#ie have an interest that overrides the instinctual urge to burn down the computer

[an-asuryampasya]

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yet another day when I am cursing my resistance to picking up coding skills, but this time it's because of the World Soil Museum.

i mean first off, that EXISTS! how sodding cool is THAT???? a soil museum!!! AND they have a virtual tour! i am so excited to discover this!!

and the website has so much info about each kind of soil (like this page on a random sample I clicked on from the virtual tour) and there's images of each sample they have. And I just it would be really neat to do the whole 'play with jpegs like dolls' thing and place samples side by side to compare. Even just the images. Actually, especially the images of the samples.

like i KNOW getting to see silt and clay beside each other would fix some part of my brain.

would it particularly useful? idk, unsure how much the average person cares about this and those that do care likely have better and more efficient sources of info. but I would have a lot of fun with it, so there's that.

for a tool like this i imagine i'd need to get each sample's image+info separately and then set up a way to pull them up side by side. which mhmm boo @ the coding involved because that stuff remains witchcraft to me 😔

#side note i am extremely delighted by the fact that I am as excited about this soil museum as I was about Butser Ancient Farm #butser is SO fucking cool. it's a museum that does experimental archeology but also lets visitors take part so like #visitors get to recreate the same processes that were used in different eras for stuff like smelting and stuff #you get to learn how to make your own bows and arrows! turns out feather orientation is a big deal? #or liquify bronze in a crucible using only the fuels that were available back in the day and stuff #it's so cool aaaaah #anyway #lowkey tempted to genuinely try making something like this tho #because that will probably be the best way to get my brain to stop shutting down the moment it sees python #ie have an interest that overrides the instinctual urge to burn down the computer #but also consider: bleh. #placeholder tag #idk tho it might actually happen since i'm seeing my sibling in two days and that's soon enough for this interest to not completely die dow #by then #and he's my go-to for things code anyway #mhmmm #also huh been a while since i rambled in the tags like this