That's a polyplacagoodayo

Being shared around the pottery studio between the map and clay crossover nerds
www.lorainerutt.com/mappingearth

A VERY LARGE pinkish tardigrade on green mossy surface, all from cake.

Another shot of the cake, plus info tags.

Gotta show you this tardigrade cake I saw at the American Museum of Natural History.

A screenshot showing three articles I've published -- on border tech, medical tech, and spatial data -- all of which mention Palantir. We also see an article on surveillance by Hillary Mushkin.

Just did a little search on Places (where I've published most frequently for the past decade+), to see if anyone had written about Palantir in relation to urban governance, border tech, other spatial data applications, etc. Well, whaddya know? That's me, from 2016, 2018, and 2018 :)

#MapMonday On this day in 1736, French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis led the Lapland expedition to measure latitude and shape of the earth, highlighting a flattening at the poles. Read and see more here: www.maupertuis.fi/en/history/t... 👀 🗺️

They used a broken shell and cut that end off for a river rowing scene.
They use the loading dock on the river behind the steel plant to launch their rowing team. It has been a really good experience for kid from an ag based town of chickens, dairy, and wine to row up and down river 5 days a week.

Kiddo's team made a float for our town's parade, got special award.

The Karman Ghia conversions looked lovely. I would like to do a 1962 Internstional Metro stepvan.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

Cedar waxings in English walnut tree

Close up of tree with dozens of cedar waxwings perched

Plump cedar waxwings with their distinct masks and yellow tipped tails

The cedar waxwings have come to visit. All you can hear are hundreds of seeep ssssseeeeep seeeps.

Bring a map, KQED
www.kqed.org/perspectives...

Historical Map: Pacific Electric Railway System in Southern California, c. 1926 by Jake Berman

For your interest Historical Map: Pacific Electric Railway System in Southern California, c. 1926 by Jake Berman

Https://transitmap.net/pacific-electric-jake-berman/

Golden retriever looking noble

He says thanks but prefers scritches

If AI can run a corporation and corporations have person, how close are we to AI having voting influence and personhood like rights?

A good day at the beach with a Golden Retriever

A Good Boy

Ray Bandar, a local naturalist and teacher had one of the most amazing collections of skulls. He also had a fantastic and diverse baculum collection. Some of sea otters had purple tint to their bones because of all the purple urchins consumed over their lifetime. It's amazing how many mammals have.

Photo of a printed map of Boston with some molasses spilled on it.

I, too, ran a physics-based simulation in 2019 on the 100th anniversary of the event.

Science museum in SF gave extra paid vacation per days commuting by bike. Rode from home at Point Bointa lighthouse keeper's house through Marin Headlands, across GG Bridge & Presidio, down 5th (donuts & dim sum @ Clement) onto GG Park, then back at 6ish
I remember that 18 mile commute as daily joy.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing in the forest, wearing backpacks. The red-haired person says "I've never hiked with a naturalist before! I'm excited. I hope I brought enough water." The brown-haired person says "I'm sure you did. Let's go!" In panel 2, the brown-haired person points at various nature features. "Look, a red eft! It's the teenaged form of the Eastern Newt. Ooh, wintergreen! Wanna smell it? I hear a Chestnut-sided Warbler. Glacial till. Rubble of the last ice age!" In panel 3, the naturalist points to more nature items. "This forest seems early successional. Aw, a leafcutter bee with a piece of leaf! Wow, deer poor! Wow, fungi growing out of the deer poop!!" The red-haired person says "Okay, but..." In panel 4, the red-haired person continues, "It's been an hour and we've walked three feet." The brown-haired person exclaims, looking excited, "Three amazing feet!"

Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅

Last week at this same spot I lucked out and saw a great horned owl swoop down from its perch above on the old grain mill and take away a chubby rat .

Black crowned night heron in an urban setting catching rats behind the restaurant.

The night heron watches over the fat rat circus

@davedyson.bsky.social may have even seen that vintage film

There's probably super 8 evidence of it happening in a suburban pool next to someone in an electric blanket wrapped holding a pringles can in tin foil with an improvised score you plinked.

Hooray! Welcome the mud slingers. A lifelong joy.

Thanks Michael.
For us geography & geology adjacent nerds, that's a watercolor he painted of Balanced Rock near Castleford, Idaho. He was born & grew up about a mile away. The urn I made of ceramic of same place is in the flowers. Being balanced in adversity & loss was the metaphorical theme.

So what if I'm mildly concussed at least I can break dance

2 aspirin and keep dancin

Water color painting of Balanced Rock in Castleford Idaho with funeral flower arrangements, urn with cremains, and portrait of deceased

Urn and flowers including red roses and gardenias

Bon Voyage Dad
A good man

Intertidal Zone id card for California coast showing orgaisms likely to encounter in high to low tide zones. Laminated for use in the water.

This is fantastic! Will buy. In early 90's I took students into intertidal regularly. Pocket guides were great prep, but lost and destroyed at ocean. I made this laminated guide depicting critters in upper edge in usual zone. Works great near water. She can make one too to go with book.

A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.

An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.

An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.

A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

You're now in the land of Sortilege. You'll have to finds some Canuckian booze examples to share.