Search Results: person
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21 May 2020: Field Vehicle Amenities
Science: cars, field work · 10 comments... on the stereo. Much easier than fiddling with a little "personal radio station" adapter thingie, or trying to find decent music on the ... been on short of a multimodal geophysical survey or 30-person field trip, a "standard" 4WD pickup or SUV is total gas-guzzling ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... and we look like judgmental buffoons. This isn't about my personal beliefs or the merits of any particular position, it's about the ...
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19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments... pay no attention. If you are an Eleventy-Point-Oh sort of person, though, perhaps you should be following me.) Googling around a bit ...
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17 Feb 2020: Teaching Engineers to Blog?
Meta: · 6 comments... so we put emphasis on rhetorical situations and interpersonal communication. I wanted to introduce blogging because it's a new and ... though. I'm sure they're familiar with LJ/Facebook/other personal journaling avenues, but they may never have ventured into science or ...
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26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 comments... It is a doable amount of work for an unemployed person, but even so, it is way too much work for a vanity project. After all, ... have to do the extra work of editing for print. A rational person would use the time and energy it would take to anthologize to write more ...
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4 Jan 2020: 2020 Blogolutions
Meta: · 4 comments... and renewal-minded. And I've been thinking of starting my personal calendar year on National Pie Day, anyway. So here are my ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 comments... volcanologists solves the puzzle - but not their interpersonal problems! - against a backdrop of scantily clad surfers. Geobiologists ... resulting in minor property damage. At least one person will be slightly injured by a falling object. A new mantle plume will ...
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24 Dec 2020: Happy Twinkletree, Joyous Monkey
Aimless: · 3 comments... drinking mug after mug of hot cocoa and building snowpersons on the porch. I went out yesterday for the first time since the ...
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6 Nov 2020: Why Proposition 8 Hurts So Much
Politics: · 3 comments... redefine marriage as something that affirms the straight person's pinnacle in the social hierarchy? Sure, it's an injustice and a ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... a cute label and post its picture here. If more than one person takes this option, the person to donate most gets first choice of rocks. This is important, because my ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... but Ruth Mitchell does it! She sees voting as a form of personal empowerment. But as The Hand Mirror notes, get-out-the-vote messages ... not these horrible creatures in this book. Female Impersonator discusses Christopher Nolan's treatment of Batman's family ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... else. As a geophysicist/physical hydrogeologist who impersonates a real geologist on the Internet, I am often called to reach well ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... you can't sniff at it, if you happen to be the sort of person who sniffs skeptically or disdainfully at things. The paper's ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... the public, [the debate over Pluto's status is] a bit more personal because it is something I know in advance will need explaining and ...
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17 Jun 2020: Another Lusi Update
Aimless: · 4 comments... in the Financial Times, Lapindo acknowledges that its personnel made mistakes during drilling immediately before the eruptions - but ...
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21 May 2020: The Scouring of Fossil Gorge
Aimless: · 6 comments... all to discuss a geologic event that's significant to us personally. (Well, technically, he asked for the event that is most ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... of the first things we discover in these groups is that personal problems are political problems. There are no personal solutions at this time. There is only collective action for a ...
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16 Apr 2020: Women in Science Linky-Post
Links: · 3 comments... to move past guilt and on to useful dialogue, etc., if the person explaining these things to you in-depth is a person like yourself? White or male or straight or Christian or whatever? I ...
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14 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: The Bishop Tuff
Aimless: · 6 comments... Earth kilometers) away from the eruption; it contains no persons for scale, but the outcrop is about 10m high. Ash deposits from the ...
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11 Mar 2020: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food
Aimless: · 21 comments... an actual conclusion, I will present an anecdote about my personal experience of white privilege, which has absolutely nothing to do with ...
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14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman
Aimless: · 15 comments... is not to be underestimated, but I don't feel that I'm personally much better off with the UAW than without. The sciences as a whole ...
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12 Feb 2020: Jim Watson, My Racist Corporate Overlord
Aimless: · 32 comments... publicly identified as over-the-line bigots no reasonable person should associate with ever. Or at least I don't. I certainly didn't when ... at ScienceBlogs, I'm not really worried about stains to my personal political purity that might result from the association. I am, ...
