Search Results: perhaps

• 19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments

  ...  If you are an Eleventy-Point-Oh sort of person, though, perhaps you should be following me.) Googling around a bit for existing ...

• 6 Jan 2020: High Femme and Geekery

  
  Aimless: · 13 comments

  ...  like makeup. Fairer Science has a summary of reactions. Perhaps I have missed the many teams of pudgy young women in ratty, ...  femming out is revolutionary, or counter-revolutionary, or perhaps it depends on whether you are wearing heels or flats, or whether you're ...

• 20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  include pouring the gravel in a high-viscosity slurry (perhaps I could embed the coffee beans in corn syrup? Mmmmm yum!) or using a ...

• 12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  primarily supported with pillars that don't resist shear - perhaps because it's a garage, or a retail store front with giant windows - ...

• 2 Apr 2020: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation

  
  Aimless: · 26 comments

  ...  out of obscurity. Conservation of jargon, if you will. Perhaps we can think of some more old place names to honor. Maybe we can even ...  to describe what are now called sedimentary diapirs - or perhaps English spelling would prefer it as typhon. Typhon was the son of Gaia; ...

• 17 Mar 2020: Stupid Thesis Tricks

  
  Aimless: · 20 comments

  ...  engaged in 24/7 thesis-related keyboard-smashing, perhaps you could give me some other challenge words to think about? The joy ...

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

  
  Aimless: · 21 comments

  ...  stories, so that's where I'm going to go with this today. Perhaps I will carp on the defensive nature of people's response to ...

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

  
  Aimless: rheology · 6 comments

  ...  open questions currently puzzling the geoblogosphere. Perhaps I can make it into the volcanic arc or something with a late entry ...  this case, the gap between cylinders was large enough for perhaps 10-30 glass beads), and the real world, where things are thick and have ...

• 14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman

  
  Aimless: · 15 comments

  ...  by drawing on the experiences of unionized campuses and perhaps even some data about unionized students' careers, instead of just our ...

• 23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie

  
  Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments

  ...  Brian objects to the "layer cake" analogy, suggesting that perhaps we should use lentils instead. Lentils? I guess I've seen recipes for ...

• 28 Nov 2020: It’s “That Time” of the Science

  
  Science: goals, the scientific lifestyle, writing · 6 comments

  ...  to abandon this book and write something else instead, or perhaps I could abandon the book and take up a new life as a landscape ...

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

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

  ...  - there's certainly a state Supreme Court challenge, and perhaps some legislative bullshit posturing, to go. O Oracle, will this ...

• 29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier

  
  Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments

  ...  either, seeing as how I was in Iowa at the time... so perhaps my pedagogy isn't doomed after all. Standard blog meme rules apply: ...

• 11 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #26 – Now with 90% Fewer Coordinates!

  
  Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 11 comments

  ...  now the crack pipe is circulating once again. #25 was perhaps a quartz or topaz on the hardness scale*. This one should be ...

• 6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing

  
  Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments

  ...  software ecto. I'm not sure why a total savings of perhaps a dozen keystrokes for a quote'n'paste seems so slick and convenient, ...  when so much of my music collection lacks words - or perhaps the oracle is being a cagey politician? I'm going to be optimistic ...

• 21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony

  
  Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments

  ...  them. The latter is where this issue really irks. Perhaps I shouldn't feel hungry over this at all. Perhaps I asking too much to want close professional friends with whom I can ...

• 13 Jun 2020: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)

  
  Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments

  ...  happened to the rest of it. I can't point to a villain. Perhaps I should be pointing to a hero/ine for giving me the courage to leave a ...

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

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

  ...  (and am too lazy to research the matter right now, but perhaps the lazyweb can do it for me?), but it'd be really nice if we could get ...

• 14 Dec 2020: Finals Week = Bitch About Students

  
  Personal, Teaching: apathy · 5 comments

  ...  am, perhaps, unusual in my appreciation for students who brazenly don't care. The ...

• 14 Oct 2020: 2020 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests

  
  Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments

  ...  that time again! If any of you are in Alameda County, perhaps you give two shits about my politics... AC Transit District ...

