Search Results: makes
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29 Apr 2020: Pickled Japanese Knotweed
Food: bread, knotweed, pickles, Polygonaceae · no comments... safely means cooking them, and cooking Japanese knotweed makes it mushy! So, uh, now I'm going to need to find uses for mushy pickles. I ...
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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... and with a bit of allspice dram and/or lemon juice it makes a deeply comforting hot toddy. Oregon-grape Gin I filled a quart mason ... bitter, and too sweet, respectively, but I love it. It makes an excellent substitute in any cocktail recipes calling for sloe gin, ...
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11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments... one can be useful ways to think about the ways society makes your life easier, that you might otherwise not notice. The overwhelming ...
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25 Apr 2020: Approaching New Flavors
Food: cookbooks, cooking, Food, foraging · no comments... and how jealous am I that I didn't think of it first! It makes me wonder how many other excellent analogs and combinations I am missing ...
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20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 comments... We don't understand all of what makes an earthquake happen now rather than later, but we can make a list of ... understanding of volcanoes and earthquakes to explain what makes perfect sense as a coincidence. Meanwhile, if you're hoping for more ...
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14 Mar 2020: Blackberry Meringue Pie with Orange Bitters and Almond Crust
Food: blackberries, meringue, pie, recipes, Rosaceae · 1 comment... out the seeds. Save the leftover pulp for baking - it makes tasty muffins. Preheat the oven to 325 ºF. Crust: Whirl the ...
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8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... find in grocery stores, and found that the variety of lime makes absolutely no difference to the final pie. Do not waste time or money on ... amount of rum necessary to balance out the lime is what makes me think it's a good idea to use rum extract - the alcohol won't stop ...
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27 Jan 2020: Academic Citation
Aimless: · 1 comment... So I manually tweak and triple-check my reference list. It makes my eyeballs leak ichor. But it's got me thinking about the purpose of ...
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30 Dec 2020: Cell Phones Make You Drive More
Aimless: · 3 comments... about local university library budgets) here. Still, it makes a nice story. You're making plans at the last minute (which only works ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... irresponsible speculation are more fun than the stuff that makes it into journals; the opportunity to eavesdrop and run my mouth network ... or the Berkeley football stadium) I'm only at 27.5, which makes me one of the most poorly-traveled members of the geoblogosphere. And I'm ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 comments... coffee grinder sometimes pauses in its labors, and makes a high-pitched whining noise that is nigh unbearable to the uncaffeinated ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... quite a few people around, including young people (which makes me feel much safer somehow). I suddenly stopped, turned around, and said ... at my tits in the workplace," they all agree. "That makes me uncomfortable, creates a hostile work environment, and constitutes ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... smart. Quartz is everywhere. It is durable, and so makes up the bulk of sand on beaches and in sandstones. It is shiny. It sneaks ... also known as calcium carbonate (CaCO3), is what makes up seashells. usually the first mineral to form as a precipitate from ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... powerpoint-obsessed scientists who don't understand. It makes me wonder if anyone actually read my review. The Sizzle team sent out an ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments... - places him among the crackpot screed-writing elite. That makes it worth discussing a few of his more beguiling errors. So. What's ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... assists, Missy on lunar concrete, and Irene Klotz on makeshift space bathrooms. Also, did you think CBS was gullible? Try venture ...
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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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5 May 2020: Tag Clouds for my Papers
Aimless: · 7 comments... work on the same system and come to different conclusions, makes the tag list. I'd have to go back and count to see how many of the ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... true statements about the world, and even though everyone makes mistakes, being wrong is a Big Deal*. Criticism should be leveled only ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... zone tries to swallow a piece of buoyant material, it makes the whole system stagger backwards and burp. Jean-Pierre Brun and Claudio ...
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5 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 2 comments... is one of the reasons that BACK OFF, I'M A SCIENTIST makes such a great bumper sticker. Update: Geotripper is keeping a running ...
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29 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Desert Varnish
Aimless: · 5 comments... microbes might eat the delicious manganese. This all makes it difficult to give a precise age for a varnished surface. This is a ...
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21 Feb 2020: And the Three Billion Dollar Grant Goes to…
Aimless: · 5 comments... it is expensive to drill a hole, not in the sense that it makes it through a very large fraction of the crust), all of which will require ...
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14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman
Aimless: · 15 comments... to get a "real" job without leaving the field, which makes school almost like part of a competitive labor market - even without ...
