Search Results: california
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26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments... morning, the California Supreme Court will announce its decision on whether or not a slim ... that same-sex marriage was a constitutional right in California, and the passage of Proposition 8. The New York Times quotes one man ... 18,000 marriages will be evidence that California is not going to fall apart if gay people get married,” Mr. Lok ...
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21 May 2020: Field Vehicle Amenities
Science: cars, field work · 10 commentsFollowing on Short Geologist's list of things you do and don't need at a field hotel, and fresh from the field (where by "field" I mean "three days of driving around the mountains looking for stuff", and by "fresh" I mean I'm still at the airport), I thoug ...
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25 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists? Part II
Human Fuzzies, Science: disciplinary boundaries, professional licensing, Washington · 14 comments... annoying hurdle. On the other hand, if I got a job in California I could be a geologist in a few months. In fact, as far as I can ...
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29 Jan 2020: Breaking Up with the Richter Scale
Science: earthquakes, Gutenberg, magnitude scales, Mercalli Intensity, richter, sesimology, unfinished drafts · 5 comments... them. These instruments were installed throughout Southern California. By 2020, this array of Wood-Anderson seismometers had collected ... a particular seismometer, and it needed to be in Southern California, or everything would go wrong. Similar amplitude/distance ...
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13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 comments... extraction of ground water from most basins in Southern California is limited to the safe yield. This is because everyone has already ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 comments... that one?) At least three M5-6 earthquakes will strike California, resulting in minor property damage. At least one person will be ...
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18 Dec 2020: California is Safe?
Aimless: · 10 comments... the summary version, the Los Angeles Times noticed that California is mostly safe, and ran with that angle. The study's authors looked ... Bay Area for the entire study period, and 1,072 for all of California.** I haven't crunched the numbers for how much a Big One would ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... on a budget, try the Coast Ranges or Klamath Mountains of California). 10. An anorthosite complex, such as those in Labrador, the ... and Niger (there's some anorthosite in southern California too). 11. A slot canyon. Many of these amazing canyons are less than ...
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6 Nov 2020: Why Proposition 8 Hurts So Much
Politics: · 3 comments... us to embrace a politics of hope and unity, voters in California, Florida, Arizona, and Arkansas embraced the politics of fear and ... citizenship. Each of those measures stung, but California's Proposition 8 made me absolutely heartsick. California was my home ...
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26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 comment... of the projects on my Donors Choose challenge slate or the California No on 8 campaign. And for those of you giving to Donors Choose, our ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 comments... specs for municipal water well contracts across Southern California - is to simply drop your gravel from as small a height above the top ...
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9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately
Aimless: · 3 comments... projects (another is on the San Andreas, near Parkfield, California) designed to give us an up-close look at what real active faults ...
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6 Oct 2020: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!
Aimless: · 11 comments... through New Mexico the Salton Trough at the very bottom of California - we think of the Pacific-North American plate boundary as being a ... Andreas. But when you get far enough south... the Gulf of California actually has just a wee bit of rifting going on. the sharp ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... Care (the Not Entirely Abortion Section!) Elena Perez at California NOW writes about Feminist Parenting and Fighting the Doctor: And ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... reel off the minerals that are most likely to appear in California, where all of my serious geologic education has taken place. But ... important minerals in your area. If you're in California, I suggest serpentine. If you're elsewhere in the U.S., you might ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... to changes in the squeezing of surrounding rocks: California's Old Faithful, in the wine country town of Calistoga. So before ... Detection of Hydrothermal Precursors to Large Northern California Earthquakes. Science, 257(5075), 2020-2020. DOI: ...
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5 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 6 comments... a lot of gender. It's kind of awful. Attention, Southern California! On November 13 you will have the exciting honor of hosting the ... blog devoted to the preparations. Readers not in Southern California can play along by working on your own emergency kits. Could a ...
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24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 comments... a variable M, but apparently a dedicated mathphobe in the California public school system can easily escape such basic mathematical ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... - and Kashmir, and Bam, and Indonesia, and San Simeon, California - we already knew what was wrong. The real problems are social, ...
