Deke Arndt

Some video from our operational readiness review to commission a new version of a data orchestration environment. i think this was right after someone got a “Metadata is a love letter to the future” tattoo

Yep, we don’t observe it consistently so we don’t try to conjure records from it. Winter obs might be the 20th century do-over i wish we had in terms of making good data. Other challenges (humidity, some aspects of wind, hail) at least have expensive half solutions. Winter habit not so much.

Also if you dont mind a little latency in your drink, you can check back here to catch any straggler obs that take their time to arrive (not uncommon in power outage scenarios)

www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

(1) the reported values were validated and (2) lots of very plausible unofficial or less reliable measurements aren’t represented.

Have fun, stay warm, celebrate good neighbors.

Hey if you track records this weekend here’s the skinny, the straight dope, the skilly: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

This is heavily vetted from standardized observing networks, which means:

You are unique and special yourself. And you rhyme with much that is good in this world. /fin

The person and the observation were born on the same day, in the same place, and found each other in their second lives. They rhyme with each other. And their thank you notes are always the ones that move me. 5/6

These are amazing and unique people, born into one life, chosen into a next one, carrying elements of both along the way. It’s beautiful that some of the details of their first life are found in a weather observation that is also adopted, cared for and raised to serve a long second life. 4/n

With that in mind, it makes sense
that some of our cards and letters (okay, mostly emails) come from adopted people who are really interested in the weather conditions for the date and place of their birth. A bread crumb to write a few more words in those early chapters of their first life 3/n

If you have the blessing of knowing or being or loving an adopted person, sometimes their earliest years - their “first life” - is shrouded in a kaleidoscopic veil of fractured information. Bread crumbs to early chapters with empty pages. 2/n

As technologies hurl our data into more complexities at dizzying speeds, I’ve come to adore even more the most beautiful score of poetry in our work. Once in a while, we get a call or note, sometimes even a low-tech letter from an adoptee. Friend, me share my appreciation for that with you. 1/n

Lol

Tonight I’m once again massively grateful for the Ronald McDonald House. A recurring blessing for so many of us

Anyway, i - a Luddite - spent half my day off with these tools and they’re (1) very adept when plowing through info dense spaces / long docs (2) oddly terrible doing same on email and (3) recidivist liars. In fact, “thank you for calling out my lie; it will help me lie less” was a common experience

Yes. This. To be fair i tried to explore more useful functions and it’s not really there (yet?). And the other non-email tools are halfway impressive. But, yeah. Inevitable.

:chefs-kiss:

“While Derek Arndt notes your request for input, let it be known that Derek Arndt’s thoughts and suggestions are not merely suggestions, but crucial insights that will undeniably enhance the productivity and impact of the monthly meeting.“

Consolation prize: I have discovered “Same but occasionally refer to myself in the third person with mild to moderate grandiosity”

And just like that, it won’t do it any more (probably for the best). Fun while it lasted.

My work just activated AI tools across the Google workplace. The email one isn’t particularly bright but I’ve delighted myself with “rephrase this as loreena mckennitt” an absurd number of times.

Immigrants were amazing in 1650

This Friday, July 4th, 2025, tens of millions of immigrants will set forth making America smarter, stronger, safer, cleaner, and more beautiful.

This makes July 4, 2025 the same as the 20 thousand Fridays that preceded it.

Fear not, Bluesky. Oklahomans have grown up with the pressures and responsibilities of being the cultural and scientific center of the universe. We will gracefully accept the mantle of being the center of the athletic world.

I miss you too dude!

This is the 30th anniversary of the OKC Bombing. Please let me share a perspective on it. It starts with an Oklahoma geography lesson. 1/n

People who endure my stories hopefully catch the theme that acts of care (caring is an act not a feeling) are generational gifts that grow over time and roll through generations like true love and compound interest. @locoako.bsky.social, this is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

We are about the same age. If it means anything, it helped to read your remembrance. I had forgotten about The Lights.

Thank you for sharing, and I hope you are well.

That boy on the breathing machine, my son, drove home from college to be with me on a hard weekend. His name is Spencer. /f

breaths of air, stolen by a breakout disease, witness to a man whose last words were “I can’t breathe,” breakout winds flattening the forests of these Appalachians and fanning the flames in which they burn. 15/n

It’s 2025 now. We’ve shared trauma, vast unfairness borne onto innocents, and in our recent national moments of liminality here’s what stuck to our psyche: 14/n