#Geologist's Primer

[laurenmitchellwrites]

TTRPG Contributions

For Cosm Games:

Crucible: Proofreader and playtester

For Ex Stasis Games:

Death Throes (for the Trophy system): Writer, 'Sourdough Uprising' scenario (2022)

For Hunters Entertainment:

Outbreak: Undead.. (ongoing...)

Writer, Free Content Friday, 'Outbreak at Echidna Ridge' scenario (2020)

Writer, Australian content in ZOMBV (2020)

Writer, [redacted - upcoming]

Exquisite Crime (2022)

Social Media Manager

Gods of Metal: Ragnarock (2023)

Social Media Manager

Playtester

Content contributed: Image alt text (core book digital edition); character Howlite 'Howl' Howler, Amplord Avatar of Kekatari

Alice is Missing: Silent Falls (2023)

Customer Support and Fulfilment

Kids on Bikes: Second Edition (2023)

Customer Support and Fulfilment

Geologist's Primer (2023)

Customer Support and Fulfilment

[theinstagrahame]

It's a bad day, and I've been dragging my heels on this. But, I got a bunch of neat new TTRPG stuff in October, so here's what landed in my mailbox.

Break!! - A few years ago, I stumbled on some art on Twitter. It was fun, it was vibrant, and it felt inviting. I wanted to know more, looked into the artist, and discovered it was spot art for an upcoming RPG called Break!! So, I kept an eye on it. The book is beautiful, well laid-out, and really cool, so maybe one good thing came from Twitter*.

The Electric State - Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood have been pretty high on my "To Play" lists for years. A follow-up, set in a similar (or the same?) world was kind of an instant pickup. Not as interested in the movie, but the game seems pretty rad.

The Geologist's Primer - I picked up the Herbalist's Primer when it came out, and was really impressed with the quality and care that went into it, so when I saw "That but for rocks" was in the works, I was definitely already in. Also excited for the follow up "Mushrooms next time".

Starkhollow Hall - I accidentally fell into a Gothic Fiction kick over Spooky Month, so the timing of this was perfect. I don't know a ton about the GUMSHOE system, but I do feel like what I know about it makes it a perfect fit for the genre. Gothic heroines (and I guess heroes) are at their best when they know there's a dangerous mystery at the heart of what's happening around them, and go looking for it anyway.

Forsaken - Kyle Tam is, honestly, a designer to watch. I picked this up because it was part of an Afterthought Committee project, which is a team I've also really enjoyed work from (my game Water Landing is built off of their game Cast Away). Does a better job of establishing a sort of grimdark/Soulsbourne vibe than some stuff that explicitly tries to.

Iron Edda Reforged - The pitch for this caught me immediately: Cyberpunk Norse Mythology. Tracy Barnett is another Designer to Watch, and I really like all of their stuff--haven't played the original Iron Edda, but have heard it on Party of One and really dug it. Was really hyped to see this come into being.

Electrum Archive v2 - I went through a Weird Sci-Fi phase this year, and the original Electrum Archive was an early pick for it. I really loved the world, the way each class worked differently, and the magic/currency/MacGuffin that it used. Obviously I wanted more, because the second book is here.

Alice is Missing - Silent Falls - My friends and I have been talking about the prospect of another Alice is Missing game since playing the first one about two years ago. It was a really memorable experience, partly due to the game's really compelling design, and to some of the in-moment decisions we made (I played the facilitator character, who starts the game having returned after a long absence, and another player immediately got pissed at them for sorta abandoning the group. it created an interesting play dynamic for the whole session)

Kill Him Faster - I picked up a previous Kovidae Games book as a lark: a collection of exercise-based RPGs. I nearly ignored their other stuff, but this had a pretty compelling pitch: What if time-travel was invented mostly so people could speedrun murdering Hitler. Since Eat the Reich came out, I've thought a bit about Hitler Revenge Fantasy as a genre, and honestly, I'm kinda into it. He was a loser, and deserves to be reduced to a video game villain and killed over and over again; so, yeah. Let's kill him faster next time.

Splat (issue 5) - I'm not usually one for essays and interviews, but this is a zine featuring and by some folks I really like and respect, and this one is packed with thoughts about the state of the indie TTRPG scene and industry from a diverse and immensely talented group. It's honestly a must-read.

(Already getting a few things for the next edition, but also feeling too garbage after the Clusterfuck Election to think about doing anything else today...)

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footnote: * Technically, two good things came from Twitter. I also once expressed sorrow that I'd missed out on a limited T-shirt from a web comic artist that said "Sorry, Glenn, the only Beck I listen to has two turntables and a microphone", and the creator saw it and had an extra in my size.

[passagesofthepluricosm]

Lastland Picrews Westcliff, Northplain, Eastvale

Name: Westford Mapp

Sexuality: Bisexual

Gender: Cis man (he/him)

Age at Start of Story: 20

Relationship: Briefly crushed on Iris

Status: Lastland Legionnaire deployed at Westcliff

Hair: Short, brown, spiky

Eyes: Brown

Skin: White

Body: Thin

Personality: Shy, nerdy, a little awkward and low on self esteem

Name: Southlynn Mapp

Sexuality: Straight

Gender: Cis woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 45

Relationship: Married to Northson

Status: Leader of Westcliff

Hair: Short, black

Eyes: Brown

Skin: White

Body: Short, plump

Personality: Maternal, wise, curious, driven, leaderly

Name: Northson Mapp

Sexuality: Straight

Gender: Cis man (he/him)

