Search Results: reason
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11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments... not offered a job after a promising interview, I can be reasonably sure that it's not because I discussed the mode of transportation I ...
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25 Apr 2020: Approaching New Flavors
Food: cookbooks, cooking, Food, foraging · no comments... When I get a new plant, I take the first wild-ass guess reasonable botanical analog that I can think of. Last weekend, after picking ...
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20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 comments... I quite like Occam's razor on this one. There is no reason to reach beyond our current understanding of volcanoes and earthquakes ...
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14 Mar 2020: Beer Meringue Pie
Food: beer, hops, meringue, pie, recipes · 6 comments... is an acceptable after-dinner activity, there is really no reason not to open the floodgates to all manner of bittersweet ...
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26 Feb 2020: The Stimulating Effects of Monitoring Volcanoes
Politics, Science: economics, US party politics, volcano monitoring, volcanoes · 10 comments... not published by the Cato Institute? Or is there a real reason? NB: I recognize that I'm doing better in this recession than many ...
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27 Jan 2020: Academic Citation
Aimless: · 1 comment... well-written introductions. I cite people for various reasons: Showing the reader that my result is consistent with others' results, ... thermal conductivity of soil at my field site, what is a reasonable range of possible ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... science education from reading science blogs, and a major reason for this is because bloggers don't have the incentive to write the kinds ...
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2 Jan 2020: A Quick Caveat for Obsessive Yellowstone-Watchers
Aimless: · 6 comments... current earthquake swarm at Yellowstone. While there is no reason to believe that this is part of the lead-up to a giant caldera-forming ... or indeed to any eruption at all, there is also no reason to let that spoil your fun. If you're watching the recent earthquakes ...
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18 Dec 2020: California is Safe?
Aimless: · 10 comments... this study doesn't take them into account. There are good reasons to suspect that we over-worry about rare catastrophes - they dominate ...
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11 Dec 2020: An Open Letter to the Science Blogosphere
Meta: · 10 comments... the blogosphere (not for any particularly interesting reason) and buzzing through some John McPhee and Natalie Angier books instead, ...
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26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 comment... out my funds. I shouldn't have leftovers. But if for some reason I do, I will distribute them in such a way as to completely finish as ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 comments... for coffee grinder adaptation. Of course, the real reason people have invested so much energy into developing methods of pouring ...
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29 Sep 2020: Cucumber-Fennel Soup
Food: Apiaceae, cooking, cucumbers, Cucurbitaceae, fennel, recipes, soup · 3 comments... aioli left over from the wedding - if for some reason you don't have my wedding leftovers in your fridge, a clove of garlic ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... my identity or there is no point in being Dr. Isis -- a (reasonably) brilliant scientist who is also confident in her femininity. I will ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... If you insist on learning just one mica, pick muscovite (reasonably common and exceptionally flaky) or biotite (often found as a ...
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13 Sep 2020: Blogosphere Administration (and bonus liquid nitrogen recipe)
Links: · 3 commentsA few more announcements while I'm catching up with the blogonets: I will be hosting the next edition of the Carnival of Feminists on September 24. Please send me your best recent women-in-science posts (or non-sciencey feminist-oriented posts, if you mus ...
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12 Aug 2020: OMG AMNH PONIES!!1!
Aimless: · 9 comments... but I found the exhibit depressing, for the following reason: I don't understand why more organizations don't give out press kits ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... - but what a great concept! I've always assumed that the reason no one has ever marketed a male hormonal birth control is that it is a ... problem. Apparently that's no longer true; there are reasonable (if less than ideal) systems in advanced stages of development, but ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... billy-club in an uncomfortable locale, and that the only reason I don't laugh at their stilted caricatures is that I have sublimated my ...
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30 Jun 2020: Tunguskatennial
Aimless: · no comments... still floating alternative hypotheses, but there's little reason to think that this wasn't a case of smashing-from-space. Scientific ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... the Earth. Space Exploration Out of the Cradle lists 25 reasons to go to the Moon: 18) Extreme sportsImagine bicycle races at 250 kph. ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... but the units are often practically designed and reasonably-priced. We found one Modern-ish triplex that was (and still is) not ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... about environmentalism - not for any grand ideological reasons, just because I like feminist theory. But this is what feminism and ...
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14 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: The Bishop Tuff
Aimless: · 6 comments... up close, you’ll see that it is pink (for the same reason that granite is pink; it’s made of the same stuff) and sprinkled ...
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5 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 2 comments... be standing there when they do that. This is one of the reasons that BACK OFF, I'M A SCIENTIST makes such a great bumper ...
