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In priority order I am: Servant of Jesus, husband, father, data scientist / programmer. Also a doctoral candidate in Systems Engineering. (ABD)

Charlottesville, VA
Joined March 2010
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Just arrived from @sarahsalviander !! So excited! Thanks again to @LeeStrobel for posting about this!
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I didn't know Hans nearly as well as I wish. Losing someone so kind is hard. Hearing people talk about death and not knowing God's love? Devastating. 😭
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Mr. President, @brockpierson we have an issue here at this Wawa.
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Case in point, I just saw this post this morning... teapawt.org/SnazzyLabs/status/2118… And I'm already cooking! teapawt.org/_RudeDude/status/21187… Oh wait, I'm supposed to be at work??
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to Claude Code and you financially ruin him with distracting side projects for the rest of his life
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POV you’re a flying car
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This feels like good tactics that evolved into great strategy. (I.e. there are plenty of good/great engineers in Europe there looking to get away from old ways and innovate.)
Berlin Tesla Engineering Center opens today From permit to operational in under a year, it brings 4 engineering sites onto 1 campus w/ 30 different labs in Köpenick, 30 minutes from Giga Berlin With our 3rd hub of this kind after Fremont & Shanghai, we’re combining materials, powertrain, vehicle engineering & validation under one roof – enabling a short feedback loop between development & ramp
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My good friend Ty has put together a GoFundMe to help support Han's family and settle his affairs. gofundme.com/f/friends-suppo…
My good friend from a previous era of my life, Hans Fex, has passed away. He was a great friend and amazing artist. He made amazing contributions to @thinkgeek ( @timmystacobar ) and created @minimuseumshop . Hans, I already missed you because I moved away, now I will never get to meet up with you again in this life and laugh over shared memories. For now, I'll just listen to your voice-over for squeeze-bacon over and over again. 😭😢 youtube.com/watch?v=BT2FIL7U…
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*I* am the on-switch now! My mere presence authorizes entry to my vehicle from the future!
When you realise Teslas don’t have an on/off switch 😳
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Giving and praying. Putting someone else before my own needs, at least a little.
My father contracted flesh eating bacteria in Hawaii. Wow The infection is taken care of, he will need extensive skin graft. I’m flying him home to California from Hawaii for treatment. Help if you can! I just launched my fundraiser on GiveSendGo — would love your support! givesendgo.com/help-being-da…
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Scary idea for next Halloween
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Tesla trick or treat mode is going to be hilarious tonight 😂
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My good friend from a previous era of my life, Hans Fex, has passed away. He was a great friend and amazing artist. He made amazing contributions to @thinkgeek ( @timmystacobar ) and created @minimuseumshop . Hans, I already missed you because I moved away, now I will never get to meet up with you again in this life and laugh over shared memories. For now, I'll just listen to your voice-over for squeeze-bacon over and over again. 😭😢 youtube.com/watch?v=BT2FIL7U…
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Tesla brought the next-gen Roadster to SpaceX's Hawthorne facility in LA today, which is right next to Tesla's own design studio where the Roadster was designed.
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😆 very on point
SpaceX isn't a launch company much more than GE is a lightbulb company. I don't hear much pearl clutching about how GE abandoned the incandescent bulb market.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Pithy wording but not an original quote. Traces to Edmund Burke...
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The trace is like a meme evolution: Incorrect in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" (later corrected), and popularized by John F. Kennedy (and others) in 1961. Rev. Charles F. Aked (1916): Speech "On Liquor Traffic" quoted in the San Jose Mercury Herald. "It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing." John Stuart Mill (1867), in his inaugural address at the University of St Andrews: "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." Edmund Burke (1770), in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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Sweet! Matic getting quiet and it is upgradeable!
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