Age at Start of Story: 45

Relationship: Married to Southwood

Status: Lastland Legionnaire deployed at Westcliff

Hair: Short, spiky, peppered brown-gray

Eyes: Blue

Skin: White

Body: Muscled

Personality: Stern, strict, angry, intelligent, superior, bossy

Name: Rexus Alreth

Sexuality: Gay

Gender: Trans man (he/him)

Age at Start of Story: 25

Relationship: NA

Status: Lastland Legionnaire deployed at Westcliff; Gifted of Cloning

Hair: Black and white

Eyes: Copper

Skin: Brown

Body: Muscled

Personality: Friendly, relaxed, curious, intelligent, supportive, enjoys conversing with his clones

Name: Zero

Sexuality: Aroace

Gender: Agender (any/all)

Age at Start of Story: 16

Relationship: NA

Status: Underaged Lastland Legionnaire deployed at Westcliff to be their geologist

Hair: Short, wavy, blonde

Eyes: Blue

Skin: Pale, freckled

Body: Small, little muscle

Personality: Shy, awkward, nerdy, low-esteem, hyper-fixates on games, shows, and geology

Name: Pascal Pascal

Sexuality: Queer, mostly into men

Gender: Genderqueer (they/them)

Age at Start of Story: 45

Relationship: NA

Status: Second-in-command of Westcliff

Hair: Shaved on top, dyed purple around the sides

Eyes: Lavender contacts

Skin: Pale

Body: Plump

Personality: Friendly, funny, witty, curious, studious, dutiful, gets flustered and stutters when stressed

Name: Primer Husk

Sexuality: Pansexual

Gender: Cis woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 30

Relationship: NA

Status: Medical Chief of Westcliff

Hair: Black, straight, in a bun, long

Eyes: Dark

Skin: Dark

Body: Average Personality: Intelligent, diligent, can be sassy when she’s impatient

Name: Wilde

Sexuality: Queer

Gender: Genderfluid (varies)

Age at Start of Story: 20

Relationship: NA

Status: Northplain Gifted of Super Strength (including Super Speed/leg strength)

Hair: Wild, spiky, black

Eyes: Peach

Skin: Peach

Body: Scrawny

Personality: Wild, energetic, loud, eager, battle-ready, longs to be a hero, playful, not serious

Name: Everett

Sexuality: Demisexual

Gender: Agender (they/them)

Age at Start of Story: 65

Relationship: NA

Status: Medical Chief of Northplain and Gifted of Healing

Hair: Short, stands up, gold, bushy beard

Eyes: Gold

Skin: Tanned, wrinkled

Body: Tall, muscled Personality: Kind, wise, pensive, thoughtful, slow to emotionality, caring, intelligent, experienced

Name: Liana Spyre

Sexuality: Pansexual

Gender: Cis woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 25

Relationship: Crushing on Aces

Status: Lastland Legionnaire deployed at Northplain

Hair: Long, straight, yellow with pink and blue streaks dyed in

Eyes: Bright green contacts

Skin: Pinkish

Body: Tall, muscled

Personality: Friendly, extroverted, proactive, energetic, battle-friendly, good-spirited

Name: Imani Bahati

Sexuality: Lesbian

Gender: Cis woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 35

Relationship: Married to Priyanka

Status: Leader of Northplain

Hair: Black, cornrows

Eyes: Dark

Skin: Dark

Body: Thin, lithe, muscled

Personality: Loud, confident, exuberant, battle-ready, hardy, jovial

Name: Priyanka Bahati

Sexuality: Lesbian

Gender: Cis woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 35

Relationship: Married to Imani

Status: Second-in-command of Northplain

Hair: Black, down, tied back, straight

Eyes: Dark

Skin: Dark

Body: Not as tall and thin as her wife

Personality: More reserved and calculating than her wife, also politer, shyer, and calmer

Name: Scarlet Black

Sexuality: Bisexual

Gender: Trans woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 35

Relationship: Crushing on Theodore, eventually marries him

Status: Eastvale Gifted of Mind Control

Hair: Short, black, curled up at the ends

Eyes: Black

Skin: Pale

Body: Slender

Personality: Kind, sweet, caring, gentle, friendly, polite, Southern Belle, maternal, but can be strict/scary when she has to be

Name: Theodore Knox

Sexuality: Pansexual

Gender: Cis man (he/him)

Age at Start of Story: 35

Relationship: Crossing on Scarlet, eventually marries her

Status: Lastland Legionnaire deployed at Eastvale 

Hair: Bald

Eyes: Dark

Skin: Brown

Body: Large, tall, broad, wide, muscled

Personality: Gentle giant, teddy-bear-like, himbo, polite, respectful, friendly, caring, supportive, emotional

Name: Vyda Wells

Sexuality: Lesbian

Gender: Cis woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 20

Relationship: NA

Status: Eastvale Gifted of Forcefield

Hair: Pushed over, black

Eyes: White

Skin: Dark

Body: Plump

Personality: Rude, aggressive, mean, sullen, bitter, combative, chip on shoulder

Name: Kyron Taurous

Sexuality: Bi-curious

Gender: Cis man (he/him)

Age at Start of Story: 20

Relationship: NA

Status: Eastvale Gifted of Invisibility

Hair: Black, buzz cut

Eyes: Sandy

Skin: Brown

Body: Average

Personality: Arrogant, cocky, conceited, full of himself, vainglorious, loud, pushy, rude, aggressive, haughty, self-centered

Name: Demi Eriksbur

Sexuality: Aro-ace-spectrum

Gender: 3rd/other gender (xe/xem/xyr)

Age at Start of Story: 20

Relationship: NA

Status: Eastvale half-Gifted (has no Gift but has other physiological Gifted traits)

