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What's Next? Head of Engineering at iNaturalist: kvangork.org

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@ayjay My RSS reader cached it for me. It was a very good post, and I hope you’ll re-publish a little sooner than 2034. ;-)
\nPerhaps hope was unreasonable, but I am disappointed that the justices didn’t deliberate and persuade until they could come out with an unanimous decision. This was a critical moment for the institution and they didn’t rise to it.

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Sierra Nevada Aurora \"\" : kvangork.org

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First photo print exhibition, at my favorite local brewery.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2024/04/11/first-photo-print.html","date_published":"2024-04-11T19:54:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-11 19:54","date_timestamp":1712865279,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"19959341","content_html":"

Finished reading: Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer 📚

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A good look into the wider extremes of climbing. I was particularly fascinated by ice climbing, culture in the alps, and the challenges of measuring mountain heights.

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Pair of Juvenile Great Horned Owls in a Backyard Coast Redwood Tree : kvangork.org

","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/06/07/pair-of-juvenile.html","date_published":"2023-06-07T08:29:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-06-07 08:29","date_timestamp":1686126572,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"19617706","content_html":" Yosemite Falls, Morning Reflections \n

Morning light and a reflection of Yosemite Falls pouring into the valley, flooded by spring snowmelt. The Merced River’s calm surface belies incredible flows as it covers the meadows.

\n\"Morning\n

More photos of Yosemite Valley

\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/06/03/yosemite-falls-morning.html","date_published":"2023-06-03T20:30:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-06-03 20:30","date_timestamp":1685824213,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"19544544","content_html":"

Memory

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\"A

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remnant of logging 100 years ago, a stump in the University of California, Santa Cruz’s campus nature preserve

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@jean Thank you Jean, for the kind words, the welcome, and for all you do to promote community here! Your recent post about accessibility and discovery was an especially helpful reminder.

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@ptrck Thanks Patrick! The light through the clouds was a gift all day long.

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Finished reading: What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies by Tim Urban 📚

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This is a challenging and helpful book. There are certainly more factors going on, but Tim’s lens of Golems vs. Genies explains so much of what’s wrong in modern politics. Worthy of a re-read and further reflection.

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Finished reading: Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey 📚

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Great read; captivating prose. Reconnected me to childhood memories of watching Westerns with my grandfather, and added a new appreciation for the tropes this book originated. I’m thankful we now represent women as more than caricatures.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/31/finished-reading-riders.html","date_published":"2023-05-31T20:53:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-31 20:53","date_timestamp":1685566405,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@kvangork/110465280056540433"]}},{"id":"19511338","content_html":"

California Coast on Memorial Day, North of Santa Cruz

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\"Aerial

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Final Cut Pro 10.6.6 Update: Tone Mapping for HDR Video: kvangork.org

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Bridalveil Falls Rainbow

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\"A

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Last day of high school today for our youngest.

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Proud of her for a million reasons, and excited for the next chapter: pursuing an interdisciplinary degree in Cognitive Studies.

\n

She’ll probably lead us in the war vs. AGI, or be the infernal thing’s creator. Whatever. I’ll be her proud dad either way.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/19/last-day-of.html","date_published":"2023-05-20T06:42:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-20 06:42","date_timestamp":1684564979,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@kvangork/110399650660199518"]}},{"id":"19203173","content_html":"

The previous post is hereby revised and amended with this vastly superior post.

\n

The Big Dipper pointing down at El Capitan, with the flash of a climber’s headlamp at Camp 6, a mere 4 pitches from from the top.

\n\"The\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/17/the-previous-post.html","date_published":"2023-05-18T04:01:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-18 04:01","date_timestamp":1684382501,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@kvangork/110387693540834922"]}},{"id":"19203024","content_html":"

El Capitan, After Sunset

\n\"El\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/17/el-capitan-after.html","date_published":"2023-05-18T03:48:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-18 03:48","date_timestamp":1684381723,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@kvangork/110387642259099198"]}},{"id":"19191671","content_html":"

@manton I’m pushing some blog-curious family members to give it a try.

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youtube.com/...

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Incredible work by Cal Fire over the past few years to save this neighborhood deep in the forests just west of Yosemite.

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My first time editing a video with Premiere Pro. No sound, and I recommend watching at 2x speed.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/17/youtube-bbwgzyzoq.html","date_published":"2023-05-17T15:47:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-17 15:47","date_timestamp":1684338463,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"19169016","content_html":"

Finished reading: Touching the Void by Joe Simpson 📚\n(also the excellent 2003 docudrama)

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An intense story of superhuman perseverance, cycling between hope and certain doom as each fresh misfortune befell the climbers. Inspiring, but my alpine adventures will continue keeping far from the void.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/16/finished-reading-touching.html","date_published":"2023-05-16T21:40:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-16 21:40","date_timestamp":1684273215,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@kvangork/110380529517781169"]}},{"id":"19160111","content_html":"\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/16/082941.html","date_published":"2023-05-16T15:29:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-16 15:29","date_timestamp":1684250981,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@kvangork/110379072724181244"]}},{"id":"19151706","content_html":"

A Rock Climbing Naturalist Engineer's Micro(photo)blog : kvangork.org

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Probably a minor character, but one of the constructs in Tears of the Kingdom broke the 4th wall and spoke right to me.

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So I made a silly little tribute: https://rangerconstruct.com

\n\"Ranger\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/14/probably-a-minor.html","date_published":"2023-05-14T22:42:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-14 22:42","date_timestamp":1684104135,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@kvangork/110369448828121251"]}},{"id":"19115268","content_html":"\"Hummingbird\n","summary":"","url":"https://kvangork.org/2023/05/14/125819.html","date_published":"2023-05-14T19:58:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Kirk van Gorkom","url":"https://kirk.vangorkom.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F13%2F1394891.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"kvangork"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-14 19:58","date_timestamp":1684094299,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@kvangork/110368809904335440"]}}]}