#high geologist

[aroaceinthestreets]

My friend: [Mutual friend] reminds me of Shaggy from Scooby Doo

Me (only knows about Scooby Doo through pop-culture references, but has read the high geologist post): He's high all the time?

Friend: WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!

#Gotta be one of my funniest ace moments #The really funny thing is the mutal friend is very straight laced and has certainly never been high #asexual #asexual pride #High geologist #acespec #acespec pride #scooby doo #the high geologist

[whowouldwininafite]

#who would win in a fite #polls #the high geologist #high geologist #tumblr cryptids #inspector closeau #the pink panther

[shadowbrightshine]

Wait I know that pose.

Is Scooby-Doo where the image for the High Geologist came from?

#tumblr questions #high geologist #scooby doo #is this where it came from? #Youtube

[valpwca]

reading about rocks & going crazy

#high geologist

[shirecorn]

Do you have any prints of The High Geologist and if yes where would we be able to purchase it?

I do offer those through redbubble!

The most popular item is uh. High Geologist throw pillow

But here's a print and here's the rest of the products

#the high geologist

[purpleboytournament]

(High Geologist Shaggy art by shirecorn)

#high geologist shaggy #darkwing duck #purpoll #round one

[shattered-catalyst]

The Rictor energy is so powerful here.

#cat vc: rictor is a high geologist #everyone else: no one tell him theres no such thing just let him keep believing this is how it works

[nerdylibertarian928]

I know we don't want celebrities but I think Matthew Lillard should be allowed on here

#he would thrive with the shaggy memes #i think those would be the majority of his posts #i want his reaction to high geologist #i dont want ryan reynolds but im down with matthew lillard

[theargonianvampire]

I seriously think Mystery Incorperated Shaggy (and maybe every iteration of Shaggy) Is Aromantic at least because when he's dating Velma I can so heavily identify a feeling of... "I should like this person. This person likes me and they're logically 'perfect' for me... So I should be in love right now. Therefore I am" that I get EVERY SINGLE TIME I am attacked by the Comphet BEAST, and I imagine it's similar for Aro people.

#trill talks #or I could be wrong. who knows. the high geologist post made me think of this. he could also be gay but idk it seemed like he just #wants to be surrounded with friends and not get into a romantic situation at all

[bigender2]

damn just hit me that i have to figure out how im going to do things after school.

#im going to have to find a job see if i want to go to any of thr colleges here try to get a good amount of money etc etc #uhhhhgggg ok. #i dont think ill take college immediately after school. maybe i will. i dont knowwwww. i dont knoww. #i want to go into geology so bad but also i dont know if i want to do that IMMEDIATELY after yknow . i dont knowwww #& also the whole thing of living here . its so complicated. house prices are stupid high here its not worth it #and also the fact that living here its just like awesome most of the people here believe im going to go to hell or something #but then also its fantastic surroundings here ESP for a geologist. like the geology here is so so fascinating its incredible really #and like i just need to live by mountains i think thats just a fact for me. i cannot live somewhere flat. #just god damn i dont know!!!!! i dont knowwww!!!!! #ugh. uaggghhhh sorry dumping this all out there but god damn i dont knoowwwwwwww -___-.

[winxclubshitposts]

Fred from Scooby-Doo said "I'm fred. Unless we're dating. Then it's freddie."

Everyone in the Scooby gang calls him Freddie.

In conclusion...

Hey, im Fred. Wanna peek into our...polyamourous relationship? Find us on (web comic)

#high geologist centaur shaggy

[iamthepulta]

evil cackling as i hit post on chapter 26

#liztlie au #jamison is like- the best most functional person in this whole fic. he is my babyboi and nothing bad should ever happen to him. #can you believe that I finished the zine map AND posted a chapter today? I've been so productive this weekend omg #I even walked to the cafe that I proceeded to spend 7 hours drawing at #tbh as I was walking home I realized I literally have two jobs. my Real Job and then I come home and spend another 20hr a week at least #writing and making art #fbg might want to pay me at this point. #hi fbg i'll be your resident geologist for free #I can squat in your office and talk about this historical health ramifications of smelting high arsenic values

[ravings-of-a-mad-scientist]

Workaholics Anonymous 

Science Major: Man, I sure wish I had time to enjoy college but I have so much studying and homework to do. At least I'll get an easy high paying job after, right?