Hair: Short, coppery, sticks up slightly

Eyes: Heterochromia, green and unnatural blue

Skin: Tan, freckled

Body: Slightly scrawny

Personality: Often off in xyr own little world. Polite, but unwittingly insensitive and absentminded

Name: Chief of Lastland

Sexuality: Polysexual

Gender: Ungendered (they/them)

Age at Start of Story: 65

Relationship: Married to several others at the Apex (capital building of Lastland. Capital city ix Nexus)

Status: Leader of Lastland

Hair: Long, straight, silver

Eyes: Gray

Skin: Pale, wrinkled

Body: Average

Personality: Neutral, stern, orderly, often tries to play it safe by appealing to all sides of a disagreement/debate

Name: Mae Long

Sexuality: Queer

Gender: Cis woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 45

Relationship: Wife of Lester Long

Status: Lastland civilian

Hair: Short, blonde, bobbed/curled at the edges

Eyes: Green

Skin: Peach

Body: Small

Personality: King, loving, maternal, sometimes worries

Name: Lester Long

Sexuality: Bisexual

Gender: Cis man (he/him)

Age at Start of Story: 45

Relationship: Husband of Mae Long

Status: Lastland civilian

Hair: Short, peppered, same with beard and mustache

Eyes: Brown

Skin: Peach

Body: Tall

Personality: Kind, calm, quiet, somewhat introverted, occasionally jokes around

Name: Rusty Eves

Sexuality: Queer

Gender: Cis man (he/him)

Age at Start of Story: 45

Relationship: Husband of Dona Eves

Status: Lastland civilian

Hair: Orange with gray on the sides

Eyes: Brown

Skin: Pale

Body: Tall, thin

Personality: Shy, anxious, stutters, low-esteem, protective father

Name: Dona Eves

Sexuality: Pansexual

Gender: Cis woman (she/her)

Age at Start of Story: 45 (died about a decade and a half before the story begins)

Relationship: Wife of Rusty Eves

Status: Lastland civilian

Hair: Black, poofy, fluffy

Eyes: Brown

Skin: Brown

Body: Tall, plump

Personality: Spirited, protective, hardworking, determined, fierce, sometimes wild, tries to be positive, can be stern

[jaywalkers]

writerly ephemera

✨ share some little bits of you, easter eggs, memories, etc. you have left scattered in your fics or art. if you fancy it, tag a pal. ✨

tagged by the always lovely @orionauriga!

It had been cold that day, Minghao remembers, the two of them bundled up in scarves that were the school colours but not the official ones sold at the uniform shop - similar enough to get away with wearing in class, but not enough to empty their pockets for the simple addition of an embroidered crest. (sunbreak)

sunbreak in its entirety is full of me, from the lifeguarding petrol can bouys to the party poppers on the last day of school, but this is a small one — i had a scarf i bought in japan that was basically the same colour as the high school ones that i would wear in winter. (the official ones were 60$. insanity)

The bedcovers shift beside him as Kevin burrows down under them, leaving only his eyes and the mop of his hair above the seams of the sheets. They’re patterned with little circus animals, the pattern more befitting a kids bedroom than the spare room of a mid-twenties PhD student, but it makes sense with what Neil’s learned of Geologist Jeremy.  (a brief primer for the end)

these are actual bedsheets i had as a kid! they were from ikea and we had two sets so me and my brother had matching covers.

The other night nurse, Shanna, laughs, bending to retrieve the sign. ADULT SEPSIS PATHWAY , it reads, and she presses it back onto the wall with manicured nails. “You’re only twenty-nine.” (nocturnal animals)

small and silly but this is a very worn down laminated sign on the wall in at the triage station for ambulance handovers and i swear i know it by heart now after staring at it blankly waiting for a triage nurse at 3am

In winter it’s always worse; the pain and the aches all creep up on him earlier, agitated by the cold. (the light at the end of the tunnel is another tunnel)

i get insane chronic pain in the winter now in my jaw; its a mix of joint stiffness and the fact that the massive metal plates in my top and bottom jaws hold the cold worse than bone and i'm constantly feeling where the screws are in my face. made kevin take the suffering for a little bit here lmao.

He peeks into the other rooms as he passes — two women in niqab signing at each other, a redhead gesticulating wildly with a CPR dummy in one hand and a projector remote in her other. (all that looking down)

all that looking down is basically róisín ephemera: the fic, but i chose this one because that's me!! i taught cpr classes for new parents groups at a community center in my first/second years of uni and it was very fun and very chaotic.

“We lived there for a while,” Kevin explains, clearing his throat. He can’t look at his father yet, but he can talk about this. “The dog—I just remember we called him Scone Dog.” For once, it feels light to talk about it, a time where nothing bad had happened to him yet. “We used to get scones from the bakery, I think, and he’d try to steal them out of our hands. I don’t think he was a stray, but he would always be down by the beachfront. Mum thought it was funny though, so she’d always buy one just for him.” (all that looking down)

another hit from atld! scone dog is real and he is indeed from lahinch like kevin talks about in the fic; i was born and raised there and scone dog was a beloved beach day companion. to this day we're still not sure who he belonged to but i have incredibly fond memories of that seaside walkway.

Pat, an older guy with whiting patches through the red of his hair who apparently spends most of his time on the fishing vessels, yells something indistinct from outside the door that’s swallowed by the wind and is heard only as noise. (fish hook, open eye)

that's my DADDDDDDDD (or granddad however u wanna take it. same name same hair same job those two). irish men and the ocean are an expected part of my works (see: kevin day, see: every fic i ever wrote) and i've got my dad 2 thank 4 that.

tagging my EVER beloved @sunriseinorbit as well as @dayurno and @mostlymaudlin

[ankewehner]

May be of interest to TTRPG players/creators, writers, and other nerds: The Kickstarter for the Geologist's Primer, a collection of scientific and folklore information about notable minerals, has less than a week left: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/huntersbooks/geologists-primer-by-double-proficiency

They also offer a digital copy of the previous book, the Herbalist's Primer, as an add-on.

