hobby #55
Mushroom Foraging & Spore Printing
Identifying wild mushrooms by taxonomy, taking spore prints for ID confirmation, understanding mycorrhizal networks in Edmonton's boreal forest. Connects pattern recognition from chess, systematic methodology from debugging, and microbiology intuition from fermentation work.
Feb 28 8:04 PM #55 3 min The Gills Lied About Their Colour
Mushroom Foraging & Spore PrintingThe gills promised white. The paper said rust. Six hours of waiting to discover somebody was lying.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- False Positives Won't Kill You, But Mushrooms Might Bloom Filters