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4 Mar 2020: Oops! I’m Perjured Again
Aimless: · 7 comments... tax loophole, or any other specific action. The only reason they're legal at all is that they are effectively meaningless. So by ...
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25 Feb 2020: Does This Rheometer Make Me Look Fat?
Aimless: rheology · 6 comments... are thick and have weird 3D structures. There are good reasons to use thin layers for experiments - it means you don't have to worry ...
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14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman
Aimless: · 15 comments... unions are corrupt or too politicized or bad for other reasons. Sometimes, though, I think people who argue against grad student ...
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: Love Songs for Geoscientists
Aimless: · 18 comments... they're a "hot lava" orogeny). Plate tectonics for some reason always moves us apart, never together. Top of the Fair's The San Andreas ...
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12 Feb 2020: Jim Watson, My Racist Corporate Overlord
Aimless: · 32 comments... been publicly identified as over-the-line bigots no reasonable person should associate with ever. Or at least I don't. I certainly ... the proposition that Jim Watson is an out-and-out bigot no reasonable person should associate with ever. If you need to catch up on either ...
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8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Aimless: · 19 comments... tell you is really a gabbro. I know this for the following reasons: The mineral grains are big enough to see with the naked eye It has ...
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4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 comments... icon in violation of the guidelines. Anyway, the real reason you won't see me using the BPR3 icon much, if at all, is that I'm lazy. ...
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23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie
Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments... also holds for the Superman method. Axial tilt is the reason for the season. Santa Claus is, at best, a metaphor. Dinosaurs aren't ...
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10 Dec 2020: Monday AGU Accomplishment Checklist
Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging, geoblogosphere · 4 comments... blog posts start to grow unstable, lacking any remaining reason or coherent narrative structure, uh, well, we're sorry. Also, one of ...
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12 Nov 2020: Attn: Geoblogosphere
Links, Meta: blog carnivals · 2 comments... 95%-ember. The theme is "geology and life", and I see no reason why Accretionary Wedge treason should ever be ...
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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... now on, I am not going to always assume that the reason something is not working is because I’m a bad scientist, with bad ... accept that there's a problem, that you have a right and a reason to be angry; I'm on your side, go ahead and vent, maybe tell me how I ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 comments... visual system has evolved to construct a reasonable mental image of the world with a limited amount of information, and ...
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28 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike
Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no comments... The King" - Bela Fleck, Perpetual Motion The Outcome: "Reasons Why" - Nickel Creek, Nickel Creek We get distracted by the dreams of ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... to go camping, and so on. This is the shortest true reason I can think of: I put the "geo" to my "physics" because Caltech had a ...
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29 Jul 2020: Understanding Everyday Symbolism
Politics: hate crimes, racism · 6 comments... You don't think your friend's choice of Option 3 was a reasonable interpretation of this juvenile prank. To prove it, you laugh at ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... takes a quick break to worry that her hunger is unreasonable: I feel like my academic upbringing socialized me to not expect ... MS - whenever I'm about to launch in to the "push", the reasons I am unsatisfied with academia, the things I wanted to find in grad ...
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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... coherent narratives. Every time I hear or think of a new reason that I've been unhappy as a grad student, I respond with an enthusiastic ...
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18 Mar 2020: Iconic Figures: Energy Release by Earthquakes
Science: earthquakes · 10 comments... version of a magnitude 7. For a variety of technical reasons, the amount of sesimic energy released by an earthquake is a total ...
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23 Feb 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Will Lusi Be Stopped?
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Lusi, search requests · 1 comment... Down Below - The Duhks, The Duhks So I looked hard at reasons for The drifters going door to door Dreaming of the mists of down ...
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30 Jan 2020: What’s the Good News of Geology?
Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments... science and pseudoscience. This is one of the biggest reasons I think a snotty Popperian priesthood is a bad idea: the aura of an ...
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24 Oct 2020: Hawaii, the New York Times, and Triggered Seismicity
Science: earthquakes, Hawaii, lazy journalism · 9 comments... or "nonlinear whoozerwhatsits". At any rate, the reason we don't think the Hawaii earthquake triggered seismicity elsewhere has ...
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12 Oct 2020: Seismograms from North Korea
Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 comments... way the waves are actually recorded. I tried, but for some reason it comes out all wonky and I can only fuss so much. But, the instrument ... isn't about whether or not this was an explosion. For reasons Lab Lemming has outlined, we don't expect an earthquake as shallow as ...
