Search Results: happy
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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 comments... to make custard and jelly from their flowers. I was really happy with my savory and sweet-salad uses. Concepts (they are only "recipes" in ...
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11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 commentsWhen I started riding my bike again two years ago, I expected to have a few scary traffic moments and a little bit of awkwardness changing out of sweaty clothes at work. What I did not expect was that people would start complaining to me about other bicycl ...
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23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 comments... covet) is Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking. So, happy National Pie Day! I have a blackberry meringue, or possibly ...
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4 Jan 2020: 2020 Blogolutions
Meta: · 4 commentsOkay, I've slightly missed the main New Year's resolution bandwagon. But the beginning of February will mark the first anniversary of my move to ScienceBlogs, so I figure I have a whole month in which to be self-indulgent reflective and renewal-minded. And ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 comments... of significant concern to future cockroach geologists. Happy New ...
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24 Dec 2020: Happy Twinkletree, Joyous Monkey
Aimless: · 3 comments... christian holidays, well, at least you're not a dinosaur. Happy monkey, ...
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31 Oct 2020: Happy Halloween, Charlie Brown!
Aimless: · 2 commentsI'm tempted to hand out rocks to the neighborhood children tonight... but I suppose caramels are just as bad for their teeth. ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 comments... hearing protection to wear while I make breakfast. Happy Monday, ...
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22 Aug 2020: The Sedimentary Geology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 7 commentsI had to finish off the series. Happy Friday, ...
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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 ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 commentsIt's been two years* since the ground opened near Sidoarjo, Indonesia, spewing mud over the homes, farms, and businesses of tens of thousands of people. The disaster quickly acquired the rather endearing name of "Lusi", which is short for "lumpur" (Indone ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 commentsHappy Earth Day, everyone. Or, if you're on campus here, Happy Earth Week, complete with live bands at noon every day and a really weird ...
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21 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: Sand Boil
Aimless: · 6 comments... to the water. Water, being incompressible, is not happy about being squeezed like this; if it finds a suitable weak spot, it will ...
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9 Mar 2020: Borg Business
Meta: · 3 commentsFirst things first: Happy birthday, PZ Myers! (MOAR LOLPZ?) Next things next: The Borg Overlords ...
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5 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 2 comments... in Science -- Please pass your hidden gems to Mia Ong. Happy birthday, Scientiae! -- a new Scientiae! Yay! This month's theme is ...
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13 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no comments... discipline there is so we should be able to win it anyway. Happy Valentine's Day from Twisty Faster -- "Women's status as a class of ...
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23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie
Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 commentsHappy National Pie Day, and welcome to the fifth edition of the Accretionary Wedge, ...
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31 Dec 2020: Year in Review
Meta: clip show · no comments... Spinning Dancer and the Brain Scientiae 13 - Today I am happy to share with you what is inside of everybody’s heads: ... it netted me $1.68 in ad clicks. Fat-Free Half-and-Half Happy Hair Fetish - featuring quite possibly the first appearance on this blog ...
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22 Dec 2020: Happy Solstice
Links: blog carnivals, Christmas, pie, silly putty · 8 commentsI am basically only on board with holidays to the extent that they are about pie. Thanksgiving? An awful lot of it is about pie. National Pie Day? Oh my yes. Christmas? It's more about cookies than about pie. This is a problem. {democracy:6} And a f ...
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8 Nov 2020: Can You Read Me?
Meta: blogtinkery, datamining, flesch-kincaid, readability, reading level, writing · 2 comments... reading level analysis tool is all the rage; I'm fairly happy with my result. But of course, the little badge is just a snapshot - what ... readers want instructions for how to do this, I'd be happy to add them to this post). It was somewhat gratifying to find that my ...
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1 Nov 2020: We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, We’re the November Scientiae!
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, feminism, gender, impostor syndrome, scientiae, sexism, zombies · 15 comments... to the 13th edition of Scientiae! Today I am happy to share with you what is inside of everybody's heads: BRAAAAAAINS!! Er, ... sometimes whether that is gendered– why am I not as happy and proud about my paper citations as I am about helping others? Field ...
