Chuck

@bitspitter
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IT guy, šŸ“·, smartass, gourmand, Browncoat. Drinks too much coffee. Strange, but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy. He/Him/Geek.
They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard!
Time to put the Vince Guaraldi Trio on the stereo and bake some cookies.

As a geology undergrad I learned something that changed me forever - the set of Rocky Mountains we see today is the second set of Rockies that have stood there and replaced the Ancestral Rockies. It took millions of years for them to form, millions to erode away, and millions to form again. That concept of the vastness of time - ā€œdeep timeā€ - is a cognitive shift and a humbling one. To learn more about the Ancestral Rockies, read Dr. Jack Share’s excellent blog, ā€œWritten In Stoneā€

https://written-in-stone-seen-through-my-lens.blogspot.com/2011/02/ancestral-rocky-mountains-and-their.html

#ScienceMastodon #RockyMountains #DeepTime

The Ancestral Rocky Mountains and their Eroded Remnants

ā€œFirst there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.ā€ Buddhist proverb and 1967 Donovan’s song OLD ROCKIES ...

One of the things Mastodon lacks, at least as far as I can tell, is local content.

So ... I will be posting Houston-area info fairly regularly. Don't worry, non-residents, I'll try to make it interesting (and provide context for those not living here) when I do.

Still lots of tech posts, too, along with food, cats, pizza and slightly twisted dad jokes. The usual.

If you're from Houston, pls give me a follow. If you know someone who lives here, pls give them a head's up. thanks!

#hounews

Elon Musk was always a visionary jerk, bad boss at SpaceX, Tesla. But it won't work at Twitter.

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

Insider

Okay this made me laugh way harder then it should šŸ˜‚

#StarTrek #Memes

You should go to Mars!

You definitely won’t get pushed out of the airlock if you have a complaint.

For a bit of #sdcc news: the husband was due for professional verification this year. He applied as soon as they opened it on 9/1, and he just finally got his approval more than 3 months later. It’s never taken this long, so not sure what’s changed about their process, but for anyone also still waiting: there is hope still.
@Pink_Bunny That's the content warning. For instance, if I tag a post with a content warning of "baseball" like I did here, that's the only word that will show in your feed unless you click to see the rest.