@glyph The most interesting to me is that Oracle’s shifting to a “BYOC” model where their customers have to pay for the hardware build-out to get the capex off of Oracle’s books. How popular do you reckon that’s going to be?
@azonenberg I was just thinking how when you burn a CD, the appearance of the data side changes for the part where you wrote something. like the worlds most affordable diffraction grating pattern, perhaps
Floating between Exoplanet 45437 and 45438 is an ancient structure built to connect the two planets. The Yetom people who evolved on 45437 built a tunnel, something like a space elevator, that permanently connected the planets, like a giant underground system. The frond-like protrusions on the sides were designed to protect it from space junk and meteors.1/2#scifi #exoplanet #fern #nature #photography
Small to tiny friends from this weekend on the coast. A little blob of goo in a tidepool was actually a beautiful nudibranch! Then the little sparrow-sized blob in a tree turned out to be cute pygmy owl.#pnw #nature #photography #wildlife #owls #tidepools #nudibranchs