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13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 comments... California is limited to the safe yield. This is because everyone has already sued everyone else. The problem is that population/need keeps growing and ...
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30 Dec 2020: Cell Phones Make You Drive More
Aimless: · 3 comments... making plans at the last minute (which only works because everyone involved has a cell phone with them at all times), you don't have the ...
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24 Dec 2020: Happy Twinkletree, Joyous Monkey
Aimless: · 3 commentsIf the sun came out, all the trees would be twinkling with ice. Seattle has the snow chaos. It's like one of those colds that never quite goes away, except that instead of snot, the city's nose is dripping slush and ice. My neighborhood is tucked in behin ...
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6 Nov 2020: Why Proposition 8 Hurts So Much
Politics: · 3 comments... life, I have been on the winning side of a major election. Everyone around me is jubilant. It's not just for President-Elect Obama, either ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 commentsMy coffee grinder sometimes pauses in its labors, and makes a high-pitched whining noise that is nigh unbearable to the uncaffeinated ear. The noise happens because even though there are plenty of beans in the hopper, they've managed to arrange themselves ...
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1 Oct 2020: In Which I Want Your Money: Donors Choose Challenge 2020
Aimless: · 3 comments... ten bucks. If we can spare ten bucks, so can you - and if everyone who reads this blog throws $10 into the pot, we can bring several ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... joy of lighthearted video game misogyny in C*nt: The Game. Everyone loves lighthearted video game misogyny... right? Women and Their Sexy ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... 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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1 Sep 2020: The Science of Deliciousness
Aimless: · 9 comments... reversed, but there is likely to be something in this for everyone. *Actually, this week I'm having Cabbage Panic, and the chapter on ...
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22 Aug 2020: The Sedimentary Geology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 7 commentsI had to finish off the series. Happy Friday, everyone. ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... filmmaker) teaches the crew some things about science, everyone goes home warm and fuzzy***. By the time Sizzle crawls its way out ...
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24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 comments... involved. I was blown away when I realized that not everyone automatically interprets an expression like "Nc(M)" to mean a quantity ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... directly from the press release? Planets and Plutoids Everyone likes Mars, which means everyone's attention is on Phoenix and its oven. At the Planetary Society blog, ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... Earth Day, everyone. Or, if you're on campus here, Happy Earth Week, complete with live ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... to make true statements about the world, and even though everyone makes mistakes, being wrong is a Big Deal*. Criticism should be ... then being wrong is less of a big deal... but it's not everyone's approach. And even if it's okay when nutty, speculative proposals ...
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27 Jan 2020: Meme Time
Personal, Whimsy: memes, monkeys, national pie day, pie, writing · 5 comments... a small pie potluck today, in honor of National Pie Day. Everyone who brought a pie, brought a blueberry pie, so it was three ...
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17 Jan 2020: Reading Material for the Week
Science: academic journals, International Year of Planet Earth, trends in science · 3 comments... and climate, geomorphology, climate, and climate - sorry, everyone ...
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4 Jan 2020: Caucus
Politics: Dennis Kucinich, Iowa caucuses, Iowa City, presidential elections · no comments... for counting themselves. And then we counted. Everyone clapped when the sole Gravel supporter raised his hand. Kucinich wound ...
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2 Nov 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Feyerabend
Science, Whimsy: philosophy of science, unprofessional boundaries · 2 comments... of professional integrity, thus misleading themselves and everyone else; they can even be sadists; but again they should choose their ...
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1 Nov 2020: 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... I can never entirely push away the feeling that secretly everyone else thinks, but is too nice to say, that I'm incompetent at best and ... out of my MOUTH!!!' Okay! That's it! Thanks to everyone who sent in a post! The next edition of Scientiae will be compiled by ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 comments... a vibrant personality whose passions are apparent to everyone around you, but sometimes you are indecisive. If you see her spinning ...
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3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments... the job of thinking about gender in science belongs to everyone! I'd like to invite all you progressive, equality-minded men ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... out to a "What? No, we're totally not at all jealous of everyone who's at Burning Man!" party this evening. So I'm skipping over all ...
