Gabbro B-Sides

Personal

• 27 Jan 2008: Meme Time

  
  Personal, Whimsy: memes, monkeys, national pie day, pie, writing · 5 comments

• 15 Oct 2007: Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us Will Provide a Nice Soak

  
  Personal, Science: camping, hot springs, Long Valley · 3 comments

• 23 Sep 2007: I Need Idiotproofing

  
  Personal, Science: grad school, software · 3 comments

• 2 Sep 2007: Why I’m a Geophysicist

  
  Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments

• 13 Jun 2007: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)

  
  Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments

• 18 Apr 2007: Lollinks

  
  Links, Personal, Whimsy: cat macros, psychology, test anxiety · 4 comments

• 1 Mar 2007: Hey Lookit My Tooth

  
  Personal: dentistry, teeth · 5 comments

• 26 Jan 2007: Bottomless Holes of Curiosity

  
  Personal, Science: time sinks, Web of Science, xkcd · 8 comments

• 14 Dec 2006: Finals Week = Bitch About Students

  
  Personal, Teaching: apathy · 4 comments

• 28 Nov 2006: Academic Neuropharmapsychowhatsits

  
  Personal: coffee, mind-altering substances · 6 comments

• 24 Nov 2006: Thanksblogging

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: pie, thanksgiving · 4 comments

• 29 Sep 2006: Two Cliches, As Applied to My Life

  
  Personal, Science: grad school · 3 comments

• 4 Sep 2006: Household Goodness

  
  Personal: domesticity, gardening, photoblog · 2 comments

• 30 Aug 2006: Block, Writer’s

  
  Personal, Politics: domesticity, sewing, sexism · 7 comments

• 25 Jul 2006: Heat Wave, Schmeat Wave

  
  Personal: ground squirrels, igneous rocks, Lassen, photoblog, rhyolite, talus, volcanoes · 4 comments

• 3 Jul 2006: How Avis and the University of California are Destroying the Environment

  
  Personal, Politics: capitalism sucks, environmentalism, SUVs · 1 comment

• 17 Jun 2006: Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege

  
  Personal: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, wedding-industrial complex · 11 comments

• 26 May 2006: Friday Cat Blogging: Holy Shit I Have Cats!

  
  Personal: cats, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments

• 22 May 2006: Of Note

  
  Personal: blegging, workload · 2 comments

• 29 Apr 2006: Yay I’m Not Dead Yet

  
  Personal, Whimsy: birthday, memes · 9 comments

• 17 Apr 2006: Dear ASUC Candidates

  
  Personal: Berzerkeley · no comments

• 25 Mar 2006: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist

  
  Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments

• 13 Feb 2006: Ow My Fingertips

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: etymology, mandolin, pedantry, words · 5 comments

• 12 Feb 2006: The Wages of Procrastination

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: Appalachian death polka, domesticity · 3 comments

• 7 Feb 2006: Oh Look, the “Jobs for Men” Section

  
  Personal, Politics: advertising, sexism · no comments

• 2 Feb 2006: The Real Perils of Plagiarism

  
  Personal: Berzerkeley · 2 comments

• 19 Jan 2006: Lecture Zero

  
  Personal, Teaching: grad school, time management · no comments

• 22 Dec 2005: All I Haven’t Said

  
  Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments

• 8 Dec 2005: AGU Four

  
  Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments

• 6 Dec 2005: AGU Two

  
  Personal: american geophysical union, beer, conference blogging · no comments

• : AGU One

  
  Personal, Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging · 6 comments

• 4 Oct 2005: Whereas

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: grammar · 1 comment

• 13 Sep 2005: The Devil Is In

  
  Aimless, Meta, Personal: beer, blogtinkery, en français, Internet friends, pirates · 3 comments

• 9 Sep 2005: Anecdotes

  
  Personal, Politics: academia, co-op living, feminism, rhetorical tactics, sexism · 4 comments

