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Heatsink inside!

Heatsink inside! A photo I originally took to try to get some idea of what the power supply was in this particular computer without pulling things out, so I could figure out what limitations I was working with for upgrading. I think it looks interesting.

I’ve since upgraded every component I *can* in it: CPU, RAM, SDD, graphics…but it still can’t handle The Bard’s Tale IV, which is really disappointing, since I’ve been looking forward to it since the start of the Kickstarter campaign.

Sunset lighting up the clouds before tonight’s rainstorm.

Sunset lighting up the clouds before tonight’s rainstorm. It was one of those moments when you just stop wherever you can because you know that if you try to get to a good spot, the light will have changed and the moment will be gone. So there are power lines and telephone poles, but at least I captured the light.

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Palm tree litter. Sometimes I just need to get out of the office…

Palm tree litter.

Sometimes I just need to get out of the office for a walk, but I’ve been getting kind of bored with the area I’m in. It’s mostly hotels, office buildings and parking lots. I walked past a different hotel yesterday afternoon and found this: the planter has palm trees, smaller plants, and bark chips…and they’ve allowed the palm fruit/seed pods to collect in the planter, which looks more interesting than it would if they cleared them out.

#photography #texture #palmtree

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Finally spotted the plant whose spiky seeds keep puncturing bike tires. It’s a low, creeping …

Finally spotted the plant whose spiky seeds keep puncturing bike tires. It’s a low, creeping mat that can grow right next to the path and spread onto it, and the seeds grow in clusters. The dried seeds’ spikes punch straight through, sometimes to the inner tube.

Unfortunately I have no idea what it is, since it doesn’t match my previous guess (sand burr / sand spur) from what I can tell.

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@abetterjulie Yes, that looks like it. Thanks!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris

And damn, puncture vine is an accurate name…

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Moments after the sun set beyond the ocean, a last flash of refracted light burst out.

Moments after the sun set beyond the ocean, a last flash of refracted light burst out. It doesn’t look like a green flash in this shot, but if you swipe across, you can see a few seconds earlier, where there is definitely a green ring around the flattened image.

#sunset #greenflash

Something’s just hovering above downtown LA, way off in the distance.

Working near an airport I’m used to seeing planes flying nearby and in the distance. But this afternoon something’s just hovering above downtown LA, way off in the distance.

I figured it was the Good Year Blimp, though I couldn’t tell for sure without the zoom on my camera. (Not that there are any other blimps that frequent the LA skies these days, but you never know.) It’s interesting just how odd it is when something looks vaguely like an airplane from a great distance, but doesn’t move like one. The other day I saw a bird hovering in a headwind. Same sort of “what IS that?” moment before I recognized it.

#losangeles #mountains #blimp #skyline #mtwilson #goodyearblimp #phonewantsmetotypeblimo