these are two of my favorite things

13 responses to “these are two of my favorite things”

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   jurvetson

   Apr 27, 2013 at 1:42 am

   Windmills on the Frontier……reminding me of all of my prior visits with unofficial climbs up the middle…..

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   scleroplex

   Apr 27, 2013 at 2:20 am

   super 🙂

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   rocketmavericks

   Apr 27, 2013 at 9:46 pm

   Any images yet from Dove 1 & Dove 2?

   We are getting images back already from Graham, Alexander, and Bell:

   

   Can’t wait to see what you guys get. If any of your followers on Flickr have amateur licenses, they can help with the image sourcing here:

   http://www.phonesat.org

   The whole radio community is helping out. Happy to snag some of your stuff if you start sending data and photos.

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   bike-R

   Apr 29, 2013 at 5:23 pm

   Can U talk to the satts thru your TESLA yet? That might make an novel app for you smart phone or the cars NAV system?

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   jurvetson

   Apr 29, 2013 at 11:51 pm

   Oh sure, the GPS sats and the Satellite Radio… =)

   But I know what you mean… with fresh sat imagery, you could have the open parking space heat map… and even without a sat link to car, the current Google Maps Traffic View could be a bit more global (for the benefit of all modes of access).

   I just want the speed-trap tracker. 😉

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   bike-R

   Apr 30, 2013 at 4:11 pm

   It just BOGGLES the mind what can be uplinked to the nav system in the cars, as for the speed traps+DUI checks GOOGLE or somebody had text alerts for your phone that alerted you to locale, alas the fuzz put the kibash on that ……………..Or how about a mini drone launched from car forging ahead with real time video of road conditions and MV Checkpoints? Now that would be a good start up company! Could call it the AUTO DRONE ZONE……………

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   mariordo59

   May 13, 2013 at 2:37 am

   Steve, by any chance can you take and post a pic of the Model S charging and/or detail of the charger port for use in the Wikipedia article?

   Cheers and keep posting your great shots!

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   jurvetson

   May 13, 2013 at 3:27 am

   Supercharger in Gilroy?
   

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   mariordo59

   May 13, 2013 at 1:41 pm

   Steve, this pic is great for Wikipedia. But the way you posted it is categorized as private and cannot be downloaded. Can you make a separate upload with its licensing, so it can be imported to Wikimedia Commons?

   Thx

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    jurvetson

    May 13, 2013 at 5:28 pm

    OK, I made it public now.

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    bike-R

    May 13, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    will it top offf your cell phone too if you leave it plugged in?

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    jurvetson

    May 13, 2013 at 6:57 pm

    Yeah, I would think it would, off of the USB ports in the center console. The energy draw for phone recharge is a tiny trickle, but the power density of the USB port would be the limit on speed; in other words, it would not "supercharge" the phone directly because neither the phone nor the USB interface is designed to support that.

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    beans_again?

    Jun 10, 2022 at 5:29 am

    You’re lucky. The last few times I’ve driven up there, they were unhappy about it.

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