Search Results: making
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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... isn't necessarily the most-preferred culinary or liqueur-making variety, but it's good enough. I let the lavender blossoms macerate for ...
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17 Jul 2020: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds
Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment... after drying they taste bitter. If I hadn't read about how making conventional mustard involves soaking the seeds in cold water in order ... was enough work for one day. I'll save the mustard-making for ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... created only lead to awesome alternate universes), to making sure that the broab is included as part of an alternate functional ...
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14 Mar 2020: Beer Meringue Pie
Food: beer, hops, meringue, pie, recipes · 6 comments... the meringue until it forms stiff peaks. My meringue-making life became much simpler when I realized that the whisk attachment to ...
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19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments... scientists would you pick to put on stamps? To avoid making this too simple an exercise in listing off a bunch of awesome dead earth ...
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29 Jan 2020: Breaking Up with the Richter Scale
Science: earthquakes, Gutenberg, magnitude scales, Mercalli Intensity, richter, sesimology, unfinished drafts · 5 comments... and fell in love. Prior to the mid-2020s, the business of making seismometers was largely carried out by individual seismologists, who ...
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27 Jan 2020: Academic Citation
Aimless: · 1 comment... with others' results, and therefore it can be trusted. Making that all-important transition from "butt number" to "justified butt ...
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23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 comments... advanced egg fakery. I'm sure it could also be useful for making flavored slime, solid soups, or vegan/vegetarian versions of more ...
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13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 comments... Water", or that eye-rolling coinage "Peak Coffee" that was making the rounds a few months ago) is not just a fancy way of saying "oops, ...
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6 Jan 2020: High Femme and Geekery
Aimless: · 13 comments... if we do, and damned if we don't. So the Nerdettes aren't making lots of us uneasy because they're somehow making the wrong choice. They make us uneasy because they remind us that we ...
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30 Dec 2020: Cell Phones Make You Drive More
Aimless: · 3 comments... budgets) here. Still, it makes a nice story. You're making plans at the last minute (which only works because everyone involved has ... sometimes run into people who expect that my lead time for making or changing plans will be as short as theirs, and it's a little ...
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16 Dec 2020: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa
Food, Science: baked Alaska, desserts, failed experiments, lava, meringue, recipes · 6 comments... will need: Red bean paste - I do not recommend making this yourself, it is far more work than it's worth. Get it from a ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... want to see this movie. Sizzle is a movie about the making of a movie. The film follows an aspiring director - I'll call him ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments... and more goes into creating long-lasting waves and making the entire Earth ring like a bell and other stuff that doesn't show up ...
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3 May 2020: Another Music Meme
Whimsy: · 6 comments... one's making the rounds again: Put your music library on shuffle. Post the first ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... can see the tension here. This cultural conflict been making the rounds of the geoblogosphere thanks to a pair of editorials in ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... into brittle rocks The "inner inner core" paper is making headlines, apparently on the basis of this murky press release. But if ...
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4 Mar 2020: Oops! I’m Perjured Again
Aimless: · 7 comments... zombies, Zombie Mike Huckabee, and Canada. We're just making sure that men and women of integrity can never hold public office. I ...
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25 Feb 2020: Does This Rheometer Make Me Look Fat?
Aimless: rheology · 6 comments... volcanic arc or something with a late entry about what's making me go "hmm" this afternoon. It's related to volcanoes, too: the behavior ...
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1 Feb 2020: We Can Have a New Geological Epoch If We Want
Aimless: · 21 comments... geologists as a matter of convenience. So Greg Laden is making a category error when he dismisses both the Anthropocene and the ... whose geologic record will be readily accessible, making the Holocene-Anthropocene boundary a very good candidate for a golden ...
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4 Jan 2020: Caucus
Politics: Dennis Kucinich, Iowa caucuses, Iowa City, presidential elections · no comments... cutoff, there was hardly room to turn around. After making it through the line, I spent the first part of the evening hanging out ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... sane while grading - if I can just scrawl "E" for "You are making the baby English language cry. If you do not take your next paper to the ... resemblance to cut-up literature. Tristan Tzara was making a statement about the nature of art, and Robert Anton Wilson did too ...
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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... of What Words Mean must be out of date. NB: I'm not making any specific claims here about the obligations any particular consulting ...