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29 Sep 2020: Two Cliches, As Applied to My Life
Personal, Science: grad school · 3 comments... potential outcomes (see counting chickens, below). The reason I'm so excited about it is that I have absolutely no idea what it is. I ...
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21 Sep 2020: Blackboard Art Insanity
Links, Science: da vinci, science is pretty, visualization · 2 comments... Thanks to my 8th grade drafting class my students have a reasonably decent chance of getting fault block diagrams that look ...
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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... (subscription-only link to Nature): Stuart sums up the reasons for the discrepancy in two words: attitudes and networks. "We go all ...
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16 Aug 2020: Oh That Wacky Internet
Links, Science: blog carnivals, Hans Island, Pluto, transphobia · 9 comments... and Stentor Danielson is is exactly right about the reason we care. Nature's editorial has a cute anecdote about British ministers ...
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10 Aug 2020: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace
Science: Iowa City, James Van Allen, obituaries · no comments... else of how absurdly nerdy we both were. Whatever the reason, I'm still sad that I'll never be in an elevator with the man who, among ...
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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... should or would be allowed to live their lives. For this reason, I don't call myself "White." I don't choose to identify myself with the ...
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3 Aug 2020: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way
Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 comments... has, and so have lots of Internet trolls. I think the reason people who claim that there are meaningful gender-spicy-brain ...
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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... A mathematician once told me he thought this was the reason young mathematicians make the big discoveries. Math can be hard, he ...
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19 Jul 2020: I Read Wifework So You Don’t Have To
Human Fuzzies, Politics: book reviews, feminism, gender, marriage, sexism · 6 comments... seek a mate who's a good provider (blech), you've got no reason to read the ...
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10 Jul 2020: Sunday, Day of Links
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 comments... not quite believing my ears, I tried one more approach to reason. "Hey, listen. I'm a veteran. This is a V.A. facility. I'm sitting here ...
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6 Jul 2020: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments... "talk about it on my pseudonymous blog"--for political reasons? The discussion there goes on about Christian cultural hegemony, and ...
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22 May 2020: Of Note
Personal: blegging, workload · 2 comments... found about the right level of effort this spring, working reasonably hard, but not on the edge of burnout. Next step is to see about some ...
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11 May 2020: Wine is for Men*
Human Fuzzies, Politics: lazy journalism, wine · 2 comments... fluff casually excludes half your readership, for no good reason, when they are still eating breakfast and are therefore extra-sensitive ...
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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... doing it in the first place. And presumably there's some reason you found something interesting: wouldn't it behoove you to explain to ... I suppose it's an ego thing in the end. but I do have a reason that I blog in the first place (as I stated at the beginning of my ...
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31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments... skillz, which leads to odd relationship dynamics. The reason I'm so drawn to this thread is that I've been reading Dana Becker's The ...
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20 Jan 2020: Scientists, Not People
Science: literature, science in pop culture · 8 comments... those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not ...
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19 Jan 2020: Lecture Zero
Personal, Teaching: grad school, time management · no comments... they'll be bored. Taking four proper classes is a reasonable undergrad schedule, but as a grad student there's this amorphous ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Privileged Huff
Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments... are as a group responsible for it, and for fairly obvious reasons attached to it). Even the hint of a consideration of 'whites' as ...
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22 Dec 2020: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments... to our fellow human beings (don't attack me without reason, don't trash my stuff, mind your own business if it's not hurting you) ...
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19 Dec 2020: Happy Whatever
Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 comments... customs, etc. But you get the idea, yes? For historical reasons, the secular holiday of Santa's Birthday is often confused with the ...
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2 Dec 2020: For Shame, Beeboid!
Science: Berzerkeley · 4 comments... details doesn't mean the method of conflicting quotes is a reasonable approach, or that one ought to attribute the opinions of scientists ...
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14 Nov 2020: Eaten the First Time
Links: anti-racism, Barack Obama, blog carnivals, new holiday, pirates, student parents, women in science, work vs. family · 1 comment... 1 is Blog Against Racism Day, for the sensible reason that: Discussion of racism is often shot down by the nervous - ... always sound so whiny? Other than, y'know, the obvious reasons, I mean. Two: Gender The discussion at Cosmic Variance about the ...
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11 Nov 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Guantanamo
Politics: Friday random ten, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, iTunes iChing · 4 comments... - Räven The Inside: Chumbawamba - Without Rhyme or Reason (The Killing of Harry Stanley) The Outcome: Smølferne - ...
