Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

If you are a University of #Vermont 1st or 2nd year #undergrad, apply today to be a Sea Grant Scholar for the 2023-2024 academic year!

The #scholarship provides $5000 toward your tuition, $5000 toward a summer #internship, and professional development trainings

Learn more about the scholarship and how to apply at go.uvm.edu/sgscholars

We encourage BIPOC and first generation students to apply.

#UVM #SeaGrant #BeAJEDI

A winter sunset under clouds at the Buffalo Main Light in New York on Lake Erie. Photo by John R. Witt Photography and Fine Art.
#LighthousesOfMastodon
#GreatLakes

I am so exhausted from this past week but thankful I am here on Mastodon with all you nice people. I just want to sleep but I can't so I'm posting this drawing I made last year. It's called "How I sleep at night." I used to live with more cats but now I just have 2 cats. I would get more cats if I could.

#MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #TraditionalArt #drawing #cats

Marian Croak is behind the tech that enables us to talk on FaceTime, Zoom, and other apps that connect friends, family and others around the globe.

Marian Croak from the Great Class of 1977 holds the patent for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which helps us make calls over the internet instead of a phone line.

Marian Croak has spent her life inventing. After graduating from #princetonuniversity and earning her Ph.D. from #uscedu, she worked at Bell Labs-Nokia in New Jersey, creating technologies “in service of humanity.” She went on to work for AT&T and is now vice president of engineering at Google.

In 2022, Marian, owner of 200+ U.S. patents, was one of the first two Black women to be inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Among her inventions is the text-to-donate function that her team helped create in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which has helped to raise millions of dollars since its inception in 2005.

Croak also leads the Research Center for Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology at Google, which “ensures that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning positively impacts users and the world, particularly marginalized communities."

Content/photo credit Princeton University Instagram, courtesy of the Inventors Hall of Fame. #BlackHistoryMonth #MarianCroak

In my quest to follow the #seasons this year I’ve been reading about #wildflowers in #Britain, where I live. One book I’m reading mentioned THE ENGLISHMAN’S FLORA— a compendium of traditional #plantlore published in 1958, but now out of print.

I was intrigued enough that I went looking on eBay, and found this delightful copy of the 1960 reprint in very good condition with this marvellous & beautifully calligraphic inscription! And it cost of all of £13.

Thank you, Frances— wherever you are.

Did you know that there is a lovely 50 seater cinema in the New Town of Edinburgh?

Bet you didn't - I didn't and about 60 or 70 members of my family who lived within 500 metres never mentioned it neither

(Plz Boost)

Apple Card (2019) next to the original Apple Credit Card (1986) featuring the rainbow logo and ITC Garamond (compressed to 80%).

Thanks to a generous donation from early Apple designer Clement Mok, the Archive holds a significant collection from the company’s formative years.

#Vermont #Today

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I made my first long form comic in years! It's not all that long, but it's more than one panel. cw:snake

https://www.birdandmoon.com/snake-story/

The first cook down of the maple syrup went pretty well. It needed more moisture cooked off but my mercury thermometer is impossible to read. Just got a digital thermometer today. The cloudiness at the bottom is sugar sand. Normal small crystals. I just didn’t filter it. It tastes mild and sweet with the maple as an aftertaste.

I
m moving house soon, so I decided to post the next 3 weeks worth of builds today.
I will try and keep doing the #Fossilfriday #Guess that #Lego #Fossil but I cant make any promises.

Anyway this weeks #Lego #Dinosaur of the week will be #Nasutoceratops #Spinosaurus and the #Flying #Reptile #Dimorphodon

Each build come with a fact sheet, and parts list.
#Dinosauroftheweek
#Reptileoftheweek
#Qucikbuild
#LegoMOC

Here's the instructions - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F13VWLrS5-F22zWJ7AGck536CdKYBV2Z?usp=sharing

Momo’s ABC

Decision paralysis is so much fun (and by "fun" I mean "a literal nightmare") #ADHD #Comics #ClipStudioPaint #MastoArt

Check out some dissolution features on these rocks! What can they tell us? (#karst #geology thread)

These little cross-hatched lines are little cracks and fractures that got dissolved and widened into the rock face.

These are called "micro-karren" because of their small size. (Bigger karst dissolution featrues are called "karren")

There are many types of karren. This is a very good example of a type of micro-karren. We can look close and figure what happened here.

Children’s books are being re-published with words changed and people are Big Mad and I just want to say:

If after I die, people still benefit from stuff I wrote but the language doesn’t hold up, I’m 100% in favor of re writes. That’s what I would have wanted. If I’m not dead and the language doesn’t hold up, I’ll re write now. Language evolves. We learn better and do better.

Matt, Stuck on Shore

Copyright John Lehet

I post this after the Vivian Maier post because I too used a twin lens reflex for a while -- this image from it. I can't remember the brand! I don't think it was a Rollei, maybe a Yashika. At that point those cameras were a dime a dozen. Not so much in active use, not yet chic. I unfortunately moved from it to a Pentax 6x7, which was less good overall, though better in some ways.

#blackandwhitephotography #filmphotography #photography #greatlakes

I've been quiet for a few days - no issues; sometimes it's just good to take a break :)

The set of images below is from a beautiful winter morning. I revisited the hazel coppice in the first image the other day, hoping to get a photo of its catkins display but it has been coppiced.

For hazel, it's perfectly normal practice every 7-10 yrs. What it revealed was perhaps how old the tree may be as there are some signs of hollowing.

#woodland #trees #forest #art #landscapephotography #photomonday