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23 Nov 2020: Pumpkin-Durian Pie
Food: Cucurbitaceae, durian, Malvaceae, pie, recipes · 4 comments... for durian. The fruit comes pre-packed with sugar and fat, making it a natural dessert, but it also has these onion-y flavors that we ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 comments... a professional optical illusion geek. He spends his time making monkeys play video games, in order to figure out their visual processing ... the part of visual processing where the brain is actually making a decision about how to interpret an image from the parts that are ...
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23 Sep 2020: I Need Idiotproofing
Personal, Science: grad school, software · 3 comments... really awesome, I would have Matlab or gnuplot scripts for making my figures, rather than manually loading and plotting my data. If I were ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... in France. China has always been more interested in making money than in reeducation. Time has always worked with ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... an adult. Because how many times have I caught myself making similar defensive maneuvers, prior to or immediately after expressing my ...
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1 Mar 2020: Hey Lookit My Tooth
Personal: dentistry, teeth · 5 comments... or awesome"; my choices at this point are ranting, or making some more coffee and doing some nice math. Enjoy the gratuitous ...
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26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie
Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 comment... sugar 4 egg whites 1/2 t. vanilla (or, if you are not making a huge batch of meringue for many different pies, try something more ...
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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... members of the office said they witnessed Smith making inappropriate comments to a female member of the staff while requiring ...
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11 Sep 2020: TA Training for Berzerkelers
Teaching: blog carnivals, grad school, teacher training · 6 comments... Breakout sessions. Mine was entitled "strategies for making the abstract concrete", but there was only one strategy offered: use ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... this entry is that AdSense finds it offensive, so I'm not making any money on it. Fat-Free Half and Half - everyone else is as confused ...
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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... examination of my antiracist commitments. Conclusion: when making statements about racial identity, it is important to be clear about what ...
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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... women; compare it to that of your husband. Unless you're making temporary amendments to an existing, explicit division of labor, don't ...
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18 Jul 2020: One More Way in which Global Warming Can Kill You
Science: climate change, unlikely catastrophes, volcanoes · 15 comments... the dates of many collapses. But still, if you felt like making another ridiculous global warming disaster flick, "melting ice caps set ...
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2 Jun 2020: Friday Review of Stuff
Human Fuzzies: mac'n'cheez, pop, wordpress themes · 3 comments... rather than actual sustainable or organic production. Making a "natural" cheez powder rather defeats the purpose of mac'n'cheez in a ... little widgety option hooks hiding everywhere. I'm all for making things easy to use for non-tech-heads, but is it too much to ask that ...
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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... on big linker blogs intead of small linked blogs. Re: making readership more than occasional: I find RSS readers are most useful in ...
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25 Mar 2020: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist
Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments... in the Oakland Airport) this morning. Apparently they're making Desperate Housewives into a video game. Why? They needed something with ...
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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... paradigm for historians***, but still I'd peg the odds of making it to Foucault as about a dinosaur's chance in Chixulub. Anyway, I ...
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19 Jan 2020: Lecture Zero
Personal, Teaching: grad school, time management · no comments... application of old theory to new problems and making yourself look clever while doing so? Bullshit data posturing? Or maybe ...
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13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments... bulk of the rest of the talk was an odd labeling of policymaking eras according to which experts get the most respect (technologists, ...
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26 Nov 2020: My Neighbors Are Penis Zombies
Politics: Berzerkeley, rape, sexism · 4 comments... and jurors, who are generally unaroused when making decisions of guilt and punishment, may be excessively condemnatory and ... intense sexual arousal would alter even their own decision-making in potentially compromising circumstances. The result is that decisions ...
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23 Nov 2020: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments... in physics. We should become emancipated. Seriously: making an argument, and then pretending that the conditional tense absolves you ...
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8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs
Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments... about the (potential) rapist's poor decisionmaking? No. Assholery is unquestionably present at a constant level in the ...
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29 Oct 2020: Operation Frozen Beaver a Dismal Failure
Politics: flags, Hans Island · 4 comments... similar to the U.S. flags left behind on the moon. Making it from metal was seen as a way of ensuring it did not deteriorate in ...
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9 Sep 2020: Anecdotes
Personal, Politics: academia, co-op living, feminism, rhetorical tactics, sexism · 4 comments... that, but when I playfully bapped someone on the head for making a comment about women being unpredictable, he came up to me later to ...
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25 Apr 2020: Feminisms
Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments... into a single meandering exercise in ideological boundarymaking. People describing their definitions of feminism eventually start to ...