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8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Aimless: · 19 comments... will refract light very differently in thin section, which makes it useful for obsessive mineral-identifiers. You can also use thin ...
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6 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... win Superbowl "Common sense demands that a team which makes up less than 0.05% of the population of Hudson County can't possibly be ...
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4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 comments... fun and easy way to share things that I find exciting, it makes my writing better, and it helps keep my ginormous slavering beast of an ...
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21 Jan 2020: Metagabbros
Science: metamorphic rocks · 6 comments... become when it metamorphoses. Among them: Adding water makes serpentinite plus some other junk Many major metamorphic facies are ...
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10 Jan 2020: Saline Injections for Venice?
Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments... the Piazza San Marco, where the historical architecture makes it unfeasible to just add more dirt to the top**. Of course, ...
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3 Jan 2020: Notes from the Iowa Frontlines
Politics: Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucuses, presidential elections · 2 comments... loose with the dates of holidays, especially when doing so makes it easier to arrange multi-family travel plans. No politician was so ...
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17 Dec 2020: Aaand, the rest of AGU
Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments... to absorb too much information in a short period of time makes people a bit punchy. Midafternoons in the later part of the week are kind ...
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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... Think about what happens when a man gets angry and makes overly general statements; he generally gets cut some slack, or at least ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 comments... Therefore, if you want to see what your right brain makes of the dancer, you just need to look over to her right and watch her from ... can consciously exploit the assumptions your brain makes about the objects it's looking at to produce images with two or more ...
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5 Oct 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Berea Sandstone
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 1 comment... now known, collectively, as the Berea formation. What makes the Berea sandstone so generic? Well, there's a lot of it, it's easy to ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... was introduced. This is one of the things that makes me excited about teaching an intro-level class. Since we're drawing ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments... general welfare! Establishing justice! Only, this year makes it just a wee bit dificil to be patriotic and all. I wanna carry a sign ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... of No You Can't Have A Pony NO PONY NOT YOURS NYEAH NYEAH makes it difficult to talk about what we want - whether that's a pony dressed ...
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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... that operate at a conscious level. Personally, what makes me roll my eyes the most is the thought that after he had finished ...
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13 Mar 2020: Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof
Politics, Science: science in pop culture, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · 9 commentsWhat can we learn about science from the thought processes of t-shirt designers? Let's ask some entrants in the Seed Magazine / Threadless T-shirt competition! First, we learn that science is something that acts on culture, and is important to culture, ...
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3 Mar 2020: Earthquake Folksonomy
Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments... language possible when I'm not feeling chatty; usually it makes people stop asking questions.) People living in seismically active ...
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27 Oct 2020: Psst… Partisan Googlebomb
Politics: anti-endorsements, googlebombs · 2 comments... I am not a skeezy search engine optimator, but something makes me think that taking a subset from the original list will help maintain ...
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14 Oct 2020: 2020 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests
Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments... and legal access are so universally esteemed, but it makes judicial elections really boring and ...
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16 Aug 2020: Oh That Wacky Internet
Links, Science: blog carnivals, Hans Island, Pluto, transphobia · 9 comments... editorial has a cute anecdote about British ministers and makes good use of the word "ructions", but is pedantic, boring and wrong about ...
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11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance
Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments... properties of rock like temperature and composition. What makes 4D tomography special is that it allows the physical properties of the ... as space, so you can see changes due to rising magma. What makes it difficult is that you need a shitload of data. However, Mt. Etna is ...
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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... my life whether I want it to or not, I don't think it makes any sense to run around telling people "oh, I'm not White, I'm ...
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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... maid. There's still the emotional division of labor, which makes waaaay more difference to the health of a marriage than the household ...
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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... expertise in the gravity wave physics community, which makes me sad. Long story short, a couple of sociologists are able to converse ...
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6 Jul 2020: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments... nutters - but taken as a whole, they're horrifying. Makes it hard to extract a good pull-quote. If there's anything we should ...
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3 May 2020: Fuck This Shit, I’m Moving to Oakland
Politics: Berzerkeley · 1 comment... can't even beat out Detroit? Sigh. But you gotta love what makes that city so very very liberal: The Almanac of American Politics notes ...
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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... the blogger has perpetually poor grammar and spelling, or makes lots of accidental homonym substitutions, etc. It's stupid, but poor ... of replies to your comments, or to a post in general. It makes it so that you don't have to keep coming back and hitting refresh to ...
