Expat Finn in the U.S. midwest. Hobbyist cyclist, professional programmer.
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(this ties this account to my PGP key, which connects to my email, among other things)
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i don't have an introduction post pinned, because i can't fit that into 500 chars.
i emigrated from Finland to the USA in late 1998. i've grown politically more leftist the more i've seen of laissez-faire capitalism, and currently see myself as a Northern European-style social democrat, circa mid-1990's.
i took cycling back up in or around 2005, and wish i had taken it back up earlier. i write computer programs for a living, and therefore don't trust any computer i can't shoot. nor should you.
Went for another (partly) off-road bike ride along a similar (but not identical) route as a few weeks ago. This is only a couple hundred meters from the last panorama i posted to Mastodon, yet i couldn't get a panorama picture from where i was standing, just a little further up the hill.
took another bike ride yesterday. while i'm mostly a road cyclist, occasionally i do like to try a bit of off-road biking, and that gets me to woodland scenarios a little like this one.
(it also gets me an incredible workout. seriously, compared to road cycling, mountain biking is hard work!)
#panorama #photo #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #forest #Michigan #SilentSunday
Took another really short bike ride yesterday, just twice around the lake loop. The trail was fairly busy --- as usual for that loop --- but i wasn't really out for exercise, so i took my time and stopped for photos.
#photo #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #Michigan
took a slow bike ride yesterday, ended up visiting a little community garden cum nature preserve just outside Suttons Bay, Michigan. always a calm, peaceful spot to sit or stroll.
#photo #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #Michigan
i'm currently in the process of abandoning Ubuntu for a rolling release distro, for... reasons. i have many interesting findings to report on this, but they won't fit in these 500 characters.
is there a federated non-micro blogging platform anyone can recommend? would friendica be able to be pressed into such service, as i have my eyes on an instance of that?
it's early July, so the height of festival season --- and therefore the air shows --- are in town. which means we're leaving town to avoid the jet-plane noise during the crucial hours of the day.
yesterday we went for a walk along the beach, a few dozen kilometres/miles away; this is by the lighthouse at the tip of Leelanau Peninsula.
very successful little 72-km bike ride yesterday. not a novel route, but between the new bike and riding it in the opposite (to my usual) direction made it feel new.
i went mountain biking yesterday. well, i'm a road cyclist; i mostly hiked up the hills, and down some of them too. but once i got up to the top and let my heart rate calm down, the view was nice.
NASA