• 4 Sep 2020: Laborious Links: Patenting, Urban Geology, and Gratuitous Toilet Analogies

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

  ...  and more widely, in more areas of the life sciences. So perhaps they are patenting for quality." The other Journal of Technology ...  that many women aren't even beginning the process. But perhaps the most compelling observation comes from Kjersten Bunker Whittington, ...

• 10 Aug 2020: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace

  
  Science: Iowa City, James Van Allen, obituaries · no comments

  ...  "I just met James Van Allen in the elevator!" - a measure, perhaps, of the respect Iowa City had for its most famous geophysicist. Or else ...

• 27 Jul 2020: Coming Down from the Link Rush

  
  Links, Meta: anti-racism, blog carnivals, doing science, erase racism, NASA, panta rei, race in science, racism · 1 comment

  ...  I suppose; it all depends on your perspective), though perhaps it was just spillover attention from my housemate's friend's fabulous ...

• 15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM

  
  Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments

  ...  IP law, etc women who started out interested in STEMM, perhaps even received a degree in it, but are now working on a degree or ...

• 8 Jul 2020: Friday Mountain Blogging: Paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada

  
  Science: rock blogging, Sierra Nevada, stable isotopes · 6 comments

  ...  50 million years ago were about 2 kilometers tall, perhaps half a kilometer shorter than they are today. Half a kilometer of ...

• 27 Jun 2020: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril

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

  Perhaps Kyso Kisaen will be a bloggy guide and muse through the Rite of Femminess ...

• : Inconsequentialnesses

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links: craigslist, fart jokes · 5 comments

  ...  seething with friendly earthworms, snails, slugs, and perhaps a salamander or two. Experience Oakland's sub-sidewalk ecology, with ...

• 7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced

  
  Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments

  ...  methods, Mother Earth is smarter than they are. Or perhaps not so much the funniest thing as the most well-put untruth. Excellent ...

• 20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History

  
  Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments

  ...  of years of flowered-plant/pollinator co-evolution. Perhaps, if we are sufficiently clever, we can weave my socks into a narrative ...

• 3 Feb 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Jurassic Utah Edition

  
  Science: Friday random ten, impact structures, iTunes iChing, liquefaction, salt domes, Upheaval Dome · no comments

  ...  in the question ("En At Tygge På" = "one to chew on"). Or perhaps it's just the psychic influence of our resident Impact Guy. The ...

• 2 Dec 2020: For Shame, Beeboid!

  
  Science: Berzerkeley · 4 comments

  ...  institutional rivalries outside their home regions, so perhaps the reporter didn't understand how much of an insult that is. But ...

• 8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs

  
  Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments

  ...  from the Plane of Snot, while I am blissfully healthy? Perhaps there's some sort of snot portal exclusion principle at play here, but ...

• 11 Oct 2020: I’m Crushed

  
  Links, Science: dinosaurs, feathers, paleontology · 3 comments

  ...  equipped to deal with the study of stuff that's alive... perhaps we can get ace public biologist PZ Myers on the case. Via Geology ...

• 7 Oct 2020: Friday Review of Stuff

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: Berzerkeley, restaurant reviews · 5 comments

  ...  salary available for this, but that's life, ain't it? Perhaps the enhanced portfolio-ness will be useful. Interested parties should ...

• 5 Aug 2020: Shark vs. Bear

  
  Whimsy: bears, cultural appropriation, hipsters, sharks, yuppies · 1 comment

  ...  because I don't see anyone else doing it soon either. Perhaps there's an earlier citation in a 'zine someplace that will lift this ...

• 8 Jul 2020: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

  ...  dinosaurs survive. (Ostriches don’t count.) But perhaps dinosaurs initiated the conditions that moved plants on the path to ...

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

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

  ...  one could pull out of that "fiduciary duty" analogy, but perhaps I'm the only one who finds the phrase "fiduciary duty" inherently ...