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10 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Clay
Science: carbon cycle, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments... of surface area and, potentially, a lot of carbon. This makes clayey soil an effective way to grab carbon from the atmosphere and hide ...
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27 Jan 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Caliche
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks, stable isotopes · 4 comments... are the people in India who call it kankar, which just makes me giggle. One of the virtues of caliche is that it keeps a record of ...
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19 Jan 2020: Go Grey Lady Go!
Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments... bought in to idea that bullshit evolutionary psychology makes a good prop for patriarchy, or been quoted out of context. ***Or so one ...
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16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments... if you don't wish to prioritize your life in a way that makes it possible to meet those obligations, the honorable thing to do is to ...
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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... refuses to sign up. Proponents argue that this provision makes the whole thing enforceable - but the law's teeth are apparently built ...
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19 Oct 2020: My Favorite Cop-Out
Links: depression, museums · 6 comments... takes a woman on a first date to a museum. The date makes polite noises, but doesn't seem swept by the same things that move the ...
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4 Oct 2020: Whereas
Human Fuzzies, Personal: grammar · 1 comment... it appears to be technically correct, this idiom makes me want to crawl out of my eyeballs and stuff an unabridged dictionary in ...
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22 Jun 2020: Landscape Photography
Links: Yosemite · 4 comments... the streams of Yosemite National Park - for money, even - makes me cry. Especially just after being pointed (via Yosemite Blog) towards ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... of the two chunks of rock along this defined plane. It all makes more sense once you've seen the animation. This coordinate system drives ...
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3 Jun 2020: Mr. Clean on the Path to Anti-Feminism
Politics: capitalism sucks, domesticity, empowerfulness, funny · 16 comments... is a new and innovative tool from Mr. Clean that makes cleaning the bathroom easier, faster, and less physically demanding. So, ...
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1 Jun 2020: Modern Society
Links, Politics: health care, impeach Bush, Internet activism, telephony · 5 comments... sick at least until I'm in Iceland, where health care makes some kind of goddamned sense. Many PZ Myers is talking about spider ...
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26 May 2020: Friday Frittering: Last Day at Work Edition
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: candy, chocolate, feminism, gender, girlhood, quizzes, search requests · 6 comments... actually said, I'm not kidding, "I love Buffy because she makes me think it's good to be a girl." Enough to make you want to cry. And, ... yami Aw geez not this shit again Quizzes Wolfa always makes me want chocolate. But which one of these is most accurate? 3 ...
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4 May 2020: Penis-Talk Redux
Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 commentsSo I just had a forehead-slapping moment with regards to the whole male-body-bonding thing, and it was precipitated by Maya's comment chez Hugo: Even in American society, I think women have a very different relationship to their bodies than men do. Our ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... how easy or hard their lives have been. I don't know what makes people compassionate or not, but working as a waiter doesn't seem to be ...
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9 Mar 2020: Gravity Comes from Pine Cones on Mount St. Helens
Links: quizzes · 6 comments... Dan Winter and Sacred Geometry! Only this wave music which makes self-similarity - (Golden Ratio) - allows compression to turn in to ...
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27 Feb 2020: More WordPress Babbling
Meta: quizzes · no comments... do everything yourself. Your puritanical work ethic makes makes people think that you are weird, and not much fun. Your problem is that ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... or should I merely wait and respond positively if he makes an overture?" In other words, we should be comparing woman-initiated ...
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18 Jan 2020: Courtesy and Capitalization
Human Fuzzies: grammar, writing · 18 comments... the alphabet, it isn't something that the writing system makes available for manipulation by individual users. Ah, uh, er? I ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 comments... Matthew Yglesias comes a discussion that makes me think: Eh? Do I have wax in my ears? Write louder, sonny boy! - 'cause ...
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17 Dec 2020: Pink
Politics: cars, colors, gender · no comments... that the "age old stereotype" is, in general, truth; it makes her a tool, an abstraction. A wish fulfilment. I've been sitting on ...
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2 Dec 2020: Thanksgiving Food Review
Food, Personal: cranberry sauce, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 4 comments... up with something too runny and have to add flour. Which makes the glaze cloudy, and a bit floury-tasting. The yams were overdone and ...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... preserving the constitutionality of the New Deal just makes me break out in a cold, Handmaid's Tale sort of sweat. True, if push came ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... official endorsements list! I don't know why that makes me giggle, but it does. I wore a "Zombies for Kerry" shirt and some ... from anxious California lefties already. And if John Kerry makes one more pandering remark about sacrificing civil rights to make federal ...
