ask me anything
Apr. 21st, 2013 01:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberetthello everyone I am sad and lonely and writing my lit review (actually that's untrue - I'm kind of stressed but basically feeling okay about it, and what I'm going to achieve, and I am neither especially sad nor especially lonely) BUT it would be nice to talk to you all! Hello! Feel free to have general conversations in comments, or if there are things you are WONDERING pls feel free to ask them. Anon comments will shortly be enabled if they aren't already. LET US GO FORTH.
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 12:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 12:58 am (UTC)where is your icon from?
(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 01:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 01:48 am (UTC)We look at lava flows, which we can date (using radioactive elements), which are rich in magnetisable crystals/particles like magnetite. As a flow cools and solidifies, the magnetisable particles in it will align themselves, as far as possible, with the Earth's magnetic field. So you can find a suitable lava flow anywhere in the world; unfold it, if it's been folded up by making mountains or similar; measure the declination of the magnetic particles in it; and work out what latitude the landmass was at when the lava flow erupted. :D
(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 03:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 11:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 09:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 11:36 am (UTC)I am so glad you think each others' snoring is adorable (snoozl)
I only nearly strangled you both in your sleep
EXOTOLEEDZ xx
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 10:31 am (UTC)Basically, photographic technology had got to the point where more people could afford to do it, and groups of people all over the country decided they were going to use this to document their local areas. There were two main types of people involved: people interested in photography, and people interested in history. It wasn't just middle-class people doing it, and it wasn't just men.
There was no main countrywide centralisation of this, just lots of groups doing similar things at similar times in different places. Some of the resulting collections have survived — the Surrey one is a notably good and complete collection — but others have vanished. One of them (I forget where) was saved when it was pulled out of a skip!
Her interest was in the people as much as the photographs, and she's uncovered a lot of stuff about who was involved, and why, and how they went about it. One anecdote she told was about a particular photographer who she eventually realised was photographing things within cycling distance of stations on a particular railway line. Another was about people who would print their photos using two different technologies — silver-based to bring out the detail, and platinum-based so it would survive for posterity.
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 11:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 10:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 11:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 11:49 am (UTC)Yesterday we met a 91 y/o mathematician and she demonstrated she could rock the Times cryptic crossword in nine minutes ... and learned that doing it in under twelve was pretty much an entry requirement for work at Bletchley park during the war.
I also discovered a shade of eyeshadow/lip tint called 'Nick Cage raking leaves on a brisk October afternoon' exists, and am tempted to reverse current policies wrt: makeup because this is so very perfectly wrong.
(And as a final note, should you see a news item about an unexpected outbreak of public objects covered in eyes in Cambridge this summer, It absolutely has nothing to do with me and was definitely not inspired by you on facebook I deny all knowledge I'm innocent guv honest :D)
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 12:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 12:32 pm (UTC)... yeah that also sounds like kinda amazing make-up, huh.
(EYYYYES)
(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 06:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 12:03 pm (UTC)Hope the lit review goes well :)
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 12:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 01:10 pm (UTC)Part of what I'm doing, this year, in terms of my word - reclamation - is integrating the whole; refusing to split myself up for others' convenience. I get to occupy all of this space, at once; I am tired of having to decide whether it's more important to me to be correctly pronouned or to be able to actually get into the labs I need to work in. I am tired of making myself smaller, and I refuse to do it any more.
(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 06:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 02:36 pm (UTC)(And yes, I know my more-than-usually-insane schedule is partly at fault here. Normal service will be resumed. Maybe. Almost certainly not before you move to a different city, at least once. Sigh...)
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 02:38 pm (UTC)xx
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 07:05 pm (UTC)Also, hi! I already said that.
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-21 07:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-22 11:30 pm (UTC):P
YOU HAVE ONLY YOURSELF TO BLAME
Date: 2013-04-22 11:40 pm (UTC)I don't claim to have done a NEAT job of it, but via one pocket knife and one tube of superglue, it's now the right length :D
Re: YOU HAVE ONLY YOURSELF TO BLAME
From: