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25 Apr 2020: Approaching New Flavors
Food: cookbooks, cooking, Food, foraging · no comments... It doesn't provide any recipes or technical instruction; instead, it draws on the world's culinary traditions and the work of modern ... a post with several ideas riffing on the theme of lemons, instead of rhubarb. Oh man! How obvious is that in retrospect, and how jealous ...
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21 May 2020: Field Vehicle Amenities
Science: cars, field work · 10 comments... the parking brake lever on the left-hand side somewhere, instead of the right, and using that console space for storage. Chevy Aveo, I'm ...
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19 Mar 2020: The Parable of the Messy Map
Human Fuzzies: cartography, graphic design · 5 comments... about turning the different image layers different colors, instead of looking at several layers of gray on gray. That's not hard to do, ...
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2 Mar 2020: Recent Results in Seismology
Science: academic journals, earthquakes, liquefaction, nonvolcanic tremor, seismology · 1 comment... warning to let you wire up the necessary instrumentation. Instead of using an earthquake, then, Hatzor et al. used a bomb - they wired up ... put seismometers inside all of the earthquake alarm units, instead of just connecting them to alarms on the centralized seismic network. ...
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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... maps that will remain useful under those circumstances, instead of the following: Love and ...
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27 Jan 2020: Academic Citation
Aimless: · 1 comment... appropriate to keep citing an older "breakthrough" paper, instead of or in addition to more recent work. Give the reader enough ...
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26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 comments... but my thoughts have turned to solving the problem, instead of just complaining about it. And by "solving", I mean putting ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... bio textbook in blog-sized chunks, so nobody tries. Instead of an interactive, distributed process of continuing education, we get ...
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24 Dec 2020: Happy Twinkletree, Joyous Monkey
Aimless: · 3 comments... 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 ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... skeleton in the middle of the tour and tell ghost stories instead of talking about geology. 7. Tour an open pit mine, such as those in ...
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11 Dec 2020: An Open Letter to the Science Blogosphere
Meta: · 10 comments... buzzing through some John McPhee and Natalie Angier books instead, my expectations for writing have been reset. I also tell you this ... particular paragraphs near the end of the introduction instead of at the beginning. Gleaning valuable writing tips from the ...
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26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 comment... or save $5 next week by bringing your own soda to work instead of buying it from the expensive corner store... that money could turn ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... Once again, I am cheating by listing a mineral group, instead of a particular mineral. If you insist on learning just one mica, pick ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... in Toronto?) would occur during the spring Joint Assembly. Instead of sensible jargon, we would all speak in technobabble, failing to ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... starts picking randomly between two possible wait times instead of one, and other times visitors get consistently more quality time ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments... doesn't use the same magnitude scale for every earthquake. Instead, each entry in the catalog provides both a magnitude, and a magnitude ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... codes aren't always enforced the way they should be. Instead of discussing these policy problems in detail, I'm going to spend the ... off. It's like playing with traditional wooden blocks instead of playing with Legos. Not all brick buildings are unsafe - modern ...
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5 May 2020: Tag Clouds for my Papers
Aimless: · 7 comments... the squabble test, and the heavily cites a recent review instead of the original papers test! It's a good thing I have less than no ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... regret any sacrifices I'd made that had not yet paid off. Instead of planning for a long-term goal, I am planning for change. A good ...
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25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance
Aimless: · 3 comments... that ends up in the aquifer, sending it to the ocean instead in the form of stream and storm drain runoff. Another is that people ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... I'm flawless at bringing a backpack to the grocery store, instead of toting things home in a paper bag, but I keep crapping out in the ...
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2 Apr 2020: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation
Aimless: · 26 comments... that yes, it is too a word? Wait, don't answer that one. Instead, let me give you one of my favorite passages from Basin and ...
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20 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... I meant to review it here, but haven't had the oomph. Instead, you should join the discussion at All My Faults are Stress-Related, ...
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14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman
Aimless: · 15 comments... perhaps even some data about unionized students' careers, instead of just our artist's conception of the planet Uranus. *If you want to ...
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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 comments... analogy, suggesting that perhaps we should use lentils instead. Lentils? I guess I've seen recipes for lentil shepherd's ...
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4 Dec 2020: How to Earn Your Diversity Cookie Without Doing a Damn Thing
Politics: affirmative action, anti-racism, feminism, let's all preserve the status quo, white liberals who want cookies · 6 comments... as the very definition of unfairness, and become instead a meaningless way to give a shiny progressive gloss to your thoughtless ...
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28 Nov 2020: It’s “That Time” of the Science
Science: goals, the scientific lifestyle, writing · 6 comments... I was ready to abandon this book and write something else instead, or perhaps I could abandon the book and take up a new life as a ... bank-robber, short-order cook or marine biologist. And instead of sympathising or agreeing with me, or blasting me forward with a wave ...
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14 Nov 2020: Hiking the Transgondwanan Supermountains
Science: Cambrian, Cambrian Explosion, Gondwana, Neoproterozoic, orogeny, Proterozoic · 4 comments... that she needs to take some antihistamines and go to sleep instead of telling stories to the ...
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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... at FairerScience hasn't made friends with her inner voice. Instead, she's made friends by using her "outer" voice in the bad girl ...
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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 ...
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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 comments... happen. So I'll give you some short little paragraphs instead. Has Feminism Changed Science? - Londa Schiebinger. This is a ... it does, but Tavris is a psychologist, so what she wrote instead is a long and detailed condemnation of the ways in which psychology ...
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20 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #35
Science, Whimsy: glaciers, google earth, volcanoes, Where on (Google) Earth? · 8 comments... 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 real ... me that I didn't post a picture of some nice coral atoll instead. Since this one is so easy, the Schott Rule is in effect. Former ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... problems, situating flaws within the individual woman instead of her environment. I could probably quote any number of bits that ...
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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... and academia as value-neutral or as flaws in academia instead of feeling like I am broken. It's good to feel like I've learned ...
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3 Apr 2020: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments... But in the section evaluating the "broader impacts", instead of addressing what she actually wrote, he (reviewers are anonymous, I ...
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1 Mar 2020: Hey Lookit My Tooth
Personal: dentistry, teeth · 5 comments... lesson to share with all you gentle readers, but no dice. Instead, I find myself mildly annoyed with the article for using "scientific" ...
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9 Aug 2020: Publication and Citation Rates of Female Earthquake Engineers
Politics, Science: academia, earthquake engineering, gender, Science · 5 comments... about how one selects a male peer group. Since Trifunac instead compared them to the group of accomplished senior faculty from his ...
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10 Jul 2020: Sunday, Day of Links
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 comments... the "typical" boy's journey that we accept as the norm. So instead of looking for the rejection of ego, one must look for the acceptance ...
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23 Jun 2020: Recently Spammed
: · 1 comment... is a cheap ripoff of Nick Momrik's recent comments plugin. Instead of listing recently published comments, it lists recent comments that ...
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7 Jun 2020: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics
Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... the plumber showed up in just the nick of time, hooray! Instead, I'm going to list professions the practitioners of which seem to (or ...
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13 Mar 2020: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy
Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments... never get around to talking about it that way). So instead of arguing for the place of "patriarchy" in the vernacular, I ask you: ...
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19 Jan 2020: Go Grey Lady Go!
Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments... also the universe where Dr. Pepper is made by Coca-Cola, instead of ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU One
Personal, Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging · 6 comments... the Marriott? Let's send the space physicists over there instead, or reserve it as punishment for people who can't have a technical ...
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23 Nov 2020: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments... is too vicious" hypothesis, but with physicists instead of bloggers, and much less rhetorical panache. I hate to see people ...
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1 Nov 2020: Plebiscite Time Is Fun Time
Politics: abortion, California ballot propositions, co-op living, MediCal, teacher tenure · 9 comments... up the budget (or the legislature) with actual ropes, instead of metaphorical legal ropes, I'm against it. Rating: C My vote: ...
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26 Oct 2020: How Homosexuality Hurts You
Politics, Science: queerness, smart-assery, yeast · 3 comments... the majority genotype is the predicted offspring. However, instead of the classic a-alpha sexual cycle, the majority outbreak clone ...
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14 Oct 2020: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel
Science: crackpots · 3 comments... see any cracks in that [folded rock]?" he asked. "Instead of bending like that, it should have cracked." The material "had to be ...
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21 Sep 2020: Balancing Work and Family: Just Use Your Penis
Politics: lazy journalism, lifestyles of the privileged minority, sexism, work vs. family · 2 comments... always offer stress-reduction workshops and free massages instead of anti-patriarchy ass-kicking. See also larger, steamier heaps of ...
