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Airline Pilot, System/Software Architect, Skeptic, guitar player, Ally, Advocate, Vet 🤘✌️🖖

In the front of the plane
Joined May 2008
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Some things are worth taking a few days to verify properly. This is one of them... I'm proud to announce that I have successfully driven through all 48 contiguous states plus DC in my 2026 Tesla Model Y Juniper on FSD 14.3.2. And I did it solo. Actually, let's be accurate. I rode. FSD drove. 🗓️ May 20-29, 2026. 🗺️ 7,241 official miles. 9 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes. ⚡ Not a single gallon of gas. Not a single steering input. FSD drove every mile. 💵 Total cost: $901 in Supercharger fees. Same trip in a comparable gas SUV: ~$1,303. The moment that defined the trip: the tri-state corner of MT/WY/SD, the most remote stretch of the drive from a Supercharger standpoint. I could have taken a safer route but I wanted to get there on a single charge. I knew the risk. Turned off the AC, sweated through 95°F inside the cabin, arrived at 2%. Cost me a little backtracking to officially enter Wyoming. Worth every mile. 🎯 Call it a Gentleman's Cannonball Run. I pushed hard every single day, but with rules. Sleep every night. No tickets. No driving tired. Highway speeds. Supervising an autonomous system while exhausted is reckless. I know a little something about that. Those aren't arbitrary rules, safety is my first priority. I'm an airline pilot. ✈️ Based on everything I've been able to find, this trip may represent three records worth noting: 🏆 First FSD drive through all 48 contiguous states plus DC. Solo. 🏆 Most US jurisdictions covered in a single FSD trip (49) 🏆 Possibly first and fastest EV drive through all 48 states plus DC All claims subject to verification. If anyone has done this before, I genuinely want to know. My data is fully logged and available. #Tesla #FSD #ModelY #48StatesPlus #EVRoadTrip #GentlemansCannonball #FSD14 @Tesla @DavidMoss @WholeMars
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This is such a great idea. I would definitely use a place like this on long drives 😎 – at Denver, CO
Just went to my first @ionnaofficial Rechargery in Tempe, AZ I can see why people like these, I was impressed! Super bright stalls that were all 100% covered + Restrooms, private lounge, vending machine, & more
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Looking for a Spooky read this Halloween?? Check out @karenstollznow's true story... – at Denver, CO
This Halloween, sink your teeth into the chilling true story of Arnold Paole, one of history's most notorious vampires. 🧛 amazon.com/dp/B0HLMFFPY1/
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This was an epic drive across the continent! – at Commerce City, CO
The Buoy to Bay Documentary Trailer is now Live! youtu.be/qzaI4ged0Bs Put a lot of work into it, and even more work on the documentary, can wait for y'all to see it. Dates are coming soon. T-Shirts go on sale 10/18/2026 at 3PM EST.
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Larrry David and his daughter at Gettysburg. This one's for @katzjamr1 😉 – at Denver, CO
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Happy Saturday, everyone 😎 – at Cuba
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Expanding the charging network with near-zero capital cost: an ongoing example of why @Tesla's capex is so efficient. 60 new Wall Connector for Business sites (419 connectors) in two weeks. Customer-owned, Tesla standards and software.
Wall Connector for Business sites that opened in the last 2 weeks (60 sites, 419 total Wall Connectors across public and private properties). Learn more about Wall Connector for Business: tesla.com/commercial-wall-co… United States ------------ AZ - Paradisi - Surprise, AZ (14 Wall Connectors) - Modera - Chandler, AZ (5 Wall Connectors) - Holiday Inn Club Vacations - Scottsdale, AZ (4 Wall Connectors) - Modera Rio Salado - Tempe, AZ (2 Wall Connectors) - United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona - Tucson, AZ (2 Wall Connectors) CA - Law Library Garage - Los Angeles, CA (40 Wall Connectors) - Gable House Apartments - Torrance, CA (22 Wall Connectors) - Nova Apartments - Irvine, CA (14 Wall Connectors) - Gateway - San Mateo, CA (12 Wall Connectors) - WLE - San Mateo, CA (10 Wall Connectors) - Avid Hotel Hesperia - Victorville, CA (8 Wall Connectors) - Avila Apartments - Pasadena, CA (5 Wall Connectors) - The Sanctuary at Thousand Oaks - Thousand Oaks, CA (4 Wall Connectors) - Wi Spa - Los Angeles, CA (3 