Rich Parker in Alaska @cajun_cheechako@qoto.org
Radio guy, fixes things for real broadcasters, likes pushing tech envelopes
Joined Nov 2022
@Wildbergwanderer
Saw this on Twitter
Waiting for someone with mad animation skills to make this happen
"Just found out husband has been getting toddler to listen to Tom Waits by telling him it's the Cookie Monster"
@matthew_d_green when I showed this to my brother (living in Hawaii) he said:
"Although, in a place where people climb over locked gates and past signs warning about how many people have died in the surf, to die in the ocean, this may actually be necessary."
Rich Parker in Alaska
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Front porch - Mountain Alpenglow and moonrise
#alaska
Rich Parker in Alaska
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A friend took this photo of the sunrise from her back deck this morning.
#Alaska
Seems unfair somehow - 2 solid weeks (weekends included) working with the tower crew, in heavy rain and winds - now I'm sick as a dog and it's been like this the whole time I've been sick.
X-country skiing will have to wait.
#alaska
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"The freight carriers can afford to make concessions on pay. ... But providing rail workers with ordinary time-off benefits would threaten the industry’s core business strategy, an operating procedure that has helped to nearly double its profits over the past decade. That strategy is predicated on treating rail workers as if they were nearly indistinguishable from the railcars they drive.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/rail-strike-why-the-railroads-wont-give-in-on-paid-leave-psr-precision-scheduled-railroading.html
Another clear, sunny day (3rd in a row) - after two solid weeks of rain and wind while our tower crew was removing, repairing, and reinstalling the KTOO FM antenna. Lovely to look at, but again, very cold (for Juneau).
@drakbailey
North Douglas - above the helicopter pads. 4 mile
Sunshine two days in a row in Juneau. (North Douglas porch view)
Trade-off - very cold ;)
Rich Parker in Alaska
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Our 9-year-old son came home from school & said that some boys at recess offered to play with him if 'he hugged & kissed a girl.'
He responded to them, "No, that's inappropriate," & told us he didn't mind not being able to play with those boys after all. Afterwards his teacher shared she was happy he stood up to peer pressure.
Y'all—it's never too early to teach boys about consent and boundaries. Have the conversation. Then have it again. And again. Boys will be the boys we teach them to be.
Rich Parker in Alaska
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When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.
Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.
This is the only real time travel paradox.
Good Christmas movies -
not as well known -
bonus for native cast/themes.
Go -
Christmas in the Clouds
#wenominee
#christmas
#indigenous
#native
Klaus (animated)
#sámi
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Hilarious protip for dealing with request by email from unethical boss to do something unethical: forward it to security as a suspected phishing attempt.
Rich Parker in Alaska
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Iris - McKinley Park Rose Garden, Sacramento, California USA
#Photography #Iris #Flower #Plant #McKinleyPark #Sacramento #California
It's again hard to express how grateful I am for my wonderful leader at CoastAlaska - for today's group meeting she sent us this wonderful article to read and discuss as a group.
https://bioneers.org/3-ways-decolonize-thanksgiving/
https://bioneers.org/3-ways-decolonize-thanksgiving/
Rich Parker in Alaska
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You might have seen somebody using the proverb Vox Populi, Vox Dei. What was missing was the context in which it was used:
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
In case you do not speak Latin, it means in English:
And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
At the risk of offending vegans
TW - deer hunting
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Such a beautiful day - and I really do have the best boss. She sent us all a note today saying she was taking today off to go deer hunting!
(For those not living in SE Alaska, we have had weeks of heavy rain - not unusual, but days like this are rare and beautiful)
OK, I'm jealous, but this weather means our tower crew can finish work on the KTOO FM antenna, which has to be removed, inspected, and dried out.
Radio guy, fixes things for real broadcasters, likes pushing tech envelopes
Joined Nov 2022
