Search Results: green
-
29 Apr 2020: Pickled Japanese Knotweed
Food: bread, knotweed, pickles, Polygonaceae · no commentsI like Japanese knotweed shoots okay, but I still haven't found the treatment that will make me love them. I keep trying, because it's invasive and evil and so easy to pick. I want to love it. I'm going to figure out how to love it, dammit! It just hasn't ...
-
28 Apr 2020: Cocktails with the House Nocino
Food: cocktails, nocino, shochu, whisky · no commentsThis is the second year in a row that my nocino has turned out to be (1) disappointing on its own, and (2) the alchemical key that opens up another disappointing bottle on my shelf. Last year's tricky spirits were the unaged, 100% rye Wry Moon - too ha ...
-
18 Oct 2020: Macerate ALL the things!
Aimless: Asteraceae, Berberidaceae, dandelions, Gentianaceae, gin, Juglandaceae, Lamiaceae, lemon balm, lilac, liqueurs, Oleaceae, pineappleweed, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Simaroubaceae · no commentsIt's been a season of putting things in jars of cheap vodka, just to see what happens. Here is what has happened: Lilac liqueur As you might or might not recall, I left the lilac blossoms to macerate for a couple days more than planned, and wound up with ...
-
12 Jun 2020: Four Ways to Eat Black Locust Blossoms (and One Way Not to Bother)
Food: Amaryllidaceae, black locust, Brassicaceae, chives, edible flowers, Fabaceae, flowers, recipes, salad, soup · no commentsBlack locust trees set me up for greed. It must've been deliberate - the first several trees I saw held their branches just out of reach, a few letting me grab one or two flowers as a tease, a few just mocking me from the tangled hill above the parking lo ...
-
25 Apr 2020: Approaching New Flavors
Food: cookbooks, cooking, Food, foraging · no comments... often kick off my Step 1. (It does at least have dandelion greens, but it's fairly obvious to me that you would treat those like collard or mustard greens, so that's not much help.) When I get a new plant, I take the first ...
-
26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 commentsThis morning, the California Supreme Court will announce its decision on whether or not a slim 50% majority can amend the state constitution in order to specifically deny a previously-recognized constitutional right. It will also determine the fate of the ...
-
21 May 2020: Field Vehicle Amenities
Science: cars, field work · 10 commentsFollowing on Short Geologist's list of things you do and don't need at a field hotel, and fresh from the field (where by "field" I mean "three days of driving around the mountains looking for stuff", and by "fresh" I mean I'm still at the airport), I thoug ...
-
25 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists? Part II
Human Fuzzies, Science: disciplinary boundaries, professional licensing, Washington · 14 commentsThe question of whether or not I am a geologist is not just an amusing exercise in academic politics. In Washington, as in most U.S. states, geology is a regulated profession; guidelines for who can and cannot call themselves a geologist in a professional ...
-
24 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists?
Science: disciplinary boundaries, geology, geophysics, scientific culture · 13 commentsOr, less generally, am I a geologist? I have a B.S. in geophysics and an M.S. in earth and planetary science with a funky geophysics/geohydrology emphasis. I took some intro physical geology and earth history as a sophomore, but I have never taken forma ...
-
20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 commentsOn Monday, airline passengers were the first to observe the eruption of the just-barely-above-the-water volcano that forms the islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai, in Tonga. Three days later, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurred on the Tonga trench. ...
-
19 Mar 2020: The Parable of the Messy Map
Human Fuzzies: cartography, graphic design · 5 commentsMy job, for most of the past six weeks, has been to align cryptic old maps with existing digital data, so that points labeled in small, blurry fonts can be entered into a database. I am not going to show actual screenshots of my work - even if I gave away ...
-
14 Mar 2020: Blackberry Meringue Pie with Orange Bitters and Almond Crust
Food: blackberries, meringue, pie, recipes, Rosaceae · 1 commentI don't have a lemon tree in the backyard, and springtime has only just reached the frigid northlands, but I do have a bit of Seattle summer tucked away in the back of my freezer. Pick some slightly underripe blackberries for this one, so it's as tart a ...
-
: Beer Meringue Pie
Food: beer, hops, meringue, pie, recipes · 6 commentsI have had many terrible 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 ice cream that was absolutely fantastic; it should be possible to replicate that experience in a pi ...
-
: Guinness Lamb Pie
Food: beer, lamb, pie, recipes · 6 commentsThis one's for Wilkins; it's a Pi Day / St. Patrick's Day twofer. Ingredients 1 lb. stew lamb 1 onion A few tbsp diced tomatoes (whatever was left in the can you used for pasta the other night) 1 clove garlic 6-8 ice cubes of broth - I make broth ...
-
11 Mar 2020: Ternary Phase Diagram for Cracker-Crumb Crusts
Food: graham cracker crust, phase diagrams, pie, pie charts · 5 commentsAs Lab Lemming pointed out, the graham cracker crust I made for my pie last weekend cannot be represented on the ternary phase diagram for traditional pie crust. But that doesn't mean it is somehow illegitimate or unsciencey! See, look at all this science: ...
-
8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... creative, bars keep offering variations with pomegranate, green tea, lychee, or whatever else the flavor of the month happens to ... the egg yolks and lime zest until the mixture turns a pale green or you are sick of whisking, whichever comes first. Add the sweetened ...
-
24 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: diy, google earth, Links · no commentsThe Bacon Story -- How science can make even bacon disgusting. Building a Google Earth Geology Layer -- Lots of great resources accumulating in the comments here. Magma Cum Laude: Using Google Earth to visualize volcanic and seismic activity -- A discuss ...
-
19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments... Wegener has been on stamps issued by both East Germany and Greenland, but not in recognition of his ill-fated early support of continental ... to collect the first full year of weather data in interior Greenland. Other earth scientists with stamps: Milankovitch. Zhang Heng, ...
-
11 Feb 2020: An Open Letter to the Environmental Geologists of the Past
Human Fuzzies, Science: cartography, environmental consulting · 11 commentsDear Environmental Geologists, Engineers, and Technical Illustrators of 20 Years Ago: Please remember that the real audience for your work - the mind-numbingly detailed technical reports over which you have slaved many hours - is not the board of petty ...
-
30 Jan 2020: 2020 Flood Deposits and the Johnson County Conservation Bond
Science: floods, hydrology, Iowa, unfinished drafts · no commentsOne 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 ...
-
29 Jan 2020: Breaking Up with the Richter Scale
Science: earthquakes, Gutenberg, magnitude scales, Mercalli Intensity, richter, sesimology, unfinished drafts · 5 commentsOne 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 ...
-
28 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 4 commentsREMINDER: Accretionary Wedge posts due this Friday -- The theme is unhinged speculation about the future Earth. Calculus: The Musical! -- The concept may or may not be more charming than the execution. Sand Won't Save You This Time -- Mmm, ClF3. Plausibly ...
-
27 Jan 2020: Academic Citation
Aimless: · 1 commentOne 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 ...
-
26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 commentsIn addition to helping judge this year's Open Laboratory science blogging anthology, I'm also the production editor (i.e., typesetting jockey). So as I go through, reading the entries in much greater detail than I ever would otherwise, I'm noticing a coupl ...
-
23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 commentsSince today is National Pie Day, I thought I would list a few of my favorite cookbooks. In particular, the ones that have taught me to bake pie. The ones with science. My staple meringue pie recipe comes from The New Best Recipe. The Meyer lemon mering ...
-
22 Jan 2020: Flood Basalts
Aimless: · 3 commentsOne 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 ...
-
21 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 commentThe science of espresso, with a dash of geology -- Darcy's law! Four Stone Hearth (58th Edition) -- Anthropology carnival! Association of American Geographers Anne U. White Fund -- A grant for doing field work with your partner. Would've been nice to kno ...
-
20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 commentsOne 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 ...
-
15 Jan 2020: Manhattan Fault Line
Aimless: · 3 commentsOne 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 ...
-
14 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 commentI finally fixed up a semi-automatic link-posting script that fits my needs - if you're interested in the gory details, or using the script yourself, see my post on the B-Sides. Enjoy all the backlogged links! Call for Submissions: Carnival of the Arid -- ...
-
13 Jan 2020: Using Ecto’s Script Feature to Post Your Delicious Links
Meta: code, del.cio.us, ecto, perl · no commentsI was looking for an easy way to post links I've bookmarked in del.icio.us to my blog. Not all the links - there's no sense inundating readers of my geology blog with a bunch of recipes and quilting patterns. Just the links with a particular tag. And no ...
-
: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 commentsOne 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 ...
-
8 Jan 2020: How to Fight Global Warming at Night with your Fists
Politics, Science: climate change, environmentalism, sustainability, unfinished drafts · 6 commentsOne 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 ...
-
7 Jan 2020: Volcano Geodesy 101
Aimless: · 6 commentsRob R. asks: I've been following along with the recent happenings at Yellowstone (that is, as best as I can as a layman) but haven't seen that site [data from the Yellowstone GPS network] before. Could you explain (or link to) what I'm seeing there and w ...
-
6 Jan 2020: High Femme and Geekery
Aimless: · 13 comments... or graph paper shirts or sexy bike shorts or the same green polo every Thursday without inspiring any political debate or unease? ...
-
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 ...
-
18 Dec 2020: California is Safe?
Aimless: · 10 commentsAccording to a study of deaths from natural hazard "events"* across the U.S., earthquakes, volcanoes, and other spectacular geophysical hazards are much less deadly than common weather events like heat waves, floods, and thunderstorms. The study was publis ...
-
16 Dec 2020: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa
Food, Science: baked Alaska, desserts, failed experiments, lava, meringue, recipes · 6 commentsBaked Alaska is a highly technical dessert. Its success requires a firm and pliable meringue, a moist and springy sponge cake, deft assembly work, and the time-dependent heat equation. The final product is tasty enough, but it is usually meant primarily as ...
