Search Results: pictures

• 20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?

  
  Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 comments

  ...  there is some high-quality Tonga volcano porn here (still pictures) and here (video). Volcanologist and new Scibling Erik Klemetti has ...

• 30 Jan 2020: 2020 Flood Deposits and the Johnson County Conservation Bond

  
  Science: floods, hydrology, Iowa, unfinished drafts · no comments

  ...  sewage upstream) and scraped the sand you can see in the pictures off of City Park a couple weeks ago. By the time I got there, the ...

• 24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65

  
  Aimless: · 9 comments

  ...  'pro-lifers,' those nuns, would not have bloody fetus pictures. They would not have them mounted to big white vans. They would not ...

• 27 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Pele’s Hair

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  in honor of the new activity at the peak of Kilauea. For pictures and updates, see the Hawaii Volcano Observatory homepage. For more ...

• 5 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: · 2 comments

  ...  this week's geoblogosphere fad is to post pictures of yourself doing something very dumb. Geotripper started it, Chris, ...

• 13 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  welcome, Jessica! And hooray for a blog about pretty geeky pictures and art-science curiosities! I am waiting patiently for the ...

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

  
  Meta: · 14 comments

  ...  paper, I will read the abstract and look at the pictures. Then I will attempt to come up with a flippant joke that is vaguely ...

• 28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage

  
  Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment

  ...  was arranged. I've certainly taken my fair share of silly pictures underneath plaques that say "childhood home of a B-List Scientist", ...  historical context of geekdom. Er, and take silly vacation pictures. Good science heritage sites should force us to consider the ...

• 18 Apr 2020: Lollinks

  
  Links, Personal, Whimsy: cat macros, psychology, test anxiety · 4 comments

  ...  don't know why cat macros are so effective for me. Kitten pictures by themselves don't cut it, and neither do other forms of humor. Maybe ...

• 11 Apr 2020: Looking for New Earth

  
  Science: extrasolar planets, telescopes · 6 comments

  ...  bigger planets are easier to find. Although we have actual pictures of some planets (where "pictures" means the entire planet is shown in about the same number of pixels ...

• 18 Mar 2020: Iconic Figures: Energy Release by Earthquakes

  
  Science: earthquakes · 10 comments

  ...  like stories with lots of pictures. In fact, an awful lot of what goes on during talks is more like a pre-reading child telling stories about the pictures in a picture-book than a grown-up engaging with the textual content of ...

• 18 Feb 2020: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos

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

  ...  already been found in the same rock (see Pharyngula for pictures). The new finds are about the same size as M. ornata, and the ...  this month's issue of Geology. Bonus! While looking for pictures of cnidarian embryos, I ran across the best journal article title ...

• 22 Jan 2020: Sediment Transport by Splashing

  
  Science: erosion, gardening, geomorphology, rain, science is pretty · 4 comments

  ...  with math! Gasp! Shock!), so why do I blog it? The pictures are ...

• 6 Jan 2020: Happy Belated Winter

  
  Links: Wikipedia · 7 comments

  ...  in a slightly more "working vacation" sense. There'll be pictures once I'm back home with my camera ...

• 4 Sep 2020: Household Goodness

  
  Personal: domesticity, gardening, photoblog · 2 comments

  ...  second cure for blogger's block: post some pictures! We don't strictly need more pot holders in the ...

• 29 Jun 2020: Images to Amend the Constitution By

  
  Politics: Dianne Feinstein, flag-burning, freedom of speech · 1 comment

  I'd like to send a hearty "fuck you" to Dianne Feinstein, whose views on the acceptable bounds of free speech were formed with all the careful consideration and sound judgment you'd expect from a middle school student: For me--at that time as a 12-year- ...

• 10 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Clay

  
  Science: carbon cycle, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments

  ...  to science sections of the popular press) you see the same pictures of Enceladus spewing out its watery spew - but all us cool kids have been seeing these pictures for months and we're sick of 'em*. No, today's Friday Rock Blog is ...

• 13 Jan 2020: Pretty Volcanokaos!

  
  Links, Science: science is pretty, volcanoes · no comments

  Alert readers may already be aware of the latest eruption at Augustine, one of several volcanoes located near Anchorage, Alaska. But did you know where to get the prettiest pictures? ...

• 14 Dec 2020: A Pedagogical Quandary

  
  Whimsy: class presentations, Lord Kelvin · 3 comments

  ...  salient points of recent scientific history; or... ...pictures of Donald Turcotte's head crudely photoshopped on to the body of a ...

