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why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh

khamingbird-blog

You’ve never heard of The Bog?

transheadcrab

the what

transheadcrab

EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

punkrorschach

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

transheadcrab

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

bomberqueen17

oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”

“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”

banananai

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#bog wolfspiders cranberries

eldritchscholar

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

benegesserwitch

Hi fun fact!!

The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:

Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.

This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.

But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.

Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:

But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!

Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,

and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.

tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.

darkersolstice

@we-are-threadmage

systlin

Someone port Doom to a blanket

rolypolywardrobe

I really love tumblr for this 🙌

isnerdy-deactivated20190101

It goes beyond this. Every computer out there has memory. The kind of memory you might call RAM. The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. It looked like this:

Wires going through magnets. This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:

You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is. But these are also extreme close-ups. Here’s the scale of the individual cores:

The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.

And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.

dollsahoy

(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)

butts-for-days

Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, for “little old lady memory.”

costumersupportdept

I mean let’s also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the “weaver yelling at Draw Boy” technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddles “raise these and these, lower these!” and hope that he got it right.

With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.

ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.

And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.

The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, I’ve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They don’t seem interested these days)

synebluetoo

This is fascinating. I knew there was a correlation between binary and weaving but this just takes it to a whole nother level.

moiraecrochet

I’m in Venice, Italy several times a year (lucky me!) and last year I went on a private tour of the Luigi Bevilacqua factory. Founded in 1875, they still use their original jacquard looms to hand make velvet. Here are the looms:

Here are the punch cards:

Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns. Here are some patterns:

How many punchcards per pattern?

This many:

Modern computing owes its very life to textiles - And to women. From antiquity weaving has been the domain of women. Sure, we remember Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr, but while Joseph Marie Jacquard gets all the credit for his loom, the operators and designers were for the most part women.

the-fibre-stuff

I’ve seen this cross my dash a few times, but I’ve never watched the video before. Maybe I just didn’t pay attention when I was a kid, but I don’t remember ever seeing just how the Jacquard loom works. I just knew that the punch cards controlled which threads were raised. It’s cool to see the how, not just the what.

swords-n-spindles

Don’t hide this in the tags, @drylime :D

changan-moon

How to see whether a Chinese handmade teapot is well done or not - quality of the spout is an important standard.

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kotteri0000

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Just. 10/10

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cherrylimeade222-deactivated202

My next batch of jojo content, some Rohan coming up next

hajnarus

Kakyoin was originally suppose to be a girl like Annasui i think thats why people make him be so sexy and feminine 💋

ahh he is sexy without this fact, however I asked about this “originally girl” thing on twitter, and older and more fanatic fans said that it’s made up I mean I watched a lot of interview, infos, fandom wiki, other interviews and never found that source, this rumor created by fans as I know, like, kak was created nearly 30 years ago, just imagine how many fake infos could spread among fans :D however if you find any source I would gladly read it!^^ (pic is from pixiv)

ladyjotaro

I actually have information on this. As fan of jojo for almost 20 years this “rumor” came from a interview that araki was originally going to make stardust crusaders a modern retelling of Dracula. A lot of japanease message boards were coming up with ideas of how it would playout if he went with that idea, and what crussder would fit the roles of the charecters from dracula. Everyone seemed to lean towards kakyoins role being Mina Harker, because kakyoin was possesd by dio at the beginning and mina was posessed by dracula. Also mina was the fiance of the main charecter.

on a side note i seen the artical about female kakyoin with my own eyes! A old friend translated It I have been wanting to see it again for a year now! maybe translate it myself, check the facts.

It had something to do with araki wanting a female crusader, but the editor said it was a bad idea to have a girl as a main character in a shounen manga. So araki went with a softer male to foil jotaro instead. It didnt directly say kakyoin was going to be a girl, just that he replaced the idea of a girl.

I’m not afraid to say i dedicated almost ten years to digging around the way back machine and looking trough old articles for any mention of jotaro and kakyoin. And buying old merch like ova cels and 90s joka doujins. “I own clamp in wonderland” I bought a jotaro kakyoin doujin from 1990! That is almost as old as stardust crusaders itself!

I just find it so so fasinating to look back on such a old and ritch ship its so cool seeing how the jotakak ship art changed over time, based on the erra and person who made the art. as time goes on the styles change the colors change, even the content changes based on the worlds view of the lgbtq comunity. but there is always that heart and passion to each artwork. Its nice seeing that they stood the test of time as a pair! the core dynsmics that araki gave jotaro and kayoin and made them very popular and resiliant. there foil personalities is what makes jotakak popular, and such a fun ship to play with.

Another resson for this rumor espesally in the japanease community is

Back in the early 2000s clamp had a jotakak webpage called green drug. There was a post on there from them that said they asked araki sensei “would jotaro marry kakyoin if he was a girl”. Clamp said araki resonded

“yes I dont see why not, kakyoin is quiet and traditional but could keep jotaro in check” “laughs”.

Remember araki never said this! clamp said he did. But i like to think he did, as araki likes to leave things open and leave his fans minds to run wild. Unfortunetly the web page legal drug has been removed because the guy that wrote one peive didnt want the sajixluffy porn on there “oh clamp"lol

So the only solid proof i have of that is a rare book published by clamp depicting how they imaginged araki’s coment would play out if jotaro and girl kakyoin were a married couple. Interesting thing to note is this early 2000s book predicts kakyoins mothers hair in the anime. That concludes the reasons why the fandom has this rumor "there still might be truth to it. "Schrodinger’s cannon” untill i can find that article and prove it valid of fase.

I also noticed a question @hajnarus gets asked alot. why alot of artists most noteably “Japanese fanartists” depict kakyoin as feminine?. Well you can take this at face value, “hes just pretty”. But there is acualy a cultural reason for this!.

Around 2011 i got in a leangthy converstaion about why kakyoin is depicted as feminine in alot of fan works from japan. What she told me was absolutely fascinating! She said that japan has a female way of speking and wrighting and a male way of speaking and writing. And kakyoin talks and writes in a female dialect!. My friend mentioned how it reminded her of lady oscar in the rose of Versailles, and how oscar speaks with a male dialect, kakyoin is the reverse.

Hears a interesting artical on the subject

Talk like a girl or boy in Japanese, depending how you want to sound.

I must also mention he is canonly considered very feminine. Each translaion depicts him as very femmine or effeminate. The japanease translates losely to lady like.

The important thing to take from this long ted talk is that kakyoin’s beauty and femininity were lost to translaion and arakis early art style.