Chris Taylor

@dftchemist.bsky.social

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Comp chemist/mat sci, applied science director, and assoc research professor. Enthusiast about all things Quantum, Star Wars, Sustainability, Chemistry, and Corrosion. Views my own.

Osprey watching area - Alum Creek watershed
Sign for junk removal service in Sunbury Ohio
Me sitting outside Coffeeology in Delaware with my voted sticker
Me standing outside the Curtin Corroaion Center (building 614) in Bentley WA.
Statue of Queen Victoria out front of Kensington Palace. A crow is perched atop her crown
Chunky blocks of watermelon slices cut up and set on a baking sheet with parchment paper about to go into the oven to prep ahead for vegan style “tuna” nigiri.
Macadamia nut base quiche made with spinach and aquafaba. In a beautiful blue pie dish. No crust. The appearance is a bit “matte” or chalky- not what I expected!
Marker illustration of Santa’s sleigh in a near miss with a UFO with two bug eyed aliens aboard. Splashy rainbows and stars abound in the collision
Pencil sketch of a prop plane above the clouds with the quote “what good are wings without the courage to fly?” Underneath it
Christmas mini rail train with a couple of clay ornament houses and a bridge crafted out of cardboard scraps with grass and a pond.
Sly Moore. Admin Tower. 1 cost: Accelerate our plans, Jawa Scavenger x2, Hold out blaster x2, Barrel Roll x2, Snapshot x2, Disarm x2, Swoop Down 2 cost: Zygerrian Starhopper x2, breaking in x2, Zenuas Shadow x2, Cloud Rider x2, Clandestine Connections x2, Surprise Strike x3, Sith Assasin x2 3 cost: Lurking Snub x2, Black Sun, Soulless One, the Wrong Ride x2, Smuggler Starfighter x3 4 cost: Kimogila Hvy x2, Gam Guards x2, Loan Shark x2, Bossk, Resourceful Pursuers x2, Mando, Correlian Freighter x2, Synara San, Cad Bane
Short video clip of the Big Walnut Creek rippling as it runs through Galena Ohio
First lovely golden brown apple pie of the season with puffy crispy crust! I’d meant to add raspberries but forgot, so I’ll have to make another soon.
Me with my vote Ohio sticker and my US flag shirt
Card case with Star Wass unlimited box covers in the five panel windows n the case front showing Thrawn, General Grievous, Yoda, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. There is a pink case next to it that contains playing mats and instruction sets with the Fight Rebel Resist Resistance logo on the front.
Fresh out of the oven, perfectly browned quiche with puff pastry, sitting on a wire rank on the kitchen counter
An Introduction to Generative Deug Discovery by Sean Elkins (Ed.) cover of the book, photo taken on my desk with Computational Drug Design by David Young and a little Easter egg QR code to Promethium peeking out
Cover of the Tokyo Suite novel by Giovanna Madalosso. Parrot and a macaw are perched about the all cap title letters.
Hand drawn and colored sketch of an alligator in a pond smiling wide and surrounded by reeds and grasses.
Blue sky with a little haze of cloud behind maple and a couple other trees I can’t identify- taken from a hammock staring up through the intermeshed branches and dappled sunlight on the leaves.
Jack in the pulpit- Ohio wildflower with a “pitcher plant” style flower covered with a leaf overhang. It’s about 6-10” tall and accompany by an adjacent stem usually having three leaves. This is by the base of a shag bark hickory, which is usually where I find them.
Me and my oldest son at the lookout point over the Penobscot bay
Photo of the book Real Americans by Rachel Khong. The cover mixes images of Chinese and American themes inside the ellipses formed by a “DNA” like strand running from top to bottom.
Tree with a sign in front of it saying "you found it" or maybe "you round it"- the F is not clearly crossed, so ambiguous. The tree base is circled with nice little pointed exposed roots like a birds foot.
Wild turkey hen ruffling its feathers creating a cloud of dust by the waters edge.
View of the Big Walnut Creek passing under the pedestrian bridge, part of the Ohio-Erie trail where it passes through Sunbury Ohio. Blue skies, trees not yet in bloom hanging over the water, the creek reflecting the blue sky and rocks lining the shores.
View from the Ohio-Erie trail bridge over the Hoover wetlands area running through Galena. A heron can be seen on a partially submerged log. The water level is running high from spring rains.
Me standing by the sign Welcoming folks to the 53rd organic process R&D conference at the Charleston Marriott.
Phoenix Force base card from Marvel Snap. 4/5 Reveal one of your destroyed cards and merge with it, that card can move each turn.
Four drawings fanned out of (1) man milking a goat, (2) girl with glasses staring intently to the left, (3) boy with AC/DC shirt and hoody smirking and (4) teenage girl smiling with head tilted and silver stars trailing in the sky behind her.
Southern theater in Columbus. Chamber orchestra is getting ready to play Schubert Death and maiden.
Red Rackham the villain from Secret of the Unicorn - Red Rackham’s treasure by Herge
Snowy forest scene with some wetland
Marketing email text saying that “Few of your publications seem to be innovative and novel.”
Cover of Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer
Black Widow card from Marvel snap: activate- add a widow’s bite to your opponents hand.
Bullseye card from Marvel Snap. Activate: discard all cards that cost 1 or less from your hand. Affect that many different enemy cards with -2 power.
Soft pastel pic of a group of four children running through a snowy trail in a dense pine forest with sunlight poking through the trees
Soft pastel pic of ringmaster, lion, trapeze and audience
1000 piece millenial falcon (plus Death Star battle scene) jigsaw puzzle
Sidewalk art with stenciled “you can do hard things”