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11 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #26 – Now with 90% Fewer Coordinates!
Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 11 comments... view of the Deccan Traps had everyone stymied for a while... fortunately, he gave us a hint and now the ...
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6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing
Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments... with the spirits of Blue Cross and Blue Shield; also, everyone seems to be chattering about Sicko, which I haven't yet seen. So, O ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments... to Make Our Country Live Up to Its Promise! Equality for everyone! Free speech! The huddled masses, yearning to breathe free! The ... about my politics, but bring-it-up-at-the-BBQ-to-everyone's-annoyance open. Though I am aware of the problems of being OMG that ...
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28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage
Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment... preserving, e.g., lab space in university buildings where everyone is jockeying for an extra foot of fume hood, or experiments that have ...
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3 Mar 2020: Earthquake Folksonomy
Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments... about being outside on a crowded street corner when everyone turns to the person next to them to ask "hey, did you feel that?". ... as formulating and testing a proper hypothesis, but nearly everyone on the West Coast has a story to share or a question to ask when I ...
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4 Sep 2020: Laborious Links: Patenting, Urban Geology, and Gratuitous Toilet Analogies
Links, Science: Bay Area geology, blog carnivals, gender, patents, work vs. family · no comments... gap is really a gap between women with children, and everyone ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... I'm not making any money on it. Fat-Free Half and Half - everyone else is as confused as I am. The trick seems to be that if you have a ...
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11 May 2020: Wine is for Men*
Human Fuzzies, Politics: lazy journalism, wine · 2 comments... title. But come on, when we're dealing with stereotypes, everyone knows all the lesbians drink beer and the bi women girls drink fruity ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... self-importance in their properly insignificant place. Everyone in Earth science knows that, no matter how grand their theories or ... cooperative would be easy here in Berkeley, but nooo, everyone's all shut up about your crazy radicalism, we have to look sane for ...
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21 Mar 2020: Thomas Kuhn and Big Historiography
Science: Berzerkeley, Big History, Kuhn, Lacan, Marxism, paradigms, philosophy of science · 4 comments... in Chixulub. Anyway, I suspect but cannot prove that everyone in this class, myself especially included, needs a good thwack upside ...
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17 Mar 2020: Friday iTunes 8Ball
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments... theme song is? Tony Elman - Sally Gooden What does everyone else think my current theme song is? Chumbawamba - Salt Fare, North ...
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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... that people raised in a racist society -- me, you, everyone I know -- can root out those prejudices. Second, we grant our ...
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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... rationalist. Two Apropos the recent girlcott of everyone's favorite racist, sexist, and classist clothing retailer, the ...
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19 Oct 2020: My Favorite Cop-Out
Links: depression, museums · 6 comments... do. These are all fine and acceptable; these are the ways everyone talks about depression. I do not say how actually I hate myself. I do ...
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21 Sep 2020: Balancing Work and Family: Just Use Your Penis
Politics: lazy journalism, lifestyles of the privileged minority, sexism, work vs. family · 2 comments... a busy life - they function as hat racks, for one thing. Everyone knows how important this is, so there's really no sense interviewing ...
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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 comments... or prole, Boris Becker or the national football team, everyone is grooving to the slice of bread. Je m'en tartine aussi, ...
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30 Aug 2020: Piles of Minute Aggravations
Personal: cars, grad school, i hate everything · 2 comments... to give up my classroom key to an adjunct faculty member. Everyone likes to fuss about the order of authorship on a paper or ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 4-8
Personal: photoblog · no commentsWe arrived in Norway still mourning the loss of our third day in Iceland. The contrast between the clumps of tour busses and the neighboring wild open places was so stark that you can't help but be dazzled by thoughts of what else is out there, equally stu ...
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1 Jun 2020: Academic Insecurity Builds Character
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 6 comments... are raised so high they are in pain. Hackle pain. Everyone has rough patches and insecurity and self-doubt. I was in that bad ...
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9 May 2020: Deconstructing Teh Funnay
Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments... day, and why should we even bother thinking about this? Everyone likes to make shit up about humor - Freud did it, Kant did it, we're ...
