Matt Beckman

@daphsci

Bikes, sweat, sandwiches, dogs, guitar, gardening, science, Daphnia.

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You can rip this bag of Taylor Farms salad out of my cold, dirty hands. Now that I'm on the fiber, protein and cutting out seed oils my immune is maxxed and I can fight the parasite!!! Yeehaaa!

A "bag salad" from Taylor Farms (US), On the bag is "Zero--No Seed Oils", Aged Parmesan, Saldad KIt. Baby greens, carrot, shaved aged parm cheese, cheese and garlic crouton crumbles. with cheese and pepper vinaigrette. Dressing made with Olive Oils."

Matt Beckman@daphsci· 28d

"The Gleaners [Get High]", after AGNÈS VARDA. www.criterion.com/films/30368-...

Showbill for the movie called, The Gleaners and I, by Agnes Varda. This is the poster for the 2000 film, now in The Criterion Collection. Varda is posed with a bundle of wheat or something similar on her right shoulder. She has a skeptical look and is wearing gold earrings and has a somewhat "bowl cut" with reddish brown hair. She commands a presence!

Matt Beckman@daphsci· 28d

Did this ride relatively early today, but it was still kind of annoying.

A map of Minneapolis with a bike route down W. River Parkway to Minnehaha Falls West across the Minnehaha Parkway around Lake Harriet and Bede Makoska, then around Cedar Lake and back on the midtown Greenway to W. River Parkway

Matt Beckman@daphsci· 28d

Fibermaxing in aisle 7.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· 28d

My research for this book I am writing about sweating is taking me in some interesting directions. Currently exploring clothing for hot environments and came upon this. Seems relevant to today--this could be a tik tok influencer. Also, "evaculation" 😂 #heat #sweating #sweat #thermoregulation

Fig. 1. Apron for emergency evaculation of an infant nursery (Design: Vera Leonard). This is a line drawing of a person wearing a smock-like long shirt that has pouches for babies. There are 6 babies in the pouches.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· 29d

We are at the bacon cheeseburger wonton tacos stage of capitalism now. Thank you, Applebees.

A gross advertisement for Applebee’s bacon cheeseburger wonton tacos. There are 4 tacos in the foreground. And it says 1 appetizer and two entrees for $25.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· 29d

Got a nice ride in before it got real hot and checked out a folding short tail cargo bike at www.perennialcycle.com/about-us.

A map showing Minneapolis and some surrounding suburbs with a very complicated bike path through the Twin Cities including W. River Parkway, Minnehaha bike trail around the chain of lakes a little bit on the midtown Greenway then along the Bryant Avenue bike way back along Minnehaha Parkway and then Minha Avenue.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 12

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus). Veteran's Memorial Park, Richfield, MN.

An Eastern Kingbird perched on a branch. Sky is blue. Bird has a dark gray cap, gray beak, white feathery chin. It has a fully white chest and belly. It's wings are dark gray.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 12

Scenes from Old Cedar Bridge (Bloomington) and Veteran's Park (Richfield) all before 10AM today! Tick experts--do you think that's an engorged dog tick on the breast plate of that there turtle? #birds #birdphotograpy

Barn swallows on a board near the Old Cedar Ave Bridge in Bloomington, Minnesota. They are long and sleak with a dark cap, orange chin and white-ruffous breast. Back is dark blue and tail feathers are brown with white on edges.

A dragon fly on a branch. Unknown type. Green eyes and see-through wings.

A single Barn swallows on a powerline near the Old Cedar Ave Bridge in Bloomington, Minnesota. It is long and sleak with a dark cap, orange-brown chin and above black beak it's also orange-brown and white-ruffous breast. Back is dark blue and from this front-side view the tail feathers form a scissors.

A turtle about the size of a regulation-sized football. It has a dark shell, it's head and neck are green-yellos and it seems to have a large, engorged "tick" on it's breast plate. It looks like a dog tick, fully engorged.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 11

Saturday donut run with multiple spurs and loops.

A map of Minneapolis and suburbs. A red line shows the route of a 33 mile bike ride: midtown greenway from W River pkwy to LOTi to north Cedar lake trail out to the Hopkins depot and a little
Beyond. Then back
On greenway to Bryant Ave down to Minnehaha pkwy to
Minnehaha falls then back to Longfellow.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 10

I am surprise no one has brought this up (maybe they have). Bryn-Mawr's shape roughly recapitulates Minnesota's northern border.

A partial (zoomed-in) map of Minneapolis showing the Bryn-Mawr neighborhood highlighted in turquoise. The rest of the map is blue or white background.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 9

Everytime I read these posts I can't help but be reminded of a CD I bought when I lived in Alabama in the late 90s. Possum up a gum stump is a traditional fiddle tune and it's a phrase that means to be in a tight spot or stuck, often in a hole or "up a stump". Your possums are liberated!

The cover of a music CD. It shows a man with a handle-bar type mustache/beard playing a violin or fiddle. On the wall is framed picture of a possum sitting on top of a tree stump--a gum stump. The text says, "Possum up a Gum Stump", Home Field and Commercial recordings of Alabama fiddlers.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 8

Oh yes, the three wheeled tractor and Glurg from a pipe for the livestock!

An advertisement from Maine that was made with AI. It shows a farmer tending to a red tractor that has three wheel wheels with the single rear wheel perpendicular to the front wheels. This simply would not work. Below is a female farmer, holding a pipe that’s delivering chunky liquid (whatever is is.) into a stainless steel feeding trough.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 6

Nobel Laureate Approved!

