Seth Hendrick 🏳️‍🌈

@shendrick.net

Water flowing through the bottom of of a basement window, flowing down the wallxanlll, and then pooling into an area surrounded by towels. There is a shop vac helping suck up the water.

An old diesel locomotive that says Beebee station on the side.

A small Pinewood Derby car with Amtrak's paint design on it. Instead of paint, it uses a lot of reflective tape.

An old black and white locomotive that says "New York Central" on the side.

A giant stream locomotive surrounded by a small crowd of people.

A marquee sign that says "Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Sunday May 31, [S] Science on Screen".

An iMac from the mid 2000's. It has a domed base with a monitor that spins around the base.

View from the driver's seat looking down towards the petals. There is a BTECH handset attached to the side of the center console.

The Wii Forecast channel menu! It shows a five day forecast for Anchorage with the high and low.

A single panel comic that has the letter i saying "Be Rational" to a pi character. The pi is replying "Get Real."

Copyright 2007 GJCaulkins.

A messaging window.

Me: I need to get my car washed, but the car wash is just 300 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

The LLM:

Walk.

Reasons, quickly:

- 300 m is extremely short; by the time you start the car, you’re basically there.
- Engine wear and fuel use are high on very short cold runs; it’s actually worse for the car than a normal drive.
- You avoid any hassle with parking, traffic, or queuing space around the wash.
- It’s a bit of extra movement for you and zero extra emissions.

Only real reasons to drive 300 m would be:
- Mobility or health issues
- Bad weather / unsafe walking conditions
- You need the car immediately afterward for a longer trip

If none of those apply, I’d absolutely walk, get the wash, then drive away clean.

A rope strung across a house connected to curtain rods. Wrapped around the rope is are two metal slinkies, connected together to a coaxial cable.

A hand-held amateur radio transceiver in the air attached to rope that is wrapped around a tree branch.

Statue of a man (or something) clawing his way up out of the ground. Only his torso is above ground, his right hand is up. This view is from the back.

A sideways view of the elevation between two points. One represents my house, the other the repeater. There are several large hills in the way.

An electrical PVC pipe with 7 bare copper wires 4 sticking out from both sides, four inches apart from each other.

An amateur radio setup. On the left is a power supply. On the right is the SBitX V3 radio, featuring an FT8 waterfall on it.

A Lego set featuring the first level of the original Donkey Kong arcade game. It has the classic red beams, Pauline, Jump Man, and DK!

A Halloween bowel filled with king-sized Reese's cups and Rice Crispie Treats.

A Raspberry Pi with a SHARI box connected to its USB ports inside of a case with a see-through top. There is a small hand-held antenna poking out the left side.

A sailing boat with two masts and all sails down on the water.

Me, outside of a brick building with a sign that says "L3Harris" on it.

Me holding a PVC pipe with a SlimJim antenna connected to it in one hand. In the other hand is me holding a handheld radio.

Amtrak Train arriving at a train station platform. It's locomotive number is 89.

Amtrak Train pulling into a train station. The camera view is from the platform.

A meshtastic device with a screen that says "2 of 2 nodes online".

A round patch that says "Baldy the Eagle Scout" with Baldy standing to the right of the text.

Me holding a deflated eagle costume who is wearing a Class A uniform.

A DuckDuckGo search whose AI assist says "No, 2025 is not next year; it is the current year. The next year will be 2026."

A front loader with a plow in front that says "Town of Henrietta, A town for all!"

Face of an Amtrak locomotive at a platform.

A balloon in the shape of a brontosaurus.

A line graph representing my 401K value. There's a steep drop at the right.

C++ code that says the following:

CNCPurchaseMainMenuClass::Enable_Secrets(false); // Just to scramble code
CNCPurchaseMainMenuClass::Enable_Secrets(false); // Just to scramble code
bool onoff = (CRC_String(input) == 65729409);
CNCPurchaseMainMenuClass::Enable_Secrets(onoff); // Just to scramble code

A Tesla Cyber Truck parked in a parking lot.

A cake that has the Star Trek badge on it. The text says "Nate Live Long and Prosper".

A view of Tinker's gravel parking lot covered in snow. There are footprints in the snow, and the back of a sign is visible.

Code that says:

stage( "Notify Twitter" )
{
steps
{
...
}
when
{
expression
{
// Disabled the Twitter Account. Fuck Nazis.
return false;
}
}
}

A bird's eye view of a park with a lot of white snow on the ground.

A plaque that says:

L3Harris

Fast Forward

Seth Hendrick

In Sincere Appreciation for 10 years of dedicated service. Congratulations!

My boyfriend's aunt and uncle's Christmas tree.

A smallish Christmas tree on a table. There's an angel on top.

My parents Christmas tree lit up with presents under it.

Completed PC build. Includes a picture of the open tower, and the graphics card, motherboard, and cooler are visible. There is RGB on the CPU cooler, the RAM, and some on the graphics card.

Me in my tan Scouting America class A uniform. It has a purple neckerchief, and silver shoulder loops. It has an Eagle metal above the pocket. I'm wearing a red hat that says "Troop 53, Castleton NY."

C# code that says the following:

CharacterLimit = 200;
MetricsPort = 9100;

UsePdsAt( "https://at.shendrick.net" );

LogToFile( "/home/seth/rss2pds.log" );

UseUserAgent( "Test", new Version( 1, 2, 3 ) );

AddFeed(
feedUrl: "https://ritlug.com/feeds/talks.xml",
handle: "sethtestbot.at.shendrick.net",
password: "redacted",
cronString: "0 * * * * ?",
hashTags: new string[] { "ritlug", "rit", "linux" }
);

AddFeed(
feedUrl: "https://ritlug.com/feeds/latest.xml",
handle: "sethtestbot.at.shendrick.net",
password: "redacted",
cronString: "0 * * * * ?",
hashTags: new string[] { "ritlug", "rit", "linux" }
);

A tall, skinny Christmas tree with the starman from the Super Mario series at the top. It is lit up in colorful lights.

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