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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 comments... either be very careful to strain out the lilac within 24 hours, or just stick to a simple syrup. I never figured out a good cocktail for ...
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17 Jul 2020: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds
Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment... but I refuse to be discouraged. I sank about two too many hours into these seeds to believe that the resulting condiment will be anything ...
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8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... were on sale. You'll need to bake this pie at least 3 hours before you plan to eat it, so that it has time to set. This recipe ... with mint sprigs or thinly-sliced kiwi; chill for 3 hours (or more) before serving. I did not make a sweet topping for this pie ...
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11 Feb 2020: An Open Letter to the Environmental Geologists of the Past
Human Fuzzies, Science: cartography, environmental consulting · 11 comments... detailed technical reports over which you have slaved many hours - is not the board of petty bureaucrats who commissioned your ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... tables into the hands of 125 Texas 4th graders. I spent hours exploring fluid mechanics and sediment mobilization in my backyard sand ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... then I forget, or I decide that I'd rather use those two hours of my life for an escapist Pixar fantasy or save the $9 for beer. I am ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... the rocks near the San Andreas Fault that occurred in the hours before two small earthquakes. Here's the BBC's writeup; for those of you ...
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8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Aimless: · 19 comments... a geophysics major, though, I never had to spend umpteen hours in petrology lab learning how to interpret the things. And as it turns ...
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17 Dec 2020: Aaand, the rest of AGU
Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments... we decided this would be a good idea: You have 13 hours to order if you want it by Christmas. If tasteless geology pun underwear ...
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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... on your dissertation going? Oh good, you spent a couple of hours on it this weekend, that's good. How many words? Over 9,000?? Wow, where ...
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26 Jan 2020: Bottomless Holes of Curiosity
Personal, Science: time sinks, Web of Science, xkcd · 8 comments... out the wazoo for a subscription and pays for lost worker hours. Yes, I'm talking about Web of Science. Yesterday, I looked up one ...
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24 Nov 2020: Thanksblogging
Human Fuzzies, Personal: pie, thanksgiving · 4 comments... been twelve hours; I'm almost ready to start thinking about food again. Not eating it, but ...
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29 Sep 2020: Two Cliches, As Applied to My Life
Personal, Science: grad school · 3 comments... other work done last night until I'd spent more than two hours banging my head on background material, and another hour daydreaming ...
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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 comment... for the biggest brains around. Mathematicians may spend hours just trying to figure out a line of equations. All the while, they feel ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... science/math classes I expect interviews to run 1-2 hours, depending on age and life experience. They will be tape recorded so that ...
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22 May 2020: Of Note
Personal: blegging, workload · 2 comments... seriously, taking an empty day and turning it into 8-9 hours of not fiddling around on the internet is some difficult shit. Any of you ...
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4 Feb 2020: Easy glide
Human Fuzzies: queerness, swear words · no comments... of Babylon or someone who'd been fisted by a bear for hours prior to the ...
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8 Dec 2020: AGU Four
Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments... give them some unwanted children for a couple of hours while you shop: Some folks think the kind of pharmacists who refuse to ...
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24 Aug 2020: Items
Personal: co-op living, rush week · 6 comments... now I'm living on Frat Row, during Rush Week; every three hours or so, the house across the street bursts out cheering: Something ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 9-12
Personal: photoblog, Scandinavia, travelogue · no comments... of the famous train line to Bergen. We had a scant three hours in Bergen before catching a ferry; I ran off to glimpse the medieval ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... Minneapolis Never trust a travel agent. We arrived N hours early at the Minneapolis airport ("we" being my parents, my sister, and ... Which is not a drive that many people can make in under 5 hours, and our plane had left by then anyway. Oops. Lil' Miss McMoots and I ...
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29 Jun 2020: Can’t Even Sweat
Meta, Personal: travelogue · 3 comments... five, five is not right out if you sign up in the next 48 hours or ...
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27 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Keiiti Aki Memorial Edition
Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, volcanoes · 1 comment... volcanoes in the world. During Indian Ocean daylight hours, check out the ...
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13 May 2020: Further Trivialities
Aimless, Links, Personal: blogular wanking, grad school, telephony · 5 comments... wishes to instantaneously contact me outside of the 50-60 hours per week that I'll be spending in the lab, he can use the special phone ...
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25 Apr 2020: Feminisms
Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments... clocked 72 hours last week, and they were real hours, none of this namby-pamby half-working half-blogging crap in which I am ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... into real trouble. (How many men have spent three extra hours in a bookstore because they were afraid that creepy girl buying the book ...
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21 Dec 2020: Glædelig Jul
Meta: blog status updates, Christmas, weather · 1 comment... few years has been abysmal. You have less than twenty-four hours to materialize in the Midwest or there will be consequences. Attn: All ...
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11 Oct 2020: Weekend: Music, Injuries
Human Fuzzies, Personal: harmonic numbers, prickly pear jelly, righteous indignation, sugar syrup · 4 comments... preservation, then, I held ice on my hand for a couple hours (sugar syrup is hot). Now I've got three little jars of jelly (which ...