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4 May 2020: Penis-Talk Redux
Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments... it, that's a pretty fucking weird experience at times, for everyone). But society's expectations of my uterus and my breasts and my fatty ...
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26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments... I know my conscience would not let me tell myself that everyone did the same thing and I had no real choice. It would be no comfort to ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... than their anger. An exaggeration, of course. As everyone acknowledges, it's hard to have these conversations without seeming ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... on all things vaguely sciencey - HAH! Take that, everyone who didn't like my plate tectonics post! More relevantly, the ...
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7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments... to stick around by abolishing the state income tax for everyone under 30. [...] Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a Democrat, has tried [...] ...
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24 Jan 2020: We’re All Molluscan Pornographers Here
Links, Science: blogular wanking, molluscs · no comments... and the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons, should belong to everyone! * Well, maybe a little territorial. But I didn't want to bring out ...
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20 Jan 2020: Fantasy Cabinet
Politics: fantasy politics · 9 comments... can you? National Security Adviser: Okay, I've got everyone but Energy, Transportation, Trade Rep, and NSA. Help! ...
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17 Jan 2020: The Daily Day: MLK Edition
Personal, Politics: colds, Larry Summers, Martin Luther King Jr., mathematics, nurturing, sexism · 4 comments... to solicit contributions in the cubicle farm? Racism hurts everyone, white privilege or no, and I'm being unjustly deprived of a nice day ...
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17 Dec 2020: Pink
Politics: cars, colors, gender · no comments... The desire to respond to privilege by pulling everyone down to the same level of powerlessness is common, I suppose. Or are ...
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3 Nov 2020: Back on the Horse
Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments... suggested, the enduring impact of this election may force everyone to be stronger leaders at both the micro and macro level. It might ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... I'll leave it blank. Proposition 59: Open Records: Yes Everyone is voting for this one. There's no credible opposition, and much as ...
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21 Sep 2020: Non-Marketing Non-Future
Aimless: · no comments... was thinking this might help me sort out my yogurt from everyone else's yogurt in the company fridge, as most of my coworkers' yogurt ...
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7 Sep 2020: Happy Arrival Day!
Politics: booze, cultural appropriation, Judaism · 4 comments... join in the celebration. In the wise words of Ikram Saeed, everyone is Jewish today, just as everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Great! I've always thought I'd do ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... to densely populated urban areas while screwing over everyone in flyover country. The hippie in me sometimes thinks of it as a way ...
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9 Aug 2020: Moment Tensors as a Heuristic Discourse that Goes “Burble, Burble”
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 6 comments... is everything and nothing. Literature! Horning in on everyone else's grant monies, eh? There are more ways in which I remain ...
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: Weekend Recap
Personal: video games · no comments... seem to be spilling my seed all over everyone else's blog today. Definitely time to start thinking about egocentric ...
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13 Jul 2020: Memo to the Guy in the Escalade
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cars, driving, etiquette, SUVs · no commentsTo: Customers at the Foothill & Claremont Arco Cc: SUV owners in the greater Los Angeles area Peak pumping hours at the gas station (e.g., after work or at lunch) can be stressful - customers must often wait several minutes, fingers tapping on the ...
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15 Apr 2020: Oh Boy an Earthquake!
Science: · 10 comments... since Stephen Wolfram wrote that book and ruined it for everyone; you may as well just get drunk and watch Pi while wearing nothing but ...
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16 Mar 2020: Spain, Appeasement and Multilateralism
Politics: · 2 comments... elections were influenced by the Madrid bombings, as everyone suddenly decided to vote for the party least likely to get them blown ... attacks. God Bless America and her Glorious Leader, 'cuz everyone else is unreasonable. These people aren't cowards, they're ...
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2 Mar 2020: Personalized Follow-Up
Personal: · 5 comments... we realize that consumer preferences differ and not everyone will be satisfied with every change. Your satisfaction is our greatest ...
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26 Jan 2020: I Don’t Like!
Links: · 3 comments... point of telling a preference-engine that you like Google? Everyone on the Internet likes Google. Telling me to visit Zeldman because ...