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4 Oct 2020: Whereas
Human Fuzzies, Personal: grammar · 1 comment... is fine, but initial whereas belongs in a list of reasons for a pompous resolution, and only in a list of reasons for a pompous resolution. Any other use should be banned, and banned ...
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12 Sep 2020: The 4th Circuit Pees on the 4th Amendment
Politics: civil liberties, fascist police states, FEMA · 2 comments... The occupants of the camp cannot leave the camp for any reason. If they leave the camp they may never return. They will be issued FEMA ... bad people that might want harm done to them. This is the reason Apples and Oranges were not allowed. I wonder if this lady allowed her ...
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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... defending the introduction of a luxury tax. So there's no reason to take it away from the unemployed, either. From left or right, rich or ...
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3 Sep 2020: The Red Cross Is the Military. Or Something.
Politics: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans · no comments... Troops are guarding the bridge. I'm sure there's a good reason for all this, especially if "good reason" means "criminal negligence". Or maybe "American Red Cross" actually ...
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24 Aug 2020: Items
Personal: co-op living, rush week · 6 comments... (mobile or otherwise). If anyone knows of a compelling reason to do otherwise, speak now, or speak later, or keep meaning to speak but ...
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16 Aug 2020: Free Stuff!
Personal: freebies, gift economy, inner child · no comments... from craigslist or freecycle, but my street also gets a reasonable amount of foot traffic. By far, the people most excited by the ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 4-8
Personal: photoblog · no comments... the beauty of the Oslo-Bergen rail line, and with good reason. It runs straight across the highest mountains in Norway, along the ...
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19 Jul 2020: I Hate Life Hacks
Personal: 3x5 index cards, i hate everything, Internet overload · 3 comments... is better than writing it down on a blank card. For some reason. How to stress yourself out for better productivity Where to find ...
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15 Jul 2020: Father Dollard’s Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3, sheet music · no comments... Dollard was a poet; I have no particular reason to think this hornpipe was named after him, but I have no reason not to, either. This is performed by pennywhistler extraordinaire ...
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9 Jul 2020: Found The Key Under The Rock By The Back Door…
Meta: blog status updates, guest posts · no comments... Miles David going on the CD player) -- well, for whatever reason, I have apparently (we'll see if this posts, won't we?) succeeded in ...
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30 Jun 2020: Offloading Tangential Meta-Rape Discussion Gripes
Politics: rape, rhetorical nit-picking, rhetorical tactics, the Pussy Oversoul · no comments... want to participate in that derailment for a variety of reasons, middlingish of which is that I have too many errands to run tomorrow ...
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29 Jun 2020: Guestblogger number the two
Aimless: guest posts · no comments... have absolutely no reason to be guestblogging here, except that I signed up and was foolishly ...
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25 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging, Atemporal Edition: Road Cuts on the 5
Science: driving, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 5 comments... last, the real reason for yesterday's abysmal lack of happy Friday postings is revealed: I ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... different than the "real" diagram. There's no special reason to prefer one version over another, but for historical reasons geophysicists almost always choose bottom-hemisphere ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... situation appear to be about national politics; Gitmo is a reasonable modern analogue to Robin Island, although we have yet to see a ...
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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... that I am, I'm not sure there are articulable reasons why it's especially awesome to be female - certainly nothing you could ... it occurred to me that there are plenty of inarticulable reasons. Kitka - Dumai, Zlato (3.3 MB) Search Requests rock chick ...
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23 May 2020: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah
Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments... to not be formally associated with, as for business-y type reasons I've lost confidence in them. But zoinks! It's completely absurd that I ...
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4 May 2020: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!
Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments... further declares that ... students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study and to ...
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: Penis-Talk Redux
Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments... The greatest fear I have of an unwanted pregnancy (and the reason I would have an abortion) is not the effect it would have on my ...
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3 May 2020: Two Tuesday Links
Links, Personal: Brazil, masculinity · 6 comments... had with basically all my male friends with whom it is reasonable to have such a conversation: Me: Hey, don't guys ever bond about ... Why not? Him: Dunno. Me: 'Cause it seems like a reasonable topic for same-sex bonding. Women (in my experience) do it all the ...
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21 Apr 2020: Brain Asplode
Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 comments... Microsoft fears the wingnuts. Bastards. Another reason to be glad I bought a Mac. [via, via I forget] Dr. Crazy and Dr. ...
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30 Mar 2020: Pharmaceuticals
Politics: pharmacists · 7 comments... y'know, pharmacists need these provisions for the same reason people need to be able to file for Conscientious Objector status within ...
