Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

Chuffed.com
My supermoon taken with a Canon 90D and Sigma 150-600 lens

I was suggested that I create an introduction post and pin it to my feed.

I am Tom Fournier and I live in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.

I have a passion for history, particularly military history associated with the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars.

I am a reeanctor. I jam on the staff of the Crown Forces North America where I serve as the Lt. Colonel with command of all infantry elements.

http://crownforces.ca/

#warof1812 #canadianhistory #napoleonicwars @histodon @histodons

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day 17. I have two very different styles of painting and one of them is in circles. I use different sizes and shades of colour to give an illusion of shape and depth. I also use negative space as part of the shape definition. This artwork of a ringed gas giant is painted in acrylics on stretched canvas. #sciart #planets #painter #artist #astronomy

Happy #Caturday everyone! Have a wonderful day and try to find some time to sing some happy holiday tunes like my furry friend here. 😁🎵🎄

#cats #CatsofMastodon #Meowstodon #photography

Finally it is there: A GUI version of PortexAnalyzer🔎

PortexAnalyzer is a free PE parser tailored for malware analysis. It uses the library PortEx.

🔽Download: https://github.com/struppigel/PortexAnalyzerGUI/releases
#PortEx #PortexAnalyzer

Fantastic

🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏

https://www.science.org/content/article/accessing-u-s-data-research-just-got-easier

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their famous model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science

Might as well start with this: Is this archaic Greek vase the inspiration for the legendary Leg Lamp? #AChristmasStory #Christmas #classicalarchaeology #ceramics

If you like LEGO games, then this bundle over at Humble is a pretty good deal!
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/lego-at-movies-holiday-encore

For 10 euro you can get 9 LEGO games. Usually I see deals of 2 LEGO games for 10 euro, so this bundle is pretty sweet.

My favorite is probably Jurassic World, fun map and gameplay. And you get to play with dinosaurs!
Next up might be LEGO Movie, just so absurd that it's endearing. Though I disliked LEGO Movie 2, that was just absurd without the endearing part. :P
#LEGO #Games #HumbleBundle

My entry to Vocal's Blue Haiku challenge.
https://vocal.media/poets/pale-blue-dot-e64imc0esm

It feels so strange to put something as small as a haiku on a page like this!

Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

It has no name,
this unfamiliar feeling,
glimmering prismatic
like oil on a street puddle,
overlooked by polished shoes
uncaring as they pass by
life's understated beauties.

It has no name,
this unfamiliar feeling,
but I would capture it if I could,
in an old glass bottle
on a shelf of tattered novels
where whimsical characters roam,
immortal in ink and dreams.

Some faraway frost-tinted day,
I would like to feel it again.

〜XI

#Poetry #MastoPrompt #IndigoInk

Quite a nicely done interactive piece about how AI text-to-image systems such as stable diffusion or Dall-E work.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/ai-image-generator/

Today I have been having the most brilliant time snuggled up by the fire, researching the archaeology of the Natron area of the Eastern Rift Valley, Tanzania. I'm tasked with producing some educational materials and it's making me happy.

(Ex archaeologist here 🙋‍♀️, seems I never grew out of it after all)

#Archaeology
#Tanzania
#LoveMyJob
#GreatRiftValley

Congrats to the SWOT team! 💫 🌎
SWOT lifted off today at 3:46am PST atop a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Led by NASA and CNES, this mission will provide high-definition data on the salt- and fresh water on Earth’s surface. Built at NASA JPL.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-launches-international-mission-to-survey-earths-water