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BunRab

@BunRab@mstdn.social

I'm an old. Heart transplant recipient. #Saxophone and some other instruments. Fond of lagomorphs and rodents. Been BunRab one place or another online for over 30 years.

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BunRab, to random
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Couldn't resist passing this one along

max, to random
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cannibalism

BunRab,
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@jackyan @max
Right, those are just some kind of gooseberries everywhere else, aren't they?

franciscawrites, to movies
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Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story?
Here's one:

The Illusionist (2006)

@bookstodon

BunRab,
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@franciscawrites @bookstodon
2001 A Space Odyssey - "The Sentinel" by Arthur Clarke

KarenDorman, (edited ) to Fashion
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Hey friends, does anyone know what either of these objects are?
(They were found in a deceased relative's jewelry box.)
Please boost for added eyes, thanks! 😊

The lettering on the object on the left says:
Hadley Made in USA
Both ends open up to 90⁰ and the main body expands and contracts about a centimetre.

A clever person has said that the object in the right is a Writescope telescoping mechanical pencil. Thanks!

@sewing

BunRab,
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@KarenDorman @sewing
That looks a lot like a pocket compass to me.

ellestad, to tea
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Another green tea appropriate warm spring day, so breaking out the Mao Jian No 2 from White2Tea.

@tea

BunRab,
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@ellestad @tea
I only recently discovered White2Tea, and so far I'm really enjoying their oolongs!

BunRab, to random
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#HappyCaturday #ABoyAndHisCat

WolfIsMe, to random
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It bothers me that my instance admin has to beg for help with the bills every month. If everyone on that instance chipped in just $1/month it would more than cover the cost.

Running a mastodon instance is a pain in the butt. I happily support my instance so I don't have to deal with it.

If my admin decided to stand up a paid subscribers only instance, I'd support that in a hot minute.

BunRab,
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@stux @WolfIsMe
Sent what I can - I know it's not much, but I hope it helps.

BunRab, to random
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https://bsky.app/profile/dylanmeconis.bsky.social/post/3kmvw4lq7mx2m

stux, to random
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What country are you from?

(flag reply would be awesome :blobcatgiggle: )

🇳🇱

BunRab,
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@stux
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And just because it's weird:

whitneymcn, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I've burned through all of the Brother Cadfael books in the past couple of months, and I have a question: I've Googled this a bunch, but I still can't find anybody online who is connecting the dots to prove that Cadfael himself was the reason that there were so many murders in a relatively few years, in this tiny 12th century English town.

That kind of analysis HAS to be a thing, doesn't it?

BunRab,
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@whitneymcn @bookstodon
Sister Frevisse a couple centuries later, half a dozen in the 16th c...

BunRab,
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@Lassielmr @RHW @whitneymcn @bookstodon
I would be willing to die by ginger beer if it were dry, not disgustingly sweet, ginger beer

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Here it is ladies and gentlemen, the first Low Quality Fact ever written. It will no doubt live on in low quality history for eternity.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

BunRab,
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@lowqualityfacts
Jesus loves the little hamsters
All the little hamsters of the world
Red and yellow, black and purple,
He likes them with maple syrple.
Jesus loves the little hamsters of the world

futurebird, to math
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I’m making some “fractions sensitivity training” warm up questions for grade five and six. Any particularly silly or subtle suggestions would be a big help. These are too boring.

A. How is 15min like $0.25?
B. How are three cat paws like 45min?
C. How is 12min like holding up one finger on one hand? .. or like $0.20?
D. How is one ant leg like 10 min?
F. How is holding up four fingers on one hand like 48min? … or like 8 dimes?

Ideas? #math #education #mathed

BunRab,
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@tantramar @futurebird
And 0.5!
I passed an accounting course (basic stuff I had taken before, to meet ridiculous requirement in another state) by sitting in the back of the room each class tutoring 2-3 people each week who were obviously not ready for community college, let alone accounting, in things like how decimals correspond with percentages, & if something has a 5% discount that means you pay 95% of the price. So the next semester they could retake the class w/ a hope of being ready.

skaeth, to books
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What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

@bookstodon

BunRab,
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@skaeth @bookstodon
I give a book about 50 pages, and if I'm still not into it, I skip to the last 5 pages and read them, to see if it makes me curious to find out how the characters got from there to here. If it does, I go back to p.50 and slog on; if not, it's a DNF.