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 6

I have really been enjoying the reopened bike paths the past couple of weeks. And, it has given me a lot of time to think so I'm working on some ideas about alternative transportation modes in the Twin Cities and how to win over the naysayers. Anyhow, this was sure a nice ride this morning.

A map that is mostly of the Minneapolis. It shows a red line marking a 25 mile bike ride that went from from downtown Mpls to Minnehaha Falls along the W. River Parkway to Lake Harriet via the Minnehaha Creek path then up around Harriet, Bde Maka Sk and between Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles (there was a small spur out to St Louis Park and back) then back to downtown Mpls.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 6

Fireflies afloat tonight… Minnesota Landscape Arboretum www.instagram.com/mn_arboretum...

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 5

High CFM at Minnehaha Falls

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 4

It’s patriotic to bike 🚲 🇺🇸. The spur marks where I got stung by a tiny wasp or 🐝 right between my eyes on the bridge of my nose. Ouch!!! This is why I always carry Benadryl.

A 16 mile bike route in Minneapolis from Minnehaha Falls to Bryant Ave bikeway to Midtown Greenway to west River Pkwy to Minnehaha Falls.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 4

Minneapolis, Minnesota. July 4th, 2026.

A majestic Minneapolis Bald Eagle with a white head, yellow beak, brown body and white terminal tail feathers. Has the attitude you'd have if your government terrorized your city.

A female bald eagle in it's sticky nest with a fledgling or juvenile that is near impossible to see. The adult has a yellow beak, white head and brown body, but is mostly obscured by the sticks of the nest. Green leaves of trees behind.

A male bald eagle perched on a bark-less white branch, high up in a tree. It has its back to us but had white terminal tail feathers, a brown back, white head and yellow beak. It is majestic and clearly in alliance with Minneapolis in a way only a Minneapolis Patriot who weathered the attacks by the authoritarian thugs currently "in charge" would know.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 4

Memory: 4th of July parade in Bricelyn (~1983 or 84) I had my go-cart tricked out as a Hardware Hank head made of chicken wire and tissue papers. After the parade I drove it down to the town, dump whipped shitties and promptly flipped it over, scraping up the side of my face. Dad sold the thing.

A cartoon of the character named hardware Hank, the mascot for the hardware store chain called hardware Hank. It’s a picture of a guy with a red shirt, white suspenders, a red hat that says Hank.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 4

Cliff swallows at Lucy Evan’s Bayland Nature Center, Palo Alto, May 2026

A cliff swell looking out of its nest. It has a blue spot on its Rufus colored chin with white mud on its beak and forehead, and it has a black face that is the cap and around its eyes.

Picture of a computer screen that is showing a out of focus bird flying on the computer screen. The bird is a cliff swallow with a black and gray head. Some red and the rest of the animals is out of focus. The wings and abdomen and tail are gray brown

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jul 2

Of note is its close proximity to Correctionville, Iowa.

A red sign with white letters that reads, Welcome to our town. Under that is a white sign with black letters that reads, Correctionville Pop. 821. This sign is along a bike/walking path in Correctionville, Iowa.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jun 30

A boy can dream…

A tree line residential Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a temporary speed bump has been put in place.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jun 30

Folks I know rented this one years ago but it's on Summit.

Aerial view of a mansion with an accessory dwelling unit behind. You see streets and a red rooftop on the house and the ADU. There are two other black or green roofs to the right and green trees interspersed. There are a few cars ont eh streets. Virginia St at Summit with maiden ln behind.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jun 30

No notes

A red headed cartoon character with freckles named Alfred E Newman

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jun 29

Our house right now:

Blue headphones with cable, a white plug-in charging cable and a small rectangular iPod.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jun 29

The piece I have been working on since about 5:30AM this morning, when I awoke in a hot rage, is titled: "No Soup For You!" and is about the proposed OMB rule changes regarding grants.

It reads: No Soup For You!

George Costanza checking his bag with a cup of soup: “I didn’t get any bread.”
Jerry Seinfeld: “Just forget it, let it go.”
Costanza: “Excuse me…I…I…I think you forgot my bread.”
Soup Nazi: “Bread, 2 dollars extra.”
Costanza: “2 dollars, but everyone in front of me got free bread.”
Soup Nazi: “You want bread?
Costanza: “Yes please.”
Soup Nazi (yells): “3 dollars.”
Costanza: “What?”
Soup Nazi (yells): “No Soup For You!”
Cashier grabs Constanza’s soup and returns his money.

A set of proposed changes to the Uniform Guidance rules governing how federal grants are evaluated, awarded and disbursed will devastate the US Research Enterprise, but it will also affect who gets federal funds for things like street and sewer repair and the local senior citizen’s center in cities and small towns across the country. Should these rules be enacted, grant seeking and awarding will more

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jun 28

Agent Mulder swims in a business suit in S2E2 (1994). #Mamdani #swim

Agent Fox Mulder is swimming in water while wearing a business suit.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jun 27

Y’all got your Wet Bulb Global Temp (WBGT) meters at the ready for the coming week of heat? Stay cool, stay hydrated! #heat #heatdome #heatwave

An electronic device mounted to a pole outside. This is a wet bulb, global temperature meter. It has a white face with a gray liquid crystal display. It is showing a WBGT of 26.5 Celsius a temperature of 31.1 Celsius in a humidity level of 34.5%.

Matt Beckman@daphsci· Jun 26

Dennis Smith earned a BA in English and then MA in Comm. from NYU while he was a firefighter in NYC (and wrote this now classic book).