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TECH: Deer Text Format - the system powering this site, and how it can work for you

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my personal website runs on a bespoke dynamic site generator i coded from scratch. but why? what lead me to designing and programming it? what can you do with it? and how can it be transformed into a tool for everyone to use? a deep dive into Deer Text Format, why it exists, and what lies in its future.
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Ink Review #2650: Wearingeul Peter Pan

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Wearingeul Peter Pan is from the Peter and Wendy collection. You can find this ink for sale at some retailers including Vanness Pens.

The color:

Peter Pan is a pale pea green.

*For my swab cards I use a Col-o-ring by Skylab Letterpress, a medium Pilot Ishime and a Mabie Todd Swan.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink is darker than the Col-o-ring swab and shades to an unsaturated brown.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

*For my writing samples I use:

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Dry time: 20 seconds

Water resistance: Low

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Feathering: None

Show through: Low

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Bleeding: None

Other properties: low shading, no sheen, and no shimmer.

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On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some feathering in the larger nib sizes but no bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Peter Pan is more green than Troublemaker Kelp Tea. Click here to see the green inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Pelikan M605 Green White with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has a dry flow.

Overall, this ink is too pale and dry for me. I’m just not excited about it.

Thanks to all my Patrons! I couldn’t do these reviews without you! You can find my Patreon page here.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links and this post is not sponsored.

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Interesting link - on iNaturalist, two banana slugs have escaped the west coast

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This is one of the "interesting link" posts I made on Cohost over a year ago. For more information about that, check out this blog post.

One of the reasons I wanted to post this is that I made a website recently for Weird Web October that uses the iNaturalist API! Check it out here!

on iNaturalist, two banana slugs have escaped the west coast

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iNaturalist is a site for citizens to submit photos of wild animals/insects/ plants for identification and tracking. If photos are confirmed by enough users, they become "research grade" and can be used by scientists.

This link on iNaturalist has a tab that shows a map of all sighted banana slugs. They are all on the west coast of North America except for two, one in Virginia and the other in upstate New York. These are the only two research grade photos of banana slugs outside the west coast, and each is thousands of miles from its natural habitat.

If you view the individual rogue slug observations, here and here, you can also see folks idly discussing how on earth these banana slugs even got to the east coast. Without more information, however, their curiosity will never be satisfied. These slugs just got out here somehow; we'll never know their stories.

Elsewhere on iNaturalist, folks are much more aggro about classifying and verifying out-of-range identifications. Earlier this year I was very interested in looking at the spread of spotted lanternflies in the United States. This is an invasive species which is actively spreading throughout NY and PA. This summer saw a rash of news stories about the lanternfly, as well as communications from state agencies urging citizens to kill the flies wherever they see them.

The spotted lanternfly is not known to bite humans. You can kill spotted lanternflies mechanically, by swatting or crushing them. However, when you threaten them, they are able to quickly jump far away from you, so mechanical control is not easy to achieve.

The spread of these creatures is so tense and concerning that folks on iNaturalist became very testy about confirming lanternflies found very far away from the mid-Atlantic, specifically if they were found inside food packaging or were otherwise very clearly carried there by humans. This observation contains a fascinating argument between different scientists about whether a lanternfly should be marked as "wild" or "captive" if it got to Utah in a produce bag.

I find this site extremely entertaining! It has a mobile app that anyone can use to submit pictures of wild plants and animals, including of things you have no idea how to identify. If you go on the site, you can also view live feeds of animal sightings across the world. For example, here's a search I made for all the wild African Lions in the system. There aren't many. But if you search for every house sparrow on the planet, you start to see multiple an hour. Some of them need identification!

It's a cool site. I recommend checking it out!

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Watching Star Wars was a mistake. For years I’ve derived so much pleasure from seeing discourse on…

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Watching Star Wars was a mistake. For years I’ve derived so much pleasure from seeing discourse on my timeline that’s like “it’s actually a pretty good writing choice that Glimbo Knutts manipulated the imbledimbians in the force to make Darth Freeble his personal jedi froogler. It gives the original trilogy more depth” and not knowing what the fuck anybody is talking about. But now I do and it’s ruined. I understand what you freak ass dorks are saying and it isn’t fun anymore. Glimbo Knutts making Darth Freeble his jedi froogler DOES give the original trilogy more depth. This sucks man

I once had to explain to my then-gf that Star Wars is like “at the end of the day, even a single person can be a ripple in the movement to destroy fascism. the empire will crumble when confronted with the inherent goodness of the human spirit. to hope is not weak, our hope makes us strong. ISN’T THAT RIGHT, Admiral Beebo?” and then a little frog in a fighter jet goes “BEEBO WEEE-HOO!”

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obsessed with this ian mckellen quote about avril lavigne

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obsessed with this ian mckellen quote about avril lavigne

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kukkurovaca
11 days ago
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"the explosive pugnacity of a canadian" feels like an x-men joke for sure
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Frog Friday: New Frogs Edition

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Mark Scherz just posted the news that he and fellow researchers have just described1 seven new tree frog species from Madagascar. Adorable! Look at the art they commissioned! Listen to their little froggy beeps!

  1. Open access! Wow! Free to read about frogs. ↩
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"New and fun frogs are always welcome"
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