-
15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... complex in Montana or the Skaergaard Complex in Eastern Greenland. 15. Coastlines along the leading and trailing edge of a tectonic ... National Park 77. The black sand beaches in Hawaii (or the green sand-olivine beaches) 78. Barton Springs in Texas 79. Hells Canyon in ...
-
4 Nov 2020: Evelyn Julia Brumm, Rest in Peace
Aimless: · 8 commentsMy grandmother died early this morning after a short battle with cancer. She was 85. This is not a proper eulogy; those are hard to write. However. Grandma voted by absentee ballot early last week, before the morphine took over. If she managed to vote, ...
-
27 Oct 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #152
Aimless: · 10 commentsThe Where on Google Earth? competition has been going on for almost two years now, wandering the geoblogosphere from winner to winner. During that time, we've covered all 7 continents and a whole buncha islands, but we've revealed one great big bias. We'r ...
-
26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 commentSo far, Thomas M. is the only one to take advantage of my Donors Choose fundraising gimmicks. So, this rose quartz cobble, which I picked up while hiking in the hills near Santa Fe, shall henceforth be known as Thomas. When you find something so well-rou ...
-
21 Oct 2020: Geopuzzle: Beach Detectives
Aimless: · 14 commentsSomeone stole 500 truckloads of sand from a beach on the north shore of Jamaica. Police are using "forensic tests" on other beaches on the island to identify the thief; I'm guessing this involves a geologist looking at sand in a microscope. This page has ...
-
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 ...
-
9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately
Aimless: · 3 commentsAs papers come through my RSS reader, I flag anything that looks interesting, with the vague intention of getting back to it later. Ha, ha. Very few of the articles I flag actually make it through my periodic purging of the to-read list. Since Berkeley ha ...
-
8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... you may or may not be aware, Green Gabbro is one of the smallest blogs on the ScienceBlogs network. But on ...
-
6 Oct 2020: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!
Aimless: · 11 commentsA week ago, the USGS updated its official estimates of U.S. geothermal energy resources for the first time in over 30 years. During the past three decades, we've made significant progress on technology to exploit geothermal energy in areas where there's pl ...
-
29 Sep 2020: Cucumber-Fennel Soup
Food: Apiaceae, cooking, cucumbers, Cucurbitaceae, fennel, recipes, soup · 3 comments... that came in my CSA box this week to make a light and green-tasting soup. The cucumber plays more of a supporting role here than ...
-
26 Sep 2020: What Planet is my Clafoutis From?
Aimless: · 12 commentsLike so many moments of culinary inspiration, this plum clafoutis is nothing like what I was thinking of prior to actually wandering into the kitchen to make dinner. I was going to make pancake dome pancakes. Pancake domes are features on Venus. They ar ...
-
24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... years, I should have this shit down. But I froze. Marcia Greenberger at the National Women's Law Center notes that federally funded ...
-
19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 commentsWhile I was away, the rest of the geoblogosphere spent some time creating a list of 50 minerals to see before you die, and then ticking off which ones they've done; Dave Schumaker put together a neat tag cloud to display the results. Intimidated by the le ...
-
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 ...
-
1 Sep 2020: The Science of Deliciousness
Aimless: · 9 commentsIt might be Labor Day, but summer isn't really over until the blackberries are gone. Since it's harvest season and I'm still on leave from the workforce, I've been spending my time figuring out clever things to do with the bountiful produce of my neighbor ...
-
22 Aug 2020: The Sedimentary Geology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 7 commentsI had to finish off the series. Happy Friday, everyone. ...
-
21 Aug 2020: The Metamorphic Petrology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 12 commentsI was struck by the similarity of these two images. Which one does your dentist want you to eat? I won't speculate about anyone's dentist's motivations, but the top image comes from The Science of Ice Cream, and the bottom from the USGS. I'm not sur ...
-
20 Aug 2020: The Igneous Petrology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 26 commentsIt was hot out last weekend. Some of you might scoff at what I consider "hot", but the glorious thing about Seattle is that the entire city seems willing to join me in whining and wilting whenever the temperature breaks 80 (that's 25 of your Earth units). ...
-
12 Aug 2020: OMG AMNH PONIES!!1!
Aimless: · 9 commentsThe Scibling meetup weekend included free passes to see the ponies at the American Museum of Natural History. OMG PONIES... but I found the exhibit depressing, for the following reason: I don't understand why more organizations don't give out press kits ...
-
17 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no commentsEye candy of the week: Zoltan Sylvester (of Hindered Settling fame) has some fantastic photos from the Geopalooza! exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Mike Brown on coming up with a name for Make-make (the plutoid formerly known as 2020 FY ...
-
11 Jul 2020: Friday Earthquake Blogging: M7.9 Southeast Alaska
Aimless: · 1 commentWell, technically this is Friday tsunami blogging, but sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the 2020 Southeast Alaska earthquake and ensuing Lituya Bay megatsunami, a half-kilometer high wave which killed only ...
-
27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 commentsI've finally read Dr. Tom Chalko's wackaloon manuscript. It was fantastic. Chalko artfully combines common misconceptions about his subject matter with accessible yet impressively mathy-lookin' slipshod data analysis, and produces an argument that appea ...
-
24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 commentsI've been reading The Design of Everyday Things, which I recommend as a useful and interesting way of thinking about all sorts of minor frustrations in daily life. It's also applicable to teaching - I've definitely noticed many student problems that have ...
-
19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 commentsGreetings, and welcome to this week's Carnival of Space! Before getting to the astro-goodness, Will has a question: How many of you get your astronomy news directly from the press release? Planets and Plutoids Everyone likes Mars, which means everyone's ...
-
17 Jun 2020: Another Lusi Update
Aimless: · 4 commentsFrom the perspective of this paper's publication, my cross-country move was badly timed. Since my email access has been so sporadic over the past couple weeks, I missed chances to help edit the press release and do a couple of interviews. The press seems ...
-
12 Jun 2020: Devonian Fossil Gorge to Become… SIlurian Fossil Gorge?
Aimless: · 9 commentsI don't actually know what underlies the Middle Devonian brachiopods of my childhood, but I might get to find out soon. Iowa City is experiencing its second "500 year" flood in 15 years, and Coralville Lake has overtopped its dam... again. And the river h ...
-
: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 commentsEarthquake engineer Kit Miyamoto has posted a journal of his trip to Sichuan. If you don't mind a little bit of construction jargon it's a good discussion of the details of what kinds of buildings collapse, and what kinds are safe, as well as the logistica ...
-
21 May 2020: The Scouring of Fossil Gorge
Aimless: · 6 commentsJulian is hosting this month's Accretionary Wedge, and wants us all to discuss a geologic event that's significant to us personally. (Well, technically, he asked for the event that is most significant, but I love all my pet geologic events equally, so the ...
-
5 May 2020: Tag Clouds for my Papers
Aimless: · 7 commentsBrian posted tag clouds for two of his recent papers. Having no shame, Lab Lemming followed suit. Since I have even less shame, I'm just going to jump on while the bandwagon is rolling. So here's the tag cloud for Davies et al., 2020, currently in review ...
-
22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... we cannot, then no amount of technology or legislation or green infrastructure is going to save us (though all of these things may buy us ... produce section and using those plastic bags to hold my green beans. Except at the Berkeley farmer's market, where they set out a big ...
-
19 Apr 2020: Earthquake in Illinois: What’s up with Wabash Valley?
Aimless: · 16 commentsEvery time there's an earthquake in the Midwest, my mother emails me, just in case I want to move back home to study it. So that's how I heard about yesterday morning's earthquake in Illinois - a bit less exciting than waking up to it, but that's fine with ...
-
16 Apr 2020: RIP Ed Lorenz
Aimless: · 4 commentsThe man who discovered the "butterfly effect" died this morning at the age of 90. Ed Lorenz was a meteorologist; I will spare you most of the details of his career, as they can be found in the MIT obituary. But back in the early 60s, when he was trying t ...
-
: Women in Science Linky-Post
Links: · 3 commentsMy beautifully kludgy little script that does much of the work of putting together linky-posts for me - pulling everything with a special "to SB" tag off my del.icio.us account and formatting it - has stopped working. I cry tears of sadness. I also have a ...
-
11 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Slag
Aimless: · 3 commentsCoal doesn't burn completely. Here's what's left over. (Do I apologize for the weak blogging? No! No apologies! I am still trying to work "elusive", "obsequious", and "vapid" into a discussion of bedrock hydrogeology. "Propinquitous", though, that's tak ...
-
2 Apr 2020: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation
Aimless: · 26 comments... desert pavement. There was ultrabasic, deep-ocean, mottled green-and-black - or serpentine. There was the slip face of the barchan ...
-
27 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Pele’s Hair
Aimless: · 3 commentsThis one's in honor of the new activity at the peak of Kilauea. For pictures and updates, see the Hawaii Volcano Observatory homepage. For more geoblogospheric coverage, check out the posts at Magma Cum Laude and the roundup at Geology News. To get Pele ...
-
25 Mar 2020: The Five Emotions of Thesis-Writing
Aimless: · 13 commentsA while back, one of my labmates claimed that there are only five permissible emotions at a scientific conference: Nervous, excited, preening, jaded, and overwhelmed. I think there are also five emotions that one can experience while writing up a thesis: ...
-
21 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: Sand Boil
Aimless: · 6 commentsSo sand is just little weensy rocks, anyway. And this is a weensy volcano made of sand, in Peru. It’s about a meter (0.33% 0.9% of a football field thanks LL!) across. Normally, layers of sand and silt underground bear the weight of whatever’ ...
-
14 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: The Bishop Tuff
Aimless: · 6 comments... sparkly tiara of the Taconian Orogeny, and therefore the Green Mountains are the Princess of New England. I feel a meme coming on... ...
-
11 Mar 2020: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food
Aimless: · 21 commentsFirst, I'd like to say that these people have a point. There's a lotta white people on ScienceBlogs! More than in the science blogosphere generally? I don't know - pinning down the demographics of the blogosphere is tricky. More than in science generally? ...
