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24 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: diy, google earth, Links · no comments... Layer -- Lots of great resources accumulating in the comments here. Magma Cum Laude: Using Google Earth to visualize volcanic and ...
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9 Jan 2020: ScienceBlogs Down Today
Meta: · no comments... still be accessible, but you won't be able to post any new comments, and we won't be able to post any new entries. The upgrade will start ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 commentsGeotripper always comes up with the best memes [Oh, wait, looks like Brian at Clastic Detritus might have priority on this one - sorry Brian!] He's made some psychic predictions for 2020. But I think his crystal ball must have some inclusions that are scat ...
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24 Dec 2020: Happy Twinkletree, Joyous Monkey
Aimless: · 3 comments... exceptions for looking up hot cocktail recipes - so your comments may be stuck in moderation for a few days. If you're jonesing for more ...
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16 Dec 2020: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa
Food, Science: baked Alaska, desserts, failed experiments, lava, meringue, recipes · 6 comments... up the xenolith, so the crystals survived. Please see the comments for an explanation of why this is wrong. A baked Alaska also relies ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... into a meme. Bold items are things I've seen or done; my comments are in italics. 1. See an erupting volcano - Kilauea 2. See a ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... you would like to see me perform, please note it here in comments, and I'll set a value on it. This story scared me, so I'll extend ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... time to participate in this short survey. If you have any comments about the survey, they should be sent to stranger DOT harassment DOT survey AT gmail DOT com Please do NOT post them in the comments here, so as not taint others' responses. And if you are a woman who ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... maybe you can suggest a good one for your region in the comments? Oh, and it can't be pyrite. Everyone already knows ...
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12 Sep 2020: Attention Seattle (and everyone else)
Meta: · 9 commentsFor those of you who don't actually read any other ScienceBlogs (hi, Mom): We're approaching the one meeeellionth comment here at the ScienceBorg! This means there's a contest! If you submit a comment with a valid email address between... um, whenever the ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... definitely merit the label of "planet". Centauri Dreams comments that the discovery is a credit to improving instrumentation, and more ...
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31 Dec 2020: Year in Review
Meta: clip show · no comments... Have a Clip Show Post I Really Wanted More Comments On: What would you name as "science world heritage" sites? - Good ...
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12 Nov 2020: Attn: Geoblogosphere
Links, Meta: blog carnivals · 2 commentsSo how well are the earth sciences represented in the nominations for the 2020 Open Laboratory? Well. There's some great geodesy, climate science, oceanography, and paleontology, and Chris Clarke wrote a lovely meditation on Miocene volcanism in the Sierra ...
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26 Oct 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Panspermia?
Human Fuzzies, Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, meteorites, panspermia · 2 comments... good to have a little wiggle room in these questions. Comments on the hat-sizes of panspermia's various proponents will be left to ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... have lived), plain text on the ones that aren’t, and comments in italics. Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor ...
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29 Jul 2020: Understanding Everyday Symbolism
Politics: hate crimes, racism · 6 comments... of violent religious crazy violence!" found in the comments to that thread with similar statements made about African-American men ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 commentsHappy Independence Day, Americans! Aren't you glad you live in the USA, and not in, say, Iraq? Boy, I'd sure hate to be living in Iraq right now. Or in Chile under Pinochet; hoorah for living in a country where the football stadium doesn't double as a conc ...
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22 Jun 2020: Where on (Google) Earth #20
Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 5 comments... the gun on this one - Tectonite has yet to unmoderate the comments on WoGE 19. When she does, I am sure I will be ignominiously revealed ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... been multiply scooped, but there you have it anyway. Comments on selected Scientiae entries after the jump. An old post, but a ...
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18 Feb 2020: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos
Science: cnidarians, embryos, paleontology, Precambrian · 2 commentsSweeeet. Paleontologists have found late-stage fossil embryos in China's Precambrian Doushantuo Formation. The things have a three-coiled spiral structure and look kind of like baseballs. Less developed embryos (blastulas, for all you embryology nerds) ...
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14 Oct 2020: 2020 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests
Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments... the office said they witnessed Smith making inappropriate comments to a female member of the staff while requiring her to go to lunch ...
