Ray Lee

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Culture is kept in our conversations. Black lives matter. Working to protect the biosphere. Warning: I think I’m funny. For a short who tf is this guy?, see my pinned posts over at @4raylee@mathstodon.xyz

A view of sky and garden. The garden has trees and a few plants with purple and orange flowers. The sky has high thin clouds, a bit of a rainbow colored skybow, and a portion of a bright rainbow ring centered on the sun, shining through the white strands of clouds against the blue sky.
From the top down: Blue sky above, with a few wispy clouds. Just beneath floats a layer of coastal moisture, draped like a blanket over a mountain. The peak of the mountain is lost in the coastal fog, but the fog echoes the mountain’s shape. Tendrils of fog roll their way inland, gliding down the near side of the peak. Beneath the blanket of fog, a verdant ridgeline sketches the slopes the mountain upward into the clouds. Beneath the ridgeline are a few trees, very near, and a house with windows whose shapes echo the mountain.
A red dahlia against a background of other dahlias. It’s a red half-sphere of petals, all rounded, some in a heart shape.
While searching for solutions to a software issue, I found a StackOverflow answer that says the following configuration parameter should be added to my local configuration: INHERIT:remove = "sanity"
It’s decorative non-Euclidean gourd season motherfuckers. A butternut squash is shown. It appears to be… sad. Various triangles are drawn on its surface showing they don’t match the predictions of Euclidean geometry.
Photograph of a goose statue with a screwdriver messing with what looks to be a core of fissile material like plutonium, reminiscent of the Demon Core. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core In the background on the same deal is a cassette tape labeled “Look Mom No Computer” and a vinyl album of Dark Side of the Moon.
A view looking North from a hillside outside the town of Fes, Morocco 🇲🇦. Nearby there’s a few late season red and yellow flowers in bloom. Ancient ruins stand decaying in the foreground, against s green and brown grassy hillside. In the distance, gentle rolling hills are lit in a sun that has left the foreground behind. Trees in a rough orchard pattern dot the gray hills, as well as Mediterranean shrubberies. The only sign of modern civilization is a small ribbon of a paved road in the mid-distance, just below a grove if gravestones.
Aeriel view of a small-ish container ship which narrowly misses ramming into someone’s house
A black donkey standing on a brick street. On his back is a lot of colored fabrics providing some padding under a wooden seat. He stands in front of an orange and salmon colored wall, with an abstract mural above him. The mural has random geometric shapes in colors that match the fabrics, as well as two, long-lashed eyes, that match the donkey's. Only the front half of the donkey is in frame. The donkey is also giving me serious side-eye.
Black silhouettes of trees starting to lose their leaves against view of high, thin clouds and scattered blue-purple sky. The clouds are catching the fading multicolor light from the remnants of sunset, from bright orange to salmon, fading to pale purple, blending into the open sky. California Autumn.
A flyer advertising a peaceful gathering in honor of Star Trek’s “Bell Riots”. The text of the flyer reads: BELL RIOTS® FOR HOUSING ABUNDANCE *This is a Star Trek reference. Rioting is strongly discouraged. HELLMAN HOLLOW, GOLDEN GATE PARK FROM 1PM, SEPT 2, 2024. ВУОВ
Bishop peak, with blue sky and puffy white clouds. The green spring grass covers the hill, with yellow mustard and flowers blanketing the mid heights.
Photo of a typical summertime California landscape. Rolling hills covered in tan grasses gone to seed lead out to purple mountains in the far distance. A blue sky is above with a hazy cloud layer in the far distance.
A pint glass with one large, soda can shaped hunk of ice floating in water. Roughly 1/8th or 1/10th of the ice is above the water line, by volume. A delightfully colored napkin is in the background, ready to catch any condensation.
A good looking pan pizza, if I do say so myself.
A vote of the Earth from space. A giant ring of fire due to a meteor strike dominates the scene.
The Russian ruble
“Tell us a true one-sentence story from your life that sisterly opens noir questions than it answers and demands further context.” That text is written on top of an image of water with a smiley face on a red ball floating on the water.
It is time to honor Emmy Noether with a momentum unit Geoff Nunez, Jr. The International System of Units contains seven base units and 22 derived units. Of these units, 17 are named in honor of people, every one of whom is a man. It seems to me that momentum offers the perfect opportunity to admit a woman to that club. For several years, I have been declaring that, in my class, one kg m/s is equal to one Noether, in honor of Emmy Noether, whose theorem shows, among other things, that space translation symmetry results in conservation of momentum. Formal adoption of this new unit by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures may take a while. I propose that we teachers start the process from the grassroots. Let us adopt the Noether in our own classrooms and abbreviate it Nr (which is shorter—what my students want—and which will honor Emmy Noether's contributions to physics—what is long overdue).
Close up shot of part of a sunflower in bloom. The leaves are orange near the center, changing to yellow on the tips. The color is streaky along the length, some more orange, others more yellow. The seeds have yet to develop. In the background is blue sky and more sunflowers, blurred by the focal length. Edited to add later: I missed that my neighbor’s avocado tree list with leaves pops up in a corner of the background. The leaves are blurred, random Voronoi diagrams in green, providing contrasts to the petals. Photo by me.
View from Pismo beach looking toward Avila. It’s later in the day. Waves are low, textured, and separate progressively darker ranges from each other as we look out to the Gordon. Mountains, with coastal fog rolling over them stand between the ocean and sky. The sky is clouded above.
Four paint swatches arranged in a square. First is named “Snowbound”. The other three are named “Pure White”, “Alabaster “, and “Greek Villa”. In the ambient afternoon light they all look exactly alike.
A two tone black bear in silhouette holds a chanterelle mushroom in their paw. Text underneath reads California State Mushroom California golden chanterelle Cantharellus Californicus