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Ovoid with flatter apertural/ventral face. Some vernacular names liken it to coffee bean (Dutch, French) or kernel of oats (Scots).
L: left side profile. R: right side profile.
1: approximate position of enveloped spire at posterior of animal.
2: ventral/apertural face white.
3: pinkish shell-material deposited in grooves on dorsum.
4: no lip on body-whorl on left of aperture.
5: thickened white labial varix on right side near outer lip.
Height (longest shell-dimension) 11.2 mm. Ardnamurchan, Scotland. April 1976.
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The Techhive.com Meetup was the place for Boston-area geeks to be on Thursday night, and not entirely for the two free drink coupons, either: the presence of many cool people was a not-insignificant factor, worthy of a footnote.
The capper was a bar trivia contest.
I've only done bar-style trivia twice. Both of these experiences underscored my many weaknesses and few strengths in this kind of event. During my years as a journalist, I've trained my mind to doubt every fact and conclusion at my disposal. So I'm truly not the go-to guy when "Instant recall and total certainty" is the sine qua non.
But! I also have to dig into lots of different sources of information. There's always an excellent chance that I'll be the one who comes through when everyone else is drawing a blank.
(I had a similar role on my high school math team. I wasn't exactly Professor Digits, The Human Buzzcalculator. But when there was a real stumper, I could usually figure out why everyone else's conventional methods were failing. I deduced how the question had been constructed, and then "rewind" it back to the lateral First Step required to get the final answer.)
Lex Friedman (@lexfri) hands out answer pads (sourced from a helpful but doubtlessly confused Marriott desk clerk across the street).
COMPARISON of egg capsules of Lamellaria perspicua (A), T. monacha (B) and T. arctica (C & D) embedded in compound ascidian.
'A&B' based on drawings and descriptions in Lebour (1931 & 1933) and Fretter & Graham (1962), and photographs by P. Lightfoot.
Capsules of T. arctica are virtually identical with those of T. monacha.
Further information and images of egg capsule of T. arctica, at 21Ta flic.kr/p/D3iJt7 and 21.1Ta flic.kr/p/234LSrM .
Images C & D are close ups from image 21.1Ta flic.kr/p/234LSrM . The neck of the egg capsule is colourless transparent and almost invisible, so the outline has been indicated with dots. In 'C' the ventral pedal gland is inside the part-formed neck shaping the plug that seals the egg chamber until hatching. In 'D' the flexible tip of the ventral pedal gland is forming the flared lip of the funnel-shaped neck.
1: compound ascidian.
2: surface of compound ascidian raised around rim of lid of L. perspicua capsule.
3: buff ova seen through transparent side of recently deposited L. perspicua egg-capsule; eggs become white and capsule expands with age.
4: long neck of T. monacha capsule projects well above surface of ascidian.
5: plug at base of funnel mouth of T. monacha capsule.
6: orange ova (colour reported by Lebour, 1931) seen through transparent side of recently deposited T. monacha egg-capsule. Lebour reported that bright-yellow or orange forms of Diplosoma were preferred and rearing succeeded on it. Orange Botryllus and Trididemnum were also used for egg-laying in captivity, but rearing failed.
Photographs; Zierikzee, Netherlands, March 2017 © S. Verheyen.
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Stupid judges are stupid and ask stupid questions and are too stupid to know that we've given them the right answers.
Tech trivia is...dangerous. Doubly so when I'm competing, because my other real skill at pub trivia is bickering about questions that (I imagine) were poorly-composed.
(To be more specific: "Questions where everyone in the world but me knows damned well what the question means, but I somehow see some wiggle room for insisting that I'm still right.")
"In what year was Microsoft founded?"
Yeeps. Do they mean "what year was the company incorporated?" or "what year did this entity known as 'Microsoft' begin to exist?" 1975? (correct).
"What year was the first digital camera introduced?"
Oh, dear. I have no idea. First consumer model? First time a company assembled something shaped like a camera that could take photos and said "Behold! A digital camera!" despite the fact that they had no intention of selling it? First time an image sensor recorded a digital image?
I do pride myself on lateral solutions. I was in an onstage trivia thing at Macworld Expo one year, and one question challenged the teams to use the MacBooks before them to transmit a specific message to the moderator without using anything on a long list of obvious technologies or features. No email, no IM, etc.
Alas, my instinct is to find and exploit a weakness in the question. It didn't take me long. I smiled, launched TextEdit, typed in the message, placed my microphone on the speaker...and then activated the Text To Speech feature. Done.
Yes, of course, the moderator was looking for "search through the address book, notice that there's an entry with my name on it, notice that there's also a mobile number attached, and then use the OS' frequently-ignored SMS feature." It was a clever challenge. But he had failed to phrase the question in such a way that I couldn't use the auditorium's speaker system.
Yeah, I was technically right. But you can't be a party pooper by arguing balls and strikes.
This is Paseo de Roxas in Makati City, Philippines.
Back in the 1940s, this street used to be an active runway where Philippine Airlines (Asia's first airlines) took off for Baguio City, located north of Manila.
Don't be mad, I just forgot to take your picture again! NEVER NUDES came in
2nd, after dominating a breath-baiting musical chairs event.
The Department of English in Ross-Blakley Hall on ASU's campus in Tempe welcomed the public to explore English themed activities during our ASU Open Door event. We offered:
Giant Crossword and Word Search Puzzles - Frankenstein-themed interactive word games for all ages designed by Regents’ Professor and Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos and gave prizes for correct answers!
