Search Results: silly

• 21 Jan 2002: Silly Hats Only

  
  Links: · no comments

  Today I helped lead a hazing ritual that involved making macaroni pictures. Now there's one of them hanging up on the fridge in a communal kitchen. It's shiny. One of the cheapest and dirtiest ways to avoid "really oughta post" angst is to empty out some  ...

• 2 Jul 2013: Red Elderberry Juice

  
  Food: Adoxaceae, kale, red elderberries, toxicity · 2 comments

  ...  that it had "that nasty vegetable flavor", but he is very silly, because it is obviously a completely different nasty vegetable flavor ...

• 20 Mar 2013: Why Boner Jokes Aren’t Funny (Even When They Are)

  
  Politics, Science: dick jokes, sexual harassment, women in engineering, women in science · 4 comments

  ...  so. It's certainly possible to talk about sex or make silly lewd puns in a way that allows people of all genders and sexual ...

• 17 Feb 2013: Herbal Toddy

  
  Food: Asteraceae, cocktails, Lamiaceae, recipes, thyme, toddies · no comments

  1 oz bourbon 3/4 oz pineappleweed or chamomile liqueur 1/4 oz thyme-infused vodka 4 drops Urban Moonshine original bitters Top off with hot water and garnish with a lemon slice and/or sprig of fresh thyme. I'm beginning to think that a couple of ...

• 22 Dec 2007: Happy Solstice

  
  Links: blog carnivals, Christmas, pie, silly putty · 8 comments

  I am basically only on board with holidays to the extent that they are about pie. Thanksgiving? An awful lot of it is about pie. National Pie Day? Oh my yes. Christmas? It's more about cookies than about pie. This is a problem. {democracy:6} And a f ...

• 10 Dec 2007: Monday AGU Accomplishment Checklist

  
  Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging, geoblogosphere · 4 comments

  ...  - FAILURE! The swag booths don't open until tomorrow. Silly swag distributors, don't they realize that my best contiguous downtime ...

• : AGU Geobloggers’ Meetup

  
  Science: geoblogosphere, meetups · 2 comments

  ...  wearing my bubblegum pink backpack. I also own many silly hats, which have in the past proven useful for this sort of thing, but I ...  color at a serious convention of serious scientists that silly hats shouldn't be necessary. If things get really desperate I'll pull out ...

• 28 Jun 2007: Science World Heritage

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

  ...  said it was crap. I say good for them! I think it's silly to put Darwin's house on the list when we already have the Galápagos ...  was arranged. I've certainly taken my fair share of silly pictures underneath plaques that say "childhood home of a B-List ...  myself in the historical context of geekdom. Er, and take silly vacation pictures. Good science heritage sites should force us to ...

• 23 Feb 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: Will Lusi Be Stopped?

  
  Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Lusi, search requests · 1 comment

  ...  I haven't done this in a while, here are this week's silly search requests: venusian passport alien sex -fiend i do not know ...

• 30 Jan 2007: What’s the Good News of Geology?

  
  Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments

  ...  them to spend time on public education, but it's a silly rubric to use when determining what we think is important for the lay ...

• 24 Nov 2006: Thanksblogging

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: pie, thanksgiving · 4 comments

  ...  from which to drink tea and soup. Speaking nonsense in a silly ...

• 29 Sep 2006: Friday Rock Blogging, Mailbag Edition

  
  Science: mystery rocks, rock blogging · 8 comments

  ...  readers, I am entertaining speculations from the silly to the sensible - what's up with this ...

• 16 Apr 2006: Hello world!

  
  Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments

  ...  Disadvantages: I will continue to feel vaguely silly about such a wafer-thin veil of pseudonymity. Ditch the pseudonym; ...

• 29 Mar 2006: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments

  ...  far as commenting and communit-building goes... This is a silly thing, but I always really appreciate blogs that are set up so that you ...

• 10 Mar 2006: Friday Rock Blogging: Clay

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

  ...  Blog is about something way sexier and more exotic than a silly Saturnian moon - it's about clay! One of the few articles in this ...

• 7 Feb 2006: Oh Look, the “Jobs for Men” Section

  
  Personal, Politics: advertising, sexism · no comments

  ...  to my sense of irony, so I'm really glad I didn't find any silly fine print about equal opportunity employment. *I leave the offensive ...