• 6 Dec 2020: AGU One

  
  Personal, Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging · 6 comments

  ...  so I feel like my instincts have been vindicated. Pretty pictures aside, I stand firm in my belief that chaos theory is no longer a ...

• 4 Nov 2020: Return of Friday Rock Blogging: Titan

  
  Science: methane, rock blogging, Titan · 2 comments

  ...  in a river of liquid methane. Mmm, methane. More pretty pictures of Titan ...

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

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

  ...  probably scale well for a 40-person brunch. Pretty pictures of kaleidoscoped flowers! The artiste lui-mème wants your witty ...  Charles Francis Hall. D'oh! And back to pretty pictures, this time of Yosemite's high country and Matthes Crest. ...

• 27 Aug 2020: What I Learned in the Field This Month

  
  Science: field work, photoblog, Yosemite · no comments

  ...  has been thrown off, as I left the card full of England-pictures at my aunt's house. It'll come back to me eventually. Meanwhile, here are some pictures of Science! The first two were taken just north of Lake Tahoe, ...

• 14 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 13-18

  
  Aimless: denmark, photoblog, Scandinavia, Sweden, travelogue · 7 comments

  ...  deal, with the pictures now and words later, hopefully. Days 13-16: Århus, ...

• 31 Jul 2020: Oh Yes, Minnesota

  
  Personal: customs, Minnesota, mosquitoes, travelogue · 11 comments

  ...  assaultingly itchy injuries of the trip (and I won't post pictures of my new and much-abused callus, but that's saying something) I went ...

• 8 Jul 2020: Friday Rock Blog: The Unenlightened Canadian Edition

  
  Uncategorized: guest posts, rock blogging · 3 comments

  Greetings, fair Green Gabbroites - I'm Moebius Stripper, and I live at Tall, Dark, and Mysterious, to the extent that web personas can be described as living online. I'm gainlessly unemployed at the present, with no job prospects for the next few months at ...

• 10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition

  
  Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment

  ...  SEDIMENTARY ROCKS cheese soporific hey Bush....FUCK YOU!(pictures) is it true that the more you wipe your vagina with toilet paper the ...

• 8 Jun 2020: I am the Prince of the Air

  
  Meta: hotlink protection, hotlinkers, persecuted Christians, satanism · 10 comments

  ...  LiveJournal/Xanga/Myspace kidz have been trying to use my pictures as background images. Which would be all well and good if they were ...

• 3 Jun 2020: Friday Random Nineteen

  
  Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments

  ...  war alien girls that are green and have sex with pictures earthquakes merits and demerits evil moon bird eats earth kid ...

• 20 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro

  
  Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 6 comments

  ...  about that. I was thinking that I'd finally throw up a few pictures of gabbro and explain this blog's name, but when I went looking for pictures, well, I remembered why I've been putting it off. Then I was somehow ...

• 13 May 2020: Further Trivialities

  
  Aimless, Links, Personal: blogular wanking, grad school, telephony · 5 comments

  ...  in the locker room at the gym and then emailing the pictures to the FBI while you download ringtones of Dark Side of the Moon that ...

• 12 May 2020: Friday Random 15

  
  Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes, search requests · 7 comments

  ...  dropped by this week, just a lot of people looking for pictures of tampons and wanting to know what on earth is up with fat-free half ...

• 29 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Birthday Edition

  
  Science: basalt, Hawaii, igneous rocks, lava, rock blogging · 6 comments

  ...  was hoping to find pictures of today's fresh lava at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. But there's ...

• 27 Apr 2020: H.R. 902, Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2020

  
  Politics: Congressional shenanigans, money · 7 comments

  ...  coinage. I am particularly looking forward to putting pictures of William Henry Harrison and James K. Polk in vending ...

• 26 Mar 2020: Iimage Gallery Test Post: Seattle

  
  Human Fuzzies: photoblog · no comments

  ...  - which could be a swell plugin. And I still have a few pictures laying around from my visit to Seattle, sooo... Errors: ...

• 9 Mar 2020: Gravity Comes from Pine Cones on Mount St. Helens

  
  Links: quizzes · 6 comments

  ...  Check the Volcano Cam, kids, and here are several pretty pictures from last night. Additionally, there's a new Internet Crackpot of the ...

