Search Results: money
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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... Alcohol While I'm full of updates: I did get some money plant seeds, and made a mustard with them. It was yucky. So much for that idea! I'll keep eating money plant flowers and leave the rest of the plant alone (unless I find an ...
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17 Jul 2020: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds
Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 commentI picked a bag full of money plant seed pods yesterday. I've been enjoying the flowers and leaves of ... had a love child, that child's chore would be to winnow money plant seeds from their dried and smashed-up pods. I tried every technique ... fall into the seed bowl, or both. Usually both. Since money plant is an aggressive weed I didn't want to put too many seeds into my ...
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12 Jun 2020: Four Ways to Eat Black Locust Blossoms (and One Way Not to Bother)
Food: Amaryllidaceae, black locust, Brassicaceae, chives, edible flowers, Fabaceae, flowers, recipes, salad, soup · no comments... if I make these again I will stick to dame's rocket and money plant flowers. The black locust flowers were okay, but not really ...
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25 Apr 2020: Approaching New Flavors
Food: cookbooks, cooking, Food, foraging · no comments... folks (and other professional chefs) with real cash money. Maybe someone could just mechanically index a bunch of old Herbfarm ...
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8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... no difference to the final pie. Do not waste time or money on exotic limes when you are just going to smother their subtleties with ...
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26 Feb 2020: The Stimulating Effects of Monitoring Volcanoes
Politics, Science: economics, US party politics, volcano monitoring, volcanoes · 10 comments... a good economic stimulus project is one that hands money to people who will immediately turn around and hand it to someone else. ... types of imaginary example people have the most virtuous money-spending habits), the rule of thumb is that good stimulus projects spend ...
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26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 comment... donate by the end of the day on Monday, I will triple your money. There is a challenge on my slate that's been sponsored with another ... of buying it from the expensive corner store... that money could turn into $40 towards a hands-on demonstration of the water cycle ...
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1 Oct 2020: In Which I Want Your Money: Donors Choose Challenge 2020
Aimless: · 3 comments... proposals from public school teachers, and handle all the money stuff; you pick out the proposals that seem most compelling, and provide ... the ScienceBorg corporate mothership, has put up matching money for the past two years' challenges. I don't have details about matching ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... to develop male hormonal birth control is merely about money. "The biggest hurdle that I've encountered in trying to share this ... is ticking, you know? Also, I am going to drop a bunch of money on fancy photography next month, and still haven't figured out what to ...
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3 Apr 2020: Mud Volcano Tofu
Aimless: · 7 comments... idea - blecch, mud! - although there is probably some money to be made by importing the stuff to the U.S. and selling it to gullible ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... of the inner core, well... you'll probably make a lot of money by putting out new revised editions every few months. Xinlei Sun and ...
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21 Feb 2020: And the Three Billion Dollar Grant Goes to…
Aimless: · 5 comments... to spend on scientific research, how would you spend the money? ... For the sake of variety, let's restrict it to your own particular ... that all other funding will dry up, with the exception of money to purchase the 3 books and 6 albums that each scientist can bring with ...
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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... words? Over 9,000?? Wow, where are you going to get the money for the page charges for that, at $100 a page? Your start-up? Don't you ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... France. China has always been more interested in making money than in reeducation. Time has always worked with Warner. Tiananmen ...
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26 Jul 2020: Galveston Bids for Darwin Award
Politics, Science: idiocy, natural hazards, urban planning · 3 comments... seawall. So the only excuse left is... utter stupidity? Or money and petty corruption? [story via Shakesville and LJ ...
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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 commentsFirst: Scientiae #3 and Philosophia Naturalis #8 are both out. Go read! Second: a friend of mine was rejected for an NSF training fellowship. Two of the three reviewers liked her proposal, but the third review was very negative, which, well... sometimes ...
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30 Jan 2020: What’s the Good News of Geology?
Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments... gets it? Appealing to a scientist's desire for grant money might be a good way to motivate them to spend time on public education, ...
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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... Tentative Abstention If this were only about spending money on fixing up libraries I'd vote for it in a heartbeat, but the bond ...
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25 Aug 2020: Tidbits
Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, ground water, Mars, Pluto · 15 comments... not being used to Western ways. Of course, I'm sure money had something to do with it as well. Sigh. [via Feministe] Has anyone ...
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: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... of the bourgeois, but seriously They have never put their money in a "Savings & Loan." Sara Lee has always made underwear. Bad behavior ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... 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 as I am. ...