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22 Mar 2020: Today’s Reading
Links: American history, rhetorical tactics, socks · 5 comments... out that between those two hands lies something entirely reasonable, but - oooh! Look! I've just burped up a piece of old cud! I've ...
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18 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Bishop Tuff
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 4 comments... up close, you'll see that it is pink (for the same reason that granite is pink; it's made of the same stuff) and sprinkled with ...
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27 Feb 2020: More WordPress Babbling
Meta: quizzes · no comments... than IDs. So here's my question: is there some sort of reason the default templates are set up with ID selectors? Three: Also, from ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... from The Rules might still not want to do such a thing. Reasons discussed include (in ascending order of silliness): She's shy, and ...
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7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments... after all! At least for nerdy values of "funny": My reasoning, such as it was, involved several steps, or at least the interaction ... has already used the word metapragmatic to refer to folk reasoning about (reasoning about) meaning in context (in the phrase ...
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24 Jan 2020: Pie Day
Personal: burns day, national pie day, new holiday, pie · 3 comments... and eat pie. I do wonder what genius strength reasoning went in to the decision to have National Pie Day in January, when ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... particularly when they form barbershop quartets... but the reason there's no competition in 90% of elections is that districts are ... I'm just angry that we would let a few bad lawyers be a reason to take away our ability to enforce our rights through civil ...
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20 Oct 2020: AAA Pays Off
Personal: American Automobile Association, driving, jalopies · 2 comments... it's clearly not in excess of the design storm, for any reasonable choice of design storm. The fact that three lanes were flooded out ...
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5 Oct 2020: Endorsements for Los Angeles Judicial Offices
Politics: endorsements, local elections, Los Angeles · 4 comments... initial estimation. Maybe attention to questionnaires is a reasonable proxy for commitment to public service after all? Office 69, Dude! ...
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28 Sep 2020: Movies Lately
Human Fuzzies: media politics, movie reviews · 1 comment... color words to languages. In the absence of a better reason for not having fight sequences in orange and purple, I'm sticking to my ...
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19 Sep 2020: Ahoy Me Hearties!
Links, Politics, Whimsy: arr, pirate jokes, pirates, urban sprawl · 5 comments... small second units or "granny flats" to be built with only reasonable zoning restrictions. We'll be keelhauled under our own boat, me ...
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17 Sep 2020: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments... from other people whose readership is uniformly well-reasoned and insightful, while limiting one's interactions with ignorant yahoos ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... or barf trying. Nonsense, I say! There are only three good reasons to watch the RNC: The Republicans (or protesters) might possibly do ...
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29 Aug 2020: Weekend Review
Personal: capitalism sucks, consumerism, dishware, grad school · 4 comments... on Saturday, and utterly 0wnzøred the quantitative reasoning (as they say in common parlance). For once I actually sat down and ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... are generally identified on a state-by-state basis for reasons of history and administrative convenience, but they don't inherently ...
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23 Aug 2020: John Kerry, War God
Politics: John Kerry, pacifism, presidential elections · no comments... who would not only invade Iraq or any other country for no reason at all, but a guy who would insist on going himself for a few Glory ...
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: Monday Silliness: California Creeks
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · no comments... on the Spanish missionaries, as if we needed another reason to hate ...
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15 Aug 2020: Sidebar Gadget Manager: Implementation Notes
Meta: code, Movable Type, php, sidebar gadgets · no commentsI'm currently installing the show/hide sidebar gadgets script, from scriptygoddess. Because I don't want to have the script included on every single bloody page, file, and MT template, I'm hiding it in a layer of includes which have caused a couple problem ...
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13 Aug 2020: I Smell a Thesis
Science: · 1 comment... find the article particularly convincing, for a variety of reasons I'll try to refrain from snarking about or discussing much at all since ...
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9 Aug 2020: Moment Tensors as a Heuristic Discourse that Goes “Burble, Burble”
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 6 comments... the religious justification with justification grounded in Reason itself. With the collapse of this distinction, literature ceases to mean ...
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13 Jul 2020: Memo to the Guy in the Escalade
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cars, driving, etiquette, SUVs · no comments... of adequate length for use with vehicles parked within a reasonable radius of the pump, and you don't have to have it exactly fucking ...
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29 Jun 2020: Easy Things That Aren’t
Personal: human imperfection, mental blocks · 15 comments... that makes me avoid them somewhat more than is strictly reasonable. Sadly, though, I can't confess to my difficulties. Whenever I ...
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4 May 2020: Rhubarb-Banana Bread?
