Search Results: expect

• 19 Jul 2004: Actually I Always Expect Synchronicity

  
  Personal: · no comments

  When I was in Denmark my room back at Tech was occupied by a Danish mirror-self... Yup, he's got a blog! But is this sort of thing, as Anna may or may not say, somehow indicative of a fundamental property of blogging? More than anything else it reminds  ...

• 31 Aug 2014: Blackberry wine

  
  Food: blackberries, brewing, Rosaceae, wine · 1 comment

  ...  have a data mining idea you need help with, let me know! I expect to be pretty busy for the next several months, but my schedule will be ...

• 8 Jun 2014: Osoberry Piquette

  
  Food: brewing, Indian plum, osoberries, Rosaceae · 1 comment

  ...  great though. It has the kinds of fruity flavors you expect out of a nice red table wine, balanced by a little acidity and ... well, ...

• 7 Jun 2014: The Kitchenaid as Thresher: Notes on Micro-Scale Grain Harvest

  
  Food: cheatgrass, fescue, grains, Poaceae · 2 comments

  ...  a handful of grass and flail it around in a box - I don't expect that to be a very good way of handling cheatgrass awns but it might at ...

• 11 May 2014: Yarrow Pale Ale

  
  Food: Asteraceae, beer, brewing, dandelions, Fabaceae, gruit, licorice root, lilac, mugwort, Oleaceae, yarrow · no comments

  ...  final beer is good but tastes... messy, I guess, where you expect a lager to be clean. And very mugwort dominant. Still, pretty good. I ...

• 23 Jun 2013: Osoberry Ossobucco

  
  Food: Indian plum, jam, lamb, meat, osoberries, recipes, Rosaceae · 1 comment

  ...  as a disagreeable reminder of oppression, I would've expected to meet at least one person during the study who was actually bothered ...

• 25 May 2013: Chaladnik (Belarusian oxalic acid soup)

  
  Food: Eastern European cuisines, oxalic acid, Oxalidaceae, peer-reviewed research, Polygonaceae, sheep sorrel, wood sorrel · 3 comments

  ...  research paper on the ethnobotany of Belarus. As you might expect, (1) Belarusians in the 19th Century made a lot of things into soup! and ...

• 2 Apr 2013: Dandelion Mead

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

  I'm blogging about tonight's mead-making because the #%@^*! must won't cool down fast enough for me to pitch the yeast and go to bed. Someday I will learn not to start brewing after 8pm but that day is not today. I'm following something like Jack Keller ...

• 17 Jul 2011: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds

  
  Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment

  ...  is always this inefficient and I just have unrealistic expectations, maybe I was doing it wrong, or maybe the flattened money plant ...

• 23 May 2011: Drinking Lilac Two Ways: Lilac Liqueur and Lilac Syrup

  
  Food: edible flowers, flowers, infusions, lilac, liqueurs, Oleaceae · 2 comments

  ...  a simple syrup. YOU GUYS. IT TASTES EXACTLY LIKE YOU EXPECT LILAC TO TASTE. After my initial batch of syrup I still had enough ...

• 11 May 2011: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk

  
  Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments

  ...  I started riding my bike again two years ago, I expected to have a few scary traffic moments and a little bit of awkwardness changing out of sweaty clothes at work. What I did not expect was that people would start complaining to me about other bicyclists ...

• 14 Mar 2009: Beer Meringue Pie

  
  Food: beer, Cannabaceae, hops, meringue, pie, recipes · 6 comments

  ...  ideas for pie in my life - durian pie, anyone? And I expected this to be one of the worst. Then again, I've also had some Guinness ...

• 26 Feb 2009: The Stimulating Effects of Monitoring Volcanoes

  
  Politics, Science: economics, US party politics, volcano monitoring, volcanoes · 10 comments

  ...  new road (albeit with slightly more uncertainty - but the expected value is positive). And because volcano hazard warnings are a public ...

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

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

  ...  a project at a large industrial facility. Did you really expect your figures to snooze contentedly on a dusty shelf while all the ...

• 6 Jan 2009: High Femme and Geekery

  
  Aimless: · 13 comments

  One of my New Year's blogolutions was to clear out my to-blog folder, and bring closure to my unfinished drafts by simply posting them as-is. This is one of those drafts. Disorganized paragraphs, unfinished sentences, and general incoherence enhance the na ...

