Andy Murdock
@andymurdock
Writer, editor, fern pointer-outer from Alameda, CA, former home of nuclear wessels. Mostly posting about science communication, plants, travel, soccer, and pie. Comms Director at @innovativegenomics.bsky.social
Let’s play “Someone’s embarrassing nickname or totally unnecessary product?”
Is it too much to ask for us to return to an era when US Senators wrote homages to beans?
Say what you will about Airbnbs, but you’d never find a room in a Hilton with a pair of these
How we used to find out about concert dates in 2000: a printed card would be personally delivered by a flying cosmic hippo
Fill the Reflecting Pool with C+C Music Factory’s “Things That Make You Go Hmmmm…” cassette singles. That’ll make you reflect.
“Yes, I tried to trigger a massive earthquake, flood Silicon Valley, and kill a few million people,” said Zorin. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house. 1988 was a different time.
Creeping wild ginger in flower along Bear Creek on Snow Mountain. Apparently a first record for Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument - it normally sticks to the coastal redwood belt, this is much farther east.
Asian weaver ants build nests by stitching together leaves with silk. One tip: don’t mess with their house. These crafty guys chose an Angiopteris brooksii in Kubah National Park, #Sarawak #fernfriday
Angiopteris smithii, an unusual 1-pinnate species once put in its own genus, Macroglossum. Only known from Borneo & Sumatra. Me for scale. #fernfriday
I’ll also accept Stone Junction or Not Fade Away, but start with Fup
The best (and very buried) feature of Google Maps is the ability to select a dorky little car avatar the scoots along on the map as you drive
Two flowering cacti from Canyonlands and Arches last week: Mojave Kingcup (Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. mojavensis) & smallflower fishhook cactus (Sclerocactus parviflorus)