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April 2017 Archives

Pycnogonid, aka sea spider

Posted at age 28.

After initially thinking it was a crab due to some possibly erroneous information on a vendor’s website, I realized I found my first sea spider. He measures about a centimeter. Despite my revisionist inclination to nurture what others consider harmful pests, I quarantined him and will probably keep it that way.

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I found a pycnogonid, or sea spider, in a batch of small corals and algae. It apparently survived the wash stage, unless it caught a ride inside a tube worm. I'm not sure what I will do with him, as he might prey on corals.

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Switching to Dvorak

Posted at age 28.

This is the most painful entry I have ever written, but hopefully the pain will be worth it. I am typing in the Dvorak keyboard layout thanks to a deceptively enticing set of lessons at learn.dvorak.nl, which I found linked on Reddit while researching what people do with programmable layers like my CODE 61 key has.

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