Duncan Waldron

I've decided what I want to be when I grow up: sprightly.

What if quantum mechanics exists, and doesn't exist? Would that mean that physics is just Bohring?

Don't put lithium batteries, or any flammable gas canisters, in your household rubbish bins. youtube.com/shorts/qyyRi...

The Moody Blues Brothers Gerry and the Heart Pacemakers - they released I Like It (But My Cardiologist Doesn't)

The Damned Nice

ABCD:Ream

King Queen Crimson

Scorpions Sting

Jethro Tool

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For Day 8 #spacetober_challenge prompt supernova: Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the

Hadn't seen ISS in an eon, so decided to catch it this evening. After setting up in a clear-ish spot among the trees at our place, I went for a clearer view of the horizon to see when it was climbing, then decided that would be a better viewpoint, so hastily moved the tripod. Meh. Not enuf time. 🔭

A couple of globular clusters from 27° south. Would have liked more time on M22, but the sky wasn't cooperating. 🔭

Went see my doc about a sciatica problem. It's seems my hip flask is to blame.

Great example of why disposable email addresses are the way to go, for subscriptions and the like. Cf duckduckgo.com/email/settin...

...not blessed with a great understanding of elapsed time beyond 1/125 of a second...?

"Hatred draws itself on your face and it doesn't use nice pens." You have a way with words, my man.

Downgrade a movie: The Illusionist of Oz

As much as I'm comfortable with everyday maths (oh, the joy when I found a real-life need for solving simultaneous equations, years after school), and am happy building spreadsheets, and converting light-years to kilometres, I can't abide sudoku. Ick.

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"Bokeh" doesn't mean that parts of a photo are out-of-focus; it means how those parts appear, depending upon the lens design, and aperture used.

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Icarus did his own research.

Hard light. An engineer, engaged in pure research, stumbles on a method of generating a metre-long beam of light from an old flashgun grip. A workplace safety enquiry is launched after the device unexpectedly severs the arm of his lab assistant son who cries "no, that's not true; that's impossible."

Forgot to put the sauce on my pizza tonight, just lashings of olive oil. I think I prefer it.

An egg and a chicken are at the bar in a pub. The barman asks "okay, who was first?"

My wife turned into a serial apologist yesterday, even apologising for apologising several times. Should she apply for Canadian citizenship?

In the days before correcting fluid...

Anyone planning to catch the Mars-Uranus conjunction? North/South America about the right longitude. 🔭

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 Well, Lord Rosse saw it as a crab in the 19th C.

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We used to give mossies to our zebra fish. Quite amusing, watching them rapidly fold the legs and body into their mouths.

It's a fallacy that Galileo said "Eppur si muove", and little reason to give credence to the notion that he said "Ragazze dal sedere grosso, siete voi che fate girare il mondo del rock".

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

"ENTER PASSWORD" *types 'snowflake'* "RE-ENTER PASSWORD" *types 'snowflake'* "ERROR. PASSWORDS MUST BE IDENTICAL".

There's a certain feeling of kinship when reading a second-hand book, and you find yourself folding a page corner as a bookmark and notice someone else marked the same page - especially if it's not at the start of a new chapter.

Some style-guide dictats give me the shits, like Nasa for NASA. Here's another from the NYT (though maybe I'll style it nyT).

In the sunroom.

may moon #fullmoon #joncarling #drawing

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'Flourish' by LaToya Hobbs, contemporary US printmaker and co-founder of Black Women of Print #WomensArt