(no affiliation, I'm just that kind of nerd)

[thebooklook]

The Herbalist’s Primer by Anna Urbanek

This book is so much fun! It's a combination of botany, traditional herbal medicine, and folklore summarized in a way that you can adapt to your choice of role-playing game. It's an easy read with tons of helpful information, instructions, and resources for those wanting to make their own herbal medicines, harvest native edible plants, cast spells, or just have a rich background for their character. They even have plant generation tables if you want to make up fictional plants for your game! I purchases this gorgeous book from a Kickstarter and will also be getting the hardcover of the Geologist's Primer they've begun work on.

[timeforcatnow]

Tagged by: @business-pug

Name: Manny

Sign: Pisces

Birthday: March 10th

Height: 6’1”

I’m gay

Hogwarts house: Hufflepuff

Nationality: USA unfortunately

Occupation: Ron Wilson, Bus Driver

Fave book (also the most recent book I’ve read): red, white, and royal blue by Casey mcquiston

Favorite movie: ratatouille or Atlantis

Last song I listened to: primadona by marina

Last movie I watched: this weird movie called primer, it’s all weird and time travel-y... I’m not sure I understood it all

Last fun thing I did: watched the bake-off with my roommate

Dream destination: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ somewhere nice and quiet, not too hot, maybe vermont or something

Dream job: working as a geologist in a museum

I’m gonna tag uhhhhhh @absolutereptile, @verygoodstuffandthings, and @idi-o-mate, but like only if y’all want to

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“In this era of ecological collapse and cascading extinctions one feels a desire, latent in our species, to see the world become wild again. The only way, it seems, is to take the long perspective: knowing that someday, after we are gone, the earth will again host rich biodiversity. Time heals all wounds—even if it will take millions of years.

For insights on the scale of millions of years, we turn to geologists, whose specialty is mapping the cycles of the earth through deep time. This year, Breakdown Press republished After Man, a book by the Scottish geologist Dougal Dixon that imagines how other species will evolve after humans go extinct, fifty million years in the future. It’s a premise that has aged well, as anxiety over our long-term damage to the planet grows; the book has been reissued a dozen times since its publication in 1981. Reading it today, it has itself become a time capsule of an earlier period of environmental and scientific thought. In 1981, geologists had not yet proposed that we are living in a new epoch defined by human activity, the Anthropocene; climate change was popularly understood not in terms of warming, but of a coming ice age; the specter of a sixth mass extinction, the sort Dixon’s book is premised on, did not seem to loom on the horizon as it does today. Yet science writing was “riding a wave of popularity,” according to a New York Times headline of that year; a mainstream market for nonfiction by scientists, not just popular science writers, was flourishing, buoyed by figures like Carl Sagan and Richard Leakey.

Dougal Dixon’s field was zoogeography, and as a geologist he spent a lot of time thinking about how the changing earth has altered the species that live on it. His future earth, continental drift aside, looks basically unchanged after fifty million years. It’s an almost nostalgic vision: the megafauna that were driven extinct during the “Age of Man” have been replaced by new species that bear an uncanny resemblance to their predecessors. Humanity’s enduring legacy is not its alteration of the environment—Dixon purposely keeps the climate similar to today’s—but that the extinctions we have precipitated will have left behind an array of empty niches, to be filled by whatever adaptable species are able to take advantage of them. Imagine a game of biogeographical musical chairs in which penguins have evolved comb-like beaks to sieve plankton as whales do, rats have replaced the big cats as dominant carnivores, cats swing through the tropical canopy chasing monkeys, and monkeys glide on flaps of skin like flying squirrels. The book’s central idea is convergent evolution: that similar traits arise independently in different species, to perform similar functions in similar environments.

The world is presented as a series of ecosystems that cover seven biomes, lushly illustrated after Dixon’s designs by a handful of artists, and painstakingly described down to the details of symbioses, mating rituals, diets, and seasonal adaptations of their inhabitants. Dixon’s taxonomy is far from comprehensive (he neglects the oceans, plant life, and insects) but as a thought-experiment, After Man is an effective primer on evolutionary genetics and natural selection. Still, he sometimes wonders whether people see his work simply “as picture books of funny animals.”

Though some of his imagined fauna are delightfully weird—like the “parashrew,” a vole-like creature whose tail functions as a parachute that carries adolescents on the wind like seeds; or a species of bird in which the male, as though taking a cue from the anglerfish, fixes himself on the tailbone of a female, taps a vein, and provides her with a lifetime’s supply of sperm—the strangest thing about After Man may be the absence of a globally dominant species. Opportunistic, “r-selected” species—those, like rodents, that have high birth rates and low survival rates—that thrived during the Age of Man, evolve into the top predators and herbivores in most ecosystems, becoming large and toothy. Invasive species, introduced by humans into new habitats, maintain their advantage in the food chain, like the mongoose that evolves into a formidable jungle carnivore called a “gurrath.” But “intelligent life,” we are told by the book’s nameless narrator, “appears briefly on the earth. Industry and agriculture have a dramatic effect.” Humans go extinct, Dixon suggests, because we lose our evolutionary advantage by adapting our environment to our needs, rather than the other way around. When the resources needed to maintain our civilizations run out, we are unable to adapt quickly enough to survive. Crucially, nothing takes our place, and the planet reverts to an Edenic state, uncorrupted by knowledge.

