Tara @twdockery@qoto.org

@hashtaggrammar I'm currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings yet again, as well as finishing up Little Women.
#Reading

@Trillenial I think those sort of pictures (technical term on keyboard) are the intersection of design cleverness and technical ignorance.

@Trillenial maybe the 'java' key would send a message to a hiring filter that can't distinguish the difference between Java and Javascript, and doesn't know that J2EE is now JEE.

@freemo all these emoji are great, but maybe a handful of famous women?

@mooselwhipes I expect that the efficacy of essential oils is not evenly distributed, with significant variation by essence, preparation, application, and individual. Also, never underestimate the power of placebos.

#Biology #TraditionalMedicine #PlaceboEffect #LavenderSmellsLovely

@mooselwhipes You have to rely on healthy foods to live a healthy life, too, and that is for the rest of your life as well.

Consider that there is no sharp line delineating medicines and healthy foods. It's more a continuum. Think of a range from fresh vegetables to traditional herbs to synthetic medications.

It's a matter of choosing to consume what your body needs for your current stage of life.
#ModernMedicine #GettingOld #Biology #EatYourVegetables

@freemo I saw a lot of those on the sand in Cannon Beach, OR last month. Very cool.
#bike #WhenIsATrikeABike

It's the 10th anniversary celebration at 3rd Rock Grid, a not-for-profit virtual world. Come for the music, stay for the confusion! If you've always wondered what this virtual world thing was about, take a look at www.3rdrockgrid.com.
#3rdRockGrid #3rg #opensim #vr

If you are known as the Knight with Two Swords, it doesn't do to get caught in a situation with only one broken sword! #MortDathur #Mallory #SirBalyn #BeltAndSuspenders

Sir Balyn in Le Morte d'Arthur is just about the most bad-luck prone knight I have ever read about. Don't stand too near him, or a castle might collapse on you.
#Malory #LeMorteDarthur #KingArthur #BadLuck

@tdnvl I've always said zamp, on the analogy of xylophone and Xerxes.

@freemo I love it. It's a nice balance to the techie side of my life. Probably better than using Quenya variable names. 👩‍💻

Mae g'ovannen, @LadyAnnatar

Another Tolkienista finding her way into Mastodon. I'm not so much into RP, though I do dabble online in LOTRO.

Namárië!

#tolkien #lotro #mythgard

These days I'm following along in #mythgard online discussion of Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Artur" in the original Middle English. Fun!

#kingarthur

The #mythgard community and #signum are definitely musts for fans of #tolkien or his circle of friends, the #inklings, as well as other medieval and speculative literature.

Mythgard includes free online seminars and discussions. There is also an annual conference, #mythmoot, in the DC/Baltimore area, as well as various smaller one-day conferences throughout North America and London.

Signum University is a masters degree granting online institution recently licensed by the state of New Hampshire that also offers auditing of their courses. There are courses taught by a range of scholars in things ranging from Old Norse to C.S. Lewis to Science Fiction.

Dr Olsen, aka "The Tolkien Professor" has a couple of long-running podcasts under his own name and Mythgard Academy.

See mythgard.org as a starting point.

Whew! That's much longer than I'd normally post! But you did ask, @freemo ;-)

@freemo do you know of Mythgard Academy, or Signum Univesity, or Dr Corey Olsen?

#introduction

I'm live in the DC/Baltimore area, I'm into #running, and love getting my geek on reading and discussing literature, especially the works of #tolkien (the books more than the movies).

I've been programming for longer than I like to admit, these days mostly for #android using Java and C#.

The distributed nature of Mastodon appeals to me, so time to explore.