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A beautiful day over the San Francisco Bay for the Blue Angels performance today!

I just got the first layer of system working!

It takes and address, gets the google streetview, identifies all of the trees, then erases them so that the house is not obscured.

I'm planning to use this to build a service that plots the perimeter of the house and all of the trees relative to the perimeter.

Then we'll use any photo associated with the house to assess every tree, bush and object and provide the owner with guidance on how to harden their property from wildfires.

New insight about chaotic managers:
They can't organize concepts into discrete abstract objects.

Everything is on the same plane of discussion.

You can wander around from one thing to another without discernment or priority or relevance.

AKA: Chaos.

I think the lack of skill to organize your thoughts into discrete, abstract concepts manifests all the symptoms of ADD.

Maybe developing that skill will bring ADD under control?

If you cannot think abstractly, you see people as single entities and not a complex collection of different qualities and attributes.

They are a simple blob in their heads.

This allows bigots and racists to project faulty characteristics to groups of these "blobs".

When you can think abstractly you can build the different parts that are inside that blob. These include:
- Past experiences
- Family and community support
- Economics
- Role models
- Health

These, and more, make the person.

2 days after traveling through a packed airport - I'm sick.

2 negative COVID tests yesterday.

Pounding some vitamins and going to bed.

David Brin: SEVERE GEOMAGNETIC STORM PREDICTED: The sun just launched another CME directly toward Earth, Maybe a severe G4-class storm when it arrives on Oct. 10th.

Getting dark and pretty in San Francisco.

Enjoy sunset in San Francisco tonight

Just pissed off my brother in law.
First time in 23 years he expressed anger at me.
I was discussing the techniques of a soccer player that tricked the goalie (his daughter) and scored in a game 11 months ago.

He didn't take it well. Like, at all.

First family rift.

May be unrecoverable.

Ohhhhh booooy!
There heeeeeeeeaaarrrrr!

Enjoy a morning walk through San Francisco.

Just sent by my friend.
These two guys just love each other so much.

I missed this one:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAbro4qzKYT/

Hard to tell, but there area lot of missiles or missile fragments hitting Israel right now.
#israel

Wow.
President Carter made it to 100 years old.
Oldest president ever.
And he's still doing more to improve humanity than Trump.

If you cannot tell a story to get your point across, you may not understand it well enough yourself.

And, a majority of the people you are trying to inform or convince will not understand anything you are saying unless it is in the format of a story.

I've now learned to eat this cheesy Smartfood popcorn with a wet paper towel and a dry paper towel on the table in front of me.

No more licking my fingers clean before I start using the keyboard.

This, my friends, is the benefit of years of experience.

The wife is facing down the biggest hurricane of 2024 (USA Today) in Atlanta. Expecting statewide blackouts. The big Sephoria event she was attending is probably going to be cancelled. And she only has open-toe shoes. She brings 10 shoes. All open-toe. Silly wife.