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DrFerrous

@DrFerrous@hachyderm.io

professor, dreamer, mom, cat whisperer, baker, nature lover, reader, maker, poet, inorganic chemist, empath, still choosing kindness

Things I love:
#nature, #books, #photography, #SciFi, #StarTrek, #cooking, #baking, #baseball, #cocktails, #cats, #poetry, #puzzles, #documentary, #RaspberryPi, #neopixels, #python, #3DPrinting, #Chemistry, #ProfLife, #crafts, #champagne, #tattoos, #bicycling, #pineapple

โ€œthe powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.โ€โ€”Walt Whitman

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dec_hl, to animals German
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DrFerrous,
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@dec_hl wow, looks fun! Love that face looking back thru the tube ๐Ÿ˜ป

purplepadma, to random
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Another night of waking every hour or so. I guess technically itโ€™s my birthday now. Happy birthday me, I made to 50, whoโ€™d have thought. Once again I feel absolutely fine during the night, neither up nor down. The Goldilocks zone ๐Ÿ˜

DrFerrous,
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@purplepadma youโ€™re starting a new orbit, hurray! ๐Ÿ’ซ

Chris, to random
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Nats!

DrFerrous,
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@Chris a great night for baseball! Running out of outs to catch up though โšพ๏ธ

andycarolan, to random
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I'm in a constant state of "What shall we have for dinner tonight?"

What has happened to me!?

DrFerrous,
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@andycarolan adulting is hard.

annaleen, to random
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Experiencing a strange craving for a Ding Dong

DrFerrous,
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@SRDas @annaleen what, thereโ€™s 22 other Analees?

purplepadma, to random
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I have just been very naughty and bought a new dress and shoes for my Friday night drinks party. Donโ€™t really have the money but itโ€™s my big birthday! I want to feel glamorous. Do we think Tom will notice the newness? He might

DrFerrous,
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@purplepadma itโ€™s good to treat yourself, good for you! And I hope he does notice but ultimately I hope you feel amazing

DrFerrous, to random
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Tonight, I bought a new dress and shoes for the teaching awards ceremony next Monday. I was tempted by a pair of gold Sam Edelman heels, but opted for sparkly sneakers instead. The DKNY dress has short sleeves so my ink will be out and it is like nothing I would normally wear to work. Tomorrow, my mom arrives for the weekend and to attend the ceremony. Life is feeling a bit surreal these days.

DrFerrous, to Astronomy
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We had a super fun (surprisingly tiring) afternoon watching the #eclipse. The big zoom lens, telescope, and solar filters worked great. Neighbors came out and we watched the sun spots get covered up. The telescope had enough detail to see the craggily edges of the moon. Milli enjoyed the sun and observed some diffraction from inside. One neighbor said โ€œyou have the coolest gizmos on the block!โ€ All things considered, it was a lovely experience, no regrets. #Astronomy #Astro #Eclipse2024

About 1/3 of the sun is being blocked by the moon, photo shot with 600mm lens and solar filter, dark sun spots are visible in a couple of places
Outdoor scene in a neighborhood, silver cylindrical telescope mounted on a tripod sits in the grass, blue sky with white clouds above, a large tree is on the left and a row of houses is on the right
Milli, a small grey cat, walks on a beige carpet in the sun from a window, small crescent moons are visible where the blinds have diffracted the light from the eclipsed sun

Chris, to random
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The post-eclipse return traffic is real. Gonna be a long one.

DrFerrous,
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@Chris yikesโ€ฆ

Chris, to random
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Eclipse road trip day 3: Leaving Syracuse en route to Plattsburgh. With any luck Iโ€™ll see an eclipse and Lake Champlain.

DrFerrous,
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@Chris fingers crossed for you! I hope the traffic isnโ€™t terrible.

pluralistic, to swimming
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DrFerrous,
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@pluralistic I seriously thought that was a mummified corpse before I read the caption and alt text. Wow.

markmccaughrean, to random
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Another sunny, breezy spring day in NL ๐Ÿ’จ

The Moon is also in this shot albeit invisible, in the upper-left-middle moving towards the Sun ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒ‘

And tomorrow evening our time, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun, totally or partially blocking it if youโ€™re lucky enough to be in North America, Iceland, or the far west of Europe ๐ŸŒŽ

Iโ€™ve seen one total solar eclipse, on Maunakea in Hawaiโ€™i in 1991 ๐ŸŒ‹

Itโ€™s one of the most truly awesome things youโ€™ll ever witness ๐Ÿ™€

#TotalSolarEclipse

A timelapse movie of clouds blowing from the southwest over our garden in the Netherlands. The sky is blue between the white clouds and the Sun is visible most of the time to the upper-left.

