va2lam

ml, 15 days ago to academicchatter

Let's get this @academicchatter moving with a question every academic can chime in on:

What are the top websites/blogs you go to for news of what's going on in your field? #AcademicChatter

va2lam, 16 days ago to hiking

Overland Track trip report part 1, overall impressions. #hiking #tasmania

https://patricklam.ca/post/20240511-overland-track-australia-vs-new-zealand/

Me and MP at the end of our Overland Track walk.
A swimming platypus!
New Pelion Hut at golden hour.

RickiTarr, 18 days ago to random

You are going to make love to a Cereal Mascot, who do you choose?

I'm going Snap, Crackle, & Pop.

skinnylatte, 20 days ago to random

I haven’t encountered a single vegetable-centered dish at any of the Thai, Japanese, Malaysian restaurants I’ve visited in LA. It is possible to eat differently from the rest of the world (re a conversation a few days ago about always having to order veggies)

(To be clear, I agree everyone should eat veggies if they want! But also that, there are many cuisines which simply aren’t vegetable-centered)

(I had a very large raw papaya salad, lots of fiber but also enough chilli to kill a bear)

iangriffin, 22 days ago to NewZealand

This is a final reminder that I'm giving a talk at 6 p.m. tonight about some recent astronomy antics. It is at The Royal Society Te apārangi HQ in Thorndon, and admission is free. There may be lots of pictures of the aurora. #aurora #NewZealand #astronomy

va2lam, 29 days ago to Birds

Today's bird: black-fronted dotterel at Tamar Island. #birds

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to magASEAN

One of the saddest things about leaving Singapore for the U.S. is, not only does McDonalds suck they also don’t have curry sauce. Which makes it impossible for me to eat nuggets

#TootSea #Singapore #Food

va2lam, 1 month ago to Birds

Some birds from yesterday at Zealandia. #BirdsNZ #birds

Black with red wattles: tīeke/saddleback in the forest
Little borb: grey bird with white chest, toutouwai/north island robin
Olive bird with purple head in the forest: korimako/bellbird

ricci, 1 month ago to random

Kiki is ready for her #caturday closeup

va2lam, 1 month ago to Birds

Borb at Zealandia trying to steal kākā food. April 2021. #birds

sundogplanets, 1 month ago to random

One of my classes has their final projects due at 11:59pm tonight and the ramp-up of more and more frantic student emails is really depressing.

They had to choose topics in February and turn in drafts in March, and yet it seems that most of them didn't actually start until today...not that I was any better as an undergrad, but man it hurts to watch!

va2lam, 1 month ago to Birds

Bird interaction in Sydney. The miner got even closer! #birds

The miner gets even closer and the camera angle makes it look like it's almost touching.

futurebird, 1 month ago to random

I remember getting called in for jury duty once and the lawyer was asking us what we did for work just going around the room:

"Bus Driver"
"Teacher"
"Real Estate"
"TV Camera man"

Then they get to this one guy who was in the back, half asleep. "What about you? What do you do?"

"Wa?"
"What do you do for work?"
"I don't know man, I'm like, kinda in to music"

To this day I don't know if he played music... or just like... listened to it.

I don't know if they picked him. They kicked me out.

va2lam, 1 month ago to Birds

I was going through pictures from my walk from Bondi to Coogee (because news). Here are two pictures of a Great Cormorant (Black shag/māpunga in NZ). #birds

The same black bird, now looking the other way.

JimsPhotos, 1 month ago to nature

The shy dunnock can be seen hopping about under hedges as its other name, 'hedge sparrow', suggests. It inhabits gardens, woodlands, hedgerows and parks.

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

iangriffin, 1 month ago to movies

So. In a moment of complete madness, I have decided to take only some of my collection of analogue cameras to photograph the next aurora display over Hoopers Inlet. i'll take a Pentax ME Super, A Pentax 6x7, a Canon EOS 3 and also a Tomiyama 6x12. The 35mm will be shooting at ISO 400 and the 120 cameras will shoot Portia 800. #mad #film #NewZealand

mcnees, 1 year ago to random

Engineer and photographer Harold Edgerton was born #OTD in 1903.

Edgerton pioneered various forms of high-speed photography using specialized cameras, strobe lighting, and other techniques. You’ve probably seen many of the images he created!

Images: MIT; H. Edgerton

A high speed photo of a bullet passing through an apple. The apple is mounted on a metal rod and the bullet has just exited the apple. There are large sprays of apple coming from the entrance and exit points. The apple is red, with a yellow patch around the stem which is pointed at the camera.
Another well-known Edgerton photo of a bullet bisecting a playing card. The card is the king of diamonds, and it has been ripped in half along its width by the bullet passing through. The king is facing the camera.
Edgertons famous photo of a splash of white liquid, probably milk, in a red bowl. The splash is shaped like a crown, with rounded blobs forming and separating at the end of the spikes. A small drop hangs in mid-air above the splash. It is not clear from the photo whether this is another drop falling down, or a small drop that was sent back upwards when the original drop hit.