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28 Jul 2020: These Search Requests Are What I’m Trying to Monetize
Meta: adsense, search requests · 3 comments... though sadly, the search terms that bring in actual cash money have been much less entertaining. My hosting bills are now paid by people ...
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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... gain fewer of the tangible benefits (longer lives, more money) that accrue to married men. This takes her some time; there are various ...
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27 Jun 2020: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril
Human Fuzzies, Politics: evolutionary psychology, marriage, wedding-industrial complex · 8 comments... straight: I already know shit like "less booze = less money" or "borrow stuff or make it, teehee!" Any dumbass knows that skipping a ...
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17 Jun 2020: Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege
Personal: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, wedding-industrial complex · 11 comments... after quals. No, I'm not changing my name or giving any money to DeBeers (though I am installing a permanent shunt from my bank account ...
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17 May 2020: On the Racial Dynamics of Bus Boarding
Politics: racism, white studies · 7 comments... a jumble of high school students queued up to use the money-ticket machine. Me 'n' the picture of me on my bus pass smiled at the ...
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13 Mar 2020: Quickies
Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments... well-being" when we're begging the government for research money, but it's like Richard Feynman said about sex and physics: it sometimes ...
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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... directly to a partial solution, a bill to start throwing money at real support for student parents: We focus on birth control and ...
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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... distributed campaign contributions. I'd rather have this money back as extra dividends, but no - even though it's my money, I don't get to micromanage its use. Why should public employee ...
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7 Oct 2020: Friday Review of Stuff
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Berzerkeley, restaurant reviews · 5 comments... just replicating the same old Old Boys. There's no cash money salary available for this, but that's life, ain't it? Perhaps the ...
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12 Sep 2020: The 4th Circuit Pees on the 4th Amendment
Politics: civil liberties, fascist police states, FEMA · 2 comments... will be issued FEMA identification cards and "a sum of money" and they will remain within the camp for the next 5 months. My mother ...
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30 Aug 2020: Piles of Minute Aggravations
Personal: cars, grad school, i hate everything · 2 comments... cause the correct number to appear on the dash. School, Money, Keys I have a fabulous office. Although I have four officemates, all ...
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22 Jun 2020: Landscape Photography
Links: Yosemite · 4 comments... poking around the streams of Yosemite National Park - for money, even - makes me cry. Especially just after being pointed (via Yosemite ...
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21 Apr 2020: Brain Asplode
Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 comments... to work so much overtime just to quit my stupid job? The money is nice but I'd really rather have the time. ...
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31 Mar 2020: Today’s RSS Zeitgeist: Cheapskates
Politics: classism, consumerism, eccentricity, money · 6 comments... easy to puff up and spout clichés about how it's not the money you spend on your kids, it's the time you spend with them. That's one of those things that rich people say. Money helps. You get treated like shit when you're poor, and your kids do, ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... expectation:reality ratio: But seriously: I make more money now than my parents did when I was little, even adjusting for inflation. ...
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1 Feb 2020: Ownership Society
Personal: capitalism sucks, money, public radio · 7 comments... of "your station" which entails, of course, giving them money and then not paying attention to what they do with it. Oh yeah I feel ... KCRW is member-supported, not member-run. I gave them money last year and it most certainly did not bring me the chance to vote for ...
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29 Nov 2020: Shameless Begging
Links, Meta: AIDS, blegging, charity · 3 comments... goal of five bucks over the minimum sponsorship. The money goes to the AIDS service center and Elizabeth Glasier pediatric AIDS ...
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10 Nov 2020: Suckers for Science in the Suburbs
Politics: California ballot propositions, embryonic stem cells, genetic engineering, health care, scientific illiteracy, stem cell research · 5 comments... could explain such folly? Blame the awesome power of big money, big celebrities, and big hype. It goes on to detail how the promise ...
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: Money in Four More Years
Politics: fiscal policy, investing, money · 3 commentsNow that we're doomed to an eternity of wailing, gnashing our teeth, and hiding our degenerate sexualities from roving mobs of angry countryfolk, we should really be thinking about building our nest eggs for an eventual flight to Canada and/or hush payment ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... Sick children are adorable enough to raise their own damn money for their own damn puppies and seismically sound construction, I'll give ... it, too. But - we need to retain some control over how the money is spent. Prop 71 as written amounts to a blank check for industry; the ...
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13 Aug 2020: I Smell a Thesis
Science: · 1 comment... idea that we should pay seismologists luxurious sums of money to study the problem: The present study examines the assumptions and ...
