Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

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

Aerial image of a forming thermokarst lake in western #Alaska. Ice wedges in the ground are melting, the ground is sinking/subsiding and water is ponding in the newly formed depressions. This process will likely continue and accelerate and eventually form a #lake
The image is around 370m wide and taken from about 1000m altitude in one of our flight campaigns in 2021.
164.535°W; 66.532 °N
#aerial #aviation #eochat #landscape #remotesensing #earthart #science #permafrost #arctic #geography

I found it, here is the small program I wrote for Run! magazine. They paid me $15 lol, I never cached the check, it was just too cool to hold onto.

#C64 #retrocomputing

It's #ThrowbackThursday and as it was #InternationalWomensDay yesterday, here's a project I worked on with Inspiring Girls a few years back, which focused on gender stereotyping in children's cartoons.

Meet Angela the Astronaut! 🚀 🪐

#TBT #MastoArt #PolymerClay

#PenroseKitchenTiles ok, it's starting.

I’ve tried drawing whales a few times with limited success, but I think I’ve finally captured their grandeur, so majestic and regal.

Also, I learned that if you draw alcohol marker over pencil, the pencil won’t erase. This is Copic markers on regular typing paper, and it bled almost completely through to the back. I think I will get smoother results and less bleeding on better quality paper. Still learning. Always learning.
#mastoart #copic #character #markers #whale

New comic is up on Daily Kos, plus some thoughts on why the term "culture wars" is a euphemism in a time of ascendant fascism
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/7/2156679/-Cartoon-Culture-wars