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25 Jul 2020: Education Reform Blah Blah
Politics: · 2 comments... allow them to go to the bathroom more than once every four hours, a principal who would treat them as professional adults, or a building ...
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19 Jul 2020: GRE Goodness
Personal: cubicle living, grad school, i hate everything, standardized tests · 3 comments... as payment for having more stress and rottener work hours. I snagged the (free) official preparation software and took part of a ...
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13 Jul 2020: Memo to the Guy in the Escalade
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cars, driving, etiquette, SUVs · no comments... SUV owners in the greater Los Angeles area Peak pumping hours at the gas station (e.g., after work or at lunch) can be stressful - ...
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18 May 2020: Sorbets I’m Dreaming Of
Food: cooking, desserts, recipes, sorbet · 6 comments... any actual watermelons from a plant with barely four hours of direct sun, but it's the thought that counts. Mint sorbet, and for ...
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18 Feb 2020: Spam Literary Identities
Aimless: · 1 comment... spammer databases are fabulous! Just in the past five hours I've gotten email from Gwendolyn Poole (pseudo-historical romance), ...
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11 Feb 2020: Lovey Linky Valentines
Links: chocolate, Valentine's Day · no comments... barnyard, and that what with Rovey spending his at-work hours with dishy little vixens like Karen Hughes and his boss's Mom, I'm lucky ...
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27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke
Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 comments... in sand three miles from anywhere". We passed a couple of hours jacking the car up, putting rocks and rugs under the wheels, revving and ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... high school journalists in the state. In my rational hours, I know we're all just relieved to tell "What'ch'oo talkin' 'bout?" ...
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31 Jul 2020: The Vanilla Asylum
Personal: · 1 comment... least once every thirty-six hours, one of my coworkers tries to tell me how impossibly wacky my office is. ...
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14 Jul 2020: And The Internet Melted
Personal: camping, photography · no comments... shelter of a Burger King and watch Fox News for two hours while the sun went down, lest my brain be frizzled and my nose turned to ...
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9 Jun 2020: The End of the Internet??
Aimless: · no comments... 2020 of my innermost snorty giggle monster when I spent hours finding my dada fortune. Only sleeping dogs know the right ...
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4 Jun 2020: Exploded Your Mom’s Cambrian Energy Drinks
Personal, Science: · 4 comments... disgusting. Six pages written, 10 required, and three more hours to write. Done with plankton poo, have moved on to viciously mocking ... animal energy products, so that's fine. Six and a half hours until my sleeping packing booze fest begins! 12:31 pm I just spilled the ...
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28 Apr 2020: I want my 2 1/2 hours back
Personal: · no commentsThe Pasadena office of the California Department of Motor Vehicles is well approximated by the locker room of your local stanky-ass Y, re-situated inside a busy train station. It's got the Andy Warhol turquoise speckled linoleum, the loud cantankerous chil ...
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3 Apr 2020: Colossal Squid
Links: · 3 comments... this term, as a hopefully gpa-enhancing lark. I spent two hours yesterday discussing various ways to make squiggly marks on rocks [link ...
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1 Mar 2020: Gibbs Strikes Again
Politics, Whimsy: · 1 comment... get confused. Gibbs phenomena, it's called. After five hours of intense calculation, I have placed my Bomb Iraq Betting Pool money on ...
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23 Dec 2020: Holiday Someones
Meta: · 6 comments... 'round to it after Santa's Birthday (it's now been three hours without Vicodin, and I only hurt as badly as menstrual cramps, ...
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17 Dec 2020: None the Wiser
Personal: · 9 comments... and ask me to stop lest she pee her pants laughing. Twelve hours later, my head feels full of gauze, or Vicodin, or whatever, and I just ...
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1 Dec 2020: oh yeah, thanks
Personal: · 3 comments... hole in the butt of my pants and went around for several hours showing my underwear to the world. Today I learned once more that ...
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15 Nov 2020: Committee Committee
Personal, Politics: bureaucracy, Caltech · 1 comment... like that. Over the past two nights, we've spent 10 hours interviewing students to fill up our 9 latest, greatest committee ...
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11 Nov 2020: Rrrrr-awwwrrrerrr! says the leaf blower
Personal: · 1 comment... blew bits of lawn onto the sidewalk. Tired after a couple hours of that, he blew some cigarette butts back into the lawn and left. I am ...
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9 Oct 2020: Modulo Alphabet Song
Human Fuzzies: alphabets, pronunciation · 4 comments... a Canadian professor who talks about Z transforms three hours a week, I've been beaten. Outstubborned. De-vernacularized. I've started ...
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27 Aug 2020: Go Away
Personal: · no comments... shrug? Especially when your workplace keeps wonky hours and doesn't post them anywhere sensible. ...
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16 Jul 2020: Employment
Personal: · 8 comments... tra lee, tra la la la lay - in the space of twenty-four hours I gained a job, and another job. Both webby things, doing faculty home ...