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16 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Human Fuzzies: academic politics, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · no comments... because of it... but will some of us end up in Bermuda instead? The oracle is unclear. Search Requests Warts known as ...
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: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement
Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments... wrong kind, your bulk material will react with the cement. Instead of forming a fully hydrated solid, potassium and sodium in the ...
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22 Jul 2020: Friday Roch blogging: multilingual edition
Human Fuzzies: guest posts, hockey, rock blogging · no comments... it as someone who got the wrong hockey shirt -- the Leafs instead of the Habs! -- but eventually I grew up and caught the fact that the ... up in rural Ontario, and he ordered the Leafs sweater, and instead -- horrors! -- he got a Habs sweater. Oddly, the reviews did not ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... face - but the imaginary fault motion will be towards/away instead of up and down. This is a good model of a typical strike-slip ... this is actually a big lie. Convention dictates that instead of looking at the top of your ping-pong ball, you actually remove the ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gnammas
Science: Australia, rock blogging, Yosemite · 3 comments... in that park, this gnamma wasn't formed by glaciers. Instead, it is a testament to the awesome power of small puddles, which speed ...
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16 May 2020: I Wish I Were Covered in Fuzzy Knobs
Links, Meta, Personal: anti-spam, cnidarians, hyperopia, myopia, vision · 4 comments... on a single photoreceptor, but at the plane of the retina instead lights up a whole diffuse region. [...] The explanation probably lies ...
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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... to stop. So this morning I woke up abruptly to loud beeps, instead of gradually to the dawn; cha-CHING! As a result, I'm feeling all linky ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... relationships to man-initiated stranger relationships. Instead, both Hugo and Media Girl seem to be comparing woman-initiated stranger ...
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13 Feb 2020: Someone’s A Bit Paranoid
Meta: cladistics, ducklings, family, fan mail, mammals, monkeys · 4 comments... at my family reunions, except we all sort of mumble along instead of just staring into ...
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20 Jan 2020: Fantasy Cabinet
Politics: fantasy politics · 9 comments... Jimmy Carter feeding on human blood. He feeds on carrots instead. Secretary of Transportation: Secretary of Education: bell hooks Gene ...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... abortion" - find yourself a reputable abortion provider instead. Please. * And by "scoff" I mean "Oh yeah? Tell it to this set of ...
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2 Nov 2020: Election Surprise: Squid!
Personal, Politics: · 2 comments... the cat is currently dragging in. I bought Martinelli's instead of champagne, for the one hand, and orange juice instead of vodka for the other - but even teetotalling is probably not enough ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... laws. Proposition 65: The We Changed Our Minds Vote For 1A Instead Measure: No Like they say, we should all vote for 1A instead. Proposition 66: Three Strikes Reform: Yes Honestly, I just can't get ... If anyone doesn't like it they can jolly well use email instead. Proposition 68: Gambling I: No Fuck you, ballot initiative system, I ...
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13 Sep 2020: No Vegetables for the Poor
Politics: classism, USDA, welfare · 2 comments... drink juice will drink soda and tequila and Cadillacs instead! And Mongolian herders live quite happily on mare's milk alone, you ...
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29 Aug 2020: Weekend Review
Personal: capitalism sucks, consumerism, dishware, grad school · 4 comments... fail to impress anyone with my sparkling snarky comments; instead, had to write WHO BUYS THIS SHIT??? in the free-response box after ...
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23 Aug 2020: Monday Silliness: California Creeks
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · no comments... crappiness of Southern California place names can instead be blamed on the Spanish missionaries, as if we needed another reason ...
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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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25 Mar 2020: Pasadena: My Neighbors Have Nice Flowers
Human Fuzzies: intellectual elitism, Pasadena, urban planning, urban sprawl · 1 comment... the city, rather than concentrated in one city center. And instead of banishing the ugly, utilitarian buildings to the periphary (as Paris, for example, does) they are instead interspersed with the gems. It's not a style of city planning I ...
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18 Mar 2020: Double-Spacing After Periods
Human Fuzzies: fonts, typography · 3 comments... I rebel by putting internal documents in Helvetica instead of Arial. [thanks to G for the ...