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Among the attributes that psychologists often cite to distinguish humans from other species and explain our unique evolutionary success, our ability to plan by inventing possible future scenarios usually tops the list. So it’s not surprising that speculative evolution, the practice of imagining the myriad forms life could take, has developed into a movement on the Internet since Dixon’s book. Some scientists consider it a guilty pleasure, tangential to their work in paleontology or evolutionary biology. For many amateur speculative biologists, who call themselves “speccies,” speculating in online forums about possible life forms in other epochs and on other planets is an all-consuming hobby.

In such circles, Dixon is venerated like Darwin. What if birds, rather than mammals, had dominated the Cenozoic? Suppose the Bonarelli Event had never occurred? What would chemosynthetic organisms on Titan look like? Earth in twenty million years if hit by a meteor in 2050 that wipes out 80 percent of all species: go! Speculative world-building is a creative act, and appeals to many of the same people who are into sci-fi and fantasy gaming: there are elaborate rules—the rate of energy transfer through trophic levels, the basics of genetic inheritance—but the rest is up to you. The more hardcore species have to take forced hiatuses from their projects on the Spec World wiki because they have become disconnected from their real lives. Desmond Morris, who wrote the introduction to After Man, said that the “biomorphs” he invented as a young zoologist “became as real to me as the animals and plants of the natural world.”

For paleontologists, speculative biology isn’t such a radical concept. Hypothesizing about what dinosaurs and other extinct species may have looked like, or how they may have lived, based on the fossil record, requires a significant amount of extrapolation that can’t necessarily be proven by marks in the strata. Among paleo-artists, there are those who are sensitive to the biological constraints of their subjects, drawing their brachiosauruses from the bones up; others, more reckless and stylistic, draw dinosaurs that look like other artistic impressions of dinosaurs. Among scientists themselves, different camps disagree on how much speculation about the past is appropriate. Speaking of the challenges in writing The New Dinosaurs, his 1988 book that speculated about what dinosaurs would look like today if the meteor had never wiped them out, Dixon uses language that may sound peculiar to those who assume scientific disputes eschew partisanship:

I remember at the time thinking that—to make this work, I’m going to have to embrace the extreme left-wing of vertebrate paleontology… even though I was very much a traditionalist (in terms of dinosaurs) when I needed to be.

Dixon expected the most provocative aspect of his project to be its speculative nature. So he was surprised, when After Man was published, that “much of the media claimed it was all about the extinction of man.” He maintained that human extinction was “just a device to get the discussion going,” and not a political statement.” - Lucy Jakub, “Wild Speculation: Evolution After Humans.” New York Review of Books Daily, September 19, 2018.

[antlerita]

tagged by: @kentahq uwu <3

nicknames: lana, lily

zodiac: virgo

height: 1.65 m.

time: 01:05 am.

favourite band / artist: honestamente no tengo *eyes emoji* 

song stuck in my head: querida rosa de camila gallardo, i love you de EXID 

last movie i saw: netflix’s the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society 

last thing i googled:  “guernsey netflix” porque no me acordaba de cómo era el título lol 

other blogs: sólo ocupo este pero mi primer blog es @conjob 

do i get asks: no

why did i choose this username: because............ minerales

following: 108

average amount of sleep: like........ three hours..... aunque a veces accidentalmente duermo como 12

what i’m wearing: mismatched pijamas 

dream job: mi dream job sería ganar mucho dinero haciendo nada, pero ya que estamos Getting That Degree i better be a kickass geologist 

dream trip: europa en general (irlanda, escocia--- hello), oceanía, o japón, surcorea, dubai (?) 

favourite food:��food 

play any instruments: i can sing sometimes does that count

eye colour: brown

hair colour: black, dark brown

languages you speak: español, inglés, stupid bitch, dumb fuck 

most iconic song: the lady in red, bette davis eyes, i’d love you to want me, un café para platón, the story, hurt, nikita, and psycho killer 

random fact: las primeras plumas eran más parecidas a pelos y no servían para volar 

describe yourself as aesthetic things: lugar cubierto en neblina en tonos fríos, minerales verdes, warm cozy bed, cat eyeline, jane austen inspirated films, mainstream looking glasses, i suck at this

tagging @dcstinyz @faiirylights @mustxngkiids @ssilentc @hecatechilds @ofjaemin

[dalartesonoro]

KAOSS PAD

Además, puede usarse como controlador MIDI mediante las posición del dedo respecto el eje x y el eje y, obteniendo en la salida MIDI lo que serían dos controladores de flujo continuo. También puede obtenerse como salida la suma de ambos flujos a modo de tercer controlador de flujo continuo.

El primer modelo, KP1 Kaoss Pad, salió al mercado en 1999. desde entonces Korg ha sacado diferentes modelos: el KP2, con una serie de funciones más que su predecesor; el KP1 Kaoss Pad Entrancer, capaz de procesar audio y video; y el KP3, lanzado en octubre de 2006.

Entre los artistas que usan Kaoss Pad destacan Matthew Bellamy (de Muse), Jonny Greenwood y Ed O'Brien (de Radiohead), Shok-Murillo (de Velter), Brian Eno (de Roxy Music y en solitario), Brian Molko (de Placebo), Russell Lissack (de Bloc Party), Geologist (de Animal Collective), Jeff Tweedy y Nels Cline (de Wilco), Jeremy Michael Ward y Omar Rodríguez-López (de The Mars Volta), Trent Reznor (de Nine Inch Nails), Chris Kilmore (de Incubus), Sid Wilson (de Slipknot), The Prodigy, Modeselektor, Enter Shikari, John Linnell (de They Might Be Giants), Mike Patton (de Faith No More), Jordan Rudess (de Dream Theater) y Elsuperloco Murphy y Dohko (de Lujuria).