-
7 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Mud
Aimless: · 9 commentsPicture courtesy reader Martin. Or maybe Martin doesn't actually read this blog, and it's just Wren. Anyway, thanks, Wren and Martin! Today's rock is a geopuzzle: What's up with these ridges? How did they get there, and what determines their size? I do ...
-
6 Mar 2020: Repost: Larry Summers, Math, and Violence
Aimless: · 6 commentsIn light of the fact that Cal State is still committed to firing its nonviolent math teachers (the state attorney general has weighed in, supporting the dismissal, and Kearney-Brown is planning to pursue legal action), I thought I'd dredge up an old quip o ...
-
5 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 2 commentsAvalanches 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 ...
-
3 Mar 2020: Repost: The Comic Potential of Two Axes
Aimless: · 9 commentsMuch of scientific communication consists of throwing up a graph and then explaining it. There are some basic procedures for doing this, many of which were probably ignored by the speaker at your most recent department seminar. Don't be that mumbledy jerkf ...
-
29 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Desert Varnish
Aimless: · 5 comments... and manganese in a desert varnish sample. Red is iron, green is manganese, and darker areas are mostly silicates (clay). The ...
-
: Focus is a Renewable Resource
Aimless: · 5 commentsThis post from Female Science Professor, about watching a colleague with ADD work, has been stuck in my head for the past couple of days: So now he just lives with it and, although he hates his inability to focus, if he keeps going back to his original act ...
-
25 Feb 2020: Does This Rheometer Make Me Look Fat?
Aimless: rheology · 6 commentsI didn't manage to get myself scraped off onto this month's Accretionary Wedge - oh, noes! While I am tragically subducted into the mantle, though, the rest of you can read about the many open questions currently puzzling the geoblogosphere. Perhaps I ca ...
-
22 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Oil Shale
Aimless: · 12 comments... a thin section from some Colorado shale. It's part of the Green River Formation, which is a series of rocks laid down about fifty million ... it hits one of our wells. But that never happened to the Green River Formation. With oil prices on the rise, several companies have ...
-
19 Feb 2020: Are We Baking with Volcanic Ash?
Aimless: · 10 commentsI was trawling the USGS photo archive for upcoming Friday Rock Blog candidates when I came across this scanning electron micrograph of wheat. It's from a gargantuan volume published in 2020, full of initial reports about the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. W ...
-
15 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Columnar Basalt
Aimless: · 5 commentsWaterfall and Columnar Basalt © Joe Decker. Used with permission. I finally found a piece from my nature photographer friend Joe Decker that would make a suitable subject for rock blogging. Y'see, the problem with fine art photographers is that they ...
-
14 Feb 2020: Love Songs for Geoscientists
Aimless: · 18 commentsI 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 ...
-
8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Aimless: · 19 commentsgabweb Originally uploaded by kevinzim I have a confession to make: I have absolutely no idea what this picture means. And most of you probably don't either, which is okay, because you're not running around the Internets pretending to be a geologist ...
-
4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 commentsI'm a bit cynical about the revolutionary power of the blogosphere. I blog because it's a fun and easy way to share things that I find exciting, it makes my writing better, and it helps keep my ginormous slavering beast of an ego fed in the manner to whic ...
-
: New LJ Feed
Meta: · no comments... flist... you can add the new blog to your friendslist as green_gabbro_sb. Thanks, Dalryaug! Non-LJ users, please ignore this ...
-
31 Jan 2020: Hello World
Meta: introduction · 31 comments... - I am quite keen on pie. If you're familiar with the old Green Gabbro, though, you may notice a change... I'm finally blogging under ...
-
: Moving to New Internets
Meta: · 5 comments... feed subscriptions! My new URL is http://scienceblogs.com/greengabbro, and the new feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/GreenGabbro. Greengabbro.net isn't going anywhere - I like having it as a repository for ...
-
23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie
Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments... from organic compounds in the coal would impart a yellow-green color in the diamond due to the absorption of the single N defect. I ...
-
21 Jan 2020: Metagabbros
Science: metamorphic rocks · 6 comments... particular temperatures and pressures: amphibolite greenschist blueschist granulite eclogite But I don't know that any ...
-
20 Jan 2020: How to Make Good Cloud-Watching Weather
Science: climate change, clouds, irrigation · 2 commentsIrrigated land stays cooler than native desert terrain. In the late afternoon, when this temperature difference is largest, the hot air above the desert wants to rise, and cool air from the irrigation district flows outwards along the ground to replace it ...
-
18 Jan 2020: Fred Meyer French Onion with Bacon Vegetable Dip
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: iTunes iChing, reviews of stuff, vegetable dip · 4 commentsAs a kid, I was fascinated by the hardware store. It had aisles and aisles full of shiny, mysterious gadgets. It also had a distinctive smell, composed primarily of grease, burnt metal, and dirty old linoleum. I hadn't felt that particular sense of wonder ...
-
31 Dec 2020: Year in Review
Meta: clip show · no commentsHere, Have a Clip Show Post I Really Wanted More Comments On: What would you name as "science world heritage" sites? - Good science heritage sites should force us to consider the process of science, in addition to its results and historical characters. ...
-
30 Nov 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: A Randomly-Generated AGU Press Kit
Science, Whimsy: american geophysical union, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, science journalism · 20 comments... - Solas, Sunny Spells And Scattered Showers "Lambs in the Greenfield w/Emmylou Harris" - The Chieftains, Further Down The Old Plank ...
-
28 Nov 2020: Shaking in Marie Curie’s Boots
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, books, scientiae, women in science · no commentsRemember that book so many of you volunteered to be interviewed for? It's done! It's out! It has a snazzy cover and a snazzy new title (Who's Afraid of Marie Curie?: The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology)! I'm in it, albeit briefly and pse ...
-
23 Nov 2020: Pumpkin-Durian Pie
Food: Cucurbitaceae, durian, Malvaceae, pie, recipes · 4 commentsThe American palette has no room for durian. The fruit comes pre-packed with sugar and fat, making it a natural 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 of sweet ...
-
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 commentsLife in Our Heads Welcome to the 13th edition of Scientiae! Today I am happy to share with you what is inside of everybody's heads: BRAAAAAAINS!! Er, wait - even though I am technically writing this on Halloween, it won't appear until November 1. So I don ...
-
26 Oct 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Panspermia?
Human Fuzzies, Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, meteorites, panspermia · 2 commentsAlas, A Blog linked to this BBC report of a wacky space experiment: Transformed into the size of bowler hat, [a rock] was then attached to the side of the European Space Agency's Foton M3 mission, which launched from Kazakhstan last month. Professor ...
-
20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 commentsThis image, originally created by Nobuyuki Kayahara, is a great scientific personality test. If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, you've got excess spleen qi in your left frontal crockus. This means that you're a vibrant personality whose passions ar ...
-
19 Oct 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Zoned Feldspar
Science: crystals, igneous rocks, rock blogging · 1 commentI found this one on the side of the road, near the top of Sonora Pass. The zoned structure reflects some change in the conditions under which the crystal was growing, but frankly, telling you that this is feldspar has strained my mineralogy skills to the ...
-
5 Oct 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Berea Sandstone
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 1 commentThe world's most generic sandstone comes from a narrow strip that runs from northern Kentucky through the town of Berea, Ohio, and then into Pennsylvania. It's an area that, 330 million years ago, was occupied by a large bay off the epicontinental sea tha ...
-
3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 commentsThe October edition of Scientiae is up at Wayfarer Scientista. Not only does this mean there are buckets of interesting things to read, it means it's my turn to play host! Eek! Stay calm. If the theme sucks, people can just ignore it and submit a po ...
-
28 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike
Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no commentsO Great and Powerful Oracle, the current contract between the United Auto Workers and the University of California expires on Sunday. Negotations continue, with goals like affordable dependent health care and a slightly less risible excuse for day care ben ...
-
31 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Marriage in Iowa
Politics: Friday random ten, Iowa, iTunes iChing, same-sex marriage · 2 commentsOracle! There is great news from Des Moines - same-sex marriage is legal in Iowa! Where "legal" means "a district court said so" - there's certainly a state Supreme Court challenge, and perhaps some legislative bullshit posturing, to go. O Oracle, will thi ...
-
30 Aug 2020: Notes From the Books Precariously Stacked on My Bedside Table
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, feminisms, history, psychology, racism, rape, sexism, trashy novels, white studies · 3 commentsI've been meaning to write a whole slew of book reviews, long and thoughtful ones that say interesting things about science and society and race and gender, but I think it's time to admit that it just ain't gonna happen. So I'll give you some short little ...
-
29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 commentsI'm teaching Intro to Earthquakes again this semester, and today feels like a light blogging day, so it's time to see how out-of-touch I am with this year's entering freshman class, as determined by some random people in Wisconsin. You can tell they're in ...
-
20 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #35
Science, Whimsy: glaciers, google earth, volcanoes, Where on (Google) Earth? · 8 commentsI figured out Ron's vacation itinerary, so now it's my turn again. I have a short vacation coming up in a couple weeks, to an area of geological interest... but I thought I'd pick out instead a place that I will probably never get the chance to visit in re ...
-
13 Jul 2020: Cheap Irony
Politics: bookstores, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · no commentsI was in a used bookstore last night when I came across a copy of Ar'N't I A Woman? - filed under "African-American studies". Guess we have an answer to that question. ...
-
: Friday Fun Poll: Planetary Warming
Politics, Science, Whimsy: climate change, planetary science · 1 comment{democracy:3} The big earth science news this week is another study concluding that global warming has nothing to do with the Sun. The press is full of optimistic quotes from the study authors, but I'm far too cynical to believe that "climate skeptics" ...
-
11 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #26 – Now with 90% Fewer Coordinates!
Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 11 commentsRon's view of the Deccan Traps had everyone stymied for a while... fortunately, he gave us a hint and now the crack pipe is circulating once again. #25 was perhaps a quartz or topaz on the hardness scale*. This one should be considerably easier to find; ...
-
6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing
Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 commentsI've just downloaded a trial copy of the offline blogging software ecto. I'm not sure why a total savings of perhaps a dozen keystrokes for a quote'n'paste seems so slick and convenient, but it does. Until the novelty wears off I will probably be posting m ...
-
1 Jul 2020: Leaving the Ivory Tower
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: academia, book reviews, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa · 3 commentsBarbara Lovitts dropped out of two Ph.D. programs. On her third try, she completed a dissertation in sociology - studying people who drop out of Ph.D. programs. Then she turned her dissertation into a book. Some of her results are suitable for framing ...
-
28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage
Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment... his ideas? Granted, the proposed site includes Darwin's greenhouse laboratory space, and the importance of the Galápagos to his work ...
-
22 Jun 2020: Where on (Google) Earth #20
Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 5 commentsOkay, okay, technically I am jumping 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 as the 4th or 5th person to find the estuary. However, I am so very excited to hav ...
-
21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 commentsOkay, the latest Scientiae carnival is up, but I'm still processing the last one. I was struck by the way Kat, in the middle of explaining how she hungers for closer professional friendships, takes a quick break to worry that her hunger is unreasonable: ...
-
13 Jun 2020: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 commentsSo here's an announcement: I've officially become a master's student. My advisor, fabulously, has agreed to support me while I prune my commitment-phobic tangle of half-finished papers and dissertation proposals into something resembling a thesis. I'll be ...
-
23 Feb 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Will Lusi Be Stopped?
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Lusi, search requests · 1 commentO great and glossy Oracle! Today, workers in Indonesia will begin dumping concrete balls down the mouth of the mud volcano Lusi. What wacky hijinks will ensue? The Covering - Lost Island - Tony Elman, Swinging on a Gate The Crossing - Don't Have to B ...
-
30 Jan 2020: What’s the Good News of Geology?
Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments... them. Basic atmospheric and climate science: how the greenhouse effect works, what smog is and where it comes from... I'm sure all ...
-
28 Nov 2020: Academic Neuropharmapsychowhatsits
Personal: coffee, mind-altering substances · 6 commentsWhen I was a corporate drone, drinking too much caffeine felt like stress. I thought it was just my body gettin' old, but no: now that I'm back in academia, an overdose of coffee feels like productivity, excitement, and falling in love. In completely un ...
-
26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie
Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 commentIt wasn't 3D, but my pie was a success anyway. The margarita pie, anyway - no comment on the pomegranate meringue, I didn't get enough juice out of the pomes I bought to call it a fair trial. Next time, I'll just buy the straight-up juice. The Meyer lemon ...
-
14 Oct 2020: 2020 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests
Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments... expect from any sane and competent transit district) and a Green Party endorsement. I'm not sure it'll make the buses run on time, but it ...
-
4 Sep 2020: Household Goodness
Personal: domesticity, gardening, photoblog · 2 comments... on the minus, it means my view has changed from rustling green leaves to my neighbor's ugly pasted-on balcony. And next year we won't ... pot. And that's all the news that isn't! Errors: http://greengabbro.net/images/housengarden/P9040001.jpg is not accessible or supported ...
-
25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... under a rock I would understand modern beauty regimens Green tea has always been marketed for health purposes. Public school ...
-
12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 commentsI admit, I am hopelessly addicted to my own site logs, especially to the tracks of the 60% or so of my visitors who arrive here via Google search (and, to a lesser extent, other search engines - but Google traffic wins out by nearly two orders of magnitude ...
-
4 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Storms on Titan
Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, methane, Titan · 3 commentsI had a lovely Friday iTunes tarot reading nearly prepared last week when the competing Oracle of Firefox and Accidentally Closed Tabs prophesied doom and destruction for all my questions. So, now that the auspicious day of Friday is once again upon us, I' ...
-
3 Aug 2020: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way
Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 commentsI was responding to John's comment, but the response outgrew the scope of the comment box. I've got some general pronouncements to pronounce. So, first, a quote for context: Getting to the truth is the goal, though, so if this incites more incisive inve ...
-
28 Jul 2020: These Search Requests Are What I’m Trying to Monetize
Meta: adsense, search requests · 3 comments... alphabet song" notation hidden meaning shirts i own you GREEN SHIT .CO. Exploded Moms Cheap Thermonuclear who is the scariest ...
-
27 Jul 2020: Coming Down from the Link Rush
Links, Meta: anti-racism, blog carnivals, doing science, erase racism, NASA, panta rei, race in science, racism · 1 commentI love it when the stars align and people come pouring in from several corners of the blogosphere (or trickling, I suppose; it all depends on your perspective), though perhaps it was just spillover attention from my housemate's friend's fabulous book idea ...
-
25 Jul 2020: Heat Wave, Schmeat Wave
Personal: ground squirrels, igneous rocks, Lassen, photoblog, rhyolite, talus, volcanoes · 4 comments... in t-shirts and shorts? Errors: http://greengabbro.net/images/lassen/trail-to-lassen-peak.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/lassen/lassen-peak-talus.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/lassen/chipmunk02.jpg is not accessible or supported ...
-
19 Jul 2020: I Read Wifework So You Don’t Have To
Human Fuzzies, Politics: book reviews, feminism, gender, marriage, sexism · 6 commentsIf you throw out all the bullshit and the intro-level patriarchy-blaming, Susan Maushart's Wifework magically transforms from a 247-page eye-roller into an insightful 10-page essay. I will now extract the most interesting points from that essay, so that y ...
-
27 Jun 2020: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril
Human Fuzzies, Politics: evolutionary psychology, marriage, wedding-industrial complex · 8 commentsPerhaps Kyso Kisaen will be a bloggy guide and muse through the Rite of Femminess otherwise known as getting hitched; she seems to have her priorities straight: I already know shit like "less booze = less money" or "borrow stuff or make it, teehee!" Any ...
-
23 Jun 2020: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache
Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments... pages from Google. I ran through searches like inurl:greengabbro.net/2020/05 to save entries one month at a time; this was a huge ...
-
17 Jun 2020: Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege
Personal: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, wedding-industrial complex · 11 commentsI'd put aside my thoughts of fish and bicycles when I moved up here for school. But two weeks ago, I snuck up to Seattle for the weekend, to see the Boy. We were laying around in the funny glow of the last day of vacation, talking about everything and noth ...
-
16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... the "full backup" button. Will this be the end of Green Gabbro? Maybe. I've rescued the entire blog (or pretty close) from ...
-
: About
: · no comments... criminy.crickets [at] gmail.com The Blog Green Gabbro is powered by WordPress, with the following ...
-
17 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: The Giant’s Causeway
Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, tourist attractions · 3 comments... Green Beer Day! I am pleased to inform you that there are famous rocks in ...
-
13 Mar 2020: Quickies
Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments... some help identifying a mineral; I'm inclined to say "uh, green, um, chlorite? epidote?" but that's why I'm not a real geologist. He's ...
-
10 Feb 2020: Friday Fluffypost
Whimsy: dreams, pirates, racism, search requests · 1 comment... I dreamed that I was buying bras. My choices were pea green, and olive green. Am I the only one whose dreams are always this boring? I haven't felt ...
-
31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 commentsOne 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 ...
-
27 Jan 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Caliche
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks, stable isotopes · 4 commentsI've previously rockblogged about the crusty, water-soluble minerals known as evaporites. But you don't need open pans or puddles to produce this kind of mineral precipitate - drying out shallow soil will work just as well. When this happens, dissolved ca ...
-
20 Jan 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 commentsO Great Oracle: Were the recent glaciers on Olympus Mons fed from atmospheric water, ground water, or both? Or are we puny humans simply imagining glacial deposits where no glaciers existed? Only your pseudorandom access memory knows for sure! The party ...
-
13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no commentsWell, I guess I did promise to try to reconstitute my notes from the AGU mass communication sessions I attended. Like many reconstituted foods, this might be a touch gritty-pasty... I made it to two of the communication talks in between all the Science. ...
-
30 Dec 2020: Year-End Bloggy Wrap-Up
Meta: clip show · no commentsSo I actually have multiple posts in the draft queue that will outshine this year's entire output combined with their dazzlingly pure incomprehensibility pretentiousness wit and insight. But I'm just on the edge of sick, my head feels like one of those flu ...
-
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 ...
-
6 Dec 2020: AGU One
Personal, Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging · 6 commentsWhy are all the interesting talks at 8 in the morning? And at the Marriott? Let's send the space physicists over there instead, or reserve it as punishment for people who can't have a technical conversation for more than 5 minutes that doesn't involve po ...
-
8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs
Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 commentsMy immune system is built of sturdy Icelandic draft ponies. It must be; why else would my roommate's entire respiratory system be riddled with one-way portals from the Plane of Snot, while I am blissfully healthy? Perhaps there's some sort of snot portal e ...
-
14 Oct 2020: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel
Science: crackpots · 3 commentsThis is old news by now, but eternal bloggish laggardliness is the price of having a job I can't actually do in my sleep. Anyway, this year's Ig Nobel physics prize has gone to an experiment demonstrating a concept near and dear to every* geophysicist's he ...
-
23 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · 5 commentsO great and powerful algorithms! Will my print job ever actually print? Or will it just sit in the queue forever and ever amen? The key. The Covering: Wolfstone, Jen's Tune(from Seven) The Crossing: The Pogues, Rainbow Man (from Hell's Ditch) The C ...
-
9 Sep 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-N
Whimsy: co-op living, Friday random ten, Germany, Nutella, search requests, welfare · 4 comments... The Long Island Railroad Matt Pond PA - This Is Not the Green Fury - A List of Sound Flook - Rubai - Larry - Kalamantinos Cordelia's ...
