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Those eyelashes! That face! And a nose worth booping!
Photo by Lacee Johnson of Bluemoosephotography89
#Alaska #Moosetodon

Happy birthday to one of greatest #mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether's theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem &…

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #physics #mathematics #histstm #WomenInSTEM #Noethember #womensHistoryMonth

Women weren't allowed into Princeton's graduate astronomy program when Vera Rubin applied in 1948, so she attended Cornell instead.

Her groundbreaking work on galaxy rotation rates provided the first evidence for the existence of dark matter, a seminal breakthrough that led to the creation of a whole new field of astronomy.

Initially criticized for her theories, she was eventually awarded the National Medal of Science.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/07/23/vera-rubin-berkeley-commencement-address/

#WomensHistoryMonth

photo: Carnegie Institute

Here's a quick post about the practice of media archaeology and a piece of the history of a prominent #BBS.

The @mediaarchaeologylab has a box that was donated that used to be the controller for a BBS called The Thing. It ran DOS and had a physical telephone line adapter called an IPAD (not to be confused with the Apple device) that allowed up to 16 people at a time to dial in to the BBS, which was running a commercial BBS software called TBBS.

This BBS was and still remains an important piece of the history of BBSes, because it was mainly populated by artists based in New York in the late 90s. There is still a website (https://thing.net/) though it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.

I've been trying to get this box online for a while - since the Before Times - but the hard drive (a whopping 425MB) has been...uncooperative. I've previously tried to use a number of IDE interface tools to mount the drive or image it, but the platters seem not to like it very much.

Well, yesterday I brought in a device that I've owned for years but never used. It's called a Logicube Forensic MD5. It's a standalone device designed to create forensically-valid clones of hard drives and their files for law enforcement investigators that they can use to demonstrate chain of custody. This model was designed for IDE/ATA hard drives, the generation this DOS box used. I've had it in a storage closet for going on 20 years and decided to bust it out.

And you know what? This thing WORKS GREAT. It made a drive image using onboard dd which I was able to mount in other tools. It did this in minutes. From what it looks like, the entire filesystem is intact. Not only was it loaded with an unreleased beta version of the IPAD software, it seems to have a lot of BBS files stored on it that bear scrutiny. The system seems to have last booted up in 1998, so many of these files haven't seen the light of day in nearly a quarter century.

And now...the real work begins on looking through those files to see what we can learn about this important piece of history.

#mediaarchaeology #forensics #DFIR #Logicube #eSoft

Just want to gloat about my instinctive dislike of the Little House on the Prairie books even as a young child, foreshadowing an adulthood in which I continue to always be right

https://lithub.com/little-house-of-propaganda-homesteading-myths-and-the-sentimentality-of-self-reliance/

I have to do a filmed interview (very short) next week. Has anyone any tips on how not to be utterly wooden in front of a lens? It is all nerves, I know, but I feel like I'm so stilted on camera.

Here is a color wheel I spent a month french knotting to see if I could. It was very satisfying as it involved not only play with color and thread but so much stabbing things with sharp pointy objects in the name of #art

#Embroidery

🖌️ Artist: #TVBOY (Salvatore Benintende) in City: sorry, unknown, Italy 🇮🇹 - Title: "Tanti auguri ai miei due papà !" (Best wishes to my two dads ! / Herzlichen Glückwunsch an meine beiden Väter!") - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Lgbtq #Papa #Fathers
#Festadelpapà #Childhood

An excellent hotel keycard (click for full image).

#PenroseKitchenTiles All tile is laid, now time for grouting

March 22, 1931, happy birthday to Canadian actor William #Shatner 🎂🖖

In his role as #Enterprise Captain #Kirk in #StarTrek he repeatedly had to deal with aliens, minerals & rocks 🐉💎🪨

http://bressan-geoconsult.eu/tag/star-trek/

I just finished cross stitching my Carrot sampler by Owl Forest Embroidery. #crossstitch

Spotted this pileated woodpecker while driving and circled back for this close up!
#FromTheField #NewEngland #Nature #birds #hiking

New thing on the UIUC campus

Outside the Natural History Museum, though that’s Harker Hall in the background of this photo.

This took longer than I anticipated but I like the outcome! #MastoArt #characterart

I pushed the girls out while I put out grain. They were all gathered at the door when I was done.

#Alpacas #Vermont

#Vermont's food waste and single use #plastics laws are popular, but there is room for improvement. I'm watching the imperfect implementation of these aspirational laws with some interest. https://www.uvm.edu/news/gund/vermonts-food-waste-laws-are-popular-vexing-issues-remain?utm_source=slate&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=vtmatters_03202023 #recycling #plastic #FoodWaste

texo: I weave
Minimus has been trying his paw as a textor (weaver). The stamina (warp threads) are strung on the tela (loom) and held down with pondera (loom weights). Minimus is weaving with a radius (shuttle) wound with filum prasinum (green yarn).
#LatinVerbs

And then there's this one about a hearty 8-year-old who crossed the Atlantic by himself.
https://smolenyak.medium.com/captured-in-time-8-year-old-percy-hemingway-upon-arrival-in-america-in-1890-78692458d549