Search Results: means

• 29 Apr 2020: Pickled Japanese Knotweed

  
  Food: bread, knotweed, pickles, Polygonaceae · no comments

  ...  angelica. Pro tip for all y'alls: Canning things safely means cooking them, and cooking Japanese knotweed makes it mushy! So, uh, now ...

• 2 Mar 2020: Recent Results in Seismology

  
  Science: academic journals, earthquakes, liquefaction, nonvolcanic tremor, seismology · 1 comment

  ...  us in trying to figure out what nonvolcanic tremor really means. At least now we have a strong hint that these phenomena are, indeed, ...

• 28 Feb 2020: Pre-Pie Contest Pie Poll

  
  Whimsy: contests, fun poll, pie · 3 comments

  ...  but I suspect it will be a finite number of pies, which means I need your help to decide which is most likely to ...

• 20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?

  
  Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments

  ...  kid ourselves into thinking that this will provide a means of really teaching science, as opposed to inspiring people to want to ...

• 31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020

  
  Aimless: · 13 comments

  ...  of the world's largest tantalum mine in Australia - means that Central Africa is suddenly awash in mountain gorillas that can fly ...

• 15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage

  
  Aimless: · 5 comments

  ...  A sand dune more than 200 feet high - Aw, dang, this means the nearly 200 foot dunes at the Indiana Dunes National Lake Shore don't ...  forces you to think about what a watershed divide really means. 32. Fluorescent and phosphorescent minerals 33. Petrified trees - Do ...

• 26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock

  
  Aimless: · 1 comment

  ...  share of the funds, to dispose of as we see fit. That means I've got $715 to allocate. If you donate by the end of the day on ...

• 9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  can prevent water from flowing through a fault zone, which means that it's important to understand how the gouge develops... but the role ...

• 6 Oct 2020: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  resources really just shows subsurface temperatures, which means it's really a map of what's been happening in the mantle over the past 30 ...

• 12 Sep 2020: Attention Seattle (and everyone else)

  
  Meta: · 9 comments

  ...  the one meeeellionth comment here at the ScienceBorg! This means there's a contest! If you submit a comment with a valid email address ...  do not win, there will still be parties - and yes, that means free beer. I will be partying with Sandra Porter, Dave Bacon, and Grrl ...

• 22 Jul 2020: Attention New York City

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  one when I signed up for this blog) is all a-twitter. That means it's almost time to make my way, slack-jawed and drooling with my arms ...

• 27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release

  
  Science: · 14 comments

  ...  warming is responsible for increased seismicity, it just means we've gotten better at measuring big ...

• 19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59

  
  Links: · 2 comments

  ...  release? Planets and Plutoids Everyone likes Mars, which means everyone's attention is on Phoenix and its oven. At the Planetary Society ...

• 21 May 2020: The Scouring of Fossil Gorge

  
  Aimless: · 6 comments

  ...  that summer did give me a deep appreciation of what it means to live on a flood plain. Lots of people do, in Iowa City; most of the ...

• 29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School Dropout Graduate

  
  Aimless: · 25 comments

  ...  job openings in Seattle? *I don't know what that means either; it's a metaphor. And also a Real Genius ...

• 25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  of California. In other cases, "significant impact" means exceeding a threshold value that a subcontracting technical consultant, ...

• 22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition

  
  Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments

  ...  to commemorate the Armenian genocide. Earth Week means I've got three more days to write about the relationship of geology, as a ...

• 6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism

  
  Aimless: · 10 comments

  ...  double standard, the discussion of what, if anything, this means for bloggers has so far been focused almost exclusively on the example of ...

• 3 Apr 2020: Mud Volcano Tofu

  
  Aimless: · 7 comments

  ...  is that it's erupting mostly connate sea water. Which means that mud volcano tofu may not be so different from normal tofu with sea ...

• 11 Mar 2020: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food

  
  Aimless: · 21 comments

  ...  ancestors who immigrated from Northern Europe means that I saw my own genealogy reflected in the main narrative thread of the ...

• 29 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Desert Varnish

  
  Aimless: · 5 comments

  ...  will sometimes find that it is light underneath. What this means is that you have disturbed a pebble that has been sitting there untouched ...

• 25 Feb 2020: Does This Rheometer Make Me Look Fat?

