Ted

@theredheadted

Hi. I'm Ted. I'm a union worker. I take pictures, look at maps, watch baseball/football, and drive places. I have red hair. I'm from West Virginia and live in greater Pittsburgh. IWW (WV GMB, IU 651). NTEU 335 (CFPB).

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Ted@theredheadted· 12d

On the way home. August 3, 2026; 8:55 PM Paris, PA

A two-lane road heading west at sunset and disappearing into an orange horizon. The road is lined with houses, power lines, and trees in silhouette.

Ted@theredheadted· 19d

Pretty ugly backup for a Sunday afternoon.

Map of the Parkway West showing an inbound backup from the tunnel past the top of Green Tree Hill.

Ted@theredheadted· 20d

I didn't know there were blue wrens. This one is the Superb Fairywren. There's also a much bluer wren called the Splendid Fairywren.

Two small songbirds perched on a barbed wire fence with green vegetation in the background. The one on the right (male) has a blue and black head, a blue tail, and greyish belly and wings. The one on the left (female) has an orange beak and cere, a brown head, back and tail, and greyish white belly.

Image from Wikipedia: By User:benjamint444 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1594979

Ted@theredheadted· 24d

Yeah, if it takes explaining, it probably isn't great. Haha. It's the horn/eye combo and red streak from the logo.

A blue football helmet with a white and red design.

Ted@theredheadted· 27d

There's something very satisfying about NOT using the perforations on the side of these bottles, and instead, popping them open using the caps.

A blue and pink bottle of liquid Crystal Light strawberry lemonade drink mix sitting on an amber wooden countertop.

Ted@theredheadted· Jul 19

The kerning between the R and the A is too wide.

Ted@theredheadted· Jun 26

The field below Freeport High School (Taken on a drive after a haircut.) Freeport, PA December 16, 2022

A photograph of a school and field. The pale green field is in the foreground with blue light poles lining the edge that abuts the hillside on which the buff-brick high school sits. Behind the school rises a dark brown hillside covered in leafless trees. The scene is from a wet December day. The sky is a sheet of pale grey.

Ted@theredheadted· Jun 25

Hawes Avenue in the dark. Garden City, SC Circa June 2019

An image of a dark, unlined asphalt street, lit by a single streetlight.

Ted@theredheadted· Jun 25

I was raised on these streets

A purple car with three tail lights in a horizontal line at the starting line of a race track in a sewer. The road and walls are a tan color with rusty accents. The sky is dark with red clouds and a white celestial body. All of this is rendered in 1997-era computer game graphics; the screenshot is from Ubisoft's Pod.

Ted@theredheadted· Jun 23

Shout out to Mozilla for putting the World Cup scores on the new tab page in Firefox mobile. This is so simple, straightforward, and easy to check. I don't have to dig through dumb "media feeds" and select events (ESPN) or search for them via search engine. It's just right there. Very nice.

Ted@theredheadted· Jun 6

The flying WV is a great logo, and one that the school should use for just about all athletics branding. However, the historic baseball logo is so baseball-monogram-coded, that I would eschew the flying WV entirely (except for maybe a sleeve patch?) for WVU's baseball branding and uniforms.

Ted@theredheadted· May 14

The designs of early 90s Topps, Fleer, and Upper Deck cards still resonate with me. Especially the stone/marble 1992 Upper Deck football cards. Something about that team-color marble under the names.

Ted@theredheadted· May 13

And here is the original (for reference) along with a theme I made up on the fly just to try out various color combinations.

A mostly black and white three-wheeled Lego space vehicle with neon green transparent accents, and a minifigure dressed in black and white with a neon green visor. (Blacktron II)

A mostly grey three-wheeled Lego space vehicle with violet transparent accents, and a minifigure dressed in black and grey with a violet visor.

Ted@theredheadted· May 13

So, here is Tri-Wheeled Tyrax (a Blacktron II set released in 1991) as 1) Blacktron I, 2) Ice Planet 2002, 3) Futuron, and 4) Space Police I.

A mostly black three-wheeled Lego space vehicle with red and yellow transparent accents, and a minifigure dressed in all black. (Blacktron I)

A mostly white and blue three-wheeled Lego space vehicle with orange transparent accents, and a minifigure dressed in blue, white, and black with an orange visor. (Ice Planet 2002)

A mostly black and white three-wheeled Lego space vehicle with red and blue transparent accents, and a minifigure dressed in black and white with a blue visor. (Futuron)

A mostly black and blue three-wheeled Lego space vehicle with red transparent accents, and a minifigure dressed in white and black with a red visor. (Space Police I)

Ted@theredheadted· May 3

I know it's out of line to combine the two sides, but I made a batch of united pepperoni rolls tonight.

A pepperoni roll (white bread & red pepperoni) on a counter, showing both sliced and stick pepperoni baked into it. (A debate in West Virginia is which way of preparing a pepperoni roll is better? With stick pepperoni or sliced pepperoni?)