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Landscape structure and 3D rendering

Landscape design 3d rendering structure is a failed to remember work of art - sandwiched somewhere among postmodernism and the Macarena in the profundities of once-noticeable assortments of articulation. What most individuals don't perceive is the expense covered up at the rear of this in the primary obscure calling. Landscape designers can truly change a staggering structural item into a ride eagerly attached to its area. The work is parceled more noteworthy than picking especially vegetation and hedges out of a Home Depot terrace inventory - bounty extra - and gratitude to patterns in render perception and introduction designers, draftsmen, and manufacturers are in the end starting to take genuine notification.

Here's the reason you ought to, as well.

What does a display engineer genuinely do?

Much obliged for inquiring! A display draftsman is phenomenally bounty definitely what it seems like. They work with various lead planners, designers, purchasers, and manufacturers to add a natural thrive to the outside territory encompassing another or old structure. This can be in the structure of porches, nurseries, yards, and even explicit insides and housetop decks. They control the earth by saving parcels and terraced growers and cut through yards with the person on footways and sitting zones. They add delicate anyway alive accents to what exactly would perhaps unique be a sterile building notwithstanding a spirit. A display draftsman is responsible for the entire parcel that happens at the edge, ever wary of treating it with care.

A display designer knows about the land. They are experts in plant range and expand logical names for shrubberies and plants. They are landscapers and geologists, botanists, and artists. At their coronary heart, they are a craftsman who paints with the homegrown climate, respiratory presence into the structure and bettering the all-around inborn quality in mother earth.

From numerous points of view, they work basically as any extraordinary sketch master would. They improve thinking dependent on a progression of boundaries, conditions, and guidelines - normally by the standard theoretical pressing factor in the rear of the building design - at that point work on a grouping of iterative designs that finish in the finished item. The work they produce may moreover at this point doesn't be as specialized or established in number-crunching as a planner or primary designer, be that as it may, the outcome can be basically as experientially moving. Eventually, the control space, gentle, and shadow just as a draftsman does.

3D Rendering and Landscape Architecture's Future

Furthermore, essentially like draftsmen and designers, display planners should be in a situation to flaunt their designs sooner than they are totally executed. Previously, they utilized an assortment of hand-attracted techniques to display the shading, arrangement, and processional conceivable of a given building site.

While fine to a point, it developed to be tedious and steeply-valued for designers to exchange their designs because of buyer inclination, modeler coordination, or any extraordinary modest bunch of issues that unavoidably barricade the arranging cycle. Not exclusively that, it required choice specialized ability to hand render a display scene with any confirmation of genuine precision - time that should be higher used to refine the design. For more information click here

Late propensities in PC driven drawing and delivering, scene structure has started progress into the fate of diagram and execution. Indexes and libraries of trees, plants, rock sorts, and display components would now be able to be connected to theoretical format work easily, right away taking work from "perhaps" to "hellfire yes!"

However, the strategy begins to advance appropriately sooner than that cash shot second.

Know Your Land

Each endeavor starts with the site. It should be in the focal point of a clamoring city town or on a solitary stone in the focal point of the Mediterranean. No two occupation sites are indistinguishable, and all current an exceptional arrangement of examples and difficulties that designers convert into "circumstances." With a scene modeler, the land is the spot you start. It is crucial to perceive geology, the region of current lumber and rocks, as appropriately as practicable for view and frequent space. What higher approach to perceive these focuses than to absolutely reproduce them in a PC?

In a check of a couple of hours, a scene engineer can populate a modern, genuinely unique 3Dlife-sized model of all current site page conditions. By and large, the draftsman will as of now have the organization kicked down the line to a definite point. Provided that this is true, their sketch can be thudded in too, speaking to the starting variable for the display modeler to do something amazing. 3D delivering and 3D demonstrating programming projects, for example, Google SketchUp, Rhino, 3DS Max, or even AutoCAD and Revit are great areas to start in any event, for calculated work. The ability to dish and circle around the life-sized model will give a gainful superior and ground-level view of the spot the diagram needs to go. From that point, the dressmaker can begin to add, take away, and control as they see fit. That can't occur, nonetheless, excepting all the data.

You've Got the Information. Presently What?

Obviously, saving all the playing a card game doesn't generally suggest you see how to play them. At this factor in the arranging cycle, the coordinated effort between the engineer and the display draftsman is going all out. They share thoughts, plan through graph issues, and can even be constrained to make concessions for the appropriate of the task. This cooperation is vital and will recollect intently every designer's capability to talk these thoughts.

The 3D life-sized model that used to be created for the primer site online query will be put to use when once more. This time around, the 3D delivering programming program helps in carrying that life-sized model to presence with all configuration strikes and site changes included. Like never before, that technique is smoothed out to allow on-the-fly diagram changes for the length of meetings and introductions, giving the scene designer the solidarity to best shading and material choice. Not exclusively that, nonetheless, the created 3D life-sized model can be utilized as an introduction gadget itself. There is no better method to convince a client of a design's legitimacy than to take them on an advanced visit through the proposed design. If the style designer has executed their work, it will sparkle through excepting the need for clarification, implanting conviction into the working relationship.

This can go lower to and fro for quite a long time, depending on the estimation and unpredictability of the work. The sources that would prior be constrained into the assembling of design drawings would now be able to be apportioned to the diagram itself. The outcome is higher work and a more prominent energizing excursion for us all of us. Good for us!

