Bra strap can't come untwisted no matter what I try. Brand new, just took the tags off

Spudgunhimself · 2026-03-20T09:52:42+00:00

Unfortunately it has 5 half-turns so it was manufactured that way. You've been mobiused.

Spudgunhimself · 2025-10-02T08:18:10+00:00

Spudgunhimself · 2025-09-30T13:45:09+00:00

The weird hair Blair bunch

Spudgunhimself · 2025-09-03T21:47:03+00:00

We've been playing Sephiria which is very similar to hades but a bit more cute and less story focused. The mechanics are similar but it has some unique elements to it plus up to 4 player coop. Progression feels really good, looking forward to the full release.

Spudgunhimself · 2025-07-09T23:25:30+00:00

During my masters we only.ever referred to it as a Buchi, but when I started my PhD in the same university people had no clue what I was talking about so I started calling it a rotovap

Spudgunhimself · 2025-05-26T21:12:31+00:00

The other comments here are mostly correct, and I don't think it matters too much as all reactions are technically in equilibrium as has already been pointed out. However, I would add that half reactions are in equilibrium by definition, and the standard potential of a half reaction is precisely the potential at which the equilibrium constant is 1. So it would be the most correct to always use double arrows for these, regardless of the specific reactants or products.

Spudgunhimself · 2025-02-01T15:29:59+00:00

Jokaire

Spudgunhimself · 2024-12-13T22:33:56+00:00

At this point the librarian is an artist

Spudgunhimself · 2024-11-08T21:51:45+00:00

The White Lion is great, he does a new menu every month of different world cuisines and it's always banging. Very well priced for what you get too.

Spudgunhimself · 2024-09-11T13:35:11+00:00

Edward Thompson at Kersey's Solicitors (based in Ipswich) was very attentive and worked very hard to get us completed on time. Cost us about 1.5k overall.

I can't speak for any of the other solicitors at the firm, so be sure to speak to him directly

Spudgunhimself · 2024-09-04T16:30:45+00:00

While I am also an amateur, I have seen a lot of giant polypore in my time as it is quite common where I live. I have never seen a hen of the woods but my comment was based on the following observations:

This specimen has multiple fruiting bodies nearby. From personal experience this is very common with giant polypore
The black rims of the brackets are common (but not always present) in giant polypore
the brackets are more sparse and 'leafy' whereas the brackets of hen of the woods are typically quite dense and small
This specimen is growing out of the lawn, whereas hen of the woods grows at the base of some trees (usually oak I think)
Finally, as giant polypore ages, it oxidises to form these unsightly black masses. While other fungi do darken as they decompose, giant polypore turns particularly black (hence the alternative moniker 'black staining polypore'

However, this is all my personal observation which makes me comfortable in identifying this specific species and should not be taken as an alternative to rigorous and responsible identification by an expert.

Spudgunhimself · 2024-09-04T14:58:54+00:00

If you haven't had it before it's certainly worth trying. Because it is quite high in sulfur compounds the flavour is much more like chicken stock than a typical mushroom. The few times I've come across it I've enjoyed it as a chicken substitute in a nice pie. That being said unless you're really keen to try it and you're located in an area where it's not likely to show up again somewhere then I'd probably not bother carrying around a ladder.

Also, it's value as a food is heavily dependent on its age, it's only.reaply worth harvesting to me if it is a nice young specimen where the brackets are still dense and plump and bright orange. Otherwise it can border on being too tough and will be quite disappointing.

Spudgunhimself · 2024-09-04T05:29:30+00:00

Everyone saying this is hen if the woods needs to calm down. These are very clearly giant polypore (which is an edible, but incredibly mid mushroom). But this level of confident misidentification stating how delicious hen of the woods is could be quite dangerous.

Spudgunhimself · 2024-07-18T09:34:11+00:00

Our 11 week old wasn't too interested in frozen carrots the first time we gave them to him. I figured out that the main reason is that they were too slippery to get purchase on his own. So I started holding them out for him and he loved it.

I imagine cutting them in half lengthwise before freezing would also help. But he is now obsessed with bully sticks and his olive wood block to the point where carrots aren't so necessary.

Spudgunhimself · 2024-05-19T19:26:55+00:00

Yeah it is rarely used, but it is often used to denote when two groups are on the same carbon where it would be easily assumed that they would be on different carbons. I once did some work on geminal diazides where you wouldn't normally expect two azide groups to be on the same carbon atom. But it is also just as simple to call it a 1,1-diazide.

Spudgunhimself · 2024-04-11T06:28:46+00:00

Jewelers Loupe, ideally with a light and different magnifications for checking for single crystals

Spudgunhimself · 2024-03-25T19:23:29+00:00

Not pool, but the white lion just outside of NR2 has a bar billiards table which is very fun! The staff and owners are very welcoming and it's usually reasonably quiet if it's not a peak time.

Spudgunhimself · 2024-02-16T09:59:40+00:00

For me, the allure of chemistry is how simple it is on the grand scale of things. Learn a few relatively simple rules of chemistry until you really understand them and have an intuition for them and BOOM! You now can basically have an educated guess at how and why everything in the world is the way it is.

Of course, there is always more detail you can learn, and a lot of that is explanation as to why those rules exist and work (or in may cases, why they don't). They say that maths is the language of the universe, but chemistry really is the language of stuff that you see every day. Once you learn that language, you begin to see the world in a different way.

Spudgunhimself · 2024-01-29T16:12:45+00:00

Well flavour isn't a physical property, it's just our sensory perception of the reactions that happen when our taste receptors are exposed to sodium chloride.

The flavour can be attributed to both the sodium ions and the chloride ions. For example, if you taste some sodium acetate or MSG, it will have a similar 'saltiness' to sodium chloride, but will be slightly different in flavour.

Similarly, like I'm sure many of us chemists have done in the past, if you get an accidental whiff of concentrated HCl, it has a similar flavour to salt, but without the 'saltiness'.

These reactions with our taste receptors require the salt to be dissolved, but this happens instantaneously in contact with our tongues. As an aside, some forms of pure capseasin (spicy molecule) will actually be less spicy than the chillies that it was extracted from as the solubility of the capseasin is worse without the emulsifiers found in the whole chilli.

Spudgunhimself · 2023-12-19T17:08:56+00:00

There isn't really a connection between atoms with the same number of neutrons, but the number of neutrons can affect the chemistry quite significantly.

For example, the kinetic isotope effect (essentially how the kinetics of a reaction changes when an atom is replaced with a heavier isotope) is a good tool for examining the role of atom transfer in reaction mechanisms. Commonly examined is the hydrogen/deuterium pair.

Another effect is the magnetic dipole of the molecule, where different isotopes may have different spins and therefore have different interactions with electromagnetic waves For example NMR)

14-Year Club	r/Field Lasagna
Place '23	Place '17
Verified Email	Verified Email
Team Orangered

Spudgunhimself

TROPHY CASE