I’m curious what piqued your interest in this book. Was it an engaging read?
My most expensive is probably Dindal’s Soil Biology Guide (1990), which cost around $300 as well. The print quality is pathetically bad given the price I paid, the spine came off only a few months after buying. Wiley Blackwell 🤢
I bet anime pulls a lot of its visual inspiration from games especially JRPGs. Can’t think of any examples off the top of my head but I’ve definitely played games where a magic circle appears at the feet of the caster.
There’s also a magic circle in the background of the original Dark Magician card in Yu-Gi-Oh!, which I think goes back to the late 90s. There’s also a magic circle in the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime in the seal of orichalcos season which would have been the early 2000s.
The Latin name is fun though.
Both the generic name Lamium and the specific epithet galeobdolon were used by Pliny the Elder in the first century AD.[43] The name galeobdolon has several possible origins.[44] It may come from the Latin words galeo meaning “to cover with a helmet” and dolon meaning “a fly’s sting”, or it may come from the Greek words γαλέη (galéē) “weasel; marten; polecat”, and βδόλος (bdólos) “foetid smell”, an allusion to the smell of the leaves. The latter interpretation is likely the source of the old common name ‘yellow weasel-snout’.[45]
Plant enjoyers should also appreciate the Sparganium inflorescence in the back
I like all these goofy guys you post. Does the pointy nose perform a function or is it just stylish?
Interesting instrument, thanks for sharing. Apparently Haydn wrote a whopping 175 pieces for the baryton, which have all been recorded by the Esterházy Ensemble. This will keep me occupied for a while!
The word ‘quietly’ seems to be in every other headline lately, it really bugs me.
Government / company x quietly does y.
The colors are striking in among the flowers like that. Great shot
Do you have pet isopods?
I thought the thumbnail was butter for a second
It’s poop. Slug most likely
Cute bug enjoyers need to know about springtails.
Picture is from this site, which I highly recommend for it’s incredible photography:
https://www.chaosofdelight.org/blog/springtail-of-the-month-sminthurides-aquaticus/31/8/2020
Plugdata is a rabbit hole, but thankfully you only need to learn a few dozen of the most common objects to start making things. It took me a week of low effort learning before I could make patches without needing tutorials or outside help. The built-in documentation is all you need after that.
Does that plugin have a distinct sound you like? To be honest I’ve never moved beyond my DAW’s stock eq and compressor. And god, iLok is a scourge.
Native Linux audio plugins are frustratingly uncommon. I’m gradually trying to replace my Windows plugins with Linux native ones but it’s hard to do sometimes. My thing lately has been building my own replacements with plugdata.
Complaining about the neighbours maybe? They sure have a lot of them.
They sound absolutely fantastic:
It’s more boreal in distribution, so you might be a tad too far south. Usually it grows in bogs and heathlands. You can check iNaturalist for a map and to see if it’s been reported near you:
Happy music making (:
It’s amazing how rich and ancient China’s literary history is. I should make more of an effort to get into Chinese writing, all I’ve read is Shi Naian’s Water Margin which was great fun. Maybe Confucius’ Analects would be a good place to start with the really old stuff.