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31 Jan 2020: Moving to New Internets
Meta: · 5 comments... going anywhere - I like having it as a repository for personal projects, and besides, I just renewed the domain for 2 more years. ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... to hear that this class has taken you on some kind of personal journey of fear and enlightenment. As one human being to another, I ...
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2 Nov 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Feyerabend
Science, Whimsy: philosophy of science, unprofessional boundaries · 2 comments... for a while, and Female Science Professor's post about personal boundaries and social networking sites got me ...
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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... or irreverent comment you’re thinking with the person next to you. Then there are the philosopher's zombies, who by ... women at the university too, the kind that I could see in person and smile at and even get a hug from on a tough day. How do I find these ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 comments... created by Nobuyuki Kayahara, is a great scientific personality test. If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, you've got excess ... left frontal crockus. This means that you're a vibrant personality whose passions are apparent to everyone around you, but sometimes ...
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3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments... and why it is important? What about the gender of the person you are talking to or thinking about? Do you have a little script you ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... party this evening. So I'm skipping over all the in-depth personal details that led me to the earth sciences - the desire to connect with ...
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29 Jul 2020: Understanding Everyday Symbolism
Politics: hate crimes, racism · 6 comments... of this restroom have no use for "sand n****rs", as the person in the farthest stall so charmingly put it. Who are these people, and ...
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6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing
Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments... evidently I've got bag lady teeth for a rich person, but movie star teeth for a poor person," I told Steve. Remember that Chilean lake that just up and ...
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22 Jun 2020: Where on (Google) Earth #20
Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 5 comments... am sure I will be ignominiously revealed as the 4th or 5th person to find the estuary. However, I am so very excited to have finally ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... I hedge; I posture submissively; I describe things as personal that are really political. While I don't quite have the urge to ... traditionally feminine roles and virtues, and b) provided personal solutions to political problems, situating flaws within the individual ...
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13 Jun 2020: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments... write about, because so much boils down to dissecting my personality, my strengths and weaknesses as a student and a researcher, the ...
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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 comments... aren't all things that operate at a conscious level. Personally, what makes me roll my eyes the most is the thought that after he ... sanctimonious donkeys. One of the benefits of a multi-person review panel is that if you happen to draw a bad card, someone who's not ...
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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... gender, or both, as of last night, we had: 1 person of color of indeterminate gender 1 man of indeterminate race 3 women ...
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3 Mar 2020: Earthquake Folksonomy
Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments... on a crowded street corner when everyone turns to the person next to them to ask "hey, did you feel that?". Perpetually oblivious, I ... the really big ones that develop perceptible individual personalities. If you could graph the energy released by an earthquake directly ...
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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... infighting and the frequent turnover of office personnel. The former staff members also accused Smith, who has been ill and ...
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12 Oct 2020: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments... social implications of mascara (though, for the record, my personal grooming practices have largely been determined by my early acceptance ...
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: Seismograms from North Korea
Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 comments... could pull out a better-looking signal than that, but that person is certainly not me. So let's just look at the vertical motion ...
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16 Aug 2020: The Grand Compendium of Geoscience Blogs
: · no comments... Personal Blogs Most of the blogs listed above have some personal content mixed in with the geoscience. Blogs listed here may or may not have any geoscience mixed in with the personal content. Random Thoughts of a Confessional Lutheran - Occupation: ...
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10 Aug 2020: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace
Science: Iowa City, James Van Allen, obituaries · no comments... And I hope that I too can live a decade longer than the person who pre-writes my ...
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8 Aug 2020: My Identity is a List of Links
Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments... on one's experience in society, regardless of one's personal level of antiracism/internalized white supremacy/etc., or that she ... us is wrong, but when there's significant tension between personal desire and social response the distinction becomes important. If ...
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23 Jun 2020: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache
Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments... used the WordPress import process just like any other person would if they were migrating from Movable Type. My first couple attempts ...
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7 Jun 2020: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics
Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... good at figuring out the underlying assumptions in a person's position. I can immediately leap from "What about all the other ...
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6 Jun 2020: I’ll Stick to Compost, Thanks
Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments... to receive standard medical care, or even disapprove of my personal life. Seriously, I'd much rather live in a society of Fundamentalist ...