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25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance
Aimless: · 3 comments... of my job used to be telling the people of Sun County, California* how their ground water resources would be affected by proposed new ... impact review required for all new construction in California under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA - we pronounced ...
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14 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: The Bishop Tuff
Aimless: · 6 comments... from the same eruption are found all over Southern California and as far east as Nebraska. Tuff is what happens when a pile of ... and the Sierra Nevada Mountains to be the Princess of California, long may they collectively smile and wave in their mountainy way. ...
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4 Mar 2020: Oops! I’m Perjured Again
Aimless: · 7 comments... of perjury. Y'see, as a public employee of the state of California, I was required to sign that exact same oath: I do solemnly swear ... of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true ...
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6 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... that doesn't make me want to throw a rock at my computer! California Solar Power History -- A neat Google Maps widget that shows the takeoff in solar power in California in the last 8 years. If you know your San Francisco area geography, ...
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23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie
Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments... us with a factor of 20 lurking ominously in the shadows. California is not going to fall into the sea. No, really, it isn't. The ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... for your yoga life coach therapist guru. Fucking Californians, always on a fucking journey. P: I sprayed pomegranate juice ...
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15 Oct 2020: Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us Will Provide a Nice Soak
Personal, Science: camping, hot springs, Long Valley · 3 comments... sixty thousand years ago, a volcano went off in Eastern California, covering the western United States with ash and leaving behind a 15 ...
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28 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike
Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no comments... between the United Auto Workers and the University of California expires on Sunday. Negotations continue, with goals like affordable ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... courses in the department. My sense is that even in California, students don't get much secondary-level geoscience education and ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... in Wisconsin. You can tell they're in Wisconsin, and not California, because they forgot the only age-related factoid that is directly ... do with iceberg lettuce and everything to do with oil. - California celebrates Cesar Chavez day, I wonder if this is true for my ...
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27 Oct 2020: Psst… Partisan Googlebomb
Politics: anti-endorsements, googlebombs · 2 comments... of the Googlebomb most relevant to my blog content (i.e., California, and people with funny names). I am not a skeezy search engine ... Doolittle CA-11: Richard Pombo - Did you know that the California Dried Bean Festival is held in Richard Pombo's district? It does not ...
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25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... something else Affluent troubled teens in Southern California have always been the subjects of television series. They have ...
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11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance
Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments... conditions at the Coso geothermal energy facility in California; it's also been used on other volcanoes. But this is the first time ...
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3 Jul 2020: How Avis and the University of California are Destroying the Environment
Personal, Politics: capitalism sucks, environmentalism, SUVs · 2 commentsThe corporate customer agreement between Avis and the UC system doesn't include the "intermediate SUV" class. So the only way to get a vehicle with four-wheel drive and decent clearance, and be covered under UC's insurance policy, is to rent in the "nonsen ...
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17 Apr 2020: Dear ASUC Candidates
Personal: Berzerkeley · no commentsI haven't given a shit about student government since I dropped my ASCIT membership four years ago. Now I have the United Auto Workers for all my giving-a-shit needs, and frankly, I'm just too pretty to worry about whatever financial shell games my departm ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... I've run off to the more pleasingly rocky fields of California, where we make hilariously erudite radical jokes about Judith Butler ...
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25 Nov 2020: The Shoppingest Friday iTunes iChing of the Year
Whimsy: consumerism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · no comments... Kelley - Ingjen Fugle Fyke Sa Hagt The Crown: Low - California The Root: The Be Good Tanyas - Horses The Past: Stones in the ...
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14 Nov 2020: Eaten the First Time
Links: anti-racism, Barack Obama, blog carnivals, new holiday, pirates, student parents, women in science, work vs. family · 1 comment... new favoritest civic festivals evar, even better than the California Dry Bean Festival: Guavaween and Gasparilla. Gasparilla, you are ...
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1 Nov 2020: Plebiscite Time Is Fun Time
Politics: abortion, California ballot propositions, co-op living, MediCal, teacher tenure · 9 comments... comments on the broader role of ballot initiatives in California political culture, exaggerated caricatures of my actual opinions, ... are supposed to represent the unique personality of the California electorate - let's not be afraid to let our inner soul shine ...
