Search Results: entry

• 31 Jan 2005: Laziest Entry Ever!

  
  Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: legalese, poetry, quizzes · no comments

  Quizzes and memeage inside. I feel muffled and must defilter with zombie brains. Not thought! Squeak. First, the "first line of poetry" game, via LDH. The rules: copy the list, and replace all the first lines you don't recognize with the first lines of ...

• 2 Apr 2013: Dandelion Mead

  
  Food: Asteraceae, brewing, dandelions, Food, honey, mead, metheglin, natural dyes, Onagraceae · 3 comments

  ...  Got absorbed doing research for another blog entry - it'll be a monster if I ever finish it but the research and writing are ...

• 17 Feb 2013: Lessons from the Pantry

  
  Food: Adoxaceae, Berberidaceae, Betulaceae, canning, Equisetaceae, Fabaceae, Lamiaceae, Polygonaceae, preserves, Rosaceae, Suillaceae, Urticaceae · 4 comments

  Like other foragers watching the last traces of winter quietly fade, I'm giving the hairy eyeball to my pantry, trying to eat up the old food to make room for the fresh. This is a good time to check in on my own eating habits. Sometimes I let the novel ...

• 25 Apr 2011: Approaching New Flavors

  
  Food: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, Food, foraging, Polygonaceae · no comments

  ...  a catalog of effective flavor combinations. Turn to the entry on cantaloupe and it tells you to try lemon juice, black pepper, port, or curry powder. The entry for lavender refers you to both herbes de Provence and ras el hanout, and ...

• 11 Feb 2009: An Open Letter to the Environmental Geologists of the Past

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: cartography, environmental consulting · 11 comments

  ...  The real audience is someone like me: A data-entry and verification cog in a giant lawsuit that will one day, far in the ...

• 5 Feb 2009: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: Links · 3 comments

  ...  much different from generic office temp jobs, data entry using ArcGIS pays much better than data entry with Excel. Historically, day-jobbing has not had much effect on my blog ...

• 26 Jan 2009: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?

  
  Meta: · 16 comments

  ...  Jocks", with enough unique perspectives that at least one entry would be sure to hook any curious mind. I think the marketing buzzword is ...

• 12 Jan 2009: Listen to Earthquakes

  
  Links: · 3 comments

  ...  a blog of "soundquakes", which automagically generates an entry containing maps, seismograms, and sound files for every M>5 earthquake ...

• 11 Dec 2008: An Open Letter to the Science Blogosphere

  
  Meta: · 10 comments

  ...  you are placing it two or three paragraphs deep into your entry. I tell you this, because after a month or so of mostly ignoring the ...

• 15 Oct 2008: Oh Look, Links

  
  Links: · 2 comments

  ...  on the prize drawings before PZ and his horde mount a late entry to the challenge! The San Francisco exploratorium has created a neat web ...

• 27 Jun 2008: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release

  
  Science: · 14 comments

  ...  same magnitude scale for every earthquake. Instead, each entry in the catalog provides both a magnitude, and a magnitude scale. A quick ...

• 6 Apr 2008: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism

  
  Aimless: · 10 comments

  ...  almost exclusively on the example of a critical blog entry, rather than an overenthusiastic one. I'm going to set up a dichotomy ...

• 5 Mar 2008: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: · 2 comments

  Avalanches on Mars Caught on Camera! -- You can see the dust cloud. If that's not enough for you, the HiRISE team has just released 75 pages of droolworthy new Mars pix. Whoever is in charge of cropping these things has a good eye for composition. This i ...

• 25 Feb 2008: Does This Rheometer Make Me Look Fat?

  
  Aimless: rheology · 6 comments

  ...  can make it into the volcanic arc or something with a late entry about what's making me go "hmm" this afternoon. It's related to ...

• 20 Feb 2008: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: · 4 comments

  ...  an excellent theme and I am looking forward to writing my entry, but freakin' C&C Music Factory cassette showing up during a freakin' ...

• 31 Jan 2008: Hello World

  
  Meta: introduction · 31 comments

  ...  only to find not just my blog, but a recent quote'n'link entry about someone's clever literary analysis of the sex scene in Brokeback ...

• 17 Jan 2008: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals

  
  Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments

  ...  and pretend that anything sent to it is just another blog entry. Why does this matter? The American Geophysical Union is apparently still ...