• 6 Sep 2005: Berkeley Time

  
  Personal, Politics: art, Berzerkeley, co-op living · 10 comments

• 1 Sep 2005: Lookit Me I’m So Privileged

  
  Personal: army corps of engineers, Atchafalaya, dams, levees, Mississippi River · 1 comment

• 30 Aug 2005: Piles of Minute Aggravations

  
  Personal: cars, grad school, i hate everything · 2 comments

• 24 Aug 2005: Items

  
  Personal: co-op living, rush week · 5 comments

• 22 Aug 2005: Home Again

  
  Personal: cars, co-op living, spiders, urban ecology · 6 comments

• 19 Aug 2005: Friday iTunes iChing

  
  Personal, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · 2 comments

• 16 Aug 2005: Free Stuff!

  
  Personal: freebies, gift economy, inner child · no comments

• 13 Aug 2005: Travelogue! Days 9-12

  
  Personal: photoblog · no comments

• : Travelogue! Days 4-8

  
  Personal: photoblog · no comments

• : Fookin’ Marketing

  
  Personal, Politics: i hate everything, magazines, sexism · 1 comment

• 3 Aug 2005: Travelogue! Days 0-3

  
  Personal: photoblog · 5 comments

• 31 Jul 2005: Oh Yes, Minnesota

  
  Personal: customs, Minnesota, mosquitoes, travelogue · 11 comments

• 24 Jul 2005: A Distribution of Props

  
  Personal: pie, thanksgiving, travelogue · 4 comments

• 21 Jul 2005: Why I am so very slack

  
  Personal: guest posts · no comments

• 19 Jul 2005: I Hate Life Hacks

  
  Personal: 3x5 index cards, i hate everything, Internet overload · 3 comments

• 15 Jul 2005: Attn: Skandinavisker

  
  Personal: denmark, Scandinavia, trains, travelogue · no comments

• 11 Jul 2005: What I’m Saving for Marriage

  
  Personal: cohabitation, marriage, relationships · 2 comments

• 1 Jul 2005: Into My Time Capsule I Go

  
  Meta, Personal: blog status updates, family · 3 comments

• 29 Jun 2005: Can’t Even Sweat

  
  Meta, Personal: travelogue · 3 comments

• 24 Jun 2005: Friday Hangover Blogging

  
  Personal: search requests · 4 comments

• 18 Jun 2005: Up Echo Mountain

  
  Personal: photoblog · no comments

• 16 Jun 2005: Earthquake!

  
  Personal: earthquakes · 6 comments

• 13 Jun 2005: The Ongoing Saga of the Glasses

  
  Personal: glasses, twoo wuv · 2 comments

• 12 Jun 2005: Chronology

  
  Personal, Politics: fashion, feminism, plumbers, sexism · 9 comments

• 8 Jun 2005: Stuff for Sale and the Intertwixtion of All Oppressions

  
  Personal, Politics: advertising, craigslist, feminism, feminisms, racism, sexism, the Ur-Oppression, torture · 6 comments

• 1 Jun 2005: Academic Insecurity Builds Character

  
  Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 5 comments

• 16 May 2005: I Wish I Were Covered in Fuzzy Knobs

  
  Links, Meta, Personal: anti-spam, cnidarians, hyperopia, myopia, vision · 4 comments

• 13 May 2005: Further Trivialities

  
  Aimless, Links, Personal: blogular wanking, grad school, telephony · 5 comments

• 12 May 2005: Happy Juror Appreciation Week

  
  Personal: jury duty, utter glee · 6 comments

• 3 May 2005: Two Tuesday Links

  
  Links, Personal: Brazil, masculinity · 6 comments

• 30 Mar 2005: New Athletic Allegiances and the Advanced Study of Mud

  
  Meta, Personal: academia, Announcements · 11 comments

• 14 Mar 2005: Middle Klass

  
  Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments

• : What I Hate About Menstruating

  
  Personal: menstruation, TMI · 49 comments

• 8 Mar 2005: Bad Carma

  
  Personal: cars, driving · 5 comments

• 6 Mar 2005: Diesel and Boobies

  
  Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, cars, wordpress themes · 2 comments

