areas within 100 miles of the border. This is most of the largest cities in the US and all of the states of Hawaii and Florida. A note on the map says that 2 out of 3 people live inside the 100 mile border zone.
Picture of the Fremont Troll in Seattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Troll
Old B/W photograph, taken in 1913, of a two year old girl standing on a chair in a photo studio.
Osprey flying towards the camera. There is a fish in its claws and a piece of seaweed trailing behind.
A Bald Eagle and an Osprey. The eagle is turning upwards with the Osprey in front of it. The Osprey had just dived on the eagle while chasing it away.
Great blue heron. Wings are folded but lifting up. Walking along the shore of the Columbia River. There is a large tree stump just in front of the heron.
A 1980s large Ford Bronco on a plowed road. To the side is a snow bank over twice the height of the Bronco. Taken in June 1995 in Rocky Mountain National Park.
A fight scene from The Quiet Man. John Wayne is hit and falls down. (Start of a long fight scene in the movie.)
Three water fowl on a log. A duck, duck, and a goose.
Image from an unknown source, so I can’t credit them. R2D2 facing two R5 droids in an ice tunnel on Hoth. This is a play on the twin girls scene from Kubrick’s The Shining.
A black and white photo of a teenage girl. The photo has been hand tinted so she rosy cheeks and red lips.
Picture of an Embraer small passenger jet. At different times Intel flew 135 and 145 models. Apparently they are moving to the 175 now.
Miles O’Brian from Star Trek. Looking stern or concerned.
Longs Peak. Taken in Rocky Mountain National Park looking south towards the peak. A snow covered mountain peak. The wind is blowing from the left to the right. There is an arc of snow being blown over the peak making a smooth arc below a blue sky. Taken February 29, 2012. My father’s last birthday. He loved visiting RMNP.
Photo of a kitchen. Wood cabinets and floor. Dark brown quartz counter tops. Cooktop on an island in the middle of the kitchen. Small tile splash guard above the counter tops.
A large wave breaking over offshore rocks. The spray is going high in the air. The rock is almost completely hidden by the white spray. There are other rocks in the foreground. And a Cormorant flying just above the water. Taken in Pacific Grove on the Monterey Peninsula. Looking west over the Pacific Ocean.
The I-5 draw bridge over the Columbia River. Taken in the evening so the bridge is backlit and appears black. It actually is painted green. Northbound span was built in 1917. Southbound in 1957.
An Osprey in flight. The picture is from below showing the wings spread wide. The beak is open as the Osprey goes "kee, kee, kee". In the Osprey's claws is a small fish. There also is small plant stem trailing behind the claws, it was picked up when the fish was grabbed from the water.
Cover of the novel Wizard's Bane by Rick cook. Shows a man riding a dragon while shooting a flaming arrow from a bow. Other men on dragons are in the background.
A Bristlecone Pine bent over to the side due to the continual winds on the mountain peaks.
Great Blue Heron at the edge of the Columbia River. Neck is curled up. There is a small fish in its beak
Bluesky award graphic saying I was user 1,161,658 and joined on September 21, 2023.
Album cover for the self titled first album. A nighttime shot with a tree line in the background. Slightly ghostly images of men in trenchcoats are in the foreground.
Dark storm clouds above a mountain peak. Spots of snow which still hadn’t melted from winter. The high tundra is green. Lower down there are evergreen trees.
Picture of a trailer being unloaded from a C-17 military cargo plane. The trailer is a Burger King restaurant being delivered to a base during a war.
Back of the Paperclip Atari word processor box back in the 1980s. Short biographies of my business partner and myself. With a picture of me with a medium length full beard. I miss my beard being just black instead of mostly grey.
A beach along the Columbia River in Washington. Drift logs and the remains of the pilings from a pier. Across the river there are the hills in Oregon along the river.
A parking lot with solar panels covering some of the parking spaces.
A Puddle Jumper from Stargate Atlantis. A small spaceship that can fly through the Stargate to visit other worlds.
Grandfather and grandmother standing in front of a Model T. Grandmother is holding a Brownie camera.
Clouds blowing over Longs Peak.
Bald Eagle with a fish in it's claws.
Bear in a I love Intel shirt on a bookshelf. Old Intel swag.
Two ducks and a goose on a log along the Columbia River.