• 2 Jan 2009: A Quick Caveat for Obsessive Yellowstone-Watchers

  
  Aimless: · 6 comments

  ...  magma chamber, or a gas-pressurized reservoir, we would expect to eventually see it as a slight change in surface ...

• 30 Dec 2008: Cell Phones Make You Drive More

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  to carry my cell phone; I do sometimes run into people who expect that my lead time for making or changing plans will be as short as ...

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

  
  Meta: · 10 comments

  ...  some John McPhee and Natalie Angier books instead, my expectations for writing have been reset. I also tell you this because I have ...

• 6 Nov 2008: Why Proposition 8 Hurts So Much

  
  Politics: · 3 comments

  ...  and is the bluest of blue states, the sort of state one expects to be accepting - but that's not why I'm so upset.So far, wherever ...

• 10 Oct 2008: What Donors Should Choose

  
  Aimless: · 2 comments

  There is still no official word from Seed about matching funds and/or prize drawings for the Donors Choose Challenge. However, Janet has posted a list of individual ScienceBloggers' incentives here. Donating to another Scibling's challenge might not contri ...

• 6 Oct 2008: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  geothermal systems) continues to work out as well as expected, the new study estimates that the equivalent of 50% of the nation's ...

• 18 Jul 2008: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  into a twisted joy in gratuitously taking offense. I was expecting that one; I'm actually surprised it got so little play. The idea that ...

• 15 Jul 2008: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?

  
  Aimless: · 1 comment

  ...  much easier said than done. But I still can't believe he expected us to laugh. Footnotes *One of the staple orders issued to talking ...

• 14 Jul 2008: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever

  
  Aimless: · 6 comments

  ...  precedes earthquakes at a slightly higher rate than you'd expect purely by chance, it's not so much higher that you can't sniff at it, if ...

• 24 Jun 2008: More on Mathphobia

  
  Aimless: · 12 comments

  ...  If we don't provide some other cue to them that we expect to see several different values of Nc, they will get confused and make ...

• 12 Jun 2008: Devonian Fossil Gorge to Become… SIlurian Fossil Gorge?

  
  Aimless: · 9 comments

  ...  freakout, or whether the amount of rain that FEMA expects to occur in a 100-year flood needs adjusting... are there hydrologists ...

• 1 Jun 2008: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)

  
  Aimless: · 7 comments

  ...  it, the "trigger" was smaller than anything you might expect to cause an eruption, and also smaller than a bunch of previous ...

• 19 May 2008: I’d Like to Thank the Academy

  
  Aimless: acknowledgments, gratitude, thanks, writing · 5 comments

  ...  regard to whether or not it conforms to the formula expected for the circumstance, I can usually avoid this form of writer's block. ...

• 29 Apr 2008: Confessions of a Grad School Dropout Graduate

  
  Aimless: · 25 comments

  ...  dings. I'm writing a Master's thesis; I wasn't originally expecting that. While I am fully capable of enumerating its many flaws in a ...  breath, I'm still proud of what I've produced. I wasn't expecting that either. Let me give you the soap opera summary: I burned out ...

• 22 Apr 2008: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition

  
  Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments

  ...  Most feminists, and I suspect most environmentalists, expect that change to be created by and reflected in a mixture of law, social ...

• 11 Mar 2008: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food

  
  Aimless: · 21 comments

  ...  heritage potluck. If your ethnic food is hotdish, you are expected to bring corned beef or pierogies or sauerkraut or lefse - something ...

• 6 Mar 2008: Repost: Larry Summers, Math, and Violence

  
  Aimless: · 6 comments

  ...  be more nurturing than boys, then they obviously can't be expected to be as good at math. Because the ability to do math can only be ...

• 14 Feb 2008: The Union Bogeyman

  
  Aimless: · 15 comments

  ...  that happens because of the union and not because you are expected to do things in exchange for a paycheck: The employer-employee ...

• : Love Songs for Geoscientists

  
  Aimless: · 18 comments

  I am frequently earwormed by the alt-country band Uncle Tupelo's song New Madrid, in which the narrator begs an intraplate seismic zone to somehow restore his lost love: Come on do what you did Roll me under New Madrid Shake my baby and please bring her ba ...

• 31 Jan 2008: Hello World

  
  Meta: introduction · 31 comments

  ...  verbose as it could be. It'll get there in time. You can expect to see this space filled in the future with rocks, water, progressive ...