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26 Jul 2020: Bugs Bunny Goes to Washington
Politics: · 2 comments... of judicial review. Go, House! But the analysis on OxBlog makes me think this law was written by a trickster-god: Article III of the ...
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25 Jul 2020: Tour de Roid Rage!
Whimsy: sports, steroids, Tour de France · 6 comments... internet broadcast. I'm still looking for the thing that makes it so exciting, but that's okay. What I'm really curious about stems from ...
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21 Jul 2020: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... to do with such statements as: "Spending time alone makes one a better companion to others." "The increasingly rapid pace of life ...
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19 Jul 2020: GRE Goodness
Personal: cubicle living, grad school, i hate everything, standardized tests · 3 comments... start and stop. Slows my reading speed down immensely, and makes it rather difficult to answer questions about things "as described in the ...
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11 Jul 2020: Meyers and Briggs, Chew Thoughtfully on Your Toenails!
Whimsy: psychology, quizzes · no comments... am a WRCL--Wacky Rational Constructive Leader: This makes you a golden god. People gravitate to you, and you make them feel good. ...
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29 Jun 2020: Easy Things That Aren’t
Personal: human imperfection, mental blocks · 15 comments... a ball of anxiousness from my failure to learn that makes me avoid them somewhat more than is strictly reasonable. Sadly, ...
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4 May 2020: Rhubarb-Banana Bread?
Food: baking, banana bread, bread, cooking, cranberries, desserts, Musaceae, Polygonaceae, rhubarb · 1 comment... ones and 100 degree afternoons just don't mix. Everything makes me think about solar ovens these days; when the wind blows from the ...
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28 Apr 2020: Coolant Pixies
Personal: · 5 comments... make me hard core and awesome! Kind of like how smoking makes you cool but is also way more expensive and less fun than you realize ...
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25 Mar 2020: Pasadena: My Neighbors Have Nice Flowers
Human Fuzzies: intellectual elitism, Pasadena, urban planning, urban sprawl · 1 comment... on to something important in her final paragraph: What makes a Southern California city like Pasadena seem less like a real city than ...
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16 Mar 2020: Spain, Appeasement and Multilateralism
Politics: · 2 comments... see why we should ascribe to a view of legitimacy that makes our actions illegitimate whenever the terrorists are able to force other ...
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11 Mar 2020: Libertarianism is the New Hippiedom
Politics: libertarians, quizzes · 1 comment... defense spending (and legalize pot, and have free love) makes me a very soft-core libertarian! You learn something new every day. I ...
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22 Feb 2020: Mmmmm
Human Fuzzies, Personal: coziness, down, grilled cheese, sandwiches, snuggles, soup · no comments... to a duel) = fabulous. Adding a Kitchen Stories matinee makes me want to move to Norway where this kind of coziness is strictly ...
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4 Dec 2020: Foul Putrid News Organization
Politics: · no comments... prozac. Tinkering with nature for frivolous purposes makes the capitalism go round! And if you believe the GloFish web site, the ...
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31 Oct 2020: Tricky Treats
Personal: candy, halloween, kids today, pumpkin · 1 comment... are both unhealthful and disgusting, so the description makes sense. So actually a few trick or treaters have come by, but none ...
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25 Aug 2020: Someone’s Been Shitting in My Toilet!
Personal: · 3 comments... down while I flush away the discovery, and somehow that makes everything seem so much more sanitary. It's just a grody mystery - after ...
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23 Jul 2020: Becoming a Yuppie
Personal: · 4 comments... pencil sharpener immediately next to my monitor, which makes the screen go wurble wurble zoop whenever it sharpens a pencil. I've ...
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10 Jun 2020: A Strenuous Arrangement
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... trumpeters. The horse whinny, for better or worse, is what makes or breaks a novelty trumpet player. Connaisseurs of the art will ...
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11 May 2020: No Swift For Me
Personal: · 1 comment... cars are an hour and a half away from me in Riverside? It makes this whole purchase process very tricky, since even if I find a decent ...