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18 Apr 2020: For Millennia, Google Has Spoken
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: essay contests, googlefu · 3 comments... the other is the other persons involved in the decision making process. Council members are encouraged to attend the first class ...
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5 Apr 2020: Only Terrorists Go to Canada
Politics: fascist police states, Homeland Stupidity, passports · 17 comments... it's Marketroidy. The advanced notice of proposed rule making will allow these affected publics to voice concern and provide ideas for ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... keep in order to make the rent or buy food. A summer job making photocopies in the law offices of daddy's best friend does not count. ...
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8 Mar 2020: Bad Carma
Personal: cars, driving · 6 comments... morning, driving along at 65 mph, window rolled down and making absurd uninterpretable arm signals to the traffic, when kerSMACK!!, my ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 commentsWe have a call and response and variations on the theme of brazen wimmins asking lovely shy manpeople on dates, and particularly, why a feminist who takes no crap from The Rules might still not want to do such a thing. Reasons discussed include (in ascend ...
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16 Feb 2020: Questions Re: Eyebrows
Whimsy: being made of meat, eyebrows · 7 comments... punishment for blowing your eyebrow off your fingertip and making a wish? Am I going to be eaten by the eyebrow ...
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13 Dec 2020: Top Five in 2020
Meta: clip show, procrastinating, skunks · 2 comments... allowed to leave them? So now: All the cool kids are making Top N lists! You don't want to be left out in the cold, do you? I didn't ...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... wouldn't be the half of it! Why aren't more people making this comparison? Particularly people who would like to remove the scare ...
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14 Jul 2020: This Year’s Official Fridge Color Is…
Links: colors, fashion, graphic design · no comments... fashion overlords. I look good in pea soup. (via Making ...
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11 Apr 2020: Aww Like Plant Kittens
Meta: blogtinkery · 3 comments... mod. It's meant to improve commenting speed, mostly, by making MT smart enough not to rebuild everything every time I get a new ...
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25 Mar 2020: The Neon Leg Warmer of the Caribbean
Politics: Haiti, Somalia, tourism, war · 1 comment... at Pacifica, they tend to see history (and history in the making) as the story of life rather than the story of political leadership. ...
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24 Jan 2020: PiE Day
Food, Personal: cactuses, Caltech, national pie day, pie · no comments... National Pie Day, I went back to campus to be a creepy pie-making alum. And made a couple pies, natch. Though several creepy pie-eating ...
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21 Nov 2020: That’s So 2020
Science: · no comments... costumed and choreographed circuses. Authors who insist on making off-handed comparisons to the K-T boundary in order to attract the ...
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8 Oct 2020: Small Comforts, and a Movie Marathon
Human Fuzzies, Politics: · 1 comment... real movies, and many more schlocky TV specials and "The Making Of" documentaries. Combine that with the complete oeuvre of Ronald ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... exposure for the concerns of structural engineers, making self-referential documentaries about minor candidates in the California ...
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14 May 2020: Motor My New Metro
Personal: · 2 comments... my life savings (not counting new tires) and has all the makings of a reliable companion vehicle. And the people I bought it from had a ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... have been happy with the places I chose to go, but I was making absolutely vital viscosity observations. Tuesday - there are really ...
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21 Feb 2020: Someone’s Back
Meta: · no comments... must quibble at length over who is the least ladylike, making crude noises and bringing up unwholesome details of their own sex lives. ...
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4 Feb 2020: Uh-Oh
Personal: · 1 comment... computer has been making revving noises lately, like it's trying to impress a pretty girl at a ...
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22 Dec 2020: Twink
Personal: · 4 comments... cozies. It gets really bad when I find instructions for making underwear from old ...
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26 Sep 2020: Invaded
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... an entire womens volleyball team in my kitchen. They're making lasagne. I almost feel like I'm living in the plot part of a porno, and ...
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8 Jul 2020: Space Battles Amongst Us
Personal: exercise, raquetball, sci-fi · 1 comment... standing in a cave and in that cave were 5,000 little men making the water drop noise, and 2,500 zinging lasers that chased after the ...
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5 Jul 2020: Someone Needs a New Brain
Meta: · 2 comments... but I've just been watching Iron Chef, and you're making me think of marinades. If sophisticated worms are going to eat your ...
