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26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments... but definitely on or after April 15 the following year. Nothing emits pulses of pure gay energy more efficiently than a joint tax ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... with too much talk about "EEdiots" - we're accomplishing nothing but alienating people who might otherwise listen, and we look like ...
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20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 comments... underneath the bottom of the Indo-Australian plate, nothing volcanic about it. The earthquake began 270 km away from the volcano. ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... mean here? I smell elitism. If you know absolutely nothing about evolutionary biology, physics, ecology, or any other discipline ...
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13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 comments... and be in big trouble. We are in big trouble, but it has nothing to do with a Hubbert curve. Trouble in the Southwest U.S. The ...
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12 Jan 2020: Listen to Earthquakes
Links: · 3 comments... so samples/sec... but hey, clicking noises are better than nothing! Then I found that someone has set up a blog of "soundquakes", which ...
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24 Dec 2020: Happy Twinkletree, Joyous Monkey
Aimless: · 3 comments... cancelled except for an occasional, limping #48. There's nothing to do but loll about, drinking mug after mug of hot cocoa and building ...
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18 Dec 2020: California is Safe?
Aimless: · 10 comments... Loma Prieta, Landers, Northridge, San Simeon - but nothing that resembled seismologists' doomsday scenarios for Los Angeles and ...
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6 Oct 2020: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!
Aimless: · 11 comments... 6% of the nation in windmills (source), but it is still nothing to sniff at. Here's where we should be drilling: This map of ...
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26 Sep 2020: What Planet is my Clafoutis From?
Aimless: · 12 comments... moments of culinary inspiration, this plum clafoutis is nothing like what I was thinking of prior to actually wandering into the ...
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1 Sep 2020: The Science of Deliciousness
Aimless: · 9 comments... excursion into the land of bread and starch. There is nothing here that will help manage a CSA-induced attack of Kale Panic.* The ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... should be able to relate: [A]nyone who does science, like nothing ever works when you're doing science and when it works it takes two and ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... of layers of bricks glued together with mortar. There is nothing else connecting the layers of bricks; just mortar. This is fine until ... and as soon as one layer of mortar gives way, there's nothing to stop the whole top part of the wall from falling off. It's like ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... collective solution. It's not that environmentalism has nothing to do with personal virtue, but individual situations and personal ...
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20 Apr 2020: What to Do with the Universe?
Whimsy: science fiction · 3 comments... narrative fates, not bona fide cosmological ones: Nothingness Trick question! The universe never ends God Mr. McMoots added a ...
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16 Apr 2020: Women in Science Linky-Post
Links: · 3 comments... the young Maria Mitchell grew up believing that there was nothing preventing her from achieving scientific greatness. On the other hand, ...
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11 Mar 2020: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food
Aimless: · 21 comments... experience of white privilege, which has absolutely nothing to do with my German heritage and everything to do with my skin color ...
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31 Jan 2020: Hello World
Meta: introduction · 31 comments... writing, leaving behind a shambling blog-golem made up of nothing but dry facts about boring old rocks - and that's why I was invited to ...
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4 Nov 2020: Weighted Words 1.2
Meta: plugins, Weighted Words, WordPress · no comments... of changes to my Weighted Words plugin for WordPress. It's nothing major - I added an alternate method for scaling the font size so that ...
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22 Oct 2020: Carnivalling
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, civil liberties, scientiae · 1 comment... we're geologists, we shouldn't be fussed about such a nothing eyeblink.) Oh hey, we're nominating a guy for Attorney General who ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 comments... them see her change directions.) There is absolutely nothing special about what your brain is doing when it takes some funny black ...
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30 Aug 2020: Notes From the Books Precariously Stacked on My Bedside Table
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, feminisms, history, psychology, racism, rape, sexism, trashy novels, white studies · 3 comments... and why the aliens filled the whole human preserve with nothing but white ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... he said “goodbye to rusty cars.” Avatars have nothing to do with Hindu deities. Chavez has nothing to do with iceberg lettuce and everything to do with oil. - California ...