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18 Jan 2020: Someone Again
Meta: · no comments... goopy glops are there in nature? Lots! SCONES FOR EVERYONE! i like love darts That's all well and good, but can you bake with ...
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12 Jan 2020: Pride’s Downfall
Whimsy: · 3 comments... disappeared! No one has mentioned it in the press, because everyone is very embarrassed by the whole affair. Drunken UI frat boys continue ...
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3 Oct 2020: Happy New Water Year
Personal: driving, water years · no comments... 10 MPH off the average traffic speed on the freeway. Or so everyone seemed to think; I have now been driving in L.A. long enough to adjust ...
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31 Jul 2020: The Vanilla Asylum
Personal: · 1 comment... break. There are two possibilities here. One is that everyone at work has an excellent deadpan, and they have been teasing me. The ...
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23 Jul 2020: Becoming a Yuppie
Personal: · 4 comments... soul-gouging thing I have experienced at work thus far. Everyone uses them in business-and-government-land, apparently; I think it's ...
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2 Jun 2020: Real Ultimate Molluscs!!! (and stuff on my door)
Aimless: · 3 comments... all of my body (including my pee pee). Q and A: Q: Why is everyone so obsessed about molluscs? A: Molluscs are the ultimate paradox. On ...
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13 Apr 2020: The REAL Real Ultimate Power
Links: · 1 comment... iron! Then she shoved calculators up the noses of everyone in the restaurant!! Now that's what I call REAL ultimate power!!! I ...
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1 Mar 2020: Gibbs Strikes Again
Politics, Whimsy: · 1 comment... not sure why everyone is so worried about this Saddam-Iraq-invasion-explosion affair. After ...
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9 Feb 2020: Theme of Bugs
Personal: · 4 comments... twisted in a bad way, and died. I always thought everyone had moments like that; my housemate seems to think I'm a morbid loon. ...
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1 Feb 2020: A Sad Hole in the Internet
Aimless: · no comments... it's very sad that the space shuttle exploded. Everyone is very very sad. Including me. Sad. Yes. But what I want to know is, ...
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10 Dec 2020: Dilemma
Personal, Politics: · 6 comments... ones who appear in my textbooks), and I think it's because everyone is still living in fantasyland: we are far too advanced for a big fat ...
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23 Nov 2020: Professional Ensemble
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... here's how it works in the Caltech band: everyone takes turns on the high parts, so we can blow our brains out on ... and during most rehearsals. At the concert, of course, everyone just plays whatever part is in front of them, and no one admits that ...
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11 Nov 2020: Rrrrr-awwwrrrerrr! says the leaf blower
Personal: · 1 comment... from the fridge and holding the whole block hostage until everyone agrees to let me use their lawns as my private organic spinach ...
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7 Oct 2020: Tour de Gym
Personal: · 2 comments... look like at the gym; I know it must be silly. After all, everyone else looks silly, even the guy who clearly spends his every waking ...
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27 Aug 2020: All Alone
Personal: · 7 comments... walked out into the living room to discover that everyone else had vanished from the house - even the random guy currently ...
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23 Aug 2020: Listen Up
Politics: · no comments... infinitum. I get into a mode where I'm trying to convince everyone that I'm right, and that's not where I want to be. When I'm in that ...
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9 Aug 2020: Don’t Ask Me
Meta, Whimsy: blogular wanking, email, spam · no comments... of avant garde, here's my latest fad thing, days behind everyone else's. It was a bit of a crunch naming parents - I started blogging ...
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16 Jun 2020: The Odd Couple
Uncategorized: guest posts · 1 comment... will end up cleaning far less often. I understand that not everyone is this casual, so while my room is kept less-than-pristine, the ...
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2 Jun 2020: Priorities
Links, Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, soccer · 3 comments... experience," "squishy brain slugs singing lullabies," and everyone's favorite, "juxtaposition as a form of self-actualizing bricolage" ...
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23 May 2020: Tomorrow Was Yesterday
Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no comments... wearing an inflatable elephant swim-toy on my head, and everyone else had hilarious gaudy jackets straight off the Dr. Who costume ...