The Real Benefit of 3D Rendering

This is appropriate and acceptable, anyway conceivably the most essential outcome from the scene architecture occupation adjusting advanced perception show the regular character is starting to see it. We are a gotten the ball rolling society, and the ability to deliver their work with a commonsense vocation has since quite a while ago passed far to flaunt their worth. Anybody can walk through a staggering display and respect the workmanship, notwithstanding, most people don't capture the work that goes into making. By matching photographs of a definitive item with pix of the arrangement cycle, people can see with their own special eyes how cherished the work is. This brings issues to light, lands more prominent positions, and lets most of us trip display sketch more noteworthy than at any other time.

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Top Educational Apps For Kids

With youngsters connected to their smartphones and laptops before they’re sufficiently old to wear regular undergarments, it’s a confusing maze for folks to navigate through choosing the most effective apps for his or her budding scientists, artists, musicians or engineers. In no specific order, here are some apps that cowl most of the bases.

1. Bloom

Bloom marries instruments, verbal composition, and visual design. youngsters and adults will produce melodies and complicated visual patterns by simply sound the screen. inline with artistic icon creator and musician Brian Eno, “Bloom is associate endless music machine, a musical instrument for the twenty-first century. you'll be able to play it, and you'll be able to watch it play itself.”

2. Journeys of Invention

Journeys of Invention is wherever youngsters will read and “play” with things from history and technology. move with objects from London’s museum and find out about their history whereas viewing them up shut. Budding scientists will explore the big subatomic particle accelerator and also the next character will attempt to cipher his secret message with the Enigma Machine from warfare II.

3. Motion science

Motion science is an associate interactive science app to assist youngsters with master Common Core standards. It’s doable your child will move from hating match to affectioned it with Motion Math’s games that facilitate build fluency and abstract understanding.

4. write of This

Write About This introduces youngsters to writing with a game-like approach that may flip your keep kid into an original juggernaut. Its format can facilitate draw the creative thinking out of your baby Hemingway and switch him on to the thrill of written expression in no time.

5. Tayasui Sketches

Tayasui Sketches may be a blank sketchpad that gives you virtual paint, markers, pens, and pencils. And that’s not all. Once you’ve created your masterpiece, you'll be able to cut it out and paste it onto another drawing or sketch to create a multi-layered work of art. and also the neatest thing of all? you'll be able to share it with the press of a button or print out your design to stay to the icebox.

6. walk

the walk may be a virtual spinning globe with info on quite five hundred “edutainment” entries that span the gamut from plants to animals, illustrious individuals to historical events and even inventions. youngsters will read things on a globe or as virtual streaming flashcards. they'll additionally take a look at their retention by taking quizzes.

7. Earth Primer

Earth Primer is wherever youngsters will recreate the world any approach they require. Beginner geologists will produce mountains, build volcanoes and develop weather patterns around their creations. It options modes of the Earth’s Interior, Surface, Water Cycle, Biomes, and Sandbox. Dive in to envision what worlds you'll be able to create!

Even though these apps are geared toward youngsters, don’t discount the fun that moms, dads, and siblings will have with them too. Older youngsters – and people World Health Organization ar young inside – may learn a factor of 2, and it'll provide the family an opportunity to own fun, learn new things and pay time along. take part in quizzes to envision World Health Organization scores the best or see the World Health Organization will draw the funniest animal. You’ll rejoice regardless of what!

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20 of the Best 3rd Grade Science Projects and Experiments

Are you looking for science activities to do with your 3rd graders? No sweat. We have you covered. Check out our list of 20 science projects and experiments that you can try with your 3rd graders this month.

Hand-Eye Coordination and Age | All-Science-Fair-Projects.com – Grades 2-5, Use a stopwatch and ping-pong ball to find out how hand-eye coordination changes as children get older.

What Do Yeast Eat…and How Can You Tell? | Education.com – Grades 2-5, The objective of this project is to examine which foods yeast cells eat.

How Do Antacids Work? | Biochemistry Discovery Lab – Grades 3-6, Simulate out how antacids work to treat heartburn by using fake stomach enzymes.

Mice & Music | Hubpages.com – Grades 3-6, Find out if music affects the performance of mice in a maze.

A Magnetic Primer Designer | Sciencebuddies.org – Grades 3-6 Biology project that utilizes magnets to mimic the process that scientists use to replicate DNA, using the polymerase chain reaction.

Growing Bacteria in Petri Dishes | Stevespanglerscience.com – Grades 3-6 biology In this science fair project, you must find samples of bacteria from an assortment of surfaces to find the surfaces that are the dirtiest.

How Does Color Affect Eyesight? | Education.com – Grades 1-5, Find out which colors are easier and more challenging to read at a distance. This super simple project requires volunteers and color charts you can print from the web.

How Many Letters? | ScienceBuddies.org – Grades 1-4, How much memory does a computer use to “remember” a series of letters? Find out how much memory a computer uses to remember 1000 letters.

Jumping For Geodes: Can You Tell the Inside from the Outside? | ScienceBuddies.org Grades 1-4, Can you tell what’s inside a geode from looking at the outside? Learn more out these unique rocks and crack some open to discover the surprises inside.

How Water Beats Rock | Education.com – Grades 1-5, Discover how water is more potent than rocks.  Experiment with ways that water can break the stone.

Soil Type and Liquefaction | All-Science-Fair-Projects.com – Grades 1-5, Experiment with sand, clay, and loam and find out which type of soil dissolves most easily.

Effects of Temperature and Humidity on Static Charges | Education.com – Grades 1-5, Use balloons, a rubber ball, and a scarf to investigate why those socks stick together when you take them out of the dryer and how conditions in the air affect static electricity.