  
  Aimless: rheology · 6 comments

  ...  are good reasons to use thin layers for experiments - it means you don't have to worry so much about turbulence, and you can get a large ...

• 20 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: · 4 comments

  ...  According to NASA, the recent dearth of volcanic eruptions means that this one is likely to be especially lurid. Carnivals and miscellanea ...

• 19 Feb 2020: Are We Baking with Volcanic Ash?

  
  Aimless: · 10 comments

  ...  slightly elevated sulfur content. I do not know if this means that bread made from Washington wheat in 2020-2020 was more or less ...

• 18 Feb 2020: Repost: A Puzzle

  
  Aimless: · 4 comments

  ...  it a 75% chance of being an oncoming train. What this means for you, dear readers, is that in the coming weeks you'll be seeing a lot ...

• 14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman

  
  Aimless: · 15 comments

  ...  really confused me. Do people think that having a union means that everybody will be required to volunteer as an activist and ...

• 13 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  shiny objects for sex." They want WHAT?! -- Real love means dealing with poo. For Those About to Post-Doc (We Salute You) -- Academic ...

• 8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro

  
  Aimless: · 19 comments

  ...  to make: I have absolutely no idea what this picture means. And most of you probably don't either, which is okay, because you're not ...

• 4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon

  
  Meta: · 14 comments

  ...  as much of the paper as that requires, which probably means skimming the introduction, discussion, and conclusions, and then a little ...

• 31 Jan 2020: Hello World

  
  Meta: introduction · 31 comments

  ...  will be much less fuc feh foo pottymouth. This apparently means keeping a carton of strike-out jokes on hand for a quick substitute ...

• : Moving to New Internets

  
  Meta: · 5 comments

  ...  food products or updates to my WordPress plugins, by all means keep checking in here now and then. If you're interested in my ...

• 7 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge Call for Posts

  
  Science: blog carnivals, national pie day · 6 comments

  ...  on January 23, in honor of National Pie Day. This means you will need to submit your posts by 6pm Pacific Time on January 22 to ...

• 25 Dec 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #82

  
  Science: drainage networks, google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 4 comments

  After a hint, I found Ron's volcanic complex. Which means I can declare the recent trend of oblique images to be so very last week, ...

• 18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give

  
  Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment

  ...  arising from my messy eating habits. It actually means that you are too dumb to be at Berkeley. Sorry. W: Do you even know ...

• 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

  ...  employer". In the next sentence, the ad explains that this means that they recruit and promote the most qualified candidates "without ...

• 30 Nov 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: A Randomly-Generated AGU Press Kit

  
  Science, Whimsy: american geophysical union, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, science journalism · 20 comments

  ...  whose abstracts I would glance through anyway, which means I'm missing all the climate stuff), but I thought it'd be fun to see how ...

• 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

  ...  caught that. I'll put that into the review.” really means, “Well, that was really unimportant. Stop getting hung up on the ...

• 20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain

  
  Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 comments

  ...  got excess spleen qi in your left frontal crockus. This means that you're a vibrant personality whose passions are apparent to everyone ...  spins - from either side of my visual field. This means both sides of my brain see both directions of spin just fine. This effect ...

• 3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts

  
  Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments

  ...  mean there are buckets of interesting things to read, it means it's my turn to play host! Eek! Stay calm. If the theme sucks, people ...

• 31 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Marriage in Iowa

  
  Politics: Friday random ten, Iowa, iTunes iChing, same-sex marriage · 2 comments

  ...  Moines - same-sex marriage is legal in Iowa! Where "legal" means "a district court said so" - there's certainly a state Supreme Court ...

• 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

  ...  creatures from all over the universe (where "exotic" means "suspiciously similar to European Earth myths"), but now they're gone, ...

• 11 Apr 2020: Looking for New Earth

  
  Science: extrasolar planets, telescopes · 6 comments

  ...  we have actual pictures of some planets (where "pictures" means the entire planet is shown in about the same number of pixels as Mario's ...

• 3 Apr 2020: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?

  
  Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments

  ...  biases, and got three good reviews as a result. Which means that adding more reviewers is not a good defense against the political ...

• 18 Feb 2020: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos

  
  Science: cnidarians, embryos, paleontology, Precambrian · 2 comments

  ...  a marked resemblance to the unspiralled blastulae. Which means, o my jellyfish, that we have assembled a good solid developmental ...