• 10 Jan 2008: Saline Injections for Venice?

  
  Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments

  ...  in the 70s. This has caused all the problems you might expect when an entire city sinks into the freaking ocean. A group at the ...

• 17 Dec 2007: Aaand, the rest of AGU

  
  Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments

  ...  into the same period of time, I do not understand how they expect to learn anything - my brain was full after a mere four days of ...

• 23 Nov 2007: Pumpkin-Durian Pie

  
  Food: Cucurbitaceae, durian, Malvaceae, pie, recipes · 4 comments

  ...  dessert, but it also has these onion-y flavors that we expect to belong to savory dishes. So I aimed for a compromise in the tradition ...

• 26 Jul 2007: Galveston Bids for Darwin Award

  
  Politics, Science: idiocy, natural hazards, urban planning · 3 comments

  ...  timeframes used by planners and mortgage brokers. I expect people to be able to wrap their heads around that. And it's not so hard ...

• 6 Jul 2007: Friday Links and iTunes iChing

  
  Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments

  ...  with working poverty and welfare. Part One: I was expecting a Balloon-O-Gram and a basket of government cheese to be delivered ...

• 21 Jun 2007: Asking for a Pony

  
  Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments

  ...  feel like my academic upbringing socialized me to not expect my style of friendships in professional circles, until I woke up and ...  not an academic in hopes of reliving college, but I did expect more from the promise of the academic environment as an ...

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

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

  ...  part from colleagues, who ask ...really? Why? as if they expect a simple answer. It also comes, inescapably, from my desire to tell ...

• 18 Mar 2007: Iconic Figures: Energy Release by Earthquakes

  
  Science: earthquakes · 10 comments

  ...  so if large and small earthquakes are the same, we would expect the data to fall on a horizontal line. Although there is quite a bit of ...

• 1 Feb 2007: And So Begins the Tedious Commentary on Hillary’s Gender

  
  Politics: gender, Hillary Clinton, lazy journalism, sexism · 6 comments

  ...  I'm not precisely surprised, though I must admit, I expected better from KQED. However, I'm sure it'll be much less subtle on the ...

• 30 Jan 2007: What’s the Good News of Geology?

  
  Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments

  ...  doesn't always look like the kind of experiment you'd expect from physics or chemistry - you can't just re-subduct the Farallon slab ...

• 20 Oct 2006: Selling Out is Officially Hip

  
  Human Fuzzies: consumerism, words · no comments

  ...  its creepy wiggly tentacles into my brain. No, you can't expect me to pick up the bloggy slack any time soon. However, I have seen final ...

• 14 Oct 2006: 2006 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests

  
  Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments

  ...  and the usual service-oriented blah-de-blah one would expect from any sane and competent transit district) and a Green Party ...  berate his employees when they failed to meet his expectations or submit audits that corresponded to his agenda. All said the ...

• 12 Oct 2006: Seismograms from North Korea

  
  Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 comments

  ...  explosion. For reasons Lab Lemming has outlined, we don't expect an earthquake as shallow as the event observed on Sunday to occur in ...

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

  
  Personal, Science: grad school · 3 comments

  ...  student is not only blind, but deaf and mute as well, and expected to ride the elephant off to war in a few months. Chicken-counting, ...

• 4 Sep 2006: Household Goodness

  
  Personal: domesticity, gardening, photoblog · 2 comments

  ...  given the amount of sun my yard doesn't receive, I wasn't expecting huge beefsteaks. The Roma gets more light, but is afflicted by a ...

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

  
  Meta: search requests · 10 comments

  ...  Googlebot's fancy, including a few that I'd never've expected in a million years. Top Ten Most-Googled Entries Friday Random ...

• 28 Jul 2006: These Search Requests Are What I’m Trying to Monetize

  
  Meta: adsense, search requests · 3 comments

  ...  web hosting and domain registration, which is more than I expected. Most of the ad clicks have been from people who came here from a ...

• 19 Jul 2006: I Read Wifework So You Don’t Have To

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: book reviews, feminism, gender, marriage, sexism · 7 comments

  ...  of labor so you can take on more responsibilities. Don't expect to solve all your problems by hiring a maid. There's still the emotional ...

• 15 Jul 2006: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM

  
  Politics, Science: women in science · 29 comments

  ...  will allow me to observe their science/math classes I expect interviews to run 1-2 hours, depending on age and life experience. They ...