-
3 Sep 2020: Unpacking Someone
Meta: fan mail, hate mail · 1 commentFinally, finally, finally I have a permanent room - at least for definitions of "permanent" of the kind I'm growing less and less satisfied with; it would be nice if someday "permanent" meant more than a mere pair of years at most. But! I get to unpack my ...
-
2 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests, Sierra Nevada · no commentsO great iTunes, you who have pulled me from the depths of petty irritation by getting Lake of Pontchartrain stuck in my head for days on end, you whose beneficent pseudorandomizing is second only to the Great Mother Mandelbrot, I pray that you do my resear ...
-
1 Sep 2020: Lookit Me I’m So Privileged
Personal: army corps of engineers, Atchafalaya, dams, levees, Mississippi River · 1 commentIt's weird to sit here in my co-op's little study room, worrying about the spatial variation of deuterium concentrations in snow, while in some other part of the country there's chaos and misery. But it's not like there's ever a time when the world is empt ...
-
27 Aug 2020: What I Learned in the Field This Month
Science: field work, photoblog, Yosemite · no comments... during spring floods. Errors: http://greengabbro.net/images/yosemite/stream-8.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/yosemite/meadow.jpg is not accessible or supported ...
-
19 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Personal, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · 2 commentsOh great randomizer: will I ever get my house all clean and empty, and make it up to Berkeley? Or will spend so much time blogging that I'll miss orientation? The Covering: Tear the House Down, The Fables (from Tear the House Down) The Crossing: Fo ...
-
18 Aug 2020: A Book and Two Movies
Human Fuzzies: bears, book reviews, charles darwin, movie reviews, penguins, pirates · 2 commentsThe Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - No title has ever been more cunningly concieved, more able to bypass all my many miserlinesses and leap into my ownership before I can blink. And quite right, too! Pirates! And scientists! The book itself, ...
-
14 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 13-18
Aimless: denmark, photoblog, Scandinavia, Sweden, travelogue · 7 comments... 17-18: Stockholm Errors: http://greengabbro.net/images/vacation05/aarhus-1.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/vacation05/aarhus-2.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/vacation05/aarhus-gargoyle.jpg is not accessible or ...
-
13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 9-12
Personal: photoblog, Scandinavia, travelogue · no comments... globe - but those were less simple times. Errors: http://greengabbro.net/images/vacation05/bryggen-1.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/vacation05/bryggen-2.jpg is not accessible or supported ...
-
: 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 ...
-
5 Aug 2020: Shark vs. Bear
Whimsy: bears, cultural appropriation, hipsters, sharks, yuppies · 1 commentThe first Usenet citation for the phrase "Bear vs. Shark" appears to be from 2020, in a discussion about - *sob* - golf, and the "Great White Shark" Greg Norman: On the Bear vs Shark debate. When I see Greg Norman rip thru tourney wins like I watched J ...
-
: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... Jensen said by telephone from the Danish navy base on Greenland's west coast. "As it looks now, the ice situation may not allow us ...
-
3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 commentsDays 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 ...
-
29 Jul 2020: Staten Island Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3 · no commentsI should be heading back to the ol' Federal Democratic Republic tomorrow morning - hopefully not too much more Free and Democratic than it was a month ago. As I write this, Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation is blaring from the news and I am clapping my ha ...
-
15 Jul 2020: Father Dollard’s Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3, sheet music · no commentsFather Dollard was a poet; I have no particular reason to think this hornpipe was named after him, but I have no reason not to, either. This is performed by pennywhistler extraordinaire Mary Bergin, on Feadoga Stain 2; Father Dollard's Hornpipe is the s ...
-
9 Jul 2020: Medical things I do not know answers to
Science: guest posts, medicine · 9 commentsA friend of mine (hi friend! I doubt you are reading this!) is studying medicine in Europe, and currently getting British citizenship so that she can more easily work in Europe forever and ever. (Her current plan is to be a pathologist in the south of Fran ...
-
8 Jul 2020: Friday Rock Blog: The Unenlightened Canadian Edition
Uncategorized: guest posts, rock blogging · 3 comments... fair Green Gabbroites - I'm Moebius Stripper, and I live at Tall, Dark, and ...
-
30 Jun 2020: And introducing in the pale-grey green corner, guest blogger #3
Uncategorized: guest posts · no commentsAnother test from a guest blogger which over the weeks, will move from glauconite to the Gammon Ranges of South Australia. Hopefully to additionally stray into the politik that the gabbro intersects with... We'll endeavour to keep the rocks warm as you car ...
-
29 Jun 2020: Can’t Even Sweat
Meta, Personal: travelogue · 3 commentsSo here I am in Iowa, where the water content of the atmosphere actually violates the laws of physics and chemistry. My nose appreciates the extra hydration - dried-out crusty desert boogers are no fun - but the rest of me wants to sprawl on the floor and ...
-
20 Jun 2020: Testing the Future
Meta: call for guestbloggers, folk music, have an mp3 · 12 commentsThis is a test of future-dated posting. It should appear at 6 AM Monday morning (PST) and no earlier. If all goes well, I'll be dropping a few posts in time capsules to give all y'all a chance to look back fondly upon the fabulous days of June, during the ...
-
18 Jun 2020: Up Echo Mountain
Personal: photoblog · no commentsHiked up Echo Mountain today, which is only a 6-mile walk round trip so there's no need to be impressed with my mountain-climbing prowess. My feet are unimpressed with the endeavor, for sure, as is my lightly sunburnt skin. The summit was a stop on the ol ...
-
17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 commentsI apologize that this week's rock blogging isn't actually a rock, but in honor of finally being awake for an earthquake* I think it's time to try my hand at something a little closer to home. But before delving into the world of inscrutable diagrams, here' ...
-
: Friday Random
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · no commentsVärttinä - Seleniko - Paukkuvat Pasuunat David Bowie - Moulin Rouge soundtrack - Nature Boy Pixies - Doolittle - Hey Bent - The Everlasting Blink - Strictly Bongo Smølferne - Smølfehits Vol. 1 - Smølfehits Vol. 1 Laura Illeborg - Sværger &am ...
-
10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... less days you will have your period - no the physics of green flowers search result is nothing help! my new bra's are itchy paltry ...
-
8 Jun 2020: I am the Prince of the Air
Meta: hotlink protection, hotlinkers, persecuted Christians, satanism · 10 commentsSo a bunch of LiveJournal/Xanga/Myspace kidz have been trying to use my pictures as background images. Which would be all well and good if they were savvy enough to get their own damn servers... but no. I put in some image hotlinking protection several ...
-
6 Jun 2020: Summer Flowers Bring September Fires
Uncategorized: photoblog · 3 commentsSunday was California Desert Day at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens. One of the hazards of knowing people who work at these places is that you occasionally get roped into going to underregistered children's events... but there were pretty flowers! ...
-
3 Jun 2020: Friday Random Nineteen
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments... of * Cryptic * Spy in provocative underwear fake green volcano names star war alien girls that are green and have sex with pictures earthquakes merits and demerits evil moon ...
-
26 May 2020: Friday Frittering: Last Day at Work Edition
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: candy, chocolate, feminism, gender, girlhood, quizzes, search requests · 6 comments... Requests rock chick super mullet why do people has green poo's picking your nose bigger "monkey"+"duck"+"porn" ginger anus horses green,song,dumpster slut do I have a yami Aw geez not this shit ...
-
25 May 2020: For the Record
Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 commentsI very nearly dragged a whole Hugo Schwyzer thread into the dirt here. But this blog happens to like dirt - I mean, I'm a geologist, I do dirt for a living! The original thread is about if, when and why we should condemn what people do in the privacy of ...
-
20 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 6 comments... it cools more slowly and forms visible crystals. It's not green. Its primary components are plagioclase, amphibole, olivine, and pyroxene - white, dark, green, and dark, respectively. In general, if a gabbro contains so much olivine ...
-
16 May 2020: I Wish I Were Covered in Fuzzy Knobs
Links, Meta, Personal: anti-spam, cnidarians, hyperopia, myopia, vision · 4 comments... emerged today and are exhibiting their unique shade of green for the first time this year. This green really pops, and to someone like myself, the exact details of the ...
-
13 May 2020: Further Trivialities
Aimless, Links, Personal: blogular wanking, grad school, telephony · 5 comments... Also, an excuse to buy Oreos (via Tild). Also also, a green gabbro mashup. ...
-
: Friday Rock Blogging: Evaporites
Science: evaporites, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 3 commentsYour erstwhile correspondent is craving salt today. Mmm, salt! Even what we typically think of as fresh water contains loads of it; if you've ever noticed crusty white deposits around your faucet, well, that's the first step in a process that will eventua ...
-
12 May 2020: Friday Random 15
Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes, search requests · 7 comments... people who need to see their doctors, stat: what is the green stuff that comes out your penis when you have sex IS IT FUCKING POSSIBLE ...
-
5 May 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Seven
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 commentsMonday is Monday, but Friday is Thursday, isn't it? Also, I need a plugin for iTunes that will display the current song on the menubar or something. Since I usually listen on full-library shuffle mode, I rarely have any idea what's playing. The Be Good ...
-
2 May 2020: Monday Review of Stuff
Human Fuzzies: coffee, mac'n'cheez, movie reviews · 6 commentsUnlike certain other Monday Reviews we could mention, this one respects the traditional meaning of Monday, lingering grumpiness included. Mr. Coffee 12-cup drip coffeemaker: I can't find the exact model number, unfortunately, because I very much need to ...
-
28 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Twelve
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 2 commentsWhen Spring Break is in your heart and in your mind, every day is the start of a nine-day weekend. The Pogues - Hell's Ditch - Six to Go MC Einar - Arh Dér! - Vildmandens Winergryde Stones in the Field - Come Singing, Come Dancing - Father O'Fl ...
-
15 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Quiz
Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes · 6 commentsSo I have just under half my music collection imported - that's enough to do a Random Ten, isn't it? Of course it is. Davy Spillane - Sound of Stone: Artists for Mullaghmore - The May Morning Dew Fairport Convention - Jewel in the Crown - Kind Fortune ...
