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Hi! I'm Randy Au. I work as a Quantitative UX Researcher, but used to be a data scientist/analyst. I still write a newsletter about data-related topics every week.... Past couple days I've been zooming around trying to help #data twitter evacuate to Mastodon.

After things calm down, I'll find time to talk about my hobby of having hobbies and peeking at other fields. Some topics include #Japanese stuff, gem cutting, cameras and photography, cooking, DIY, woodwork, and more

@Bewickwren Uggh yes. Ours starts tomorrow night & I'm not looking forward to the change.

@kyle
We (kids, husband and I) are almost done reading

_Picture This: How Pictures Work_ , Molly Bang, ISBN 978-1452151991

(recommended by a friend for thinking about composition in photography)

And this calendar year, I've been very interested in folktales. The last collection I read was

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Maria Tatar, editors. The Annotated African American Folktales. 2017. ISBN13: 9780871407535.

@khimya Congratulations Khimya on your thesis defense!

PGRs (plant growth regulators): anyone with ref.s / info / exp. about using PGRs to dwarf trees in the landscape?

paclobutrazol seems the most likely. Context:❤ Amer. Sycamore, but it gets huge & trunk hollow, not a good choice next to one's home.

tcimag.tcia.org/tree-care/what

I need to get more still. This was my heavy lens w/o a tripod and so that's challenging.

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I'm playing around with video a bit. The peanut feeder is very popular! Here's a downy woodpecker, hanging upside down, pecking away.

[Video alt: the feeder is a wreath-style peanut feeder, hanging from a shepherd's hook-style holder. The bird is small & has its tail propped]

Hello! I'm a researcher in & for . My current obsession / reading is projective geometry.

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Photo: our dog, who we refer to as the pup.

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