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28 Apr 2020: Cocktails with the House Nocino
Food: cocktails, nocino, shochu, whisky · no comments... Moon - too harsh to use in almost any context, but far too interesting to pour down the drain - and a cheap apricot-flavored brandy. With ...
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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... has been the smash hit of my liqueur season. It's an interesting substitute for St. Germain or other floral liqueurs in any number ...
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17 Jul 2020: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds
Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment... this spring, and am hoping that the seeds will make an interesting and delicious mustard-like condiment. The pods I picked were ...
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17 Feb 2020: Teaching Engineers to Blog?
Meta: · 6 comments... you are interested in (and, bonus, they think you are interesting when you talk about them!). Oh, also: If you assign a "classic ...
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5 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 3 comments... in Science -- For the first edition, profile someone interesting and/or inspirational. Call for entries for February's Accretionary ...
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12 Jan 2020: Listen to Earthquakes
Links: · 3 comments... 10 minute seismogram, recorded at 50 samples/sec to catch interesting stuff that happens at frequencies well below the range of human ...
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4 Jan 2020: 2020 Blogolutions
Meta: · 4 comments... on that one. During January, I will be posting the most interesting of my half-finished pieces, as is; maybe they'll generate more ...
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2 Jan 2020: A Quick Caveat for Obsessive Yellowstone-Watchers
Aimless: · 6 comments... until it's been time-averaged). If there is something interesting (inflation or deflation) happening to Yellowstone's magma chamber, ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... nature of that moon. I just want to know what you think is interesting, exciting, or trendy this year, and why. Subjective "buzz" and ...
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11 Dec 2020: An Open Letter to the Science Blogosphere
Meta: · 10 comments... mostly ignoring the blogosphere (not for any particularly interesting reason) and buzzing through some John McPhee and Natalie Angier ... from Churro-on-Squid? - but they are hell on your readers. Interestingly, the social motives of academics are similar to those of bloggers ...
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15 Oct 2020: Oh Look, Links
Links: · 2 comments... web app to display how we know what we know. There's an interesting mix of direct experience and hearsay for propositions like "Humans ...
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9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately
Aimless: · 3 comments... come through my RSS reader, I flag anything that looks interesting, with the vague intention of getting back to it later. Ha, ha. ... library access to journals, the barrier between "hm, looks interesting" and "I'm actually going to read this" has gotten even ...
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29 Sep 2020: New Accretionary Wedge!
Links: · no comments... non-geologists, go read what freelance writers think is interesting about a volcano ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... to be familiar with are those that are (1) visible and interesting in hand samples, and (2) likely to be useful when I'm engaged in ...
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14 Sep 2020: The Rusty King of All Metals
Aimless: · 2 comments... Google Books throws up some interesting results: The knowledge of Geology seems to be requisite in all ...
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6 Sep 2020: You Know You’re Marrying a Geologist When…
Aimless: · 22 comments... at the outcrop! She asks the musicians to slow down at any interesting unconformities exposed in the Canyon in D Your gift registry has ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... answer to weird or pointed questions wouldn't be "that's interesting, let's discuss it after the session" - it would be "goddammit, ...
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17 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no comments... Pluto itself. Unlike, say 2020 EL61, which has so many interesting characteristics that it was hard choosing from so many different ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... hadn't made my head explode, I would've written something interesting about it, but no. I'm stuck banging my head against the simplest ...
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24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 comments... of Everyday Things, which I recommend as a useful and interesting way of thinking about all sorts of minor frustrations in daily ...
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17 Jun 2020: Another Lusi Update
Aimless: · 4 comments... found my blog - or at least, no reporters have found it interesting). The Boston Globe has a nice photo set. What's weird, though, is ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 comments... Compared to other earthquakes that have made mud do interesting things, it's rinky-dink. In the paper, we go on at length about ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... for change. A good career choice is one that seems interesting in the short term, pays a living wage, and promises to provide varied and interesting opportunities a few years down the road. So. Now that I've just ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... one of those mornings where everything looks shiny and interesting - everything but the stuff I'm supposed to be working on. And ... a couple of issues on me. Surely I can at least blurb the interesting titles? It will be a prize for finishing my timed bouts of real ...