Food: baking, banana bread, bread, cooking, cranberries, desserts, Musaceae, Polygonaceae, rhubarb · 1 comment... quick sale" produce cart. It also sounds like an excellent reason to think about solar ovens, because gas ones and 100 degree afternoons ...
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4 Apr 2020: In Which I Am Excited About Compost
Links, Personal: · 3 comments... machine message in a foreign character set. One more reason to deplore the ubiquity of voicemail. My birthday is also Space ...
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16 Mar 2020: Spain, Appeasement and Multilateralism
Politics: · 2 comments... and astoundingly devastating critique of foreign policy. Reasonable individuals never disagree on the best way to prevent future ... America and her Glorious Leader, 'cuz everyone else is unreasonable. These people aren't cowards, they're bloodthirsty cowboys! What ...
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7 Mar 2020: Investing With Your Values
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, investing, money, socially responsible investment · 3 comments... hippy terminology notwithstanding, this section provides a reasonable introduction to the methods by which one's money can be put to good ...
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14 Feb 2020: Someone Flails Wildly
Meta: · no comments... a carpet layer or a carpet cleaner and can you give a good reason? Is "woodgrain" a kind of color? Or is that just a category error ...
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2 Feb 2020: Linky Roundup
Links: · 2 comments... personal information worth? I think there was some sort of reason that Flash wouldn't work on my computer. Maybe I'll go figure out what that reason was. Turkey-drawn wagon! Repeat several times, varying the emphasis ...
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26 Jan 2020: I Don’t Like!
Links: · 3 comments... problem is that people are really boring. It's the same reason I've never gotten any of those corporate or P2P Bayesian music filters ...
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11 Dec 2020: Peer Review II
Politics, Science: peer review · no comments... calculations, and nod your head when the methods used seem reasonable. It's much harder to actually pick through all the calculations, ...
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4 Dec 2020: Foul Putrid News Organization
Politics: · no comments... Monsanto's pocketbook). No, seriously, that's the reason; they weren't concerned about safety at all, if the article has it ...
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25 Aug 2020: Things I’ve Never Done
Personal: · no comments... you. I've never been to Burning Man. I'd list that as a reason to quit my job, but tickets are pricey, so I'd need to have money (ergo job) to go. Meanwhile, the list of reasons to build a hydrograph-producing Yami-droid is outgrowing its humble ...
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10 Aug 2020: D’OH! System halt.
Meta: · no comments... of MT's file system arrangements for whatever other reason, please please email me. DO NOT attempt to leave a comment here, it will ...
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17 Jul 2020: Foam Cardboard Dogs
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... used condoms lying along the road, not for any particular reason but for overall yuckitude. Physically, the outside layer is crumbly ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... education is meant for that sort of thing. You can't reasonably expect a college sophomore not to become seriously disillusioned ...
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20 Jun 2020: There Goes My Nose
Personal: · 3 comments... nose to find a new and hideous nose underneath, inductive reasoning only goes so far, so sunburns this severe are always a little bit ...
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16 May 2020: Kkore 1: the Stack
Personal: · 4 comments... thrill of banging on the doors of innocents for no good reason, and watching them scrub their study-weary eyes in disbelief, was worth ...
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5 May 2020: Police Can’t Stop Drinking
Human Fuzzies: syntactical ambiguity · 6 comments... and concluding that Chinese can't handle counterfactual reasoning (which happened elsewhere in the reading packet). But enough of ...
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28 Apr 2020: I want my 2 1/2 hours back
Personal: · no comments... identification by the local grocery store for some bizarre reason! WHOOO!! Boy, was that ever an exciting afternoon and a good use of ...
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12 Mar 2020: Maxi Pad-Abouts
Links, Personal: craftiness, menstruation · 1 comment... about mantle plumes...) makes me feel all crafty for some reason. If I don't wind up with a clever lamp shade from a Cup O' Noodles cup, ...
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12 Sep 2020: Eating Glop
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... simmer until done. Very cheap, lasts forever, it's reasonably tasty and it goes well on toast. The barley, when cooked, is about the same size as the lentils and for some reason I really like the texture this ...
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1 Sep 2020: New Gadgets
Meta: · no comments... are now logged, courtesy leuschke. And I finally have a reasonable looking template for the search results. Yay! It's way too fucking ...
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16 Aug 2020: Smalted Milk is Blue
Links: · no comments... "smalt" is "smaltino." Realgar is colored because of a reason that Michael and Juraj have not yet determined. Pigments through the ...
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11 Jul 2020: New Stylesheets
Meta: blogtinkery · 8 comments... just has some celery greens. Let me know if they're unreasonably disfunctional, ...