Condensation and the Water Cycle | Easy-Science-Fair-Projects.net – Grades 2-4, Gather up some jars, bowls, and ice water to determine how the amount of ice affects condensation.

Ready, Set, Search! Race to the Right Answer | ScienceBuddies.org – Grades 2-5, Find out how Internet search engines work and how you can get different results depending on the type of information you request.

Paper Airplane Science | Easy-Science-Fair-Projects.net – Grades 2-5, Put your paper airplane making and flying skills to the test. Design and fly a variety of different planes and determine which design flies the farthest.

Mag-nificent Breakfast Cereal – Grades 2-5, Use a blender and a magnet to find out how much iron is in different kinds of breakfast cereal.

The Big Dig | Sciencebuddies.org – Grades 2-5, Find out which materials are biodegradable, and which ones are not. How can you use this information to help the environment?

Weather-Related Science Projects | Hubpages.com – Grades 2-5, Learn more about the weather and other aspects of meteorology by using instruments you build. Make a barometer, hygrometer, anemometer… even lightning!

Hero’s Engine and Newton’s Third Law | Education.com – Grades 2-5, Build an aeolipile(Hero’s Engine) to explore Isaac Newton’s Third Law – for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.  Can you predict the movement of the Hero’s Engine?

Rocky Secrets: Where Does Oil Hide? | ScienceBuddies.org -Grades 2-5, Can you get petroleum oil from a stone? Find out which kinds of rocks can soak up and store the most fat. Learn how petroleum geologists and engineers use this information to find the best places to get oil from the earth.

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Natural Discoloration Stains in Granite Countertops & Drywall Joint Banding

You’re looking at an iron-oxide (rust) stain in a granite countertop that could be millions of years old. In my opinion, it’s not a defect. (C) Copyright 2019 Tim Carter

Natural Discoloration Stains in Granite Countertops

QUESTION #1: Tim, we just moved into an existing home that’s got granite countertops. When we looked at the house there were cleverly placed trivets in certain places. I’ve come to discover they were hiding what appears to be rust stains deep in the granite but I really can’t say for certain. Is this natural? Can anything be done to remove or lessen their appearance? Would you accept granite that looks like this? Constance P., Fresno, CA

While I’m not a full-time hard-rock geologist, my house happens to rest upon the Meredith Porphyritic Granite, thought by many to be the most gorgeous rock in all of New England. I did major in geology in college and am attracted to granite for a host of reasons. It’s not only a gorgeous rock, but it’s also one of the most durable natural stones you can buy.

Random discoloration in some granite is normal. There are many reasons why it happens. Many people think the discoloration adds character and makes their countertops one-of-a-kind.

It’s important to realize that giant formations of granite can have cracks throughout the rock. If the granite is working it’s way to the surface over a million years or so, hot mineral-rich groundwater can be forced at high pressure into the tiniest cracks in the rock. This may explain how the discoloration occurred.

Another key point is the rust stains may be just a surface imperfection created by a happy accident attributed to the previous homeowner. Something made from iron may have gotten wet and the legs or bottom of the object as it sat on the granite left behind the rust.

You can do a small test to see if you can remove the rust stain. I’d start with oxalic acid. This product comes in crystals and is readily available online. Mix it according to the package instructions and pay close attention to all the warnings on the label. Apply just one drop with a cotton swab to the stain. Allow the acid to work for ten or fifteen minutes. If the droplet soaks in, add another drop on top until you have a tiny standing pool of solution on the granite no bigger than the eraser on a pencil.

At the end of the waiting period, take a clean cotton swab and try to suck up the droplet of acid you put on the counter. If the tip of the new cotton swab goes from white to brown then you know you’re removing the rust and it might have been a surface deposit.

Rinse the spot with clear water at least two times. Use a clean rag and dry the granite. It’s now time to check for surface damage.

You want to use a flashlight or smartphone light and check to see if the acid harmed the gloss finish of the granite. The odds are there will be no damage, but check to make certain. I’d then wait for a week to see if there’s any change in color to the spot where you placed the drop of acid.

If there’s no change in color, then you can begin to do the same process to try to remove the surface rust stain. Take your time and don’t go crazy with the acid solution. Use no less than one gallon of common sense when working with it.

Drywall Joint Banding

QUESTION #2: Hey Tim, I’m having a robust debate with my painter. I have a room with all new drywall and it’s not been skimmed coated so the white joint compound stands out next to the paper face of the drywall. In my old house, you could see at night time where each taped seam was as well as the joint compound covering the fasteners. What’s odd is the wall was perfectly smooth. My painter says this is not going to happen this time. Should I trust him? Brian M., Richmond, VA

Ah, the mystery of drywall joint banding! Look closely at the paper facing of drywall and the sanded joint compound and you should be able to understand exactly why your wall in the old house was not one texture when the low-angle light hits it from indoor light fixtures.

Your painter may be trustworthy if he intends to apply a primer and/or paint-primer mixture that has two mission-critical ingredients. The paint or primer must have a sealer that takes care of the porosity issue between the joint compound and the drywall paper. Another key point is the primer or paint/primer must have some heavy-body pigments to even out the texture between the smooth joint compound and the coarser paper facing.

There are special drywall primers made that have these ingredients. I’ve also seen at the Altar of Saving Time a finish paint product that claims it can do everything you want to be done with just one coat not requiring a primer. I’ve not yet tested this product on new drywall, but it’s entirely possible a paint manufacturer has developed a product that eliminates the need for the special drywall primer. You can get one quart of this and paint one wall as a test.

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