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28 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike
Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no comments... get distracted by the dreams of our own But nobody's happy while feeling alone And knowing how hard it hurts when we fall We lean ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 commentsHappy Independence Day, Americans! Aren't you glad you live in the USA, and not in, ... the Bay, so an unsatisfying guess will just have to do. Happy 4th, ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... an unconscious act of apology and penance (as in "I'm so happy he's letting me go to my friend's house for a weekend that I'll never ask ...
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13 Jun 2020: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments... time I hear or think of a new reason that I've been unhappy as a grad student, I respond with an enthusiastic yes, yes, that's ... whose successes are interdependent. Really, though, I'm unhappy, I don't trust that I would be able to change that if I stayed, and life ...
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23 Feb 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Will Lusi Be Stopped?
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Lusi, search requests · 1 comment... that can be hoped for is that Lusi's refugees will find happy resettlements, and maybe we'll get some interesting science out of it. ...
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6 Jan 2020: Happy Belated Winter
Links: Wikipedia · 7 commentsHey, is this thing still on? I need to ask you all something very important: What compels people to add "the subject of this entry was referenced in [obscure webcomic no one has heard of] on [date]" to the end of perfectly respectable Wikipedia entries ...
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15 Aug 2020: Joe Jonah Euclid and the End of the World
Human Fuzzies: Berzerkeley, crackpots · 2 comments... the presence of beloved Berkeley eccentrics like the Happy Happy Happy man, they just don't post the same quality material on campus ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... set of fetishists - one of them even left a comment. Happy Hair Fetish Someone Wants Naked Sorority Frolicking - are we beginning ...
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19 Jul 2020: I Read Wifework So You Don’t Have To
Human Fuzzies, Politics: book reviews, feminism, gender, marriage, sexism · 6 comments... childcare - than their husbands. They are less happy about their marriages, and gain fewer of the tangible benefits (longer ... equality. Actively maintaining the illusion of an equal, happy marriage is part of wifework. If a wife does a good job, her husband has ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... and I'll get in touch. Thank you! I'd be happy to pass on contact information for anyone interested. And all you ...
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29 Apr 2020: Yay I’m Not Dead Yet
Personal, Whimsy: birthday, memes · 9 commentsHappy birthday to me! In memely celebration, here are some other things that have ...
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17 Mar 2020: Friday iTunes 8Ball
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments... see me? Miles Davis - Will O' The Wisp Will I have a happy life? Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - The Duchess Of Bedford/ Lady ... though it doesn't make any sense. How can I make myself happy? Kitka - Ah Razpasledni Raz Devchonechka A girl's prayer for her dying ...
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: Friday Rock Blogging: The Giant’s Causeway
Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, tourist attractions · 3 commentsHappy Green Beer Day! I am pleased to inform you that there are famous rocks in Ireland ...
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30 Dec 2020: Year-End Bloggy Wrap-Up
Meta: clip show · no comments... willy-nilly. That just about covers it, I think. Happy New Year to all, and to all a good night! *Implied poor-quality puns ...
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19 Dec 2020: Happy Whatever
Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 commentsNow that finals are over, why not allow the cultural crazies to determine my entire blogging agenda? My officemate (certifiably not a crazy) wrote a manifesto about how people should stop using Judaism as an excuse to put up a tree and call it a "holiday t ...
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1 Dec 2020: Happy Blog Against Racism Day!
Politics: anti-racism, blog carnivals, racism · 4 commentsIn lieu of a well-thought-out post, I present two brief anecdotes about race and aesthetic relativism. X. is a generally right-thinking person who abhors mustaches* - which is, of course, the aesthetic preference of all right-thinking persons, because l ...
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25 Nov 2020: The Shoppingest Friday iTunes iChing of the Year
Whimsy: consumerism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · no comments... is America, dammit, but nevertheless everybody will be happy no matter what. ITunes seems to think that I've never managed to make an ...