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27 Jun 2020: I’m Done! Whee!
Personal, Politics: · 1 comment... It's the fact that, unlike Cosmo, creepy guys give you no reasonable path to ...
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18 Jun 2020: stupidity does vex me
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... corner," she said. "It's common knowledge," as if it were reasonable and justifiable for a delivery company to give up looking for an ... The wrong response is to suggest that the customer is unreasonable to have possibly expected the company to not screw ...
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13 Jun 2020: The Universe Is Expanding
Uncategorized: guest posts · 3 comments... house are mainly stuck in boxes in the closet). I'm reasonably sure none of it has sublimated, and yet my stuff fills the room and ...
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9 Jun 2020: Morbid Fascination
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... Rocks and I get along, mostly because I have never had reason to suspect that they will eventually be the death of me. (I have a small ...
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12 May 2020: Mr. Smith Goes to Fallbrook
Personal: · no comments... that fell off my straight mute. And once I'm home after a reasonably successful performance, I discover that my fly was open the entire ...
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4 May 2020: Hey Wait a Minute…
Links: · no comments... hours later; not only am I two hours hungrier, it's past reasonable suppertime and I will probably not be able to find a dinnermate... ...
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27 Apr 2020: Ho Hum
Personal: birthdays · no comments... I imagine, but there are possibly deeper psychologistical reasons. For my birthday (Monday! expect me to post while ...
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23 Apr 2020: More Decision Theory
Personal: · 6 comments... other reason I rely on the decision-making power of serendipity, I never knew until I ...
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22 Apr 2020: Things We Deep Fried This Evening
Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments... things we batter-dipped in Bisquick, which worked reasonably well. It was hard to get an even coating, though, and the results ...
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13 Apr 2020: Wizard of Bras
Personal: · 7 comments... perfect bra - the ones I just bought fit well, and they're reasonably comfortable, but they still subscribe to this ridiculous notion that ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... why this silly girl is fucking up for no apparent reason, but we can't all be such saints. But I still can't shake the thought ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... I'll write off the investment already made, if I can't reasonably expect it to improve shortly. No need to keep throwing attention or ...
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9 Mar 2020: Love That Love Dart
Links, Science, Whimsy: · 4 comments... one of those Saturday mornings where I'm awake for no good reason, lying in bed chewing thoughtfully on my toes and listening with fair ...
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14 Feb 2020: Heart Moon Puppy Love Muffin
Personal, Politics: doctors, hair, Valentine's Day · no comments... birth control pill. I wanted to ask, is that the only reason? has your experience shown that women are more likely to follow doctor's ...
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5 Feb 2020: Faulty Wiring
Personal: · no comments... fire alarms. Especially the ones that go off at 3AM for no reason other than that the system is old and rickety and randomly ...
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27 Jan 2020: Dear Jack,
Whimsy: · no comments... dine-in customers. Your food is vaguely edible, and reasonably priced, but it's nothing special compared to any of the dozens of ...
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26 Jan 2020: Friday Five Four
Whimsy: · no comments... and twitching off their every blogg'ed word. For some reason, this week I felt like joining in, and writing something that my eyes ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Boring State
Personal: amtrak, crap towns, grain elevators, journey west, land of enchantment, salvage yards, trains, travelogue, useless information · no comments... grain elevators, an occasional cow. You would start in a reasonable farming community, and pass by many reasonable food-processing or ranching communities on your way. The fact that ...
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28 Dec 2020: More On Malls
Politics: capitalism sucks, malls, urban sprawl · no comments... (churches, schools) have become less central for whatever reason, leaving a lucrative void for clever merchants. Malls are also warm, ...
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17 Dec 2020: spacialization
Aimless: · no comments... functions, etc. There's probably a good neurological reason for this, and one could use the ideas of evolutionary psychology to ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... got here looking for "blog caltech". It seemed like a reasonable thing to search for. And so I've found some random froshly blog, and ...
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14 Dec 2020: filthy bloggish slime
Meta: · no comments... recommended links, which always seem to end here for some reason, and always seem to include at least one Scandinavian blog. In fact, the ...
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9 Dec 2020: side couples square through
Personal: agnosticism, atheism, cookies, dancing, julefrokost, monkeys, religion, religious conversion, religious preferences, square dancing, unitarian church · 1 comment... after my religious preferences. I explained some of the reasons I call myself an agnostic, and to my delight they were met not with ...
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7 Dec 2020: fra natbussen
Personal: · no comments... all nighter: coffee with a morning person, sunrise at a reasonable hour, the chance to go to bed once the sun is fully up and sleep as ...
