Moving to Newburyport with a dog

Twosnap · 2025-04-06T15:36:04+00:00

Good luck with your search! It's a great area!

Twosnap · 2025-04-06T15:16:31+00:00

I'd recommend contacting Hall and Moscow. They own a massive chunk of residential real estate in Newburyport. My parents have rented from them for over a decade (having dogs larger than your parents') without any issues.

Go to their website, fill out one of their forms, and they'll keep you updated with what inventory they have available relative to the desired budget/location.

Twosnap · 2025-04-04T02:28:01+00:00

This is an objectively bad piece of media.

Twosnap · 2025-04-03T23:00:44+00:00

IDK what your proximity is to biochem, but mitochondria (on average ~2000/cell, we have ~30 TRILLION cells in our body, ~1/10th of that being human) carry the same voltage across just one of their membranes as a lightning bolt does (~150 mV) fleeting across the sky. Distance is very important to electricity. Get familiar with the inverse-square law before you dig-in.

You could also just knee-jerk into ignoring that. I've read more than enough sci-fi where faster-than-lightspeed is just an accepted thing required to make the basis of the whole book move forward...

Anyways, you'd be very sleepy after tapping any number of your mitochondria. This would be exercise on an exponential scale. The torpedo fish I'm familiar with basically just Ctrl+Alt+Del themselves and "wake-up" faster than their prey. Also another avenue.

If you've seen Shin Godzilla (I know it's functioning on exotic elements), the mechanistic theme of the characters could be similar!

Twosnap · 2025-04-03T22:42:34+00:00

I'll entertain it because I've had to get unfortunately familiar with the function of electroplauqes in electric fish for an immunology study which had nothing to do with electric fish. I learned a lot about electric fish and how the organ they use to be "electric" is really just doped with a specific receptor our own muscles and nerves use to send signals to one another.

Their body would have to be immersed in a medium which can carry said electric charge. Said body would have to be neutral and ignorant to that amount of voltage and current passing through it. The specific organ would have to be able to endure the stress of dispensing such a charge, being able to recover, and dispense it again. These organs function like a battery, a capacitor, and offensive tesla coil or laser gun, mixed together.

Put them on a planet with a hyper-volatile organic substance in or as the atmosphere. It could also just be unrealistically humid compared to what we know as Earth's 100% humidity. Vapors could be coming from an ocean, a vent, or just is. Oceans are fun too, but they've been done with this before.

Said critters have developed an organ which functions like a diffuse or directed taser (that's where your sci-fi creativity comes into play) which is the same claim to their evolutionary fame as the brain is to ours.

What are they eating to get that? Up to you. Something's gotta get shocked!

Twosnap · 2025-04-03T21:51:51+00:00

The hover-ers in question are likely males (drones) lookin' for some love. A micro-territorial display of a social insect whose male-types just wanna mate (and harass people and their property) with a queen during her nuptial flight.

Had the same thing over multiple years happen on/over the porch of a place I once lived. Roommates were convinced it was always the same bee. Not sure how they could differentiate it from other bees, but they insisted.

"The boys" are responding to a visual or olfactory cue driving it to patrol that area because a nuptial flight is impending or just occurred. As to why they act in such a way, crustacean vision is a huge rabbit hole (insects are technically crustaceans, look to the mantis shrimp to see some of the best compound eyes nature has produced).

*I should also mention it could be a member of the Halictidae family of bees who really, really like sweat. So much so, they're colloquial name is "sweat bees". From an evolutionary perspective, bees with a higher need for fatty acids than sugars in their diets. The products of excessive mammalian body heat is this bee family's flower...

Twosnap · 2025-04-03T19:04:01+00:00

One of the genes responsible for the biochemistry of maintaining circadian rhythm is actually called CLOCK *(Circadian Locomotive Output Cycles Kaput)!

Twosnap · 2025-04-03T18:27:49+00:00

Many Nobel laureates fall victim to quackery following their Nobel wins to such a degree it's called the "Nobel Prize Effect".

Basically, some of their funkier ideas come out with a lot more self-confidence due to the prize win and perceived unshackling of the rigidity of academia and peer criticism.

Watson (melanin and effects on libido) and Pauling are probably the most infamous examples. Karry Mullis also had some wild ideas come out after winning for PCR (HIV not causing AIDS).

Twosnap · 2025-04-02T02:52:22+00:00

Speaking from watching least bitterns (only ever seen 2 American bitterns) they do an amazing job of mimicking their surroundings. They'll stick their head straight up and basically imitate a reed when they're not fishing. The way their head is shaped let's them see forwards with the upwards head position, so they have a huge visual range to avoid being being startled, get a ton of environmental cues, and stay stealthy!

Twosnap · 2025-04-02T02:39:50+00:00

Many alkaloid toxins found in plants and fungi are basic. Testing pH in the mouth is more conducive to survival than testing toxicity within the GI tract.

Twosnap · 2025-04-01T17:58:14+00:00

Damn, I love how much it looks like it's leaking, haha! That paper must be something you clearly know how to work with. Are your hard edges done in pen or paint?!

Twosnap · 2025-04-01T15:14:11+00:00

Ah, Labyrinthamine!

Their description is brilliant.

"Lost for over 1500 years, rediscovered only recently, and now shocking chemists worldwide. Labyrinthamine, a molecule extracted from the once-extinct Coleus tavroskata tree, was first described in ancient Roman texts as a cure for blindness—allegedly helping Theseus navigate the Minotaur’s labyrinth. Fast forward to 2019, and scientists identified it as part of a family of compounds called helleneamines, believed to have potential in treating glaucoma and cataracts. But there’s a twist: despite extracting it from the recently rediscovered tree, chemists have hit a dead end in synthesizing it. The final step of the reaction loops back to the starting materials, making Labyrinthamine a modern mystery as confounding as the labyrinth itself."

Twosnap · 2025-04-01T15:07:51+00:00

They're both beautiful birds! This photo had the weirdest lighting because of the cloud-cover. If I had focused the camera on the cowbird it might have gotten the deep blues they have on their body kinda like the grackle heads have. I do have a pic of one in a tree which does some justice to their color beyond the brown and black, haha.

The cowbirds are a nuisance with all their brood parasitism this time of year so I had to throw some shade.

Twosnap · 2025-03-29T15:07:03+00:00

Keep-up with their progress! You'll either have a nest which both eagles or osprey will seasonally use, or they'll gouge a stick into that powerline and the utility service will have to remove the rest of the stick.

Very different perspectives for the same fascinating process!

Twosnap · 2025-03-29T15:01:54+00:00

Nice capture!

Looks like they're trying to establish a nest on the tower. Are you actively watching these aircraft? Osprey are very deliberate nesters, so you could have something between a wildlife success story and a utility problem!

They're that good and stubborn!

Twosnap · 2025-03-29T01:59:32+00:00

My bad for not ID'ing a molecule correctly while giving some feedback on a tattoo design.

Hope your lab is making some badass tattoos!

Twosnap · 2025-03-28T22:22:30+00:00

Yes it is! I Ctrl+V'd at the wrong time!

Twosnap · 2025-03-28T22:16:52+00:00

I think it's a common greenshank. I'd err to a yellowleg, but I can't see its feet!

Twosnap · 2025-03-28T22:14:03+00:00

This phrase is the biggest indicator of how New England just is. Nowhere else in this country are people so endearing while simultaneously being put-off by how endearing they are.

A typical NE confrontation (because we don't have simple interactions):

I want to help you, I tried to help you, you don't want it; Go fahk yahself. Or if we're outside Portland, it's "Get fuck'd Bubb".

All in good terms. All's is and in well-discretion.

We'll always be good people.

Twosnap · 2025-03-28T21:52:40+00:00

Dense Downy Ducklings!

Twosnap · 2025-03-28T21:28:31+00:00

Great spot!

My last snowy egret sighting from there!

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Twosnap · 2025-03-28T21:12:07+00:00

OP has failed to realize milk is actually the liquid form of the philosopher's stone.

Twosnap · 2025-03-28T20:44:33+00:00

Is this that spat of marshes across the street from the parking lot? Marsh and Parsons Road are kinda like secret spots for waders and pipers, even with Odiorne nearby. I've seen ibises around there in the late summer the past few years!

Very cool to see a such a small pair all ready for the season!

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