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8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Aimless: · 19 comments... You can also use thin sections to see anything interesting that might have happened to the crystals themselves - changing ...
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4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 comments... of the research, together with a blurb about why I find it interesting and how it relates to current problems in the field. I'll read ...
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17 Dec 2020: Aaand, the rest of AGU
Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments... through the education posters - not only are there usually interesting projects, the posters are much more likely to do something to ...
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14 Nov 2020: Hiking the Transgondwanan Supermountains
Science: Cambrian, Cambrian Explosion, Gondwana, Neoproterozoic, orogeny, Proterozoic · 4 commentsOnce upon a time in the Neoproterozoic, there was (maybe) an 8,000 km by 1,000 km mountain range that stretched across the half-supercontinent of Gondwana - that's slightly longer than, and twice as thick as, the modern Andes. Those mountains lived for a q ...
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3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments... 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 ...
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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... slew of book reviews, long and thoughtful ones that say interesting things about science and society and race and gender, but I think ... book that was actually in front of me, I found useful and interesting references on practically every page. Race Traitor - Noel ...
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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... broader impacts statement did not contain anything interesting to talk about, that the reviewer was thinking about her gender the ...
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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... will find happy resettlements, and maybe we'll get some interesting science out of it. The next few are ambiguous (unless the ...
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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... most of what scientists think is tremendously exciting and interesting and utterly essential isn't, really. Before I start listing the ... from my ears. As soon as I come up with something more interesting than simple admonishments, I'll write a good long screed, but for ...
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12 Oct 2020: Seismograms from North Korea
Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 comments... half-dozen closest stations, but wasn't able to get much interesting information out of them. You can see the problem if you look at ...
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29 Sep 2020: Friday Rock Blogging, Mailbag Edition
Science: mystery rocks, rock blogging · 8 comments... its P-wave velocity is 3-5 km/s. But of course the most interesting things to the casual observer are those wacky stripey inclusions - ...
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8 Aug 2020: My Identity is a List of Links
Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments... identity in the context of trans allyship, which is an interesting contrast because the power dynamics are different. If I deny my ...
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3 Aug 2020: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way
Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 comments... so that discussions of spicy gendered brains, while interesting, are not crucial to political advocacy. I think the way forward is ...
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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... an insightful 10-page essay. I will now extract the most interesting points from that essay, so that you're excused from having to slog ... married men. This takes her some time; there are various interesting factoids along the way, and quite a bit of repetition which should ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... and girls from all walks of sciencehood; if this sounds interesting to you, details are below the fold. The book is called Where the ...
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29 Mar 2020: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept
Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments... host the same comment page? For example. You write an interesting post, nubian likes it, she posts it in its entirety at her blog, ... And presumably there's some reason you found something interesting: wouldn't it behoove you to explain to your readers why they should ...
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21 Mar 2020: Thomas Kuhn and Big Historiography
Science: Berzerkeley, Big History, Kuhn, Lacan, Marxism, paradigms, philosophy of science · 4 comments... my own existence strikes me (when sober) as slightly less interesting**** than contemplating the details of Brownian motion (which might ...
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14 Feb 2020: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy
Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments... of systemic schmoppression would teach us new and interesting things about human ...
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13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments... minutes of talk time it could've been spun into something interesting and more directly on point, there are arguments in the abstract ... Suleski on the Microcosm of Scientific Knowledge. The most interesting thing here, I think, was the observation that articles cited in the ...
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8 Dec 2020: AGU Four
Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments... to reconstitute later. Suffice it to say that they were interesting, but not very well-developed. Meanwhile, here are some smaller ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU Two
Personal: american geophysical union, beer, conference blogging · no comments... tactics*, but then again I skipped the potentially interesting nonlinear geophysics sessions in favor of hydrothermal systems. ...
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: AGU One
Personal, Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging · 6 comments... are all the interesting talks at 8 in the morning? And at the Marriott? Let's send the ...
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16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments... the house, but I think it's still a real one that plays an interesting role in house dynamics. ***Housemates reading this should please, ...
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5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... Thought About Harry Potter... and the answer is, meh. It's interesting that Snape seems to attract the most discussion; I predict that his ...
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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... But of course, "seismic death trap" is just a synonym for "interesting". The road cuts along CA-14 just north of the interchange are ... sunroof with the other, I had passed the deepest and most interesting road cuts, but there was still this: You can see plants growing ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... is somewhat simplified but good enough for a great deal of interesting analysis. The actual movement that produces the earthquake is ...
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27 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Keiiti Aki Memorial Edition
Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, volcanoes · 1 comment... somewhat better, and perhaps this afternoon I'll find some interesting examples. Meanwhile, you can't beat a good volcano for eye ...
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25 May 2020: For the Record
Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms. Some interesting and thoughtful posts, but it doesn't really cover new ground. The ...
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23 May 2020: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah
Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments... allowed to attach my name. The things that are plausibly interesting, I'm just as happy to not be formally associated with, as for ...
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9 May 2020: Deconstructing Teh Funnay
Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments... such classification is futile, and certainly produces few interesting ideas for experiments. Humor is certainly dependent on ...
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21 Apr 2020: Brain Asplode
Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 comments... School privilege vs. male privilege, it's a potentially interesting parallel. Awww, a kitten. Who'd'a thunk I'd need to work so ...
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13 Feb 2020: Someone’s A Bit Paranoid
Meta: cladistics, ducklings, family, fan mail, mammals, monkeys · 4 comments... you imagine the Goth Black family reunions might be interesting (in the Chinese sense)?... Not really. I imagine them to be full ...
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28 Nov 2020: Thanks For
Personal, Whimsy: thanksgiving · 3 comments... fleece. Black pepper. Crudely drawn flowers. Interesting metal cabinetry at industrial salvage shops. Being able to touch ...
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11 Oct 2020: Evolutionary Psychology Goes to the Dentist
Personal, Whimsy: dissociation, evolutionary psychology, medicine · no comments... are particularly similar, but the human brain has an interestingly limited set of coping ...
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28 Sep 2020: Movies Lately
Human Fuzzies: media politics, movie reviews · 1 comment... pastiche of early-to-Golden Age styles, were much more interesting than the tributes to time-honored wooden archetypes. Brave Manly ...
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13 Aug 2020: I Smell a Thesis
Science: · 1 comment... On the other hand, this could genuinely plausibly be an interesting thesis topic, it's got volcanoes and earthquakes and modeling and ...
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11 Aug 2020: Burble Tensors on Cross-Disciplinary Manifolds of Love!
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 5 comments... necessarily distorted views of pristine "real science" is interesting, especially when people start arguing about whose views are more ...
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21 Jul 2020: On Third
Links, Meta: · no comments... level of thin pseudonymity, so I won't weigh in. But it's interesting ...
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19 Jul 2020: GRE Goodness
Personal: cubicle living, grad school, i hate everything, standardized tests · 3 comments... duller if my varied managers don't carefully cherry-pick interesting assignments for me - which they don't because they rightfully ...
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11 Jul 2020: Meyers and Briggs, Chew Thoughtfully on Your Toenails!
Whimsy: psychology, quizzes · no comments... you make them feel good. You are smart, charismatic, and interesting. You may be too sensitive to others reactions, especially ...
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8 Jul 2020: Sunset of the Vegetative Poodles
Links: · 1 comment... obliged to elaborate upon the twoness and duality of the interesting things such articles contain: The Los Angeles cityscape is still ...
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29 Jun 2020: Easy Things That Aren’t
Personal: human imperfection, mental blocks · 15 comments... my tongue (it's apparently not genetic after all, but interestingly enough tongue-curling is associated in men with the ability to ...
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8 Apr 2020: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps
Personal: · 2 comments... education made me bitter?). The second path is more interesting. Here's where the last comment on Amanda's post has started old ...
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25 Mar 2020: The Neon Leg Warmer of the Caribbean
Politics: Haiti, Somalia, tourism, war · 1 comment... leadership. While the story of wartime politics can be interesting, the story of wartime life is awful, and usually ends up with ...
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22 Feb 2020: Le Tutoiement des Blogs
Human Fuzzies: french, net culture · 3 comments... à gauche, hoorah! But of course the most immediately interesting thing is the complete indecision over formalities in the comment ... d'outils dont font partie les "blogs". [It would be interesting for you (one uses the informal "you" in blogs, Dominique) to meet ...
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20 Feb 2020: Someone’s Trolling My Bridge
Meta: · no comments... please STOP! Not a button. I really don't have anything interesting to say; I'm not sure an interesting response is even possible. At least not while this blog sticks ...
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12 Jan 2020: Pride’s Downfall
Whimsy: · 3 comments... of months, leaving a trail of comment spam that's about as interesting as a prescription drug-themed IRC chat log* - but actually better ...
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3 Jan 2020: RSS Ketchup
Links: · no comments... news feed aggregator, the Internet seemed pale and uninteresting. But now I'm home, and the Internet is grand! There's a ... I guess the Internet is still only two links worth of interesting (I'll leave y'all to pick which two). But my decompulsifying has ...
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31 Jul 2020: The Vanilla Asylum
Personal: · 1 comment... congenial, they're witty (more or less) and they have interesting things to say about non-work subjects. They're certainly not bland ...
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5 May 2020: Police Can’t Stop Drinking
Human Fuzzies: syntactical ambiguity · 6 comments... Italian, but I can't find the third meaning. Help? It's interesting that examples of ambiguity in these sorts of papers are often drawn ...
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12 Mar 2020: Maxi Pad-Abouts
Links, Personal: craftiness, menstruation · 1 comment... on the life cycle of Hawaiian volcanoes (which would be interesting if I were allowed more tangents about mantle plumes...) makes me ...
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15 Jan 2020: Unbreakable
Human Fuzzies: agnosticism, torture · 2 comments... been, so what the hell) a friend of mine told me something interesting over break. Supposedly, back in the days of proper war, the North ...
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15 Nov 2020: Committee Committee
Personal, Politics: bureaucracy, Caltech · 1 comment... way to do it, I'm going to break out in stripes. It's interesting that people without an ax to grind tend not to be appointed to ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... the paper cuts. I can't think of any way to make this interesting, but I know my parents will care and others of you might be very ... of a textbook, as the reading tends to be cheaper and more interesting that way, but at $59 in Xerox fees I'm a little dubious. 8:30-10 ...
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2 Sep 2020: Sapirior Speech
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... aside from pointless E-Prime bashing... but it's an interesting question nonetheless, and a fight I'd like to ...
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18 Aug 2020: A Contest-Contest
Aimless: · 15 comments... 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 ...
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10 Aug 2020: Happy Boys and Girls
Meta, Personal: · 2 comments... but it's work. It's okay - enough of a challenge to be interesting, but not so hard as to be stressful. After all, your average ...
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25 Jul 2020: Almost Obligatory Meta-Introspection on the Occasion of my Blog’s Birthday
Meta: · 3 comments... when someone enjoys this stuff, or decides that I am an interesting person because of it - particularly if that someone happens to be ...
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11 Jul 2020: I give in!
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... this means, most of the time, is that I find interesting recipes, and then try to make them having only half the ingredients ...
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5 Jul 2020: Liminal Kangaroo Courts
Meta: blogular wanking, snobbery · no comments... is too bad, because the post was shaping up to be rather interesting, as far as meta-posts go, chock full of interaction between design ...
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30 Jun 2020: Fixings
Whimsy: · 3 comments... and Movable Type). Maybe it will grow to be other, more interesting things; maybe it won't. Meanwhile, here is a gratuitous meme seen ...
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5 Jun 2020: Like A Virgin
Meta: blogular wanking, fan mail, guest posts · 3 comments... still feeling around it the dark. The idea is to be more interesting than a series of "too busy to post" posts, which is manageable ... had for breakfast). Which leaves snarky commentary and interesting web finds. Doable... yes. Ooooh, and comments from the peanut ...
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23 May 2020: Tomorrow Was Yesterday
Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no comments... powerfully than the One Ring, but none of us had anything interesting to say to Jay Leno. Anyway, she only wanted us because at that ...
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17 May 2020: Old Whippersnappers
Personal: · no comments... hearing stories from old alums, of course - it really was interesting to find out that a particular bench has survived in the lounge for ...
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14 May 2020: E-Mail Tips and Tricks
Whimsy: · no comments... leaf, including a part that had been erased two days ago. Interesting. Looking at a mirror, I noticed it said "Red Rum." Running it ... are a natural social butterfly who is able to carry out interesting conversations due to your open-mindedness and your cautious nature ...