-
26 Mar 2020: Poppies
Human Fuzzies: photoblog · 4 comments... sun sapped all my energy. Look! Errors: http://greengabbro.net/images/poppies/p2020029.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/poppies/p2020034.jpg is not accessible or supported ...
-
: Iimage Gallery Test Post: Seattle
Human Fuzzies: photoblog · no comments... my visit to Seattle, sooo... Errors: http://greengabbro.net/images/seattle/p2020007.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/seattle/p2020011.jpg is not accessible or supported filetype.http://greengabbro.net/images/seattle/p2020017.jpg is not accessible or supported ...
-
15 Feb 2020: How to Ward Off Rapists
Politics, Whimsy: rape, satire · 7 commentsRecently I was reminded of a bit of old lore about rapists: just as vampires cannot speak the name of Christ, rapists cannot speak the name of Andrea Dworkin. Which in turn reminded me of the sorry state of the common wisdom imparted to women as regards ou ...
-
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 ...
-
24 Jan 2020: We’re All Molluscan Pornographers Here
Links, Science: blogular wanking, molluscs · no comments... sex acts was my job." Indignant sniff! Here at Green Gabbro we've been peddling yicky mollusc sexuality for just yonks without ...
-
20 Jan 2020: Fantasy Cabinet
Politics: fantasy politics · 9 commentsI already fucked up Not One Damn Dime Day by buying gas, of all things - not only buying it, but spilling a bunch onto the pavement 'cause the auto-pump-shutoff gadget failed. Sorry, fishies! But there's a much better game, over at Rad Geek People's Daily ...
-
17 Dec 2020: Pink
Politics: cars, colors, gender · no comments... fine, but for genuine aesthetic enjoyment I'll take a nice green car any day. Obnoxious pink things are just a big girly "fuck you" - and ...
-
13 Dec 2020: Top Five in 2020
Meta: clip show, procrastinating, skunks · 2 commentsIt's not so much a choice between applying to grad school and blogging; procrastination is a foregone conclusion. It's a choice between procrastiwhinyblogging about application essays as the retroactive construction of a mendaciously coherent personal narr ...
-
: Architeuthis sox
Whimsy: sketches, socks, squid · 1 comment...
-
9 Dec 2020: Abortion Post Omega
Politics: abortion, ethics · 7 commentsNot really, but at Alas (and subsequently Mousewords) there's been discussion of an essay which attempts to take precisely the opposite of my preferred approach to abortion rights: namely, it considers the problem of fetal value in a hypothetical universe ...
-
7 Dec 2020: Old Enough to Buy My Own Candy
Human Fuzzies, Links: candy, Christmas, Hanukkah, nostalgia · 2 commentsWhy did they not have caramel apples coated in M&Ms and/or cookie crumbs and/or coconut when I was a kid? Is this a new innovation in candy, or a cultural problem with the Midwest, or what? No one at Francis's is answering the question that obviousl ...
-
3 Nov 2020: Back on the Horse
Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments... other answers will be attacked as "distractions". I voted Green in 2020** - in California - and four years after the fact people are ... of juice? * With 78% of the vote, hoorah! ** Yes, "Green" and "Nader" were the same cause then. Now they're not. Can you get it ...
-
2 Nov 2020: Fusion Tickets
Politics: California ballot propositions, California politics, elections, US party politics · no comments... of. Like Fusion ticketing. I would love to have voted as "Green for Kerry"...but alas, I don't live in New ...
-
30 Sep 2020: Debate Livesnarking
Politics: · 2 comments... are telling us something here and I think I should vote Green again. Also, the moderator is wearing a red tie. Oh, shit. Liberal media ...
-
23 Aug 2020: Pedantry, Physics
Links, Science: · 7 commentsWho among you allowed me to go without reading Pedantry on at least a quasi-regular basis? I mean, really, what else have you been holding out on? In any case, Towards a Critical Theory of Physics is kinda tangentially related to the old post-structuralis ...
-
: John Kerry, War God
Politics: John Kerry, pacifism, presidential elections · no comments... and hide under the blankets and cry and maybe join the Green Party again: It's all part of the seemingly successful plan to paint ...
-
15 Aug 2020: Sidebar Gadget Manager: Implementation Notes
Meta: code, Movable Type, php, sidebar gadgets · no commentsI'm currently installing the show/hide sidebar gadgets script, from scriptygoddess. Because I don't want to have the script included on every single bloody page, file, and MT template, I'm hiding it in a layer of includes which have caused a couple problem ...
-
11 Jul 2020: Stupid Pelicans
Links: bees, birds, environmentalism · no commentsLooks like I was right about the bees - at least if bees are pelicans. ...
-
29 Jun 2020: Easy Things That Aren’t
Personal: human imperfection, mental blocks · 15 comments... a winter squash to the correct amount of doneness Using Green's functions to solve partial differential equations Rolling my ...
-
2 Jun 2020: Viva Quebeckistan!
Personal: quizzes · no comments... be. By all rights things should be falling down with calm greenness, the same way you fall into a lawn chair with a beer in your hand on summer evenings. Here, it's not so much a falling down greenness as a green that desperately clings to a ledge even though its fingers ...
-
18 May 2020: Sorbets I’m Dreaming Of
Food: cooking, desserts, recipes, sorbet · 6 comments... thought that counts. Mint sorbet, and for safety's sake, green grape mint sorbet, verjus-mint sorbet, green pea mint sorbet, and coconut mint sorbet. Mint can be invasive. Marjoram ...
-
4 May 2020: Garden Post
Personal: car repair, cars, container gardening, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, tomatoes · no commentsWell! I thought my car would make it to work, but it started crying and overheating three miles out on the freeway... limped in to the mechanic, who replaced all the hoses that needed replacing (i.e. every single heater hose in the car as they were all clo ...
-
29 Mar 2020: Poppies, poppies
Personal: · 1 commentTrip to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve on Sunday, along with every other amateur photographer in the L.A. area. It's been a dry year, so the show wasn't as spectacular as it's been in years past, but there were still some respectable shots fo ...
-
22 Mar 2020: wanky web thing again
Links: · no commentsOooh, I'm all with the geourl. Looky looky neighbors. ----- ...
-
15 Mar 2020: The Creeping Nursery Begins
Personal: dead baby jokes, gardening · no comments... blue and sits in the corner? Baby in a plastic bag. What's green and sits in the corner? Same baby three weeks later. Which is how I'm hoping these babies will turn out - green! Or even green with red blotches, which is also a good color combination ...
-
7 Mar 2020: Investing With Your Values
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, investing, money, socially responsible investment · 3 commentsSo I'm not at all chuffed with the concept of "working for a living". And it seems that the best way to avoid working for a living is to be independently wealthy, which one accomplishes through some combination of living below one's means and witchcraft. ...
-
2 Mar 2020: Personalized Follow-Up
Personal: · 5 commentsFrom: campbellsoup @ casupport.com To: yami_mcmoots @ yahoo.com Subject: Re: 2237666A Ms. Yami McMoots, we received your message and appreciate your taking the time to contact Campbell Soup Company about our Franco-American Where's Waldo Pasta with Tomato ...
-
1 Mar 2020: hey look I’m trendy
Meta: · 2 commentsApparently tie-dye and ducks are mildly trendy among a small clique of livejournallers. Who knew? Not me, at least not until I checked my actual referral logs and not just the sitemeter. Those krazy kidz have been pulling medium-sized jpgs off my server ...
-
10 Feb 2020: Crappy Superpowers
Whimsy: · 7 commentsAll hipster comic heroes have a superpower that isn't good for much. My superpower? I know if I'll be seeing someone in Hell. Like the driver of the Dodge Viper who worked very hard to gain one whole Geo Metro length in the traffic today; we'll be companio ...
-
2 Feb 2020: Linky Roundup
Links: · 2 commentsApparently I'm not the only one who was internet-starved all weekend.* The RSS is full! Here's some of what it's full of: Item 2020: custom-colored matches. This is the kind of random shit you are supposed to feed your Bayesian link machine. It's not the ...
-
25 Jan 2020: Sweet Potato Soup
Food: Convolvulaceae, mushrooms, recipes, soup, sweet potatoes, tomatoes · no comments... broth if a thinner soup is desired. Sprinkle chives (or green onions) over each serving of soup. Update: the tomato is not to be ...
-
24 Jan 2020: Ha ha
Politics: Internet activism, same-sex marriage · 2 commentsSo that silly little marriage poll? It failed, miserably, to reflect a particular noxious constituency, and the AFA is disgruntled. Now, Smith says, his organization has had to abandon its goal of taking the poll to Capitol Hill. "We made the decisio ...
-
23 Dec 2020: Christmas Poll
Aimless: · no comments... load up dem poll results first! */ /* $fp = fopen( "http://greengabbro.net/archives/cool_yule_poll.txt", "r"); flock( $fp, LOCK_SH ...
-
: One List
Human Fuzzies: Christmas, driving, singing · no comments... perfect German. You may assert with perfect impunity that Greensleeves is, in fact, the child laid to rest on Mary's lap. Requests for ...
-
13 Dec 2020: Carda yo mamma
Food: baking, candied yams, cardamom, cooking, food trends, spices · no comments... lights when you were expecting a small arrangement of evergreen boughs. I suppose the moral of the story is to use a measuring spoon. ...
-
11 Dec 2020: Peer Review II
Politics, Science: peer review · no commentsBeen thinkin' about this problem of government peer review (though the monsterpost hasn't been pushed beyond Tuesday's edition, alas) and my intuition just flipflopped. Maybe industrial peer review is actually a good idea, sort of. The fundamental probl ...
-
30 Nov 2020: Umami = Love
Human Fuzzies: · 4 commentsI'm still not sure if the turkeys marinated in MSG were enough to make up for the lack of turducken. MSG is a superlatively delicious taste enhancement, but in comparing deep-fried MSG turkeys and oven-roasted turducken, one is led down this seductive path ...
