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shadowkat1. Snagged from colls - "You can help NASA classify telescope images of
galaxies, helping researchers identify very distant
galaxies and black holes and distinguish real signals
from noise. Each classification takes about a minute,
and tutorials guide you every step of the way."
Here's How
I don't know about anyone else? But I'm certainly tempted.
2. RIP James Van Der Beek aka Dawson from Dawson's Creek. He died of cancer at the age of 48. It was announced multiple times on the news this morning. He apparently had six kids - which, well, virile?
I watched the first couple seasons of Dawson's, then intermittently here and there, and the final season. It was Kevin Williamson's first successful television series. (Williamson was behind the Scream franchise, and I Know what you did last Summer, also the creator and principal show-runner behind The Vampire Diaries. Dawson's Creek was loosely based on Williamson's post-adolescent year- loosely.) He was basically a counterpart of Joss Whedon. And Vanderbeek was often made fun of in later years for his portrayal of Dawson.
The others - Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, and Joshua Jackson were more successful.
3. Work and public transportation and this week (starting with Sunday)...have made me want to avoid people for the next four days (and since I'm taking Friday off and have Monday off as a paid Federal Bank Holiday - I can do that). To further this? I rescheduled my hair appointment for May. (Well that, and I can't handle going up and down four flights of steps on Monday, with this knee. I need more time. I'm hoping by May, I can do it without too much pain.)
On the way home, I had to stand for 20 -30 minutes waiting for the stupid train. Which was delayed due to track maintenance which Transit decided to do during the day - delaying all the trains on the line. As a result the train was packed, showed up 20 minutes late, and I didn't get a seat until the last ten minutes of the ride. It was packed and running express.
So, I decided to hold off and do laundry tomorrow - when I have more patience. Taking tomorrow off - so that should go without saying.
Work - sigh, there's one too many people who got promoted to VP and AVP who should have been fired or retired a while ago. This is the problem with big organizations, the inept, the bullies, and the nitwits rise to the top.
It's actually true across the board, regardless of size or organization. Give folks power? They abuse it. In oh so many ways. I kind of enjoy Buffy and Angel - because both series are about abuses of power, and not giving up in our battle to somehow defeat that practice by ourselves and others.
4. Question a Day Memage February:
12. Do you have any siblings?
Yes. One. A younger brother. Who has gifted me with a beautiful niece.
Siblings are a double-edged thing - both gift and curse, those who have them probably know whereof I speak?
5. People are using AI...to help with commenting on various sites - with ahem amusing results? ( Or it's bots, can't decide.)
"Your dedication to the world and the lore is genuinely inspiring. Every detail feels intentional and adds to the richness of the environment. I feel like I could spend hours just exploring the setting you've built. I want to give a huge shout-out for the brilliant chapter you just released! It was everything I hoped for and more. You have a real talent for storytelling. Bravo!"
That's lovely? Except it was in response to a Film Review of the movie Syriano.
You’ve got a real gift with words! Awesome work! Let’s discuss this story!
Also lovely, except it was in response to a meta or article on Espenson, Rand-Kirshner and Noxon - in Praise of Women Writers in Television.
Your stories are utterly captivating—this is incredible!
Wow, this is exceptional! I’m truly impressed by the smooth flow of the narrative and the authentic depth of the characters.
I'd be flattered, except it's in response to a movie review of X-Men: First Class?
Also I got some ideas in my mind related to your story which will represent your story to the viewers more warmly, if you're interested in discussing so share me any preferred platform.
It was in response to a film review of Dream Girls?
Sigh, people continue to bewilder me?
galaxies, helping researchers identify very distant
galaxies and black holes and distinguish real signals
from noise. Each classification takes about a minute,
and tutorials guide you every step of the way."
Here's How
I don't know about anyone else? But I'm certainly tempted.
2. RIP James Van Der Beek aka Dawson from Dawson's Creek. He died of cancer at the age of 48. It was announced multiple times on the news this morning. He apparently had six kids - which, well, virile?
I watched the first couple seasons of Dawson's, then intermittently here and there, and the final season. It was Kevin Williamson's first successful television series. (Williamson was behind the Scream franchise, and I Know what you did last Summer, also the creator and principal show-runner behind The Vampire Diaries. Dawson's Creek was loosely based on Williamson's post-adolescent year- loosely.) He was basically a counterpart of Joss Whedon. And Vanderbeek was often made fun of in later years for his portrayal of Dawson.