• 8 Jul 2006: Friday Mountain Blogging: Paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada

  
  Science: rock blogging, Sierra Nevada, stable isotopes · 6 comments

  ...  and fallen down into the mantle; if this is true, we would expect that the mountains rose up in response, like a hot air balloon losing ...

• 29 Jun 2006: Images to Amend the Constitution By

  
  Politics: Dianne Feinstein, flag-burning, freedom of speech · 1 comment

  ...  all the careful consideration and sound judgment you'd expect from a middle school student: For me--at that time as a ...

• 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

  ...  make sure everything was written out in the right order. I expect this system to be somewhat irritating to anyone trying to read the ...

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

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

  ...  asked me what I was thinking; I told him; he said yes. Expected party date: sometime after quals. No, I'm not changing my name or ...

• 17 May 2006: Miss Manners vs. the Washington Post

  
  Politics: miss manners, sexism, the walking uterus · 1 comment

  ...  category of potential mother, saying "Congratulations" to expectant mothers, "How adorable!" to new mothers and, to the rest, "So -- how ...

• 29 Mar 2006: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments

  ...  traffic and more comments, it takes more work. People do expect a response from the blogger and, until you get big enough that you have ...

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

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

  ...  with stereotypes in it: "As fans of the show would expect, the game is loaded with gossip, betrayal, murder and sex -- you know, ...

• 13 Mar 2006: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments

  ...  without critically examining the weight of cultural expectations and economic reality (e.g., Wendy McElroy), aren't really ...

• 31 Jan 2006: Procrastinating Things

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

  ...  here). And ScienceWoman has a story to show why the social expectation that women will take their husbands' names really blows (see also ...

• 19 Jan 2006: Go Grey Lady Go!

  
  Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments

  ...  to his position of power, who couldn't possibly have been expected to consider the actual research in the field in his remarks. I think ...

• 13 Jan 2006: Rehydrated AGU

  
  Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments

  ...  Slightly baffling, at least to those of us who still expect talks to have anything to do with their titles; maybe with another 15 ...

• 21 Sep 2005: Balancing Work and Family: Just Use Your Penis

  
  Politics: lazy journalism, lifestyles of the privileged minority, sexism, work vs. family · 2 comments

  ...  life-balancing tool that is the penis, we women just can't expect to have both children and a career. Penises are essential tools for a ...

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

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

  ...  weird because pain and anger has appeared in a new and unexpected location. Dogs and men bite each other, olfactory circuits stop ...

• 16 Aug 2005: Free Stuff!

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

  ...  of foot traffic. By far, the people most excited by the unexpected treasures are kids; lots of happy cries of "whoa! free stuff!" have ...

• 13 Aug 2005: Travelogue! Days 9-12

  
  Personal: photoblog, Scandinavia, travelogue · no comments

  ...  at fjords, so naturally it made me ill. I have given up expecting to enjoy even the gentlest crossings on the biggest boats; the ocean ...

• 31 Jul 2005: Oh Yes, Minnesota

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

  ...  though "until you're eaten by a bear" was not the answer expected of a fully-acculturated U.S. citizen, they let me back into the ...

• 30 Jun 2005: ¡Hola!

  
  Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments

  ...  final guestbloggeur reporting for duty. It is that you can expect from me the finest stories about prinsesses, giant fish, intra-Yoorpean ...

• 25 Jun 2005: Friday Rock Blogging, Atemporal Edition: Road Cuts on the 5

  
  Science: driving, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 5 comments

  ...  Susana Fault Zone, and has collapsed twice so far; I fully expect it to fall down during every major event on any of the nearby thrust ...

• 12 Jun 2005: Chronology

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

  ...  as it's the landlord and not me who gets to foot the unexpected thousand-dollar repair. I was chatting with the plumbers while the ...

• 10 Jun 2005: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition

  
  Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment

  ...  Random Ten as a traditional tarot reading. Although I expect it's too much effort to do this every week, today I wanted to consider ...  Tytto (Forest Maiden) The Inside (hopes, fears, and expectations): Chris Thile - Slime Rock The Outcome: Stan Rogers - Plenty of ...

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

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

  ...  arguments. I mean, no, wait, what the hell did you expect? That people would magically acknowledge the legitimacy of an argument ...