• 3 Mar 2005: Ugh Zog

  
  Meta, Personal: cubicle living, WordPress · 4 comments

• 27 Feb 2005: Three Parts

  
  Links, Personal: gender, grad school, memes, nudity, sexual tension · 16 comments

• 1 Feb 2005: Ownership Society

  
  Personal: capitalism sucks, money, public radio · 7 comments

• 24 Jan 2005: Pie Day

  
  Personal: burns day, national pie day, new holiday, pie · no comments

• 18 Jan 2005: The Joys of Nasal Irrigation

  
  Personal: bodily fluids, colds, home remedies, medicine · 11 comments

• 17 Jan 2005: The Daily Day: MLK Edition

  
  Personal, Politics: colds, Larry Summers, Martin Luther King Jr., mathematics, nurturing, sexism · 4 comments

• 1 Jan 2005: Extension of Radio Silence

  
  Personal: blog status updates, Christmas · 2 comments

• 20 Dec 2004: Excel and the Economics of Usability

  
  Personal: capitalism sucks, i hate everything · 4 comments

• 13 Dec 2004: In Which I Join the Establishment

  
  Personal: caffeine, old fogeyism · 4 comments

• 2 Dec 2004: Thanksgiving Food Review

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: cranberry sauce, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 4 comments

• 28 Nov 2004: Thanks For

  
  Personal, Whimsy: thanksgiving · 3 comments

• 19 Nov 2004: Quickies

  
  Personal, Politics: Christian hegemony, elections · no comments

• 2 Nov 2004: Election Surprise: Squid!

  
  Personal, Politics: · 2 comments

• : So Distracting

  
  Personal, Politics: colds, presidential elections · no comments

• 20 Oct 2004: Fabulousness at the Beach

  
  Links, Personal: cars, cubicle living, jalopies · no comments

• : AAA Pays Off

  
  Personal: American Automobile Association, driving, jalopies · 2 comments

• 14 Oct 2004: Ergonomics Loves My Desk

  
  Personal: cubicle living · 3 comments

• 11 Oct 2004: Evolutionary Psychology Goes to the Dentist

  
  Personal, Whimsy: dissociation, evolutionary psychology, medicine · no comments

• : Weekend: Music, Injuries

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 4 comments

• 7 Oct 2004: If Only I Could Sniffle

  
  Personal: allergies, cubicle living · no comments

• 13 Sep 2004: You Know Your Office Air Conditioning Is Working When…

  
  Personal: cubicle living · 7 comments

• 12 Sep 2004: Subconscious Manifestations of the Bladder

  
  Personal: dreams · no comments

• 29 Aug 2004: Weekend Review

  
  Personal: capitalism sucks, consumerism, dishware, grad school · 4 comments

• 10 Aug 2004: Yeah I Feel Like A Putz

  
  Personal: cars, driving · 2 comments

• 9 Aug 2004: Weekend Recap

  
  Personal: video games · no comments

• 4 Aug 2004: Dentist to the Stars?

  
  Personal: dentistry · 4 comments

• 28 Jul 2004: Hieroglyphic Soup

  
  Personal: alphabets, languages, soup · 2 comments

• 27 Jul 2004: PSA: Dental Hygiene

  
  Personal: dentistry, saliva · 4 comments

• 19 Jul 2004: Actually I Always Expect Synchronicity

  
  Personal: · no comments

• : GRE Goodness

  
  Personal: cubicle living, grad school, i hate everything, standardized tests · 3 comments

• 13 Jul 2004: Memo to the Guy in the Escalade

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: cars, driving, etiquette, SUVs · no comments

• 29 Jun 2004: Easy Things That Aren’t

  
  Personal: human imperfection, mental blocks · 15 comments

• 2 Jun 2004: Viva Quebeckistan!

