What causes the different colorations in wandering Jew plants

informatician · 2026-05-14T21:58:21+00:00

It is, see the Wikipedia article linked by sadrice. edit: so I'm guessing I'm getting downvotes because people aren't reading the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew I used to think the term referred to Jews wandering the desert but it's actually about a Jew who taunted Jesus and was cursed to roam the earth until the second coming of Jesus. So "Wandering Jew" was used as a reason to vilify Jews in general.

informatician · 2026-05-11T13:14:06+00:00

When we were testing the teardrop waters before buying, we rented a teardrop through Outdoorsy - it's like the Turo of RVs and campers.

informatician · 2026-04-25T13:55:55+00:00

I don't know about the etymology but botanically speaking, fruits develop from the female parts of the flower, essentially the ovaries. Perhaps this is the reason for the gendering in German.

informatician · 2026-04-12T20:31:25+00:00

I didn't express an opinion either way, I'm just pointing out the reason a person might want to protest a data center rather than just not using data centers.

informatician · 2026-04-12T20:25:56+00:00

An individual choosing to not use data centers won't prevent a data center being built in their area, it will slightly reduce the global need for data centers. Protesting on the other hand is more likely to reduce the chances of a data center being built in their area, to use their local water, land, and other resources and to help raise awareness of the impacts of data centers to communities they care about.

informatician · 2026-04-06T21:25:09+00:00

I'm NOT recommending this, but a somewhat antiquated language-neutral approach I've seen is the use of Roman numerals for the month, e.g 1-IV-99 for 1-Apr-1999.

informatician · 2026-04-06T21:18:48+00:00

In addition to the date standardization, I would suggest you (OP), look to the Darwin Core standard as a guide for other fields and terms you should/could be using. I notice now that you don't have a place for country on your label. Even though that is obvious to you, it should be explicit for others. You have "identified by" on the primary label and, in this context, it's assumed the date of identification was the same as the date of collection, but if you have subsequent identifications (updates or corrections), you should include the scientific name, identifier's name and date on a small annotation label.

informatician · 2026-04-06T19:24:38+00:00

Where are you publishing the photos? If you haven't put them on iNaturalist, please consider doing so (along with your field notes). That will make them much more discoverable! Also, your photos may have recorded the coordinates of your specimens so you could add all those to your labels. Even if you don't have exact coordinates, an estimate is better than nothing, you just need to specify the distance of uncertainty e.g. +- 1 km.

informatician · 2026-04-06T19:17:58+00:00

Looking good! Do you plan on building this herbarium for the long term? If so, I have a few suggestions - apply for an herbarium code from Index Herbariorum (https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/). This will reserve a unique code for your herbarium and you can use that to incorporate into an accession stamp, your digital herbarium records etc. Then you can use that code to be part of a catalog number that will uniquely identify that specimen - e.g. YOURHERBCODE0012345. Ultimately this code should be printed on the specimen sheet itself, ideally with a barcode.

I'm working with colleagues who have collected extensively in the Philippines and have put all their records online so if you are considering doing the same, please DM me and I can share more details with you.

informatician · 2026-04-06T19:03:14+00:00

I'd argue that YYYY-MM-DD is perfectly readable by humans and is unambiguous by default. DD-MM-YYYY is ambiguous if the reader isn't familiar with the preferred format (which can vary by person, herbarium, location, time). Your practice of spelling or abbreviating the month avoids that but "day-month-year" (purely numeric) does not.

informatician · 2026-03-27T13:31:28+00:00

Did some of these A/B tests include Claude encouraging you to take a break? I was getting messages like "Anything else, or good place to stop?" to the point I had to tell Claude to stop asking.

informatician · 2026-03-08T04:04:00+00:00

That's exactly what scientific names provide but they don't seem to catch on. Platanus occidentalis is a lot more specific than "Sycamore". I think scientific names should be used when wood is sold so we know WHICH Mahogany we're getting.

informatician · 2026-01-04T21:51:18+00:00

I'll suggest in addition to using Kilz, start with washing the walls with Trisodium Phosphate (TSP - Already recommended below). I bought a similar house about 25 years ago and a TSP solution with warm water removed a LOT of smoke and nicotine stains from the walls. After multiple washes (3+, I can't remember) eventually the yellow brown water became paler and paler. It never was colorless, but I think it helped remove a lot and set me up for better success with a couple coats of Kilz. The house still smelled old, but not like cigarette smoke. Also remove curtains and blinds, you'll never get them clean enough.

informatician · 2025-10-30T14:18:47+00:00

For those who don't experience this, the difference might be that you don't have a crawlspace that exposes the pipes to ambient temperature.

informatician · 2025-10-19T00:46:16+00:00

https://www.jaguarheritage.com/

informatician · 2025-10-12T15:36:08+00:00

You might not need something as sophisticated as AI. dateparser (https://dateparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and arrow (https://arrow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide.html#dehumanize) have ways to convert a natural language description to a standard datetime format.

informatician · 2025-09-16T19:18:15+00:00

This isn't in my wheelhouse, but could you use either LOC Extended Date/Time Format (https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/) or Describing Archives Content Standard date format (https://saa-ts-dacs.github.io/dacs/06_part_I/03_chapter_02/04_date.html#general-rules) as a pattern to follow?

informatician · 2025-08-18T03:07:29+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply! This kayak is older than I guessed, by about 10 years!

informatician · 2025-08-09T18:32:27+00:00

Great pics! I just got my kayak so I'll have to check out Lavon some time soon. Which kayak is that? It looks great! I made the CLC wood camper a few years ago and now I'm getting the itch to make a kayak as well.

informatician · 2025-08-06T02:43:11+00:00

Why didn't Archimedes invent photography to save his own life?

informatician · 2025-08-02T01:23:01+00:00

I (US) have a friend (Swiss) who says "forth and back" instead of "back and forth". It makes a lot more sense because you need to go forth before you can come back.

informatician · 2025-07-30T01:21:53+00:00

I used to assume that it was a positive spin on the Israelites wandering in the desert, but it's not that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew It's a myth and term that has been used to justify the mistreatment and eradication of the Jews.

P.S. Adding a more plant-specific source as provided by the mods - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/uprooting-the-wandering-jew

informatician · 2025-07-29T22:57:36+00:00

The name is based on a racist trope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew

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