thrawn21

joined 1 year ago
[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

If it's truly tasteless and dissolves completely in water, yet can bind like eggs, that opens up a huge range of applications. Really hope they're able to scale up production.

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Heck yeah, I've been trying to post both here and on a couple of my communities at .world. I've mostly been going through my old, never-posted photos for some good OC, but think I might also start scavenging my ex-reddit account. Anything for content and to keep up the momentum!

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It used to be popular among European landowners to have a garden hermit as part of the landscaping decor.

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I think it's good where they left it. No spoilers, but it's a satisfying arc for who ends up on top, and I feel like that last evening with the siblings and then the board meeting the next day was the perfect encapsulation of their whole relationship.

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved that aspect about it, my fiance liked to call it "the show where you hate everyone."

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Ugh, I'll be on the venting side. I drew the short straw and had to do two weeks of night shifts (and I'm a early bird, NOT a night owl). I slept nearly 40 out of the 48 hours last weekend, and I expect I'll do the same this weekend.

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah exactly, which is why I've kept my mouth shut, but I did think Internet strangers might appreciate the humor.

Out of curiosity I googled "lesbian geologists," and while I didn't find an organization or anything, it did lead me to Ammonite, a 2020 film about the first female paleontologist Mary Anning. The film depicts her in a lesbian relationship, and although there's no historical basis, there's also no evidence of her ever being in a heterosexual relationship, leaving it open to question.

I thought it an interesting coincidence that I've just recently finished reading Ammonite, an excellent book by Nicola Griffith about a planet where a virus has wiped out all men, and the exploration of the women-only society that then developed over the centuries.

 

So I'm a geologist, but this happened a ways back when I was still in school. One of my classes had recently taken a trip to see an outcrop of igneous intrusions in the local hills. I got invited as a plus one to my fiance's cousin and her now-wife's wedding, and as he and I were driving to the venue, I said "oh hey I know this place, there's dikes everywhere around here!"

He looked at me with this shocked expression, and realizing what I just said sounded like, I hastily explained the geologic definition. He made me promise not to speak a word of it at the wedding.

I've seen the two of them at the occasional Thanksgiving in the years since, and though I find humor in it, I've never felt like I could judge if it would be in poor taste to mention the geology beneath their wedding venue.

(Geology fun fact: if you look at the vertical veins of darker rock, notice the gradient spreading out into the lighter rock. That's where the heat of the intrusion literally baked the older rock, and the pink right at the contact is where the silica actually melted into a glassier form.)

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

The little moth buddy I posted about was really fun. There's been a surprising amount of interesting bugs where I've been working the past couple weeks, last night one of my coworkers spotted something that looked like a cross between a spider and a cricket, which I've yet to be able to identify.

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree. I'm not one of the silly purists that populate r/grilledcheese, other ingredients can go great in a grilled cheese, as long as the cheese is still the star of the show.

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Hah! You must broaden your horizons beyond a basic red tomato.

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Ooooh them's fighting words. Have you tried a burger with a homegrown tomato? Pretty night and day, might just change your mind.

[Image description: a plate with a burger and sides. The burger is open and ready to be assembled, one bun has sauce and a slice of an heirloom tomato, the other has the patty, cheese, pickles and bacon.]

 

For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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