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7 May 2020: Vacuuming for Losers
Personal, Whimsy: cleaning, howtos, vacuums · 2 comments... it on the wall with some gummy old tape. Cringe because it makes your walls look dirty. You should have gotten your room repainted before ...
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2 May 2020: Master of Nothing
Aimless: · no comments... for not applying to grad school that I've had so far: It makes no fucking sense to say you're the Bachelor of the Universe! I wish my ...
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26 Apr 2020: Tenure’s No Damn Good!
Aimless: · 2 comments... people have lives. They have families. They have tenure. Makes me glad I'm not staying on in ...
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20 Apr 2020: Shiny! Curvaceous!
Links: · no comments... Spaceship Makes Desert Debut - blah blah private manned space flight blah blah. The ...
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12 Mar 2020: Maxi Pad-Abouts
Links, Personal: craftiness, menstruation · 1 comment... if I were allowed more tangents about mantle plumes...) makes me feel all crafty for some reason. If I don't wind up with a clever lamp ...
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21 Dec 2020: Product Review: Oral Cleansers
Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments... It's the kind of great tasting original flavor that makes you want to hawk up a loogie. It leaves the back of my mouth with a dry, ...
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15 Nov 2020: Committee Committee
Personal, Politics: bureaucracy, Caltech · 1 comment... on a committee that makes more committees; Caltech's student government is brilliant like that. ...
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7 Nov 2020: Drop of Someone
Meta: fan mail · no comments... before I have to leave for class: The chatterbox makes me want to, well, chatter ... I guess. Fuck it. I don't know, what I'm ...
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2 Sep 2020: Sapirior Speech
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... form of English without the verb "to be". Using E-Prime makes for good writing, but the discipline has attracted more than its fair ...
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14 Aug 2020: Cold Turkey
Personal: · 2 comments... the caffeine. The way my internet connection was set up makes everything extra-fun. There's a wire that comes from my closet, which ... sure where the bills go, but they don't go to me. This all makes it very easy to provide account numbers, MAC addresses, and all the other ...
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2 Jul 2020: Someone Makes Music
Meta: fan mail · no commentsIn a burst of enthusiasm, someone carols: Inna-gadda-da-vida, baby... Like a baby playing drums, that is, it cuts straight to the spleen. Meanwhile, someone else is just curious: Is that a didgeridoo? I assume you're referring to the latest bac ...
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9 Jun 2020: Morbid Fascination
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... you see, with a name like this, and my personality only makes it all the more inevitable. My last words will likely be "hey, what ...
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8 Jun 2020: Two Things Not Math
Uncategorized: dreams · 2 comments... that I Need A Break From Internet. Mac'n'cheez always makes me want to ...
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31 May 2020: Someone Loves Me
Meta: salad · no comments... stick to my Joy of Cooking, thanks. But this more than makes up for being disappointed with a google-toy: sometimes you are ...
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22 May 2020: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Personal: · 4 comments... it craves sweet food less often than it used to, how it makes me wake up in the mornings, how it protests when I pull an all-nighter, how it makes me coo at babies (but only from a distance! I'm not that far gone yet!). ...
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8 May 2020: Joys of Bandwidth; Stuff
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 4 comments... four-hour exams on which you do not do very well, that makes this time of year so special. So now, being done with all but one ...
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6 May 2020: Holland Ain’t Kansas
Politics: Europe, obituaries · no comments... to find rhymes or near-rhymes for a name like Pim, which makes this a very good candidate for a limerick in poor taste. Did Pim have a ...
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15 Apr 2020: Many Things
Aimless: · 5 comments... system with three many numbers: one, two, and many. It makes my homework much simpler, though I don't know what I'd do if I were ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... like my toast. Telling you about my breakfast and my toast makes up for the argument about bacon, the bacon discussion makes up for my stupid toast, and we're even. Maybe I'm missing something here, ...
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8 Mar 2020: I’ll Plan Your Summer
Human Fuzzies: · 7 comments... see, hear, or worse, play such a monstrosity. This piece makes me want to reach into a gigantic sack, pull out a kitten, and throw it at my stand partner. It makes me want to cover the entire brass section with a thick blanket of sad, ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... with "I'm sorry, but..." - is this a girly thing that makes us all seem stupid? Do any of the TAs I know give more patronizing, less ...