• 18 May 2005: Autodatamining

  
  Meta: data mining, Weighted Words, WordPress · 5 comments

  ...  plugin to produce a graph of reading level vs. time. I expect it to show that my writing has improved, for some convenient definition ...

• 9 May 2005: Deconstructing Teh Funnay

  
  Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments

  ...  man expressing his fear of being reduced to a wallet is unexpected. Obviously, that we accept the situation as presented in 'Act I' as ...

• 4 May 2005: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!

  
  Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments

  ...  expect Senate Bill 5 to greatly ease my passage through the hallowed halls of ...

• : Penis-Talk Redux

  
  Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments

  ...  and anti-generalizations apply, of course. Society's expectations of bodies aren't the only things that can remind us about how ...  weird experience at times, for everyone). But society's expectations of my uterus and my breasts and my fatty tissue provide plenty ...

• 2 May 2005: Monday Review of Stuff

  
  Human Fuzzies: coffee, mac'n'cheez, movie reviews · 6 comments

  ...  Guide to the Galaxy (movie version): Exactly as bad as I expected, which was thankfully not Highlander II bad or even Spice World bad, ...

• 21 Apr 2005: Brain Asplode

  
  Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 comments

  ...  problems Hugo and Crazy are talking about, and I don't expect it to work in grad school, either. I suppose one could always ...

• 13 Apr 2005: Bah

  
  Meta: blog status updates · 16 comments

  ...  that work precluding good blogging thing? Expect it to continue through the end of the month. I'm not saying posts will ...

• 4 Apr 2005: Links to Daylight’s Rescue

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments

  ...  this. - which is a pretty fuckin' ginormous "if". I don't expect blogs to do more for the labor movement than they did for Kerry's campaign. In fact, I expect less, because the big-name liberal bloggers are still too busy puffing ...

• 14 Mar 2005: Middle Klass

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

  ...  vacation condo in the Florida Keys, which has a similar expectation:reality ratio: But seriously: I make more money now than my ...

• 7 Mar 2005: I’m Getting Sleepy

  
  Links, Science: circadian cycle · 7 comments

  ...  says: I can't be expected to work in the afternoon, so ...

• 17 Feb 2005: Initiative

  
  Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments

  ...  more to make public space safe for women before we can expect greater willingness to respond to men's advances! ... and then we're ...

• 15 Feb 2005: How to Ward Off Rapists

  
  Politics, Whimsy: rape, satire · 8 comments

  ...  to the catch-pipe when your stomach is quiet, what do you expect? Mirrors Unlike vampires, rapists can be seen in mirrors. As a matter ...

• 17 Jan 2005: The Daily Day: MLK Edition

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

  ...  be more nurturing than boys, then they obviously can't be expected to be as good at math. Because the ability to do math can only be ...

• 13 Dec 2004: Top Five in 2004

  
  Meta: clip show, procrastinating, skunks · 2 comments

  ...  on school lunch menus? Life of the Mind - [W]e can expect some level of activism/intellectualism from Average Citizen X, and ...

• 7 Dec 2004: Old Enough to Buy My Own Candy

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links: candy, Christmas, Hanukkah, nostalgia · 2 comments

  ...  but I know of at least $50 - way more than I was expecting! Anyone who gave and would like a cute thank-you postcard, send me ...

• 19 Nov 2004: Quickies

  
  Personal, Politics: Christian hegemony, elections · no comments

  ...  the Rose Bowl tonight - the second-largest event they were expecting this season, after the USC-UCLA game. He did it last night, too, and ...

• 3 Nov 2004: Back on the Horse

  
  Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments

  ...  I might claim this to be one of "my" pieces of the puzzle. Expect more on this later. In the meanwhile, there's a local election scheduled ...

• 20 Oct 2004: AAA Pays Off

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

  ...  one free tow justifies a whole year's worth of dues! I'm expecting at least a 200% return on investment here, not even counting the ...

• 11 Oct 2004: Evolutionary Psychology Goes to the Dentist

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

  ...  this is an unusual situation, to say the least - yet we're expected to deal with it without qualm. Rana describes learning to "dial in ...

• 19 Jul 2004: GRE Goodness

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

  ...  learning things at work it got exceedingly dull, and I expect it will only get duller if my varied managers don't carefully ...

