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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

I recently learned about Needle Ice, and thought you should know about it too

Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

My back deck gazebo does this fun thing when the sun shines on the snow. Icicles form, and the snow melts and slides over the edge. When the balance is right, instead of breaking and falling off, the icicles curve inward. The changing angle changes where the […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

The original post has a pretty detailed description, I think

The same thing, from a different angle. My gazebo wants to murder and eat you

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Modern Organic Synthesis, Zweifel et al. Pg 29.

"Intramolecular hydrogen bonding between 1,3-diaxial OH groups in non-polar solvents confers appreciable stability to a confomer. In polar solvents, however, the solvent competes for intermolecular H-bond formation, resulting in normal steric effect dominating the equilibrium."

Picture shows 1,3-cyclohexanediol with the diaxial conformation in equilibrium with the di-equitorial conformation. In CCl4 solvent, the equilibrium favours di-axial, with an internal H-bond.

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

Let us all celebrate May the 4th in our hearts, every day.

Mature Princess Leah stands, looking off to the left. She is wearing a brownish-grey robe, and holds a blaster. The caption reads: "May we all be able to get up every day and, in spite of our pain and loss and fear, put on our boots and vest and plan to destroy the empire."

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

The fog the last two days has done some fun things to the greenery in my neighbourhood

A close-up on the right of some frost covered evergreens, with some frost covered choke-cherry trees empty of leaves in the distance on the left.

In the middle, amongst the decorative boulders are some red shrubs.

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

My house was visited by the neighbuorhood Velociraptor pack

A trail of footprints in the snow, that resemble dinosaur tracks.

In truth, it was 3-4 Grey Partridges.

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

Last night's pot pie dinner, and this morning's Aebleskiver breakfast.

A little pot pie. It isn't very dark, but there is a caramelized edge where some of the sauce leaked out. In the background there are out-of-focus Christmas lights.

A rectangular glass dish filled with browned Aebleskivers, a kind of round Danish pancake. They look kind of like donut holes.

To the left is a kitschy candle holder with a snowman and a penguin wearing a scarf

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

It was the dog from the show Teacher's Pet!

A blue cartoon dog, wearing glasses, red shorts and a yellow shirt. He has a JugheadJones-style beanie that kind of looks like a crown.

And he kind of looks like my neighbour's house.

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

What cartoon dog does this house look like?

A house that has different colour of siding because it is part way through a reading job. It looks like a cartoon dog to me.

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

I expected more people to know about the benefits of wearing an inflatable frog costume to a protest against fascism. Because that's what we have in Alberta now. This is not a free country anymore. The government has explicitly suspended Democratic, Legal and […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

A fat inflatable Frog stares down heavily-armed "agents" of the US government

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

We had a "solidarity rally" at work today for Alberta teachers, with lots of chanting and yelling about Human Rights, recall and The UCP has got to go. I got more puzzled than I expected when people asked about my suit and I said "Because I don't have an inflatable […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Legs, wearing Flamingo-pattern suit pants.

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Nathan Ackroyd @elwoodcity.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

Can anyone explain to me why this is a 6-methyl-2-enone instead of a 2-methyl-5-enone? According to my understanding of the rules, the alkene shouldn't get preferential numbering to the methyl. So why is it numbered so that we don't have the lowest number at the […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

A 6-membered cyclic conjugated enone, with a methyl on the sp3-alpha carbon. ChemDraw has named it as 6-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-one.

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