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17 May 2020: On the Racial Dynamics of Bus Boarding
Politics: racism, white studies · 7 comments... letters: ICU, KEEP OUT, NO ADMISSION, AUTHORIZED MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND IMMEDIATE FAMILY ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT, NO EXCEPTIONS. I turned ...
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11 May 2020: Wine is for Men*
Human Fuzzies, Politics: lazy journalism, wine · 2 comments... that, if asked, Stephen Yafa would completely disavow any personal appreciation for the tired narrative** of Men Act Suave, Women Coo ... cesspool is convenient. Even if your gratuitous second-person fluff casually excludes half your readership, for no good reason, when ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... the new URL Science blogging would have to be pretty impersonal, as even a vague description of my research interests is enough to pin ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... conference, how to write a Zine, how to talk to a congress person? Or are they sending yet another eloquent article that details why ...
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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... of links to interesting things, but absent some serious personal capital as an arbiter of taste/intellectual merit, that model doesn't ... to see them and that, to even discuss them subjects one to personal attacks and ignorant comments from even the most progressive folks out ...
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25 Mar 2020: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist
Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments... it's not my thing," I said. "You're not much of a party person, huh?" "I am, but --" I saw his look bordering on bruised ego, and ...
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13 Mar 2020: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy
Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments... having trouble pinning it down: pervasiveness, maybe, or a personal connection to what might otherwise seem quite abstract. When ...
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7 Mar 2020: Drawings of Scientists
Links, Science: kids drawings, science in pop culture · 5 comments... Judy is wearing her white lab coat. She is a very simple person . . . simple clothes, simple house, simple personality." "Scientists live in their own world and the rest of society ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... kind of like this idea, because I'm an arrogant person and I like my socks. So here are some events I think are profound and ...
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12 Feb 2020: The Wages of Procrastination
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Appalachian death polka, domesticity · 3 comments... was a housemate, not a guest, and even better, the type of person who doesn't even need to be shamed into cleaning it up once the hangover ...
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31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments... a relationship is, itself, laborious, and it's always the person with the least power who is stuck with the job. Part two: analyzing ... the Victorian domestic sphere to the modern concept of personal empowerment. So all of this shit has been rattling around in my brain, ...
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19 Jan 2020: Lecture Zero
Personal, Teaching: grad school, time management · no comments... by persuasion (manipulation, deception, etc. as your personal ethic permits) if you need a dramatic change in enrollment numbers. ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Privileged Huff
Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments... jerk on occasion without ruining my standing as a decent person and ally in the fight for justice - and the fact that people call me on ... So hoorah for you, Kerrick! You're helping me be a better person. So you see, all we white liberals need is our very own personal ...
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19 Dec 2020: Happy Whatever
Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 comments... dearest readers, probably need my opinions on scientist-layperson communication more than a report of my combat status in the Undeclared ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU Two
Personal: american geophysical union, beer, conference blogging · no comments... than either form of conversation alone. One person who stopped by to chat was affiliated with the Institute for Creation ...
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1 Dec 2020: Happy Blog Against Racism Day!
Politics: anti-racism, blog carnivals, racism · 4 comments... aesthetic relativism. X. is a generally right-thinking person who abhors mustaches* - which is, of course, the aesthetic preference of all right-thinking persons, because large mustaches unbalanced by equally large beards are ...
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23 Nov 2020: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments... behind my back, but I won't make that claim. After all, my personal essay underproduction has been studied from many angles (too much ...
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16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments... people don't really bond, and being so small that one interpersonal conflict can destroy everything. Forty people feels large to me; there ...
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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... Ballot initiatives are supposed to represent the unique personality of the California electorate - let's not be afraid to let our inner ...
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19 Oct 2020: My Favorite Cop-Out
Links: depression, museums · 6 comments... bad things. I do not say how I feel I am such a terrible person that this badness inevitably stains anyone around me. The word ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... kugel is yummy, and would probably scale well for a 40-person brunch. Pretty pictures of kaleidoscoped flowers! The artiste ...
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9 Sep 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-N
Whimsy: co-op living, Friday random ten, Germany, Nutella, search requests, welfare · 4 comments... A tribute to Nutella from the German welfare state: Personne pourtant ne s'étonne en Allemagne que le pot de Nutella, cette petite ...
