To get in the mood for the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, I've got a VAX 11/780 running VMS 7.2 .. all the compute power than Rose-Hulman had in 1982, complete with the ability to telnet into it from my local network.

Running inside my phone! 8)

Ok... time to find out what the heck that is...

OTP-2 has 2 different kinds of thrusters... perhaps they've tested one of them briefly?

celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen...

There's the cropped exposure I got... just a hand-held DSLR because I was tired, and almost out of battery.

Victory! Almost every board had issues and now it all works perfectly

This doesn't look like good news to me

nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

That reminds me of the Indiana Harbor Belt color scheme. I took this back in 2008.

Howdy howdy

I remember taking a bus up to the top... and a young Mormon missionary on said bus referring to a slightly older (but still... like 19) year old in their group as "Elder".

Later that day (April 7, 2003) ... I took this at sunset.

I'm not sure what you're referring to. Personally, Sure, it's hard tracing down a logic bug in the baseband board of an IFR COM-120a Communications Service Monitor... but we've (my friend Jim and I) have fixed HP Cesium Beam Atomic Clocks together before, for chris's sake.

We'll get through this.

Ok.... here's a portrait of me... Mr Grumpy Pants

Seriously.... what's up with this?

Slightly lower in my feed I see this...

and I decide that I'll keep listing to Hank, and stop listening to @georgetakei.bsky.social

Finding the ground lug that wasn't..... my life story in a photo