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25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... are true for me, plain text on the ones that aren't, and comments in italics. The Soviet Union has never existed and therefore is ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... You - the world contains a lot of pent-up aggression. The comments on that post are just the tip of the iceberg; more than once I've had ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... president of Harvard, suggested in a 2020 speech. His comments brought the issue of women's lack of participation in science and ...
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23 Jun 2020: Recently Spammed
: · 1 comment... is a cheap ripoff of Nick Momrik's recent comments plugin. Instead of listing recently published comments, it lists recent comments that have been flagged as spam. Download: version ...
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29 May 2020: Going Underwater
Meta: blog status updates · no comments... looks funny all of a sudden, that's why. Don't leave any comments you don't mind seeing thrown to the howling ...
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29 Mar 2020: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept
Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments... it, she posts it in its entirety at her blog, and the comments from each blog go to the same page? Think of each post as a plugin ... displays it. Any number of blogs could host it and all comments from all blogs would appear together. Is the technology ...
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15 Feb 2020: Oops
Meta: blog status updates · 2 comments... alert than I am: is it just me being banned, or are the comments fubar-ish? I appear to have been bitten by this bug; I should've ... too good to be true. All your erroneously-spambinned comments have been restored, hoorah! And your lives - which I'm sure were on ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Privileged Huff
Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments... also but, I really like a point brought up in the comments to the original white-liberal-knicker-twisting entry: [I]deological ...
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22 Dec 2020: New Plugin: Recently Spammed
Meta: comment spam, plugins, WordPress · 3 commentsI figured this plugin would be easy to do, given the right starting point, and boy was I ever correct. Setting up the documentation took twice as long as actually writing the plugin itself. So, I bring you Recently Spammed, the WordPress plugin that tel ...
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8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs
Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments... and nice. Nick Kiddle on almost being raped: can the comments on such stories ever devolve into a dead-horse-beating-fest about the ...
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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... to recurring political tropes, hopelessly cryptic comments on the broader role of ballot initiatives in California political ... to cast. If you'd like to have serious arguments in the comments, that could be fun too; I'm particularly open to discussion about ...
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30 Aug 2020: For Shame, Agence France-Press!
Politics: Hurricane Katrina, racism · no commentsWhite people find stuff, black people loot it. Photo captioners, your lifetime allotment of cookies must be relinquished to needy hurricane victims posthaste. [ultimately via] ...
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20 Jun 2020: Testing the Future
Meta: call for guestbloggers, folk music, have an mp3 · 12 comments... plus it would be sad for new commenters to not have their comments show up for weeks and weeks because there's no one around to moderate ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... posts full of hornpipes, and help moderate the comments... let me know. I might also be able to arrange for some bribes prizes ...
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1 Jun 2020: Modern Society
Links, Politics: health care, impeach Bush, Internet activism, telephony · 5 commentsOne Miss Manners gets a letter from another non-cell-phone-owner - I am not alone! Perhaps I'll revert to not owning an answering machine as well, and put out a little basket so that people can leave their calling cards if they drop by while I am out. Tw ...
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: Academic Insecurity Builds Character
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 6 commentsA tempest is brewing over at YoungFemaleScientist regarding the proper attitude to be displayed by postdocs towards their chosen careers. Part 1: I'm sorry, but if you're a postdoc by default, because you're so lacking in creativity and motivation that ...
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16 May 2020: I Wish I Were Covered in Fuzzy Knobs
Links, Meta, Personal: anti-spam, cnidarians, hyperopia, myopia, vision · 4 commentsIt's been a while since I've had to take serious decongestants. My head feels like space cheese, like an attack balloon, like a mountain stream of badly-distilled moonshine of the kind that killed my great-great-great-grandfather. I am so very vincible. ...
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12 May 2020: Fun with htaccess
Meta: anti-spam, blogtinkery, htaccess · 7 comments... still getting a few hundred hits per month on mt-comments.cgi. A 410 error uses somewhat less bandwidth than my custom 404 page: Redirect gone /scgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi I was thinking about doing this as: Redirect 301 /scgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi http://goatse.cx/ ... or similar, but it's not like a bot ...