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30 Aug 2020: Piles of Minute Aggravations
Personal: cars, grad school, i hate everything · 2 comments... through lunch and you can't even stop to call or email the person who will otherwise waste an hour just scratching her ass waiting for ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... her incredulous impatience was wholly unwarranted. The person who'd given us our boarding passes swore she'd seen our tickets, we ...
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24 Jul 2020: A Distribution of Props
Personal: pie, thanksgiving, travelogue · 4 comments... shinies at Rosenborg Slot, and for being the sort of person with whom one can pick up almost where one left off four years ago: ...
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21 Jul 2020: Why I am so very slack
Personal: guest posts · no comments... all that's gone on today they still want to go through." Person! One (non-)bomb was at Warren Street tube, where we like to get off for ...
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8 Jul 2020: Friday Rock Blog: The Unenlightened Canadian Edition
Uncategorized: guest posts, rock blogging · 3 comments... live at Tall, Dark, and Mysterious, to the extent that web personas can be described as living online. I'm gainlessly unemployed at the ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... - and they were all from Canada Thunder Bay, Ontario. Person from Thunder Bay, I admire your choice of occupational ...
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30 May 2020: Weighted Words v. 1.1
Meta: Weighted Words, WordPress, WordPress plugins · 2 comments... put spaces after all your punctuation marks like a normal person, you don't really need to ...
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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... Sweet, soft and light, just like the candy bar. So is your personality. You like to have fun, but you're a little shy. You like to be ... you that makes no one be mean to you, and you are a nice person, but you still do have many enemies because you are so perfect. What ...
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25 May 2020: For the Record
Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... find it no end of irritating when an otherwise respectful person repeatedly puts forth ridiculous stereotypes about one of my favorite ...
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17 May 2020: Someone’s Been Waiting
Meta: fan mail, monkeys, ninjas, pirates, robots, zombies · 5 comments... you want it fancy. Naturally they rank your 5-dimensional personality according to the syncretic folksonomy of monkey, pirate, robot, ...
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13 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Evaporites
Science: evaporites, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 3 comments... plus or minus extras if you're a pretentious sea salt person). But of course, "salt" is also a generic term which encompasses the ...
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8 May 2020: Reelroad
Human Fuzzies, Meta: folk music, have an mp3 · 11 comments... its entirety. That's worth at least one of my precious personal data, I ...
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26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments... grant myself dispensation, to say that as long as I don't personally torture anybody, for instance, I don't need to object when my ...
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21 Apr 2020: Brain Asplode
Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 comments... people (drillers, etc.) to take me seriously as a smart person, but it's never done much to allay my worries about the kinds of ...
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18 Apr 2020: For Millennia, Google Has Spoken
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: essay contests, googlefu · 3 comments... of the property as a whole, and the other is the other persons involved in the decision making process. Council members are encouraged ...
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30 Mar 2020: A Personal Ontology of Bagels
Whimsy: quizzes · 1 commentI promised I'd bring bagels: ...
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18 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Bishop Tuff
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 4 comments... Earth kilometers) away from the eruption; it contains no persons for scale, but the outcrop is about 10m high. Ash deposits from the ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... as a bunch of men complaining about feminism: I'm a good person! I recognize my male privilege and treat women with respect! I am sad ...
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15 Feb 2020: How to Ward Off Rapists
Politics, Whimsy: rape, satire · 7 comments... of the common wisdom imparted to women as regards our personal safety: we are given nonsensical instructions about avoiding ... I value my gorgeous womanly thighs". For that special personal touch, try writing with a calligraphy pen and decorating the card with ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments... Day and we have chocolate chips to melt into a lazy person's fondue. Young-earther fish will still be in their barrels for shooting ...
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1 Feb 2020: Ownership Society
Personal: capitalism sucks, money, public radio · 7 comments... I feel the power of ownership there, baby! Public radio personalities will say anything and everything during fund drives, so one ...
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14 Jan 2020: Magical Cow Pr0n!
Links, Politics: earworms, feminism, pornography, sex · 2 comments... sexuality can exist without an interest in the whole person, which does not and cannot exist in internet porn pictures or with paid ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 comments... but all three at once? Even operating under a gentlepersons's understanding of the debate (we're all speaking in broad ...