Ted@theredheadted· May 2

Some interesting insights in the standings: The Cubs appear to be legit. The Reds (curr. in 2nd) are underwater by 11 runs with an exp. W-L of two UNDER .500. The Cards are 6 over .500, but 4 of those are from the sweep of the Bucs. And the Brewers and Bucs should have better records than they do.

The National League Central standings as of 6 PM ET on 5/2. The teams, in order, are 1) CHC, 2) CIN, 3) STL, 4) MIL, and 5) PIT. All teams are over .500. The Reds appear to be the luckiest team at 8 over .500, but giving up more runs than they've scored. The Brewers and Pirates are both in positive run differential territory with MIL at +43 and PIT at +20, meaning that their luck is likely worse than average, and their records will likely improve.

Ted@theredheadted· Apr 24

El Reposo Place, Panama City Beach, FL; March 2007. Shot on a Holga rigged up to shoot 35mm film.

A nighttime view down a streetlight-lit side street, facing southwest toward the Gulf of Mexico. In the foreground is a yellow streetlight, lighting the left side of the street, including a leafless tree, trash can, and house. The right side of the street is lined with telephone poles, and a mailbox in the foreground. At the end of the street where it meets Front Beach Road, is a teal streetlight. The image is bordered on top and bottom with 35mm film sprocket holes and "KODAK 6 GOLD" on the top and "5, 5A" on the bottom.

Ted@theredheadted· Apr 4

Fun day at PNC Park yesterday. #letsgobucs

Ted@theredheadted· Apr 3

I'm in the bendy part of the T.

Ted@theredheadted· Apr 3

It's been a fun home opener so far. #letsgobucs

Wide-angle view of the playing field at PNC park under broken clouds. The stands are almost at capacity, and the city of Pittsburgh and the Clemente bridge are visible in the background.

Ted@theredheadted· Mar 26

Bluesky, the sports app.

Many Pittsburgh Pirates fans reacting on the Skyline to the top of the first inning between the Pirates and Mets on Opening Day.

Ted@theredheadted· Mar 23

Update: the line is still thin, and has moved south. Still 36° in Ashtabula and 77° in Burlington. On the second map, for reference, the distance from Washington Courthouse to Humboldt is 19 miles. 19 miles, 20° difference.

Basically the same map as before, but the temperature line is now south of Columbus.

Detail of the other map, showing a very thin line between temperatures in the 50s and 70s in south-central Ohio.

Ted@theredheadted· Mar 22

It's simultaneously 36° near Ashtabula, OH and in the mid 80s in Burlington, OH (the furthest southern point in Ohio). The front separating these two starkly different temperatures is running west to east, and the distance between the upper 30s and 80s is only roughly 100 miles wide.

A vertical weather map bounded by northern TN and the southern upper peninsula in the south and north, respectively; Indianapolis and Pittsburgh, west to east. showing a stark temperature difference along a line running from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh, with temperatures in the 50s and colder north of that line and 80s below it.

Ted@theredheadted· Mar 18

The House Bluebell, OH March 18, 2007

An abandoned farm house in stark shadow/relief, surrounded by close-grown, leafless trees, sitting on a gold and green patch of land next to a road on the right. The soft white light comes from the right of the image, sunlight diffused through fog, with blue skies overhead on the left.

Ted@theredheadted· Feb 16

It's about as wet as it can get outside without it actively raining. 34°, 97% humidity. We're under a dense fog advisory. Presumably due to the ground still being relatively cold and the air being warmer and wet.

A neighborhood at night with white streetlights on either side and an orange streetlight in the middle, above the peak of a dark roof in the foreground. Trees in the foreground are silhouettes on top of the streetlights casting their lights into clouds of light in the dense fog.

Ted@theredheadted· Jan 7

It's beautiful. Especially this particular of-a-certain-time graphic.

A side-banner ad image for iratefans.com's eBay store, in yellow with a black and white skull and cross bones Jolly Roger and a 90s zigzag-style clipart image of a man in a blue suit and a yellow bolt on his head, rubbing his head as though he has a headache. The ad includes black text that says "Does following the Pirates give you a headache? wearing an Iratefans tee shirt provides relief!"

Ted@theredheadted· Jan 5

Update!

Ted@theredheadted· Jan 5

🤔 ESPN is also tired and needs a break from all that.

An ESPN notification that reads "The North belongs to Ravens" but the blurb below that title accurately explains that the Steelers beat the Ravens and won the AFC North title, securing a playoff spot and eliminating Baltimore with the 26-24 Pittsburgh victory.

Ted@theredheadted· Jan 4

I really like cold, clear winter evenings where the sky is light blue fading to gold on the horizon, the ground is covered in snow, and the air is clean and biting.

An apartment building viewed through leafless winter trees. It is twilight, and a streetlight glows orange-gold over the corner of the apartment and across the pale blue snow. The corner apartment has strands of multicolor Christmas lights strung across its balcony.

Ted@theredheadted· Jan 1

It's time for one of my favorite map games: can you tell where the weather is?