I genuinely have no idea what I'm reading, but it's glorious either way. Edit: Google says these are plastic clips used on bread packaging. I never saw any of them in my life (we have a generic...
I genuinely have no idea what I'm reading, but it's glorious either way.
Edit: Google says these are plastic clips used on bread packaging. I never saw any of them in my life (we have a generic white band with two pieces of wire inside), this is fascinating.
It's clearly some biologist's goof on taxonomy, and it's glorious. Being a language nerd, my favorite part is the nomenclature. The Latin morphemes in 'occlupanid' mean "closing/obstructing...
It's clearly some biologist's goof on taxonomy, and it's glorious.
Being a language nerd, my favorite part is the nomenclature. The Latin morphemes in 'occlupanid' mean "closing/obstructing bread." There's one group the author calls "stomatocardia" that has, you guessed it, heart-shaped holes or mouths. I haven't pored through all of it yet, but so far all of the taxonomic names appear to be accurate Latin, though there really should be a little Greek sprinkled in there for verisimilitude.
It's oddly nostalgic. It reminds me a lot of the goofs you'd see back in the Web 1.0 days, like the old 'dihydrogen monoxide' site that had all these dire but accurate descriptions of the health hazards of that ubiquitous solvent.
I encountered a previous iteration of this site/group(?) nearly 20 years ago, but I’m pretty sure I deliberately blocked it from my consciousness. You see, at the time I was acquiring massive debt...
I encountered a previous iteration of this site/group(?) nearly 20 years ago, but I’m pretty sure I deliberately blocked it from my consciousness.
You see, at the time I was acquiring massive debt while mostly being a stay at home father with an infant while my partner was working on getting a PhD in information science. The dissertation was about language usage in various settings within the one particular profession about one particular data subset of said profession and comparing it to vested groups of nonprofessional discussions about said data. Sorry to be so abstract about it, but this is about a former partner with a large network of information scientists and professionals - pretty much all of whom are super invested in online information, discussion, communities, etc, and I still have to deal with this person.
All that’s to say, TOO REAL. Don’t like it.
I kid. All that’s to say this is heavily existential humor aimed rightly at academics and their confused partners.
I saw CHUPPL's video a while back on these and explored the site a bit. It's a pretty insane story, little plastic bread tags have a distinct connection with some wild political scheming and...
I saw CHUPPL's video a while back on these and explored the site a bit. It's a pretty insane story, little plastic bread tags have a distinct connection with some wild political scheming and storybook shit about a giant hoard of gold. I do wonder if he ever found that green tag from Japan, it did look neat.
I genuinely have no idea what I'm reading, but it's glorious either way.
Edit: Google says these are plastic clips used on bread packaging. I never saw any of them in my life (we have a generic white band with two pieces of wire inside), this is fascinating.
It's clearly some biologist's goof on taxonomy, and it's glorious.
Being a language nerd, my favorite part is the nomenclature. The Latin morphemes in 'occlupanid' mean "closing/obstructing bread." There's one group the author calls "stomatocardia" that has, you guessed it, heart-shaped holes or mouths. I haven't pored through all of it yet, but so far all of the taxonomic names appear to be accurate Latin, though there really should be a little Greek sprinkled in there for verisimilitude.
It's oddly nostalgic. It reminds me a lot of the goofs you'd see back in the Web 1.0 days, like the old 'dihydrogen monoxide' site that had all these dire but accurate descriptions of the health hazards of that ubiquitous solvent.
Truly, the spirit of 1999 lives on.
I encountered a previous iteration of this site/group(?) nearly 20 years ago, but I’m pretty sure I deliberately blocked it from my consciousness.
You see, at the time I was acquiring massive debt while mostly being a stay at home father with an infant while my partner was working on getting a PhD in information science. The dissertation was about language usage in various settings within the one particular profession about one particular data subset of said profession and comparing it to vested groups of nonprofessional discussions about said data. Sorry to be so abstract about it, but this is about a former partner with a large network of information scientists and professionals - pretty much all of whom are super invested in online information, discussion, communities, etc, and I still have to deal with this person.
All that’s to say, TOO REAL. Don’t like it.
I kid. All that’s to say this is heavily existential humor aimed rightly at academics and their confused partners.
I saw CHUPPL's video a while back on these and explored the site a bit. It's a pretty insane story, little plastic bread tags have a distinct connection with some wild political scheming and storybook shit about a giant hoard of gold. I do wonder if he ever found that green tag from Japan, it did look neat.
Its like the SCP foundation with a severely lower budget.