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12 May 2020: Opening Lines
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · 7 comments... (CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - duh) It's an interesting exercise that admits but one conclusion: no one ever reads the ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... a related tangent, this article has given me a passel of interesting thoughts to chew on - it's all about the difference between deep ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... any of you are just dying to meet some interesting and available methods of applied mathematics, but you just don't ...
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17 Mar 2020: Kiss Me, I Forgot to Wear Green
Links: · no comments... to Live Ireland, which has spotty quality control but some interesting things, and reading that list of disgusting things traditional ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... rhetorical technique, and it's not going to be all that interesting if you haven't read the background; it might not be interesting even then, unless you're also enticed by the original ... blogs must realize that other people's thoughts can be interesting on their own merits; and you probably know at least one or two ...
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6 Mar 2020: Someone’s a Commercial Whore
Meta: · 4 comments... program or human? Discuss. Right, this one raises some interesting metaphysical issues. Is it possible to divide the universe into two ...
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18 Feb 2020: Guerilla Feminism
Politics: feminism, gender, sexism, stereotypes · no comments... abstract, but if you're near a good library, it could be interesting. Does anyone remember the fiasco when Toys 'R' Us tried to label ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... side of things - I feel a strong compulsion to have an interesting career, but for me it's more about self-respect and self-expression ...
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24 Jan 2020: Core 1a
Personal: · no comments... write a paragraph about how I plan to make it look more interesting than organizing your uncle's bottlecap collection. I'm trying ...
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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... enough, is meant for people, and so it passes by as much interesting scenery as feasible on the way to places people want to go. ... inconvenient little farm town two hours away from anyplace interesting. On the way to this oh-so-frabjous Golden State, the train passed ...
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17 Dec 2020: spacialization
Aimless: · no comments... to explain anything. Regardless, I think it'd be an interesting experiment to run around for a day trying not to use any spatial ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... indulgence before I go back to things that might be more interesting to those of you without blogs of your own (yes, all three of ...
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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... and in a sense it's a bit of a tautology for me. The more interesting question is this: if you were to have a religious revelation, how ...
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7 Dec 2020: Gravitas
Links, Science: gravity, mapping, New Madrid · no comments... started to split apart. It stopped before getting anywhere interesting, of course, but not before upwelling hot mantle rock had left a ...
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21 Nov 2020: joining my drunk…
Politics: · no comments... will be a few Danish commiserators. You see, last year when it became clear that Bush was ultimately going to slip into the White House, I vowed to spend these four years totally piss drunk. Crap political news is much easier to handle that way, I thin ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... for me to do them in, and I like it that way. It's an interesting timescale problem. Since I never moved when I was a kid, the only ...
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15 Oct 2020: I don’t know if you’ve
Politics: · no comments... so far, with one more to come this week. Yay. It's an interesting list, heavy with castles and cathedrals in Western Europe, and low on my pet human heritage favorites like bridges. Also interesting is the average age - though I've not taken a particularly rigorous ...
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28 Sep 2020: Rescheduling
Personal: · no comments... things down. By sheer chance, some of them always remain interesting in the light of day. Meanwhile, running around on three hours of ...
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24 Sep 2020: Juggling Cabbages
Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment... needed - a small group of people, many of who were new and interesting, and a quiet retreat setting kind of like when I would run outside ...
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9 Sep 2020: verbal thinker
Personal: · no comments... one can tell about particles in boxes really aren't that interesting translated from math, but stories about rocks can be told using ...
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7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung
Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment... them much, and when I do, I don't ever think they're very interesting. So I only mention them to highlight moments of bathos, a la the ...
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3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…
Meta, Personal: · no comments... I follow a blog is because I think the person behind it is interesting, not because it's full of literary devices or far-out wacky stories. And I think people are interesting for a variety of reasons, most of which are completely arbitrary. ...
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21 Aug 2020: waay overcaffinated
Personal: beer, liquor laws · no comments... I can here and can't there, and also one of the least interesting. I feel odd walking into a convenience store and buying a bottle of ...
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26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments... to the quality of my vowels, and see if I notice anything interesting about them. Round about 3 in the afternoon, I'll start wishing I ... somehow whining about how Caltech doesn't offer any interesting hum classes. Or else I'll be gritting my teeth wishing P. would ...