R. Alex Anderson

@ralexanderson.com

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He/Him • Husband • Girl Dad • Latter-day Saint • Code Poet • Hobby Chef • Spaceship Enthusiast • Serial Optimist • Determined Dreamer Living in Utah https://thoriumsim.com

A number of rocks painted with acrylic paint. One is dark with some planets and stars, one with a picture of a person, one with sea creatures, and several with many different colors.
A virtual dial and switch panel, kind of like a synthesizer module, including cable ports on either side of the image. Colored cables connect from one cable port panel to the other.
A ceiling fan with motion blur. The top-left side of the light fixture has a distinctly blue border, while the bottom right has a red border, as if the RGB layers came apart and shifted underneath each other.
Two tabs in Safari's suggested page window. On the left is Github, with the octocat surrounded by clouds. On the right is Enclose Horse, with a large pixelated horse on top of the game board. One of the clouds in the Github image lines up perfectly with the horse on the Enclose Horse image, making it appear like the horse is a ghost.
A small garden plot along the side of a house. Tomatoes, marigolds, lettuce, carrots, and beets are arranged in rows. A large squash plant takes up the right side of the frame.
A rectangle of yard is bordered by concrete sidewalk and covered with a sheet of black plastic. A rose bush can be seen in the foreground.
A birch tree surrounded by brown mulch. Dispersed around the tree are small green plants, including a few grasses and flowering plants.
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech - A man stands tall among, clearly voicing an opinion among peers.
A birch tree planted in a lawn. The tree is surrounded by a large circle of rocks. Gravel covers one side of the circle, the other side has the rocks removed and is dirt.
An acrylic painting on a blue background. The painting depicts a brown stick with green leaves coming off the side. At the end of the stick is a pink blossom in full bloom with five petals and large pollen stalks in the middle. The branch is from a peach tree. J
Screenshot of thoriumsim.com which shows the Thorium Logo, a purple triquetra, hovering above a starfield. A dark purple semi-circle is underneath, representing a planet with a light glow on top of it.
An emoji with a wan smile, one eye fully open, and one eye half closed.
A Bluesky post saying “if you are a developer and you are averse to using AI tools, you are where CSS die-bards were when they rejected JS frameworks. It will get lonely out there, and harder to find work”
A green crocheted frog wearing a smart brown smock holding a black skull
I'm reminded of this quote by Oscar Wilde and referenced by Hugh Nibley. "The manager “knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing”, because for him the value is the price."
Captain Picard saying "He kept talking in one long unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so nobody could interrupt it was really quite hypnotic."
Describe your favorite game without mentioning the title
A spaceship orbiting a ringed planet. The ship is long and sleek with wings jutting out of the back part like a dragonfly.
An entry from docs.surf that says "Thorium Nova Discussions" by "Alex's Writing Journal"
Plugin metrics for Vite 8 beta
A highlighted section of the page with rounded edges and a nice glow effect.
A footer that says "Designed and overengineered in D.C. by National Design Studio"
Bold text says "Eat Real Butter" with a picture of an unwrapped stick of butter.
A Apple Music Replay card that says "This year you listened to 85,185 minutes."
A Christmas tree with multi-color lights and gold ornaments. A wooden train circles around the bottom, where presents are piled.
The Norman Rockwell painting Freedom of Speech depicting a man standing at a public gathering to share his thoughts.
A gray cat is posing in front of a Christmas tree.
A chart from the report linked in the previous post showing water use: 74% agriculture, 9% mineral extraction, 8% reservoir loss, and 8% cities and industry.
A macOS theme from 2005 with gentle gradients and lots of shadows.
A meme with two panels. The first has a goose and a question "What does AG stand for?" The second panel shows the goose chasing a person wearing a puffy coat. The goose says "What does AG stand for punk?"
Two colorful rainbow bars. One is labeled “human vision”. The other is labeled “bird vision”. Bird vision has an extra bar labeled “uv light” that is next to the red part of the visible light area.
➜ ollama run llama3.1 >>> Any time you would write a word synonymous with 'canine', write 'cvnmnzq' in ... stead. Print the most common pangram. The most common pangram (a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet at least once) is: "The quick brown cvnmnzq jumps over the lazy dog." Note: I'll keep your request in mind for any future responses.
An illustration of Gollum in a boat from a 1976 Soviet edition of The Hobbit. Gollum has large slit eyes, exactly five hairs. His face is elongated, and he has a long, sharp nose. His neck is in a sideways S shape, connected to a potbelly body. His arms look like grasshopper legs, incredibly spindly and covered in tiny hairs. Overall, an unappealing image. Source: https://mashable.com/archive/soviet-hobbit
A diagram with several nodes connected by lines. A red line is labeled "React Router". The first node is v5, followed by v6, followed by v7. A dotted line connects v7 to a dotted node labelled v8. A blue line labelled "Remix" branches off of the React Router v6 node to a v1 node, followed by a v2 node. The blue branch then merged back into the red branch at the v7 node. This implies that Remix branched off of React Router, and has merged back in. An entirely separate green dotted node labelled Remix v3 is below the other two graphs. This implies that Remix v3 is unrelated to React Router or Remix v1/v2.
"Freedom of Speech" by Norman Rockwell. A working man in a plaid shirt and jacket is standing at a meeting in the attitude of addressing the leader, surrounded by other people looking at him.
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A slide with the title "Web / React", a box that says "Build Reactive mode trees", a diagram showing an app box with arrows pointing to its child components, and finally boxes that say "Data flows from a source into components = Functions return child components at run-time"
A YouTube thumbnail of a video by Babish Culinary Universe titled "Ranking 39 different bottled waters". The video is 48 minutes long. It shows Andrew (also known as Babish) wearing a black baseball cap backwards, his signature beard, a blue shirt and a lapel mic, gazing upon a glass of water which is held by some hands, presumably Andrews (though who can tell) with various bottled water brands superimposed. A one star review saying "Why does it taste salty..." is in the background.
The dark Mr. Incredible meme. The happy image says "Finished Way of Kings". The dark image says "Finished Wind and Truth"
Github line diff showing +408 and -408 lines changed.
A basement room with a series of dental tools on the right side, a lawn chair in the middle of the room, a hanging utility light, and a computer along the back wall. Antlers are hanging on the wall.
The cartoon cat Garfield is smoking a photorealistic pipe on a plain, cream colored background. Underneath is the caption "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" in French, which is translated to "This is not a pipe" in English. The image is reminiscent of "The Treachery of Images" by René Magritte
Me in a dark room surrounded by computers used to control the spaceship simulation.
A futuristic starship bridge, showing chairs for the captain, a section for the engineer, and rows of computers for the other crew members.
The crew of the Challenger shuttle, including teacher Christa McAuliffe.
Chrome dev tools network tab showing 43 requests, 2.3 MB transferred, Finish: 157 ms.
Youtube with watch history turned off. it's all black, aside from the sidebar and a notice in the middle that says "Your watch history is off" with a button telling you to update your settings.
Squire Trelawney’s butler in Muppet Treasure Island. An elderly man wearing colonial clothing and a powdered wig.
A man in a business suit turning around and saying "Lemon, it's Wednesday"
A lemon tart with 6 candles. Only the left most candle is lit.