BunRab,
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@skaeth @bookstodon
Rarely; once in a while none of the names on the last few pages are any of the ones that were in the first 50!

BunRab,
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@skaeth @bookstodon
Certain authors have become known for killing off all the people you thought were important at the beginning... and there's a whole style thing I've noticed in murder mysteries of writing a chapter "prequel" for each character before getting into the story, where each of them muses about or runs from something they're hiding that might be a motive for them as victim or murderer, sometimes the style works, sometimes it doesn't.

BunRab, to boardgames
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We played Mille Fiori this afternoon. Falls into the general category of "games with too many pieces and too many rules." This first try took so long that I doubt even with practice our group would probably never finish it in the 60 minutes the box says. But it was fun to challenge ourselves that way, and it might work better in a setting with more space to spread the cards and kinds of pieces out; the three small tables we pulled together at Wegmans were not identical heights. #BoardGames

KitMuse, to sciencefiction
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I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

@bookstodon

BunRab,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon
James Blish, A Case of Conscience

BunRab, to random
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#yarnuary Favorite tools? I'm a Bates crochet hook person - the two styles are Bates and Boye, and they differ in tapering point of the hook, shape of the throat, and placement of the thumb. Judging by what's in my big can o' hooks, my favorites are plastic L (8mm) hooks and metal H (5mm) hooks. It has been my unscientific observation that in general, knife hold/overhand crocheters tend to prefer Bates, and pen hold/underhand crocheters tend to prefer Boye.

Likewise, to books
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Dear Bookworms,

What’s the first book you’ve finished in 2024?

This is mine: Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
#books #read #fiction #2024 @bookstodon

BunRab,
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@Likewise @bookstodon
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire - latest in the Wayward Children series, works best if you're already reading the series, especially the immediately previous book.

andrew, to random
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I feel like at some point in childhood I stopped thinking about the Hoover Dam regularly.

BunRab,
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@andrew
I had to start thinking about it again when I had an ICD (implanted defibrillator) put in; the instructions warned me against several activities around high magnetic fields that would disrupt the ICD's programming, possibly turning it off, including a paragraph specifically about not visiting Hoover Dam.

golgaloth, to books
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So, how many of you are reading more than one book at a time?

#Books #bookstodon #reading @bookstodon

BunRab,
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@golgaloth @bookstodon
Met my spouse on a dating app, one of the things that attracted me to their profile was "I know what room of the house I'm in by what book I'm reading in there." That rang a bell. Yes, I have a bathroom book, as well as the nightstand book, the dinner table book, the sofa book, and the ebooks that live on my devices that come with me everywhere.

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    BunRab,
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    @ElleGray The Encrusted Prince

    aburtch, to tea
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    Can any #tea people explain the difference between:

    English Breakfast
    Scottish Breakfast
    Irish Breakfast

    @tea

    BunRab,
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    @aburtch @tea
    Frequently interchangeable; the big difference is between breakfast teas and afternoon teas. Breakfast teas are based on Assam and similar teas, with a strong flavor and high caffeine; afternoon teas are based on Darjeeling tea or similar teas from other places, slightly less caffeine and a more subtle flavor.
    Nowadays people pay much less attention to these distinctions, and some companies call any tea whatever they want.

    mcmullin, to composer
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    I'm working on a large-scale #composition for #chorus and #orchestra with soloists.

    What should I listen to for inspiration?

    Any time period, any style -- I'm interested in seeing different ways of combining these forces, and studying the nuts and bolts of #orchestration.

    If you're a #conductor, #choral director, or #composer who has wrestled with this, what would you say are the key do's and don'ts of writing for this combination?

    @composers @classicalmusic
    #ClassicalMusic

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    @mcmullin @mendellee @composers @classicalmusic
    Ha, and furthermore, ha.
    Signed,
    Person who sits in front of the trombones.

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