• 31 Dec 2007: Year in Review

  
  Meta: clip show · no comments

  ...  on Me - in July, Google jiggled its algorithm and this entry suddenly became the #2 result for "who has a crush on me?". This month, ...

• 1 Nov 2007: We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, We’re the November Scientiae!

  
  Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, feminism, gender, impostor syndrome, scientiae, sexism, zombies · 15 comments

  ...  three: their disadvantages. Oh, wait, even laster! A late entry from A Natural Scientist: Sometimes the inner snark creeps into the ...

• 26 Oct 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: Panspermia?

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, meteorites, panspermia · 2 comments

  ...  geology at Aberdeen, studied what effect the heat of re-entry from space had on the rock, along with Dr Stephen Bowden. Heat from re-entry as a barrier to panspermia? I thought we'd already settled that one, when ...

• 6 Jan 2007: Happy Belated Winter

  
  Links: Wikipedia · 7 comments

  ...  compels people to add "the subject of this entry was referenced in [obscure webcomic no one has heard of] on [date]" to ...

• 16 Aug 2006: Oh That Wacky Internet

  
  Links, Science: blog carnivals, Hans Island, Pluto, transphobia · 9 comments

  Wednesday is blog carnival day! We have Carnival of the Feminists #21, Tangled Bank #60, and then there's Carnival Against Sexual Violence #5 and The Scian Melt #20 which were actually out yesterday, but yesterday was not blog carnival day. We also have:  ...

• 12 Aug 2006: How To Grab Google’s Attention

  
  Meta: search requests · 10 comments

  ...  to optimize my site for search engines, like putting the entry title in header tags and using it as the page title in individual ...  meaning of * Cryptic * Spy in provocative underwear. That entry is now the #1 result for queries about cryptic spies in provocative ...

• 23 Jun 2006: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments

  ...  In the end, though, I had html files for all my individual entry pages. I wrote a perl script to read through the html, pull out the ...

• 14 Feb 2006: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy

  
  Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments

  ...  me most. But I'm looking forward to Bitch | Lab's promised entry on why "patriarchy" is a dumb word: I'm sitting here this morning ...

• 31 Jan 2006: Procrastinating Things

  
  Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments

  One I'm surprised that Ester's surprised that Fatah burned a Danish flag. Denmark's foreign policy may be sympathetic, and they sometimes talk a good talk about tolerance, but in practice many Danes who were horrified by the rise of the xenophobe-wing Fol ...

• 4 Jan 2006: The Privileged Huff

  
  Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments

  ...  comments to the original white-liberal-knicker-twisting entry: [I]deological whiteness signifies irreducibility to type, it ...

• 16 Sep 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement

  
  Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments

  ...  answer is ballast. The long answer won't appear in this entry, and probably not during orals either, but I'm going to ramble around the ...

• 3 Aug 2005: Travelogue! Days 0-3

  
  Personal: photoblog · 5 comments

  Days 0-1: Minneapolis Never trust a travel agent. We arrived N hours early at the Minneapolis airport ("we" being my parents, my sister, and myself), Mom bearing a purple multi-compartment binder full of tickets and reservation numbers and an unimaginabl ...

• 9 May 2005: Work a Mile in My Shoes

  
  Science: job openings · 2 comments

  ...  job, and GeoMonkey is seeking my replacement. This is an entry-level position for someone with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in ...

• 2 May 2005: Feedtinkery

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, RSS, WordPress · 5 comments

  ...  I've changed the comments feed to include the title of the entry each comment was posted on - 'cause I dunno about you, but I find a ...

• 5 Apr 2005: Only Terrorists Go to Canada

  
  Politics: fascist police states, Homeland Stupidity, passports · 17 comments

  ...  only form of ID we routinely carry around will "facilitate entry for U.S. citizens". travel document options - so okay, that's not ...

• 31 Mar 2005: Today’s RSS Zeitgeist: Cheapskates

  
  Politics: classism, consumerism, eccentricity, money · 6 comments

  Two good posts on the cultural forces that discourage us from re-evaluating our vast piles of crap, one by Flea (who is, as usual, hilarious along the way): I promise, if Alex had been with us (Christopher was, but in utero form only, so he missed the w ...

• 30 Mar 2005: Pharmaceuticals

  
  Politics: pharmacists · 7 comments

  The 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 ...

