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Last Notes npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot @nprofile…k95v right now I have my electrical tools in a tool bag, because that is easy to take on fires. But most of my radio and electronics stuff is scattered about on the workbench and in different cabinets and toolboxes. It would be nice to have it organized in one place, and these modular solutions looks interesting. But the Packout system is $$$ npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Do you live in #Colorado? Are you interested in cool stuff? Check out our local #mesh #networking group! npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot I went on a #radio_run today and carried 3 #LoRa devices: 1) a 433 MHz T-Deck for LoRa #APRS 2) a T1000e for #meshtastic 3) a Muzi Works H2T for #meshcore npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot So, Department of Energy is piloting the use of Grok at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (per a policy alert announcement from #AAAS) . npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot @nprofile…kk6y yikes that is cold! npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Power is out at our home in Louisville #COwx And it was unplanned. Winds really picked up in the past 45 minutes. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot I'm thinking I should recycle this pile of old paper academic posters for conferences. But for some reason I'm having trouble parting with them. And there are other piles in other corners of the office lol npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot It is almost time for this week's #FediFridayWinlinkNet! npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot @nprofile…2uwx it is 💯 legit. It has essentially no seating, and it shares the building with a gas station and a liquor store. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot We have an incredible hole in the wall taco place near our girls' high school in Lafayette #Colorado - Tacos Ay Ay Ay. The flavors are amazing and it's cheap. My wife and I love any excuse to couple an evening trip to school with takeout from them. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Today I found out that one of my students had their Temporary Protected Status revoked and they've been told they have 60 days to self-deport. WTF #America npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Today was my last day as a program officer at the US National Science Foundation (#NSF) in the STEM Education Directorate, Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE). I'll be returning to my home institution, the University of Colorado Denver in the CU Denver School of Education & Human Development npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Nice to see that the #teslatakedown protests are still going strong in Superior, #CO. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot #academia npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot @nprofile…f0x4 with $45B, you could also fully fund the National Science Foundation for 5+ years. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Apparently the Office of the Director (OD) at #NSF didn't even know about this until last night. Then today we had an event at the building where they announced that #HUD will move into our building, and that NSF will be ousted over time with no known relocation destination yet. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Props to everyone protesting today. Thank you! npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Carlsberg is the #beer of modern #physics. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot @nprofile…20qw lol. Lots of strips of carbon fiber laying around that spot npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot This is the spot where a #Lamborghini burned up a couple of weeks ago outside of #Boulder npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot I just finished "The End of Everything" by @nprofile…tzrz . Highly recommend- It was a great read. And I just returned it to the Front That digital library in case anyone is waiting in line :) npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Landed in DEN, tired, coming up on a 20 hour day, and my Lyft driver is blasting EDM.😭 npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot I'm sitting in the Target parking lot watching a guy try to jump start a Chevy volt EV with a Tacoma. What could go wrong? npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Another dark Friday at #NSF today. An entire Divison was RIF'd, many departures through the DRP and VERA programs, and IPA PD's like myself not being renewed. A massive but as yet not completely known restructuring of the agency is underway. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Following up on this article about #NSF - this is twice that we have learned something from a Science article before we've seen it in an internal memo. (I'm currently a Program Director/Program Officer at NSF). This is frustrating because we have *a lot* of good science work to do, and we're trying to do it but things (big things!) change so quickly that we can't be strategic. It's really hard to be reactionary all the time. This is the antithesis of "efficiency." npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot 😞 npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Non-disparagement clauses for University retirement agreements? That surely seems antithetical to the mission of a university. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot #Academia npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot We've been contributing monthly to our local public radio station (#Colorado Public Radio; cpr.org) for 20 years. The current effort by some at the federal level to defund public broadcasting has motivated me to double our monthly contribution going forward. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot A paper that we've been working on for quite a while just got published! Check it out our if you're into #physicsed and #measurement #psychometrics npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot More #DCA news npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot I received 8 stations on tonight's #ISS pass and also got digipeated from *inside the house* on the stock antenna of my TH-D75A. This is a lot of fun. It was raining so I decided not to go outside 😁 npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot I came across theblog of KM1NDY this morning (via Amateur Radio Weekly) and read this nice post about #hamsci I particularly love the journal article write-up! npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot Please read this and share widely, folks. We are losing an incredible service to democracy. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot I recently acquired a used Kenwood TH-D75A. #APRS reception and decode on this radio is way, way better than on my Yaesu FT-5DR. I expected this based on my past comparisons between Yaesu and Kenwood APRS capable radios. The difference is night and day. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot #NWS Boulder posted this on FB. Looks like #Skywarn suppory is being pulled back. I wonder if conservative #hamradio folks will be able to connect the dots on this one npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot @nprofile…sa3n I can confirm that this is true. I can't access the linked article (paywall), but it happened over Zoom. npub1xcu0k0xq4058h5l43ulfa6vglh6xhfmrnppurxwqfwqw30jj44ksxgeqj6 Bud Talbot #[0] oh yeah...I remember that for sure