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4 May 2020: Penis-Talk Redux
Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 commentsSo I just had a forehead-slapping moment with regards to the whole male-body-bonding thing, and it was precipitated by Maya's comment chez Hugo: Even in American society, I think women have a very different relationship to their bodies than men do. Our ...
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3 May 2020: Two Tuesday Links
Links, Personal: Brazil, masculinity · 6 comments... a man contemplates his penis, and what happens in the comments section? People start talking about the G-spot. Bephallicled readers, ...
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2 May 2020: Feedtinkery
Meta: blogtinkery, RSS, WordPress · 5 comments... with my RSS templates tonight. So far, I've changed the comments feed to include the title of the entry each comment was posted on - ... about you, but I find a context-free stream of recent comments to be exceptionally irritating. I should put in some forking ...
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28 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Twelve
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 2 comments... in the kidneys molotov + snail DIRTY COMMENTS ABOUT CHEAPSKATES princess monkey + blog CATS MENSTRUATING girls ...
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26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 commentsOne So people have been blathering about the USDA's new dietary horoscope. I punched in my info and I'm a Grain with Beans Rising, with Mars in Vegetables and the Moon in Mac'n'Cheez. I must take care to eat extra grain-fed beef during the warm seasons t ...
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21 Apr 2020: Brain Asplode
Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 commentsI should not have had that third cup of coffee. I feel a little ill. Why am I drinking a diet coke with lunch? I must secretly like the idea that my heart will explode and my veins will leak and my eyeballs will shoot out the back of my head at any moment. ...
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18 Apr 2020: Reading Material
Links: anger, environmentalism, gender, kittens, motherhood, pharmacists, theology · 12 comments... Harlot, Shut up about the birth control already. Your comments and concerns are so very important to us, that we responded to your ...
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4 Apr 2020: Special to Fellow WordPress Blogtinkers
Meta: Announcements, blogtinkery · 11 comments... Tonight, that means writing a bit about how to rename wp-comments-post.php (it's really not that tricky). Readers who are interested in ...
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30 Mar 2020: Pharmaceuticals
Politics: pharmacists · 7 commentsThe smartest take I've seen on these so-called "conscience clauses" for pharmacists is most of the way down here: Four states already have laws that specifically allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions that violate their beliefs. Here's the p ...
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29 Mar 2020: Gah Spam!
Meta: blog status updates, comment spam · 5 comments... of a coincedence. I'll have a look-see at renaming wp-comments.php tonight. Any other suggestions for combating spam without chewing ... run it through WordPress and plugins and etc.? For now, comments from "new" commenters will go into the moderation queue. If yours ...
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11 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Granite
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 13 commentsPZ Myers was right to call for a more inclusive vision of Friday Cat Blogging, noting that 99% of the species on the planet are non-chordates while the Friday Ark continues to be dominated by a small number of mammalian genera. Sadly, his progressive visio ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... notably funny today. Say something hilarious in the comments, won't ...
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20 Feb 2020: Hello world!
Meta: blog status updates, WordPress · 12 comments... how I get my name to stop showing up as "admin" in the comments? I've set it to "yami" in my user profile but it's just not sticking. ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 commentsWe have a call and response and variations on the theme of brazen wimmins asking lovely shy manpeople on dates, and particularly, why a feminist who takes no crap from The Rules might still not want to do such a thing. Reasons discussed include (in ascend ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 commentsFrom Left2Right to Pharyngula to you and me: High-Speed Plate Tectonics and Young Earth Creationism. Yow! Before we indulge ourselves in pointless nitpicking, let us address one misconception that seems to have come up among even the reality-based particip ...
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11 Feb 2020: Blah Blah Blah
Meta, Whimsy: paint, quizzes, science fiction · 5 commentsHow many entries do I have sitting in draft mode? A lot. One or two of them are halves of good posts. Why haven't I finished any of them? I don't know. Which science fiction writer are you? I'm Hal Clement. [via]. I'm also Long Drugs "Goth Black" matte ...