  
  Personal: quizzes · no comments

• 10 May 2004: Aaah Generation Overload

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

• 4 May 2004: Garden Post

  
  Personal: · no comments

• 2 May 2004: Nerds Save 5%

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

• 28 Apr 2004: Coolant Pixies

  
  Personal: · 5 comments

• 8 Apr 2004: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

• 4 Apr 2004: In Which I Am Excited About Compost

  
  Links, Personal: · 3 comments

• 2 Apr 2004: Widdle yukkie poo!

  
  Personal, Whimsy: · 5 comments

• 29 Mar 2004: Poppies, poppies

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 18 Mar 2004: Because I Had A Coupon

  
  Personal: advertising, i hate everything · no comments

• 17 Mar 2004: Customize Your TV Dinner!

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

• 15 Mar 2004: The Creeping Nursery Begins

  
  Personal: dead baby jokes, gardening · no comments

• 14 Mar 2004: Now I Need Big Pots

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 2 Mar 2004: Personalized Follow-Up

  
  Personal: · 5 comments

• 22 Feb 2004: Mmmmm

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

• 12 Feb 2004: Tchotchke Fever

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 28 Jan 2004: Learning from Experience

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 3 comments

• 24 Jan 2004: PiE Day

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: cactuses, Caltech, national pie day, pie · no comments

• 9 Jan 2004: Ugly Duckling Fabric Magic

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 6 Jan 2004: New Year’s Diet

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 2 comments

• 5 Jan 2004: Found what in the what?

  
  Personal: obituaries · no comments

• 14 Nov 2003: Inherent Problems

  
  Personal: cubicle living, domesticity, old fogeyism, quilting · 5 comments

• 31 Oct 2003: Tricky Treats

  
  Personal: candy, halloween, kids today, pumpkin · 1 comment

• 27 Oct 2003: Numbered List: I Am Smoke

  
  Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 comments

• 18 Oct 2003: Yami, Fearsome Goddess of Mint

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: gardening, weather · no comments

• 3 Oct 2003: Happy New Water Year

  
  Personal: driving, water years · no comments

• 2 Sep 2003: Jellyfish Ward

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 25 Aug 2003: Someone’s Been Shitting in My Toilet!

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

• : Things I’ve Never Done

  
  Personal: · no comments

• 22 Aug 2003: Nonviolent Toyotas?

  
  Personal: · no comments

• 5 Aug 2003: Mandatory Events

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

• 2 Aug 2003: Housing Markets

  
  Personal, Politics: apartment hunting, capitalism sucks, hey lazyweb, Los Angeles · 3 comments

• 31 Jul 2003: The Vanilla Asylum

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 29 Jul 2003: Pinball Cardinality

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

• 23 Jul 2003: Becoming a Yuppie

  
  Personal: · 4 comments

• 18 Jul 2003: See ya, Soul

  
  Personal: · 5 comments

• 14 Jul 2003: And The Internet Melted

  
  Personal: camping, photography · no comments

• 11 Jul 2003: Tara, I Hate You

  
  Personal: dreams · 108 comments

• 8 Jul 2003: Wonderful Alarm Clock

  
  Personal: · no comments

• 6 Jul 2003: Loving for Jesus Years

  
  Personal: · no comments

• 1 Jul 2003: Playing in Traffic

  
  Personal: traffic, urban ecology · no comments

• 28 Jun 2003: A Room with a View

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 27 Jun 2003: Automotive Adventures

  
  Personal: · no comments

• 24 Jun 2003: Am I an Ex-Academic?

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

• 22 Jun 2003: It’s Like Cellophane

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 20 Jun 2003: There Goes My Nose

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

• 13 Jun 2003: Heat Absorbtion Gown

  
  Personal: · 5 comments

• 10 Jun 2003: A Strenuous Arrangement

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

• : Oh no, Samus!

  
  Personal: · 5 comments

• 6 Jun 2003: Bachelor Party!

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

• 4 Jun 2003: Exploded Your Mom’s Cambrian Energy Drinks

  
  Personal, Science: · 4 comments