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25 Jul 2020: Tour de Roid Rage!
Whimsy: sports, steroids, Tour de France · 6 comments... by other members of society in the name of fame and/or money; it seems unfair to limit our concern to athletes. I for one would quite ...
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: Education Reform Blah Blah
Politics: · 2 comments... to pay teachers what they're worth. Lesser amounts of money still help, but $5,000 is not enough to compensate for rotten working ... educators don't go into the profession strictly for money. I've known many teachers who would gladly have sacrificed pay for a ...
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11 Jun 2020: Water on Black Mesa
Politics: · 4 comments... and a coal mine; read it fast before it vanishes into the money-charging archives. The story is chock full of quotes about connections ...
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2 May 2020: Nerds Save 5%
Personal: · 2 comments... I feel so special; we'll see if it actually saves me money. Meanwhile, my hands smell like antifreeze, sweet and oddly compelling ...
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11 Mar 2020: Libertarianism is the New Hippiedom
Politics: libertarians, quizzes · 1 comment... my newfound libertarian brethren don't mind when I use the money saved on defense for massive entitlement programs... (link via Alas, A ...
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7 Mar 2020: Investing With Your Values
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, investing, money, socially responsible investment · 3 comments... a reasonable introduction to the methods by which one's money can be put to good use, with screened investments (both affirmative and ... potential screens, including things like "Do you want your money going to companies that brutally exploit adorable third-world puppies? ...
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2 Feb 2020: Linky Roundup
Links: · 2 comments... no use. Arguments to the effect of "this device costs many money and probably requires a new operating system, while this cable is ...
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8 Dec 2020: Peer Review the Asbestos Way
Politics, Science: · 1 comment... pool of potential peer reviewers to people who get their money from industry, more or less. And we can all guess what kind of high ...
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25 Aug 2020: Things I’ve Never Done
Personal: · no comments... quit my job, but tickets are pricey, so I'd need to have money (ergo job) to go. Meanwhile, the list of reasons to build a ...
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22 Aug 2020: But You Still Have Two Kidneys, Scott!
Politics: · 2 comments... about the budget, which will soon end up in a morass of un-money and no way to fund anyone's pet issues, and all the non-serious pundits ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... reading schedule. It's funny. I hate the recall - it's money bleeding through a weird loophole in California elections law, and all ...
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2 Aug 2020: Housing Markets
Personal, Politics: apartment hunting, capitalism sucks, hey lazyweb, Los Angeles · 3 comments... obtain any of the dumps on the list, you usually get your money back; but if you happen to not want to live in a cockroach-ridden dump you are fucked. I haven't given money to any of these places yet; the Caltech listings have turned up one ...
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2 Jul 2020: eTextWhore
Meta: · 2 comments... click-throughs. Either way, I will have made enough money for a bowl of lentil soup. And I promise to convey your appreciation to ...
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2 May 2020: Master of Nothing
Aimless: · no comments... of Science you'd get to hand briefcases full of cash money and important documents to Science's underworld contacts. But as a ...
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16 Apr 2020: Green Mung Beans
Meta: · no comments... they give us money to throw student-faculty mixers. And we spend this money on wine and cheese for all. So I've had just enough alcohol to answer the ...
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1 Mar 2020: Gibbs Strikes Again
Politics, Whimsy: · 1 comment... calculation, I have placed my Bomb Iraq Betting Pool money on April Fool's ...
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22 Feb 2020: Cartoon Driving Television
Personal: dreams · no comments... drove behind a van full of money on the way to the forest today: Thought about hijacking it somehow, but ...
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5 Oct 2020: Old Comments
Meta: · no comments... for "there's no way in hell this site will help us make money, so get back to work, bucko". I lies in the moment of clarity, truth and ...
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2 Oct 2020: Questions
Personal: trivialities · 6 comments... on campus, when the biologists are the ones with all the money? Where's my nail ...
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25 Aug 2020: Confuse the Bubblebots
Personal: · 1 comment... hawaiian shirts. Having neither bleached blonde beauty nor money, I felt completely out of my demographic boundaries the whole time. In ...
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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 ...
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20 May 2020: Stack Widow
Meta, Personal: blogular wanking, Caltech, Ditch Day · 3 comments... same problems as well - they are unlucky in love, have no money, don't know what they want to do with their lives, don't like their ...
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12 May 2020: Mr. Smith Goes to Fallbrook
Personal: · no comments... not nearly enough - it's high time, I think, to spend more money on technology, grab extra memory and a USB smartmedia-reading device and ...