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23 Dec 2020: One List
Human Fuzzies: Christmas, driving, singing · no comments... minutes and asks to do "the Twelve Days of Christmas" instead, hurrah! I am now very certain of the colors of my ale and ...
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27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke
Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 comments... us out of the sand, if we hadn't already called for a tow. Instead, he notes that Peter's registration stickers are out of date, and asks ...
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20 Sep 2020: Someone’s Expense Account
Meta: · no comments... deals) test See? The monkey didn't spot the raw deal. Instead, it is eating the raw banana. Monkey over and ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... tell "What'ch'oo talkin' 'bout?" political midget jokes, instead of "How many rocks can a one-armed Iraqi teenager fit in his pocket?" ...
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23 Jun 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · no comments... even have a nose. Have you ever considered a Ouija board instead? princess See? Princesses don't smell like poo, so there. I still ...
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7 May 2020: Vacuuming for Losers
Personal, Whimsy: cleaning, howtos, vacuums · 2 comments... back up. Think about washing the rags, but throw them away instead - there's plenty more old socks where those came from. Enjoy the tiny ...
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2 May 2020: Master of Nothing
Aimless: · no comments... of Science for my efficiency apartment of Science. Instead of ominously placing my hand on my gun while Science negotiates a drug ...
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26 Apr 2020: Tenure’s No Damn Good!
Aimless: · 2 comments... succeeding terribly well, of course, since I'm blogging instead of working, but the lab will get done eventually. Right now, I have to ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... in favor of courses that offer a stack of handouts instead of a textbook, as the reading tends to be cheaper and more interesting ...
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25 Aug 2020: Confuse the Bubblebots
Personal: · 1 comment... it brings the lens completely back into the case instead. I already knew I was overly dependent on the zoom, so I didn't learn ...
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10 Jul 2020: EZPolitik
Politics: environmentalism, Internet activism, SUVs · no comments... representatives to support the Senate version instead - point and click politics, ...
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5 Jul 2020: Someone Needs a New Brain
Meta: · 2 comments... as this one show up neatly aligned in Netscape/Mozilla, instead of showing up partially, add to the <form> tag ...
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9 Jun 2020: Geophysics vs. the Universe
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... vs. geophysics - the difference is really in the approach. Instead of putting rocks in our mouths and exclaiming "ooh, halite! we must be ...
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: Morbid Fascination
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... are right and I just end up with cool supernatural powers instead. 3. Fatal indigestion. My quest for the most preposterous peanut-butter ...
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13 May 2020: Philosophical Questions
Meta: · 2 comments... me, you'd put on a diaper and wrap me in bacon" crap. So instead, I asked ...
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28 Apr 2020: button bushes
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... issues surrounding the creation of a new genre, instead of exploring them with any depth the director just cut to another ...
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22 Apr 2020: Magickal Transmutations
Human Fuzzies, Personal: bruises, capitalism sucks, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities · 2 comments... splotchy blue glory all significant bruises enjoy. But instead, when I woke up this morning, it had migrated to the top of my skin and ... for the most part, very adept at wanting what I can find instead of what I can't have. To put it another way, I have cheap tastes. My ...
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14 Apr 2020: Tax Time, Fun Time!
Meta: · 2 comments... Hong Kong?" "Or like making the check out to Ariel Sharon instead of the United States government?" "Yeah." In other news, if you just ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... good person would have waited until summer to explode, instead of doing it when she would be abdicating academic responsibilities and ... other people who just want to get on with their job instead of wondering why this silly girl is fucking up for no apparent reason, ...
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16 Mar 2020: Someone’s a Cruel Landlord
Meta: · no comments... because I've lately started storing my socks rolled-up instead of haphazard and I think it embodies a pleasant crazy-quilt aesthetic, ...
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18 Feb 2020: Guerilla Feminism
Politics: feminism, gender, sexism, stereotypes · no comments... has been a little cold to those who build houses instead of battleships. Some related bits and pieces: Girls are ...
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16 Feb 2020: vapid
Links: · no comments... of course that thought is about pinball. Zooooom. So instead, it's time to clear my system of random crap. Normally, web sites ...
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14 Feb 2020: Heart Moon Puppy Love Muffin
Personal, Politics: doctors, hair, Valentine's Day · no comments... much effort to compile the thing and I was tired. So instead I did a couple decidedly non-romantic things to mark the day - gave out ...
