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Progress on my current project ! Having some with stripes and slashing this time around. Didn't take any progress photos for the hosen/pants because it broke my brain a little, lol. I also started doing fingerloop braiding for the lacing cords.
I still have to fix a few things on there, including fixation on the brustfleck, and after that onwards to making the hat !
This is the funniest email I have ever received from a professor
also most considerate
#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’
Perfect.
Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.
After all, comedy is timing.
Life path unlocked. He’s a scientist now.
If your dad is telling you in great detail about something he’s passionate about, you’re going to be hooked even if you don’t understand a word.
So now I have to deliver a quiet lecture on the Standard Model every night. He loves lists of things, like all the streets home from daycare, or the train stations between here and Central, so he loves hearing the list of leptons and quarks and bosons.
Anyway, I made this poster for him, based on the CPEP ones we used to have at uni .ย

Alas I ran out of room for antimatter, colour charge and confinement, but hey, maybe there can be a second poster later.
Itโs funny though โ on the surface of it, it seems like it must be far too advanced for a 3yo. But when you think about it, quarks and leptons are no more or less real to him than, say, dinosaurs or planets, and he loves those too. And he recognises the letters on the particles.
I am absolutely overwhelmed by the kind and sweet things people are saying about this, thanks everyone โค๏ธ
Addendum: he has really grasped onto the โeverything is made of atomsโ part of this, so tonight he listed just about every object he could think of and asked if it was made of atoms.
โAnd my bed?โ
Yes, and your bed.
โAnd that wall?โ
Yep.
โAnd the armchair?โ
Yes, the armchair too.
โฆ
โฆ
โAndโฆ the book case?โ
Yโ
โAnd my home?โ
Yep, the whole apartment block.
โAnd your home? Oh wait, your home is my home.โ
Haha, it is.
โฆ
โฆ
โBut is it made of atoms?โ
Yep.
โAndโฆ [best friend]โs home?โ
Yes, it is. And [other friend]โs home, and [third friend]โs home.
โIs [yet another friend]โs home?โ
Update from the other night:
โIs myโฆ isโฆ [extremely long pause] is my atoms poster made up of atoms?โ
โYes! Yes it is.
I have never heard such a contemplative silence. I think the next poster will have to be on the philosophy of referential language.
Update from this morning: after listing everything in sight (mummy? daddy? fridge? milk? cereal? table? etc.) he asks โis [baby sister] made up of atoms?โ
yep!
*runs over to her on the floor*
*puts face up real close to hers*
โHI! YOUโRE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?โ
@radioactivepeasant @themagdalenwriting @iusedtohaveanaccount
“HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”
This is so pure and good.
Doing research today, particularly focusing on old Colorado legends, and I found a story about a woman nicknamed Rattlesnake Kate. Apparently she killed 140 rattlers in a day, a good portion using a metal โNo Huntingโ sign when she ran out of bullets. She then proceeded to skin them and turn them into a dress. Later she opened a snake farm.
Given that I found this story in one of those questionably researched, self-published books you find in roadside gift shops, I figured it had to be a little oversold, right? So off to the internet I went and. Nope. Not oversold. Thereโs pictures. The dress is now in a museum.

Saw this post a while back and realised, wait. Iโm in Colorado. And today I had the time to drive up to Greeley to see it.
Not only did she make the dress, but she also made a headband with 37 rattles on it, and covered the shoes with snakeskin and rattles, so it all matches.
The museum also has the gun she used, although not the โNo Huntingโ sign.
Sheโs buried in nearby Platteville, under the name โRattlesnake Kateโ, by her request.
In Jan 2022, the Denver Center for Performing Arts premiered a musical about Rattlesnake Kate composed by Neyla Pakarek, who used to sing in the Illumineers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aTiy0d_WA



















