• 27 Feb 2005: More WordPress Babbling

  
  Meta: quizzes · no comments

  ...  to assign yet another set of colors to the links in the entry-titles, using a.googleju:link { color: black } - no dice. The first rule ...

• 2 Dec 2004: Thanksgiving Food Review

  
  Food, Personal: cranberry sauce, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 4 comments

  ...  is a food entry. If all works out as planned, it'll be a long food entry, because if I don't handicap the verbiage, my Meyer lemon meringue pie ...

• 17 Sep 2004: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.

  
  Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments

  ...  and the genderedness thereof: When one is not teaching entry-level courses, when one is trying to think something through at a fairly ...

• 15 Sep 2004: California Performance Review for Geologists

  
  Politics: California politics, environmentalism, urban planning · no comments

  ...  where I feel I can be most effective, I bring you an entry of extremely limited interest - but there might plausibly be one or two ...

• 31 Aug 2004: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC

  
  Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments

  ...  to the editor, or in any case something other than a blog entry. If our civic obligation to absorb the agenda of the governing party ...

• 29 Aug 2004: Weekend Review

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

  ...  storytelling air freshener. Perhaps some data-entry temp worker will be entertained by my brief summary of the situation in ...

• 26 Aug 2004: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College

  
  Politics: · 4 comments

  ...  of the Electoral College; said response is in the extended entry. What do you call a pundit on the radio? They're not precisely talking ...

• 15 Aug 2004: Sidebar Gadget Manager: Implementation Notes

  
  Meta: code, Movable Type, php, sidebar gadgets · no comments

  ...  includes which have caused a couple problems. The extended entry has the gory details. Setup: I'm using version 1 of the script. If ...

• 1 Aug 2004: Pimp Mah Blawg!

  
  Meta: blogtinkery · 1 comment

  ...  complete a list of tasks, which I have put in the extended entry. If you're also looking to add doohickeys to your Movable Type weblog, or ...

• 21 Jul 2004: On Third

  
  Links, Meta: · no comments

  FYI, 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 ...

• : Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment

  ...  time required to swallow my scruples and find an innocuous entry-angle to these topics that won't make my eyeballs fall out is time I ...

• 16 Jun 2004: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  climate change work group. Or I might put it in a sequel entry - such unpredictable enigma! Meanwhile, discussion has also cropped up on ...

• 12 Oct 2003: Nitrate Pumped Nabokov

  
  Meta: · 5 comments

  ...  tomorrow morning, hell or high water if you believe the entry title. I've gotten a few spam comments lately, nothing unmanageable, but ...

• 12 Aug 2003: Read the Kibble Entrails and Weep

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  I'm posting (I need one more post to fill up gaps in my entry numbers, so my re-entered archives will be in harmony with the universe) ...

• 3 Aug 2003: Someone Hates Me!

  
  Meta: fan mail, hate mail, monkeys, pirates · 1 comment

  ...  there's also an insightful comment at the bottom of this entry. The rest of the chatter is more mundane: i hate bugs Even bugs ...

• 23 Jul 2003: Becoming a Yuppie

  
  Personal: · 4 comments

  ...  the narrative structure of the workplace quite yet (data entry and spreadsheet manipulation is not conducive to well-structured texts ...

• 24 Jun 2003: Am I an Ex-Academic?

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

  There's been a thread, loosely running through my favorite academic blogs, on the emotional effects of grad school. I've identified on an almost therapeutic level with some of it; for the past four years, I've struggled to maintain health and balance while ...

• 2 Jun 2003: Real Ultimate Molluscs!!! (and stuff on my door)

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  up shit" to the bottom. Or possibly "write insightful blog entry on graduation-related dubiousness, with reference to recent entry in the den." All my actual reflectiveness and insight is reserved for ...

• 11 May 2003: No Swift For Me

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  want a red one anyway. Stupid car. Oh, and in case my last entry was confusing - I'm not actually done with classes yet. I coud still ...

• 8 May 2003: Last Midterm EVAR

  
  Personal: · 8 comments

  ...  repair histories and gas mileage. And if you've got an entry-level surveying/analyst/research assistant position or an itty-bitty ...

• 21 Dec 2002: Product Review: Oral Cleansers

  
  Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments

  ...  is being able to see where the enthusiasm runs out of each entry, and never feel compelled to fix it. I would like to say, though, that ...