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11 Nov 2020: Happy Armistice Day
Politics: Armistice Day, pacifism · no commentsEighty-seven years ago, the War to End All Wars was ended. After WWII, the phrase "war to end all wars" became a hilarious catchphrase. Today, we can ignore all that history claptrap and simply fight for peace; there are very few veterans of the Great War ...
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23 Oct 2020: Peevishness and Science
Human Fuzzies, Links: pep bands, project management · no comments... (and yet painfully politically relevant) sort of way. Happy 30th anniversary of the Icelandic women's strike! Theorems don't count ...
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21 Oct 2020: Friday Friday Friday
Whimsy: earthquake prediction, Friday random ten, search requests · no comments... Carroll, on Masterpieces for Trumpet) The Past: The Happy Salmon - Tarras (from Rising) The Future: I Still Remember- Nightnoise ...
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16 Sep 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement
Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments... it isn't wet. Then you have solid cement and everybody's happy (except the people living next to the cement plant). Alkali-Aggregate ...
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16 Aug 2020: Free Stuff!
Personal: freebies, gift economy, inner child · no comments... most excited by the unexpected treasures are kids; lots of happy cries of "whoa! free stuff!" have been drifting through the ...
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25 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging, Atemporal Edition: Road Cuts on the 5
Science: driving, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 5 comments... last, the real reason for yesterday's abysmal lack of happy Friday postings is revealed: I nipped up to the Bay for a couple days, to ...
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3 Jun 2020: Friday Random Nineteen
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments... out all the Spanish lessons: Tarras - Rising - The Happy Salmon Onky - Kom Sally Kom - Det Kommer Nok The Tannahill Weavers - ...
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25 May 2020: For the Record
Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... right to be critical of those who present this as a nice happy love story, but you're wrong to confuse the producers of Access Hollywood ... possibly with a certain amount of indignation. I would be happy to be corrected on this. For the record, let me state that I believe ...
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23 May 2020: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah
Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments... The things that are plausibly interesting, I'm just as happy to not be formally associated with, as for business-y type reasons I've ...
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12 May 2020: Happy Juror Appreciation Week
Personal: jury duty, utter glee · 6 commentsI was on jury duty yesterday. Much to my bemusement, the jury pool waiting room was all decked out for Juror Appreciation Week - there were balloons, coffee'n'donuts, and a series of little activities and informative presentations. Since I was only called ...
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4 May 2020: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!
Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments... humanities and social science professors! I will be happy (for a small fee) to provide dissenting sources and viewpoints on such ...
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29 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Birthday Edition
Science: basalt, Hawaii, igneous rocks, lava, rock blogging · 6 comments... is only dated to the life of that particular fissure): Happy birthday, me and ...
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18 Apr 2020: Reading Material
Links: anger, environmentalism, gender, kittens, motherhood, pharmacists, theology · 12 comments... has a huge problem with women who do not appear to be happy every hour of the day and night. I believe this is magnified with mothers, who are not only supposed to be Happy Smiling People constantly by virtue of their gender but also by virtue of ...
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15 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Sand Boils
Science: liquefaction, rock blogging · 7 comments... to the water. Water, being incompressible, is not happy about being squeezed like this; if it finds a suitable weak spot, it will ...
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4 Apr 2020: Links to Daylight’s Rescue
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments... year, I'm actually happy about Daylight Savings Time: I've been waking up half an hour before my ...
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19 Dec 2020: Someone Has a Small Internet
Meta: fan mail, high school, Internet citizen of the world, nostalgia · no comments... swearing in by the american ambassador. i'm sure she'll be happy." So as an indirect result of this, I've just spent a few minutes ...
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7 Dec 2020: Old Enough to Buy My Own Candy
Human Fuzzies, Links: candy, Christmas, Hanukkah, nostalgia · 2 comments... Wassail rather than Here We Come A-Wassailing. Happy Hanukkah, to those of you who don't remember; also to those of us who ...
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21 Nov 2020: Vacation Message
Meta: thanksgiving · 3 comments... your favorite trolls to the abortion post, and have a happy Thanksgiving! Or a happy but not particularly gratitude-filled week, ...
