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Tom Erickson

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I write essays, read widely, love language, and am enthusiastic about geology. I also run and hike. I retired from a career in technology in 2018 (HCI, interaction design, social science). Blogs, etc. at https://tomeri.org

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Love the โ€œstill serves wedge salad.โ€ Made my day. (No, it doesnโ€™t rake much. )

04.01.2026 01:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Later: the term is โ€œcrown shyness.โ€ These may be Ohia trees.

04.08.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A forest photographed from above.

A forest photographed from above.

Hawaiian forest canopy from above. I love the way the tree canopies abut but do not overlap. Almost looks like lichen. No doubt biologists have a term for this.

02.02.2025 00:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

www.reddit.com/r/geology/s/...

This cool little Reddit post has some great pictures of micro-scale erosion โ€” think hoodoos writ small (aka soil pedestals). The disintegrating leaves in the 2nd+ pictures are lovely as well.

22.11.2024 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shakespeare Theater's 'All the Villains Are Here' examines The Bard's best villains In "All the Devils Are Here," Patrick Page connects today's popular villains to their roots in Shakespeare's works

Hello Bluesky! Here I am. Not keen on 300 word limit.

Last weekend saw Pageโ€™s โ€œAll the Devils are Hereโ€ at the Guthrie theatre. Lovely bits of Shakespeare, and an overarching argument about how S transformed the โ€œvillainโ€ from a stock character to a multidimensional figure. Really worth seeing.

18.11.2024 03:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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