Wall Connectors) - Pettis Avenue - Mountain View, CA (2 Wall Connectors) - Little Lake Health Center - Willits, CA (2 Wall Connectors) FL - Marina Bay - Clearwater, FL (3 Wall Connectors) - PACC - Pompano Beach, FL (3 Wall Connectors) - Daytona Grande Oceanfront Resort - Daytona Beach, FL (2 Wall Connectors) - Best Western - Ocala, FL (1 Wall Connector) GA - West Paces -Atlanta, GA (23 Wall Connectors) - O4W Market - Atlanta, GA (6 Wall Connectors) - IMT Stoneleigh at Deerfield - Alpharetta, GA (2 Wall Connectors) IL - Grant Park North - Chicago, IL (1 Wall Connector) IN - Parle-3500 North Harlan Avenue - Evansville, IN (4 Wall Connectors) KS - Diagnostic Imaging - Overland Park, KS (2 Wall Connectors) KY - Courtyard by Marriott - Bowling Green, KY (4 Wall Connectors) - Walk-On's Sports Bistreaux - Lexington, KY (4 Wall Connectors) MA - One Harbor Shore - Boston, MA (52 Wall Connectors) - 35 Foxborough Boulevard - Foxborough, MA (8 Wall Connectors) - Aspen Heights - Amherst, MA (6 Wall Connectors) - Holiday Inn Express Hyannis Cape Cod - Barnstable, MA (1 Wall Connector) MI - Eastland Apartments - Kentwood, MI (2 Wall Connectors) - Frieden Saugatuck - Saugatuck, MI (2 Wall Connectors) - Valley - Mt Clemens, MI (2 Wall Connectors) MN - Regency Park Apartments - North St Paul, MN (2 Wall Connectors) - Stone Arch Dental - Blaine, MN (2 Wall Connectors) NC - Southpoint Village Apartments - Durham, NC (6 Wall Connectors) - LaQuinta/Hawthorn by Wyndham - Mebane, NC (4 Wall Connectors) - Greensboro Executive Airport - Climax, NC (2 Wall Connectors) - Stratford Executive Court - Winston-Salem, NC (2 Wall Connectors) NJ - Homewood Suites Glenpointe - Teaneck, NJ (3 Wall Connectors) NV - Gold Ranch Road - Verdi, NV (5 Wall Connectors) OH - Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott - Sidney, OH (4 Wall Connectors) - Black, White and Barn - Fredericktown, OH (2 Wall Connectors) OR - Arrive University Park - Portland, OR (12 Wall Connectors) - Residence Inn by Marriott Downtown/RiverPlace - Portland, OR (6 Wall Connectors) PA - Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites - Lewisburg, PA (6 Wall Connectors) RI - 425 East Main Road - Middletown, RI (6 Wall Connectors) - Atlantic Beach Hotel Newport - Middletown, RI (2 Wall Connectors) TN - Summer Place Condominiums - Greeneville, TN (7 Wall Connectors) - Acklen Avenue - Nashville, TN (1 Wall Connector) TX - Matador - Austin, TX (8 Wall Connectors) - Inspire Homes Bonds Ranch - Fort Worth, TX (6 Wall Connectors) - Pointe West - Galveston, TX (4 Wall Connectors) - DoubleTree by Hilton Beachfront - Corpus Christi, TX (3 Wall Connectors) - Guns Plus - Georgetown, TX (2 Wall Connectors) - Richmond Towne Homes - Houston, TX (2 Wall Connectors) WA - The Modern Seattle Apartments - Seattle, WA (41 Wall Connectors) Australia ------------ ACT - Crowne Plaza - Canberra, ACT (4 Wall Connectors)
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Q3 Earnings: @Tesla is delivering exceptional capex efficiency while expanding Supercharger reach to more consumers and preparing to ramp for commercial ones. - @TeslaCharging Added 2,100+ stalls in Q3 - Supercharger network now at 84,465 connectors across 8,904 stations (+14% YoY) - Business Superchargers hit 600+ stalls: fully customer-owned, Tesla standards, with ZERO Tesla CapEx - First Accordion Supercharger deployed (factory pre-assembled, 16 stalls per truck, \~20% cheaper to install) - First pre-assembled Megacharger for Semi - Record 2.4 TWh delivered and 69M sessions – at Cozumel, Quintana Roo
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I missed it by weeks! So glad this is open, guarantees another road trip!! 😎
New Tesla Supercharger: Key West, FL (12 stalls) tesla.com/findus?location=33… Voting Winner Site 🏆 If there's a place where you've always wanted a Supercharger, vote for it here: tesla.com/supercharger-votin…
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How much innovation and breakthrough engineering would there be at @tesla, @spacex, and the rest of @elonmusk's companies without facing hard truths? Zero. – at Commerce City, CO
The amount of snowflakes in the Tesla community today is unbelievable. They are coming out with the cold weather. I posted a video today of FSD pulling into an oncoming lane and literally coming to a complete stop as a car came straight towards it. That's something Tesla nerds like to talk about. My wife I both drive one and I want to know if there is something we need to pay attention to. The emotional responses were ridiculous. They act like simply talking about a problem is a problem.
