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posted by [personal profile] the_dala at 04:13pm on 11/04/2007
Dear Person Who Catalogued This Site:

OMG. "Dirty white quartz primary plow fracture" does not need about 75% of its words. It is a rock that got run over with a plow and was kept because it's quartz. There's no "primary" about that; it's not even really cultural material. If I presented it to Tim in the field, he would probably say, "Ah, an Indian love stone!" (Archaeologist-to-normal: another fucking rock.) Whatever, it's here, you just don't need to describe it in such excruciating detail.

Also, it looks dirty because somebody didn't wash it well enough. "Dirty white" is not a variety of quartz.

IDIOT.

ETA: Also, bottle glass does not need to be both blue-tinted AND clear; we get that it WOULD be clear if not for its obvious BLUE TINT. Sigh. Is it time to go home yet?
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posted by [identity profile] heatherlayne-n.livejournal.com at 08:23pm on 11/04/2007
"Ah, an Indian love stone!" (Archaeologist-to-normal: another fucking rock.)

That is fantastic, for some reason.
 
posted by [identity profile] hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com at 08:49pm on 11/04/2007
Well I know that at least in descriptive chemistry, "clear" and "colorless" are two different things: colorless deals with something having no color, while clear means "able to be seen through," i.e. the opposite of opaque. So water is a clear and colorless liquid, while milk is a white and opaque liquid. So something can be clear blue, like a solution of cobalt (II) chloride.

As for the rest of that shit? That's fucking bananas.

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