• 13 Jun 2004: Sunday Review: Things That Are Red

  
  Human Fuzzies: cola, gardening, graphic design, pop, reviews of stuff, Solanaceae, tomatoes · 2 comments

  ...  of the new Manly Coke Light product; it's about what I expected, not as sickly sweet as regular Coke but with somewhat less chemical ...

• 18 May 2004: Sorbets I’m Dreaming Of

  
  Food: cooking, desserts, recipes, sorbet · 6 comments

  ...  Herbed Tomato Sorbet Watermelon sorbet - not that I expect any actual watermelons from a plant with barely four hours of direct ...

• 17 Apr 2004: I Am TECSOL A-2 Solvent, Anhydrous:

  
  Whimsy: chemistry, quizzes · 2 comments

  ...  pollutants I butt heads with at work... but you can't expect your industrial solvent identity to be handed to you on a silver platter ...

• 18 Mar 2004: Because I Had A Coupon

  
  Personal: advertising, i hate everything · no comments

  ...  my mental health and creative fulfillment? I hope not - I expect a great deal of emotional sensitivity and empathy from all my bagel ...

• 24 Feb 2004: Petty Consumer Activism

  
  Politics: advertising, Food and Drug Administration, funny, open letters, sexism, soup · 6 comments

  ...  unecessarily - directed to mothers. There is a social expectation that mothers will be the ones primarily responsible for their ...  share of other domestic duties), and I believe that this expectation contributes to women's continuing difficulties in the upper ...

• 31 Jan 2004: Someone Has a Riddle

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  dialectic. Which is good because my bourgeois self was expecting bad famine jokes on that page, not bad communism jokes. i like ...

• 19 Jan 2004: Counting Dirty Words

  
  Human Fuzzies: Congressional shenanigans, swear words · no comments

  ...  Congress really expecting a serious court challenge based on the distinction between "ass hole" ...

• 13 Dec 2003: Carda yo mamma

  
  Food: baking, candied yams, cardamom, cooking, food trends, spices · no comments

  ...  getting Vegas-style blinky Christmas lights when you were expecting a small arrangement of evergreen boughs. I suppose the moral of ...

• 28 Sep 2003: Numbered Notes

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 3 comments

  ...  macaroni and cheese on a stick isn't as tasty as you might expect. The texture compares unfavorably to traditional deep-fried mozarella ...

• 25 Aug 2003: Things I’ve Never Done

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  have never laughed so hard and so unexpectedly that stuff spurted out of my nose. This is a problem with a) my ...

• 8 Jul 2003: Blog Birthday II: Return of the Sleazy Googlers

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  and shorter than you think it is. And I hope you don't expect me to back that up with any genuine meaningfulness. While I'm posting ...

• 2 Jul 2003: eTextWhore

  
  Meta: · 2 comments

  ...  with supplemental revenue generation. No great expectations, but then again there's no great cost, and I'll be quite happy ...

• 24 Jun 2003: Am I an Ex-Academic?

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

  ...  a slightly different perspective. I wasn't sure what to expect from myself as a student, or what I wanted to get from my undergraduate ...  is meant for that sort of thing. You can't reasonably expect a college sophomore not to become seriously disillusioned about at least ...

• 28 Apr 2003: I want my 2 1/2 hours back

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  of helpless rage and confusion that can only come from unexpected loss of transportation. I will not catalog its multidudinous ...

• 21 Dec 2002: Miss Manners at the INS

  
  Politics: immigration, marriage · 1 comment

  ...  but when you're dealing with the INS you can't possibly expect a big bust that's not also a big fuckup - but there's a smaller fuckup ...

• 28 Oct 2002: My Kidneys Explode

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  officially designated midterms weekend, over which we are expected to study for and take our exams, while the week before we have problem ...

• 26 Sep 2002: Invaded

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: movie reviews, not quite porn · no comments

  ...  with Porn Stars is exactly as horribly ridiculous as you'd expect from a movie about, well, cooking with porn stars, even though there's ...

• 18 Jun 2002: stupidity does vex me

  
  Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments

  ...  suggest that the customer is unreasonable to have possibly expected the company to not screw ...

• 9 Jun 2002: Crapulous

  
  Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments

  ...  fortune to live on a major fault line. A large quake is expected sooner rather than later, and I anticipate plunging to my death at the ...

• 9 May 2002: Haiku Found While Studying for an Exam in Evolutionary Psychology

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment

  ...  range size and spatial performance is at least temporally expected to treat kinship as most important in determining that when ...

