Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

What kind of biologist should you be?

I adore this charming - and pretty accurate - chart by @rosemarymosco to help make the decision.

Also, fungi wins 🍄 #art #science

[From @irenabuzarewicz over on Twitter]

Does this count for #mosstodon ? #Fungi ?

I'm pleased to report this got a pretty good laugh from my undergrads during the lecture on color theory.

#rodstewart #colortheory #color #humor #humour #funny #pun #puns

Throwback to one of the wildest (and luckiest) shots I've ever taken.

On approach into London several years back, the position of the sun & clouds created a halo around our plane's shadow as the sun highlighted the Tower Bridge. I'm still kicking myself for using my iPhone instead of my good camera, but I didn't expect the clouds to part. Lesson learned! 😒 😆

#Travel #TravelPhotography #London #WindowSeat #Photography #Rainbow #Thames #TowerBridge #UK

I have no idea what possessed me to painstakingly hand-code, vertex by vertex, a self-portrait. But I did.

code & animated generation at : https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1856619

#creativeCoding #p5js #wccChallenge #selfportrait #weirdWayofMakingaSelfie

Taking some of the same colors and stretching them through a clockwork, different shades of mixtures throughout the sound.

#craque #downtempo #ambient #idm @synths

On our rainy walk the sheep being used to mow the #vineyards were guarded by a llama who took his/her job very seriously. Natural vineyard mangement. #Vineyards #NapaValley they use a movable electric fence to keep them where they want them. The llama prorects against coyotes. #Nature

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This is massive sauropod towered over its surroundings. That's all the hints you will get.

Reply and boost with your guesses and I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who answers and guesses correctly)

This one was designed by Yobb and you can see more details here -https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=108059

I'm still looking for a job. Anybody need a programmer in the San Francisco Bay area? I'm a python programmer with experience in C/C++/Java/JS, I've done a bunch of CI/CD/SRE in the recent years, lots of tooling and back end web dev, and I've got a good deal of amateur experience doing reverse engineering and embedded development.
(I've done devops work but I'm trying to move away from that because too often it turns into just "ops", and I am a programmer.)

March 9, 1847, Mary Anning dies #OTD aged just 47. Carpenter daughter, she founded a fossil business in Lyme Regis, Dorset, making important discoveries like complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus and the flying reptile Dimorphodon 🦴🔨

https://lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/jgs2022-053?fbclid=IwAR3pYZy0LmJpPklHseU3fZ2m8-b9wbqQtPPHWzkoWJfpAGOl6aWBC1iuwRM

A single large tomato - sliced. #AYearForArt #SPringIntoArt #FoodPics #GardenLife

#introduction I joined Mastodon yesterday and am learning how to use it. I live in Massachusetts north of Boston. Some of the family names I research include Salt, Denman, Boothby, Snow, Sweet, Coffin, Hockman, and Minor #surnames My roots are mostly New England but my Salt line came to Virginia first. All of my great grandparent lines migrated to Ohio, so I do a lot of Ohio research.

#TodayInOaklandHistory March 9, 1862, Andrew Anderson was born in the Halland province of Sweden. By the 1880s he had made his way to the Bay Area

Andrew and his wife Emma lived in West #Oakland. He worked as a deckhand on the ferryboat Piedmont

And he was my great-grandfather

https://oaklandwiki.org/Andrew_Anderson

New research from my team on the #TwitterMigration:

This is our first quarterly update analyzing which platforms are growing - esp #mastodon & #postnews. Includes new data on users posting, app downloads & more.

Get it here: ▶️ https://is.gd/EI1lOl

Any help boosting and sharing out this new work is very appreciated!

Yesterday evening I was playing with some new techniques ✏️

What do you think? Do pastel neurons have any future?

#sketching #procreatebrushes #neurons #neuroscience #sciart

Free Wifi for mathematicians...

sternuo: I sneeze
Minimus needs his sudariolum (handkerchief) today: he has a gravedo (cold) and destillatio nasi (a runny nose). salve, Minime!
(This is what a Roman would say when somebody sneezed - it means Hello)
#LatinVerbs

⚠️exit mode: hibernation
➡️Welcome to 2023!

Mel Brooks Does a Reddit AMA : https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/11kiq4s/im_mel_brooks_ask_me_anything/

My mom 50 years ago with an IBM 1401 and me a few years ago with a DEC PDP-10. #InternationalWomensDay