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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈

@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social

Quondam physicist (PhD: experimental physics), interlocutor at "Read Science!", author, musician, cookbook collector, doily crocheter, & partisan of the Oxford comma. My photos here: https://flickr.com/jnshaumeyer/albums

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 5d ago

We are currently on the road, making a trek, over 5 days by car, from the Southern terminus to the Northern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway (North Carolina & Virginia, USA): 469 miles. This was some of our scenery yesterday.

This is a 2-lane road passing through a mountain forest, so there are numerous trees at the sides of the road, most very tall, with leaves in green, yellows, and reds. The sky is a light, clear blue.
Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · last wk.

This Sunday afternoon I was at the chapel of the US Naval Academy [Annapolis, MD, USA], listening to Isaac play organ in a group recital: 5 members of the Annapolis chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Here he is at the console, checking his presets beforehand. Yes, it's a large instrument.

The focus here is on the man in the black suit seated at a large organ console: 5 manuals and a gazillion stops on pull knobs. The console is on a raised area reached by three steps below. Rows of dark-wood pews are visible both sides of the central aisle, which has blue carpeting. Another man in a dark syit sirs at left in the front pew listening; he's another of the performers. Beting the console, churchy things are visvisvisible: an icoicon at left, a stained-glass above, a cross, an American flag.
Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Pressure the aggressor, not the victim of the aggression." And, for the US, we might add a *widely* applicable version: "Prosecute the aggressor, not the victim."

Roman Sheremeta@rshereme.bsky.social · 2w ago

“We appreciate President Trump's involvement in trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but in Poland we believe that it will bear fruit if you put pressure on the aggressor and not on the victim of aggression.” Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish Foreign Affairs Minister

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of my favorite portraits: When I was working at UMd on the Zeno project, this is Matt, one of our grad-students, showing us the tools he was using to work on our ready-for-space microKelvin thermostat. The black cylinder in front of him with the tubing coiled around it is the outer shell...

Set in an experimental physics lab, we see a young man holding up some freezers and a spool of white thread. He has brown hair and beard, and large frame brown glasses. He looks directly into my camera. He wears a red plaid shirt under a blue puffy vest. Out of focus around him are various inscrutable instruments of physics activity.
Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

By now, you probably know it's true, but I consider this fair warning if you didn't. At the [Canadian] Niagara Falls gift shop, for some reason. Alas, I didn't buy the T-shirt, which is why we took the picture. 28 Oct 2022

Here is an older man with silvery hair and beard in relative disarray. He's wearing a purple-checked shirt, and a dark-red, fleece-lined jacket over it. He also wears roundish glasses. He holds in front of him an olive-colored T-shirt in front of him on which is printed: "WARNING: May start talking about Science". On the left in back is a white wall. On the right is a large window.