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8 Jul 2020: Gah Ugh Zoop
Personal: · no comments... have just spent six hours forcing linux to accept a new piece of hardware. My head feels full of ...
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29 Jun 2020: Kludge-krrzzzoing
Meta: · 4 comments... need a shower, and some lunch, and a few money-making hours as a guinea pig for experimental economists. Things will begin to ...
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27 Jun 2020: I’m Done! Whee!
Personal, Politics: · 1 comment... to suck on it after she'd been in labor for thirty-six hours to get your fat head into the world? creepyguy: ... hey, baby... me: ...
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9 Jun 2020: Geophysics vs. the Universe
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... the past few hours I've eaten some leftover mac'n'cheez, a strawberry ring pop, a few pills, ...
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4 May 2020: Hey Wait a Minute…
Links: · no comments... network was back up after a day-long outage. Now it's two hours later; not only am I two hours hungrier, it's past reasonable suppertime and I will probably not be able ...
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13 Apr 2020: Wizard of Bras
Personal: · 7 comments... bras. Outrageous, really, but you try spending fruitless hours looking for a bra with no underwires and no itchy synthetic lining on the ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... instead of playing minesweeper for god knows how many hours on end. I could've at least stayed in bed and mumbled things to my ...
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1 Mar 2020: Ps and Qs and PDQ
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... two hours of total non-math isn't enough incentive, we get a nice array of snacks ...
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28 Feb 2020: god dammit
Meta: · no comments... account setup would take somewhere on the short side of 24 hours, it's been well over 50 and I haven't heard a solitary peep. For $2/month ...
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6 Feb 2020: Where’s My Jetpack?
Personal: · no comments... lately, since they've been getting up every six or seven hours to feed worms and make sure their fruit flies are all virgins and ...
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2 Feb 2020: I Vanquish You, Laplace Transform!
Personal: · no comments... into a productivity machine. I finished a math set two hours before deadline, paid a bill, signed a housing contract, and it feels ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Boring State
Personal: amtrak, crap towns, grain elevators, journey west, land of enchantment, salvage yards, trains, travelogue, useless information · no comments... So I began my trip in an inconvenient little farm town two hours away from anyplace interesting. On the way to this oh-so-frabjous Golden ... - I'm not even kidding about that one. After forty hours of that, I was more than ready to pay the shuttle fare back to Tech. And ...
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28 Dec 2020: More On Malls
Politics: capitalism sucks, malls, urban sprawl · no commentsYami, I ask, what is the world coming to when a mall can be considered, ahem, venerable? I wrote half a response to this in the comment form, and then deleted it because I was thinking too much and wanted a full entry. The gist of it is this: I think ...
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27 Dec 2020: so you noticed
Meta: blogtinkery · no comments... my local-time habits, you'll simply have to subtract a few hours. The only thing wrong is that my ears don't move like flippers, and ...
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22 Dec 2020: uh, I jetted your mom’s lag
Personal: · no comments... lag is not so good, as I'm getting grumpy at unexpected hours and still don't know when I should be hungry, but on the other hand I ...
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19 Dec 2020: Farvel København
Personal: airports, moving, packing · no comments... all the nasty out of my refrigerator shelf. Twenty-four hours from now I will be finding my parents at O'Hare; twelve of those hours will be spent on an airplane. Those are just numbers. Now I'm going to go ...
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: Jane’s Packing Hints
Aimless: dreams · no comments... not entirely sure what this means, but then, most of my 6 hours of sleep last night was spent dreaming about Joan Rivers getting a new ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... 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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17 Nov 2020: uff da
Personal: Christmas, thanksgiving · no comments... yet, and I most certainly should not have been awake three hours ago, after finally stumbling home at around 3:30 in the morning*. I ...
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11 Nov 2020: s-tog til hundige
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... pickup truck after a day at the assembly line and drive 5 hours for the only long-distance relationship I've ever tried. I've got a fair ...
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28 Sep 2020: Rescheduling
Personal: · no comments... in the light of day. Meanwhile, running around on three hours of sleep and a bottle of cola, I feel much more like myself and also ...
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7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung
Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment... to take a temporary vow of silence, of maybe three or four hours' duration. I will cavort with the world, but I will not talk to it, just ...
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6 Sep 2020: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments... up at 8 AM, at which point I've slept enough (roughly 6-7 hours) to be awake, but I haven't really slept enough. Blah. In addition to ... He mentioned that even though Budapest was a mere three hours away, he hadn't been there until just a couple months ago. Even though ...
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2 Sep 2020: redesign in progress
Meta: · no comments... colors instead. If you happen to drop by in the next few hours and things look funky, leave me a comment, and try back tomorrow - I'm ...
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5 Jul 2020: corn with pig dna
Meta: excess energy, introductions, pretentions · no comments... and I still have to go job hunting during business hours tomorrow, or I'll be stuck desexing fields of Monsanto's experimental ...