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7 Sep 2020: Happy Arrival Day!
Politics: booze, cultural appropriation, Judaism · 4 comments... but I don't think they have much currency as 2-for-1 happy hour specials in the rest of the world. Are there more that I'm just ...
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17 Jul 2020: I’m a Cushion
Whimsy: furniture, quizzes · no comments... Swedish version had me as a NORDEN dining table in a happy platonic relationship with a floor lamp, but of course I don't speak ...
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12 Jul 2020: Yay Class Warfare!
Politics: classism, health care, John Edwards, labor unions, trade, workers rights · no comments... else in political discourse, except maybe pie. So I'm happy about John Edwards. What I'm not happy about is how such delightful righteous indignation of (or on behalf of) ...
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4 Apr 2020: In Which I Am Excited About Compost
Links, Personal: · 3 commentsGraham Leuschke - your grandmother's mathematician, or not? I suspect not, unless there's something about your grandmother's mathematician collection that you haven't been telling me, O Dear Reader. In any case, I quite enjoyed meeting him for coffee on S ...
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23 Dec 2020: Christmas Poll
Aimless: · no comments... won't change my blogging habits or lack thereof one bit. Happy Yuletide to all y'alls, every ...
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30 Nov 2020: Umami = Love
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... is about belatedly listing some trivial items that make me happy, as per tradition: Hanging pots Mugs with handles large enough to ...
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31 Oct 2020: Tricky Treats
Personal: candy, halloween, kids today, pumpkin · 1 comment... is mine, and very cute). But awesome nonetheless. Happy All Saints' Day, then, and let's all try very hard not to gorge ourselves ...
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3 Oct 2020: Happy New Water Year
Personal: driving, water years · no commentsAt work we do much analysis in Water Years, which begin in October. With almost-spectacular timing, the gathering morning fog turned into a pathetic beady drizzle-fog today, too vigorous to ignore but too puny to exercise even the lowest setting on my wind ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... think we're moving from bitter angry isolated cynicism, to happy participatory cynicism, to some baseball games and apple pie or ...
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2 Jul 2020: eTextWhore
Meta: · 2 comments... but then again there's no great cost, and I'll be quite happy with the miserliest of pittances. For you, loyal readers and misdirected ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... without warning. The park service would not have been happy with the places I chose to go, but I was making absolutely vital ...
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11 Mar 2020: Happy Singing Fun Friends
Links: cartoon violence · 1 commentThe mere act of violently killing off cute cartoon creatures, while it may be cathartic and fun, does not constitute cleverness. ...
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21 Dec 2020: Miss Manners at the INS
Politics: immigration, marriage · 1 comment... immigration, I'd get lower insurance rates, we'd both be happy, right? [link via Alas, A ...
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9 Oct 2020: Modulo Alphabet Song
Human Fuzzies: alphabets, pronunciation · 4 comments... even the meep-meep muppets? The E-Prime kidz might be happy - neither Elmo nor meep-meep muppets make much use of "to be". But Yami ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... good intentions about reading them all later, I'd be a happy girl. At least until the paper cuts. I can't think of any way to make ... meeting (to be held on Wednesday). Fu-zzy! I'm hoping for happy teachy vibes, and if I don't get them, I'll be taking it out on my poor ...
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17 Aug 2020: Someone Presents a URL
Meta: monkeys · no commentshttp://www.happymunkee.net/ Happiness is spelling things with extra double letters, as the people at happy munkee seem to at least sort of understand. The larger issue, obviously, ...
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10 Aug 2020: Happy Boys and Girls
Meta, Personal: · 2 commentsSomeone has a mundane question for once: how are the jobs coming? Have you started already? Oh yes, that. I've started work, with a bit of an erratic schedule, but it's work. It's okay - enough of a challenge to be interesting, but not so hard as to be s ...
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29 Apr 2020: Service with a Smile
Meta, Personal: · 9 comments... enunciated to make out. You were supposed to wish me a happy birthday, fucko. Thankfully for my feeble, hungry ego, the whole freakin' ... guys! Now if only you could sing for a group webcast... happy birthday! Actually, this particular message only came twice, but it was ...
