Rob Ballou

@robballou.com

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Finn the cattle dog's human, mountain biker, backpacker, and software engineer.

Veo scooters using the entire on street bike parking provided by Denver city
A view of the Rocky Mountain, with Mt Blue Sky visible
The parks baseball field is coated in a layer of cardboard and plastic detritus. A sign for not allowing dogs off leash is present (which is the primary offense the city enforces)
Finn, happy to stand in the shade, after his human drops off their ballet. Confining a tradition of ballot drop off by foot (and paw)
Finn, an Australian cattle dog mix, who is now 11 yo, takes in the sights from an overlook in the Colorado front range. In the distance , smaller mountains and blue skies
Mt. Blue Sky and Rosalie Peak (I think) almost without any snow in early June.
Photo of riding a surly midnight special on some single track in the front range of Colorado. It is a very open blue sky
Tall clouds at sunset with blue sky breaking through
A black cow grazes from grasses on the near side of a wooden fence. A few more cows graze on the “correct” side of the fence
Screenshot from a website for an "AI interviewer" that says: Ezra helps you go beyond the resume, skip the noise, and find the signal. Screenshot includes bullet points about how the tool does not hallucinate and cannot be derailed
Finn, an Australian cattle dog mix, takes a breather while running around in wet spring snow among drooping tree branches
A screen shot of a view of LinkedIn job page, where only a very small portion (shown in red) relates to details about the actual job. Everything else in the right portion of the screen is ads/upsells.
The view from midway up Lookout Mountain in Colorado. Below Hwy 6 winds through Clear Creek Canyon
A GIF showing two browser windows open to a rudimentary prototype of a dice game. On one browser, I create a new game, copy the invite link, and then in the second browser, go to that game and join it. Both games update nearly at the same time things to event stream.
Statue of Baphomet, a humanoid figure with a goat’s head and angel’s wings, sitting on a throne with two children. The statue is used when people try to pass religious regulations on public spaces against the US constitution
A panoramic view looking out west from a hill near Lyons, Colorado. The near slopes have some pine trees broken with brown grass lands. Further towards the horizon is some hilly peaks with more pine forests. The sky is partially cloudy which provides a bit of broken up light on the landscape
Finn, an Australian cattle dog mix, sleeps on his bed peacefully
Finn releases a stress yawn from excitement of “finally” getting his mandates second walkies
Finn, an Australian cattle dog mix, pouts on his bed, waiting whole minutes while his human’s excuse digests food, delaying walkies
An orange mountain bike leans against a pine tree in Colorado. The mountain bike trail is visible with forest (and if you squint) mountains
Photo of Clear Creek Canyon from a new section of the Plains to Peaks multi use path. The creek flows through rocks between on bike path on the left and a highway on the right. The bike path crosses two long metal bridges
Screenshot that shows "-25% employee growth in 12 months"
A cattle dog mix lays down alert to whether his human is up to anything. He is a little more white around the muzzle as he is now 11yo
A hazy view of downtown Denver. The buildings are barely visible from a couple miles away
A Rebel Rascal leans next to a dry brown single track trail in Colorado. It is sooo dry
Clouds at sunset: clouds ranging from dark blue/gray to bright orange and yellow
Finn, an Australian cattle dog, gets neck scratches on a warm March day. He is “smiling” happily
Buffalo grazing at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. In the back are snow mountain peaks of the front range
A snowy Denver landscape. It hasn’t snowed since at least January
Screenshot from a web application: Title text: "Search by Account Number and Impervious Area" In red text: To begin, please enter your account number or parcel ID WITHOUT dashes and the impervious area WITHOUT a comma. If you are paying for Sidewalk and you do not have an impervious area, then please enter your account number and enter "00" as the impervious area.
A screenshot of the cios.gov site in Safari on iOS. The DNS entry does not seem to be working
A screenshot of a job posting on a website for Builtin Colorado, where the job specifically does not list Colorado as a viable option. The text in the post: "We are a remote-first organization hiring specifically within 60 miles of Chicago, IL., Dallas, TX., Austin, TX., Charlotte, NC., Atlanta, GA., Phoenix, AZ., Minneapolis, MN., and Syracuse, NY to help create opportunities for connectivity and collaboration in-person as you see fit. Learn more about our hiring hubs on the Careers blog."
A view of a single track trail winding through a dry mountain ridge. In the background another dry, wooded ridge is seen, and then in very distant Mt Bluesky, a 14,000ft mountain that is clearly not very covered in snow.
A bike leans next to a greenway trail as the sun sets. Behind some trees, a band of clouds glows orange
Hiking with my dog Finn. We found a patch of snow in otherwise dry Colorado.
A view of the very dry Colorado mountains. Distant Mt Blue Sky is barely snow covered in January, nearby mountains are almost snow free
Cover sheet of a booklet from Skydance offering to buy up stock of WB Discovery stocks so they can do a hostile takeover of the WB Discovery bidding process
A blue sky above a wall of clouds above the front range mountains. A dry January without any snow in sight
The view from a bike path in Golden, Colorado. South Table Mountain on the left of the image above a brewery and Lookout mountain beyond
Finn, an Australian cattle dog, chews on a stick on his morning walk. He is a mixed dark and red colored dog with a white bently mark on his head. He is holding the stick between his paws
A view from behind the handlebars of a mountain bike. Trail weaves left out of view into the trees. In the distance, tree lined peaks of mountains sit below a blue partially cloudy sky
Finn, an Australian cattle dog, sleeps, partially covered by his blanket
Finn, an Australian Cattle Dog, looks back while waiting for the human to catch his breath
Northern lights dimly visible from Denver as pink glowing spectra on the horizon
A poster for the TV show version of the "The Man in the High Castle" which is an alternate history show where Nazi's conquered the United States. The Statue of Liberty is doing a Nazi salute with a red sash with an alternate Nazi symbol. The NYC skyline also features a Nazi symbol.
A tree (maybe an ash tree?) in fall regalia of orange and reds
Me and Finn camping out in Colorado.
Finn, an Australian cattle dog, stands next to a creek with green grasses and tall trees changing from green to gold.
A photo of Virginia Hall, an important spy and resistance leader during WW2 in France. She aided troops in “escape lines” allowing them to get out of occupied areas. Later, she hiked 50 miles over the Pyrenees with a wooden leg to escape being hunted down by fascists.
A screenshot of a search with the partially typed phrase “buttermilk b” in the search box. The suggested search has two entries for “bittermilk” and one for “better milk banana”. Not a single suggestion for BUTTERMILK BISCUITS.
Finn, watching sunset in the mountains of Colorado while backpacking. He is wearing a red warm jacket
Finn, an Australian cattle dog, lays in the grass with the sun shining on his back on a pleasant afternoon. He is panting slightly so it looks like he is smiling
Finn hiking in the rain on a fall day in the Rocky Mountains
A picture of a muddy/watery section of trail and a narrow drain for it built by yours truly using a stick
A screenshot from the Reddit sub r/Denver asking "Why isn't there a light rail between Denver and Boulder?"
Fighter jets (probably F-16s) flying past. You have to look way past some power lines to see them and squint/zoom to see anything