Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

so, I got a new toy in the mail! a visible light spectrometer

el cheapo instrument. single beam, takes those square cuvettes. I ought to order up a box of the cheap plastic ones. it did come with some glass ones

oh for FUCK'S SAKE

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/01/japan-resumes-commercial-whaling-for-first-time-in-30-years

phew, maybe you shouldn't pretend like you can administer a community if you can't even explain decisions properly. that was almost comical

oh well, probably good to be freer of Discord anyway, honestly. there's no future in Discord

so, serious question

(so I'm not expecting answers haha)

what others protocols are out there, that people are using to distribute structured information

like, there's gopher

but there must be other things too, huh?

it can't ALL be The Web[tm]

whew, well, that got a bit of adrenaline going I suppose

haha it wouldn't be a Linux laptop if it didn't crash the moment you opened the lid

I put too much salt in this batch

I wonder what would happen if you used monosodium glutamate instead of salt in a pickle brine, would that taste great or weird

switched to Zi-O

*grumbles, lays idle on couch with mlp rolling*

so, it's another day apparently

Kara wants me to figure out how to make some sort of consumable glowy thing that's not a flame and not a commercial chemical glow stick and I am at a loss

potato battery driving an LED maybe, haha

(thinking of a titration device where the reagent is delivered by electroösmotic pumping through a narrow glass tip)

electroösmotic pumping

there aren't many celebrity science people I actually like

maybe none

eh, Stephen Jay Gould seemed cool enough