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19 Dec 2020: Someone Has a Small Internet
Meta: fan mail, high school, Internet citizen of the world, nostalgia · no comments... I came in here for that special offer: a guaranteed personality. Capitalism isn't going to help you here. You could always take Trotsky's personality, I hear he's no longer using it. syrup my sticky yami Look, I ...
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13 Dec 2020: Top Five in 2020
Meta: clip show, procrastinating, skunks · 2 comments... as the retroactive construction of a mendaciously coherent personal narrative (yawn) or doin' some easy stuff. Hugo importunes us all to ...
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6 Dec 2020: An N Things Post: N=2, Politics
Links, Politics: gender, US party politics, USDA · no comments... issues and family issues are things that are part of every person's life. Liberals can't see [the Republican success from endorsing ...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... to the Realm of Forms! says an attractive composite person, Is your cheese-fœtus dead or alive? There are two things, here ... as you want. We unthinkingly accept the right of a dead person to have their now-useless bodies treated as we think they would have ...
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19 Nov 2020: Quickies
Personal, Politics: Christian hegemony, elections · no comments... more impact than those stupid forwards where every tenth person sends it off to /dev/null, which is to say more impact than zero. Which ...
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3 Nov 2020: Back on the Horse
Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments... and sundry 2020 Nader-haters, that not all movements are personality ...
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5 Oct 2020: Endorsements for Los Angeles Judicial Offices
Politics: endorsements, local elections, Los Angeles · 4 comments... appointments are a lot like the Myers-Briggs personality test: do you prefer fairness, or compassion? I prefer compassion ...
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21 Sep 2020: Non-Marketing Non-Future
Aimless: · no comments... geez, it's really arrogant of me to pretend I'm the only person in the whole wide office fridge so unaffected by consumer culture. And ...
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13 Sep 2020: No Vegetables for the Poor
Politics: classism, USDA, welfare · 2 comments... additional cheese may be issued to lactose intolerant persons!* What's that you say, Mr. Welch's Grape Juice and Mr. Dairy ... subsidy programs. * I assume some lactose intolerant persons can tolerate cheese. However, neither of my two lactose intolerant ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... local government commission Informing your fellow civic persons about what you learned in items 1-5 with a letter to the editor, or in ...
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30 Aug 2020: Note to People on Political Volunteer Phone Lists
Politics: i hate everything, impeach Bush, US party politics · no comments... about your disappointment with the Democratic Party. The person on the other end doesn't necessarily like the Democratic Party any more ... not be accurately characterized as "disappointment". The person on the other end is not even an enthusiastic volunteer ready to change ...
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11 Aug 2020: Burble Tensors on Cross-Disciplinary Manifolds of Love!
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 5 comments... distorted, but... It's one thing to bring a pre-existing personal interest to bear on a problem. Asking literature students to invest a ...
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27 Jul 2020: PSA: Dental Hygiene
Personal: dentistry, saliva · 4 comments... to the dentist regularly. Salivar pH levels vary from person to person; if you have acidic spit, you should eat the whole box of chocolates at ...
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25 Jul 2020: Education Reform Blah Blah
Politics: · 2 comments... credentialing process. I'm an intelligent young person who very nearly went into teaching. The mind-numbing credentialing ...
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21 Jul 2020: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... while popular magazines (e.g., Cosmopolitan) frame personal/romantic desireability as primarily a function of sexual ...
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11 Jul 2020: Meyers and Briggs, Chew Thoughtfully on Your Toenails!
Whimsy: psychology, quizzes · no comments... a brass ring. You crackle. Although you have a leader's personality, you often choose not to lead, as leaders stray too far from their ...
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13 May 2020: Life of the Mind
Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments... is a salutary exercise for any reading and thinking persons; beyond that, it's a sacred obligation for all living and breathing persons. Delegating this task to a cadre of educated intellectuals, paid or ...
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10 May 2020: Aaah Generation Overload
Personal: · 2 comments... Medieval Barbituate. He almost won, too. I am the oldest person in the room, which is not at all a refreshing change from hearing ...
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15 Apr 2020: Babe the Blue Bunyip?
Human Fuzzies: words · no comments... the first person to develop a convincing folk etymology that relates bunyips to Paul ...