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This chart is getting really exciting. Cybercab numbers are going parabolic. 🔥
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It feels like something is beginning to shift. Larry this is some amazing outreach. It's no exaggeration to say you've helped give some of these people a new lease on life. Well done. – at Commerce City, CO
There's an entirely new auto market being opened up by FSD. My wife and I moved into a retirement community last year, and we were joined by my brother and his wife. Our homes are almost next door to each other. Being longtime Tesla owners, we joined the EV group that meets once a month and shares information. I offered to talk about my experience with FSD, and they were excited to hear about it. So I prepared some slides and videos, freely purloined from the great material on X. The results were pretty astounding. The average monthly meetup usually had, perhaps, a couple of dozen people. Instead, the meeting notice talking about FSD drew a packed house of perhaps a hundred people, and we had to turn people away as the room was full. Well, that was last quarter's meeting. This quarter's meeting was held last week, to a significantly expanded group. And what did we hear? We heard about a couple that had stopped driving, their car sitting parked because they felt too unsure of themselves to drive. After my presentation, they traded in their vehicle for a Tesla with FSD, and now they are at about 97.5% on FSD and feel that they have been liberated. When I asked "why only 97.5%," they explained that the car lost its way in their underground parking garage (they live in the apartment section of the community). I explained that they could drop a pin on their actual parking spot rather than the address, and that may solve their problem. What struck me even more than the people who bought new Teslas after the presentation was how many seniors talked about their own FSD experience, and how many of them were achieving mid- to high-90% FSD driving. There was uniform enthusiasm for the product and for what it meant for them in their senior years. That matters in what is rapidly becoming an aging population.
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The FBI wasn't interested. Neither was the CIA. But a quirky, curious astronomer wouldn't let go. How a 75 cent error brought down a Cold War KGB spy ring. True story. – at Denver, CO
In 1986, a tiny 75-cent discrepancy in a computer billing report set off one of the most remarkable detective stories in the early days of computing. Clifford Stoll, an astronomer at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, could have dismissed the missing amount as a rounding error. Instead, his curiosity turned it into a full-blown investigation. What started as a simple accounting puzzle stretched into a ten-month odyssey. By poring over login records, network traffic, and unusual nighttime activity, Stoll realized someone was systematically breaking into the lab’s systems. What first looked like possible student mischief quickly revealed something far more serious. The intruder turned out to be Markus Hess, a skilled German hacker who had penetrated U.S. research and government networks, including systems linked to the Department of Energy and military programs. He wasn’t merely browsing: he was stealing sensitive data and selling it to the KGB. With almost no established cybersecurity practices to draw from, Stoll had to invent his methods on the fly. He created custom monitoring tools, set digital traps, meticulously logged every move the hacker made, and worked closely with authorities. His persistence and ingenuity eventually traced the intrusions across the Atlantic, providing the evidence needed to expose Hess and shut down the espionage ring. All of it traced back to that single overlooked 75 cents. In 1990, Stoll chronicled the entire saga in his bestselling book The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, which offered an early, gripping look at digital spying and helped lay the groundwork for the cybersecurity profession. Stoll’s story remains a powerful reminder that curiosity, attention to detail, and relentless determination—even when focused on something as small as 75 cents—can reveal hidden threats and alter the course of technology’s development. It served as one of the first clear signals that information systems were becoming strategic assets, every bit as valuable and vulnerable as physical ones.
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Nothing beats seeing it first hand. Glad you got to see it. First of many for you! – at Commerce City, CO
First time watching a launch firsthand tonight, from ~30 mi distant. From dark moonlit sky to what’s depicted below. It was Falcon Heavy so dual boosters returned with sonic booms. Quite the spectacle!
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It's Halloween!! 🎃🧛☠️ Start your spooky month off right by reading "How to become a Vampire" by my friend @karenstollznow... – at Denver, CO
It’s the start of Halloween month, so I’m celebrating with the release of How to Become a Vampire, my retelling of the strange and terrifying events that turned a man into a vampire. a.co/d/04xbhbm8
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Jupi! – at Commerce City, CO
Just In: Tesla FSD Supervised is now available & approved in Croatia 🇭🇷 Rollout to customer vehicles will begin very soon
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Congratulations to one of the absolute best people I've met. Way to go Jim, looking forward to more of your great content!! – at Commerce City, CO
Big milestone for me on the YouTubes. It’s been a journey. Not gonna slow down any time soon.
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Anyone recognize the name? @Scobleizer? You know everyone!! 😁 Looking to help out @MrTeller 🪄🎩3️⃣♣️ – at Denver, CO
I'm trying to locate John Samson, who constructed a critical magic prop for me in Los Angeles around 1983-1984. Anybody recognize that name? He might have worked at the LA Stage Co.
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The model that I want... – at Commerce City, CO
Checkout my new “Fremont-Tesla Special” song with mixed FSD clips in 3s, Ys & Cybertruck, across years.
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First Starship orbital flight. First Operational Starlink V3 deployment. And it happened right over the Orange River, South Africa's longest. The kid from Pretoria, has to smile at that one, @elonmusk – at Denver, CO
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