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I learned how to pump up a tire with an inflator kit a while back.
I dunno bae, that technicolor edit seems too much to me.But I understand if it is about getting a skill rather than producing a better product.Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
Fuji Velvia is like that when you use old school film too: https://www.kenrockwell.com/fuji/velvia-50.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
For the right subject, i can see its use.Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
Okay---Something relevant--real world, useful and practical. Which is: That new piston rings for the 62 to 67 Chevy 2 194 six, will also fit 58 Packard! But yeah---there is more to the story than that, but that is the main fact
All of the birds with common English names named after people are going to be renamed. So long Cooper's Hawk, Lewis's Woodpecker, Bullock's Oriole, and Clark's Nutcracker. Wouldn't want to offend anyone. They're starting with 80 species.
Oh my. That seems unfortunate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
I learned to play 500. Was told it was difficult but don’t think it is at all. Not a major accomplishment but fun nonetheless.
Are you serious? That is a shame. I don't really understand the rationale.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
On a related note, I just read an article yesterday about a UVM zoologist who recently had a mouse named after him and he was so pleased, saying that zoologists would rather have their name in italics than in lights. I thought that was cute.
This seems to be a case of too many birds with names of white people.
According to this NPR article:
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That's because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English names of all bird species currently named after people, along with any other bird names deemed offensive or exclusionary.
"Names have power and power can be for the good or it can be for the bad," says Colleen Handel, the society's president and a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska. "We want these names to be powerful in a really good way."
The move comes as part of a broader effort to diversify birding and make it more welcoming to people of all races and backgrounds.
"We've come to understand that there are certain names that have offensive or derogatory connotations that cause pain to people, and that it is important to change those, to remove those as barriers to their participation in the world of birds," she says.
It's been a hot topic on the bird forum I follow. As the story goes, the Ornithological Society started to review some of the bird namesakes and discovered purported racists and misogynists. For example, John McCown the Confederate general, or John Townsend (i.e. Townsend's Solitaire and Townsend's Warbler) who stole Native American skulls from graves. There started to be such an accumulation to review and please everyone that they decided to rename them all. The new names will be descriptive of some morphological feature or a region where they are found. McCown's Longspur was renamed, Thick-billed longspur. Some further discussion got into sexists issues. Like the Ruby Crowned Kinglet is named after a feature that only males have. Obviously not all birds are named after people, but there's a lot.
Most of the names were derived from scientists, naturalists, or explorers in the 1800's, and truth be told these were mostly white males for what it's worth.
It's all part of some great renaming. One of our famous 14er's was called Mt. Evans after an early governor who advocated the extermination of Indians. Our state has dozens of creek and mountain names under review. Mt. Evans was just renamed Mount Blue Sky. A local Audubon society was renamed since John Audubon was a slave owner.
If they start getting into insect and mammal names it's going to be a long journey. It can seem like an odd world at times.
I learned how to use the freight elevator in the Pinkham Building (where we take pottery classes). There are multiple steps involved with latches and grates and weird doors, and it takes most of my strength to open and close them, but then I feel very powerful, lol. It's a very old building and the elevators are like something from an old movie. I won't use the passenger elevator, because the door actively tries to close on you when you are getting in; you need to pry it open and slip through. It's also often out of order, so I really don't trust it.
I usually favor the stairs, but the studio is on the third floor and we're always carrying stuff, so the elevator sometimes seems like a good idea, and it always feels like an adventure!
well, okay---as knowledgeable and experienced and BRILLIANT as i am(like einschtein), not a day goes by that i don't learn some more brilliant schtuff. but, two weeks ago, at the 4-part bike maintence clinic, i learned a couple things. one, was the answer to a VERY complex issue regarding bikes that you wouldn't even grasp(so i won't go into that), and also the answer to a quession ,asked at the same clinic---by a woman, no less. yup, she axed a quessiom they anwered and even i increased my vast knowledge. it was about the subject of cross-chaining. very germaine. yup. but no, nowhere during the 4 part-series of seminars were the subjects of bromptons or ebikes raised, as none of the attendees are weenies, if you get my drift. ha. also, i and one other participants wore ragbag t-shirts commemorating a bike trip across a vast wasteland, just for fun. yup. hope that helps you kids some. thankk me
okay---i learned the other day that a guy from utah by the name of avard fairbanks was a noted sculptor who developed the dodge ram as the icon for chrysler corp, back in the 1930's yup. hope that helps you some.