• 29 Jun 2020: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics, Science: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

  ...  dinosaurs survive. (Ostriches don’t count.) But perhaps dinosaurs initiated the conditions that moved plants on the path to ...

• 10 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gnammas

  
  Science: Australia, rock blogging, Yosemite · 3 comments

  ...  generic, but of course this isn't my area of expertise so perhaps some gentle reader can set me straight on this point. *The internet ...

• 8 Jun 2020: Stuff for Sale and the Intertwixtion of All Oppressions

  
  Personal, Politics: advertising, craigslist, feminism, feminisms, racism, sexism, the Ur-Oppression, torture · 6 comments

  ...  listen respectfully to an argument against Aunt Jemima? Perhaps I'm just cynical - I can't even remember the last time I've encountered ...

• 1 Jun 2020: Modern Society

  
  Links, Politics: health care, impeach Bush, Internet activism, telephony · 5 comments

  ...  letter from another non-cell-phone-owner - I am not alone! Perhaps I'll revert to not owning an answering machine as well, and put out a ...

• 27 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Keiiti Aki Memorial Edition

  
  Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, volcanoes · 1 comment

  ...  we stand on Dr. Aki's shoulders - is somewhat better, and perhaps this afternoon I'll find some interesting examples. Meanwhile, you ...

• 25 May 2020: For the Record

  
  Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments

  ...  for this particular thread, though it's a good one. Perhaps Hugo can place it in a thread of its own. OTOH, I fear that few around ...

• 4 May 2020: Penis-Talk Redux

  
  Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments

  ...  like those in Iran, unwanted pregnancy, or harassment. Perhaps they do; but I think the way our society fears and admires female ...

• 2 May 2020: Monday Review of Stuff

  
  Human Fuzzies: coffee, mac'n'cheez, movie reviews · 6 comments

  ...  it, because there was no one laughing; I chuckled, weakly, perhaps thrice throughout the film. A love story was duly shoehorned in to the ...

• 29 Mar 2020: Gah Spam!

  
  Meta: blog status updates, comment spam · 5 comments

  ...  been responding at best intermittently this morning. Or perhaps someone else was hit; with 80 sites co-hosted on the same machine it's ...

• 23 Mar 2020: Cyclic Extinctions?

  
  Science: data mining, mass extinctions, statistics · no comments

  ...  going back for more than 500 million years. [...] Perhaps, [the authors] suggested, there's an unknown "Planet X" somewhere far ...  the Earth and cause extinctions in regular cycles. Or perhaps there's some kind of "natural timetable" deep inside the Earth that ...

• 27 Feb 2020: Three Parts

  
  Links, Personal: gender, grad school, memes, nudity, sexual tension · 16 comments

  ...  now I'm stuck" whirling 'round - an admirable sentiment, perhaps, but still an awkward moment. Men who are fun to be around in a coed ...

• 17 Feb 2020: Initiative

  
  Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments

  ...  as inviting too much of the wrong kind of attention, and perhaps get myself into real trouble. (How many men have spent three extra ...

• 4 Feb 2020: Trombones of Great Injustice

  
  Politics: fascist police states, Geneva conventions, Joe Lieberman · no comments

  ...  sending a musical instrument to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, so perhaps he wouldn't find it offensive if I tried to mail a trombone to someone ...

• 7 Nov 2020: Someone Moulders

  
  Meta: fan mail, penises · 2 comments

  ...  a Norwegian atlas might be missing vital cultural detail. Perhaps one could subistute the foopball of one's ethnic preference. scallop ...

• 28 Sep 2020: Movies Lately

  
  Human Fuzzies: media politics, movie reviews · 1 comment

  ...  it incongruous and distracting - particularly the cape - perhaps it was some sort of Batman thing but it didn't seem to fit. Outfoxed - ...

• 31 Aug 2020: On What Grounds Is This Legal?

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  media interviews at the Republican National Convention. Or perhaps they were just protecting Mr. Moore himself from an armed and dangerous ...

