🌱M.T.Botany

So my dips reflect being like, sad or sick, and the spikes are when I find a mess of things to work on. Or feeling behind on racing against myself.

Total edits I mean. 16k or 17k now.

A graph from xTools showing a steady pattern of lots of mainspace edits. Up and down, but mostly slowly tending up with highs over 1,000 per month and lows in the 100s.

Mine are almost all en Wiki mainspace edits. Because I just edit the hell out of articles and redirects. (So many scientific and common name redirects.)

I think the last time I looked I had 1,500 redirects created. Almost 14k on en and another 2k ish on Commons.

Man, I should have chosen an author to pod-person.

Also, I think the person I replaced was kinda a weirdo. He said, "hahaha, sucker!" Right before I replaced him.

I'm fascinated by the taste of these wild foods. Most of them end up not being amazing, but doing so helps me understand how plants interact with other animals and were/are part of culture. Even if I would rather have garden asparagus.

Harrington did not try eating A. utahensis because he thought since they bloom once it should be left to reproduce.

I've read elsewhere that one of the first nations recommended only eating the petals as the pistil was quite bitter, but I cannot remember which species they were working with.

According to Harrington (1983) Y. glauca flowers are good boiled for 15-25 minutes and thought they would be good prepared other ways. Interesting.

He reports young A. utahensis stalks as edible, but did not personally try preparing it.

I have tried eating flowering stalks off of the plains yucca, because I read in a book that they are edible. Interesting experience. I probably need to learn more before I try it again but I should look up if young agave inflorescences were eaten.

Colorado did not do that.

I'm not sure that we did the pledge of allegiance after about 4th grade either. No idea if that was a change in policy or "don't try to make older kids do this they'll mock it," thing.

The lesson being that I was no longer a small cute, particular friend of a horse that loved me. It turns out horses are individuals with personalities and just because one horse loves you, it does not mean that they all do, teen boy. I was just another annoying ape to be expeditiously removed.

I hold no grudges against equines, even though one tried to scrape me off against the eaves of an outbuilding. It was an important lesson.

So I take notice when other language Wikipedia projects have an article. It might mean there is something useful there.

For the average little known plant species there will be stub articles in three other languages: Cebuano (a Philippine language), Svenska (Swedish), and Winaray (another Philippine language). Because these three projects had bots that made stub pages for every species from databases.

Penstemon alamosensis - Wikipedia

Mildly interesting. I started and article for Alamo penstemon (Penstemon alamosensis) today. And for once French is one of the languages with a stub article for the species.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstem...

I almost never like historical romance.

As a queer person most of history is like East Germany would be for straight people. Survivable, but under constant threat of betrayal by neighbors or even your lover. So, NOPE.

I also read straight romance but only in somewhat liberated settings.

When I visited Berlin I got an extended stay hotel. It was not cheap, but it was quite reasonable and let me do the weirdo things I love.

"Let's get mushrooms at the Marktplatz and cook them in Irish butter!"

A botanical illustration of a single flowering stem that starts with widely spaced green leaves near the base, gaining more narrow lobes further up the stem and transitioning to light red colored bracts and the sepals of the inflorescence by degrees. They are quite crowded at the top and resemble a paintbrush.

Computer! Randomly select a piece of music from the library to play while I edit Wikipedia articles.

Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid by Luigi Boccherini

That'll do computer.

Flower tax: Northwest Paintbrush (Castilleja angustifolia) by Margaret Neilson Armstrong, 1913

I was this years old when I learned that beeline is not just a metaphorical straight line across a landscape, but also a way to locate a hive by using sugar bait to establish a *beeline* from you to the colony.

Yes, I'm reading The Lives of Bees by Seeley

Get bombs and wealth, if possible by norms; if not, by any means, get wealth and bombs?

I think the voice of Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright) once said almost exactly that. And related the story of using her superpower to startle a smile out of a Beefeater in London.

I don't exactly have face blindness, but it would be a great help if everyone would wear clothing with a distinctive motif so I can reliably greet you by name. (Yay convention badges)

This is why I wear black at all times and have giant eyebrows that I never trim, return the favor people! ;)

I suspect, even though you are an author that I've read a lot of books by, I would not notice you sitting across from me at the airport. And this is not just my very mild face blindness. I just don't think I've ever seen your picture, just your pretty words.

I got one of the genders made from some sort of coal tar derivative. I think it had the brand name maccharine.

Unless they're at the Stephen King level authors just don't get the constant attention and face recognition of even a "D list" actor.

Anyone happen to know what is up with the Flora of North America website (floranorthamerica.org)? It has been down a lot lately and I'm wondering if I should go back to citing entries at eFloras.

Fame is a weird thing. I think a lot of authors have the best kind of fame. Enough to be liked by a mass of people (which can be nice) but not so much that they usually get recognized while hung over at the grocery store.

Oh Schtein, you really are your own worst enemy.

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Well, maybe the rich ones or the superpowered ones now, but he did make a lot of those by being his own worst enemy earlier.

Hank Green | Mola Cult Shirt Designed by Pepper Raccoon and printed on Shaka Wear Super Max Heavy cotton, it's your first (only?) chance to join the Mola Cult.

Hank's mola cult tee shirt is cool.

store.dftba.com/products/han...

Now I just need to figure out how to get a scrub oak on a tee shirt... This could be hard.