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Eric Brombaugh
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Audio and Wireless DSP designer.
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Checks out.
A photograph looking down on a cat inside an upright trashcan. The cat is a brown tabby with white on his face, neck and paws and a distinctive blaze under his left eye. He is curled up next to an empty envelope with red lettering and an address window and his fluffy dark gray tail is draped over it. He is looking directly at the camera with an alert expression. The trash can is black plastic and standing on a dark carpet.
September 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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And don't forget "Married with Children" and their
'assume Fox network viewing positions' gag:
A still image from the television program "Married with Children" showing a cluttered middle-class living room with four people. A woman with big hair is sitting on an ugly yellow sofa with a TV remote aimed off-frame while a man, girl and boy stand behind her with their arms waving about them.
August 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Samwise is fine, but he'll always be Twoflower to me. Maybe he can bring the luggage along...
A color photograph of a light-skinned man wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt with random ten-petaled flower prints. He has a floppy hat, dark-rimmed glasses and a dark strap running from shoulder to hip. His mouth is open in an expression of excitement and he's pointing at his right palm with his left forefinger. The background is a neutral gray.
July 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr Who”, or “Transformers”
A color photograph of Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy showing a very rectangular, vaguely human-shaped silver robot standing in front of an eroded tan-colored landscape. The head has a prominent brow and nose with two downward-angled triangular red eyes. The thorax has a panel of indicators at chest-level and deep horizontal grooves. The arms are jointed and square-ish in cross-section with simple lobster-claw grippers for hands. The image cuts off below the waist.
July 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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That turtle I saw. It was about to try crossing a street so I put it back in the grass, headed toward a pond.
June 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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A scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Eric Idle, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam (among others) dressed in dirty peasant's garb with dirt smeared on their faces and the caption "Well, she turned me into a newt!"
May 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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A still from The Blues Brothers (1980) showing the nun Sister Mary Stigmata sitting at a desk surrounded by various Catholic icons and holding a switch in her hands. She has a concerned look on her face.
April 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I see that we're in the process of moving beyond the beautiful moment in time when value was created for the shareholders.
A black and white cartoon drawn by Toro depicting a man in a ragged suit sitting near a fire talking to three small children. He says "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
April 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Anyone ever notice this?
Two photos side-by-side looking strangely similar. On the left, Keanu Reeves from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" with a blank look and a mop of dark hair. On the right, the gelfling Jen from "The Dark Crystal" with a blank look and a mop of dark hair... and mouse ears sticking through the hair.
March 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Meanwhile in Sandland you left behind:
Screenshot from the NWS Phoenix weather page showing current temp of 91F and forecast next day temp of 98F.
March 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I'm saddened to report that my friend and colleague Paul Schreiber passed away this morning. He was a consummate engineer with deep roots in music and technology and worked on the TRS-80, the Realistic Concert-Mate MG-1 synth, the MOTM modular system and many Eurorack modules. He will be missed.
Color photograph of a balding middle-aged man sitting at a messy desk with several computer monitors. In the background are wooden shelves loaded with books, CDs and test equipment.
March 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Yesterday we had a wet weather system (first one in months) come thru the Phoenix area. It dumped some snow in the high country, including the Four Peaks area northeast of town. We took a drive up that way this afternoon and caught this panorama.
A panorama photograph of a desert scene. A gnarly dead tree on the left side, snow-capped mountains on the horizon and dry, grassy scrub in the near area. Saguaro cactus in the near distance and blue sky with little fluffy clouds above.
March 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Beaker the muppet. A long cylindrical head with a shocking red mop of hair, bug eyes and mouth open in horror. Wearing a greenish lab coat over a green and white checked shirt. His left hand is held up to his face and right hand is lower down.
February 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I've always been impressed by this park - such a distinctive sight on the map satellite view:
Satellite view of the western coast of the northern island of Aotearoa showing the distinctive border of the newly named Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki. The park boundary of forest (dark green) vs grazing land (light green) is defined as a set distance from the highest peak and so is mostly circular. There is a an uneven protrusion of the park to the northwest due to a lower peak and lava flows and the western coastline of the island seems to follow a further circular pattern to the left of the park. Roads and geographical names are seen around the park in a mixture of Māori and English language.
January 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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A still from the TV series Battlestar Galactica showing Edward James Olmos as Adama in uniform against a backdrop of ceremonial banners with the caption "So say we all"
January 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I did, but it hasn't made much difference in the climate.
A grayscale rendering of a Eurorack synthesizer module faceplate with two columns of three knobs above, two rows of four jacks below and a three position switch in the center. There are mounting holes in the four corners, a name "E340 Cloud Generator" across the top edge and a manufacturers logo for Synthesis Technology that looks like an old circular oscilloscope screen showing a sinewave near the bottom edge.
December 7, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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Centurylink - tell me you want me to cancel my service without saying you want me to cancel my service.
Screenshot of an email folder with notices from Centurylink regarding repair appointments spanning Nov 7 thru Nov 18.
November 19, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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The Sound of Music Happiness meme with the text Me in Arizona Not caring about DST
November 3, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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I was flying out of Seattle yesterday and caught this image of Mt. Rainier
Looking out over the wing of an airliner at a lone mountain framed by the wing below and clouds above. The mountain stands alone illuminated by the setting sun with a small cap of clouds on its peak and surrounded by lower topography and blue sky in the far background.
October 13, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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Wow - under 200k. A little late to the party, but not bad.
Bluesky #195606, joined 7/1/2023
September 16, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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The deserts of central Arizona are being overrun by an invasive species - Globe Chamomile aka "Stinknet" was accidentally introduced from southern Africa. There's no known way to control it aside from herbicides that cause collateral damage. I don't think we'll win this one.
Cute yellow flowers that look like tiny balls on the end of long stalks amid a haze of greenery with a blue sky in the background.
April 20, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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January 7, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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January 3, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands - a pale faced youth with wide eyes, wild hair, black leather outfit with lots of metal rings and snaps.
October 1, 2023 at 3:35 AM
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Mine was an Ohio Scientific Superboard II like the one shown here. 6502 with 32x32 character monochrome video, 4kB SRAM, 8kB MS BASIC in ROM.
2-layer printed circuit board with DIP ICs and a QWERTY keyboard soldered on the front edge. Various connectors on the side and back edges and red & black power cables dangling.
September 24, 2023 at 2:26 AM