A box of personal things

whatever I save, make or think

[sailermoon]

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

[birdsareblooming]

[tendie-defender]

We should bring back forest green.

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

[bears-official]

lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around

[thepioden]

Paleontologists occupy a weird and highly uncomfortable slice of this Venn Diagram

[thepurplegeologist]

in my own experience with geology most precautions with samples are to preserve the life and safety of the geologist, most of the rocks are fine. 

[laboradorescence]

i am continually reminded of one of my colleagues, who wanted to collect a sample of gypsum on a field excursion but was too lazy to take off his backpack and get his rock hammer. so he said “eh, it’s soft enough” just fucking punched the rock until a piece fell off like it was fucking minecraft

[lillyofthewoods]

The one time you DO have to be careful with your rock samples is when you’re analyzing them for their base/precious metal content. But I guess at that point it’s chemistry, not geology.

[duracellaaa]

For prospecting yeah, you don't want one sample to contaminate another. With pedology you sometimes need to make sure the soil (structures?) are very undisturbed all the way to the lab. But for geology? The sample usually has been outside in the rain being stepped on and much worse for longer than humanity has had control of fire.

[loth-catgirl]

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

[duracellaaa]

If you like indie animation, studio Trigger or the rule of cool, I recommend checking out Wafellmaker's many completed series or his current kickstarter project Full-Auto Sunshine:

Full-Auto Sunshine | Indie animated series

Rise and shine! It's time for Skygang Forever to make their mark in this new indie animated action series!

[throathole]

Oh thanks but what the fuck does any of that mean

[anariel-the-elrond-apologist]

I’ve seen quite a few of these in my time, but this one takes the cake.

[throathole]

This is fucking killing me

Golp: a roundel purpure.

Repeat this to yourself until it begins to have meaning

[a-book-of-creatures]

Okay then since some of you need to be reminded of this:

Roundels are circles in heraldry. They are named according to their color, which also has its own lingo. Let’s meet them!

Bezant: roundel or (gold) 🟡

Plate: roundel argent (silver) ⚪️

Torteau: roundel gules (red) 🔴

Pomme: roundel vert (green) 🟢

Hurt: roundel azure (blue) 🔵

Golp: roundel purpure (purple) 🟣

Pellet: roundel sable (black) ⚫️

If your field is strewn with roundels, you can describe it appropriately as being bezanty, hurty, golpy, and so on.

[cognitohazardous]

[steampunkforever]

The Tudor Black Bay Coke GMT is essentially the perfect watch for me and would be a great pickup if it didn't cost about as much as an entire manual trans swap, but otherwise I have no real attachment to Rolex et al. when Seiko and Casio are putting out quality, affordable watches that look good. Seiko dress watches look classy, G-Shocks are some of the most durable timepieces on earth, and if you just want to keep time accurately with a quality watch that just works, the Casio F-91W is literally $20 and lasts forever.

Which is to say that I can hunt around in my wifes luxury handbag to find the keys to my 2000s Land Rover that I drive into the country to hunt hogs with my high-quality DMR while wearing a Tudor on my wrist and all 4 products I just mentioned cost the exact same.

This is a long way of saying that I don't think I could ever be a true watch guy, beyond the fact that I'm incapable of enjoying cigars.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

pulling up to the function dressed like this and all the bad bitches start beating me with sticks and clubs and cudgels until im on the ground crying and bloody and broken

[parakeet]

has anyone else noticed they still havent invented a pocket dimension where time stands still where one can go to sort their shit out? so you just have to either try in this go go go ass world to find the time, or die unresolved? just something i've noticed.

[duracellaaa]

Tool use and toolmaking Harvesting and control of fire Marking and conceptualization of time Language and storytelling Prometheus' folly

[revizyonist]

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

[revizyonist]

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

[ancelineonline]

I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.

[bowditch]

i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!

[arctic-turtle-cassiopeia]

Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills

[annabelle--cane]

ough not a fan At All of this new mobile feature where if you try to screenshot a post it just opens up the share menu with an option to save the post as an image. I wouldn't mind it if the automatically created image of the post looked the same as the screenshot I was trying to take, but the font size of the blog urls and note counts are significantly too large and they put a big ass [tumblr] logo in the corner that also cuts off a lot of some of the urls. I no longer have the option to take normal long screenshots of posts because the share menu immediately pops up and stops me being able to scroll down the post.

[annabelle--cane]

normal screenshot of a post I reblogged earlier, cropped a little weirdly because usually I like to take slightly long screenshots of posts so I can include everything from the top to bottom borders without the pencil icon hovering there but, well, I couldn't do that this time:

then when I tried to get The Official JPG it didn't. load any of the images. so this is what I got.

[duracellaaa]

Had some app do this to me recently. Maybe uber? Whoever the hell decided all machines must guess at what I'm trying to do and do it for me, can you please go live in a wet hole forever?

[probablybadrpgideas]

Due to THE INCIDENT at the local wizard academy, the city has been flooded with frogs that turn anyone they touch into frogs. It's the party's job to clear out the frogs and recover the citizens. Good luck figuring out which is which!

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[bunjywunjy]

Can I have a cursed giant creature fact?

sure! at lengths of over 55 feet and weights of 600 pounds, our friend the Oarfish surely qualifies :)

we don’t know a whole lot about the world’s longest bony fish, aside from that it rarely comes to the surface and inspired most of the Sea Serpent legends floating around. they’re fairly rare and live only in the Abyssopelagic Zone, around 3,300 feet down. but this is old news to everyone who’s seen the info posts about these guys going around, so what’s so cursed about this? well, I’ll tell you! 

have you ever wondered what the Oarfish gets up to, way down there? we didn’t realize this until we started sending ROVs and submarines into the deep sea to observe live ones, but Oarfish are… a little nontraditional as fish go. 

see, they don’t normally swim horizontally all majestic-like like in the pictures up there, it turns out that instead they spend their time just kind of… hanging vertically in the water column. 

motionless, staring at the surface with all 50+ feet of them vanishing into the darkness below.

and I don’t know about you but frankly, I find that a little creepy. 

[bunjywunjy]

though sometimes they do come over to say hi, and that’s ok.

[bunjywunjy]

just imagine though you’re an oil rig diver minding your own business when this THING slides up soundlessly from the depths like it’s on an invisible elevator and makes kissy faces at you for the next five minutes:

[gallusrostromegalus]

The caps of the guy tied to the chain and staring at the oarfish are from River Monsters with Jeremy Wade.  he’s attatched to the chain becuase the current is insanely strong there, and he spends the entire time the oarfish decide to hang out with him practically shrieking with delight and excitment over seeing this ridiculous animal.

[pangur-and-grim]

i wish i was hanging vertically in a water column

[slightlydraconic]

at some point we have to stop saying these things started sea serpent legends and just admit that’s a sea serpent

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[evilsoup]

[gilliagandy]

Truly thrilled to finally find this post on my dash.

[elliespectacular]

ok, maybe you didn't say the thing I accused you of saying - but you heavily implied it by speaking to me, someone who wants to be mad at you

[cinnamnt]

i hate when people reblog from me and just copy my tags verbatim without even saying prev like stop you didn’t say that. i did