• 29 Aug 2020: Weekend Review

  
  Personal: capitalism sucks, consumerism, dishware, grad school · 4 comments

  ...  some kind of over-engineered storytelling air freshener. Perhaps some data-entry temp worker will be entertained by my brief summary of ...  I wonder is: why do people like such shallow bowls? Or perhaps they don't like them much at all, given how many of them seem to end up ...

• 24 May 2020: Someone’s An Excuse

  
  Meta: · 1 comment

  ...  would be deep underneath the Tibetan Himalayas, or perhaps on top of them; either way not a trivial thing to visit. what do they ...

• 13 May 2020: Life of the Mind

  
  Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments

  ...  people are fighting to reclaim the word "intellectual", or perhaps some other word, for non-professional/quasi-professional participants ...

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

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  of comments, in my smaller community of the future. And, perhaps it would need to be constructed intentionally if I'm unwilling to live ...

• 25 Mar 2020: The Neon Leg Warmer of the Caribbean

  
  Politics: Haiti, Somalia, tourism, war · 1 comment

  ...  hogtied in barbed wire and raped or shot or both. Or perhaps awful is an overstatement; how's about a vacation in ...

• 14 Feb 2020: Someone Flails Wildly

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  a person, while a carpet cleaner is a whirry suds machine (perhaps this was a person, too, at one point?). With carpet layers, one is ...

• 2 Feb 2020: Linky Roundup

  
  Links: · 2 comments

  ...  "clear, crisp and more modern". Clarity and crispness are perhaps subjective judgments (I've never been a Times Roman fan m'self) but ...

• 24 Jan 2020: PiE Day

  
  Food, Personal: cactuses, Caltech, national pie day, pie · no comments

  ...  it was most definitely not labeled "tunas" in the store. Perhaps the Farm Fresh Ranch Market is promoting some kind of Mexican ...

• 10 Sep 2020: Epic Immuno-Suppressing Battles

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments

  ...  though I still need to purchase a longer ethernet cable. Perhaps I will go back to starting, finishing and posting entries in one day ...

• 3 Sep 2020: More Maps!

  
  Aimless: · 4 comments

  ...  how can maps and communities reinforce one another? Or perhaps "reinforce one another" is the wrong expression, if you consider maps ...

• 8 Aug 2020: Virtual PHP Splode

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  by nefarious forces in the middle of the night (or perhaps in the middle of the afternoon). Archives and miscellaneous features ...

• 17 Jul 2020: Foam Cardboard Dogs

  
  Human Fuzzies: · no comments

  ...  Physically, the outside layer is crumbly brown drywall, or perhaps a piece of femur that has been cracked open and gnawed on before being ...

• 5 May 2020: Police Can’t Stop Drinking

  
  Human Fuzzies: syntactical ambiguity · 6 comments

  ...  the third is left as an exercise to the reader. Perhaps I've been addled by a thick stack of absurd people claiming differences ...  among blue-eyed vs. brown-eyed Missouri freshmen, or perhaps I'm a closet Italian, but I can't find the third meaning. Help? It's ...

• 15 Apr 2020: Crow Man Attacks L.A.

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  park across the street who sounds exactly like a crow or perhaps a scrub jay. I would swear that he was a crow, but crows don't have ...

• 5 Mar 2020: Orders of Magnitude

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  here; why don't they serve Gatorade at these things? Or perhaps some warm Pedialyte would be more appropriate, given the weather. I'd ...

• 4 Feb 2020: Uh-Oh

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  school will cause my student loans to magically disappear. Perhaps I should see about digging myself a bit deeper in debt to buy a ...

• 2 Feb 2020: Mystery Root

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 11 comments

  ...  bag of discount yams came with two mystery roots - or perhaps it's more accurate to say one and a half mystery roots. What are these ...

• 12 Jan 2020: Orange Doodle Bomb

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links: · 3 comments

  ...  in the dark behind their computers and pressed buttons. Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but I hate going to shows where I can't see the ...

• 5 Nov 2020: None of the Above

  
  Personal, Politics: California politics, Gray Davis, US party politics · no comments

  ...  van with painted windows would have made great theater. Or perhaps an armored SUV of some kind. The awkward postered blob car was just ...