• 4 Jan 2006: The Privileged Huff

  
  Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments

  ...  things about my roommate. Every so often I let fly some silly transphobic or whitebreadocentric shit, and with great tact and ...

• 14 Oct 2005: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel

  
  Science: crackpots · 3 comments

  ...  again, I suggest you all go out and whack some silly putty with a sledge hammer. It's the same rheological principle, ...

• 18 May 2005: Defining Feminism: Once More, with Feeling

  
  Politics: feminism, feminisms, marriage, peer pressure · 8 comments

  ...  to post this over at Matthew Yglesias, but got distracted (silly work, don't they know I'm leaving so soon that I no longer care?). By the ...

• 9 May 2005: Deconstructing Teh Funnay

  
  Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments

  ...  and much much harder to respond to accusations of "silly screeching harpy, humor is completely meaningless!" My other two ...

• 14 Mar 2005: Middle Klass

  
  Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments

  ...  say "oh" in that oh, my assumption was wrong, I feel kinda silly way, and I feel like I've killed a planned or habitual line of ...

• 14 Feb 2005: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics

  
  Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments

  ...  Genesis only allows for mentions one such event, it's silly to claim that the modern story of multiple supercontinents was a Biblical ...  fun with Do-While Jones, a hammer, and our trusty lumps of silly putty. Oh, no. Mr. Jones begins with a basic introduction to plate ...

• 13 Feb 2005: Someone’s A Bit Paranoid

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

  ...  why you should only eat grass-fed gophers, O Silly Reader! The Flying Space Monkey Chronicles That's a pretty great ...

• 18 Jan 2005: Courtesy and Capitalization

  
  Human Fuzzies: grammar, writing · 19 comments

  ...  ALL THE TIME. Alphåbets, too, but that's only to be silly; nonstandard capitalization serves a variety of legitimate purposes. If ...

• 11 Jan 2005: Mmmm Rocket Fuel

  
  Politics, Science: earthquakes, ground water, perchlorate, pollution · no comments

  ...  the toxicology... but once again I am reminded of just how silly it is to plumb with a single set of pipes. I don't want to drink diluted ...

• 10 Nov 2004: Money in Four More Years

  
  Politics: fiscal policy, investing, money · 3 comments

  ...  thread, but please consider this an open discussion on silly and/or appropriate financial responses to the ...

• 15 Sep 2004: California Performance Review for Geologists

  
  Politics: California politics, environmentalism, urban planning · no comments

  ...  synonym for "unarguably good project no matter what those silly environmental and community activists think"? Sigh. Feedback on the ...

• 13 Sep 2004: No Vegetables for the Poor

  
  Politics: classism, USDA, welfare · 2 comments

  ...  able to do so, and my anecdotes trump your transparently silly regulatory capture, Mr. Dairy ...

• 21 Jul 2004: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment

  ...  to unite pop culture with the philosophical tradition of silly gedankenexperiments. I know some of you pretend to be philosophers, ...

• 2 Jul 2004: Fava vs. Corn

  
  Human Fuzzies: corn, Iowa · 3 comments

  ...  We found an adequate substitute for corn on the cob! - silly L.A. Times! I'm still deeply suspicious of people who put "corn on the ...

• 7 Mar 2004: Investing With Your Values

  
  Human Fuzzies: book reviews, investing, money, socially responsible investment · 3 comments

  ...  "Natural Investing" for the SRI movement, which is just silly. I skimmed through this section without learning anything useful. The four "spokes" of the "Natural Investing Wheel". Silly hippy terminology notwithstanding, this section provides a reasonable ...

• 24 Jan 2004: Ha ha

  
  Politics: Internet activism, same-sex marriage · 2 comments

  ...  that silly little marriage poll? It failed, miserably, to reflect a particular ...

• 3 Jul 2003: Best of eBay

  
  Links: ebay, Internet goofiness, some people are no fun · 2 comments

  ...  Craigslist - too many people are using eBay as a venue for silly jokes and performance art, and too many of those posts are getting junked ...

• 23 Jun 2003: Someone’s At It Again

  
  Meta: fan mail · no comments

  ...  an explosion can be very dehydrating, but this is just silly. Shouldn't I be worrying about more important things? Like the ...

• 13 Jun 2003: Heat Absorbtion Gown

  
  Personal: · 5 comments

  ...  gave me a diploma, the silly people! The Dean mispronounced my name, even though I'd phoned up to ...