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13 Jul 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Planetary Warming
Politics, Science, Whimsy: climate change, planetary science · 1 comment... week is another study concluding that global warming has nothing to do with the Sun. The press is full of optimistic quotes from the ...
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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 comments... or the location of a deposit of easily refined tin: Nothing embodies the cultural importance of science greater than [this ...
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26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie
Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 comment... couple years, from a lack of good Meyer lemons. There's nothing quite like having a tree at your disposal. Anyway: below the fold, ...
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24 Oct 2020: Hawaii, the New York Times, and Triggered Seismicity
Science: earthquakes, Hawaii, lazy journalism · 9 comments... Hawaiian earthquake was an intraplate event has absolutely nothing to do with the implausibility of it triggering a subsequent event in ... all the damn time, especially on the Pacific Rim; there is nothing special about either the Peru or Papua New Guinea events that would ...
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29 Sep 2020: Friday Rock Blogging, Mailbag Edition
Science: mystery rocks, rock blogging · 8 comments... thing you might find in a three-year-old's nose. There is nothing in the photo for scale, but it is ~3" long. Here's what I can say ...
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25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... PBS. They are not aware that "flock of seagulls hair" has nothing to do with birds flying into it. Retin-A has always made America look ...
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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... trials as "just one of those atypical weird cases" with nothing to teach us about its broader social environment. That the current ...
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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... of the last day of vacation, talking about everything and nothing (as you do), when the conversation took a turn for the mushy. Not the ...
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31 May 2020: Weighted Words
: · 9 comments... have no idea how to fix it. Sorry. I added the code, but nothing shows up! First, view the HTML source of your page: Does <p ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... if anyone can find me some Bay Area progressives who do nothing but mock the breeders in the Midwest, and never ever talk to their more ...
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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... most progressive folks out there. As one person, I can do nothing. So a compromise could be: 1. ask the bloggers. 2. we could make a ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 commentsI'm in one of those seminars whose focus has little, if anything, to do with the course title: Advanced Stratigraphy and Tectonics. It's actually about chance events that change everything, sometimes by going smashy-smashy (which I like), and finding other ...
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31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments... being ready to come up with something clever. But, nothing yet - and my subconscious is supposed to be working on ...
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22 Dec 2020: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments... up your nose at a decent white-collar job, and Tech is nothing if not chock fulla class ...
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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... by; it also doesn't mean that I don't. My boobies have nothing to do with my intelligence or my (un)willingness to play along with ... present at a constant level in the population, and there's nothing we can do to change that, but imprudence can be eliminated from the ...
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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... vote: Yes, it's totally shitty but still better than nothing. I actually do believe in incremental reform. Prop. 80: Electricity ...
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26 Oct 2020: How Homosexuality Hurts You
Politics, Science: queerness, smart-assery, yeast · 3 comments... will cause the downfall of society, and getting back nothing but gobbledygook, it seems that the March of Science (or actually, in ...
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5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... come off as brave, but merely the bravery of a man with nothing more to lose. Random Ten under the fold. Stephane Grappelli - ...
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19 Jul 2020: I Hate Life Hacks
Personal: 3x5 index cards, i hate everything, Internet overload · 3 comments... and learning curve time, which will amortize to nothing over a period that ... um ... look, if it takes you more than 5 minutes ...
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25 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging, Atemporal Edition: Road Cuts on the 5
Science: driving, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 5 comments... made me rear-end the guy in front of me. Though there's nothing so dramatic as the San Andreas, there are numerous views of neatly ...
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20 Jun 2020: Testing the Future
Meta: call for guestbloggers, folk music, have an mp3 · 12 comments... and finish moving all my crap up north - 'cause there's nothing better than nostalgia for the recent past! If you would like to join ...
