Nina Baker

a woman with glasses is eating popcorn from a box that says pop corn ALT: a woman with glasses is eating popcorn from a box that says pop corn

I am a Brit with no interest in any sports. I have no clear idea what #Superbowl is.
But I note that large bowls of snacks are involved. I am thinking to show solidarity with Transatlantic followers by making myself a bowl of popcorn so I can watch something that is not sport.

Isnt this what everyone does?

Dangermouse was made in the 1980s so I was actually an adult by then. The stuff I watched as a kid were the Adam West Batman series and similar, which now seem very corny.

WOW, what a treat.
My equivalent in a totally different field was picking up a cheap copy of this book, apparently because an owner had carefully watercoloured in some of the monochrome illustrations. It normally goes for well north of US$1k.

I am OLD, so the equivalent for me is Dangermouse!

TBF I never thought much of Star Trek Voyager for a long time but rewatching more recently have come round to the majority viewpoint that it is great. On the other hand DS9 is never going to be for me and SG Universe will sit on the shelves unloved indefinitely.

I have been dipping in and out of Sg-1 recently. I bought the Universe DVD set but dont expect to watch it again.

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If I have breakfast (yog and fruit) before 0800 is it too soon for a cooked lunch at 1130?

But pancakes are absolutely standard US breakfast fare and often with bacon as well as sweet gloop.

In Scotland part of a very trad breakfast can include a fried slab of what is basically fruit loaf.

I will never get my head around the whole idea of Kosher salt.

When I make mac-cheese it often has a lot of those ingredients underneath anyhow!

I recall when dealing with my late parents' estate, via an expensive lawyer, I had to argue with her to get her to NOT do some dodge or other (can't recall what) which she was suggesting as a way to save on tax. She thought I was mad.

THAT is proper cold. I had to look up your 7-layer dip. Wikipedia's description sounds like a cold dish. I would have thought hot comfort food might be more the thing?

María Luisa Pérez-Soba in sepia toned B&W photo headshot

María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...

Actually - close the curtains. Daylight is bad for amethysts.

I feel that that description of the mincer is probably how he thinks of the 'missus' too.

M Elsa Gardner in B&W photo sat at desk smiling holding telephone to ear

M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)”. 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton, joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social 1929 US rep. b #OTD 8 Feb 1894 bit.ly/2ypqFBw

Fossilised ammonite in staircase

Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized #ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden.

#urbangeology

I missed that this had been announced, but am delighted we could celebrate such a distinguished scholar and supporter of the field. #histsci #histSTM

I think the salt is similarly trapped, such that the salinity isnt much changed by the tide at all and is patchy. Of course the tidal weir holds a lot back, both water and mud. It is a fascinating visit if you can wangle it.

Detail of George McCulloch's lithographed bird's-eye view of Glasgow, showing a stretch of river between two bridges, with a vessel surrounded by rectangular floating objects.

This section of McCulloch's View of Glasgow in 1853 looks almost empty, but it gives us a glimpse of some of the least glamorous yet most essential vessels ever to use the river: the mud punts of the Clyde Navigation Trust.

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We once had a v interesting talk from SEPA(?) about the river's hydrology. The river bed under the mud is less flat than you might think: lots of peaks & holes. The holes have filled up with historic, nasty industrial pollutants that would be disturbed if serious dredging took place now.

Fascinating history. As a councillor with the river in my ward, I took part in the long-defunct River Users Group which met with council officials a few times a year to try to get the council to take more of an interest in the river as anything other than a nuisance. We failed.1/2

Interesting - new to me.

May Assheton Harbord in B&W headshot with an elegant up do

May Assheton Harbord 1912 1st woman to earn Aeronaut's Certificate in UK. Flew gas balloons, crossed English Channel repeatedly. Owned 2 balloons kept near #Battersea gas work. After crash landing, claimed was "only woman who has landed on the Continent on her head" d. #OTD 7 Feb 1928 bit.ly/3pKtIcQ

Caroline Endres Diescher in grainy B&W headshot photo

Caroline Endres Diescher 1 of 1st women engineers in US. With father John Endres designed 2 funicular (cable railway) inclines in #Pittsburgh - Monongahela Incline & Mount Oliver Incline, opened 1870 & 1871. 1 milion people still use each year. d. #OTD 7 Feb 1930 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...

Cover of the construction historian showing a roughly-hewn baulk of timber on the ground with an axe.

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