The thread of learning something new every day
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@mariner4life said in The thread of learning something new every day:
the first time one of these flew on to my patio i shit myself
Jeez!! nearly a foot wide wing span!!!
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@dogmeat here it is
When we were building several years back, the rental property we were in was in the middle of about 7acres of native forest, and we used to get Puriri moths all the time, attracted to the light from the big A-frame windows, and we could sit there and see the Moreporks swoop in and take them...poor buggars, upto 5 years in pupae stage, with a life of about 48 hours as a moth!
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@MajorRage Peter Stringer was the king of the flap, pretty much started it!!
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learned that there is something called a Kumara Moth (aka the Convolvulus hawk moth) which is a big old moth with a big old proboscis (similar species overseas are called a Hummingbird moth) one was having a good old feed of nectar from some flowers we have at home last night...never seen one before.
Absolutely Triggered. Hate moths, hate giant moths even more! Especially when you are asleep in the night an hear something tapping around the room in the dark, only ever seen one about an inch big but even that's big enough for me. Horrible horrible things.
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@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Today I learned there is a fuckload to Google Cloud Platform. This is the benefit/burden of working from home during COVID-19 and spending hours trying to find ways to do shit I'd have otherwise knocked off in minutes on SQL Server.
/nerdchat
Massive citrix farm here is coping (barely). At one point yesterday scrolling emails was like loading gifs over dial up
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@antipodean said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Today I learned there is a fuckload to Google Cloud Platform. This is the benefit/burden of working from home during COVID-19 and spending hours trying to find ways to do shit I'd have otherwise knocked off in minutes on SQL Server.
/nerdchat
Massive citrix farm here is coping (barely). At one point yesterday scrolling emails was like loading gifs over dial up
internet.One of our farms shit the bed earlier today, taking down some of the remote access stuff with it. Inconvenient for me but showstopper for others.
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In the absence of Radio Sport I've taken to other recorded content.
Found the following quite good but specifically the bit (fairly late in the interview - dont ask me a time) about the correlation (note, not causation), between cyano bacteria (blue green algae) and MND.
. Available now through the ABC listen App - http://bit.ly/ABCradioApp
Unlocking the mystery of Motor Neurone Disease - ABC listen
Dominic Rowe is asking how common degenerative brain diseases begin (R)
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Also, on the back of having borrowed a number of books form the library in advance of the WuFlu shutdown I've got a book called 'Pandora's Lab'.
About various scientific discoveries that were thought to be miracle breakthroughs, but ... kinda ... like weren't.
Two chapters on I hate my parents* for making me eat margarine.
Let me rephrase that: I hate my parents even more for making me eat margarine. The stuff was foul, and was guaranteed to give you heart disease.
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- I don't really hate my parents ...
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I have been doing a 'on this day in history' message to my work colleagues each day (in our Whatsapp group)...it is greatly appreciated, I know this cos the day I was late sending, it was asked for
Today was interesting;
Julius Caesar was assassiated in 43BC
John WIlkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in 1865
The Titanic hit the iceberg 1912 -
@taniwharugby One of the advantages of still reading a newspaper is that there is a Today in History section in my local.
Amongst other facts on today:
- The 1st Edition of the Webster's English dictionary was published in 1828.
- The vaccine against typhoid was also discovered in 1903 by Dr Harry Plotz.
Coscinocera hercules - Wikipedia