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16 Jun 2020: Garbage Day
Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, classism, Dianne Feinstein, earthquakes, feminism, flag-burning, rape, welfare · 4 comments... it take so long to accumulate a linky post? This has nothing - nothing - to do with Squishy the Valkyrie's quest to retrieve the Amulet of ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... it to the u.s.a. Ended up in nepal Up on the roof with nothing at all And I knew that day I was going to stay Right where I am, on the ... period - no the physics of green flowers search result is nothing help! my new bra's are itchy paltry phlegm righteous random hearts ...
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3 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Glacial Polish
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... and striations and polish* on a smaller scale. There's nothing special about the process that produces glacial polish; it's simply ...
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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... why it's especially awesome to be female - certainly nothing you could explain to an 8 year old. I felt very dour, crabbing in the ...
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17 May 2020: Someone’s Been Waiting
Meta: fan mail, monkeys, ninjas, pirates, robots, zombies · 5 comments... noticed that they had games about pirates and monkeys, but nothing about robots, ninjas, or zombies. For shame! counseling Ah, but ...
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13 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Evaporites
Science: evaporites, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 3 comments... by its calcium and magnesium ion concentrations, and has nothing to do with the elements that compose table salt (sodium and chlorine, ...
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25 Apr 2020: Feminisms
Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments... that must be corrected. You'll notice that they have nothing to do with: men, race, class, liberty, religion, teleology, biology, ...
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30 Mar 2020: Pharmaceuticals
Politics: pharmacists · 7 comments... Convert to Christian Science. 4. Get paid for doing NOTHING and they can't fire me! Posted by Sarcastro at March 28, 2020 04:23 ...
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18 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Bishop Tuff
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 4 comments... nuclear waste storage facility! Someone will be getting nothing but lignite in their stocking this Santa's Birthday, for sure. Now ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... middle class off so quickly. Honestly, it reminds me of nothing so much as a bunch of men complaining about feminism: I'm a good ...
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8 Mar 2020: Bad Carma
Personal: cars, driving · 6 comments... figured it was a bit of kicked-up highway debris, but no. Nothing hit my car; the window just exploded of its own accord, or more likely ...
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20 Feb 2020: A Lack of Synergy
Human Fuzzies: muppets, pop · 2 comments... just the goodness of vanilla with the okayness of Coke, nothing more. This new Dr. Pepper is the same damn thing: the goodness of ...
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18 Jan 2020: The Joys of Nasal Irrigation
Personal: bodily fluids, colds, home remedies, medicine · 11 comments... on my nose. Let me tell you, pore paranoia strips have nothing on the ancient yogic practice of jala neti - especially not when you've ...
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13 Sep 2020: No Vegetables for the Poor
Politics: classism, USDA, welfare · 2 comments... if left to their own devices, would feed their children nothing but tequila and Cadillacs. So she was a huge fan of the WIC program and ... asking the U.S. government for spinach, do you? Besides, nothing in the whole universe is an acceptable source of dietary calcium but ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... I kept turning the faucet ("tap") and being surprised when nothing came out. I promised Harrison a response to his discussion of the ...
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9 Aug 2020: Moment Tensors as a Heuristic Discourse that Goes “Burble, Burble”
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 6 comments... ceases to mean anything. Literature is everything and nothing. Literature! Horning in on everyone else's grant monies, eh? There ...
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: Weekend Recap
Personal: video games · no comments... Fishin' Frenzy, and Dig-Dug; he must choose, and play nothing but Elevator Action for fourteen years straight. I couldn't actually ...
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11 Jun 2020: Water on Black Mesa
Politics: · 4 comments... and all the other times have had absolutely nothing to do with a certain promising game of Nethack, not at all. At any ...
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2 Jun 2020: Viva Quebeckistan!
Personal: quizzes · no comments... of the human capacity for metaphor. Iowa was just fine. Nothing happened that made me think "hey I oughta blog this!" but there was a ...
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14 May 2020: Hvid Chokolade delice “kronprinsparret”
Human Fuzzies: · 3 comments... graham crackers and nilla wafers, and coming out with nothing but Triskets and a cube of ...
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15 Apr 2020: Oh Boy an Earthquake!
