Jeff Nachtigall

@dirklancer

Endurance performance artist. Poet on the bus. Creativity from constraint. Beards. Words. Midlife Crisis. Award winner. ADHD Dad. Once I was owned by a tiny bakery, now I work at a bigger bakery. "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." -Hemingway

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Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· 18d

Cherry trees.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· 20d

First zine attempt.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· 28d

for your safety please the sign on the planet said hold tight at all times #haiku #haikuonthebus #senryu

A blurry photo of the small sticker-signs in the bus on the wall above the yellow "request stop" pull cord. One sign in white text on dark blue says, "PULL CORD TO SIGNAL DRIVER TO STOP". The other shows two stylized stick men standing while riding a bus, one is holding on overhead loop, the other is holding a pole. The stickman holding the pole appears to be wearing a necktie, but no other clothing is illustrated, on either stickperson. The illustration is black on white, and the floor is grey. The illustration takes up approximately five-eights of the sticker, which is rectangular with a landscape orientation. The right portion of the rectangle - approximately three-eights of the sticker - is a yellow background with black text that says, "FOR YOUR SAFETY PLEASE HOKD TIGHT AT ALL TIMES". There is no punctuation on either of the stickers.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Jun 29

"You got Wordle in 2!"

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Jun 12

pull cord to pull cord to signal pull cord to pull cord to signal pull cord to signal driver to stop #decodingpublicpoetry #zoomintofindthecode

A small sticker beside the window on the bus. The rectangular sticker is light navy blue with white lettering. The main message says pull cord to signal driver to stop in all capital letters. In my smaller letters in the bottom right corner are the numbers 353518, which I interpreted as a poetic code for how many syllables should be in each line of a short poem based on this sticker.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Jun 7

We don’t see each others headers usually so here’s mine. (it's from @innerdecay.bsky.social)

A screenshot of an embroidered patch. The background fabric is black. The embroidered letters and border are yellow. The patch is the shape of a medieval-style pennant - 4 inches wide and 1 inch high - the top and sides are straight, and the bottom is a zigzag or saw tooth pattern. The text says "We used to kill kings for less than this"

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Jun 6

New emergency foster, who dis?

Small chocolate brown dog with curly hair sitting in a beige dog bed.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· May 29

Daily Olive (and partial Charlie)

Two dogs reclining across the room on a hardwood floor. The dog in the foreground is a grey sheepadoodle with white markings on her chest and front paws; she is causally looking at the viewer. The dog in the background is a black terrier-husky mix with white on his front legs and grey markings on his back legs. His head is outside the right of the photo.
The room is backlit by sunlight coming in from an out-of-frame window. The top third - the backdrop for the photo - is a large ottoman with a pattern made up of a grid of circles in different and varying shades of muted browns and blues. The upper left corner of the image is occupied by the lower portion of a light blue couch with a wooden peg-leg-style leg that appears to be covered with a fitted sheeted. The photo has a low resolution and appears to have been taken with an older cell phone camera, circa 2015.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· May 13

The things I find on my desk...

A close up of my workspace, but much of the photo is taken up by a bi-color croissant, with a ribbon of red dough.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· May 10

In case you're wondering how cool I was, this is the model I drove through an 800 year old Douglas fir forest to my isolated mountainside worksite to drive a 30 tonne excavator all day.

A 1980 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz in a showroom with a checkered floor.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· May 4

I'm on a bus.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· May 2

I did an all greens wordle today. Things are lookin' up.

Screenshot from Wordle game that says "You solved with only greens! Create a free account to save this badge."

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Apr 29

It's just called Transit App. (I'm in 1st place on route 2 this month. This is very important)

Screenshot from app called "Transit App" showing icon of user "Hipster Rider" with a 1st place ribbon under the heading, "2" and sub-heading, "APR. 2026"

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Apr 26

I no longer have teenage children. Life comes at you fast. Happy birthday Viggo.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Apr 9

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Mar 28

Bowl 3 is a classic combo: Sugar Crisp, Cap'n Crunch, & Honeycombs.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Mar 26

I wouldn't have dared to dream about this moment.

