Jèf Uphoff
@juphoff.bsky.social
Principal Systems Engineer at @ctrliq.bsky.social. Lapsed astro/physics guy.
Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke.
Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Ump.
Crazy cat gentleman.
Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke.
Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Ump.
Crazy cat gentleman.
Hiking around a cold, windy cemetery while son climbs trees on Thanksgiving morning, as one does...
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hiking around a cold, windy cemetery while son climbs trees on Thanksgiving morning, as one does...
I thought that's what these were!
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I thought that's what these were!
Office bookcase, one of umpteen in house. Pottery was son's work. Lots of fun plants, but all outside.
Leather camel presides.
Leather camel presides.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Office bookcase, one of umpteen in house. Pottery was son's work. Lots of fun plants, but all outside.
Leather camel presides.
Leather camel presides.
Close friends’ late mother (for whom I was recently a pallbearer) had saved it. She was sort of my “other mom” growing up. Her sons just discovered it in her effects.
The picture’s a doozie!
The picture’s a doozie!
![A local newspaper’s front-page headline from 1986: “Dropout: Local man gets Naval Academy appointment after quitting high school”
Includes [egads] the worst possible picture of me wearing enlisted dress whites—I was talking and I think starting to laugh when they snapped it!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rgcvlrdszpq6plx7uvimvnn6/bafkreifoc5b2vmdxdxawxttpduuqpso3cxmncrkc27a3lrqxngj5fqvsza@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Close friends’ late mother (for whom I was recently a pallbearer) had saved it. She was sort of my “other mom” growing up. Her sons just discovered it in her effects.
The picture’s a doozie!
The picture’s a doozie!
Never mind off-mission -- what if you're off-target?!?
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Never mind off-mission -- what if you're off-target?!?
I flew to a quiet country airport in NC (KZEF, near Elkin) to have lunch with my son yesterday, and it's an amusing spot.
The airport cat, Mike, ran off a large black lab that had arrived with its owner in another plane.
No dogs allowed inside. Mike's rules.
The airport cat, Mike, ran off a large black lab that had arrived with its owner in another plane.
No dogs allowed inside. Mike's rules.
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I flew to a quiet country airport in NC (KZEF, near Elkin) to have lunch with my son yesterday, and it's an amusing spot.
The airport cat, Mike, ran off a large black lab that had arrived with its owner in another plane.
No dogs allowed inside. Mike's rules.
The airport cat, Mike, ran off a large black lab that had arrived with its owner in another plane.
No dogs allowed inside. Mike's rules.
These things happen.
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
These things happen.
Yep. This smol bean, a parking-lot/dumpster rescue, has been glued to me for over a decade now.
She’s *very* possessive—doesn’t allow other cats on the bed at night.
She’s *very* possessive—doesn’t allow other cats on the bed at night.
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Yep. This smol bean, a parking-lot/dumpster rescue, has been glued to me for over a decade now.
She’s *very* possessive—doesn’t allow other cats on the bed at night.
She’s *very* possessive—doesn’t allow other cats on the bed at night.
Think I ran into this guy in a bar not long after...
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Think I ran into this guy in a bar not long after...
Bit different than my experience at the furthest end of an SFO terminal some years back…
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Bit different than my experience at the furthest end of an SFO terminal some years back…
If you see this post your getaway vehicle…
(A bit humbler than its big-cousin TBM, but it also screams along on a hell of a lot less fuel and is sitting in my hangar right now awaiting the crime…)
(A bit humbler than its big-cousin TBM, but it also screams along on a hell of a lot less fuel and is sitting in my hangar right now awaiting the crime…)
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If you see this post your getaway vehicle…
(A bit humbler than its big-cousin TBM, but it also screams along on a hell of a lot less fuel and is sitting in my hangar right now awaiting the crime…)
(A bit humbler than its big-cousin TBM, but it also screams along on a hell of a lot less fuel and is sitting in my hangar right now awaiting the crime…)
Found this weird little gem online today.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Found this weird little gem online today.
Pretty good resemblance. :)~
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Pretty good resemblance. :)~
I minored in Russian in college, and some of it still sticks. 🤓
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I minored in Russian in college, and some of it still sticks. 🤓
“A Clockwork Carnage”
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“A Clockwork Carnage”
A "hundredweight" is 8 stone or 112 pounds--but only in the U.K.!
In the U.S., it's 100 pounds. And that's why our ton (defined as 20 hundredweight) is 240 pounds lighter.
How many quarts in a drachma again...?
In the U.S., it's 100 pounds. And that's why our ton (defined as 20 hundredweight) is 240 pounds lighter.
How many quarts in a drachma again...?
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A "hundredweight" is 8 stone or 112 pounds--but only in the U.K.!
In the U.S., it's 100 pounds. And that's why our ton (defined as 20 hundredweight) is 240 pounds lighter.
How many quarts in a drachma again...?
In the U.S., it's 100 pounds. And that's why our ton (defined as 20 hundredweight) is 240 pounds lighter.
How many quarts in a drachma again...?
I’m still scratching my head at this one from just outside my childhood hometown (a couple hours up the Shenandoah Valley from here).
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I’m still scratching my head at this one from just outside my childhood hometown (a couple hours up the Shenandoah Valley from here).
Actual church signs displayed here in my neighborhood a few years ago by a church that also has a huge, neon “JESUS SAVES” sign on its roof visible from around town.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Actual church signs displayed here in my neighborhood a few years ago by a church that also has a huge, neon “JESUS SAVES” sign on its roof visible from around town.