The others - Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, and Joshua Jackson were more successful.
3. Work and public transportation and this week (starting with Sunday)...have made me want to avoid people for the next four days (and since I'm taking Friday off and have Monday off as a paid Federal Bank Holiday - I can do that). To further this? I rescheduled my hair appointment for May. (Well that, and I can't handle going up and down four flights of steps on Monday, with this knee. I need more time. I'm hoping by May, I can do it without too much pain.)
On the way home, I had to stand for 20 -30 minutes waiting for the stupid train. Which was delayed due to track maintenance which Transit decided to do during the day - delaying all the trains on the line. As a result the train was packed, showed up 20 minutes late, and I didn't get a seat until the last ten minutes of the ride. It was packed and running express.
So, I decided to hold off and do laundry tomorrow - when I have more patience. Taking tomorrow off - so that should go without saying.
Work - sigh, there's one too many people who got promoted to VP and AVP who should have been fired or retired a while ago. This is the problem with big organizations, the inept, the bullies, and the nitwits rise to the top.
It's actually true across the board, regardless of size or organization. Give folks power? They abuse it. In oh so many ways. I kind of enjoy Buffy and Angel - because both series are about abuses of power, and not giving up in our battle to somehow defeat that practice by ourselves and others.
4. Question a Day Memage February:
12. Do you have any siblings?
Yes. One. A younger brother. Who has gifted me with a beautiful niece.
Siblings are a double-edged thing - both gift and curse, those who have them probably know whereof I speak?
5. People are using AI...to help with commenting on various sites - with ahem amusing results? ( Or it's bots, can't decide.)
"Your dedication to the world and the lore is genuinely inspiring. Every detail feels intentional and adds to the richness of the environment. I feel like I could spend hours just exploring the setting you've built. I want to give a huge shout-out for the brilliant chapter you just released! It was everything I hoped for and more. You have a real talent for storytelling. Bravo!"
That's lovely? Except it was in response to a Film Review of the movie Syriano.
You’ve got a real gift with words! Awesome work! Let’s discuss this story!
Also lovely, except it was in response to a meta or article on Espenson, Rand-Kirshner and Noxon - in Praise of Women Writers in Television.
Your stories are utterly captivating—this is incredible!
Wow, this is exceptional! I’m truly impressed by the smooth flow of the narrative and the authentic depth of the characters.
I'd be flattered, except it's in response to a movie review of X-Men: First Class?
Also I got some ideas in my mind related to your story which will represent your story to the viewers more warmly, if you're interested in discussing so share me any preferred platform.
It was in response to a film review of Dream Girls?
Sigh, people continue to bewilder me?
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Date: 2026-02-13 09:52 pm (UTC)Found the article on NASA's website: https://science.nasa.gov/directorates/smd/astrophysics-division/help-classify-galaxies-seen-by-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope/
So yes, believe it or not? It is legit.
"Galaxy Zoo is a citizen science project with a long history of scientific impact. Galaxy Zoo volunteers have been exploring deep space since July 2007, starting with a million galaxies from a telescope in New Mexico called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and then, moving on to images from space telescopes like NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ESA (European Space Agency)'s Euclid telescope. The project has revealed spectacular mergers, taught us about how the black holes at the center of galaxies affect their hosts, and provided insight into how features like spiral arms form and grow.
Now, in addition to adding new data from Webb, the science team has incorporated an AI algorithm called ZooBot, which will sift through the images first and label the ‘easier ones’ where there are many examples that already exist in previous images from the Hubble Space Telescope. When ZooBot is not confident on the classification of a galaxy, perhaps due to complex or faint structures, it will show it to users on Galaxy Zoo to get their human classifications, which will then help ZooBot learn more. Working together, humans and AI can accurately classify limitless numbers of galaxies. The Galaxy Zoo science team acknowledges support from the International Space Sciences Institute (ISSI), who provided funding for the team to get together and work on Galaxy Zoo. "
Go here for Galaxy Zoo: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/
It's been going on since roughly 2007.