• 27 Apr 2002: Ho Hum

  
  Personal: birthdays · no comments

  ...  psychologistical reasons. For my birthday (Monday! expect me to post while not-quite-sloshingly drunk - I may be turning 21 but I ...

• 17 Apr 2002: surface learning

  
  Teaching: · 8 comments

  ...  even if it is necessary, and you most certainly should not expect me to care about your worthless technicalities. When someone asks me to ...

• 10 Mar 2002: Much Ado About

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  you're wanking, we're all wanking here. If I seem to expect a mere blog entry to conform to rigorous standards of some kind... I ...  off the investment already made, if I can't reasonably expect it to improve shortly. No need to keep throwing attention or other ...

• 28 Feb 2002: god dammit

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  and I haven't heard a solitary peep. For $2/month I don't expect much, really, but some kind of automated response would be nice. Or a ...

• 12 Feb 2002: Haul, boys, Haul!

  
  Politics: · 1 comment

  ...  eliminated sexism, so you don't have to worry. I hadn't expected such a feeling of relief. Is feminist hyper-awareness creating a ...

• 26 Jan 2002: People At My School

  
  Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments

  ...  lectures in a style which demands close attention, and expects us to take an active role and ask lots of questions so we don't get ...

• 17 Jan 2002: It Wasn’t Joan Jett

  
  Personal, Politics: · no comments

  ...  score for making it into the contestant pool? I was expecting an evil professor-style test, where the high score just barely cracks ...

• : …and one more thing!

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  I'm going to try out for Jeopardy! tomorrow. I don't expect to make it on the show. No, really, I don't, not even a little bit. In ...  for trying. It should be both painless and fun. I do expect a friend of mine to pass the test and win billions and billions of ...

• 11 Jan 2002: Flamingo Lips

  
  Personal: blue sky, cult movement, embouchure, paying attention, peach, trumpet-playing, writing style · no comments

  ...  because details were often completely bizarre and unexpected. Apart from the horrible ooze of patriotism, small things here don't ...

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

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  good. Jet lag is not so good, as I'm getting grumpy at unexpected hours and still don't know when I should be hungry, but on the other ...

• 23 Nov 2001: synchronizing

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

  ...  speaking of greedy little lists, I made one. Not that I expect any of you to care, unless you're my Secret Santa. I'm such a sucker for ...

• 13 Nov 2001: solen skinner så meget

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  had never walked down the Langelinie quai before. Since my expectations had been lowered so much by a constant background murmur of ...

• 9 Nov 2001: can’t sleep, blog will eat me

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  turned into a very fun outing tonight. Tomorrow you can expect pictures from Rasmus, whose digital camera was the object of some lust ...

• 28 Oct 2001: new blog

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  with Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, what else can you expect? If you're in Denmark, have fun setting your clocks back. I know I ...

• 23 Oct 2001: Mole Day Fun

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  which had me looking over my shoulder every three seconds expecting to be flattened. So I feel properly at home here, at last, when I'm ...

• 19 Oct 2001: trains

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  on the classic high school whirlwind tour, so I didn't expect to recognize it at all... but crossing the bridge through the groggy fog ...

• 15 Oct 2001: puttin’ the “lux” back in “benelux”

  
  Personal: trains, travelogue · no comments

  ...  I've got myself a couchette on tomorrow night's train. Expect me back in town Sunday morning, dull eyed and scraggly tailed. ...

• 30 Sep 2001: Problem Set #1

  
  Aimless: · 1 comment

  ...  know you probably weren't expecting this to turn into isomorphisms, but here's a fun and exciting set of ...

• : It seems like all the

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  the only real difference is the change in meat-market expectations, but that shouldn't influence the volume or genre of music or the ...

• 20 Sep 2001: incommunicando

  
  Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments

  Expect me to be incommunicando for the weekend; the association of/for exchange students ...

• 3 Sep 2001: it almost makes sense…

  
  Meta, Personal: · no comments

  ...  me in rant mode. It seems to me that there's this sense of expectation in blogland, that popularity and critical acclaim ought to be doled ...

• 6 Jul 2001: corn snobbery

  
  Food: wine · no comments

  ...  21 (I of course am not, quite) so I can hand him $20 and expect something fully drinkable by dinner. He eats the same way, like he's ...