L
everybody knows
about Napier's bones
you could multiply
and you could divide
you could even extract
the square root
such sweet sweet necromancy
but nobody knows about
Genaille–Lucas rulers
with which you could save
a little addition on the way
at the price of a
much more complicated name
and no allusion
to death
and what the dead might say
@futurebird
I wonder if it would be more effective to get blank 45 45 90 triangles and label the hypotenuse in terms of √2 ?
Unfortunately that's probably harder.
That said - I think I've seen circle and a matched tape labeled in terms of π . A choice of radiant beauty.
@futurebird
dinosaurs are planning to rule the world again and I think if you're not using these rulers for anything important, you should donate them to the dinosaur cause.
@futurebird
they control plants better than humans??
how galling.
@futurebird
way back in the 1990s I had a post office job in which I had to load about 150,000 letters a day into a sorting machine. And sometimes huge metal crates full of super glossy icky feeling advertisements like these would come through.
"Cuomo is endorsed by hotel and gaming trades council"
huh. I guess they wanted everyone who wasn't rich to vote for Mamdani.
@futurebird @nova it needs laundry
@futurebird @neia I wish I was actually any good at fixing things. And I wish I could afford a decent multi-tool. I used to have one, but *sigh*. Time ruins everything.
@neia @futurebird
Depends on what you end up doing, I guess.
I have routinely carried small scissors and a box cutter in my backpack (except for events like protests where box cutters might be perceived as a weapon, in which case I take that out), and it turns out the scissors see much more use. Unless I'm stripping down cardboard boxes for recycling, and time is more important than fingers (which should never be so), box cutters aren't that useful.
@futurebird @maddiefuzz
even in context for a moment I thought "EDC" was Eurovision Dance Contest.
@futurebird and if it's plugged in it's a sharp pointy thing that can give a tickle, making it even more tack tickle.
@futurebird well, "everyone in prison" is kind of the end goal of fascism; everyone is either prisoner, prison guard, prison maintenance, prison managment, or prison profiteer.
@futurebird Congratulations, mayor of New York Cats.
@futurebird surely, there are ants who strive to return to Antarctica.
@futurebird anthropologists have written at great length about the social importance of conspicuous consumption in elites, and I don't doubt them, but I've come to believe it pales in comparison to conspicuous hypocrisy.
@futurebird Pica is right! if one must eat meat on a hot day it's better to eat cold, thawed only enough to avoid cracking one's teeth.
@futurebird
"tucker" is a mysterious dish found at a pot luck in a small town in western Kansas. I don't know even know how it became someone's name, let alone who could whup in a fight.
@futurebird I haven't read the paper,I only read the interview. : )
@futurebird , look, ant muscles! (well, actually, CT scan of ant larvae with various internal tissues colored, including muscles but also other stuff. : )
In their recently published paper, Di Li and her co-authors illuminate the internal and external morphology of Ooceraea biroi, an important model organism in myrmecological research. Here, the first author tells us about her transition
Myrmecological News Blog (blog.myrmecologicalnews.org)
@futurebird I had an algebra teacher who was fond of saying "I know geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and calculus, which makes me a polymath." (I still find his pun hilarious. : ) To be fair, he also knew Greek , and a lot about the history of science and math in Europe and the Mediterranean, and when he talked about those topics, he would causally draw an accurate map of the region, with time-appropriate labels and borders, as if drawing accurate maps from memory on a chalkboard was no big deal