-
25 Nov 2020: Pie Is Fightin’ Words
Food, Human Fuzzies: book reviews, Iowa City, pie, pie shakes · 2 comments"Respect the art of pie" wrote Susan Bright. I wonder what she'd think of the diner in Iowa City I read about in the paper that tosses pie in a blender and calls it a "pie shake." No time to bake pie. No time to sit down and eat it properly with a cold g ...
-
23 Oct 2020: Quicksilver: a partial review
Human Fuzzies: book reviews · 3 commentsNeal Stephenson jumped the shark on page 277. Over the moon and into some stable orbit, where a group of hasty sketches in an imitation Baroque tin can go round and round with the Bludgeon of Science History Hindsight. One wonders how many revolutions the ...
-
28 Sep 2020: Numbered Notes
Human Fuzzies: · 3 commentsIt's obviously the greatest food product ever invented, but deep-fried macaroni and cheese on a stick isn't as tasty as you might expect. The texture compares unfavorably to traditional deep-fried mozarella cheese sticks as well. Neil Stephenson wants to ...
-
10 Sep 2020: Epic Immuno-Suppressing Battles
Human Fuzzies: · 6 commentsSomeone stuck my voodoo doll into a bottle of Benadryl, probably about forty-five minutes ago. I am all woozy and vapid. Last night I set about arranging our two bookshelves to reflect two epic battles: Monkey vs. Robot, and Hipster vs. Nerd. Monkey vs. ...
-
3 Sep 2020: More Maps!
Aimless: · 4 commentsA Smell Map of Minneapolis and other quirky cartographies are coming out from the University of Minnesota's Design Institute. I harken back to a guy who made maps of jack-o-lanterns. And so the question becomes, how can maps and communities reinforce one a ...
-
3 Aug 2020: Someone Hates Me!
Meta: · 1 comment... chatter is more mundane: i hate bugs Even bugs with green eyes? I hate them too. Hideously fun-colored things. A monkey is a ...
-
6 Jun 2020: Bachelor Party!
Personal: · 1 commentThat's it. Finis with finals, forever. Done! I feel like a sequel to Matilda - where Matilda suddenly realizes that it was fun being able to move things with her mind, and goes back to kindergarten. ----- ...
-
18 May 2020: Art Cars
Links: · 3 commentsSo I'm going to turn the Metro into... something. With paint. Inspirations: Planet Karmann, Purple Passion, GreenMobile. ...
-
30 Apr 2020: Signs of Ducklings
Meta: · 2 commentsNot much news from the land of trilobites today - just polishing off the last of the work I should theoretically have finished six weeks ago, and staring down the barrel of midterms week. But I thought you should know that there's soft-core duck porn in th ...
-
16 Apr 2020: Green Mung Beans
Meta: · no comments... a spam in my mailbox from the world's largest exporter of green mung beans from China, whose name was Nanjing Mega-Profit Trading ...
-
31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no commentsMy relationship to Hawai'i is clearly doomed to be one of unrequited affection. The island doesn't hate me quite enough to squish me like a bug (though it had several chances) but the flowers made my nose run, the aa ate my feet and the beaches just laughe ...
-
9 Feb 2020: Theme of Bugs
Personal: · 4 comments... bugs, there was one in the library today with fluorescent green eyes. There was a pink spot between the eyes, bright pink, but that was ... so important as the fact that the eyes were fluorescent green. And they say libraries are supposed to be free of distraction! Pah. And ...
-
4 Feb 2020: Uh-Oh
Personal: · 1 comment... I'm worried about what'll happen when the light turns green and it tries to drive off - the last time something like this happened, ...
-
26 Jan 2020: Link Fest Rama Lama Ding Dong
Links: · 3 comments... slogan generator. It takes a tough man to make a tender Green Gabbro. My new personal motto is "Try Mild!" Tom Tomorrow cites the ...
-
5 Nov 2020: None of the Above
Personal, Politics: California politics, Gray Davis, US party politics · no commentsI was taking my last midterm this afternoon when a car drove by, with a speaker mounted on top, telling me to Vote Democrat in the same voice you'd use to tell people to Please Disperse Immediately after you'd found a great sale on pepper spray. It was qui ...
-
2 Oct 2020: Questions
Personal: trivialities · 6 commentsI grab the book, thwack the pages and shout "Make sense! Make sense!" - why doesn't it make sense? Will it make sense tomorrow after lecture? How on earth do the pre-college science education people get the most well-stocked drinks fridge on campus, whe ...
-
12 Sep 2020: Eating Glop
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... lentils 1 cup pearled barley 1 onion, 3-4 celery stalks, 1 green pepper, 2-3 roma tomatoes (they're cheaper and tastier than the beefsteak ...
-
4 Sep 2020: Zilla Zilla
Links, Whimsy: · 2 commentsZilla Zilla. It's Zilla a Zilla, Zilla, you'll love it. But not as smurfing intelligible as the WebSmurfer. SmurfZilla! Yar! ...
-
18 Aug 2020: A Contest-Contest
Aimless: · 15 commentsWay back in the day last April, I had a Mystery Box O' Stuff. I still have a Mystery Box O' Stuff, and it's not getting any more interesting in my closet. Kat said I should have a contest, and I did - anyone who read through a godawful trivia entry saw a r ...
-
5 Aug 2020: Sock Rebuttal
Whimsy: laundry, socks · 2 commentsHow fortuitous! I come back from a dinner with lawyers (preparatory for this biotech patent law mock trial hooha I'll be doing in the next few months) to discover that Simon has responded to my tempestuous gauntlet-throwing. Like any sensible blogger, he c ...
-
1 Aug 2020: Panties Ready for Bunching
Personal: socks, trolling · 3 commentsToday I've been hunting down rants. Discarding a misguided list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters ever (Porky Pig made it in over Marvin the Martian? Apoplexy!) and a sanctimonious Fast Food Nation fueled look at butchery (I don't give a shit about the ...
-
31 Jul 2020: Someone Wonders
Meta: · 1 comment... with sundrenched yellows, bleached whites, springtime greens. Christ has risen. And so too, has a new fashion sensibility. Fresh! ...
-
28 Jul 2020: dry air
Personal: · no commentsI refuse to kiss the sweet ground in L.A. - god only knows what kinds of car drippings have permeated the soil. But I am back, safe and sound and only wondering what kind of person refuses to run pushing and shoving as fast as they can to the baggage carou ...
-
11 Jul 2020: New Stylesheets
Meta: blogtinkery · 8 comments... to have the moxie to make. The other just has some celery greens. Let me know if they're unreasonably disfunctional, ...
-
8 Jul 2020: Gah Ugh Zoop
Personal: · no commentsI have just spent six hours forcing linux to accept a new piece of hardware. My head feels full of cheese and my eyes have fallen into my mouth. Plus I'm just a touch cranky. But, now I can download images from my camera again, without having to crawl to ...
-
6 Jul 2020: Red Pop Redux
Links, Meta: · 3 commentsGot 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 2020: Someone Needs a New Brain
Meta: · 2 commentsSomeone forgets what her mother told her, and sends in: I wanted to write something nice, but worms just ate my brain. I wanted to extend my warmest condolences, but I've just been watching Iron Chef, and you're making me think of marinades. If sophistic ...
-
2 Jul 2020: Productive Use of Time
Human Fuzzies: · 12 commentsI read in the bathroom (what else is a girl supposed to do, examine the stains on her towels?) and now that I've got a flat-topped toilet tank of my very own, I need some things to put on it. Currently, there's an old San Diego tourist magazine - when you' ...
-
1 Jul 2020: That’s no Entity, That’s My Wife!
Meta: · 3 commentsOkay, since when has the W3C validator choked on URLs with ampersands in them? I go to validate this page, and all of a sudden I get four errors complaining about unknown entities inside the href attribute... has it always done this? ...
-
: Queek
Human Fuzzies, Personal: slang, soup, words · 1 commentI made soup stock yesterday. On the one hand, I felt très Martha Stewart (and I don't care what they say, I still love you, Martha!), but on the other, the stock was made from leftover stir-fry and the dubious jar of red peppers a previous tenant ha ...
-
31 May 2020: Someone Loves Me
Meta: salad · no comments... and someone else is hungry: can you name some things that are salad? I've been itching for an excuse to play with Google Sets - and now I'm disappointed. After feeding it "waldorf, potato, chicken, tossed, pasta" it only gave me "dressings, egg, ...
-
30 May 2020: Someone Wants Naked Sorority Frolicking
Whimsy: fan mail, search requests · 3 comments... a string of things like "penis enlarge hack," "rhymes with green," "physics of a pogo stick" and, disturbingly, "Tinka pee site." Putting ...
-
23 May 2020: Someone Has a Suggestion
Meta: · no commentsI think you should mention on your main page when your photo blog is updated... I always forget to check it! I'll give it a shot, though I'll probably forget too, most of the time. *cough* The photoblog has been updated. While we're on administrative ...
-
: Tomorrow Was Yesterday
Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no commentsSo, the black plastic was pulled off early yesterday morning to reveal plywood temples, water balloons, zip cords that shriek and spark when you try to use them, and a hazy smear of little paper clues for the treasure-hunting hordes. I spent the day workin ...
-
20 May 2020: Stack Widow
Meta, Personal: blogular wanking, Caltech, Ditch Day · 3 comments... manifest themselves in different ways. We here at Green Gabbro pride ourselves on being insipid and inane, usually at the same ...
-
17 May 2020: Old Whippersnappers
Personal: · no commentsWell, it's alumni weekend here at Lake Wobegon, and the usual flocks of decaying engineers have swooped down on campus to peck at the bookstore's display of shameless biographies and clean their feathers at the free-flowing bar. I was sitting in the loung ...
