Space Coast Talon

@brashtech

Born to love 🪐, forced to live on 🌎. Professor of physics, knitter of things, drawer of earnest pictures, planetary astronomer. Goal: Spiral back into control. My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.

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Space Coast Talon@brashtech· 7d

Hi, frands of borbs, it’s me, back on my bullshit* for #avianaugust I’m already behind, but this is Day 1: The northern lapwing. * drawing people banding borbs and using too many (or too few???????) colors of ink.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· 12d

I have successfully trained my Qobuz algorithm to recommend absolutely demented musical nonsequitors.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· 23d

Rolling through the Ages on a Sunday afternoon, as one does.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· 26d

A photograph of the southside Beloit water tower. In the foreground, there is a black metal railing and a red garbage receptacle, in the midfield is a parking lot with cars and a small tree. In the distance, trees and the Beloit post office. A gray haze of wildfire smoke makes more distant objects appear fainter and bluer.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jul 12

Evergreen: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

A black-and-white drawing of a 19th century woman riding a bicycle, kicking her legs up, smoking a cigarette, by the incomparable Kate Beaton.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jul 12

The CDC has stopped monitoring for blue, red, yellow *and* black cubes.

A close-up of the board game Pandemic, showing translucent red and black cubes plastic cubes that represent the spread of viruses on a stylized world map where color-coded cities such as Chennai, Ho Chi Minh City, and Taipei are linked by yellow lines.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jul 9

I thought it was comets that were made of pure snow.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jul 9

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jun 20

How I killed time during our 13th Age game: decorating my spellbook. #ttrpg #conchaRootbinder #13thAge #druidLife

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· May 26

Studying up on flying helicopters to get better at #MSFS, as you do, by reading “Learning to Fly Helicopters” by R. Randall Padfield. I hit this line and LOLed.

How do you get clearance to move in toward the helicopter? Wait in front of the cockpit until you get the pilots' attention. Don't bother to shout because they can't hear you. If they're looking down at something inside the cockpit, wait until they look up.
You won't have to wait long.
They'll either wave you in or give you the universal thumbs-up signal. Pilots like to
use thumbs-up because it looks cool.
Never, never, never approach a helicopter from the rear (Fig. 4-10).
Tail rotors spin fast, are hard to see, are often low to the ground, and will kill you in

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Apr 19

Apparently I’m in A Mood.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Apr 17

Graysky:

Gray clouds with strange wavy streaks. At the lower edge of the image are a telephone pole, the roof of a house, and trees just budding in spring.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Apr 1

We are all living vicariously as we fantasize getting the hell off this planet.

The Artemis II mission patch a black triangle with the bottom corners truncated. Most of the patch is a stylized view of the Earth as seen from behind the moon with a red swoosh representing the spacecraft orbit forming the cross bar of a capital A, with two slanted bars for the roman numeral 2. The astronaut's names, Wiseman, Glvoer, Koch, and Hansen are stitched along the left side.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Apr 1

NASA.gov got overwhelmed.

A screenshot from nasa.gov with a 429 error: "Too Many Requests"

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Mar 25

#cats #housepanther Me: *gets out yarn to mend a hole in my hat* Me: *forgets to return it to bombproof storage* Winona:

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Mar 19

mar-KWAN-ye?

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Mar 7

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Mar 5

mar-KWAN-ee?

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Feb 16

#art #drawing My colleagues and her sister, a biologist and a physicist, respectively, do a podcast about The X-Files. I am their creepy #1 fan, and did a fanart celebrating the Round 1 win of the Fluke Man in their Villians Bracket. Check them out at www.wewanttobelievepod.com

The "Fluke Man," a white-skinned humanoid monster with a sucker mouth, with an expression of surprise and delight. Surrounding his head in a halo are sinusioudal traces invoking both sound waves and the DNA double helix. He is encircled by a laurel wreath, and a ribbon at an angle bears the phrase "Celebratory Fluke Noises" in cursive. A black and white digital drawing with a black background.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Feb 4

Beeeaaadddssssssaaa

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 30

E.g. Sable, in cross five gears Argent.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 26

Despite all the legitimately important things I need to do today, I spent thirty seconds making a meme for my computational physics class.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 26

Our housepanther is a genteel fellow. Doesn’t steal food, never claws (people or furniture) and has prefect play manners: soft paws, and has never broken skin with a bite. Our vet calls him “a gentle soul.” He can chase after our sr cat, but he is the best bigbrother for our youngest cat.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 23

Gary asks legitimate questions. #raygun

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 20

A black & white photo of MLKJr and other protestors on the left. On the right in white text on a black background: “We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 12

Picked up a lovely print of “The Messenger”, by www.candicebroersma.com

A painting: a chipmunk in a blue cloak perched on a shelf fungus holds a curled fern frond in one hand and reaches upward toward the glowing body of a butterfly with eye-like shapes on its rings.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 11

Found in the wild: @spaceart.bsky.social

A hard bound copy of Sun Moon Eatth, by Tyler Nordgren on a shelf of a Barnes & Noble in Waterloo, IA with a shelf tag that reads: “For science nerds and eclipse chasers, this gorgeously illustrated book about all things eclipses is a great starting point for exploring something new, or a stellar addition to anyone already engaged.”

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 10

Here’s the prize from last time.

A grayish rock with a coating of fine-grained quartz on a light-colored wooden tabletop. It looks like a frosted shredded wheat crossed with a poop, if we are being honest.

Space Coast Talon@brashtech· Jan 10

My spousal unit is upset because the free trickle chargers that were here when we stayed at this hotel are gone now, but I’m not mad. Last time I glanced down at the landscaping rock and picked up a Paleozoic #fossil horn coral, and this time I looked and saw these smol tabulate friends.