Science: · 10 comments... you may as well just get drunk and watch Pi while wearing nothing but your most-falling-apartest pair of underpants, for all it's going ...
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18 Mar 2020: Because I Had A Coupon
Personal: advertising, i hate everything · no comments... myself. The seal on the garden vegetable cream cheese said nothing. Is the garden vegetable cream cheese really so indifferent to my ...
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24 Feb 2020: Petty Consumer Activism
Politics: advertising, Food and Drug Administration, funny, open letters, sexism, soup · 6 comments... nothing quite like emailing the Campbell Soup Company to bring a little petty ...
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22 Feb 2020: Le Tutoiement des Blogs
Human Fuzzies: french, net culture · 3 comments... thrown the French for a loop. Not my problem, as I have nothing to add to the discussion anyway. Surely someone has already written ...
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12 Oct 2020: Nitrate Pumped Nabokov
Meta: · 5 comments... the entry title. I've gotten a few spam comments lately, nothing unmanageable, but trickles do become floods if one isn't ...
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10 Sep 2020: Epic Immuno-Suppressing Battles
Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments... a foreword to his heliocentric masterwork asserting that nothing he wrote actually had anything to do with reality. It's not quite the ...
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3 Jul 2020: Best of eBay
Aimless: · 2 comments... outside guidelines. Anyone care to take bets on how long nothing will be for ...
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2 May 2020: Master of Nothing
Aimless: · no commentsHere's the biggest twinge of regret 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 soon-to-be degree had more roaring thews attached. I mean, even Associate of Scienc ...
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16 Apr 2020: Green Mung Beans
Meta: · no comments... can you find it Over there. Geez. There's nothing clever to ...
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23 Dec 2020: Holiday Someones
Meta: · 6 comments... and determined to transform into zombie-pants made of nothing but patches. Rest in peace in my grandmother's quilting stash, ...
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26 Oct 2020: Not Dead Yet
Meta: · 1 comment... suppose it's bad form to let one's front page scroll to nothingness. I'll try to stop doing that from now on. While I'm de-scrolling, ...
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19 Sep 2020: Incredible Finds
Personal: · no comments... all reminds me of... er... actually, it reminds me of nothing so much as some of my previous thrift store experiences, which probably ...
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9 Sep 2020: Expenses
Personal: · 4 comments... and blemishes) for $250 still costs me $250. I will eat nothing but beans for the rest of the year, but I will take great pictures of ...
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10 Aug 2020: Happy Boys and Girls
Meta, Personal: · 2 commentsSomeone has a mundane question for once: how are the jobs coming? Have you started already? Oh yes, that. I've started work, with a bit of an erratic schedule, but it's work. It's okay - enough of a challenge to be interesting, but not so hard as to be s ...
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9 Jul 2020: Quality Control Freak
Personal: ants, cleaning, household pests · no comments... they would also form for completely invisible specks of nothing - the counter I'd wiped half an hour ago, the window sill, the toilet ...
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22 May 2020: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Personal: · 4 comments... Not to mention the fact that when you're young, you've got nothing better to do than drive around and beat your chest. Lately I've been ...
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8 May 2020: Joys of Bandwidth; Stuff
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 4 comments... about exam weeks is remembering to appreciate showers - nothing feels quite so good as a shower when you're trying to procrastinate. ...
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1 May 2020: New Lows
Whimsy: · 1 comment... got nothing to say, and plenty of time to say it, so here's one o' them ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... up with an endless series of piss-poor confusing lectures. Nothing will change if we don't band together and demand it. Just bitching is ...
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10 Apr 2020: A Flood of Someones
Meta, Whimsy: candy, Christmas, fan mail, på dansk · no comments... in default phrases, you're making me all excited over nothing and the disappointment goes hard on my thyroid. Måske en sk øl for ... drink. Toasting with curacao, banana liqueur and Sprite is nothing to compare with a proper shot of akvavit, so intuitively, I'd say the ...