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7 Mar 2020: Investing With Your Values
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, investing, money, socially responsible investment · 3 comments... actually make a difference, nervous about investing and personal finance generally. I was evidently not the intended audience. The ...
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2 Mar 2020: Personalized Follow-Up
Personal: · 5 commentsFrom: campbellsoup @ casupport.com To: yami_mcmoots @ yahoo.com Subject: Re: 2237666A Ms. Yami McMoots, we received your message and appreciate your taking the time to contact Campbell Soup Company about our Franco-American Where's Waldo Pasta with Tomato ...
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22 Feb 2020: Le Tutoiement des Blogs
Human Fuzzies: french, net culture · 3 comments... tutoie sur les blogs Dominique) que tu rencontre d'autres personnes que Mr Loc Le Meur pour t'aider à comprendre le fonctionnement de ... (one uses the informal "you" in blogs, Dominique) to meet persons other than M L-le-M to help you understand the workings of this new ...
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14 Feb 2020: Someone Flails Wildly
Meta: · no comments... As to carpet layers and cleaners: a carpet layer is 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 locked in to one of two ...
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2 Feb 2020: Linky Roundup
Links: · 2 comments... still be printed in a fixed-width font. How much is your personal information worth? I think there was some sort of reason that Flash ...
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28 Jan 2020: Learning from Experience
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 3 comments... tasty, but they hate you with a deep, abiding, and very personal hatred, which they express at every opportunity by launching ...
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26 Jan 2020: I Don’t Like!
Links: · 3 comments... or P2P Bayesian music filters to work - for every person who shares my tastes in music, there are 10,000 Enya-grubbing New Agers ...
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9 Dec 2020: Snekaos i L.A.?
Links, Politics, Whimsy: Local Politics, Los Angeles, snow · 5 comments... joys of snow to poor inner-city children and city councilpersons: Last time, Reyes and his staff tried to make their own [snowman], ...
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8 Dec 2020: Peer Review the Asbestos Way
Politics, Science: · 1 comment... Certainly, there are many areas of research in which a person working in good faith to choose an unbiased review panel will be able to ...
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14 Nov 2020: Inherent Problems
Personal: cubicle living, domesticity, old fogeyism, quilting · 5 comments... lewd music can never top. I am partaking of a classic old person's domestic hobby in a culture that values youth and mobility! Rebellion ...
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9 Nov 2020: What I’m Reading
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... out whether Mt. Wilson is shaped like a dragon, or a person putting on his clothes, or an upside-down boat. Photographing Your ...
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16 May 2020: Kkore 1: the Stack
Personal: · 4 comments... value.... How should I decorate? Second, am I the kind of person that names cars? My old high school pickup didn't have a name; I ... really count; I had no right to name it. What kind of person does name ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... no punchlines or strong central narratives or evidences of personal growth in any of this trip (unless you count the growth of blisters, ...
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12 Mar 2020: Maxi Pad-Abouts
Links, Personal: craftiness, menstruation · 1 commentHaving to write a nasty, boring paper on the life cycle of Hawaiian volcanoes (which would be interesting if I were allowed more tangents about mantle plumes...) makes me feel all crafty for some reason. If I don't wind up with a clever lamp shade from a C ...
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5 Mar 2020: Orders of Magnitude
Personal: · 1 comment... plane, then on every plane there should be at least one person flying to a funeral. And that was me, Sunday night, Monday morning and ...
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26 Jan 2020: Link Fest Rama Lama Ding Dong
Links: · 3 comments... takes a tough man to make a tender Green Gabbro. My new personal motto is "Try Mild!" Tom Tomorrow cites the Iowa City Press-Citizen ...
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10 Jan 2020: Stick Up Your Etiquette
Personal: · 1 comment... is indeed their "goof" then blah blah blah. Sincerely, Person This drives me absolutely bonkers. I start off feeling boorish and ... then I realize why, take a hearty dislike to the person on the other side of the terminal, think about other situations in which ...
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27 Dec 2020: Use the Meaning of Christmas, Luke!
Whimsy: Christmas · 2 comments... not sentimentality): Are we to believe every person you see running around out there like a schizophrenic circus clown is ...
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15 Nov 2020: Committee Committee
Personal, Politics: bureaucracy, Caltech · 1 comment... 9 latest, greatest committee creations. If I hear one more person talking about how they wanted to give back to the community, and serving ...
