A Public Service Announcement

[elvenpiratelady]

So, er, hello, flist. *waves* Yesterday - and the day before, actually - I had a weekend. And on that weekend I made pancakes, and because geology is lodged in my brain in the same way that a cat is lodged in your lap with claws ever so slightly extended into your delicate flesh, I began to see in my pancakes what I would usually need a microscope and a thin section to witness. My pancakes were euhedral rounded grains that appeared brown under PPL and had no pleochroism. I rotated the saucepan to be sure. I regret to say that I don't know what they might have looked like under XPL - if anyone out there knows, please tell me! They also showed zoning (or possibly growth rings) and inclusions. Or possibly vacuoles. I have named this new mineral pancakite.

And the point of this is: I am the sort of person who sees rock grains in her pancakes, pancake grains in her rocks, and everything in between. As I said: public service announcement. If pancakes or microscopes offend you, read no further. Consider yourself warned.

Comments

[dracoena.livejournal.com]

I want to be as insane as you. :P

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Step one: pick subject.

Step two: obsess over subject.

Step three: ????????

Step four: PROFIT!

[dracoena.livejournal.com]

I think I´m still somewhere at two and a half. :P

[morethmusing.livejournal.com]

*Chortles* I can see a long and productive research programme here!

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

There's only this problem that the samples keep getting eaten...

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Pancakes are opaque and so under XPL you would see nothing but black :P

In a three-micron thin section I suspect that pancakite would still be opaque. If by some miracle it is translucent, I suspect that you'll get low relief but probably some quite cool interference colours.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Perhaps if I made crepes?

I've heard that paper looks really cool under XPL, but I can't cut it fine enough. :(

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

I still think crepes would be opaque. You need to make friends with your uni's thin section tech and play with some epoxy :D

Try a tissue?

[vixenmage.livejournal.com]

It's really fun when you get those plowdrifts of snow, with caked mud spaced unevenly all over, and they look just like mountains.

[vixenmage.livejournal.com]

(to the extent that you can almost see six-inch goats swarming over them? XD and then wish you were ten inches tall so you could climb them! Better than Everest!)

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Please tell me there are 13-inch tall abominable snowmen lurking around somewhere...

[andy-longwood.livejournal.com]

You have entertained me.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Then my work is complete! *teleports away*

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

I had pancakes this morning!

I like rocks too. I'm not a geologist, or an enthusiast, but rocks are neat. I went into caves before, and have a little rock collection.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Oho, yes, it sure starts with collecting rocks and cave visits, but before you know it you're having discussions about cleavages that are perfectly innocent and, um, squeeing over rock hammers (http://elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com/106906.html) and mangling lyrics about how awesome the world is... (http://elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com/116204.html) it's a slippery slope!