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Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery

is a sourdough boule

The four hours of sleep and two packs of crackers that consist of all I've eaten of today:

there have been several instances of young baleen whales running afoul of something and being captured for rehabilitation, yes! they were mostly gray whales.

which makes sense, gray whales are slow enough to get caught in the first place and hardy enough to not immediately stress themselves to death over being poked and put in a tank (as long as hundreds of pounds of delicious shellfish are on offer, anyway)

none of them were ever kept very long, they were rehabilitated to a healthy weight and then released. (healthy weight for a juvenile gray whale is almost 20,000 lbs. BIG baby)

my solution to this nightmare was to make spreadsheets that looked identical to the printouts but used named tables to create a hidden summary table, and i talked the department heads into using them by pointing out they would no longer have to manually calculate hours worked based on time. which is what they were doing before that. usually incorrectly. then i imported all those timesheet summaries into a central spreadsheet using powerquery before using vba to generate something closer to a format that our shitass software was willing to import. but i still had to use a short powershell script to finalize the format because it was a fixed width txt file with a fake filetype where multiple columns had the same name for some godforsaken reason.

this also let me automate my leave accrual spreadsheet that i had to keep because the payroll software fucked up leave accrual constantly. and which my boss originally wanted me to do manually every payroll. with a pencil and a canon mp11dx calculator. he still insisted it had to be on paper in a binder so i wrote a script to go through every table in the excel file and turn everything white except for the most recently added row so that i could just keep printing over the same pages instead of writing it in by hand. every two weeks i would put hundreds of pages of printed out spreadsheets into the printer to add a single row to the end of each page.