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18 Aug 2020: A Contest-Contest
Aimless: · 15 comments... of it, whichever comes first. Limit three entries per person. Anyone may enter, but winners outside the United States will receive a ...
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15 Aug 2020: havabanana
Links: · no comments... personal message just for you. Sixth-grade animation stylings at their ...
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14 Aug 2020: Cold Turkey
Personal: · 2 comments... support wants to know before they let you email a real person. I have a sinking feeling that I might end up paying for my broadband ...
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28 Jul 2020: dry air
Personal: · no comments... I am back, safe and sound and only wondering what kind of person refuses to run pushing and shoving as fast as they can to the baggage ...
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25 Jul 2020: Almost Obligatory Meta-Introspection on the Occasion of my Blog’s Birthday
Meta: · 3 comments... enjoys this stuff, or decides that I am an interesting person because of it - particularly if that someone happens to be erudite and ...
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13 Jun 2020: Spamanography
Uncategorized: guest posts · 1 comment... Business person , We know you are interested in receiving cutting-edge news . This is a ...
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9 Jun 2020: Morbid Fascination
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... Poetic justice, you see, with a name like this, and my personality only makes it all the more inevitable. My last words will likely be ...
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4 Jun 2020: Someone’s Familial Specifications
Meta: · no comments... are now. Note, gentle readers, that surfing off your own personal bookmarks page significantly reduces the odds of you being taken for ...
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20 May 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · 3 comments... and in possession of a good mirror) you can tell her personality from the shape of her breasts. Mine are bell-shaped, though frankly ... Whatever. I trust that the insights from the breast shape personality detector will keep you off the streets and out of trouble for a ...
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2 May 2020: awooga!
Aimless: · 2 comments... Yeah. I have that. I filled out one of those "87 idiotic personal questions that no one will read your answers to" things yesterday, but ...
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18 Apr 2020: Someone’s a Seaman
Meta: · 1 comment... at fame and fortune. I like a boat's keel. I'm a prow person myself, but whatever turns you on, ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... therapist's couch talking about my mother. That's really a personal issue, though, and right now I'm complaining about an institution. I ... I even know what the problem is, that's unfair. If that person happens to be myself - it's still unfair. I am not a superhuman ...
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15 Apr 2020: Someone Opines
Meta: · 2 comments... joys of sedimentology, but that doesn't make me a bad person, does it? I think life's just a game of cards. In the end you'll lose, ...
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13 Apr 2020: Wizard of Bras
Personal: · 7 comments... t-shirts, but that's all. They have their own shape and personality, and complain loudly if any upstart fabric construction tries to ...
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25 Mar 2020: Someone’s Eating Well…
Meta: · 7 comments... and it clearly isn't this person: I always thought they said "Cup o' Noodles." But I've got one and it ...
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24 Mar 2020: Domestic Manners of the Americans
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... Wright's Nashoba. In its gossipy tone and incessantly personal scope, the book immediately reminded me of blogland; and Mrs. ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... having or acting on such feelings doesn't make me a bad person or a bad student - and I realized I don't actually believe a word of it. ... learning would overwhelm these feelings. If I were a good person, my commitment to my fellow man would allow me to feel these things ...
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14 Mar 2020: Someone’s playing drunken Scrabble
Meta: · 1 comment... about sums it up. As a side note, I'm currently the only person on the internet who's used the word McMoots in an indexed location. ...
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7 Mar 2020: Try Optimism
Personal: · no comments... the emotional exhaustion, the lack of enjoyment in interpersonal interaction, and the loss of general well being that comes with a ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... all it takes is a well-timed bitch session and one person to remind me that everyone feels this way during winter term. I'll go to ...
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5 Feb 2020: Faulty Wiring
Personal: · no comments... life, no matter how early "morning" was or what unfamiliar person was squealing "wakey wakey!" into your ear, coming abruptly out of ...
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30 Jan 2020: I Heart Time Cube
Whimsy: crackpots, time cube · 1 comment... Cube. I've got to say, Gene Ray is pretty convincing in person. He gave me a lot to think about ... When asked "What is 9 x 6" by a ...