• 16 May 2003: Kkore 1: the Stack

  
  Personal: · 4 comments

  ...  ditch days are fun, even if no one was convinced by my silly fake stack. But enough about that. The pressing issues of the day are ...

• 20 Apr 2003: Shiny! Curvaceous!

  
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  ...  pictures. This thing is curved and bubbly, with lots of silly round windows - it's the first futuristic device I've seen that actually ...

• 11 Apr 2003: Get Your Imperialism Straight

  
  Politics, Whimsy: Canada, imperialism · 4 comments

  ...  may or may not end up as the 52nd, but it's had so many silly referendums about the issue that it deserves to have a place saved in ...

• 8 Mar 2003: I Love Working

  
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  ...  watching Buffy on the next computer, but he won't do for a silly joke about porn. And I also have the company of the Microsoft Office ...

• 22 Feb 2003: Cartoon Driving Television

  
  Personal: dreams · no comments

  ...  that. Gilmore Girls is preparing to jump the shark with silly pregnancy flashback episodes; I imagine when the jumping gets serious, ...

• 9 Feb 2003: Theme of Bugs

  
  Personal: · 4 comments

  ...  with snooty footnotes explaining why Sam Adams was silly, which is my current bathroom book. And on the theme of bugs, there was ...

• 22 Jan 2003: La Loi de Qui?

  
  Personal, Science: · 1 comment

  ...  sure why; it may have something to do with the exceedingly silly arguments in Discourse on Method, or it may have been an unfortunate ...

• 21 Jan 2003: Neologistical Challenge

  
  Whimsy: · 3 comments

  ...  It should come from Greek roots, and it should be a silly word, which ought to be easy since the Greek word for shoe is ...

• 15 Nov 2002: Committee Committee

  
  Personal, Politics: bureaucracy, Caltech · 1 comment

  ...  machine that chews my cud for me, and spits out profoundly silly sound ...

• 7 Nov 2002: Slurry of Someone

  
  Meta: fan mail · 9 comments

  ...  It's safe. You can come out now. Except for the barrage of silly questions. what is this thing for anyway? I don't know, Silly Reader. It's probably either a car part, a fashionable organizing device, ...

• 5 Nov 2002: None of the Above

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

  ...  SUV of some kind. The awkward postered blob car was just silly. So then I was glad I hadn't voted for many Democrats. The thing about ...

• 7 Oct 2002: Tour de Gym

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  to imagine what I look like at the gym; I know it must be silly. After all, everyone else looks silly, even the guy who clearly spends his every waking moment in the corner ...

• 4 Aug 2002: This Is Where Urban Legends Come From

  
  Personal: Caltech, disease, pranks, racism · 2 comments

  ...  have in play pits at fast food restaurants. They wrote silly fortunes, stuck them in the balls, and put them around campus. One of ...

• 20 May 2002: Someone’s At It Again

  
  Meta: · 3 comments

  Silly games from across the comment box: Guess who! Well, port324.ds1-ry.adsl.cybercity.dk, ...

• 22 Apr 2002: Magickal Transmutations

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: bruises, capitalism sucks, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities · 2 comments

  ...  of course - facts are meant to be free, not enslaved by silly theories - but intuitively it seems that attitudes towards urban decay ...

• 31 Mar 2002: Catching Up with Someone

  
  Meta, Whimsy: · 8 comments

  ...  yeah yeah! no! yeah! yeah! no no! I'd feel much less silly if my air guitar didn't always turn into an air ukelele within the first ...

• 19 Mar 2002: Free Theorems Yum Yum

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  to get on with their job instead of wondering why this silly girl is fucking up for no apparent reason, but we can't all be such ...

• 15 Mar 2002: Easiest Joke Ever

  
  Whimsy: · 2 comments

  ...  changes at two-thirty in the morning. It's just before silly o'clock, so you can't get away with saying "hamburger" for laughs, but ...

• 10 Mar 2002: Much Ado About

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  Loud Thinking. I read through it, thought it was kind of silly, and said so - now I've been challenged to repeat myself in some kind of ...  I may think some of the ideas contained therein are silly or wrong or whatever, but I've never thought it a Bad Thing to put ...

• 9 Mar 2002: Someone Bites Back

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  I thought it was high time for a silly ...

• 6 Mar 2002: Someone’s a Commercial Whore

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  either "computer program" or "human"? Such a system seems silly at first, but really, it's no less arbitrary than grammatical gender. In ...

• : Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures

  
  Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment

  ...  very well. To make matters worse, it involves yet another silly plebiscite, which gave legal standing to the chiropractic profession in ...

• 1 Mar 2002: rocks and a promise

  
  Meta: puns · 2 comments

  ...  with the general geogeek tone. Then I thought that was silly and confusing. Now I think I like it again, but I could use some ...  i talk about my nipples brimstone - religion calamine - silly tests, the Friday Five and other itches you've just gotta ...

• 11 Feb 2002: Sorry, try again

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  want to write it, because it still feels nebulous and silly and I can't write a proper angsty rant until I've gotten all worked up ...

• 5 Feb 2002: Time for Time Cube

  
  Links: crackpots, pranks, time cube · 2 comments

  ...  fantastical Gene Ray paraphenalia: Very silly tricksters at screaming midget inviting him to give a lecture. It gets ...

• 17 Jan 2002: It Wasn’t Joan Jett

  
  Personal, Politics: · no comments

  ...  glasses so fetchingly arrayed at the back of the room. Silly me. I left with two questions. Maybe one of you can tell me the ...

• 17 Dec 2001: trolls on pigs

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  cheapass when it comes to Christmas cards, why not send silly e-mails with links to pictures of nisser and pigs? Or maybe you have a ...

• 10 Dec 2001: goodies from snoogums

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  loves silly shockwave games. Also, still shots from old-school propaganda flicks. ...

• 26 Nov 2001: Unto the Breach!

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

  ...  poking fun at Robert Frost by reading choice excerpts in a silly voice. I've always hated Robert Frost. Ice is nice, indeed, bah ...

• 14 Nov 2001: tuitive

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  of intuition is of course tuition, thus disproving this silly libertarian notion that privatized education is obviously** the solution ...

• 29 Oct 2001: speakin’ the heathen chinee – part II

  
  Human Fuzzies: liberal guilt, tourism · no comments

  ...  actually spend abroad, the more I wonder if I'm just being silly. Of course it's ridiculous that the American public education system ...

• 3 Oct 2001: A commercial for credit suisse

  
  Aimless, Human Fuzzies: · no comments

  ...  give 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 ...

• 26 Sep 2001: Modern-Day Vikings

  
  Whimsy: denmark, Vikings · no comments

  ...  with sticks. For the most part, though, the images are silly - that spectacled businessman in a helmet and mail? He wouldn't even make ...

• 25 Sep 2001: I’ve given in

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  certainly given in to something) and gotten one of those silly little bloghop rating thingamawhatsits. Rate Me on BlogHop.com! help? It's also down in the bottom left, without the silly pictures and things. ...

• 24 Sep 2001: Juggling Cabbages

  
  Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment

  ...  like cooking four heads of dropped cabbage to induce some silly camaraderie. Gratuitous use of the word "cabbage" aside, this weekend ...

• 18 Sep 2001: Those of you who are

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  wrote this, the thing that was about to set me off into a silly rant before I got distracted and then thought better of it, is that I've ...

• 27 Aug 2001: jeg kan godt tale dansk!

  
  Human Fuzzies: Danish · no comments

  ...  way out. But now what I really want to know is why these silly Danes don't ever seem to follow the scripts... whenever Jytte or Søren ...

• 13 Aug 2001: aha! an American!

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish, tourism · no comments

  ...  alone a quick route to the Øresund bridge, and feel a bit silly. An old man stopped me on the street on my way home yesterday, and ...

• 31 Jul 2001: nose-pennywhistle

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  guy (no, not the columnist, silly) is my uncle. What they failed to mention is that not only does he play ...

• 20 Jul 2001: super-mullet-link-day

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  photographs of mullets in their native habitats, and silly commentary by random internet jerks. Mullets Galore, alas, is spitting ...

• 16 Jul 2001: sextupleyoo

  
  Human Fuzzies: pronunciation, words · no comments

  ...  would be for someone to come up with a clear, yet not silly, shorthand pronunciation of "www". "triple doubleu" is about the best I've heard. The silly ones I've heard are "dub dub dub" or "triple dub". [Linguistics> msg ...

• 12 Jul 2001: dictionary my butt

  
  Human Fuzzies: i hate everything, rhetorical tactics · no comments

  ...  because I want to rub your face in my poo." Listen, ya silly fucks, citing "our friend dictionary.com" doesn't make your argument any ...