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24 Jan 2020: We’re All Molluscan Pornographers Here
Links, Science: blogular wanking, molluscs · no commentsPZ Myers links to Apostropher's coverage of graphic cuttlefish gender-bending with the observation that "I thought peddling molluscan sex acts was my job." Indignant sniff! Here at Green Gabbro we've been peddling yicky mollusc sexuality for just yonks ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 commentsCourtesy Matthew Yglesias comes a discussion that makes me think: Eh? Do I have wax in my ears? Write louder, sonny boy! - 'cause all I'm gettin' is burble blah masculine/feminine blah burble doo. Somewhere in there, the statement "women are attracted to m ...
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6 Dec 2020: An N Things Post: N=2, Politics
Links, Politics: gender, US party politics, USDA · no commentsBeen meaning to link to two posts as Mousewords on feminism as a frame for the Democratic party: I: bouncing off the marginalization of women in the punditry and II: a succinct followup: You cannot reply to accusations that your side doesn't have a vi ...
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19 Nov 2020: Spam Stopgap
Meta: blogtinkery, comment spam · no comments... spam today! I put in a quick fix to restrict access to mt-comments.cgi - if you're trying to post and can't, your browser probably isn't ...
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11 Oct 2020: Evolutionary Psychology Goes to the Dentist
Personal, Whimsy: dissociation, evolutionary psychology, medicine · no commentsI had a couple thoughts stuck up in my jaw during my root canal the other month; Rana's just dislodged one. Ahem: Going to the doctor/dentist requires that we place an immense amount of trust in someone who is, in most circumstances and for most purposes, ...
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29 Aug 2020: Weekend Review
Personal: capitalism sucks, consumerism, dishware, grad school · 4 comments... I could fail to impress anyone with my sparkling snarky comments; instead, had to write WHO BUYS THIS SHIT??? in the free-response box ...
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11 Aug 2020: Burble Tensors on Cross-Disciplinary Manifolds of Love!
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 5 commentsSo I've been asked to elaborate on my rather dim view of Big Scientific Metanarratives in lit-crit circles. Fair 'nuf, but be forewarned that I'm working against my instincts here. Right now, my instincts are telling me to keep snarking about beer. To b ...
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9 Aug 2020: Moment Tensors as a Heuristic Discourse that Goes “Burble, Burble”
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 6 commentsSo my curiosity and I were piqued by mention of a lit-crit/humanities project requiring in-depth knowledge of general relativity, chez All Day Permanent Red. Unless it is a discussion of historical physics research papers qua literature and the broader cul ...
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5 Aug 2020: Attention RSS Infidels
Meta: · no comments... space at the front of the RSS+comments feed. And there's also shiny xml for the photoblog, not that I've ...
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1 Aug 2020: Pimp Mah Blawg!
Meta: blogtinkery · 1 comment... collapsing sidebar cookie gadgets. Install SimpleComments. All those goddamn templates: comments, comment preview, search results, archives, blah blah blah. Make them ...
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21 Jul 2020: On Third
Links, Meta: · no commentsFYI, there's a nice discussion on anonymity, and to an intruiguing but insufficient extent the genderedness thereof, happening over at leuschke.org. Me, I rather enjoy not having to defend my chosen level of thin pseudonymity, so I won't weigh in. But it's ...
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12 Jul 2020: Yay Class Warfare!
Politics: classism, health care, John Edwards, labor unions, trade, workers rights · no commentsI love the rhetoric of class warfare more than just about anything else in political discourse, except maybe pie. So I'm happy about John Edwards. What I'm not happy about is how such delightful righteous indignation of (or on behalf of) the proletariat ke ...
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29 Jun 2020: Easy Things That Aren’t
Personal: human imperfection, mental blocks · 15 comments... to muddle through life anyway. Here's a partial list. Comments with "helpful" suggestions are NOT allowed on this post, but if you ...
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23 Apr 2020: Lazy RSS Roundup
Links: dreams · no comments... like my banner to have a flag on it or something. Two comments on transitional spaces which would probably taste great together on a ...