• 26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie

  
  Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 comment

  ...  vegans, or trying to be healthy, because usually "best" means "contains an awful lot of butter". Ingredients 1 9" pie crust. ...

• 20 Oct 2020: Selling Out is Officially Hip

  
  Human Fuzzies: consumerism, words · no comments

  ...  I have seen final proof that the word "empowering" means "someone wants you to purchase it": We asked Carl Rohde to provide us ...

• 4 Sep 2020: Household Goodness

  
  Personal: domesticity, gardening, photoblog · 2 comments

  ...  plum tree chopped down last week. On the plus side, this means my room gets more sun; on the minus, it means my view has changed from rustling green leaves to my neighbor's ugly ...

• : Laborious Links: Patenting, Urban Geology, and Gratuitous Toilet Analogies

  
  Links, Science: Bay Area geology, blog carnivals, gender, patents, work vs. family · no comments

  ...  disclosed an invention to his tech-transfer office. This means that many women aren't even beginning the process. But perhaps the ...

• 25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?

  
  Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments

  ...  grew up with and have outgrown faxing as a means of communication. - hello, class issue! "Google" has always been a verb. ...

• 20 Aug 2020: Blackberry Pie

  
  Food: blackberries, cooking, desserts, foraging, pie, Rosaceae · 11 comments

  ...  my shirt, only, y'know, more insistently. We had no means of holding many berries outside our bellies, but eventually we found a ...

• 15 Aug 2020: Joe Jonah Euclid and the End of the World

  
  Human Fuzzies: Berzerkeley, crackpots · 2 comments

  ...  from the Court Ordered Conservatorship. What ie Means is that the Ct. Or. Conservatorship is giving their Loyality to the ...

• 11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance

  
  Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments

  ...  out the sides rather than up onto your fist. What that means is that normally, earthquakes show squeezing at right angles to the plate ...

• 8 Aug 2020: My Identity is a List of Links

  
  Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments

  ...  that I'm not White is a lie, and all kinds of un-PC as it means I am denying my own privilege. If identity is a statement of desire and ...  it is important to be clear about what "identity" actually means. I've done most of my thinking about socially-foisted identity in the ...

• 19 Jul 2020: I Read Wifework So You Don’t Have To

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: book reviews, feminism, gender, marriage, sexism · 6 comments

  ...  no idea that their marriage is unequal or unhappy - which means that many men are completely blindsided when their wives decide to stop ...

• 27 Jun 2020: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: evolutionary psychology, marriage, wedding-industrial complex · 8 comments

  ...  review I grabbed a copy of Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women from the library today. I've just finished reading the ...

• 30 May 2020: If You Can Read This…

  
  Meta: DNS · 2 comments

  ...  it means the DNS change has propagated. It is now safe to unbuckle your safety ...

• 26 May 2020: Friday Cat Blogging: Holy Shit I Have Cats!

  
  Personal: cats, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments

  ...  technically, the cats belong to my housemate. Which means that I get to live with cats, but don't have to clean up their ...

• 29 Mar 2020: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments

  ...  publishes RSS feeds for each post's comment thread, which means that with the right plugins, I can publish comments on any other ...

• 25 Mar 2020: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist

  
  Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments

  ...  Schuyler says. And by "really have a good time" she means "squeeze our traitorous eyes and gossip-hungry ears shut to ignore it ...  IV to come out for the Mac". Or maybe she just means "have more fun than we would at a gaming industry party": As foretold, ...

• 24 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: I’d Rather Be Camping

  
  Science: moraines, rock blogging, Sierra Nevada · no comments

  ...  sensibly followed by a filing binge today. Which means I'm set for a thinking and writing binge tomorrow, but I'd really rather ...

• 13 Feb 2020: Ow My Fingertips

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: etymology, mandolin, pedantry, words · 5 comments

  ...  Twinkle, Little Star to Boil Them Cabbage Down. Which means I need a reliable source for the shittiest drum loops EVAR, preferably in ...

• 31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things

  
  Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments

  ...  analyzing relationship issues is "women's work", which means men tend not to develop the l33test emotional skillz, which leads to odd ...  entirely lacking in earth science entries! Which probably means I should submit something. If I write something good and sciencey in the ...