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5 Dec 2020: gopher://
Links: · 1 comment... nostalgic internet thrills are lost to me - but for some reason, gopher makes my knees go all jiggly. And do you realize how easy it ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... Salt licorice? Final climate modelling projects are a reasonable prospect, as are the piles of nagging administrative emails I've ...
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21 Nov 2020: joining my drunk…
Politics: · no comments... rhetoric leading up to this election. I mean, by reasonable Angelino standards, there are practically no immigrants here at all, ...
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11 Nov 2020: hey hey I’m a monkee
Meta: · no comments... that there's a good (or bad, depending on your viewpoint) reason for this post being short and ...
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: s-tog til hundige
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... of telling people what kind of music this was - for some reason people were no more enthusiastic about Scottish folkrock than they were ...
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4 Nov 2020: stop de kriminelle udlændinge
Politics: · 2 comments... good illness in the next two months and I'll be a pretty reasonable approximation of a freeloading degenerate sucking off the cream of ...
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25 Oct 2020: image games
Meta: · no comments... way that I like changing my site design around for no good reason, or changing my clothes - it's all a part of playing with image, I ...
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24 Oct 2020: super stalker search!
Meta: · no comments... leave a country, be sure to spend all of your coins. No reasonable change agents will be nice enough to turn them back into real money ...
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19 Oct 2020: trains
Personal: · no comments... Germanz, I kept looking at all the old people (for some reason the rural train-taking demographic in Germanz is such that almost ...
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15 Oct 2020: puttin’ the “lux” back in “benelux”
Personal: trains, travelogue · no comments... that the only place I haven't already been that's within a reasonable trainlength of Copenhagen, where I can at least sort of use the ...
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14 Oct 2020: yet another pub
Personal: · no comments... and the music was even better... canned Irish goods at reasonable volume, then a live jam session. The jam was a bit light on proper ...
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: Too Much Information
Personal: nipples, TMI, yucky · 1 comment... pitiful and it takes a while for it to steam up to a reasonable temperature). Suddenly, the natural fluctuations of skin tone and ...
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28 Sep 2020: Rescheduling
Personal: · no comments... out that Jane and I were from Caltech, and for some reason thought this meant he should look at us whenever he said the word ...
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25 Sep 2020: nonsense words
Aimless: · no comments... 10-point Verdana and ugly tinted photography. It is the reason behind the many sexual and romantic failures of bloggers who make fun of ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... book cover for the rest of the year, along with a list of reasons why calculus is like sex (you know, curves and the area under them, ... kids in the back of the room, as long as we kept things reasonably quiet. In a way, I kind of miss high school, since I was bored and ...
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18 Sep 2020: Those of you who are
Politics: · no comments... "girl" and "woman" make me feel a bit odd. But the real reason I wrote this, the thing that was about to set me off into a silly rant ...
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12 Sep 2020: I took a nap yesterday
Personal: · no comments... all of my friends and family to make sure none of them had reason to be in Manhattan, little index cards of names and addresses flying ...
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7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung
Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment... was built in the 2020s. Which it was. My room is square, reasonably medium-sized, and furnished with clever and comfortable Danish ...
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6 Sep 2020: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments... from someone, somewhere, that Cedar Rapids was for some reason in the top twenty list of military targets in the lower 48 states, these ...
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3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…
Meta, Personal: · no comments... it ought to be. I don't know about you, but the ultimate reason I follow a blog is because I think the person behind it is interesting, ... And I think people are interesting for a variety of reasons, most of which are completely arbitrary. It's the same principle which ...
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31 Aug 2020: bandwagon meme
Whimsy: · no comments... a bit of a squeak to it. Plus assorted soft beeps for no reason at all. Two women conversing in low tones, far enough away that I can't ...
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7 Aug 2020: In Copenhagen
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish · no comments... this living. Yeah. Proper updates as soon as I find a reasonable computer lab that I don't have to pay to ...
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28 Jul 2020: an audience at last!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... connecting with random people aspect, and partly for other reasons I can't think of right now, and just because it's fun. And mostly for ...
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24 Jul 2020: socks
Meta, Personal: fonts, socks · 1 comment... my use of Verdana on this site. I think it's trendy for a reason, really, though I tried initially to avoid it. It's just that Tahoma ...
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20 Jul 2020: super-mullet-link-day
Links: · no comments... is super-mullet-link-day! No particular reason, but I found a lovely mulleted Sim skin, and realized that it's been a ...