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22 Apr 2020: Magickal Transmutations
Human Fuzzies, Personal: bruises, capitalism sucks, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities · 2 comments... thinks this is because I grew up without much excess money and got used to buying toys from garage sales, the implication being that ...
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15 Apr 2020: Someone Disagrees
Personal: fan mail, menstruation · 6 comments... but this is the first time they've ever saved me money on consumer products while granting me the moral superiority of a ...
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14 Apr 2020: Tax Time, Fun Time!
Meta: · 2 comments... filing a frivolous tax return." "You mean, like deducting money you spent on prostitutes in Hong Kong?" "Or like making the check out to ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... me out on a 3 am walk through the neighboring too-much-money-build-big-house-on-curvy-street district, and I guess there was a ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... we're looking at is "people who view other people in money-metaphors are all crazy Objectivists who don't believe anyone has ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... bonds are just a chance for me to spend other people's money, engendering that warm fuzzy feeling only hard liquor can beat. It's too ...
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22 Feb 2020: whoa fuck
Meta: · 4 comments... is really not palatable as a long-term solution. Spend money. I do have *some* discretionary spending pocket money, though not too much - recommendations, anyone? Regardless: I've got a ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... self-respect and self-expression than it is about making money. If I could find a meaningful and deeply involving volunteer project I'd ...
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31 Jan 2020: Stupid Economy
Politics: · no comments... here is fairly well insulated from the money struggles of the rest of the world, but occasionally they penetrate: the ... aught-aught, back when companies thought they could make money by losing it and handed out fancy logo-strewn whatsits for just a hint of ...
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27 Jan 2020: My Boots Keep Me
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... lounge where you do homework so you don't have to pay any money or even move to hear them. So on Thursday night between sets, we all ... voice. If you've never heard it, you should spend some money on a shiny new CD for yourself. If you need a target demographic, it's ...
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14 Jan 2020: Goats
Links: · no comments... first decide whether you would rather have a large sum of money, or a goat; this is the form the professor posed to us during a lecture ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... known as Porno Lasse than Geology Lasse, plus there's more money in ...
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30 Nov 2020: delicious and nutritious
Politics: activism, queerness, Salvation Army · no comments... stuffed into the bell-ringer's pot along with your real-money donation. No hassle, no fuss. Frankly, I try not to micromanage any ... got, and I generally prefer to spend my activist time and money working towards a proper set of marriage laws so that economic decisions ...
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27 Oct 2020: Lots of Money
Aimless: · no comments... as usual, is David Baltimore's spin on the deal: "[the money] will allow us to... maintain our greatness in the many areas in which we ...
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25 Oct 2020: image games
Meta: · no comments... but so what? I'm not out to establish myself and make money, even though I do have £2.03 sitting in my amazon.co.uk associate's ...
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24 Oct 2020: super stalker search!
Meta: · no comments... agents will be nice enough to turn them back into real money for you. So I have a whole bunch of Belgian one franc coins, and I need ... of things about who I am, where I live, and how I spend my money. But, I'm not sure exactly how much of my personal information is ...
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7 Oct 2020: Suckers!
Personal: government gravy trains, Sweden, the scientific lifestyle, utter glee · no comments... and are instead funding my vacations with your tax money." I'm currently ensconced in a snug cottage on a very scenic Swedish ... who other than the earth scientists can get government money to go snorkeling in the South Pacific, hiking in arbitrarily chosen ...
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6 Sep 2020: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments... on my life. My vacations have been limited by time and money, but never by the presence of the Canadian border. The last battle fought ...
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4 Sep 2020: No more ranting
Aimless: · no comments... that it must be important, and I know it's talking about money... but what is it really saying? I'm going to ...
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22 Aug 2020: One True Blog
Personal: · 2 comments... maybe Helsinki or Oslo or Prague, but since I have little money and also very few trip-organizing skills I'll probably end up taking the ...
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29 Jul 2020: leftover stuff
Personal: · 1 comment... in his son. Someone has apparently taken all of Daddy's money and flunked out of school with it. We all had a good chuckle over that ...
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24 Jul 2020: socks
Meta, Personal: fonts, socks · 1 comment... use (the codpiece would have given them a run for their money, though). If you're wearing something informal enough to require socks ...
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20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... felt better. Yeah! In other news, I garnered some beer money today by participating in a linguistics experiment. I sat in a small ...