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12 May 2020: Mr. Smith Goes to Fallbrook
Personal: · no comments... early for a band concert this evening, though, and since everyone else is still lounging in the avocado capital of the universe I'm ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... a question in class. If no one ever asks questions, then everyone feels uncomfortable asking questions, and class turns into an awful ...
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15 Apr 2020: Many Things
Aimless: · 5 comments... reinforces this creepy thought I've been having, that everyone keeps a secret online journal and we're all just too shy to talk about ...
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8 Apr 2020: gotta pee
Personal: bathroom etiquette, gender · 16 comments... multi-stall bathrooms, and over the course of the year, everyone gets pretty well used to barging around with only a minimal regard for ...
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31 Mar 2020: Catching Up with Someone
Meta, Whimsy: · 7 comments... yes? FYI: I'll write standards-compliant code for everyone, limited workarounds for IE 5.x, and simple fixes for anyone who cares ...
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17 Mar 2020: Kiss Me, I Forgot to Wear Green
Links: · no comments... list of disgusting things traditional flute players do everyone else seems to be linking, which is absolutely true in every ...
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4 Mar 2020: Someone Speaks Up About Cheese
Meta: cheese, fan mail · no comments... worthwhile investment. do you like cheese? I see everyone's been wondering. I was thinking it'd be swell to eventually have a ...
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19 Feb 2020: Ping-Pong Earth
Personal: · no commentsYou should really see me: sitting cross-legged in a falling-apart arm chair, drawing on a ping-pong ball, holding it up now and then to squint, rub my free fingers past one another, and mutter no! thrust fault! I love waiting until the night before the ext ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... well-timed bitch session and one person to remind me that everyone feels this way during winter term. I'll go to Mongolia later, I ...
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4 Feb 2020: drool… bid… drool
Links: menstruation, religion, robots · 1 comment... a society embodying a wide diversity of values, where everyone can live comfortably at peace (what Omron calls the Optimization ...
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8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois
Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment... undergraduates in 30 years," he said. "I'd also encourage everyone to go check out Introduction to Geophysics, the prof there is very ...
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10 Dec 2020: goodies from snoogums
Links: · no commentsEveryone loves silly shockwave games. Also, still shots from old-school propaganda ...
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9 Nov 2020: can’t sleep, blog will eat me
Personal: · no commentsTuborg lies like a dog. All the ads around town - and there are quite a lot of them - claim that the first snow will fall tomorrow evening at 8:59 PM. Actually, it snowed a little tonight, great big globby flakes that melted as soon as they hit the ground. ...
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3 Nov 2020: uhh. zog.
Personal: · no comments... subtext. I'm sober now, but that feeling of "of course everyone else will understand the disjointed inside jokes I make to myself!" is ...
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28 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee
Human Fuzzies: globalization · 1 comment... speak English as their first language, but practically everyone speaks it as their second, and they do so with an immense amount of ...
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26 Oct 2020: stealing stories
Meta: plagiarism, storytelling · no comments... everyone generates good anecdotes at approximately the same rate, and I have ...
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3 Oct 2020: A commercial for credit suisse
Aimless, Human Fuzzies: · no comments... sexy films with innovative art direction - I mean, doesn't everyone? - but I might have to settle for a light-hearted docudrama. As long ...
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13 Sep 2020: justice
Politics: · no comments... they become sorry and promise never to do it again. For everyone who has caused suffering to spend the rest of their lives working in ...
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12 Sep 2020: I took a nap yesterday
Personal: · no comments... of names and addresses flying everywhere. My corner of everyone is all right. My kitchen, as it contains two Americans and cable ...
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21 Aug 2020: waay overcaffinated
Personal: beer, liquor laws · no comments... to be coauthor on a paper by Dr. R. A. Fuck, and doesn't everyone like proterozoic folded belts? (The answer, of course, is yes: everyone likes proterozoic folded belts. It was a rhetorical question. If you ...
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28 Jul 2020: an audience at last!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... it's fun. And mostly for the small army of minions. Everyone wants minions. I think that before I go any further in my Pretentious ...