Steve Zissou @SteveZissou@qoto.org

open wide little anglerfish

#papercraft #papertoys #folduptoys #illustration #art #3d #craft #fish #art #artist

I used to work at a company where as part of an SRE oriented team (a core of well versed professional full-time SREs and multiple volunteers across different time zones) you would undergo training sessions the best part of which is a scripted reenactment of some previous large scale incident (usually with some embellishments and such). You get on zoom and a bunch of people role play stuff breaking, so you have to chose to take some actions to mitigate and dig the system out of the feces.

Today is hexagon day for the #30DayMapChallenge. Excited to head down to see family in Orlando next week for Thanksgiving and hoping we can fit in some manatee viewing time.

Surprise stoat! #art #sketching #animals #pen #stoat #doodle

If disaster does not strike, on Friday we are launching the largest houseboat ever to float on the Loire river. This is a very accurate drawing of what it looks like. Photos will follow - we hope.

#30DayMapChallenge
Day 10 - Bad Maps

Tried to shoehorn as much bad as I can in one map. While nothing "in the wild" goes this far, too many of these attributes are still easy enough to find.

- Colorblind-unfriendly color scheme
- Too many symbol classes
- Numeric attribute visualized on polygons
- North arrow and scalebar for a non-navigation map
- Parallel street labels with no halo

And it pains me to admit it, but the streets come from #OpenStreetMap, and I didn't provide attribution. Bad!

#30DayMapChallenge
Day 10: A bad map
Inspired by
@TerribleMaps

Made using #RStats
#dataviz #DataVisualization #maps #GIS

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 7 - Raster

I've been wanting to try following Daniel Coe's REM tutorial for awhile now - Figured this is the best time to try! I couldn't get mine as pretty as his though!

#30DayMapChallenge day 9: Space

A moon shaped lunar relief map

#30DayMapChallenge / day 12: "scales"

French « départements » at the same size but tidily ordered by area.

http://r.iresmi.net/2022/11/12/scales/

#RStats

#30DayMapChallenge / day 13: "5 minutes map"

Sugar cane fields in La Réunion

http://r.iresmi.net/2022/11/13/sugar

#RStats

Not your keys not your coins

Is anyone else having a really bad dwarf infestation this fall? I swear, it gets cold and the little devils come swarming into the cave. It wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't already eaten enough them to give me indigestion. I suppose I could try canning…

Musk claiming that a lot more people are engaging on Twitter is like me claiming that a lot more people are stopping by to look at my new house after I set it on fire.

Enemies to lovers

Just got a msg saying that Google are 'sunsetting' an analytics function. What an utterly bloody pointless bit of euphemism! I mean, sure, lie to the kids about where the hamster ended up but do we *really* need to be protected from the wrenching emotional impact of a bit of code going out of date.

Admit it, Google. You took it down to the end of the paddock with the shotgun and a shovel.

Initial impression of Mastodon…
(image source thanks to @jsit: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrqzp-F420/)

@bioinformagic

Considering that we are comparing elephants and mastodons here we would need to go a bit more in details before depicting how big such a concert would be.

Based off the data found on Wikipedia a male mastodon had a max height of 3.25m, where as Asian elephants average at 2.75m and African elephants max out at 4m.

Now if we say a toot is dependent on the trunk length and the normal character amount on other instances is 500, then that would convert to 131.07 elephants. Though this assumes that we are talking about African elephants who are the same height as Mastodons.

If we calculate the trunk to height ratio for the living species we get 0.6364 for Asian elephants (trunk: 1.75m) and 0.5334 for African elephants (trunk: 2.1336m). Multiplying this with the height of the Mastodon will give us 1.7336 for African elephants and 2.068 for Asian elephants. Finally we will multiply the elephants by the ratio of estimated Mastodon trunk length to exist trunk length and this gives us about 107 African elephants or 155 Asian elephants.

So to answer the unasked question of "how many elephants are in the concert?" the answer is either 107 African elephants or 155 Asian elephants.

@SteveZissou