The librarian is in

Hi! I'm here to answer your questions and share some research tricks that I've learned over the years. Feel free to ask me any questions on any topic. No question too big or small, and stupid questions don't exist. I will write posts on Mondays on randomly generated call numbers and Fridays on specific research topics. All posts are tagged #referencelibrarian. var sc_project=12029238; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="1b6b3d5b"; var sc_https=1;

[xenobotanist]

Caption this

[unamccormack]

I don’t have a caption but I saw this production. Most of the rest of the audience was from a school, teens who didn’t know the plot. The lights went down for the interval at this moment and they all went fucking wild. It was magic.

[abalidoth]

Fun little math trick I find really helpful: the ratio of a mile to a kilometer is within 1% of the Golden Ratio. That means that if you have a good memory for Fibonacci numbers (1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89) you can convert pretty accurately by taking consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

For example, 89 kilometers is really close to 55 miles (55.3). Or, say you need to convert 26 miles to kilometers: 26 can be written as 21 plus 5, so taking the next Fibonacci number up gives 34 and 8, meaning it should be around 42 kilometers. Sure enough, it's 41.8 km!

[tamberoo]

i need several moments, math like this scares me

[abalidoth]

Not gonna lie, as much as I want to be helpful and comprehensible, I am very proud of provoking that reaction image.

[theafternoontiger]

Visit Original Link

[laralaralara]

i’m gonna make it through this year if it kills me

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ Begin ID: A screenshot of a tweet by The Mountain Goats @/mountain_goats. The tweet reads “I am so honored when people tell me our song is what they play as they celebrate their survival. don’t have the words for how honored” / End ID ]

[karcatgirl-vantas]

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

[skluug]

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

[and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree]

behold, the default object!

[ospreyonthemoon]

DEFAULT OBJECT FOUND

[meredithmoriarty]

Tim losing his job speedrun any%.

[meredithmoriarty]

New boots!

[witchblade]

[catcryptid]

[whats-a-bear]

can't believe i just blew fifty bucks in there <- gay deer walking out of a bar

[queerb]

[sreegs]

nyc guy guided meditation: close ya eyes... breathe in thru ya nose... and out through ya mouth... and wit da nex exhale breathe all da way out to citi field... lets go mets

[sreegs]

we're gonna do a exercise... where we gonna let our thoughts come an go... like cabs on broahdway. and when yous have a thought, make make a note of it, den bounce it away... gently... like how youse tap yer phone to get on da subway. you dont gotta swipe anymore... dey got ridda da cards.

i remember when dey had da tokens... oh sorry right, ya thoughts: fuck em. you da boss of dem

[sreegs]

nyc guy guided meditation: close ya eyes... breathe in thru ya nose... and out through ya mouth... and wit da nex exhale breathe all da way out to citi field... lets go mets

[sreegs]

we're gonna do a exercise... where we gonna let our thoughts come an go... like cabs on broahdway. and when yous have a thought, make make a note of it, den bounce it away... gently... like how youse tap yer phone to get on da subway. you dont gotta swipe anymore... dey got ridda da cards.

i remember when dey had da tokens... oh sorry right, ya thoughts: fuck em. you da boss of dem

[depsidase]

[nyaa]

horse with a dvd player on its back 2006-03-21

[nyaa]

wild

[nerveblot]

sorry I have some kind of brain disease

I suspect this was meant as a visual pun because this server is rated for 733 watts, almost exactly one metric horsepower

[rowlfthedog]

[foxes-in-love]

[skodasforge]

“It’s photoshopped” honestly in the age of AI that has a homey sort of nostalgia to it. Remember when people used to put effort into faking things?

[svdcvnt]

Everything I’ve Ever Let Go Of Has Claw Marks On It

[gloriesunsung]

To save someone else going through eleventy billion reverse image searches - the sculptor is David Altmejd.

Thought 2, 2019

[studentofetherium]

[dandelionwyn-o]

Booksmith sells online! They even have book mystery boxes based on other books you love. Let's show them (and others) that they made a good business AND moral choice.

[cahootings]

[discord-the-app-offical]

It’s almost transgender!!!