Physicist: I think I have a pretty good work life balance (does not, actually) and I think my grad students should have the same work life balance (which is not having that)

Astronomer: I work *about 40 hour weeks, but sometimes there are hours are in the middle of the night 'cause, y'know, stars. But who needs a consistent sleep schedule, really? Not me. I got Redbull.

Geologist: Sometimes I get to spend 15 hours a day wandering through the desert in severe weather conditions looking for cool rocks! also I have to like survey the land or whatever so I can get money

Chemist: Oh, you know, my PI only lets me see my family at night for dinner, then I have to come back and sleep in the lab, but overall I’d say I’m not too stressed.

Physician: Well, I had to work really hard, so why shouldn't everyone else have to work even harder? I'm sure the patients could only benefit from everyone being sleep deprived.

Biologist: I work so much I don’t even remember the last time I wasn’t working.

Science Major: huh?

Biologist: I MUST OBSERVE THE CRAB AT ALL TIMES. I OBSERVE THE CRAB EVEN AS WE SPEAK. IF I DO NOT PUBLISH 60 PAPERS ON CRAB BEHAVIOR BY NEXT YEAR MY COLLEAGUES WILL SENSE MY WEAKNESS AND DEVOUR ME ALIVE, LIKE A PACK OF STARVING CRABS

Computer Scientist: Um… I work from home for at most 8 hours a day then play video games

Biologist: *licks lips*

Computer Scientist (Game Dev): I would murder you if I wasn't so... oh there I go- *passes out from exhaustion (hasn't slept or touched grass in five years)*

#science #physics #biology #chemistry #geology #scientists sitcom #for real though science has a very toxic work culture in general #we should syop eating each other alive like a pack of crabs just because they want to have a family #is sad just how little i am exaggerating with some of these #CRABS #astronomy #computer science

[shirecorn]

did you know your high geologist is in a poll now https://www.tumblr.com/purpleboytournament/718673378249211904/high-geologist-shaggy-art-by-shirecorn-purple

WADDA HELL? MY BOY IS GOING PLACES

who submitted him. WHY IS HE WINNING AGAINST DARKWING DUCK

i like how the source is "tumblr" because yeah. he was a collective manifestation of this chaotic place

#the high geologist

[purpleboytournament]

(High Geologist Shaggy art by shirecorn)

#high geologist shaggy #chase #kamen rider drive #kamen rider #round two #purpoll

[togglesbloggle]

How come there's basalt but no bapepper?

This pun made me smile, and has earned you one(1) Toggle Point, anon!

That said, 'basalt' as a word has a rather storied history. The true association isn't with salt, but with gold.

Originally, at least as far back as ancient Egypt, the word meant 'touchstone'; though of course back then it was baban, not basalt. As you may know, touchstones are a common method for testing the properties of minerals and, especially, economically valuable metals like gold. The idea is simple, really. Take a very hard, very dark slab of stone, and scraaape your metal across it, like so:

With a little practice, you can get a fairly nice streak of residue, and the light tone of gold really pops against the dark stone. Then, if somebody is trying to sell you a lot of precious metals, you can perform this streak test using them on your touchstone, and compare the streaking pattern against metals that you trust. If they're similar, the metal is pure, and if the streaks are different, the bastards probably aldulterated it with something cheaper. There you have it- a straightforward, fairly reliable, and very pre-modern method of rooting out Ea-Nasirtesting the quality of your precious metals during high-stakes trading. To this day, it's still a tool in any geologists' kit; you can see how it's handy for mineral identification when you're out in the field.

Anyway, the substance we now know as basalt was particularly good for this task, so (as humans will tend to do) the function of the stone and the type of stone itself started to get mixed up and share the same name. Greek contact with Egypt taught Europe the word, with the slight modification to basan, and then there was a typo in one of Pliny's books, so when they dusted it off in the Renaissance, it became Basalt instead. But it's all the same thing and the same word.

One of my favorite cul-de-sacs of this history is that at one point in ancient Greece, when the word was still more 'touchstone' than 'igneous rock', the word had expanded enough to take on some metaphorical and maybe mythic proportions. Basanos meant 'touchstone', yes, but also 'trial' or 'test' as applied to our own more human ambitions, a thing you endure to show your quality. So basalt became the stone that could find true gold among false metals- not just in the marketplace, but in the soul as well.