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5 Mar 2020: Someone Tries to Distract Me
Meta: · 2 comments... look over there! It's a fair-haired Elf wearing nothing but fishnet stockings and a rugby-shirt! Nice try. I'm not falling for ...
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21 Feb 2020: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments... on my precious translucent clamp binders. There's nothing in particular that prompted this today, though, just generalized ...
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3 Feb 2020: Hey! You!
Meta: · no comments... to the internet community for over six months now, asking nothing in return but the occasional piece of hate mail. Which I haven't ...
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2 Feb 2020: I Vanquish You, Laplace Transform!
Personal: · no comments... looking for cheap digital cameras on ebay. Growing up, nothing my sister or I purchased could really go unquestioned - my parents ...
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30 Jan 2020: Thrust Faulting
Personal: diary, earthquakes · no comments... their earthquake was only about 25 miles away; just a 4.2, nothing exciting, but enough to rattle windows in Valencia. A few people felt ...
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27 Jan 2020: Dear Jack,
Whimsy: · no comments... food is vaguely edible, and reasonably priced, but it's nothing special compared to any of the dozens of similar food chains operating ...
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23 Jan 2020: Department of Search Requests
Whimsy: · no comments... of Search Requests: "using tea bags on pimples." I know nothing about this, but I have heard that putting chamomile tea bags in your ...
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16 Jan 2020: Old Man Winter
Human Fuzzies, Personal: book reviews, rain, winter · no comments... Amazon reviews may lead you to believe that this book is nothing but America-bashing by a curmudgeonly expatriate, and this may even be ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Boring State
Personal: amtrak, crap towns, grain elevators, journey west, land of enchantment, salvage yards, trains, travelogue, useless information · no comments... fare back to Tech. And here I am. And it's warm out, and nothing has changed except maybe me, because nothing on this campus will ever change, ...
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7 Dec 2020: fra natbussen
Personal: · no comments... last night bus and have to walk most of the way home. But, nothing happened last night, and even if it did I wouldn't tell you about it. ...
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17 Nov 2020: jeg var…
Personal: diary, words · no comments... April 15, 2020 My life-as-movie today has been nothing but one big voiceover; and not even an at-self voiceover, where you ...
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4 Nov 2020: stop de kriminelle udlændinge
Politics: · 2 comments... We can do better than that. Standard polemic, certainly nothing I haven't seen in the States (remember Pete Wilson? everybody loves ...
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2 Nov 2020: false hopes
Meta, Personal: minions · no comments... by a fuckload of old messages from RedHat. There's nothing like an updated mod_auth_pgsql package to make me feel loved! I ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... here for three months. I knew the time would fly past like nothing when I signed on to this program, but back in September there were a ...
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12 Oct 2020: Back in Copenhagen
Human Fuzzies: sandwiches, Scandinavia, smørrebrød · no comments... rye, and there are shops and cafeteria lines filled with nothing but a seemingly endless variety of them. It only seems endless, though ...
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24 Sep 2020: Juggling Cabbages
Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment... and some tenderized cabbage. On the bright side, there's nothing like cooking four heads of dropped cabbage to induce some silly ...
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20 Sep 2020: I walked home
Personal: · no comments... when you have smiled at a girl, and spoken a few words of nothing, and watched her vanish liquid into the sea of dancers. Maybe you'll ...
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16 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #2: a list
Aimless: · no comments... that serves donuts and americanized chinese food. And nothing else. those little stores tucked inside the skywalks in the Twin Cities ...
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12 Sep 2020: some thoughts
Politics: · no comments... expatriate community around me until today. It's been nothing more than exchanged glances and the quiet reassurances of "yes, I'm OK" ...
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10 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #1
Aimless: · no comments... with the room full of a deep baritone talking about nothing in particular, sometimes with music underneath, sometimes not. When the ...
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31 Aug 2020: recovered conversation
Personal: · no comments... webmail account. Which is a loss indeed. There's nothing quite so nostalgically comforting on a cold, lonely night as rereading ...