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9 Sep 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-N
Whimsy: co-op living, Friday random ten, Germany, Nutella, search requests, welfare · 4 commentsLoretta Kelley - Amerikaspel - Tussedans I Harptjonnberget David Bowie - Diamond Dogs - 2020 Värttinä - Ilmatar - Lieto Cordelia's Dad - Spine - In The Cars On The Long Island Railroad Matt Pond PA - This Is Not the Green Fury - A List of Sound Fl ...
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17 Aug 2020: Democracy is So Wearying
Links, Politics: California ballot propositions · no comments... by the thundering of plebiscites? But for all you Californians who just looove democracy, here's a very nice analysis of ...
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31 Jul 2020: Oh Yes, Minnesota
Personal: customs, Minnesota, mosquitoes, travelogue · 11 comments... and compose a proper travelogue; then it's back to California, and moving, and a dash of field work, and cleaning and scrubbing ...
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24 Jun 2020: Friday Hangover Blogging
Personal: search requests · 4 comments... I note in passing that it is fully legal in the state of California to have music playing through one (1) earbud while driving, which is ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... to bloviating about how some recent earthquake has pushed California that much closer to falling into the ocean burying Los Angeles alive ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... to accept the fact that I'm going to stay in sunny California for the foreseeable future. I am apparently searching for my ...
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6 Jun 2020: Summer Flowers Bring September Fires
Uncategorized: photoblog · 3 comments... was California Desert Day at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens. One of the ...
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4 May 2020: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!
Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments... my passage through the hallowed halls of the University of California. Note in particular the following provision: The Legislature ...
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18 Apr 2020: For Millennia, Google Has Spoken
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: essay contests, googlefu · 3 comments... owner's property or the property of the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. For millennia mankind has been ...
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1 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Hypertufa
Science: April Fool, rock blogging · 2 comments... sediments, etc.) - and if you're anywhere near California, it's worth driving up to Mono Lake to check out the fabulous tufa ...
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18 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Bishop Tuff
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 4 comments... Ash deposits from the same eruption are found in Southern California and as far west as Nebraska. Tuff is what happens when a pile of ... and the Sierra Nevada Mountains to be the Princess of California, long may they collectively smile and wave in their mountainy way. ...
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11 Jan 2020: Mmmm Rocket Fuel
Politics, Science: earthquakes, ground water, perchlorate, pollution · no comments... to slosh around in wells in Virginia... and in Southern California. Of course our wells only fluctuated by an inch and a half, which ...
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10 Nov 2020: Suckers for Science in the Suburbs
Politics: California ballot propositions, embryonic stem cells, genetic engineering, health care, scientific illiteracy, stem cell research · 5 comments... an article in the Weekly Standard asserting that Californians are Suckers for 'Science', spending a million zillion dollars on ... for-real save lives: THE PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION 71 in California (the Stem Cell Research and Cures Act) was an acute case of electoral folly. As Californians plunged headlong into a $6 billion quagmire of debt in a quixotic ...
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3 Nov 2020: Back on the Horse
Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments... win elections. There was some talk at the party of a California secession - instigated, as it happened, by our very own ... attacked as "distractions". I voted Green in 2020** - in California - and four years after the fact people are still hurling invective ...
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2 Nov 2020: Fusion Tickets
Politics: California ballot propositions, California politics, elections, US party politics · no comments... of electoral reform brouhaha on our ballots today in California - I voted "no" on both. There's lots of ways in which to reform ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... too late for Professor Bainbridge's spreadsheet of California blogger endorsements, but what the heck, I still need to make up my ... individuals are utterly deluged with calls from anxious California lefties already. And if John Kerry makes one more pandering remark ...
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20 Oct 2020: Fabulousness at the Beach
Links, Personal: cars, cubicle living, jalopies · no comments... Ohio to satisfy the insatiable vote-swapping appetites of California ...
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30 Sep 2020: Debate Livesnarking
Politics: · 2 comments... tom kha. One well-timed stalk of lemongrass could put California in play. 6:41 - OH SHIT! John Kerry is wearing a RED tie, and ...