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8 Apr 2020: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps
Personal: · 2 comments... those salon-mates, spoken of in this post and thread of comments, in my smaller community of the future. And, perhaps it would need to ...
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2 Mar 2020: Personalized Follow-Up
Personal: · 5 comments... is critical to our success. We have forwarded your comments to our Quality Management Team so that they may benefit from your ...
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22 Feb 2020: Le Tutoiement des Blogs
Human Fuzzies: french, net culture · 3 comments... "tu" as is the tradition with blogs.] The rest of the comments are all over the map, using either "vous" or "tu" without explanation. ...
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20 Feb 2020: Someone’s Trolling My Bridge
Meta: · no comments... squeaks and boings? Good. Now - are there any more comments from the peanut gallery? *menacing stare* * The 1 is not a mistake, ...
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15 Feb 2020: Details
Meta: · no comments... playing with the RSS - new RSS 2.0 feed includes comments! Old RSS 1.0 feed does not include comments, but has other crappy & useless metadata. And if you're reading ...
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12 Oct 2020: Nitrate Pumped Nabokov
Meta: · 5 comments... if you believe the entry title. I've gotten a few spam comments lately, nothing unmanageable, but trickles do become floods if one ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... they were real problems at all - so I blamed myself. The comments on Baraita get into this from a slightly different perspective. I ...
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29 Apr 2020: I bid on fleas and spoons
Links, Teaching: Internet goofiness · no comments... to live on the MOON! Retains his SANITY! eBay Feedback Comments Left by andy46477! I think this would be funny even if I hadn't ...
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5 Oct 2020: Old Comments
Meta: · no commentsIt's been a while since I last went through the email backlog... i tried to view the 'neal pollack' site at work, but it was filtered, due to falling under the "tasteless" category. it's immediately going into my home bookmark. That's what you get for h ...
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18 Aug 2020: A Contest-Contest
Aimless: · 15 comments... should I run on my weblog? Submit your answers in the comments, in a standard fixed verse form (including haiku). The contest will ...
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30 Jun 2020: Fixings
Whimsy: · 3 comments... of automating those "I responded to your post on my blog" comments, if you happen to be using a blog-tool that handles Trackback pings ...
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29 Jun 2020: Kludge-krrzzzoing
Meta: · 4 comments... there's lots broken. A post and a couple of comments were lost in the upgrade; sorry about that. The photoblog is out of ...
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5 Jun 2020: Like A Virgin
Meta: blogular wanking, fan mail, guest posts · 3 comments... and interesting web finds. Doable... yes. Ooooh, and comments from the peanut gallery, just in: Simmering soup awaits... I'm ...
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20 May 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · 3 comments... It's getting close to dinner time, so on with the twerky comments! syenite *sigh* Good ...
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12 May 2020: Someone Saves Me
Meta: · no comments... all the writing I had in me today. Fortunately, there are comments that need smart-ass responses: what do you do with a drunken sailor ...
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15 Apr 2020: Search Engine Envy
Meta: · 5 comments... anymore, now that I've lost my guestbook and all my old comments. At any rate, the browse through someone else's log files has brought ...
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21 Feb 2020: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments... grad-school-decisionmaking fears and a couple of the comments from yesterday's entry. Dogpile on Tinka! ...
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10 Dec 2020: tuna fish sculpture
Food, Meta: cooking, groceries · no comments... #1: I tried to edit the comments file from two posts back and I seem to have broken it. So if you have ...
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2 Dec 2020: gender-bender
Meta: · no comments... about my personal habits and hygiene in the comments ...
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15 Oct 2020: No More Mr. Nipple
Whimsy: nipples, wtf · no comments... and the fact that it's been too well referenced in the comments. But once a phrase like "no more Mr. Nipple" enters your head, you've ...
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3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…
Meta, Personal: · no comments... to another blogger's populist rant, and a couple of the comments put me in rant mode. It seems to me that there's this sense of ...
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12 Jul 2020: phew
Aimless: · no comments... because I like to feel superior and make stupid pissant comments in a place where not only am I not sanctioned for them, I actually get ...