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nat makhijani 🌯

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nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· 1d

❤️💙❤️💙

the interior of a skytrain mark i car. the accents are red and blue. they’re from the 80s but have held up (mechanically and visually) pretty well. nobody is onboard. “private limo cah” as a friend would say

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· 2d

in advance of some meetings tomorrow, i decided to make stringlines of the expo line

stringlines, or a time-distance graph of many trains on the skytrain expo line, in both directions. where the expo line and millennium line overlap, both have their trips shown. each trip is a line, connecting points (station stop times). the surrey branch is not shown, so king george trips disappear at columbia. service can be seen ramping up and down around the peak, which is near the center. the closer lines are vertically, the shorter the headway. what sticks out to me here is that there is non-uniform runtime variability between station pairs, which is unexpected in a schedule for a fully automated cbtc line.

another interesting tidbit: at least according to gtfs, congenital (expo and millennium) skytrain schedules do not include dwells and are only provided at a sixty second resolution

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· 3d

view from the granville bridge on a bus. layers of mountains are visible in the background, and the bridge railing, trolley bus catenary, and another bridge (burard) are in the foreground

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· 4d

we’re so unbelievably back

skytrain east of 29 avenue

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· 11d

Operacion Justicia de la Taquería begins in 14 days

my calendar showing me in san francisco 8/14-8/18

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· 25d

interested in this guy

highlighted picture of equipment rack. it has a screen? and some white green red and yellow buttons

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Jul 13

I love this city

Skyline of Midtown Manhattan from a roof in western Queens

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Jul 5

went for a lovely bike ride in the heat yesterday and got sprayed by some fire hydrants on the open street. it was perfect

me smiling while riding my bike. i’m wearing a cutoff tshirt and a muni bus stop hat

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Jun 14

Start spreading the news, it’s a New York Century

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Jun 13

Great words.

Anyway, the Giants lost and I don’t care. Tonight I’m thinking about Kyle Harrison, who was plastered across every Pride Night ad a year ago, grinning like a kid in a candy store while showing off his Pride Night bucket hat. Tonight I’m thinking about Matt Cain, good ol’ country boy that he was, popping up on a Giants PSA to tell fans that baseball is for everyone. Tonight I’m thinking about Solomon Bates, the Giants pitching prospect who came out as gay shortly after his Minor League career came to an end. I’m thinking of the closeted professional baseball players across the Majors and Minors, each of whom has surely spent countless hours wondering if their teammates would accept them.

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Jun 8

taxiing for takeoff

two dogs neatly laying in a line in the ground in front of a long runner rug

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Jun 6

hype hype hype

order receipt email for the elon sticker

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Jun 6

miles help

screenshot from plexamp showing 1,562 albums

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Jun 3

HETCH POWER HETCHY

“HETCH HETCHY POWER” manhole cover

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 30

broke my worrystone gotta glue this shit back together

my website, but the first section “writing” has its grid all out of whack

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 30

canelo, a cinnamon colored american village dog curled up on the couch next to cookie, a small pembroke corgi, next to me, human. the dogs are both very sleepy, i’m sort of awake

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 30

👩‍🎤🐶

me and cookie

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 25

And of course polished my worrystone

An updated screenshot of my website, with new tagline type things under headers on the home page and a fun old timey pointing icon

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 24

🏪

me in the barcode scanner app at the data vandals party in the subway

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 17

👉

me pointing out the window of an LIRR M9. matt took this photo

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 12

This must be the place

hotdog orientation photo taken from the platform at 74 st on the 7 train. a train approaches in the leftmost track, behind it is the skyline of midtown manhattan in front of a beautiful, orange beginning of sunset. a plane flies over buildings to the right. a home signal on the middle track in the foreground shows red over red

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 11

neighborhood welcome committee!

little raccoon climbing down the stairs of my fire escape

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 8

Mastodon post from @abbyfluoroethane@tech.lgbt: “wat bedoel je nou Muni heeft ook competitieve cuck-stoelen”
There is a photo taken looking forward from the back of a Muni bus

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 8

Moved and my new place is 46 colored!

Selfie of me grinning in a room with a shelf, bed, lamp and boxes. The walls are orange and yellow

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· May 2

Inside you there are two wolves

Screenshot of calendar showing spectrum bill and payday

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Apr 30

railroading in 1970:

Q. What did you do while you were in New York for EJA
[a Penn Central subsidiary]?
A. General Lassiter said I could be of great, great service to
him if I would help in the social life of [Penn Central officers]
General Hodge and Dave Bevan, since he [Lassiter] was under
a lot of pressure from them due to the company having finan-
cial problems . . . .
Q. Did you do any of this .. . ?
A. Yes On one occasion General Hodge asked if I knew
of any young ladies who would go on a business trip to Europe
that he was taking with General Lassiter

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Apr 27

Found one!

selfie of me grinning and pointing to an empire bin. welcome to the 20th century, new york

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Apr 26

True

"Using significant energy: Maps"

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Apr 26

A station in a trench. Leaves are green and it’s sunny out. Two tracks with third rail run down the center of the shot

Same place, looking the other way. There’s more greenery

nat makhijani 🌯@multipleunit· Apr 25

sign in the subway: ESCALATOR OPERATION
NYCT DOES NOT OPERATE THIS ESCALATOR
WHEN OUT OF SERVICE CALL BOSTON PROPERTIES AT (212) 308-6661
MTA New York City Transit. Somebody has scrawled “Fuck Boston!” under the phone number