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[DHT]Osiris

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Showing off 2 of ? new babies today, a few hours old, because baby lizards are awesome.
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They're about the size of very thin pinkies right now.
(adult for comparison, that's the same rock in the foreground, bit longer than my finger tip to wrist)
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I had Americana. The great compendium of obsolete knowledge. We actually had a lot of different reference books. Some I read just cause they were interesting, but I don't remember thinking of stuff often, then looking it up. Maybe I did, and I just don't remember. The threshold for how many shits I give was higher I'm sure. I had to be really motivated to find the right book, and glean data from it. These days, everything's just a couple clicks away, even when I'm out in the backcountry.

My favorite book was probably a dictionary. I used to flip through randomly, and read definitions of interesting looking words. It was the analog version of Gizmo's program he's never gonna write.
 
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William Gaatjes said:
Tiana, the lady who likes and keeps cute little jumping spiders


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I had an encounter with one. It was dragging a fly up a chair leg when I spotted it. Then it dropped the fly.
I speared the fly with a pin and offered it to the spider. It absolutely looked at me, looked at the fly, and took it and went on it's way. They have very good vision.
 
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lxskllr said:
I had Americana. The great compendium of obsolete knowledge. We actually had a lot of different reference books. Some I read just cause they were interesting, but I don't remember thinking of stuff often, then looking it up. Maybe I did, and I just don't remember. The threshold for how many shits I give was higher I'm sure. I had to be really motivated to find the right book, and glean data from it. These days, everything's just a couple clicks away, even when I'm out in the backcountry.

My favorite book was probably a dictionary. I used to flip through randomly, and read definitions of interesting looking words. It was the analog version of Gizmo's program he's never gonna write.
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That is definitely a change from when I was young.

Nowadays barely a week goes by without some random question occurring to me and thinking "I should do a web search for that". Not sure whether that has any deep significance or not, good or bad (is it making me better-informed, smarter? Or lazier? Or reducing my concentration span? Or my memory? Or my capacity for deferring gratification? Or is it just filling my brain with stupid trivia, displacing more important stuff?).

Yes, in the past you could go to the library, but looking up answers to things that way was several orders-of-magnitude more work (and very often the answers just weren't there).

One consequence seems to be a reduced respect for the 'mainstream media', given the number of times I read stories in newspapers that are merely reporting something I already read in primary sources years before (e.g. just in the last week or so newspapers have been reporting that anticholinergic drugs can be bad for your brain in the long run - I remember seeing papers reporting studies finding that nearly a decade ago).
 
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two awful people but damn...connor really has been hit in the head a few too many times
 
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