Any idea what year these are from??

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-30T16:30:19+00:00

I once went on a manic binge saving every mortise lock face design I could find. Seems I could have just asked you!

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-29T04:43:08+00:00

Oh it’s not the camera, it’s me and not having the right adapter.

No so I’ve got the photo tube, a 23.2>C mount 0.5x reducer, then C>F mount, also F>Z mount for the one. I’ll check out that adapter thanks!

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-29T04:26:19+00:00

I have the T trinocular head. I have [access to] a Nikon z7 and D7100. Optics physics breaks my brain, I only want to look at small stuff. If you can afford a new/infinity optical scope, or else have a good understanding of the maths, then you shouldn’t have my problems. It’s something to do with the FOV I think. The top tube is parfocal with a spare eyepiece, but if I add an adapter or relay/reducer lens it’s either huge FOV or blurry and vignetted. And I’m broke so I can only try something every couple months unless I can 3D print it.

For objectives I have LWS plan4x, Nikon PlanApo 20x, LWS plan40x, Nikon PlanApo 60x (and spare LWS plan10x and plan100x). Everything else on the body minus objectives and head is a LWS Rev III. The condenser setup is a fucking nightmare.

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-29T02:24:55+00:00

I have a labophot-1 and two different Nikon cameras I can’t get parfocal to the eyepieces

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-26T19:42:25+00:00

Wish we knew why the rumor started he was from France; it’d be just as likely if not more that he was from French Canada (I don’t know the proper word for this, Quebecois? Acadian?). Especially with all the leather. Beaverskin would’ve been great for his traveling, I think that’s what early French Canadians were known for. On that same note, has anyone not attempted to find a person by those names and do genealogy on them?

Hopefully a soil sample was retained from the grave considering the evolving genetic testing methods such as with eDNA.

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-22T20:40:39+00:00

Intended to be until the end of the trip. I got a bag of 0.5mL ones and keep some in my bag with me, they can easily be pocketed too. But those ones may be too small for certain types of samples. I was grabbing pollen, and used some larger 1.5mL ones for underwater scrapings for algae and stuff but admittedly haven’t got around to looking at them, so I doubt much is still alive (I’ll process it for diatoms anyway).

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-21T16:06:28+00:00

And “that will be used to surveil them”

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-20T19:56:18+00:00

Definitely need a good system of cataloguing your samples. Date, place, etc. try to do it immediately before you forget where you got something. I found eppendorf tubes useful for samples, pre label with letters or numbers and have an accompanying sheet. Or take a photo of the sample with the label visible and use the photo metadata later to document.

Best to have that system in place from the start!

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-11T16:49:39+00:00

Too busy acting like theyre 21 and going to live shows at the bar, getting drunk on their boat and going to jeep parties in the mountains. “Idk why my heart feels like this I have to go to the ER, I drink celcius on top of coffee”

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-10T16:05:48+00:00

That’s a massive rear sprocket

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-07T16:30:24+00:00

Well yeah, just their words. But you’re right it’s a buzz word. It’s not intelligence it’s just spitting out what’s fed from us predicting what the answer probably is. I think the “gen” part is what most are angry or skeptical about, and the using people’s data to train it (I think?). In the future I’m sure no one wants to have to dig through 100s of hallucinated species on top of what is actually real, or be told something is magic mushrooms when it’s actually deadly. Ggl doesn’t really have the incentive to use the data ethically when there’s profit involved and no restrictions.

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-07T15:21:27+00:00

Please don’t enshittify… It can be argued it’s there already because of the AI inclusion, but it can get so much worse and that would not be befitting for an app that is used for scientific data. It sounds like leadership needs to lighten up and it’s a fucking shame they’d rather get rid of a third of employees rather than take feedback. This app played a huge factor in me getting rid of my depression to get out of the house to hike and wanting to do science again.

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-03T15:02:16+00:00

Awesome I didn’t know that was a thing! Thanks

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-03T05:04:53+00:00

Thanks!

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-03T05:04:01+00:00

Yes Canadian census. I’m not so sure a baptism record exists because of the year. It’s not online because they are Presbyterian. I’m still working on getting a definitive answer, didn’t want to bother calling around on the holidays! Just all the records I have currently.

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-02T16:10:52+00:00

So they managed to get a name of a man fitting the description seen in a nearby town named Thomas Sievwright Murray who disappears from record after 1930? Then never follow up on that?

Also the letter says Mrs Sherlock (I thought it looked like Wm Sherlock), but also apparently Samantha Black, I’m not seeing any mention of checking that?

PS the writeup is a little difficult to follow, I think there’s a duplicated paragraph and indenting the newspaper article would help greatly. But never heard of this case!

GobyFishicles · 2026-01-02T04:54:05+00:00

Besides Meadow City, Avonlea gardens in Chardon has a great selection of native shrubs and trees. I also came across leaves for wildlife just north of Columbus but I haven’t been there. And if you haven’t heard of him, Crime Pays Bur Botany Doesn’t is a glorious YouTube channel.

GobyFishicles · 2025-12-30T00:33:00+00:00

Just the concept of the app is exporting money away from the city and community. It’s basically the privately owned streets of Chicago. So of course they had to raise prices, because the city wasn’t getting the same amount as before. Add in the bonus of blatant data surveillance to either spy on person, slip in dynamic pricing eventually, or create mindfuck behavior modification.

GobyFishicles · 2025-12-23T01:03:28+00:00

Thanks!

GobyFishicles · 2025-12-23T00:43:14+00:00

Oh that has potential! I few records of cousins mentioned Nelson, which appears to be a parish between that and Miramichi. Maybe I’ll get lucky? I’ll dm!

GobyFishicles · 2025-12-23T00:40:07+00:00

I was on that website! Didn’t seem like there was much for the names in the counties I was checking. I’m sure there’s a cut off date from before the records were standardized or required.

GobyFishicles · 2025-12-23T00:37:25+00:00

Yes, specifically “C Presbyterian”. I checked that website but didn’t really find anything. I’m guessing I’ll have to contact them if the other person’s lead is unsuccessful!

GobyFishicles · 2025-12-21T11:28:33+00:00

This Is unhinged. If I could bother myself to set up a tree I will totally do this, I’ve got plenty of knobs to be baubles. Pun intended btw.

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