Evolution of the college syllabus ... short document (1 - 2 pages) listing all or at least most of the class policies / information with assumption that students have/read student handbook for institutional stuff institutional stuff starts getting mandated and added to syllabus (2 - 4 pages) ...

Is anyone else having a nervous breakdown trying to get their classes sorted out for Fall semester? Or have I started mine early? ⚒️🧪

Look what I made! I linked together all of the jump rings and put the beads on eye pins. Learned quite a bit making this and now I have a pretty bracelet that fits me!

This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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I drew a thing. (Rib injuries suck!)

Got x-rays for my ribs today (wasn't that fun) and am now awaiting results. I had no idea that a rib 'sprain' was even a possible thing. Whatever I managed to do, this is no fun at all and I do not recommend it.

I sketched a thing that is @scalzi.com's fault. The background is supposed to be kaijuesqu. This insult reminded me of one my mother used on a gym teacher when I was a kid - "You, you, you ... absolute doorknob!" (I had just had knee surgery and the gym teacher was ... not a nice person.)

Anyone know a decent inexpensive hotel in Montreal near the train station ?

My new @peculiarityshop.bsky.social pretties have show up! I will now be dazzling for the post apocalyptic air quality we have now. It is *orange and gritty* outside and tastes terrible!

Been working in my lab and come out to find the world has turned orange. This photo is not doing it anywhere near justice. It is DUSKY ORANGE outside.

Someone lost a fine rooster the Wegmans parking lot and must be sad. I am glad to have rescued him before he got run over.

I made a thing

It is pretty out here.

Tracking my disintegration though the semester by working on my in-class activity worksheets which start out organized and coherent but devolve through the semester and have turned into 'would you just show me you didn't fall asleep and learned *something* damnit!' by about week 9.

One beautiful and comfortable ring from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social and one pinchy uncomfortable plastic dosimeter ring from radiation safety which is too big for pinky and too small for anything else.

Three rings on one hand! I don’t think I have ever hand three rings one hand before! All from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Looking forward to my newest order so I can try this on both hands at the same time. Small silly goals.

And he has decided to help me do the laundry. I guess I am not doing that load next. Helpful kitty.

Here's the full movie, which he created as a story about creating a stop-motion animated movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5a_...

Mike Jittlov - The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988) Highest quality on the internet!

YouTube video by E-Clips

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Proof of cat. Still being helpful.

Romancing the Vote is live and I have bids! Yay! So many other cool things and people to bid on! www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

Romancing the Vote 2026

Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.

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This took an unreasonable amount of time to sketch out. 🧪

Something pretty for a stupid week. Purple Crownvetch. Here used for erosion control but considered an invasive species in some states but still really pretty.

Wandering around looking for the cat, calling her name ... look up in access to attic and find this.

I found a nice place to hang out during my daughters music lesson.

I did it! I submitted a donation to @romancingthevote.com for an Ask a Forensic Geoscientist Zoom session. I didn't chicken out.We can talk pigments & art fraud, or remote sensing for mass graves or, good grief I just realized I didn't include anything about cremains which is my weird niche - oops.

Reading a manual (I do try to do that even though most analytical instrumentation manuals were apparently constructed via copying initial menu design notes & are pretty much worthless). 🥖 ed Found this sentence “… the X-ray tube is breaded slowly after it hasn’t been used for a longer time.”🧪

New drawing a thing. Inspired by the flowers I found on a walk on Saturday.

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social pretties showed up today - early this time. Tracking showed them arriving Monday. Snek I already had but the rest are new today. Thank you!

Drawing a thing and trying to learn some botany terminology.

I drew a thing. Trying to make sure I start drawing again.