• 26 Oct 2002: Not Dead Yet

  
  Meta: · 1 comment

  ...  Say it ain't so! Or at least write a rambling blog entry about the matter, quick! Papa Blog: We've got to blog the magic blog, or ...

• 1 Sep 2002: New Gadgets

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  too fucking hot outside. You can now turn any photoblog entry into a trendy internet postcard. Look for the link at the bottom of the individual entry page. It's still way too fucking hot ...

• 18 Aug 2002: A Contest-Contest

  
  Aimless: · 15 comments

  ...  and I did - anyone who read through a godawful trivia entry saw a request for an mp3 version of "West Virginia, My Home". Shockingly ...

• 6 Jul 2002: Red Pop Redux

  
  Links, Meta: · 3 comments

  Got a very urgent-sounding query in my email box today asking after Wildwood Red Pop, presumably stemming from my old desperate search for fellow Red Pop afficionados. So after a quick look through the querier's web site, which offers purportedly humorous  ...

• 5 Jul 2002: Someone Needs a New Brain

  
  Meta: · 2 comments

  ...  a little more helpful: to have the default value of text-entry boxes such as this one show up neatly aligned in Netscape/Mozilla, ...

• 30 May 2002: Someone Wants Naked Sorority Frolicking

  
  Whimsy: fan mail, search requests · 3 comments

  ...  stick" and, disturbingly, "Tinka pee site." Putting my entry titles into the titles of the individual archive pages seems to have paid ...

• 15 Apr 2002: Search Engine Envy

  
  Meta: · 5 comments

  ...  wrote to point out a bizarre entry in his referral logs. It's scrolled out now, so I can't link to it, but ...

• 7 Apr 2002: Review Time!

  
  Human Fuzzies: reviews of stuff, writing · 5 comments

  ...  archive indexing of any kind, and the individual entry pages had merely a plain timestamp at the visually insignificant bottom, ...  platform dance shoes. Part II - Writing From an entry dated March 31: I noticed in my last few posts I basically borrowed ...

• 10 Mar 2002: Much Ado About

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  argument. Quote'n'paste, ho! Now, I'm viewing the entry as an isolated text, not really considering the context of the ...  we're all wanking here. If I seem to expect a mere blog entry to conform to rigorous standards of some kind... I don't. Rigorous ...  then I wouldn't have bothered reading or responding to the entry in the first place either. Today, the main association we're looking ...

• 1 Mar 2002: rocks and a promise

  
  Meta: puns · 2 comments

  ...  first thought to make entry categories after rocks and minerals, in keeping with the general geogeek ...

• 21 Feb 2002: Academic Angst

  
  Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments

  ...  fears and a couple of the comments from yesterday's entry. Dogpile on Tinka!  ...

• 28 Dec 2001: More On Malls

  
  Politics: capitalism sucks, malls, urban sprawl · no comments

  ...  it because I was thinking too much and wanted a full entry. The gist of it is this: I think giant chain stores, and the malls they ...

• 22 Dec 2001: uh, I jetted your mom’s lag

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  are muffins upstairs. We all deserve a short and crappy entry every once in a while, ...

• 2 Dec 2001: gender-bender

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  this entry contains medium-strength metababble. I've just noticed that someone in ...

• 2 Nov 2001: false hopes

  
  Meta, Personal: minions · no comments

  ...  approaching deadline". And, rereading last night's entry, I realized that I've started to leave out more and more background ...  compelled to think up clever punchlines for every single entry, which is probably useful from the me-keeping-a-journal perspective. Hmm. ...

• 1 Nov 2001: mommy, don’t make me go home!

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  or brain-person of any stripe, and this is a rambling blog entry and not a grant proposal, using this answer would be cheating. Oy. ...

• 26 Sep 2001: oh fuck

  
  Personal: obituaries, suicide · 5 comments

  [entry deleted for being far too raw and personal. summary, a friend of mine was found ...

• 18 Sep 2001: Those of you who are

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  and you must complete it before you read the rest of this entry. I have spies everywhere, I'll know if you cheat, and cheaters never ...

• 30 Jul 2001: reviewed

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  Ah well. Much more entertaining was Vlad's guestbook entry: "I can see the kind of arrogance in your attitude that I have been ...