• 19 Dec 2020: Happy Whatever

  
  Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 comments

  ...  meant "nonreligious", not "non-culture-specific". Which means that Twinkletrees can be secular, and so can Seders if you're a bit ...

• 8 Dec 2020: AGU Four

  
  Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments

  ...  he can't be a good daddy! This whimsical approach to life means they won't mind at all if your 3-year old wants to repeatedly kick the ...

• 26 Nov 2020: My Neighbors Are Penis Zombies

  
  Politics: Berzerkeley, rape, sexism · 4 comments

  ...  that 20% of my neighbors think "keep trying to have sex" means "whine at her about your blue balls" and not "keep shoving your penis ...

• 16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments

  ...  decisions. Consensus doesn't scale very well; more people means more touchy-feely bloviating during Council. Time scales: the hippie ...

• 14 Nov 2020: Eaten the First Time

  
  Links: anti-racism, Barack Obama, blog carnivals, new holiday, pirates, student parents, women in science, work vs. family · 1 comment

  ...  attempts to justify one's sense of self-entitlement by means of bigotry one has swallowed from the culture, and subsequently coughed ...

• 28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments

  ...  (The San Francisco Chronicle's food section is by no means equal to the L.A. Times', but since I get the Chron in paper form for ...

• 16 Sep 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement

  
  Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments

  ...  hydroxides - but this time it's a hydrated jumble, which means that water has been incorporated into the molecular structure in such a ...

• 3 Sep 2020: The Red Cross Is the Military. Or Something.

  
  Politics: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans · no comments

  ...  a good reason for all this, especially if "good reason" means "criminal negligence". Or maybe "American Red Cross" actually means "military checkpoints and barricades", I don't know - it's so hard to ...

• 2 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing

  
  Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests, Sierra Nevada · no comments

  ...  way it's not a good sign. I can only hope the Future means I'll get to do some field work on the beach to get away from it all. The ...

• 30 Aug 2020: Piles of Minute Aggravations

  
  Personal: cars, grad school, i hate everything · 2 comments

  ...  it says "unknown mileage (the odometer is broken)", it means the odometer is broken and I don't know how many miles are on the car. ...

• 30 Jun 2020: Offloading Tangential Meta-Rape Discussion Gripes

  
  Politics: rape, rhetorical nit-picking, rhetorical tactics, the Pussy Oversoul · no comments

  ...  in practice, asking women to "not be foolish" about rape means asking us to correctly evaluate the trustworthiness of every single man ...

• 3 Jun 2020: Friday Random Nineteen

  
  Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments

  ...  that Friday means much to me these days, but I know it means something to some of you. Go go unemployment go! I'll go back to a ...

• 4 May 2020: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!

  
  Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments

  ...  whether this is meant to apply to data acquired by means of one's own original research. But the sponsors of similar bills ...

• 4 Apr 2020: Special to Fellow WordPress Blogtinkers

  
  Meta: Announcements, blogtinkery · 11 comments

  ...  I do to this blog on my Codex user page. Tonight, that means writing a bit about how to rename wp-comments-post.php (it's really not ...

• : Links to Daylight’s Rescue

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments

  ...  administration to mean "smushed to ineffectiveness by any means necessary". I find myself in partial agreement with some commentators ...

• 6 Mar 2020: Diesel and Boobies

  
  Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, cars, wordpress themes · 2 comments

  ...  and is ugly as sin. However, it does run on diesel, which means it could theoretically run on vegetable oil at some time in the future - ...

• 14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics

  
  Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments

  ...  They're not awe-inspiring. Also, "independent" means "pulled out of context from a freshman geology text": The three ...

• 13 Feb 2020: Someone’s A Bit Paranoid

  
  Meta: cladistics, ducklings, family, fan mail, mammals, monkeys · 4 comments

  ...  on a table singing "Schnitzelbank".**** * Where "busy" means "bored". ** From the perspective of cladistic analysis, "bunny" as a ...

• 11 Oct 2020: Weekend: Music, Injuries

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: harmonic numbers, prickly pear jelly, righteous indignation, sugar syrup · 4 comments

  ...  band. In the rest of the world, "bluegrass/folk/rock" means "country for a different demographic" and not "Fairport Convention but ...

• 21 Sep 2020: Non-Marketing Non-Future

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  consumers choose purchases based on the time-honored means of self-expression through brand identification. We need products that ...

