Green Gabbro

How to make farting noises while cooking a portabella mushroom, and misc. links.

I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep until 7:30. Graah! Is all I have to say to that. And, I met a set of potential housemates last night, for beer, which motivates today’s Oracle question: if it bothers you that your housemates don’t replace the toilet paper roll, but […]

Jerry wants some help identifying a mineral; I’m inclined to say “uh, green, um, chlorite? epidote?” but that’s why I’m not a real geologist. He’s also got some tomatoes going, and by zoinks, it’s March, time to get cracking on these recalcitrant scavenged Cherokee Purples!
Am I the only one who finds her eyebrows falling out […]

Kids’ Drawings of Scientists, and also their descriptions of what scientists are like, before:

“Scientist Judy is wearing her white lab coat. She is a very simple person . . . simple clothes, simple house, simple personality.”
“Scientists live in their own world and the rest of society puts them there.”

And after a visit to Fermilab:

“. . […]

Alert readers may already be aware of the latest eruption at Augustine, one of several volcanoes located near Anchorage, Alaska. But did you know where to get the prettiest pictures?

Fafblog on the geology of fear:

“Giblets is pretty sure this is basalt.”
“The basalt of fear, Giblets,” says me. “Which is the only kinda basalt we have to fear.”
“Crazy talk!” says Giblets. “Basalt is an extrusive igneous rock whereas fear is a clastic sedimentary! It is formed over thousands of years by the gradual process of […]

Oooh, pretty pink halite!

Now that I’m safely curled up in my old room, time to take a whack at the ol’ pile of provocations:
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Rad Geek on the Bill of Rights:

The Garrisonians, because so many of them were fervently religious, talked about a higher law than the Constitution; that’s partly right, but in a sense it’s also a matter […]

I knew Elsevier was evil, but I didn’t realize it was actually involved in the international land mine trade. Crikey.

Mexico finally made it illegal for a husband to rape his wife, hoorah!
I was honorably mentioned in the t-shirt slogan contest, w00t!
This morning I woke up to a total fucker of a charley horse. My leg still hurts, boo.
Newly responsible for the untimely demise of my graduate career: Cities