• 15 Feb 2020: How to Ward Off Rapists

  
  Politics, Whimsy: rape, satire · 7 comments

  ...  pen and decorating the card with feminine flowers and pictures of your ...

• 13 Feb 2020: Someone’s A Bit Paranoid

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

  Now tell me, Dearest Readers, what kinds of meat you've been eating lately: Protomonkey! It was a while ago that I was busy* looking up mammalian phylogeny, but it seems that our closest non-primate relatives are tree shrews. After that, there's some ...

• 14 Jan 2020: Magical Cow Pr0n!

  
  Links, Politics: earworms, feminism, pornography, sex · 2 comments

  ...  person, which does not and cannot exist in internet porn pictures or with paid performers in a strip club. I think that's the nut of ...

• 2 Dec 2020: Thanksgiving Food Review

  
  Food, Personal: cranberry sauce, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 4 comments

  ...  a splendid topping for vanilla ice cream. Pies I have pictures of the fractal pecan pie on my camera; I'll post 'em to the photoblog ...

• 11 Oct 2020: Weekend: Music, Injuries

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

  Via Three-Toed Sloth via Crooked Timber, it's a cat research review. Saturday night, I See Hawks in LA was live at my old dorm. I'd never heard them, or of them, before, but they were billed as "bluegrass/folk/rock" so I got all excited. Of course I f ...

• 5 Aug 2020: Attention RSS Infidels

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  also shiny xml for the photoblog, not that I've taken any pictures lately. That is ...

• 2 Jun 2020: Viva Quebeckistan!

  
  Personal: quizzes · no comments

  ...  as my own, but it was orthogonal every time. A couple pictures of wildflowers will be up on the photoblog shortly, or maybe tomorrow. ...

• 1 Mar 2020: hey look I’m trendy

  
  Meta: · 2 comments

  ...  your referring URL with some kind of cutesy software, no pictures for you! Livejournallers, no pictures for you either until you upload 'em to your own server(s). And sweet ...

• 20 Feb 2020: Someone’s Trolling My Bridge

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  to hate monkeys. Now scram. i like cats Cute kitty pictures are not going to help you on this one, bub. I'm loading my apparatus - ...

• 12 Jan 2020: More Mollusc Porn

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  sex. With pictures. ...

• 9 Jan 2020: Ugly Duckling Fabric Magic

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  So I finished my quilt top last night. Go me! It's not as impressive as I'd planned, what with the laziness and the scrap collection mysteriously short on colors other than blue helping to shrink it down to a small lap quilt with little overall pattern. ...

• 9 Nov 2020: What I’m Reading

  
  Human Fuzzies: · no comments

  ...  sets of astrologically determined auspicious directions. Pictures of pine trees may or may not help with this (pine trees are wily ...

• 10 Sep 2020: Epic Immuno-Suppressing Battles

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments

  Someone stuck my voodoo doll into a bottle of Benadryl, probably about forty-five minutes ago. I am all woozy and vapid. Last night I set about arranging our two bookshelves to reflect two epic battles: Monkey vs. Robot, and Hipster vs. Nerd. Monkey vs. ...

• 14 Jul 2020: And The Internet Melted

  
  Personal: camping, photography · no comments

  ...  useless autofocus aside, though, I took some nice pictures. I would post them, but even though the lights are blinking on my hub, ...

• 20 Jun 2020: There Goes My Nose

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

  ...  stops at beaches and aquaria along the way; I took gobs of pictures. Contrary to everything I've ever known, we stayed in motels along the ...

• 20 Apr 2020: Shiny! Curvaceous!

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  space flight blah blah. The important things are the pictures. This thing is curved and bubbly, with lots of silly round windows - ...

• 3 Apr 2020: Colossal Squid

  
  Links: · 3 comments

  ...  about the parts of the world that can still be mapped in pictures of dragons and sea serpents - probably because nobody actually draws ...

• 1 Apr 2020: Score One Random

  
  Links: · 5 comments

  ...  WebCollage, a splattered collection of random internet pictures. You'd think there'd be lots of porn, but amazingly enough, you'd also ...

• 31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!

  
  Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments

  ...  to do with trying to learn to play bridge) and I only have pictures on film; this was easily the most spectacular day of the trip, with ...

• 20 Mar 2020: Hello, Hilo

  
  Meta: · no comments

  I have little more to say about funerals, though I do advise you all to bring some vegetables along with your next batch of condolence food. I have little to say in general. I'm going to Hawaii tomorrow; no posts for a week, then I'll be back with pictures ...