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11 Feb 2020: Sorry, try again
Personal: · no comments... has gone to lately and if I should just go to Mongolia instead. You probably don't want to hear that. Or maybe you do, but I don't ...
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31 Jan 2020: Stupid Economy
Politics: · no comments... everybody. I want to go get drunk, but I have math to do instead. Bleah. ---- ...
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29 Jan 2020: Coffee
Human Fuzzies: Astrid Lindgren, coffee, inner child, pippi longstocking · no comments... actual induction to the wonderful world of drinking coffee instead of merely smelling it, which was in 8th grade when a friend of mine ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... I'll be able to have pictures that solve wave equations, instead of just letters, and I'm a huge fan of math pictures even if I can't ...
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25 Jan 2020: Sprocket!
Personal, Whimsy: · no comments... which is superior because it gives results of order unity instead of this hundred-billion crap, but inferior because the math takes more ...
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24 Jan 2020: Core 1a
Personal: · no comments... audience. I could rant about this forever. Alas, I must instead select a topic and write a paragraph about how I plan to make it look ...
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22 Jan 2020: hoom, hoom
Politics: · no comments... Selma, and then went grocery shopping and did homework instead. Happy Martin Luther King day. Or Wellington's Anniversary day or ...
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11 Jan 2020: Flamingo Lips
Personal: blue sky, cult movement, embouchure, paying attention, peach, trumpet-playing, writing style · no comments... try out some kind of mindless authoritarian cult movement instead - I bet I can find one that'll make me never have to do another physics ...
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17 Dec 2020: trolls on pigs
Links: · no comments... tomorrow morning that you really ought to be studying for instead. La la ...
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: spacialization
Aimless: · no comments... maybe I'd learn something useful about tomorrow's final. Instead, I was treated to some meaningless ramble (well, there was no math, ...
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9 Dec 2020: side couples square through
Personal: agnosticism, atheism, cookies, dancing, julefrokost, monkeys, religion, religious conversion, religious preferences, square dancing, unitarian church · 1 comment... on banana chocolate chip cookies in the near future instead, since I've got some gunky bananas in my cupboard, but I haven't made ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... last couple weeks have I started to find the people I like instead of the people I just like to hang out with, the places worth going back ...
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10 Oct 2020: Slippery When Wet
Personal: · no comments... warm chair, I'm not going to write about any of them. Instead, I'm going to write about the odd feeling of protective ...
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7 Oct 2020: Suckers!
Personal: government gravy trains, Sweden, the scientific lifestyle, utter glee · no comments... pay for your vacations by calling them research, and are instead funding my vacations with your tax money." I'm currently ensconced in a ...
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4 Sep 2020: train tracks
Human Fuzzies, Personal: concrete walls, graffiti, keyboards, kudzu, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities, sweetness and light, trains, weeds · no comments... funny new keyboards, I still am constantly typing øo instead of ø, and åa instead of å. Multi-keystroke control sequences are more than just convenient ...
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2 Sep 2020: redesign in progress
Meta: · no comments... the way of my mop. So, I'll sit here and play with colors instead. If you happen to drop by in the next few hours and things look funky, ...
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31 Aug 2020: recovered conversation
Personal: · no comments... impact on a foreign server, boys and girls; keep them instead on a diskette, which you can lose and rediscover as many times as you ...
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20 Aug 2020: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments... things in conditional tenses, asking "do you know?" instead of "can you please tell me?" and that sort of thing. Actually, I say ...
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13 Aug 2020: aha! an American!
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish, tourism · no comments... camoflauge worked around Rådhuspladsen as well. Instead, I just admit that I've only been here a week myself and can barely ...
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15 Jul 2020: no hate mail yet
Meta: blog status updates · no commentsYeah! the server's back up! Now I have an excuse not to sleep. I have: thrown together a quick biography and a links page, and joined the Amazon associates program, which makes me feel a bit like a whore. On the other hand, it gives me the right to grab ...
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14 Jul 2020: argyle sock envy
Links, Personal: · no comments... I wore thick-rimmed glasses, argyle socks, and a skirt, instead of ancient patched jeans and a t-shirt with the high voltage warning ... on. I wish my hair were short and dyed mulberry, instead of natural brown because I'm too vain to let a drop of bleach anywhere ...