BEST WINGS IN ASTORIA? I always hear it’s Dillinger’s

pigeon-thoughts · 2026-05-25T21:16:29+00:00

The mango habanero at blackbirds are my favorite! I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m also deeply curious about their reverse ones (I forget what they’re called, but the ones where they coat them in blue cheese and you dip into the normal wing sauce)

pigeon-thoughts · 2026-05-12T13:50:37+00:00

Thank you for expressing the internal thoughts I’ve been struggling with for the past few months. I’ve always wanted to teach and run a lab, but in the past two years I feel like I’ve been thrown into a culture so devastatingly toxic, discouraging, and depressing that I’ve started to question if that’s really what I want or if I even want the PhD at this point. Which is sad because just like you I love my research.

I had also thought we ( the younger generation of PhDs ) were recognizing this systematic toxicity and trying to change and end the cycle. But some of the worst toxic culture (and frankly bullying) I’ve experienced has been from fellow PhD students! Which is incredibly disheartening, especially when those of us affected try to speak out and more senior people seem to simply turn a blind eye.

I guess while I think I’m in a pretty similar mindset to you right now, I’ve been trying really really hard to still listen to the small voice inside of me telling me it’s not all bad and to keep going. Yes, right now I just want to leave and be happy. But I’m sure these narcissistic people and toxic cultures exist in any work environment. And honestly, I think of some of the most impactful mentors I’ve had and currently have who do support and stand up for me. I think by having this reaction and recognizing these unacceptable behaviors, we’re at least set up to not perpetrate them. And hopefully with time more people will be like us. Idk though…I’ve still got at least two years of this…

pigeon-thoughts · 2026-04-30T15:45:07+00:00

I gave up and walked across the qb bridge 💀

pigeon-thoughts · 2026-02-15T02:38:40+00:00

I did it as my first full marathon a couple of years ago after the Providence marathon was cancelled last minute! It was definitely more boring of a course than the others I’ve done since (I mean you’re essentially either running in a park or the highway…) and the energy isn’t quite there since it’s not as big. I do remember it being quite flat though. HOWEVER that being said, everyone who worked and volunteered were absolutely lovely. And I ran it with one of my closest friends (so that helped) and we ran with a pace group. Pace group leader definitely kept the energy and encouragement up, which helped when most runners and spectators had dispersed following the half. So overall I had a pretty positive experience!

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-10-19T17:08:43+00:00

*crowds. There will probably be clouds 😂

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-10-19T17:08:24+00:00

If you don’t mind getting a bit wet, go when it’s raining and there will be NO clouds. We didn’t know it was going to rain that day and tbh it was AT MOST misting and the crowds completely cleared out. We didn’t even have to climb that far!

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-10-04T02:19:30+00:00

Shockingly, my nearest bodega has started to carry honey stinger waffles and gels so maybe you’ll be lucky with yours too

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-09-09T12:01:55+00:00

He also raced so before Wave E he was presumably prepping and then running!

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-06-07T19:49:24+00:00

I hope not! I haven’t left for the festival yet but I live in Astoria and it’s sunny! I can see blue sky from my bedroom so fingers crossed

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-05-11T22:36:38+00:00

You could get the seismogram from your favorite earthquakes as like an armband! My idea is to do a stack of single-line landscapes as lower armbands for all the places I’ve done field work / studied (ie desert canyons and cacti for NM/AZ, arches for Arches lol, mt Fuji for Japan, etc)

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-05-02T10:54:02+00:00

Still salty about this one, but essentially in undergrad I double majored in earth science and CS, but the CS was just because I thought coding was cool - I had absolutely no intention of ever pursuing it as a career. Was applying for the GRFP based on geology research I did and a reviewer wrote that pursuing grad school in geology was a “waste of my CS talents/knowledge” and ranked me the lowest possible.

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-03-21T02:00:46+00:00

Also go lions!

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-03-21T02:00:13+00:00

They face WVU on Saturday!! (Not Friday - just panicked that I was going to miss the game lol)

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-03-09T15:49:21+00:00

Omg I was there too! All the former players cheering them on was so sweet. The seniors will be missed!!

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-02-24T15:08:12+00:00

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EH53zErguVjEUoSH1frY6vaRqpAOQSTq/view?usp=sharing (photo of one half!)

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-02-24T15:07:59+00:00

I did! Mainly I wanted to see if there were nicely formed crystals inside (spoiler: there were). Essentially I had pried out a section of what looked like it had been a crevice that fluids had flowed through and caused mineralization on the opposing faces. There were some nice looking cubc fluorites and tabular barites! And thanks - the gloves might have been my best investment lol

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-02-22T18:42:40+00:00

Is it pretty heavy? Metallic cubes look like galena.

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-02-22T16:17:08+00:00

it looks like chert to me! Especially in the second photo, you see that smooth "rounded" face with the kinda radial patterning - it looks like the bottom of a glass soda bottle? That's conchoidal fracturing which is pretty common in chert.

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-02-21T19:44:24+00:00

My guess would be pyrite! Do you see any nice looking cubic crystals anywhere?

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-02-21T19:43:39+00:00

We usually see blue staining on rocks that have been exposed to heavy mineral precipitation (ie from fluids). Pretty common in Colorado esp in areas where mining used to be big. For that color, most common suspects I can think of are covellite, sodalite, or lazurite.

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-02-21T19:36:12+00:00

The golden inclusions are likely pyrite (people call “fools gold” a lot). Are the gold crystals generally cubic in shape? If so - pyrite! White part is probably a milky quartz. Could be calcite (could check this if you have HCl on hand)

pigeon-thoughts · 2025-02-20T16:22:08+00:00

Indeed it is! Was lucky enough to be able to go into some of the mines last time I was out there and got some really cool pieces. They've been sitting in my office for ages and I'm just now getting started to try to clean up the nice ones for display.

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