Victor Frankenstein’s Workshop - 2018 marks the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel. Guests joined us for a kid-friendly celebration of 200 years of monstrosity! This interactive “Frankenstein” experience featured sights, sounds, and silliness and they could read about the “Year Without a Summer” that inspired the work, play the fear recombinator, color-your-own monster mask, and visit the Ingolstadt Laboratory photo booth, where could don your choice of creator or creature costumes and grimace for a selfie! Our resident Mary Shelley expert, Clinical Associate Professor Cajsa Baldini, was be on-hand to answer all your Frankenstein questions.
History of English - Guests could stop by our Lindisfarne Gospels exhibit, where you could view a facsimile (exact copy) of this famous illuminated Latin Bible, which has glosses (explanations) in Old English. Visitors could look up modern English words in a micrographic edition of the complete Oxford English Dictionary, “the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.” An adjacent digital presentation also discussed the history of the Lindisfarne Gospels and of the English language in general. Curated by Regents’ Professor Elly van Gelderen.
Hogwarts Sorting Hat & Spell Casting - Welcome to Hogwarts! Inspired by the Harry Potter books, young visiting wizards were sorted into “houses” and received a corresponding wand which they use to magically correct misspelled words. Teeny tiny wizards just enjoyed learning silly spells. Beware: Dementors did appear! Facilitated by professors Jim Blasingame and Peter Goggin and English Education students.
Web of Knowledge: The 6 Degrees of Wikipedia - English doctoral candidate and media maven Abigail Oakley lead this two-part activity consisting of a short talk and fun, interactive game using Wikipedia. First, Oakley discussed the open source nature of information on the internet, along with all its possibilities and cautions. Next, participants played “The 6 Degrees of Wikipedia,” where participants are given two wildly different topics and asked to find the shortest route between them using only Wikipedia! Winners of each game will received prizes.
Scooby-Doo Trivia - Do you know Shaggy's real name? What year did "Scooby-Doo, Where are You!" premier? We tested your knowledge of the affable Great Dane in this quiz facilitated by ASU associate professor Kevin Sandler, a film and television specialist.
Writing Takes Place: Your Life in Haiku - We asked visitors to write their autobiography in Haiku, a short Japanese verse form. Poets could take their finished poem with with them or leave it for others to read! Coached by teachers in ASU Writing Programs who are expert syllable-counters.
Blackletter Calligraphy and Bookmark Lab - You could have your name inscribed on a bookmark in Blackletter (“Old English”) script by calligrapher and ASU English alum Domenica Corbo (BA 1986) and customize your bookmark with assorted accoutrements!
Its astounding to see works of our ancestors and the legacy they left behind.The precision with how it was constructed,the purpose behind it,the people who have given it form and the final outcome.
Is'nt it all about having a purpose in life,resting on it and shimmering it.
the final question was which six of the afi's top ten films won academy awards for best film. not only did we get it exactly right, ryan named the top ten.
Victory for Team Condor Sharp!
First prize was a very nice double-walled vacuum water bottle (with the Techhive logo) and a $50 gift card to Best Buy. Gosh, if I'd known the prizes were so good, I might have actually stormed to the front of the room and argued the "first digital camera" answer...
Shots from the 2022 SMASH! event at ICC Sydney Exhibition Centre, photographed by Morgan Zhong.
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It is my birthday... Here are a few bits of trivia from the year I was born.
* The Planet Pluto was discovered as the 9th planet.
* The first woman Flight Attendant began working for United Airlines.
* The comic strip first appeared in newspapers. Blondie started out as a pretty girl romance and became the most widely read strip in comic art history.
* Babe Ruth was given a two year contract worth $160,000
* Snickers Candy Bars were introduced by Mars, Inc.
* Hostess Twinkies were introduced by Continental Baking.
* New York City rejected the use of "amber" colored traffic lights and started installing "red" lights on a test basis.
* Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label.
* Toll House Cookies were invented by Ruth Wakefield.
* Dry Ice was introduced commercially in the United States for keeping ice cream.
* Clint Eastwood, Neil Armstrong and Sean Connery were born.
* The Veterans Administration was created to help America's veterans.
* Grant Woods completed "American Gothic."
* L-T-L was born in Meadville Pennsylvania :-)
It was an interesting year! Some might even say a good year!
Okay, folks, you know the drill. Today's prize is ... um ... I dunno. We'll figure that out later, since I never did get those granola bars to Burl that one time.
Only hint is that it's within two miles of the square.
GO.
Photo by Allegra Boverman. Concord: At the New Hampshire Public Radio's Third Annual Trivia Smackdown at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Friday, April 3, 2015.
Most of the time, there was quick consensus on answers. Or at least consensus on the wrong answers. It was all tech trivia, naturally.
Kerri was able to make two greater contributions than I. First, she has a quicker mind. Second, she was willing to actually walk back and forth to the front of the room to get our answers checked.
As the angle of most of these photos indicate, I wasn't even really willing to get out of my chair to take pictures.
Incidentally: the event reminded me I'd chosen very, very well when I bought this Panasonic GX1. Trivia was held in a dark bar, which normally would defy all attempts at casual photography. An SLR and a bag of gear can provide a solution to any problem. But what about a camera that you stuck in your pocket on your way out of the house, almost as an afterthought? You normally just take what you can get (or give up entirely).
The GX1 came right through. Lens wide open at f1.7 to get some light in from the background, ISO set to 3200, built-in flash locked into upright position to bounce straight down off of the ceiling. I freaking love this camera. I'm getting much better pictures with it now that it's my daily shooter and I'm starting to know its features intuitively.