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15 Sep 2020: California Performance Review for Geologists
Politics: California politics, environmentalism, urban planning · no comments... limited interest - but there might plausibly be one or two California geologists lurking among you Gentle Readers. California non-geologists and googlebots may be interested as well; I'm pulling ...
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23 Aug 2020: Monday Silliness: California Creeks
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · no comments... Tang Oddly, these are all Northern and Northish-Central California features. One might interpret this as evidence for the relative ... this hypothesis. The monotonous crappiness of Southern California place names can instead be blamed on the Spanish missionaries, as if ...
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9 Aug 2020: Weekend Recap
Personal: video games · no comments... really so wrong? This year, I moved from appreciating California Extreme the way one would appreciate any event with friends and a ...
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5 Aug 2020: SUVs illegal in Pasadena
Politics: environmentalism, Pasadena, SUVs · 1 commentI'm so writing my city councillors on this one: 3-ton SUVs are illegal in my neighborhood (and others). I'm sure if they tried to enforce the ban, all the Hummer owners would get together and "help" with the City Hall renovations... but hey, an irate citi ...
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25 Jun 2020: Note to the California Legislature: Please Kill More Kitties
Politics: · no comments... lovably zany California state goverment really needs to suck it up and raise taxes, but ... the following note to my state legislators, and fellow California residents are hereby encouraged to do likewise. Dear Local ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... no question that water is a tricky thing. California currently sustains itself by mining ground water to the tune of 1.3 ... as evidenced by new housing developments "reminiscent of California ranch style architecture" - which may sound like code for ...
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2 May 2020: Nerds Save 5%
Personal: · 2 commentsThe coolant pixies live in a very short hose that runs from one thingy to another thingy underneath the thing. I deduced this myself, after running the very simple experiment of filling up the radiator and watching coolant drip onto the ground. It's a slow ...
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29 Mar 2020: Poppies, poppies
Personal: · 1 comment... to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve on Sunday, along with every other amateur photographer ...
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25 Mar 2020: Pasadena: My Neighbors Have Nice Flowers
Human Fuzzies: intellectual elitism, Pasadena, urban planning, urban sprawl · 1 comment... important in her final paragraph: What makes a Southern California city like Pasadena seem less like a real city than a typical Eastern ...
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9 Dec 2020: Snekaos i L.A.?
Links, Politics, Whimsy: Local Politics, Los Angeles, snow · 5 comments... but it turned into a disaster because none of the Southern Californians knew how to build one, said Reyes spokesman Tony Perez. "We ...
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4 Dec 2020: Foul Putrid News Organization
Politics: · no comments... the sale of glow-in-the-dark zebra fish will be banned in California because the Fish and Game Commissioners think genetic engineering is ... if the article has it right. Imagine what an awful place California would be if these people had jurisdiction over boob jobs and doggie ...
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27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke
Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 commentsWent out to Joshua Tree Friday night, and so the photoblog has been updated for the first time in months. Saturday, Peter and I went to investigate a dry lake - where "investigate a dry lake" actually meant "get the car stuck in sand three miles from an ...
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8 Oct 2020: Small Comforts, and a Movie Marathon
Human Fuzzies, Politics: · 1 comment... the complete oeuvre of Ronald Reagan, and a "Governors of California" movie marathon will last until the next ...
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22 Aug 2020: But You Still Have Two Kidneys, Scott!
Politics: · 2 comments... an issue of immediate political need in the state of California. All the serious pundits are talking about the budget, which will ...
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14 Aug 2020: 135
Politics: · 2 commentsSee the Certified List of Candidates! Ooooh. Aaah. I woke up late last night slash early this morning, believing for a good fifteen seconds that civilization was over. Kaput. Dying a hissing, steaming death like the sounds of distant bombs, ruptured dams, ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... recall - it's money bleeding through a weird loophole in California elections law, and all possible outcomes are ruinous. But there's a ... alternative to Your Favorite Political Evil, fixing California's broken chi, getting increased exposure for the concerns of ...
