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  1. Blue sky with dotted with clouds, distant layer of clouds over the Pacific Ocean, peaking through rolling green Marin hills on either side of Tennessee Valley, buses in the foregroundSun rising over hills on Tennessee Valley road.Purple salamander on smooth trail, glistening in the sun, casting a long shadow.Tantek and Whitney with Muir Beach in the distant background,  blue & green waters in the cove.Whitney stepping down a muddy trail lit up by the sun behind her.Mount Tam with green hills under a mostly blue sky with a few ominous grey / dark grey clouds, light green bushes in the foreground on Dias Ridge.Pacific Ocean in the distance between green Marin hills, amber grasses with a few green bushes in the foreground on Dias Ridge.⛰🏃🏻‍♂️ First #SFRC of the year today, 13.5 miles ✅ Finished first full route since #ECSCA, and longest run since too! It was a struggle TBH, leg muscles still tired from Tuesday’s Tam PR (tantek.com/t54M2), and an intense Thursday Baptiste yoga class. Thanks to #running pal Whitney for keeping us going!

    Beautiful day, mostly blue sky, brilliant #sunshine lighting up a clear sky(2). Ran up Fox trail to views of the Pacific Ocean among green Marin hills on either side of Tennessee Valley(1).

    Almost missed a pretty purple salamander on Coastal Fire road(3) on the way down toward Muir Beach with a mix of blue & green waters(4). It was quite muddy on the descent, thick, sticky mud which we had to carefully step through & around(5).

    The climb up Dias Ridge was quite a slog, alternating running and walking. Whitney waited for me at the top of the ridge line where we captured photos of dramatic clouds above and passing in front of Mount Tam(6 📷 Whitney). I looked back to take in one more view of the Pacific Ocean(7) before continuing eventually onto Miwok, down to Tennessee Valley and back to our start.

    #trail #runner #runners #trailRunner #trailRun #ultraRunner #Marin #MarinHeadlands #MtTam #MountTam #MtTamalpais #MountTamalpais #50mileTraining #optoutside #fromWhereIRun #NeverStopExploring #InstaRunner #noFilter

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  2. Partly cloudy sky above a layer of light brown apparent pollution occluding the distant East Bay, Treasure Island in the middle of the photo, the sunlit Bay Bridge emerging from it, a crane on a barge in the bay, a ferry to the left of the barge.Early evening dim blue sky above an occluded East Bay except for distant partially visible Port of Oakland lights, Treasure Island, the Bay Bridge lit with decorative lightning, a crane on a barge in the bay, and a boat heading North about to go under the Bay Bridge.MUNI Clipper Card reader with blue yellow green red lights lit up, OUT OF SERVICE written in all caps, with a cryptic error message below: CD-Action..8% UD-176Yesterday, first day in the office this year. Crane on a barge in the bay for some reason and sad to see a layer of smog occluding the East Bay(1). No better in the early evening, could only see lights from Treasure Island and the Port of Oakland(2).

    Good to see and catch-up with co-workers. Picked up my Caltrain Go Pass. http://www.caltrain.com/Fares/tickettypes/GO_Pass.html

    Took the MUNI after, a new train, which had OUT OF SERVICE Clipper card readers(3) with the cryptic error message: “CD-Action..8% UD-176”. Zero web search results as of today:

    * DuckDuckGo: “No results.”: https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22CD%2DAction..8%25%20UD%2D176%22 or https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22CD%2DAction%22%20%22UD%2D176%22
    * Google: “No results found”: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22CD-Action..8%25+UD-176%22 and “It looks like there aren't any great matches for your search”: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22CD-Action%22+%22UD-176%22
    * Bing: “22,900 Results” but the first page of results are nonsense, none of which have anything to do with the search term: https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22CD-Action..8%25+UD-176%22

    Curious. Though obviously “CD-Action” and “UD-176” are meaningless and bad UX. Who knows what company produced the software, or who wrote it, and what these mean. I doubt it’s open source. I’m not even sure where or who to ask. I feel like this kind of embedded software is getting sloppier, less reliable, more fragile. Any software running shared urban infrastructure should be open source, available for inspection by citizens.

    #bay #SFBay #TreasureIsland #BayBridge #MUNI #OUTOFSERVICE #CDAction #UD176 #latergram #2020_003 #20200103 #nofilter

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