Dr. Cat @DrJLCatlett@qoto.org

Winter morning visitor overhead. 😍

#PDX #Corvids #BirdsOfMastodon #BlackAndWhitePhotography

#introduction
Hello fellow humans! I'm interested in science, computers, art, classics, #Archeology, #Astronomy and music. #FOSS has been an ever-surprising wonder for me. #Raspberry_Pi has given hours of fun.

I love #bikes and #ebikes. I may make you late for your appointments discussing #Randonneuring, chain lube, and bike tires.

Living in #Seattle, I favor waterproof bags and socks. And how could I get along without my #BikeTrailer?

I'm here to learn.

A storm is coming and Odin wants me to stay in my chair for the rest of time. #cats

Interesting find at the farm today. This looks like a red-legged frog egg mass, but it's way too early, months early, for them to be breeding here. I have it on good authority that it's either that or a weirdly large mass of an earlier breeder like chorus frog. Any frog folks have a better guess? (Coast range of Oregon, taken today, Dec. 28) Either way, I'll be keeping a closer eye on the pond over the next few weeks.
#frogs #amphibians #oregon #pnw #nature #mastopond

Dear #Linux , I need some help with a secret surprise.

My family is pre-qualified to host some foreign exchange students from past experience and we ended up an emergency placement of a Ukrainian student over Christmas break.

She likes coding in Python and her dad works in IT back in Ukraine. I would like to gift her family a retired-from-work but well-spec'ed laptop but I can't get it to boot! She goes to a boarding school on Sunday or Monday, and that's where I need your help. Details next!

Searching for people who are interested in #cities and #urbanplanning and #urbanism and #bicycle and #bicyclecommuting and #biketowork and #carless and #carfree Here’s a recent pic of me ready for my winter commute.

Why is there such a disconnect between professional and leisure life?

Tonight a band I’d like to see plays at 10pm. Tomorrow I work at 7. These two times are not compatible, and are both oddly arbitrary. There’s nothing I do that needs to be done at 7, and no reason a band should play at 10pm Wednesday night.

#nightlife #professionallife #lifedisconnected

Tonight I looked up options to attach a Burley Piccolo trailerbike to a Surly #BigDummy #CargoBike and couldn't find anything better than the guide I published on my blog, so I cleaned it up and republished it. My DIY solution lasted 10 years until the kids outgrew it.

https://mark.stosberg.com/how-to-attach-a-burley-piccolo-to-a-surly-big-dummy/

I also have a guide for attaching a Piccolo to a #YubaMundo. I plan to review and clean that up next!

#BikeTooter #Xtracycle #FamilyBike

One of the last organisms I shot in 2022 is a cool one: Jerdon's Baza (Aviceda jerdoni), spotted at Coney Island, Singapore, on 26 Dec 2022. I was told this uncommon migrant was there, but I like to walk around instead of waiting at one spot for hours, so I didn't really expect to see it. But it appeared anyway. 🙂

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145095272 ]

I will be posting more sightings after the New Year. Happy Holidays!

#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Birds #Aves

Follow me as I forge a Viking-age sword called the Serpent in the Sword!
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyUkYJeZtW4

Orion over Chelmsford last night. Tried a deep sky stacking app on phone.

The original #BoxingDay
#cat #catsofmastodon #cats

Yeah, I gotta say I worry what 2023 has in store. Here's to hoping for the best.

Mastodon! Allow me to introduce something magical that happens in our household around this time of year: Christmas Tree Henge! 🎄✨

The sun hardly ever makes it into the flat in December...except for a period of around 10 minutes close to noon, when it breaks through a gap between the houses opposite and just exactly hits the Christmas tree in our big bay window.

At least once each festive season the cry will go up: "It's henging!" and we both rush around frantically with cameras

#Photography

Three Actias moths, found on high ground around Chiang Mai in the rainy season. Actias maenas, Actias rhodopneuma and Actias selene. Who needs Christmas decorations? #moths #lepidoptera #insects #nature

12 Mimics for Christmas Dec 26th

An ice-born predator, the slaying mimic appears as an abandoned sleigh on the snow. It uses the chilled climate to its advantage. It waits until potential meals are within striking distance and crushes them under rails. Those that survive, and even those that do not, are stuck to the sleigh as it continues on its bloody path. It's easy to track this mimic by the trail of frozen gore.

https://boxofteeth.blogspot.com/2022/12/slaying-mimic.html

#dnd #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #horrorrpg

I just thought to compare pictures of Julia to see how much she has grown. This is Oct 20th and Dec 19th.
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Look at this majestic little floof.
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon