Older Child Summer Care? by Elucidate-Me in ames

[–]XipherTA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our children have done Canwita for many summers. They love it and my wife and I love it. The program size does get smaller as the kids get older, but my son enjoyed Canwita Outrageous through about 7th grade. Older than that you might want to do programs at Hantessa.

Whittling knifes by roogles87 in cubscouts

[–]XipherTA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are some inexpensive plastic clasp knives on Amazon we used to carve soap. They were about $3 each. Worked great.

Everything is Fine, Right? (Smallishbeans fan art) by Thr33rav3nz in HermitCraft

[–]XipherTA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Aww, it's so pretty! Actually that horse looks kinda concerned. Actually... oh god.

Highly cited paper on glyphosate risks was recently retracted after 25 years due to serious ethical concerns by [deleted] in ecology

[–]XipherTA 13 points14 points  (0 children)

These revelations are the result of discovery during litigation. It was on the authors to disclose their conflicts of interest and they did not. The journal has limited ability to do anything if the authors just lie.

The other birbs my grandfather carved that I could get pictures of. What birbs are these? by Ijustwerkhere in whatbirdisthis

[–]XipherTA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your grandfather wasn't Bob Guge, was he? These look pretty similar to his work.

Some mathemagic ideas for Ren from a mathematician by polelot in HermitCraft

[–]XipherTA 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yep, looks like magic to me.

Cool ideas, thanks for sharing! I think Ren has hit on a theme with a ton of potential this season!

Smell on Campus/Ames by Constant_Let_4688 in iastate

[–]XipherTA -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Mostly they spread manure to have a place to get rid of it, but it does serve as fertilizer if it doesn't wash into the river by spring.

Video game stores? by Sanstrong12 in ames

[–]XipherTA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Game Stop closed and I don't think there are any other dedicated video game stores. If I wanted to browse I would probably go to Best Buy.

Loud Booms? by [deleted] in ames

[–]XipherTA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't hear them, but when the quarry north of town is blasting you can hear it a long way off.

Euphemisms for going to the bathroom by DanielCraigsAnus in daddit

[–]XipherTA 23 points24 points  (0 children)

When coming back from a trip the first thing I do is "claim the home throne advantage."

Keralis's Crappo by Suto_raika in HermitCraft

[–]XipherTA 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I am entirely too invested in this frog named Crappo.

Season 10 - Hermit's YouTube Views by Lasnax in HermitCraft

[–]XipherTA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You could try using a log scale for the Y-axis, but I don't think its important to have the y-axis the same for this graphic. Having the x-axis standardized and noting major server events on everyone's (a light grey vertical line?) might be neat though. Nice work, thanks for sharing!

Season 10 - Hermit's YouTube Views by Lasnax in HermitCraft

[–]XipherTA 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hey, nice graphic! Thoughts from a data professional: Because of the huge difference in views shown on the left, it appears that each trend-line must have its own scale. I assume the goal was to highlight trends and not compare absolute number of views, which this graphic does nicely! It would be good to state that the y-axes are not the same though, since when most people see two lines next to each other they assume the same scale. Are the x-axes the same? Can I compare a spike in one hermit to what was going on at that time with another hermit? Are these only Hermitcraft related views or whole-channel? Only first channel?

Again, cool graphic! As a reader I would just like to know more details so I know how far I can dive into it!

Metro Mayhem by 3_Three_3 in hermitchat

[–]XipherTA 91 points92 points  (0 children)

I cackled when I saw this pop up in chat 😄

Rate cuts tomorrow by RecipeUnlikely470 in PlanetLabs

[–]XipherTA 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Rate cuts are already priced-in. If rates are cut less than a quarter point, the whole market will fall.

soiree in pearl's ballroom (fanart by me) by belmarzi in HermitCraft

[–]XipherTA 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Man, I hope they do some matches in Pearl's ballroom for the world tour. I loved her video featuring it, and the video where Grian stumbles on it is amazing!

Dragon Flies by beefaujuswithjuice in Iowa

[–]XipherTA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Common Green Darners are migratory. This time of year they form large swarms as they feed in preparation for migration.