-
12 May 2020: Opening Lines
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · 7 comments... find milk, cheese and eggs, meat, fish, beans and cereals, greens, fruits, and root vegetables—foods that contain our essential ...
-
16 Apr 2020: The Postcards Are Spoken For
Whimsy: fan mail, monkeys · no comments...and pamela points out that it's been a while since my last gratuitous monkey reference. So true! You've probably seen the bit about how monkeys are about to conquer Japan - but did you realize it was all part of a conspiracy? (links originally pos ...
-
15 Apr 2020: Welcome to Fogeyville
Personal: hair, old fogeyism · 8 comments... when you're tired of looking elegant, it shows off bright green dye better than brown hair does. So, I consider this one hair down, ...
-
: Someone Disagrees
Personal: fan mail, menstruation · 6 commentsAn anonymous admission: I want underwire. I want velvet. I want cute frills. I want to look like a C-cup. Yeah, like I'm ever going to go *there* Velvet? Well... maybe for special occasions. But while we're on the topic of feminine underthings, I'd ...
-
7 Apr 2020: Review Time!
Human Fuzzies: reviews of stuff, writing · 5 comments... the butterfly, and the fact that the background is olive green - we approve of olive green. However, upon closer inspection, the main window has a small but ...
-
5 Apr 2020: Two Barbaric Yawps
Meta: · 4 commentsSomeone breaks the heavy chains of civilized conversation: Yiiiaarrrggghhhhh! ... *sniff sniff* ... YYIIAAAARRGH!!!!! Listen, buddy, I just took a shower. If you don't like my shampoo, you can buy my next bottle. miss salt liqcorice much? Actually, I'v ...
-
4 Apr 2020: and speaking of parody…
Links: Internet doodads, superheroes · no comments... important figures: He's an otherworldly arachnophobic Green Beret in drag. She's a tortured tomboy queen of the dead living on ...
-
1 Apr 2020: A Farewell
Whimsy: · 21 commentsAs you may have noticed, this blog is in a bit of a decline. Perhaps it's an inevitable result of the growing sense of familiarity I feel with you friendly internet-people, making me lax with my posts; perhaps it's because I've got other things to worry ab ...
-
24 Mar 2020: Domestic Manners of the Americans
Human Fuzzies: · 1 commentI've been thumbing through the account of one Mrs. Frances Trollope, and her coming from England to America in 2020 to found a department store in Cincinnati. It's whining and snarky, and altogether a fun read. Miss Wright was well known [at the hotel], a ...
-
17 Mar 2020: Kiss Me, I Forgot to Wear Green
Links: · no comments... which is absolutely true in every particular. Happy Green Beer ...
-
6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... D+ Ratings for Miscellaneous Other Contests Green Party candidate for Controller One of the nice things about voting with ...
-
22 Feb 2020: whoa fuck
Meta: · 4 comments... I've got a new redirecting URL, http://drink.to/greengabbro, which will soon point to someplace much less likely to be deleted ...
-
21 Feb 2020: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 commentsYou see, last year on an introductory geology field trip, about five or six of us were walking back to the bus when a professor called out stop! you're being chased by a walking petrology lesson! He caught up, showed us a chunk of granite, and said some th ...
-
3 Feb 2020: Hey! You!
Meta: · no commentsI've been providing gut-achingly insightful, piercingly hilarious, warm'n'fuzzy kittycat peanut butter hot monkey love blog entries for free to the internet community for over six months now, asking nothing in return but the occasional piece of hate mail. ...
-
16 Jan 2020: Old Man Winter
Human Fuzzies, Personal: book reviews, rain, winter · no commentsIt's raining, it's pouring, The old man is snoring Winter in Southern California always makes me really gleeful, in part because I love rain and in part because I love to watch other people suffer through trivial indignities like getting wet. Particu ...
-
: Frogs
Human Fuzzies: · no commentsMy old dear housemate just lent me a book called Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, which by all rights should be a perfect allegory of my life. I am after all half asleep, and wearing frog pajamas. The pajamas are a cheap silky set from Santamas, and I'm wearin ...
-
10 Jan 2020: the cat came back
Personal: culture shock, diary, repatriating · 1 commentToday the unenthusiastic prof compared us to mangy cats. Then he started talking about some Garrison Keillor sketch involving a meat grinder, and what Caltech's tremendously large and well-fed pack of lawyers would do about such a situation. But the mangy ...
-
8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois
Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment... to go to class. Plastic, plastic, plastic, and of course green rollerball pens and shiny highlighters with ink that smells like killing ...
-
27 Dec 2020: so you noticed
Meta: blogtinkery · no comments... cannot be changed mid-week, I've decided to put myself in Greenwich for ever and ever amen. If you want to know things about my ...
-
24 Dec 2020: Tackiest Ever
Politics: · no comments... means is that they've discarded their clumps of red and green Christmas things in favor of all-new, all-ugly red, white and blue ...
-
11 Dec 2020: an arrow in the sky
Whimsy: sky, skyline, smokestack, sunsets, vesterbro · no comments... a certain height, the top of a smokestack winked, the dark green blue dropped closer to the top of the Rådhus, and as the light ...
-
10 Dec 2020: tuna fish sculpture
Food, Meta: cooking, groceries · no commentsPoint #1: I tried to edit the comments file from two posts back and I seem to have broken it. So if you have anything to say about the Episcopal church, perhaps you can say it here, while I try to work out where this file handle resource has got to. Poi ...
-
26 Nov 2020: Unto the Breach!
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... to see oxygen isotope data from the middle of a glacier in Greenland. I was certainly happy to see it, at any rate. It's right ...
-
24 Nov 2020: I know America
Human Fuzzies: · no commentsFurthermore we know America, we're at home; I can go anywhere in America and get what I want because it's the same in every corner, I know the people, I know what they do. We give and take and go in the incredibly complicated sweetness zigzagging every ...
-
9 Nov 2020: can’t sleep, blog will eat me
Personal: · no comments... little bit over my head, I'm afraid - I can handle red and green M&Ms, but not until after Thanksgiving and I don't care that this ...
-
6 Nov 2020: things about busses
Meta, Personal: boots, maps, weather · no commentsI got to ride on the top of a double-decker bus this afternoon, and it absolutely made my day. Other things I noticed were: My month-old boots (well, month-old to me, I bought them used) are already wearing down on the outside of the heel, which seems t ...
-
4 Nov 2020: two meme things
Whimsy: memes · no commentsAll right, the kidz on my floor are having a loud party that I don't want to join, there's no sense in me going to bed just yet, so I'll play copycat. But I'm only going to do the ones that weren't on the original, but were on various copies (these things ...
-
30 Oct 2020: ask google
Whimsy: · no comments... +red 6,440 - +seismology +black 5,980 - +seismology +green 3,940 - +seismology +blue 2,060 - +seismology +yellow 1,270 - +seismology ...
-
24 Oct 2020: super stalker search!
Meta: · no comments... minions... therefore I am announcing the beginning of the green|gabbro super stalker search From the information given on this website, I ...
-
15 Oct 2020: No More Mr. Nipple
Whimsy: nipples, wtf · no commentsOnly a very, very tiny squirt of journalistic integrity prevents me from changing the TMI headline. That, 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 just gotta use i ...
-
: puttin’ the “lux” back in “benelux”
Personal: trains, travelogue · no commentsWell, my usual lack of planning would have made Ireland a rather expensive proposition... and after a quick flip through my big fat Lonely Planet Europe, it became apparent that the only place I haven't already been that's within a reasonable trainlength o ...
-
5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen
Aimless, Personal: · no commentsBy popular demand... it's Life in Copenhagen. When I'm being a smartass, I'll usually describe it as very Danish, which of course it is. I will go further and say that this city is about as hygge as a city can get, hygge being a classically Danish word tha ...
-
3 Oct 2020: A commercial for credit suisse
Aimless, Human Fuzzies: · no commentsA commercial for credit suisse is backed by an aria from La Wally - yes, the one from Diva. Every time it comes on, I'm suddenly amazed and discombobulated by the fact that my life isn't shot in blue filter. In fact, other than the occasional correction fo ...
-
: Smelling the Roses
Personal: being present, ducks, playing hooky, roses, swans · no comments... is pulling you down onto this huge huge ball of shining green fuzz that holds everything you've ever ...
-
24 Sep 2020: Juggling Cabbages
Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment... kind of like when I would run outside to my grandparents' greenhouse-cum-guesthouse as a kid and paint things. I learned which mushroom ...
-
20 Sep 2020: I walked home
Personal: · no commentsI walked home from the International Café tonight. On the bridge from the city center to Christianshavn (see also Terabithia) lay a drumbeat, bounced off of so many buildings that the echoes had a rhythm and counterpoint of their own, coming from no ...
-
4 Sep 2020: Needle in the Groove
Human Fuzzies: · no commentsFor once, I'm on the right side of the Atlantic Ocean publishing delay / this was just lying on the shelf / I was reeling / sexy paperback with a cover that smells like plastic / feels like silk / you know how it is / I had forgotten. Talk about style en ...
-
: train tracks
Human Fuzzies, Personal: concrete walls, graffiti, keyboards, kudzu, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities, sweetness and light, trains, weeds · no comments... in fading graffiti and home to a small brigade of little green weeds. I almost feel bad that they run trains through the place; it ...
-
2 Sep 2020: redesign
Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, introspection · no comments... it's done, for a while at least. It's not green... but so what? Of course, there's only one browser on this computer, so ...
-
21 Aug 2020: waay overcaffinated
Personal: beer, liquor laws · no comments... disagree, there's a nice geological reeducation camp in Greenland that you can go ...
-
26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 commentsI've lost something called Red Pop. I remember being fabulously excited, back in high school, because there was a product that was pop, and that was red, and so they had just called it Red Pop, and they sold it at Hy-Vee. I didn't really bother buying any ...
-
20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... novel. I also bought a new watch, for 99 cents. It's lime green, and makes me happy when I look at ...