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brad

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A long time ago I was a guitar player and teacher. A little while later I thought I might be a designer, I needed the money. I ended up being a professional computer-er.

I listen to music (orchestral, chamber, 60s jazz, millennial dad-rock, etc.) and read books, many of which I don’t understand. I’m in the thrall of a toddler. I like looking at trees.

I live on the land of the Yuggera people.

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grimalkina, to random
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Life would be easier for many scientists if the general public would get past the stereotype that all science is just about "surprise" and novelty and completely unknown things and that studies don't matter if they match your lived experience 😭 there is massive need to document well known things into the scientific record and establish specific evidence examples for them in ways that will be legible and useful for policy, public action, etc....!

Media really fuels this misconception

brad,
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@grimalkina Respect and admiration to those tending the gardens of science. https://types.pl/@edwinb/112225855749195783

brad, to random
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Heck YES. The junior rugby league hoodie I’ve had since I was 14 is out and I’m achieving unimaginable levels of comfort. (I don’t know how people survive in actually cold places.)

brad,
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Nothing says “wholesome junior club sports” like a pipe smoking, club wielding leprechaun rolling up his sleeves, preparing for violence.

brad, to random
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The manufactured urgency in kids shows stresses me out. You scheduled a gig but only form the band and write any material the day of? You scheduled a museum opening without an exhibit and left it to the day of to create one? Why? What on earth has lead to this scenario?

brad,
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Considering announcing everything I do as though it was my special skill in a kids’ show. “Vim!”, “Dishwasher!”

brad, to random
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Another lap round the sun.

brad, to random
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I just like Haskell. It makes me happy.

https://gist.github.com/bradparker/86e0ef0e99d6e8a258f20ff0327e694e

brad, to random
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I can hear the first murmurings of TGIF.

(Going out to the ballet tonight, really looking forward to it.)

brad,
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@anathema_device Midsummer Night’s Dream. Intermission now, a cracker so far.

brad, to random
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“One of the principles I come back to over and over is adrienne maree brown’s invitation to move at the speed of trust. That is, whenever attempting any effort with other people, prioritize building trust and respect for each other over and above any other goal. The trust forms the foundation from which the work can grow.”

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/move-at-the-speed-of-trust

brad, to random
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Speakers of Australian English: I seem to remember growing up hearing “blue” to sometimes mean risqué or maybe taboo. As in “Jeez, that’s a bit blue.” Does that use ring bells for anyone else?

brad, to random
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https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toward-inquiry

“I want to reinforce that phrasing—moving away from decree and toward inquiry. […] By contrast, the move toward inquiry values the opportunity to learn over the desire to validate one’s existing—and necessarily incomplete—knowledge. That is, inquiry is a dynamic, active movement, unlike the stuckness and stagnancy that a decree evokes. Inquiry is an open door; decree, a closed one.”

brad, to random
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Some of our windows make rainbows.

The spectrum of light, split by the glass at the edge of one of our windows to reveal the colours of the rainbow projected onto a wardrobe door. It’s sort of dancing as the wind in the trees makes the light move about.

brad, to Geology
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The little guy picked up this rock at the playground and would like to know more about it. Is this quartzite? Advice appreciated :)

The same rock, but one of the larger flat surfaces. It looks a bit smoothed out by weathering.
The other side of the same rock. This side has some fracturing, it looks a little flaky.
A closer shot of the same side, better detail of the fracturing. You can maybe make out some brightly glinting specs which are throughout the rock.

brad, to random
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I've been told my nearly 4 year old has just described my job as "Presses buttons and phone calls someone." Yep, yup, yeah. Inspiring stuff.

brad, to random
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I’ve started reading a book about rocks and it’s absolutely fascinating.

brad,
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This was it, Unearthing the Underworld: A Natural History of Rocks by Ken McNamara. I’m still thinking about it from time to time. It just really blew my mind learning about how profound the effect of life has been on the whole make up of earth, throughout its history. I had it in my head that the earth, geologically maybe, was like a platform upon which life … lived. But now I think of it much more as one big, inseparable thing.

brad,
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“One of the more intriguing phenomena that occur in oceans are what are termed whiting events. These occur when the sea becomes clouded over a wide area due to the precipitation of extremely minute crystals of aragonite, less than 4 microns in diameter.
Long thought to have been an inorganically induced process, there is mounting evidence that such whiting events may be due to the activity of viruses.

brad,
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“A dominant component of phytoplankton blooms are cyanobacteria. Like all other organisms, cyanobacteria are periodically susceptible to viral infections. The effect of these intracellular viruses on the single-celled cyanobacteria can be catastrophic as the cells' walls are ruptured.

brad,
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“This results in the release of intracellular bicarbonate ions which on contact with the seawater induce precipitation of minute aragonite crystals that in tranquil settings ultimately accumulate as carbonate mud.

brad,
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“Such extremely fine mud, lithified into hard, smooth rock surfaces, provoked one man to exploit them for a singular purpose that was to have a profound effect on printing techniques for more than two hundred years and was to give this type of limestone its own distinctive name - lithographic limestone.”

brad, to random
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I cannot begin to fathom organising books by colour. I’m sorry, I don’t have whatever’s necessary to even try to understand.

brad,
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@anathema_device Surely, right?

brad, to random
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On lunchtime walks near home I nearly always hear something scratching through the undergrowth. Whenever I do: it’s a brush turkey. Every time. Just now, I heard something and thought, “Now that doesn’t sound like a turkey!” It was, in fact, two turkeys.

brad, to random
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I’m not sure if @yinaar is around here much these days but I read the Palace Letters on her recommendation. I’m grateful she did recommend it, I really enjoyed it. A real page turner as she said. Suffice to say I’m now a passionate republican, whereas before I was more of a “sure why not?” republican.

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