Cosmic Ray-mond Particle

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Known as Raymond or Wash. Akita. Former particle physicist (PhD) (+salt miner), but now I write software. Using "AI" for science since '05. I make things, enjoy outdoors, and play guitar. (41, male, straight)-ish. SF Bay. Sometimes NSFW

a breadboard with a 14 pin IC, two potentiometers, and some resistors and capacitors. There's a tiny speaker coming out and power from some USB thing coming in
a Commodore PET at a flea market
a copy of "Electric Guitars The Illustrated Encyclopedia" and some empty clear CD jewel cases
Data and Alexander dressed as cowboys from the Star Trek TNG episode "A Fistful of Datas"
Yeah, I'm guessing it was 1980, 1981. There was a guy that worked at the bowling alley who was a video game god to all of us that were 12 and 13. You know, at that age. And one day while I was going through my rant about how great he was, he stopped me and said, "Hey." He said, "Look, d'you want to be good at these?" He said, "When you eventually get good at one thing, when you see how you got good at it, how you had a passion for it, and how, you know, you were driven to be good at it, it'll be easier to be good at other things later. But you gotta find something. (the video shows Bill Carlton playing foosball and talking to the camera) (transcribed by me)
a guy standing in a closet wearing a tank top
a red firework exploding beneath a partially cloudy twilight sky
some buildings and trees in front of a twilight sky
a coyote statue silhouetted against the twilight sky. Slightly below the coyote's open jaw is a bright spot, the planet Venus
Downtown San Jose viewed from the corner of Park and Almaden facing north, by the Civic Auditorium. Buildings and palm trees are silhouetted against the twilight sky, and the billboard casts a red glow on the sidewalk
screenshot of a terminal full of strings like: tau<PARTICLE><CHARGE>-1➡️e<PARTICLE><CHARGE>-1 nu_e<ANTI><CHARGE>0 nu_tau<PARTICLE><CHARGE>0
a hat with AM (Allied Mastercomputer) written on it from https://www.ebay.com/itm/255131775265
photo of a bill. Paying the minimum payment will take 18 years to pay off and cost almost $14k due to the 40% interest
poorly drawn comic on a post-it note left: dog has an idea - "I should invite people to do something for July 4!" right: dog looks overwhelmed by thoughts of "what if they don't come" "I'd have to clean first" "What if they think my snacks suck" "They probably have better things to do" deciding "too much trouble"
a robot vacuum cleaner on the kitchen floor between the camera and an in-progress aeropress coffee brewing
a noisy, dim image of the Leo Triplet
the cover of Star Trek Deep Space 9 A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson
cover of Diaspora by Greg Egan (I read the e-book)
cover of Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
the cover of Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis
a tent with conifers in the background and a rock with books sitting on it in the foreground
some kind of beetle outdoors on dusty ground
a bunch of stars, with scorpius at the bottom left and arcturus near the top right, and the silhouettes of conifers in the foreground
tents amid conifers in the oregon high desert
a young black cat sitting outside on some mulch
a hexagonal shadow grid over whitish light. The light comes from a mix of LED colors which are not quite in the same place, and so each hexagon is a rainbow of colors around the edge where only some of the LEDs are shaded
screenshot of the Garmin app showing I took 31,186 steps yesterday
New Found Glory on stage
the band Yellowcard on stage in front of lights and a big NES controller
a crowd lined up to get into the Billy Graham Civic Auditorium
a black cat on the pavement walking toward the camera
a PCB, mostly populated with resistors and capacitors and diodes
the circuit board from the back, showing a number of surface mount components, mostly resistors, with 3 ICs
a vertical tower of acrylic slices, with LEDs that progressively light up, responding to music. The louder the music is, the higher up the LEDs are lit
the cover of Splinters of Infinity: Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation by Mark Wolverton
a 1 novi dinar coin minted in 1999
a raspberry pi, a 12/24 V to 5 V USB power supply, and a cable. The power supply and cable have barrel connectors attached
a paved path shaded by some trees to the sides. The morning sun is illuminating a water tower and some of the taller tree tops
cover of "Guitar Aerobics" by Troy Nelson, "a 52-week, one-lick-per-day workout program from developing, improving, and maintaining guitar technique"
cover of the e-book containing Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World
a 3D printed cylinder, narrower at one end, with paper inside. It is lit up with a white light and diffusing it pretty nicely
a Fermilab mug with coffee on it on a desk
frame from the home shopping channel advertising a 486SX 25 computer with a 170 MB hard drive (and 4 megs of RAM) for $1899.95 screenshot from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wMqv-cy_i8
male and female ducks in the middle of a paved road
Diagram explaining left versus right tail chirality. Point thumb in same direction as tail tip, fingers curl with with tail.
a back-lit 3D printed disk with a bad surface finish
a 3D printed part with some messed up top surface infill
a CD of Embryonic by The Flaming Lips
a caitian, a dragon, a badger, and a snow leopard wearing starfleet uniforms and posing in front of a viewing window showing interesting stellar physics
a U-shaped bracket with a slanted bottom that has a mounting hole through it. There are little grippy points on the inner parts of the sides
a wire sculpture on a fence. It's an abstract wave with eyes, a nose, and a mouth, a single wire going down, and some funny looking feet
a plot of muscle mass over time, showing a recent upward trend
the nutrition facts on a bag of pre-ground coffee, which is full of sugar
screenshot: alien with a colorful face saying "For a male, you are unusually cooperative".
screenshot of Picard and Riker
screenshot from Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity showing the crew on the bridge
Photos of the corona discharges of a spruce branch, showing positive on left and negative on right source: https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured-film-first-time (photo by William Brune / Penn State)
"Matt Christman's Ravings" in one circle, "My Chemical Romance" in the other, "Everybody wants to change the world but no one wants to die" in the middle. There are pictures of Matt Christman and Gerard Way in the corresponding circles.
the cover of "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" Volumes 1 and 2 by Edmund Whittaker
a guitar amplifier with a KEXP Amplifier 2026 sticker on it among others