I screenshot of Instagram showing that the Balderson Cheese account apparently wants to follow me.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Mar 24

The dog we were fostering for 10 weeks has been adopted. Now it's a little quieter around here.

A straight-on portrait of a little black dog with white markings on a sheet-covered couch.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Mar 24

I think I'm getting the hang of the bus commute. 3yrs - carpool to work 4yrs - drive or walk to work 12yrs - walk to work 8yrs - drive with Amy to work 8mths - look for work 7days - bus to work

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Mar 12

I went w/ this pic & <50-word bio: "Jeff sees himself as an endurance/concept artist and poet. But most folks see him as a Dad from Edmonton with a decent beard and ADHD. He has two adult children, two rescue dogs, and has been madly in love with the same lowkey juggernaut since the late 1900s."

A close-up of an old-school colour-chemical photobooth strip with only one of the four photos fully in the frame. It's me, with a very full beard, looking straight ahead and adjusting my flat cap with my right hand.
The background is bright white, and my button-up shirt and cap are light colours that appear quite washed out.
It seems that I have moved much closer to the camera in the bottom photo on the strip, as even though only a quarter of it is in the frame, it appears to be my out-of-focus mouth, mustache and beard.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Mar 11

Here are 4 of the contenders.

A close-up of a photobooth strip with only one of the four photos fully in the frame. It's me, with a very full beard, looking straight ahead and adjusting my flat cap with my right hand.
The background is bright white, and my button-up shirt and cap are light colours that appear quite washed out.
It seems that I have move much closer to the camera in the bottom photo on the strip, as even though only a quarter of it is in the frame, it appears to be my mouth, mustache and beard.

A close-up of a photobooth strip, of me. In the photo at the centre of the frame I am leaning slightly forward and scowling. I am wearing a black ball cap.

A 4 by 5 grid of 20 photobooth images. Each image is of the same man with slightly different expressions or posture. The background is orange, and the man is wearing an orange ball cap, an orange argyll sweater, an orange button-up shirt, a white and orange tie, and has a full beard. He is holding a banana in 17 of the images, multiple bananas in 2 images, and an orange in the first image.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Mar 6

I limited myself to the nonfiction tables, as I was taking the bus.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Mar 6

Half of today's YEGWords deliveries...

Screenshot of Strava route showing GPS-tracked route superimposed on map of downtown Edmonton, starting on Jasper Avenue between 103 and 104 Streets, meandering to 107 St, north to 105 Avenue, and east to the MacEwan LRT station.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Feb 26

This is who runs this account.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Feb 23

Need a new best friend? We've been fostering Inti since January 9. He's almost 4 months, super smart, and he's ready to be adopted! Find him at Alberta Homeward Hound: www.albertahomewardhound.com/ahhrbadoptab... (We'd keep him ourselves if we didn't already have two!)

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Feb 19

There's a coyote wandering around on our front street, driving my dogs CRAZY.

The view out my front window in a residential neighbourhood. A coyote wanders down the middle of the street.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Feb 5

I can almost hear them scream.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Feb 4

Frozen raspberries, brown sugar, a splash of vanilla, and a few drops of lemon juice. Cooked on the stove top until it looked jam-enough, then froze in jars. I took the first jar out yesterday, and I guess I guessed the cook time right on this batch; it's the exact right amount of jammy. #jamsession

Top view of a small, open jar of raspberry jam on a faux stone counter top. Beside the jar is a brassy-coloured lid with the words: RASP. DEC 17/25 written in black Sharpie.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Feb 4

One of my least favourite chores is putting the duvet cover back on after laundry. Luckily, I had three helpers today. Many hands makes light work, but many paws does something slightly different, I think.

Three dogs casually reclining on a partially made bed.

Jeff Nachtigall@dirklancer· Jan 26

For reference, this is the regular supply run.