Elf M. Sternberg

@elfsternberg.bsky.social

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Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.

The Arlington Bridge statue, "Sacrifice," before the Republican Administration covered its magnificent bronze in gold leaf, making it too bright to photograph cleanly.
Krankor from the Japanese TV Serial "Prince of Space" (1959).
Screen shot from Weather.com, showing the air quality meter at 153, "Unhealthy."
Clipart of the character "Alf", with the words, "Alf, a male."
A distant orange sun rises through the leaves of tree.
A 1926 sign that states, "Every 16 second a person is born in the united states.... Every 7 1/2 minutes a high-grade person is born in the United States who will have the ability do creative work and be fit for leadership. About 4% of all Americans come within this class." In big letters above it the headline reads, "Some people are born to be a burden on the rest."
Screenshot from FOX News showing Trump saying "I probably was abused more than anybody in the history of his country."
Amap from watchduty.org showing a large number of wildfires, mostly uncontrolled, in Washington state.
New Yorker cartoon; in a small room with a diploma on the wall, a woman sitting in a chair with a clipboard is talking to another sitting on a couch with her purse in her lap. The woman with the clipboard says, “For the anxiety, I’m prescribing the familiar comfort of rewatching the same series until its outcomes feel more knowable than your own.”
A round loaf of bread on a cooling rack.
A brown cat on a tangled heap of a canvas outdoor cover on a wooden porch.
A black cat peers through a chain link fence.
Actor Donn Knots in his role as police officer Barney Fife.
An electron microscope photograph of the world's smallest violin, sitting on a human hair and taking up approximately 5% of the width.
An unmade bed. One prominent wrinkle has a sticky note reading "cat."
A chart showing a relative amounts of sleep various mammals get. The giraffe sleeps only 1.9 hours per day, the African elephant 3.3, the goat 5.3. On the other side, the tiger sleeps 15.8 hours a day, the ground squirrel 15.9 hours, the owl monkey 17 hours, and the little brown bat tops the record at 19.9 hours.
A giant, red leather, stuffed octopus.
A photo of a Catholic priest and another man in a church setting. The priest is holding an assault rifle with a scope. The photo is part of a social media posting from LifeSite, the anti-abortion group.
A cat looks up from a kitchen table chair.
Sam Neill surrounded by Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi, Kate Fischer Sire in a publicity photo for the movie "Sirens," about the life of Australian artist Norman Lindsey.
Newly appointed British prime minister Andy Burnham and his wife, Marie-France van Heel.
The brown cat lies on a hardwood floor.
The glow of false dawn appears beyond a row of trees.
A grey cat poses on front of an open window.
A bumblebee on lemongrass blossoms.
Two wild honeybees on a stalk of white flowers.
A chart showing, month-by-month, the new questions being asked on StackOverflow. Starting in 2008 at zero, it rises to about 180,000 in 2014, is steady but in slow decline until 2022, then begins a sharp decline, reaching near-zero in 2026.
Clipart of a cat's backside, a word bubble, and the Claude logo. The word bubble says, "You're absolutely right!"
Velvetshark.com asks a great question: why does every AI coporate logo look like a butthole?
A comic in which a presenter is discussing an air show, and says, "If you were Kurdish villager this is what it might sound like to die, or survive waking every night to the sternum shaking screams of these nightmare engines." Lee.org » Blog Archive » Fleet Week https://www.lee.org/blog/2021/10/10/fleet-week/
My raised bed garden. That bright green stuff in the front is Romaine, with red leaf lettuce behind it.
A topiary bush about a meter high perfectly sculpted into the shape of a stretching cat.
The VHS cover for the movie The Hunger, starring David bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon.
A ruler put out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce, touting "Toward a Metric America."
Meme. Two people pointing at a computer monitor. "This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixel and from seeing quite a few shops in my time."
The Graephobia (lit: "fear of desks") chair.
My glasses and my untrimmed eyebrows.
A brown cat sits in front of a short, outdoor tower of plants in pots.
Good guy Lucifer Meme: "Taught humans to think for themselves. SOMEHOW THE BAD GUY."
Burt from Tremors says: > "Not all men" is the same as "Not all guns are loaded." But how do you handle every gun you come in contact with? You treat it like it's loaded until you're absolutely sure it is safe.
A search on bing.com for "local first ai tools to write erotica," showing that on the second page one of the included answers was... HHS.gov?"
Indiana Jones with the Holy Grail. Added text reads,"pausa de hidratación".
Tammy Faye Baker, who looked anything but "normal."
A kitchen cabinet and wall. On the cabinet is a sticky note reading "Ants?" and an arrow pointing to the wall. On the wall is another note reading "Ants!" and an arrow pointing to a hastily rigged ant trap swarming with the creatures.
A store rack of trousers in many colors, mostly neatly folded.
A grey cat lies in a ragged bed of grass.
A brown cat with a sticker reading, "WARNING! This device is CURSED!"
An image from the White House pharmacy ledger showing insane amounts of drugs being handed out.
Title screen from Independence Day (1996).
A very lush raised bed in a yard of brown grass.
A map of the US South, showing all of Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi underwater after the seas rise ~216 feet, which is the total ice on Antarctica and Greenland.
A cat's rear end with the, er, opening covered by the Claude logo saying, "You're absolutely right!"
A laptop adorned with stickers. The stickers read, "Kinky," "Slut," "Warning: cursed object." In the lower right hand corner, Twilight Sparkle eyes a sticker of hands in three different configurations. Those who know would recognize it as "beginner," "intermediate," and "advanced."
Drone shot of the Republican Administration's "Great American State Fair 250."
A post from Fox news: Promise to America, 13 moderate Democrats are banding together against Democratic socialists, signing the "Promise to America" to back strong borders capitalism and patriotism.
A small portion of my square-bound comic book collection: - X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills - Grendel - The Sensational She-Hulk - A Distant Soil: Immigrant Song - Epicurus the Sage - Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine MacAllister: Bad Weather
The Sandwich Alignment Chart, a chart of "Structure vs Ingredients" in a sandwich, with types "Purist, Neutral, and Rebel." A true purist agrees a BLT is a sandwich, someone true neutral says a hot dog is a sandwich, and a radical anarchist, believing any food held in a containing food is a sandwich, therefore a Pop-Tart is a sandwich.