• 17 Sep 2020: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.

  
  Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments

  ...  they'll be bored to tears. These are all very generic means of delimiting social groups, and I suppose I've strayed from the ...

• 30 Aug 2020: Note to People on Political Volunteer Phone Lists

  
  Politics: i hate everything, impeach Bush, US party politics · no comments

  ...  a time. She's a phone banker. She hates people. By all means ask if your special talents can be put to use, but don't start in on how ...

• 26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College

  
  Politics: · 4 comments

  ...  to win at least some of the tough, close contests by every means available - bunting, stealing, brilliant pitching, dazzling plays in the ...

• 26 Jul 2020: Bugs Bunny Goes to Washington

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  all of the functions of the federal judiciary. This means that it must have jurisdiction over all federal questions. This would be ...

• 18 Jun 2020: John Ashcroft Hearts Democracy So Much

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  approval, without much discussion of what torture actually means and why it has so long been illegal at home and abroad, a few secret ...  kicked, and spat at until they improve. Iowans, this means ...

• 16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  is, how much will it hurt? [1] Mining in this case means extraction greater than the annual recharge to the basin. It's important ...  from an actual development proposal [2] so I assume it means "inoffensive" in plannerese. I don't know where these people are coming ...

• 23 Apr 2020: Lazy RSS Roundup

  
  Links: dreams · no comments

  ...  things like "they're giving you responsibilities, that means they must like you!" but seems to me that's kinda like saying "that bear ...

• 8 Apr 2020: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  sure I can't follow them both at once. The first path means going to grad school. In what, I'm not quite sure; the word ...

• 7 Mar 2020: Investing With Your Values

  
  Human Fuzzies: book reviews, investing, money, socially responsible investment · 3 comments

  ...  through some combination of living below one's means and witchcraft. Or marrying rich. As plans for marrying rich have stalled ...

• 31 Oct 2020: Tricky Treats

  
  Personal: candy, halloween, kids today, pumpkin · 1 comment

  ...  and not even FREE CANDY will lure them outside. Which means I am stuck with a bag full of mysterious Chinese candies labelled ...

• 15 Sep 2020: Shitfaced in Des Moines

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 2 comments

  ...  not as appropriate as some other nasty city-names: Chicago means either "skunk" or "nasty-smelling wild leek" which is true in some ...

• 3 Sep 2020: More Maps!

  
  Aimless: · 4 comments

  ...  is the wrong expression, if you consider maps to be means and not ends (I'm not sure I do; I like maps). This morning, I've had ...

• 25 Aug 2020: Someone’s Been Shitting in My Toilet!

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

  ...  though I'm not overly fond of the sarcastic note as a means of adult problem-solving; we do have an ant problem. The oven I think is ...

• 8 Jul 2020: Blog Birthday II: Return of the Sleazy Googlers

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  the floor. Third, I have one nibble on my resume, which means it's time to purchase an interview suit. Pinstripes, or no ...

• 20 Apr 2020: Shiny! Curvaceous!

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  seen that actually looks like it's from the future! Which means we're still on track for Mylar jumpsuits for my mid-life ...

• 15 Jan 2020: Unbreakable

  
  Human Fuzzies: agnosticism, torture · 2 comments

  ...  if this is even a little bit true... but if it is, it means I'm unbreakable. Haha! Take that, you forces of evil! Also, my ...

• 19 Sep 2020: Incredible Finds

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  of my previous thrift store experiences, which probably means I need to take a step back and start reading some glossy Modernist ...

• 11 Jul 2020: I give in!

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments

  ...  those mysterious tupperwares in the freezer. What this means, most of the time, is that I find interesting recipes, and then try to ...

• 5 Jun 2020: Guestbloggers Coming

  
  Meta: blog status updates · no comments

  ...  students, and the end of the term for undergrads. Which means that even though my finals don't start (in theory) until this weekend, ...

• 14 May 2020: E-Mail Tips and Tricks

  
  Whimsy: · no comments

  ...  small enough to be governed by quantum uncertainty, which means that when your email client appends it to your message, it should do so ...

• 17 Apr 2020: surface learning

  
  Teaching: · 8 comments

  ...  most of the profs only teach because they have to. That means we will always have to put up with some mediocre teachers; it doesn't ...

• 7 Apr 2020: Review Time!

