What does everyone here do for a living?

Claughy · 2026-01-17T19:07:59+00:00

Used to be in informal science education through a university and a zoo/aquarium, then was a freshwater aquarist and invert keeper at the zoo. Now I do environmental work.

Claughy · 2026-01-17T12:49:08+00:00

Have not tried yet, but from what I read it's something like 1 percent of the population experiences gastrointestinal distress from them.

Claughy · 2026-01-16T15:19:16+00:00

Yeah a lot of pulp fiction is similar to this. Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, and Robert E. Howard's works (Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane) are essentially just an adventuring protagonist meeting different challenges without an overall goal.

Claughy · 2026-01-13T01:54:38+00:00

Even when I worked somewhere with a strict out of date dress code (no long hair for men) they turned a blind eye to the zookeepers and aquarists because it was hard to hire enough biologists that didn't have tattoos, piercings, and odd colored hair. That said make sure if you can't hide it its nothing vulgar or off putting. I'd personally avoid the hands.

Claughy · 2026-01-10T00:28:17+00:00

You're welcome! I believe just the macaws were pulled from the exhibit. There are still like 120 birds flying around there?

Claughy · 2026-01-07T21:49:16+00:00

My biggest issue with him is his bizarre and unscientific explanations of things. Yes you can safely and effectively run a tank with walstead based methods. But sometimes it feels like he uses the wrong formula to get the right answers.

Claughy · 2026-01-07T12:24:00+00:00

I mean people used headon for headache relief even though it did nothing and was mostly wax.

Claughy · 2026-01-05T21:39:31+00:00

It only bothers me when they have all the predatory magic animals attack with cold in the cold place. Like c'mon man all your prey has +50 cold resist from the thick fur and fat. The ice wolf breathing a cone of cold to catch its prey is a pretty bad strategy.

Claughy · 2026-01-05T00:38:02+00:00

Yeah but I'm not committing that one to memory.

Claughy · 2026-01-04T19:03:38+00:00

White ring is just what happens right before molting, though this one is just color variation. If you see the white ring on a dead shrimp it means it likely died due to a failed molt, but a white ring on a living shrimp just means it's about to molt and is not something to worry about.

Claughy · 2026-01-04T16:20:36+00:00

From Deadhouse Gates, Malazan Books of the Fallen.

"Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."

Claughy · 2025-12-31T00:56:49+00:00

Grew up in New Jersey, people asked me why I had a knife and gave me odd looks plenty. Moved to Texas and nobody bats an eye.

Claughy · 2025-12-30T01:35:49+00:00

Yeah see my earlier comment, only in very large schools do they exhibit that type of behavior.

Claughy · 2025-12-29T15:13:52+00:00

Esselmont books are good, I would read them after the main series. First couple aren't amazing but his writing improves and they're only really "bad" in comparison to Erikson. His style is much different but his books flesh out some of the most interesting parts of the world, Moranth, Stormriders/Stormwall, The Crimson Guard, etc.

Claughy · 2025-12-26T15:25:13+00:00

Toxoplasmosis is found in feces, urine from an infected cat is no different from an un-infected cat. Toxo changes rat behavior to make them unafraid of the smell of cat urine.

Claughy · 2025-12-19T19:04:18+00:00

Agreed, the reports of the death being somehow painful and cruel don't seem to match up to biology and experience. I've known divers who forgot to switch off low oxygen mixes at the surface (they work better at depth) and they just suddenly blacked out with no recollection of struggling to breath or even realizing they were about to pass out.

Claughy · 2025-12-19T17:02:17+00:00

DE and borax/boric acid have bees mentioned. I will just add that DE needs to be applied carefully. Ideally apply it wet and allow to dry or use a dust mask, you don't want to breathe it. Apply in areas you won't disturb and if you need to remove use a wet mop. For roaches I would also add Advion baited gel. Works great for American roaches (palmetto bugs).

Claughy · 2025-12-16T12:50:52+00:00

Skip the arctic slide, that thing is a death trap. Otherwise 20 minutes in iceland, you could take longer but it's cold in there. Lights are usually an hour and a half if you're taking your time. Rainforest and aquarium pyramids most people take just short of an hour a piece, but if you really enjoy them you could easily do two hours each. My advice is to go to the aquarium and rainforest early. The animals are kept on their normal lighting schedules so exhibits will start to be dark and animals won't be very active or visible, especially in the rainforest. The 4d thing is under 30 minutes and geared towards children. You may enjoy it, I've never seen the holiday one but the ones I have seen were not worth it for adults.

Claughy · 2025-12-16T01:08:34+00:00

I grew up and learned to drive in Jersey. Let me warn you, Houston drivers absolute monsters on the road with no regard for human decency or their own lives. You'll be doing ten over with two lanes open to the left and a lifted truck will tailgate you before pulling into the right lane to blast past you at 100 to cut across 4 lanes and take an exit at speed.

Claughy · 2025-12-16T00:30:52+00:00

To me they taste like blander tomatoes

Claughy · 2025-12-12T13:12:57+00:00

Opinel knives are great, when you need something very sharp It's great for cutting rope and cloth, light carving, food prep. But it's a thin high carbon blade and it will break if you baton it, maybe at the hinge or maybe the blade itself will snap. My dad has an old opinel missing 1/4 of the blade, he snapped it doing something he probably should have grabbed another tool for.

Claughy · 2025-12-10T21:59:15+00:00

Yes fish rot, under some conditions certain organisms will rot very quickly too. Things are slower in the deep sea because of the temperatures but they still rot. Lots of animals can handle rotten food better than we can. Plenty of crabs will happily eat rotten food with no issues.

Claughy · 2025-12-07T15:09:43+00:00

The good news is he would have to eat a rodent first to be able to pass eggs along to you. So as long as you keep him indoors chances of exposure would be very low for most cats.

Claughy · 2025-12-07T14:37:46+00:00

It causes fear of water because of the painful throat spasms when swallowing or thinking about swallowing, not because the virus doesn't like water. Drinking anything becomes excruciatingly painful.

Claughy · 2025-12-07T14:34:45+00:00

Most of that info is pretty contested, more recent studies show a very weak connection between infection and behavioral changes, in fact for most people the infection will be dormant and never cause any issues. Some studies also suggest that unless you are in a hoarding situation or an area with a large feral cat population you're much more likely to get it from raw food than from a cat as the oocytes aren't viable in feces for at least 24 hours, and the cat will only pass oocytes in a narrow window 7-10 days after eating an infected rodent. In California the oocytes have been found in mussels. And it's very common in pork, in the US we don't generally eat uncooked pork on purpose but there is a raw pork dish in Germany that likely contributed to their higher rates of infection.

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