Phil Naranjo
@philnaranjo
He/Him. Product Management Director @ Tableau | Building AI-driven insights to make data intuitive. 🤖📊 Space enthusiast, orbital mechanics nerd, and radio astronomy fan 📡. Passionate about cooking, gardening, and exploring the American Pacific Northwest 🏔️
Likely more performance than a state of the Art orbit analysis. October 1957. Astronomers Fred Whipple and J. Allen Hynek trace Sputnik 1’s ground track across a giant relief globe, turning hundreds of visual observations into an understanding of humanity’s first artificial satellite.
My first look at a retired United 747-400 being suspended inside the Aero1200 development in Denny Triangle, #Seattle, turning Boeing jet-age hardware into a galleria/workspace above retail and near a Live Nation music venue.
This is the personal computer circa 1983 used by the teen hacker in War Games. IMSAI 8080 in 1975, one of the first real hobbyist microcomputers, built around the S-100 bus.
Did any or you see that glowing cloud in Washington State’s sky (USA)? A SpaceX Falcon 9 2nd stage venting propellant 550 km up after delivering Starlink satellites. It catches sunlight after sunset. We can see whenever a Florida Starlink launch happens 1-3 hrs before sunset. I vibe coded bad sim.
It’s been a very gentle winter here in the US Pacific Northwest. We’re expecting cold to set in next week. Sunset, from the city of Edmunds, Washington State. This is the Salish Sea, which connects to the Pacific Ocean.
Found this vintage book from 1902, the liminal dawn of the automobile, just a year before Ford founded his company. Back when cars were DIY “self-propelled vehicles,” it reads like a hands-on MAKE magazine. Super dieselpunk energy. 🛠️📖 #booksky
Japanese advertising icon from the late 1970s / very early 1980s, created to promote high-end consumer audio equipment. テクノロボ コンボイ Tekuno Robo Konboi “Technorobo Comboy”
The poster wall near #Seattle’s Pike Place has been layered for 20+ years like a quiet archive of wheatpaste, flyers, and fragments. Scraped, reborn, never meant to last. #streetart
Tonight I reread The White Cat and the Monk to my newly-13-year-olds, curled up together, again. An ancient, anonymous Irish monk made human thru love for his cat, across 1,000 years. Brushwork is luminous, echoing Insular manuscript art & lettering. A kids book to cherish, return to. #booksky
Ziggy Stardust watching over the tree tonight. Bowie in his alien-glam moment, as seen through Mick Rock’s iconic eye. 📸 🌟
The festive lobby of #Seattle’s elegant Fairmont Olympic Hotel 🎄 A must for locals looking to carve out a little #Christmas splendor. Cozy library nooks, a speakeasy, luminous brasserie, gilded bar, the bustle of cosmopolitan guests coming and going. #2025
#Christmas 🎄 Art Walk on the first Thursday of December at #Seattle’s Pioneer Square. Galleries flung open to the cold night, music echoing off old brick, and Seattle’s oldest neighborhood feeling like a winter festival.
The Connection Machine, designed in the mid-1980s by Danny Hillis at Thinking Machines Corporation. It was an early massively parallel supercomputer with up to 65,536 processors working together.
Life’s small rituals, a $25 USD tiny of ceremonial matcha green tea and bamboo whisk, chasen, to aerate and foam the drink. Eisai, the Rinzai monk, carried Zen and powdered tea to #Japan like spores across an ocean, seeding a ritual that would branch through centuries as quietly.
I was reading that after 48 years, the Z80 microprocessor finally ended production in 2024. An 8-bit superstar that powered arcade cabinets, homebrew dreams, and whole eras of computing. Hard to believe a chip from 1976 outlived so many of its successors. 🤯 #trs80
Japan once dreamed of a winged craft called HOPE, a spaceplane meant to slip from orbit and land like a thought returning to Earth. But the Cold War thawed, budgets cooled, and the vision dissolved like spores in sunlight.
Europe once built a mockup for a 3-seat spaceplane called Hermes. It could’ve launched on Ariane 5 and glided home like a mini-Shuttle. Then politics killed it.
I’m gonna try to re-create this vintage video game using #PICO-8. It re-creates recovering and stowing a satellite using the space shuttle orbiter manipulator arm. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with writing a little program that would do just the same thing.
Planning a few summer trips to do stargazing and spend quality time with friends. I have a #shiftpod and stay cool in the mornings with a #zerobreeze mark two air conditioner. I power its batteries in my electronics with two 200 W 24 V, 6A solar panels.
Sad to see @Astrodon.social shutting down today. A rare corner of the #Mastadon Fediverse where astronomers, scientists, and space geeks shared wonder. Low usage + high cost caught up. 💫 Looking for space-related Fediverse recommendations. Not yet sure about future independence of #bluesky
My other fave. About 9,000 DeLorean DMC-12s were made from 1981–1983. Known for stainless steel panels and gullwing doors, it’s a 1980s icon. Today, prices range from ~$30K for a project car to over $80K for restored models. Rare, quirky, and still turning heads.