Posts by Lilith __
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Nora:
grateful for the magic wand
Islander:
hours spent digging her first longdrop….
Heh, this thread is simultaneously twinkly and bucolic. :-)
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Islander,
the pile-drill
I was so glad we could borrow a post-hole digger when we needed a long-drop after the quake. Digging a deep hole with a spade is jolly difficult!
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Will de Cleene,
I’d rather have substance over style any day of the quark.
I think most of us would. But there are heaps more comments here on the font than the content!
Although to be fair I think most of us feel confident talking about fonts, not so much on particle physics.
I get that the Higgs boson is a really big deal, but I think most of us are just nodding and smiling uncomprehendingly at the physicists. I'm very pleased that human knowledge has taken such a giant leap, but my personal knowledge is labouring some distance behind.
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to JacksonP,
We got there in the end
Oh, I thought everybody might have had enough of snow. :-)
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
we even got snow!
These are from our snowy days last month. I’m hoping we don’t get too many more!
I remember the sound of the cars on the road in the early morning when the snow was iced over. They made a scraping, ringing sound, like the sound you make dragging a spade over a hard surface. In fact when I first woke up I thought somebody was doing just that....
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to Leigh Russell,
The ice
It's good you took these photos, it really communicates what your winter's been like. And that sheet of ice is unbelievable!
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to David Hood,
I initially read that as "it's only commas. Anyone can do commas"
Clearly, it needs to be in a harder to read font, so I pay more attention.Me too! Comma coma.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Lyndon Hood,
Actually, NASA has a reputation for “managing” news releases for maximum impact, and sometimes distorts the science in doing so
Exhibit A (and the resulting Stuff article).
Holy crap, that’s misleading!! And the confusion originates directly from the NASA report...even I, BA that I am, can see that.
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to Leigh Russell,
amazing hoar frost
Brrrrr! Beautiful, but. :-)
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I bought a new top yesterday. Forget the plum-pudding model of the atom, this is the sequin model. :-)