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29 Jan 2020: Coffee
Human Fuzzies: Astrid Lindgren, coffee, inner child, pippi longstocking · no comments... was "Karzai thanks America" and such boosterism still makes me feel a bit ill. Plus, I'd just finished reading most of a ... feminism to post in memoriam, and Ayn Rand really makes me feel ill. But I do think it's damned fabulous that Hamid Karzai is ...
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27 Jan 2020: My Boots Keep Me
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... to college life, and that is the Boy Whose Sister Makes Music. When you have one of those around, good things happen, like ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... all that fun. I've been thinking about teaching, and what makes the difference between the good, bad, and simply mediocre profs out there ...
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16 Jan 2020: Old Man Winter
Human Fuzzies, Personal: book reviews, rain, winter · no comments... old man is snoring Winter in Southern California always makes me really gleeful, in part because I love rain and in part because I love ...
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8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois
Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment... of the people" unenthusiastic prof, or an "out-of-touch makes the problem sets way too difficult" unenthusiastic prof, or in the ...
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27 Dec 2020: so you noticed
Meta: blogtinkery · no comments... me, it was pseudoephedrine hydrochloride. That shit always makes my head feel like a puffer fish. Oh, and since time zones, according ...
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17 Dec 2020: Look! It’s the Internet!
Personal: · no comments... Obvious Fact of the Day is this: doing physics all day makes me cross and ranty. Today's target is from the New York Times: But it is ... convenience. It's the kind of shit that, when amplified, makes for trashy reality television. And people watch it, eh? Possibly the ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... and subject matter. In fact, there are none at all, which makes me sad. I'd like to get some more hate mail, maybe some scathing ... a fun game, but I haven't been doing so well at it, which makes me think that maybe Tech isn't intolerably small after all and I just ...
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5 Dec 2020: gopher://
Links: · 1 comment... thrills are lost to me - but for some reason, gopher makes my knees go all jiggly. And do you realize how easy it would be to write ...
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11 Nov 2020: s-tog til hundige
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... make me angsty, the end of Sibelius' second symphony makes me light-headed, and Wolfstone recalls that spirited open-road feeling ...
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5 Nov 2020: sinful blogging
Meta, Whimsy: · no comments... on the bicycle? Ahh, sweet indulgence. This more than makes up for the absence of KinderEggs on today's Netto expedition. Hi-ho, ...
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3 Nov 2020: uhh. zog.
Personal: · no comments... I drank some lovely red wine - you know, the kind that makes you feel warm-hearted and expressive and sociable, and tricks you into ...
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2 Nov 2020: false hopes
Meta, Personal: minions · no comments... nice to open up your email and see 41 new messages - makes you wonder if something exciting happened while you were asleep, as is ...
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29 Oct 2020: HT for kunst
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: art criticism, photography, poststructuralism · no comments... discursive strategies from a hole in the ground, but it makes a great catch ...
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28 Oct 2020: new blog
Links: · no comments... has finally paid off: grid got himself a blog. That makes two (count 'em, two) people I met first in realityland who have moved in ...
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25 Oct 2020: image games
Meta: · no comments... nice from any mature fashionista perspective but it never makes small children giggle. Now I should flog myself a bit for making two ...
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16 Oct 2020: Hesitant Firmness
Meta: · no comments... get enough: it's Hesitant Firmness, the new group blog. Makes ya feel all warm and squishy inside, doesn't ...
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18 Sep 2020: Those of you who are
Politics: · no comments... on cultural divides between "men" and "females" especially makes me twitch. I'm not going to bring out the Feminist Ray Gun just yet, ...
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16 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #2: a list
Aimless: · no comments... blog subculture that I've seen, and the other site just makes me want to wash my hands after using the ...
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4 Sep 2020: Needle in the Groove
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... / not poetry / much as it steals from the style / and makes me scream for the end of the sonnet / like Ulysses, only more readable / ...
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3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…
Meta, Personal: · no commentsWow. I went to my first paleontology lecture this afternoon; the first half of the lecture was in English, and the second half in Danish. It was actually rather exciting: based on important key words like "Hubble" "banded iron formations" and "stromatolite ...
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31 Aug 2020: bandwagon meme
Whimsy: · no comments... to my left. When it finishes scanning a page, it makes a whimpering noise with a bit of a squeak to it. Plus assorted soft beeps ...
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20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... bought a new watch, for 99 cents. It's lime green, and makes me happy when I look at ...
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15 Jul 2020: no hate mail yet
Meta: blog status updates · no comments... 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 ...