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11 Jan 2020: Flamingo Lips
Personal: blue sky, cult movement, embouchure, paying attention, peach, trumpet-playing, writing style · no comments... myself that fascinating-ness is a property of one's personality and mental state and writing style, things which are only vaguely ...
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17 Dec 2020: Look! It’s the Internet!
Personal: · no comments... of Society," adding that the information age has made person-to-person news dissemination obsolete. [link via Tinka, again] Okay, am I the ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... three of you): To me, blogging is all about finding the personal in the general and finding the general in the personal. I think with that, I can sleep well at night knowing that I have a ...
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7 Dec 2020: fra natbussen
Personal: · no comments... proper non-scholastic all nighter: coffee with a morning person, sunrise at a reasonable hour, the chance to go to bed once the sun is ...
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6 Dec 2020: tee hee
Whimsy: hipster ouroboros, quizzes · no comments... The 'Which Online Personality Test Are You?' Test! Oh irony of ironies! I just can't get enough ...
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2 Dec 2020: gender-bender
Meta: · no comments... to make wild and unfounded generalizations about my personal habits and hygiene in the comments ...
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11 Nov 2020: hey hey I’m a monkee
Meta: · no comments... have the forty-second best "real person" personal website in the whole wide universe. You don't have to take my word for ... by two of [this company's] Review Team on the criteria of Personality, Content, Creativity and Functionality." They're going to profile ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... neurochemistry? Since I'm not a biologist or brain-person of any stripe, and this is a rambling blog entry and not a grant ...
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30 Oct 2020: Language is for Losers
Human Fuzzies, Links: · no comments... favorite: American English is essentially a tool to keep a person from ever being able to speak another ...
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25 Oct 2020: image games
Meta: · no comments... or not I consider each of my pseudonyms to have a distinct personality, but I've just worked myself into a distraction by introducing the ...
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24 Oct 2020: super stalker search!
Meta: · no comments... identifiable, and any sufficiently patient and/or clever person should be able to figure out all kinds of things about who I am, where I ... I spend my money. But, I'm not sure exactly how much of my personal information is scattered around the internet, or how much patience you ...
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13 Oct 2020: More fun with referral logs
Meta: search requests, socks · no comments... and runs Win98. Who are you? Do we know each other? One person came here via this list [broken link removed] of blogs by Danes and/or ...
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3 Oct 2020: A commercial for credit suisse
Aimless, Human Fuzzies: · no comments... me a topic! I am prepared to fill out one of those silly personal data emails, or ramble at length about Being an Agnostic, or to say ...
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26 Sep 2020: oh fuck
Personal: obituaries, suicide · 5 comments... deleted for being far too raw and personal. summary, a friend of mine was found hanging from the ceiling. we ...
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25 Sep 2020: nonsense words
Aimless: · no comments... It is the gaping hole in one's psyche that can drive a person to use 10-point Verdana and ugly tinted photography. It is the reason ...
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24 Sep 2020: Juggling Cabbages
Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment... assistance, and if you've never done any sort of two-person juggling before, trying to pass four heads of cabbage in the main ...
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18 Sep 2020: Those of you who are
Politics: · no comments... boy man / woman lady / gentleman Which did you pick? Why? Personally, I'm in the stage of super-extended-angsty-young-adulthood where ...
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13 Sep 2020: justice
Politics: · no comments... of calls for blood, from people other than trained medical personnel. What I truly want is for the pictures of a dazed survivor or the ... Baltimore, Nobel laureate and president of Caltech: "Each person in the Caltech community should remember that we work for a greater good ...
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7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung
Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment... not only of being shadowy, but of writing in a highly personal manner while revealing very few of the ordinary details that make up ... into those 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 ...
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3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…
Meta, Personal: · no comments... the ultimate reason I follow a blog is because I think the person behind it is interesting, not because it's full of literary devices or ...
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24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser
Personal: · 1 comment... was that they could be easily placed into a context of personal growth. A teenybopper who's starting to get into alternative music, ...
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23 Jul 2020: fake personal ads
Aimless: · 4 comments... fake personal ads (on free services, natch) has been an occasional hobby of mine for ...
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16 Jul 2020: mistaken identity
Meta, Politics: · no comments... when Andorus waved to the one person who had signed her guestbook, I naively assumed it was me, and IM'ed her ...