IcooIey

IcooIey, 8 months ago to random

I defy you to search for donuts in New England (US) and get anything but Dunkin’.

IcooIey, 8 months ago to random

Always discovering new cool things at our #library. What an interesting idea: you can check out a packet for someone experiencing memory loss to help you spark memories and engage together.

Memory kits in clear plastic bags with red edges and handles. Hanging from a display in a library.

IcooIey, 2 days ago to wildflowers

Mayapple with wild ginger growing beneath.
#wildflowers
#Bloomscrolling

IcooIey, 8 months ago to Geology

Had to go site walk a quarry I didn’t know existed in our town for a permit renewal yesterday. Most of our bedrock is dead boring, but this was a delight. Look at those layers! #rocks #geology #CT

Layered rock salad with thick pinkish layers and finer grained grey layers sandwiched between.
Rocks with different types of layering, some finer grained others with more marbling.
Another view of the quarry with a better view of the working face showing drill holes where rock was blasted from the face and a pile of huge slabs. And the upside down yellow bucket of the excavator.

IcooIey, 8 months ago to octopus

Seen in New Jersey. #random #octopus #ThickTrunkTuesday

IcooIey, 8 months ago to Cybersecurity

Here’s a hypothetical question not related at all to a presentation I may have gone to today. If you are an academic researcher working on modeling cyber security threats (but not working on mitigating or detecting those threats) how, ethically, do you publish your research?

#cybersecurity

IcooIey, 6 months ago to random

Really sick of this cold.¹ Even a mild fever is a pain in the fanny, wiping me out until I remember I can take meds that will help. Ugh. I don’t remember what being sick is like anymore since the pandemic taught me better hygiene techniques and I just haven’t been sick as often. Whine whine, complain complain. This is one time being an adult stinks, no one to take care of you.

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¹ No it isn’t flu or Covid. Just run of the mill virus. Really. Multiple tests. Symptoms not the same.

IcooIey, 6 months ago to random

I am sick. Assumed spouse fed cat in morning. It’s dinner time. Offspring just sent this and no opened food in fridge. Someone is not amused at dereliction of duty.

IcooIey, 4 months ago to Orchids

Took a walk this morning through campus past the teaching greenhouse. It was open! #JoinIn for a Boxing Day Botanical Adventure.

Will start with the #orchids.

An orange orchid flower with fused petals and three long extensions, one above and two below. The flower extends from the plans on a long thin green stem. The pot and other orchids is on a black plastic plant bench.

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

I have no idea how any of this works, but I have a question.

Was curious to see how me blocking a domain would play out in practice. So, I blocked threads.net. Just checked and, yes, it is blocked from my account (but not on my instance).
Have not seen any posts when using the desktop interface.
But! I do see threads.net posts when using mobil app ice cubes.
Why? How? what's the point of blocking a domain if it doesn't always block the domain?
Mysterious.

IcooIey, 8 months ago to random

Another school year starts, another time having The Conversation with my child about what to do if there’s a school shooting/ bomb threat/ armed intruder. It doesn’t get easier. Utterly infuriating in fact. #GunControl

IcooIey, 6 months ago to random

Really glad I cancelled working at the polls on Tuesday since I tested positive for Covid this morning. Had cold symptoms since Sunday evening, but negative Covid tests till this morning when I woke with pounding headache. Thought yesterday I was improving! Sigh. No idea where I contacted it, have been masked everywhere. Sigh.

IcooIey, 8 months ago to random

Evening fantasy wormhole. Why not take a cargo freighter to Asia? Other than time, money, job, life responsibilities, it looks divine.

IcooIey, 8 months ago to random

Went to fill a prescription of a common generic medicine I’ve taken for years and was told by the pharmacist they didn’t have it, couldn’t get it, and all suppliers were out. They called around and were able to find about half a prescriptions worth and maybe could get some sent from another store. When I asked, said they can’t keep up with all the drugs this is suddenly happening to. Yours could be next.

IcooIey, 8 months ago to random

Time to harvest the hops! New for me this year is Mt Hood from Great Lake Hops. Brilliant smell and flavor.

Hop vine growing up a trellis on the side of a grey house covered with light green cone like fruiting structures.

IcooIey, 1 year ago to random

Have lived in Connecticut for almost 24 years. Still taken aback by the 169 towns (and jurisdictions) packed into this tiny area. Last week got Ellington and Enfield mixed up resulting in a 30 min longer drive. Today just realized East Hampton, which is just north of Haddam and East Haddam, is west and south, by some way, of Hampton. Not to be confused with Hamden, nowhere near. Also, make sure you know if you are going to Plainville or Plainfield (2/3 of the state apart).
#NewEngland #CT

IcooIey, 5 months ago to Plants

Just got an email from a local greenhouse that fuel costs are too high so they are giving away all their remaining houseplants this weekend and shutting down for two months.

Do I need more plants? Do I??

#plants

IcooIey, 7 months ago to random

Off to volunteer with Medical Reserve Corp at a flu shot clinic our local health district is sponsoring.

#PublicHealth

IcooIey, 3 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

IcooIey, 3 months ago to random

On a call with a lawyer I was trying to get to take on one of our externs accidentally searched for a word and the brain spit out “nubile”.

No no! Retreat! Abort mission! Oh god.

I hate you sometimes brain.

IcooIey, 3 months ago to random

Happy World Wetlands Day!

#WorldWetlandsDay #streams #wetlands

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

#MarshMadness

IcooIey, 2 months ago to random

Your Saturday “extremely Mastodon” post: unusual content, polite comments adding to knowledge, civil discussion, people testing it, kink mentioned in passing, general joy and fascination.

How’s your pour?

From: @gedeonm
https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm/112022474214984443

IcooIey, 1 month ago to random

Very satisfying to work today as an #election official in #CT US. Light turn out for our first day ever of early voting. Great to discuss with the registrars of voters (during the lulls when no voters were present) ways barriers to voting could be reduced and real process challenges that make change difficult.

And, early voters get a special sticker !

IcooIey, 4 months ago to random

Well, I did get the slides done, but missed the fellowship of #MakersHour. It was satisfying though, to read through a project report from a few years ago and realize even when I first started at the institute and didn’t think I knew very much, my work was right on, and subsequent legislative policy flowed from those recommendations (or at least we were all on the same page, had the same ideas, etc.)