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29 Jun 2020: Kludge-krrzzzoing
Meta: · 4 comments... spinoff. I need a shower, and some lunch, and a few money-making hours as a guinea pig for experimental economists. Things will begin to ...
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20 May 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · 3 comments... frankly it's a bit hard to tell from those pictures, making me simple-minded, honest, and prone to temper tantrums. Whatever. I ...
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12 May 2020: Mr. Smith Goes to Fallbrook
Personal: · no comments... slit in the back that requires me to shave past my knees, making for some really awkward positioning. After twenty minutes of teetering ...
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23 Apr 2020: More Decision Theory
Personal: · 6 comments... other reason I rely on the decision-making power of serendipity, I never knew until I started studying the ...
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14 Apr 2020: Tax Time, Fun Time!
Meta: · 2 comments... money you spent on prostitutes in Hong Kong?" "Or like making the check out to Ariel Sharon instead of the United States ...
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10 Apr 2020: A Flood of Someones
Meta, Whimsy: candy, Christmas, fan mail, på dansk · no comments... right. But please stop sending in default phrases, you're making me all excited over nothing and the disappointment goes hard on my ...
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1 Apr 2020: A Farewell
Whimsy: · 21 comments... of familiarity I feel with you friendly internet-people, making me lax with my posts; perhaps it's because I've got other things to ...
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30 Mar 2020: Crying Baby Airlines
Personal: · 4 comments... and winch myself back up to where I feel comfortable making various pressure-laden decisions. My grandfather has a big ol' tumor ...
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14 Mar 2020: New Toy!
Meta: blogtinkery · 3 comments... because I like to let things evolve for a while before making nice homes for them, and it has indeed evolved - more in my head than ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... defining their terms and clarifying their positions and making up lots of outlandish hypothetical scenarios before they realize that ...
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21 Feb 2020: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments... to reform a whole subculture, and so of course I keep making little notches of defeat and bitterness on my precious translucent clamp ... this today, though, just generalized grad-school-decisionmaking fears and a couple of the comments from yesterday's entry. Dogpile on ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... about self-respect and self-expression than it is about making money. If I could find a meaningful and deeply involving volunteer ...
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23 Jan 2020: Pedagogy
Personal: · no comments... remember how to explain things without using matrices or making absurd nerdy references to Euler's theorem, but it should be good fun ...
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21 Jan 2020: Silly Hats Only
Links: · no comments... I helped lead a hazing ritual that involved making macaroni pictures. Now there's one of them hanging up on the fridge in a ...
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17 Jan 2020: It Wasn’t Joan Jett
Personal, Politics: · no comments... tryouts would be as well. What's the threshold score for making it into the contestant pool? I was expecting an evil professor-style ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... any worse than doing the laundry, which has also been making me quiver in fear. So I guess I'll pawn it off on the four o'clock ...
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2 Nov 2020: ympywyrmynt
Personal: · no comments... empowering - just by doing it in Danish! Alternatively, making an international collect call to your credit card company and then ...
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31 Oct 2020: It’s doing weather outside
Personal: hygge, weather · no comments... in the library with thunder and loud heavy rain and making a dent in my list of articles on the origins and mechanisms and history ...
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25 Oct 2020: image games
Meta: · no comments... children giggle. Now I should flog myself a bit for making two English errors: I just split an infinitive, and yesterday I ...
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12 Oct 2020: Back in Copenhagen
Human Fuzzies: sandwiches, Scandinavia, smørrebrød · no comments... time he was usually talking about my methods of sandwich-making. You see, a great staple of Danish food is the smørrebrød, ...
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30 Sep 2020: Problem Set #1
Aimless: · 1 comment... a 25% chance of dodgy old (or young, but usually old) men making me ick out, and that gay bars definitely do not offer cheaper beer, what ...
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25 Sep 2020: nonsense words
Aimless: · no comments... inspiration. I can become more popular by making fun of other bloggers! So for my first post in this newly discovered ... I shall make fun of bloggers who make fun of bloggers for making fun of other bloggers. You are all encouraged to spread the meme, and make fun of bloggers who make fun of bloggers for making fun of bloggers who make fun of other bloggers, and so on. I've ...
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20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... source of hair, after a year and a half of cuddling and making our friends puke. I was going back to Iowa, and then to Denmark, and we ...
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5 Jul 2020: Here we go again
Meta: · no comments... basement of my parents' house, drinking a vanilla coke and making another web site. I do this every summer, and lose interest in the fall, ...