William Herold

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Software engineer, bibliophile, & cat dad located in #seattle
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Twilight in Chicago
It's dark, but it sparkles.
If you know me, you know that I’m a poor typist, sometimes with hilarious consequences. I just accidentally wrote “uwu” style comments
When you come downstairs and discover there's a child in the house

When teaching at CalTech in the 1930s Oppenheimer was interested in the occult & went to communist gatherings. His brother was friends with Jack Parsons, so they likely met. It seems that Aleister Crowley was at least tangentially present at the birth of both the US space and nuclear programs.

#oppenhimer #nasa #caltech #pasadena #oto #crowley

"The gay Scene was Fairy-Land, and Cheſter Lilliput."

Thomas Baldwin created the world's first map based on direct aerial observation in his balloon exploration book Airopaidia, 1785

#cartography #maps #history #balloons via my Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/willigula

The Garden Of Forking Paths

A miscellany of art, history, maps, battleships, mermaids, and sea creatures.

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Western tiger swallowtail at Green Lake

#seattle #butterflies

Phoenix had 22 days over 110⁰F with more than 10 additional days forecasted. The previous record was 13 days
On my desk I have two ThinkPads and two MacBooks is this normal?