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Geologist (MSc), percussionist, general hammer-wielding troublemaker; hydrologic modeler.
ELCA. She/her. Ace.
Walking SW Wisconsin stereotype, flatlanded in Iowa.
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ELCA. She/her. Ace.
Walking SW Wisconsin stereotype, flatlanded in Iowa.
Avatar: Functionally unidentifiable in snow gear
Banner: Hailstones and engineering ruler
It was absurdly bright! I started off with a 4sec shutter & went down to 1sec during the brightest red flare.
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
It was absurdly bright! I started off with a 4sec shutter & went down to 1sec during the brightest red flare.
Huh! I should try to see the aurora somewhere quiet, then! There's a bird chaser at work that drives me NUTS.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Huh! I should try to see the aurora somewhere quiet, then! There's a bird chaser at work that drives me NUTS.
Cocoa and vanilla beans aren't "beans" in the sense of legume, either!
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Cocoa and vanilla beans aren't "beans" in the sense of legume, either!
Hippopotabus! That's great!
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Hippopotabus! That's great!
Oof, yes. That was the first non-Earthsea LeGuin I read, as a college student, hanging out in the stairwell of the building I had history classes in.
I was a freshman in the College of Natural Resources. I'm not sure I ever quite shook it.
I was a freshman in the College of Natural Resources. I'm not sure I ever quite shook it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Oof, yes. That was the first non-Earthsea LeGuin I read, as a college student, hanging out in the stairwell of the building I had history classes in.
I was a freshman in the College of Natural Resources. I'm not sure I ever quite shook it.
I was a freshman in the College of Natural Resources. I'm not sure I ever quite shook it.
"A book everybody wants to HAVE read & nobody wants to read."
Heck, I enjoyed Ivanhoe, too, but if that's a "classic" it's for being old & full of purple prose more that any actual impact.
Heck, I enjoyed Ivanhoe, too, but if that's a "classic" it's for being old & full of purple prose more that any actual impact.
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"A book everybody wants to HAVE read & nobody wants to read."
Heck, I enjoyed Ivanhoe, too, but if that's a "classic" it's for being old & full of purple prose more that any actual impact.
Heck, I enjoyed Ivanhoe, too, but if that's a "classic" it's for being old & full of purple prose more that any actual impact.
Encyclopedia Brown! I'd nearly forgotten those.
The line between "classic" and "popular" is often silly, frankly. I liked Huck Finn, which was certainly "popular" when published & is now a "classic"--which "genre" Twain had a humorous definition of.
The line between "classic" and "popular" is often silly, frankly. I liked Huck Finn, which was certainly "popular" when published & is now a "classic"--which "genre" Twain had a humorous definition of.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Encyclopedia Brown! I'd nearly forgotten those.
The line between "classic" and "popular" is often silly, frankly. I liked Huck Finn, which was certainly "popular" when published & is now a "classic"--which "genre" Twain had a humorous definition of.
The line between "classic" and "popular" is often silly, frankly. I liked Huck Finn, which was certainly "popular" when published & is now a "classic"--which "genre" Twain had a humorous definition of.
That book was such an eye-opener for me, a Midwestern white kid, at about that same age.
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
That book was such an eye-opener for me, a Midwestern white kid, at about that same age.
It is here in Iowa, & I can see it in town! (Granted the north side of a smaller city)
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It is here in Iowa, & I can see it in town! (Granted the north side of a smaller city)
It's the same way rich people look down on the poor & whine that they just need to be "more disciplined with money." In the end it amounts to "it's your fault for not having [rich/Canadian/etc] parents" & oddly, I don't recall getting to pick?
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It's the same way rich people look down on the poor & whine that they just need to be "more disciplined with money." In the end it amounts to "it's your fault for not having [rich/Canadian/etc] parents" & oddly, I don't recall getting to pick?
That would make a neat pattern for glaze!
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
That would make a neat pattern for glaze!
I did get the impression the mixed-gender boarding schools were mildly less awful, but I would have no idea, only having lived on campus for my bachelor's degree years.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I did get the impression the mixed-gender boarding schools were mildly less awful, but I would have no idea, only having lived on campus for my bachelor's degree years.
Admittedly quite a few boys who went to actual public schools never manage to grow up, either, but at least 1) SOME do and 2) "I graduated from the high school I happened to live near" isn't held up as an achievement the way "my parents paid for Posh Fuckwit Training for me" is...
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Admittedly quite a few boys who went to actual public schools never manage to grow up, either, but at least 1) SOME do and 2) "I graduated from the high school I happened to live near" isn't held up as an achievement the way "my parents paid for Posh Fuckwit Training for me" is...
If ever we needed proof that bullying & hazing do not "make men out of boys," the English & American upper-class schooling systems & their products are more than sufficient
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If ever we needed proof that bullying & hazing do not "make men out of boys," the English & American upper-class schooling systems & their products are more than sufficient
The elders having moral panics about the youngsters behaving as they see the elders doing!
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The elders having moral panics about the youngsters behaving as they see the elders doing!
...well, you've heard the "everyone is 12" theory, yes?
& you live in a country where 90% of your politicians went to one of a handful of <strike>arrested development centers for rich little shits</strike> "public" schools, so...
& you live in a country where 90% of your politicians went to one of a handful of <strike>arrested development centers for rich little shits</strike> "public" schools, so...
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
...well, you've heard the "everyone is 12" theory, yes?
& you live in a country where 90% of your politicians went to one of a handful of <strike>arrested development centers for rich little shits</strike> "public" schools, so...
& you live in a country where 90% of your politicians went to one of a handful of <strike>arrested development centers for rich little shits</strike> "public" schools, so...
Could be "chid," but I rarely see that used.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Could be "chid," but I rarely see that used.
Geo or bio, out of curiosity? Always fun to see the hot potato game those depts play around who's "stuck with" soil sci...
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Geo or bio, out of curiosity? Always fun to see the hot potato game those depts play around who's "stuck with" soil sci...
"It's the soil under a meadow! 'S got grass n stuff. Whaddya mean there's more to it?!"
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"It's the soil under a meadow! 'S got grass n stuff. Whaddya mean there's more to it?!"
Might be numero-phobia, too, given how much unit conversions freaked out the students I TA'd earth science classes for.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Might be numero-phobia, too, given how much unit conversions freaked out the students I TA'd earth science classes for.