Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper?
Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.
I read that twice as 'Rural Witch' before I got it correct.
Over abundant use of diacritical marks is in my opinion, a sign of either extreme self confidence... or psychopathic tendencies.
Ha! I'll admit, that is one of those words I find myself saying under my breath in a weird broken-up fashion 'Nec-ess-ary' every time I write it!
Oh god... that just makes the o look like a rogue bunny rabbit hiding in a typo!
I've just typed the word 'reoccurring' and it NEVER looks correct! I have to check it each time I do.
Does anyone else have words that their brain plain refuses to accept as being spelled the way they are?
Hmmm?
part of me wonders if it's a mangled misspelling of a Dutch / Afrikaans place name? The second part "Broek" (weirdly meaning trousers, but also wetland or marsh) with Harral before that?
It's a puzzle.
It was one of those nice sites, where I could actually line the viewpoint of the interpretation artwork up EXACTLY with the landscape setting directly in front of the panel (which I guess means now the panels have been taken out, we've lost that context) :(
I had heard there were some 'issues' between the local authority and the landowner, I didn't know the information panels had been taken down!
I was quite proud of them. :(
Scottish comedy troupe 'Burnistoun' were so far ahead of the curve on this over a decade ago!
youtu.be/HbDnxzrbxn4?...
Extreme Long shot but, if anyone visited the Permanent Exhibition at the National Museum of Finland between 1995-2016 and has any pictures of the interpretation panels/display/presentation of the Suontaka sword then I'd be extremely grateful for copies!
Many thanks!
Another archaeology and nature job. Looks like a great opportunity www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
A photogrammetry scan of a Church doorway, that gives access to a boiler room.
Happily scanning this earlier, when on the other side of the door, the aged Church boiler heating system unexpectedly (and loudly) wheezes into life, sounding something very much like Boris Karloff's Im-ho-tep / Mummy rising from the sarcophagus!
#photogrammetry
The weird thing is... 'Trixie' does 7 D6 of damage and is immune to magic attacks.
We like this... for... well obvious reasons!
Exactly!
Can you imagine being the random duty officer on the custody desk that morning? You are going to have an after-dinner story for the ages!
Look... This is an outside idea, but hear me out.
Next winter olympics, can't we just have extra dogs added into all the events? The press love it, the spectators love it, and the dogs... well they seem to be having the best time EVER!
Hey!
It's not all banks and drains... we have bridges as well!
Oh yes!
I've never thought I might suffer from seasonal affective disorder, but this endless months-long sunless gloom is taking a toll on even me! AND IT'S HERE FOR A BIT LONGER!!!!
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
I feel it's more common in industries where outsiders see you as "doing a job you really love"...
Endpapers in a hardback book showing maps of London and the river Thames.
A map of Restoration period London, printed ono the endpapers of a book.
I'm a sucker for a nice endpaper map in a book.
Here we have Restoration era London and its environs, in Samuel Pepys - The man in the making, Cambridge, 1939.
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Now I'm not saying we are getting 'normalised' to this endless rain squall that Lincolnshire (and most of the UK) seems to be sat under for the past months, but...
An umbrella stand has appeared in the fish & chip shop!
YES!!! I was just about to ask how you felt about (the apparent) explosion of Mongolian metal. But that playlist seems like you are on board!
Oddly commercial artists and illustrators are completely absent from this list, which makes me doubt its veracity as creative industries are taking a massive hit right now with potential clients turning to 'free' generative Ai image creators.
Can anyone tell me the meaning of the C16 word 'wrye', as in 'made her swere that she shold never be wrye him'? #TudorEnglish TIA
And as my years advance, I find the pull gets stronger.
I love all their stuff, but... I have to put a slight restriction on how much I listen i.e. not an album on repeat.
There's a weird almost nostalgic ennui-inducing aspect to their music, that can I find, affect me if I go too far down the rabbit hole. maybe it's just me?
Looks really good!
Notably the graphics / panel design looks particularly sharp!