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13 Jun 2020: Heat Absorbtion Gown
Personal: · 5 comments... French. An outdoor graduation, in full sun, in Southern California, in June, with black academic hats. Four years of accumulated ...
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28 Apr 2020: I want my 2 1/2 hours back
Personal: · no comments... Pasadena office of the California Department of Motor Vehicles is well approximated by the locker room ... afternoon and a good use of $12. Hooray for the state of California and all its squinty ...
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1 Dec 2020: oh yeah, thanks
Personal: · 3 comments... underwear to the world. Today I learned once more that California is a really big state that takes a long time to drive through. I am ...
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24 Sep 2020: O Autumn
Personal: fire, seasons · 1 comment... that it is actually fall here in seasonless Southern California, and time to go back to school. I've been eating soup, and staring ...
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9 Jun 2020: My fault
Science: canned goods, death, earthquakes, guest posts, Hayward Fault, san andreas · 4 comments... was on sway. The San Andreas may be the most famous of California's fault lines, but the Hayward fault is the one to watch: it hasn't ... is a little more than a mile away. So like a lot of Californians, securing my bookcases to the walls and stocking up on bottled ...
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30 Mar 2020: Crying Baby Airlines
Personal: · 4 comments... means both cases are true at once. So, yeah, I'm back in California, ready to petition against my current academic ineligibility (they ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... 40: The California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal ... bond issues, because I pay my taxes in the state of Iowa. California bonds are just a chance for me to spend other people's money, ...
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16 Jan 2020: Old Man Winter
Human Fuzzies, Personal: book reviews, rain, winter · no comments... pouring, The old man is snoring Winter in Southern California always makes me really gleeful, in part because I love rain and in ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Boring State
Personal: amtrak, crap towns, grain elevators, journey west, land of enchantment, salvage yards, trains, travelogue, useless information · no comments... If you are a kernel of corn, a journey west from Iowa to California would encompass the most stimulating views your vegetable mind could ... Richard Nixon was born in this very town of Yorba Linda, California, and his birthplace and library are somewhere off in the smog to the ...
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2 Jan 2020: chugga chugga
Meta: trains · no comments... a choo-choo train. The day after tomorrow, I will be in California, sick to death of choo-choo trains. I was going to make the trip ...
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14 Dec 2020: to play with space and time
Aimless: · no comments... suitcase with clothes and crap I know I won't need until California. The tangibility of it all is frightening; I don't want to leave, ...
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17 Nov 2020: jeg var…
Personal: diary, words · no comments... to the invariably useless thesaurus.com, I settle for some Californian combination of "like" "really" and "dude." I don't remember having ...
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13 Nov 2020: solen skinner så meget
Personal: · no comments... out of it either. At first I thought I had woken up in California and this had all been a dream, but then I thought I'd better take ...
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25 Oct 2020: image games
Meta: · no comments... about the fact that in a box somewhere, I think it's in California, I own a tie-dyed union suit, complete with the butt-flap, that I ...
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9 Oct 2020: Going Swimming
Personal: · 1 comment... whole exercise. I feel alive. After two years living in California I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but this was the first time I've ... of the Pacific is almost as cold as the North Sea, and the California coast is a little short on saunas - excuses, excuses. I was startled ...
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16 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #2: a list
Aimless: · no comments... at mySimon.com. Donut Star - a shop in Orange County, California (Orange County!) that serves donuts and americanized chinese food. ...
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13 Aug 2020: aha! an American!
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish, tourism · no comments... why I didn't have an umbrella (because, like, I'm from California, and, like, what's this stuff coming out of the sky?) but he sounded ...
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26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments... pop-vs-soda thing is really my token effort at resisting California idiom. I make a point of using "pop" more often than I ever did when ...
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14 Jul 2020: my cat is a huge grouch
Personal: · no comments... approximately the same thing I do when I fly back to California... but dammit, she's still my mother, and I still haven't adjusted ...
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5 Jul 2020: Here we go again
Meta: · no comments... summer, and lose interest in the fall, when I head back to California where outside is actually a palatable option. Sometimes, though, the ...