DrFerrous,
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@markmccaughrean an eclipse from Maunakea sounds breathtaking. This yearโ€™s event has โ€œnot greatโ€ forecasts for most of US, unfortunately. Maybe the next one will be better.

DrFerrous,
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@markmccaughrean

Rather than wait for 2044 or 45, I think Iโ€™ll travel for an earlier eclipse; the one over Iceland in august 2026 sounds terrific!

DrFerrous, to random
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Completed pre-therapy questionaires. Wow, I have a lot I need to talk with someone about. Maybe I should not have waited this long. :blobfoxpatsad:

DrFerrous, to Astronomy
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TIL thereโ€™s a comet currently visible in the night sky. Also, I donโ€™t have to wait for the monthly astronomy event at my local dark sky park. They have a space for observation every night! Time to resume my hunt.

https://www.space.com/comet-12p-pons-brooks-march-2024

DrFerrous, to Nationals
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Good Monday morning, friends.

I have a meeting in 10 min about my annual performance review; I don't have any reason to be nervous, but I am.

It's opening day at Nationals Park. I'm hopeful the rain will take a break for the afternoon game. Excited to watch some baseball today! โšพ ๐Ÿ’ž

I hope you find a pocket full of joy today.

Chris, (edited ) to random
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Should I drive to see the total eclipse?

  • The nearest spot is about a five hour drive away (assuming no eclipse traffic)
  • I have no hotel, so I'd have to go that day
  • I'd be driving from DC to somewhere near Erie, and I'm totally unfamiliar with NW PA
DrFerrous,
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@Chris @mdickens good solution. Iโ€™m headed to Ohio Sunday for similar reasons; weโ€™ll have only an hour to drive Monday to get to family in the path. Hereโ€™s hoping for clear skies!

DrFerrous,
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@mdickens @Chris I think it will be too. Next total eclipse in continental US is 2044; carpe diem. Iโ€™m pulling my kiddo out of school for this too.

DrFerrous, to gardening
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Mulched the front beds and oak barrels. Gave the clematis more lattice to climb. Canโ€™t decide where to put my sundial this year. Seeing my perennials come back after winter gives me hope.

cfiesler, to random
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That moment when after a couple of months you finally bring yourself to reread a paper that was rejected so that you can start revising - and you're like, oh yeah this paper is REALLY good!

Always remember how much randomness there is in the review process. :)

DrFerrous,
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@cfiesler great point, thanks for the reminder :)
I have a paper under review now and am starting to feel anxious about getting the feedback. Iโ€™ll try to remember itโ€™s a good work and will find a home eventually.

aronow, to random
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This morning I found out 76% of women report using less due to harassment and โ€œtinder-like messagesโ€.

WTF

DrFerrous,
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@aronow It never stops, wow. Fuck the patriarchy.

DrFerrous,
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@aronow btw, I highly recommend Glass Walls, a book by two female researchers about how gender bias holds women back.

DrFerrous, to random
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โ€œThe idea that women can exist apart from men, that they can have lives and thoughts and preoccupations that do not center on men, is not only difficult to conceive of from within a patriarchal cultureโ€”itโ€™s threatening. It strikes right to the heart of male hegemony.โ€

The Story of Duneโ€™s Bene Gesserit Needs the Perspective of Women Writers - Reactor

https://reactormag.com/the-story-of-dunes-bene-gesserit-needs-the-perspective-of-women-writers/

#Dune #Dune2

deirdresm, to random
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Today in โ€œmen explain technical concepts to women who have more specific and deeper knowledgeโ€:

  • I was whinging about a page that required Chrome (which is, by definition, NotAFreakingWebPage because SomeRandomBullshit piped to port 443 does not a web page make).

  • I was told that Chrome and Safari shared an underlying library.

Which: I was on the Safari team for 5-1/2 years, including the time when Google forked from WebKit, which was in 2013.

So.

DrFerrous,
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@deirdresm @lisamelton I miss Netscape, what good memories! So cool to connect with you here. ๐Ÿ’ž

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I built a coffee and tea organizer with some scrap 1/4โ€ plywood. I still need to add finish but for now the hot beverage accessories have been tamed so I feel a deep inner peace

A wooden organizer with compartments for storing coffee k cups and bags of tea inside of a kitchen cabinet. The drawer in the organizer is open showing tea bags

DrFerrous,
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@blitzcitydiy beautiful work!

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