  
  Human Fuzzies: reviews of stuff, writing · 5 comments

  ...  of self-confidence, or something along those lines, which means most of her entries are humdrum renditions of the Friday Five or Monday ...

• 30 Mar 2020: Crying Baby Airlines

  
  Personal: · 4 comments

  ...  are rising up to greet me. Stopping at Phoenix, of course, means both cases are true at once. So, yeah, I'm back in California, ready to ...

• 24 Mar 2020: Domestic Manners of the Americans

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment

  ...  memory; and the result of this is a sort of mosaic, by no means very grand in outline or skillful in drawing; but each morsel of colour ...

• 26 Jan 2020: People At My School

  
  Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments

  ...  out of diagrams with poles and kinky contour integrals. It means I'll be able to have pictures that solve wave equations, instead of just ...

• 17 Jan 2020: …and one more thing!

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  car space to get me downtown (and this is not by any means a sure thing), I'm going to try out for Jeopardy! tomorrow. I don't ...

• 24 Dec 2020: Tackiest Ever

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  fluff. This is all well and good, but what it really means is that they've discarded their clumps of red and green Christmas things ...

• 19 Dec 2020: Jane’s Packing Hints

  
  Aimless: dreams · no comments

  ...  like clothes as possible (I'm not entirely sure what this means, but then, most of my 6 hours of sleep last night was spent dreaming ...

• 11 Nov 2020: hey hey I’m a monkee

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  which sounds nefarious but I don't think it actually means anything. Maybe it means I should start using more corporate buzzwords, but I'm so far out of ...

• 4 Nov 2020: stop de kriminelle udlændinge

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  voter make. One of them, put out by the Venstre ("venstre" means "left" but the party is actually on the moderately conservative side of ...

• : two meme things

  
  Whimsy: memes · no comments

  ...  Tao Te Ching Thermal Physics - where "think" really means "want to kill things" two books you reread in times of stress the ...

• 2 Nov 2020: false hopes

  
  Meta, Personal: minions · no comments

  ...  a bit more initiative & motivation. Where "motivation" means "rapidly approaching deadline". And, rereading last night's entry, I ...

• 28 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee

  
  Human Fuzzies: globalization · 1 comment

  ...  replaced probably by the odd German word "handy" which means "cell phone" and has no discernable roots in either German or English. ...

• 25 Oct 2020: image games

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  to online identity politics hasn't been the most efficient means of branding myself, but so what? I'm not out to establish myself and make ...

• 15 Oct 2020: I don’t know if you’ve

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  case of the New York City skyline, "forever" apparently means "about 40-50 years," as that seems to be the time scale for new, ...  continuously as technology improves. So here "forever" means "20 years, or thereabouts." It's of course harder to predict the impact ...

• 10 Oct 2020: Slippery When Wet

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  But I wanted to, and I'm still not entirely sure what that means. I'm also pleased that my super yenta skills are working, if only ...

• 5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen

  
  Aimless, Personal: · no comments

  ...  of Brorfelde, we toured an organic farm - where "toured" means "slopped through a muddy field until we could pet the cows." ...

• 11 Sep 2020: It’s raining again

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  alternative to other supposed newsfilters. Where "viable" means "amusing but probably ...

• 7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung

  
  Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment

  ...  I know in real life, and those I know via less personal means, and I think, act and feel very differently about the two. So moving ...

• 22 Aug 2020: One True Blog

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  another American writing a blog from Copenhagen, if that means anything at all in terms of fateful quests to find (or possibly restore ...

• 29 Jul 2020: leftover stuff

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  these fantasies now, in between sentences. I think that means I should go to bed. My posts will probably be longer and more unified ...

• 26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen

  
  Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments

  ...  trying to figure out what the last part of that actually means, but the trick did seem to put the characters' speech on the same level ...

• 24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  how to properly clean empty apartments tomorrow, which means I have to actually wake up before noon. But, in my habitual ...

• 14 Jul 2020: my cat is a huge grouch

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  ornery, Mom will give her some catnip - where "give" means "shove her kicking and mewling into a grocery sack full." Then she'll ...

• 12 Jul 2020: dictionary my butt

  
  Human Fuzzies: i hate everything, rhetorical tactics · no comments

  ...  because some people might not know what this word means" or even "definition because I can't think of anything else to put here" ...