• 28 Sep 2020: Phone Books

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

  ...  phone books don't come in modern yuppie pay phones. Perhaps in a poor part of town you'll find a bedraggled phone book with half ...

• 17 Aug 2020: Someone Presents a URL

  
  Meta: monkeys · no comments

  ...  want to be marmalade monkey, but I've eaten marmalade perhaps once or twice in my life. Reading about something in British ...

• 1 Aug 2020: Panties Ready for Bunching

  
  Personal: socks, trolling · 3 comments

  ...  least since codpieces and hats with excessive feathers. Perhaps he was talking about the kind of socks that have to match your ...

• 23 Jul 2020: Geography

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: grammar, words · 3 comments

  ...  Thursday, and will still be returning on Sunday - but perhaps I won't have quite as much sweet corn along. I am continually ...

• 5 Jun 2020: Guestbloggers Coming

  
  Meta: blog status updates · no comments

  ...  than compare each of them to a kind of alluvial fill or perhaps a fault scarp. Luckily, they all have their own blogs and can speak for ...

• 20 May 2020: Someone’s At It Again

  
  Meta: · 3 comments

  ...  happen to know a woman who will let you get this close (or perhaps you are a woman yourself and in possession of a good mirror) you can ...

• 1 Apr 2020: A Farewell

  
  Whimsy: · 21 comments

  ...  you may have noticed, this blog is in a bit of a decline. Perhaps it's an inevitable result of the growing sense of familiarity I feel ...  you friendly internet-people, making me lax with my posts; perhaps it's because I've got other things to worry about. Regardless, it can ...

• 30 Mar 2020: Crying Baby Airlines

  
  Personal: · 4 comments

  ...  of self-mutilation, but a hideously boring one as well. Perhaps a greater streak of self-hatred would have ...

• 14 Mar 2020: Someone’s playing drunken Scrabble

  
  Meta: · 1 comment

  ...  who's used the word McMoots in an indexed location. Perhaps I should adopt it as a surname, to distinguish myself from all the Yami ...

• 11 Feb 2020: Sorry, try again

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  dreamland 2020s San Fransisco, but never in real life. Perhaps it's unique to the DARE generation, those of us who've been told ...

• 10 Dec 2020: tuna fish sculpture

  
  Food, Meta: cooking, groceries · no comments

  ...  So if you have anything to say about the Episcopal church, perhaps you can say it here, while I try to work out where this file handle ...

• 14 Nov 2020: tuitive

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  to all our problems. So you see how I deserve punishment. Perhaps some old photographs of Kongens Nytorv will help? There are more old ...

• 30 Oct 2020: ask google

  
  Whimsy: · no comments

  ...  book in the shop to include my darling fantasie-impromptu. Perhaps I'll go bang on the piano for a ...

• 5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen

  
  Aimless, Personal: · no comments

  ...  might be a good idea to go to Ireland the week after, or perhaps London, or both. Hmmmm... any ...

• 31 Aug 2020: bandwagon meme

  
  Whimsy: · no comments

  ...  I taste Garlic, left over from the spaghetti sauce, or perhaps from something else I ate days ago. Garlic is one of the few spices I ...

• 27 Aug 2020: jeg kan godt tale dansk!

  
  Human Fuzzies: Danish · no comments

  ...  and want to practice the language, you indicate somehow - perhaps by wearing a colorful button - that you can understand phrases from a ...

• 22 Aug 2020: One True Blog

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  skills I'll probably end up taking the ferry to Malmo, or perhaps a train to Stockholm, and riding around on busses in Sweden for a ...

• 15 Jul 2020: no hate mail yet

  
  Meta: blog status updates · no comments

  ...  sign the guestbook. I have not gotten any hate mail yet, perhaps I should be more controversial and tell people how much I like ...  überbeans for breakfast, they're delicious! Or perhaps I should interpret "ADD 4 INCHES TO YOUR DICK" as some kind of ...  so I'll spare you all the random commentary on porn spam. Perhaps when I'm more awake I'll choose to write a nice book review ...