Paula Piilonen

A man walks onstage. The lights dim. The audience falls into excited hushes. A spotlight hits the man. He speaks. "Imagine, if you will, a future..." "A future where you can send emails..." "while wearing ski goggles with a cord running into your pants." The crowd roars.

@va3ks Great park! We were there 2 years ago.

Valley of Fire State Park, K-2637, and the name fits. Hot & dusty. Amazing park in southern Nevada. Todays mission to check out the hiking trails before the heat sets in, and then a siesta. IC-705 and Wolf River coil. KK7HXY/VA3KS #pota #AmateurRadio #parksontheair

Wednesday sunset on the bay.

The flatulence of dogs is well documented, but are there sneaky parps between cats' purrs?iflscience.com/do-cats-fart-6…

Congrats to Graeme Hopkins, from Evan Hardy Collegiate, in #Saskatoon. He received our Beaty Award for best natural-history project at #CWSF2023, based on his three years studying a 12,000 year-old fossil deposit. @StoonPubSchools. #YouthInSTEM Learn more: bit.ly/3qc8ji5

Yesterday we had the honor of receiving the 2023 Hawley Medal from the @MineralAssocCan at GAC-MAC in Sudbury. The Hawley Medal is for the best paper in the Canadian Mineralogist in 2022 - about zeolites from Cambodia. @MuseumofNature

@alannealottawa so happy to hear you talking to our Canada-Wide Science Fair finalists on @cbcallinaday ! @ysc_sjc Looking forward to more this week! #CWSF2023

Congrats to Graeme Hopkins of Saskatoon, SK for winning the 2023 Beaty Centre for Species Discovery award and a Silver Medal at #CWSF2023 from the @museumofnature You can visit his project here: projectboard.world/ysc/project/12…

Mineralogists think fauna are cool too - the flooding on our street is awful, but seeing hundreds of 3 ft long carp in the ditches across the street is pretty cool! @MuseumofNature

Congrats to Team Canada 2023! Talking to these young scientists today for judging was inspirational. And Annabelle is a @MuseumofNature Nature Ipiration Award nominee and won the 2022 Beaty Award at CWSF 2022. youthscience.ca/team-canada-is…

Saturday afternoon fun! @MuseumofNature @OntScienceCtr

Here showing off MSH minerals at the PDAC reception! @MuseumofNature

Huge thanks to the @MuseumofNature for loaning us the exquisite Gilles Haineault Mont Saint-Hilaire Mineral Collection for tonight’s PDAC Reception in Ottawa. We are SUPER excited to be back in person (our first time since 2020)! #MineralExploration #MSH

@alannealottawa I was on hold with someone a couple of weeks ago, Bell I think, and I was offered a choice of muzak genres!!

Has anyone else ever been on hold with a certain banking institution while somewhat ominous 1990s instrumental music plays? Where it feels like you're waiting for Madeline Stowe to discover Bill Pullman's body beside a fax machine?

@CBCOntarioToday Many of these social bonding activities are at the employee's personal expense - not everyone can afford that or want to spend their money in that way.

@Oatmeal and another!! LMFAO

I built a random comic generator that makes horrible comics about therapy. If you get a good one, post it in the thread below. theoatmeal.com/therapist

@oatmeal I laughed ridiculously loud at this one!

@alannealottawa awesome to hear you speaking geology yesterday! You rock! 🙃🙃

Pok ta pok - the ancient Mayan ball game.