• 22 Sep 2020: Collective Typography

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  you've voted on a bunch of pictures and you're still of the mind to aimlessly click on things, try some ...

• 19 Sep 2020: Incredible Finds

  
  Personal: · no comments

  Finally made that trip to Goodwill to drop off a bag of clothes (not enough to really earn that sudden feeling of lightness, but hey) and purchase necessary kitchen items. Our kitchen is done up in Classic Bachelor—splotchy linoleum, blandly finishe ...

• 9 Sep 2020: Expenses

  
  Personal: · 4 comments

  ...  but beans for the rest of the year, but I will take great pictures of them. Beautiful, beautiful beans. ...

• 21 Aug 2020: Old Forgotten Someones

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  on which gave me a bit of an advantage (since I have more pictures in the pool) and it needs to keep going until that's been made ...

• : Competitive Photography, Part One

  
  Whimsy: · 4 comments

  ...  need you guys to do me a favor and settle a game: which pictures are better? The status of a dinner date is riding on it, you see. ...

• 28 Jul 2020: dry air

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  to prove to you that I really was in Iowa, there are some pictures of corn and soybeans and pigs over in the ...

• 8 Jul 2020: Gah Ugh Zoop

  
  Personal: · no comments

  I have just spent six hours forcing linux to accept a new piece of hardware. My head feels full of cheese and my eyes have fallen into my mouth. Plus I'm just a touch cranky. But, now I can download images from my camera again, without having to crawl to  ...

• 26 May 2020: Staring Out the Window Again

  
  Whimsy: Pasadena, smog · 4 comments

  ...  with a soft and feminine skyline. There are more pictures in the photoblog, and there's a new loop on gabbro radio, all about ...

• 23 May 2020: Tomorrow Was Yesterday

  
  Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no comments

  ...  straight off the Dr. Who costume rack. So we left. Pictures should be up soon. *The loosely themed collections of games the ...

• 20 May 2020: Someone’s At It Again

  
  Meta: · 3 comments

  ...  though frankly it's a bit hard to tell from those pictures, making me simple-minded, honest, and prone to temper tantrums. ...

• 12 May 2020: Mr. Smith Goes to Fallbrook

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  with yellowing photographs of movie stars. There are pictures, as many as I could fit onto my tiny 8MB memory card, which was not ...

• 2 Apr 2020: Exploding Toilet

  
  Uncategorized: photoblog · 5 comments

  ...  with all of my hastily-shelved items. There are more pictures in the ...

• 26 Jan 2020: People At My School

  
  Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments

  ...  and kinky contour integrals. It means I'll be able to have pictures that solve wave equations, instead of just letters, and I'm a huge fan of math pictures even if I can't manipulate complex 3-D objects in my head. But ...

• 21 Jan 2020: Silly Hats Only

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  helped lead a hazing ritual that involved making macaroni pictures. Now there's one of them hanging up on the fridge in a communal ...  monkey things? Dude. Dude. It's the Tree of Life, with pictures and technical description from crenarchaeota to red algae to sloths. ...

• 17 Dec 2020: trolls on pigs

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  Christmas cards, why not send silly e-mails with links to pictures of nisser and pigs? Or maybe you have a cosmology exam tomorrow ...

• 14 Nov 2020: tuitive

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  of Kongens Nytorv will help? There are more old pictures of Copenhagen where those came from. And while we're on the subject of ...

• 13 Nov 2020: solen skinner så meget

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  I'd better take advantage of the afternoon and grab some pictures of the little mermaid for my mother. Mom wanted to be a mermaid when ...

• 9 Nov 2020: can’t sleep, blog will eat me

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  into a very fun outing tonight. Tomorrow you can expect pictures from Rasmus, whose digital camera was the object of some lust ...

• 22 Oct 2020: Redesign fever

  
  Meta: blogtinkery · no comments

  ...  Does it look funny in your browser? More wacky produce pictures ...

• 25 Sep 2020: I’ve given in

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  also down in the bottom left, without the silly pictures and things. ...

• 13 Sep 2020: justice

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  trained medical personnel. What I truly want is for the pictures of a dazed survivor or the words of a fabulous poet to spread gently ...

• 5 Jul 2020: corn with pig dna

  
  Meta: excess energy, introductions, pretentions · no comments

  ...  and functional, even if it doesn't have any cutesy tinted pictures on it. And convincing all you random internet-people to read it will ...