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17 Mar 2020: Kiss Me, I Forgot to Wear Green
Links: · no comments... be linking, which is absolutely true in every particular. Happy Green Beer ...
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8 Mar 2020: I’ll Plan Your Summer
Human Fuzzies: · 7 comments... simple cut time. Knowing this, I would still have been happy had I never had to see, hear, or worse, play such a monstrosity. This ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... a broad-based, snuggly-wuggly bond issue should have: happy children, protected habitats for cute bunnies and other animals, cultural ...
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28 Feb 2020: god dammit
Meta: · no comments... at all that I exist and want to be a customer, and I'd be happy. Maybe it's time to move up to $3/month... I've been playing with a ...
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19 Feb 2020: Ping-Pong Earth
Personal: · no comments... night before the extended weekend is over to do homework. Happy Washington's Birthday, ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... and deeply involving volunteer project I'd be perfectly happy to let Mr. Big Strong Man provide the family cash flow. But breadwinning ...
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8 Feb 2020: Happy Inuit Freedom Day
Personal: · no commentsIt was the annual trek to bring a mid-sized U-haul full of snow back to campus, for the obvious recreational purpose. Ostensibly a celebration of Nunavut's anniversary, which is officially April 1 but the snow's all off the mountains by then. Not used as a ...
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30 Jan 2020: I Heart Time Cube
Whimsy: crackpots, time cube · 1 comment... was, after all, an open intellectual debate. But I was happy to see that Mr. Ray was shown the proper respect, and that the crowd was ...
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22 Jan 2020: hoom, hoom
Politics: · no comments... and then went grocery shopping and did homework instead. Happy Martin Luther King day. Or Wellington's Anniversary day or whatever your ...
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10 Jan 2020: the cat came back
Personal: culture shock, diary, repatriating · 1 comment... Furthermore, I lost a layer or two of bitterness while in happy friendly Denmark, and so I'm still wounded by the sight of the 5 minute ...
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1 Dec 2020: Happy AIDS Day!
Links: · no commentsI don't actually know anyone with HIV, or if I do they haven't told me about it. So the main impact of AIDS on my life has been the near-exponential increase of free condom dispenseries in convenient locations, which is actually a good thing - though when ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... wonderous new powers" theme encompassed so many of my happy hours in middle school, along with the "middle-school aged misfit finds a ...
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26 Nov 2020: Unto the Breach!
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... from the middle of a glacier in Greenland. I was certainly happy to see it, at any rate. It's right ...
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20 Nov 2020: the 10-crown store
Personal: search requests, socks · no comments... and another one for "mullet coffee table book". I'm so happy I could just pee. But speaking of socks, I needed a cheap disposable ...
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25 Oct 2020: image games
Meta: · no comments... to class sometimes last year. I always felt bright and happy wandering around inside it. I think if I wore it around Copenhagen, ...
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30 Sep 2020: It seems like all the
Aimless: · no comments... be. And last night was not the only night my quest for a happy drinking place has ended up in a gay bar. Has anyone else noticed this ...
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28 Sep 2020: Rescheduling
Personal: · no comments... is usually a time of fuzzy daydreams - into a much less happy time of melancholy reflection. So I've been staying up late doodling ...
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27 Aug 2020: jeg kan godt tale dansk!
Human Fuzzies: Danish · no comments... of cheese do you want?" isn't on that list, then you'll be happy to eat whatever kind of cheese you're given, as long as you can answer ...
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20 Aug 2020: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments... than I had previously thought. I've never been as please-happy as some Americans can be, and tend towards a philosophy of "courtesy ...
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24 Jul 2020: socks
Meta, Personal: fonts, socks · 1 comment... of nice patterned socks today, on clearance. My feet are happy just thinking about it. Also, I suddenly feel compelled to justify my ...
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20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... a new watch, for 99 cents. It's lime green, and makes me happy when I look at ...