Search Results: space

• 10 Mar 2009: Fruitilinear Perturbation Methods for Layered Meringue Spaces

  
  Whimsy: meringue, pie, science parody · 5 comments

  ...  flavor propagation in homogeneous layered meringue-custard spaces. By introducing slight fruitilinear perturbations to the model, we show ...

• 15 Feb 2009: Line Spacing with the LaTeX Memoir Class: Why doesn’t setspace.sty work?

  
  Science: howto, LaTeX, typesetting · 7 comments

  ...  comment any attempt you make to load in packages like setspace.sty or use commands like \linespread or \baselinestretch. Those people in ...  blah, blah \end{Spacing} To use the setspace package, you need an extra line in your document preamble: \DisemulatePackage{setspace} \usepackage{setspace} This was giving me a nasty headache, until I ...

• 19 Jun 2008: Carnival of Space #59

  
  Links: · 2 comments

  ...  and welcome to this week's Carnival of Space! Before getting to the astro-goodness, Will has a question: How many of ...  instrumentation, and more are sure to follow. Rocks... in Space! The Bad Astronomer asks: Are we aliens?: [S]cientists studying the ...  so crucial for life, were actually formed in outer space and fell to Earth. ... and then he throws cold water all over our ...

• 8 Jul 2002: Space Battles Amongst Us

  
  Personal: exercise, raquetball, sci-fi · 1 comment

  ...  time, and it was like visiting the future: the violent space-battle 1970s future! There were at least three distinct echoes inside ...

• 14 Dec 2001: to play with space and time

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  consolidation plan the eternal darkness of inter-galactic space to be hassled by Customs officials about the small quantities of alcohol ...

• 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

  ...  lewd conversations just never seem to have a comfortable space for anyone other than straight cis men (and the occasional "girls only" conversations don't have space for anyone other than straight cis women). Experience has taught me ...

• 17 Feb 2013: Lessons from the Pantry

  
  Food: Adoxaceae, Berberidaceae, Betulaceae, canning, Equisetaceae, Fabaceae, Lamiaceae, Polygonaceae, preserves, Rosaceae, Suillaceae, Urticaceae · 4 comments

  ...  the flavor. My freezer is not large but I will find the space for a couple of little jam jars. Scotch broom buds - I only learned that ...

• : Herbal Toddy

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

  ...  to think that a couple of 5-6 oz. mugs might be worth the space they would take up in my barware cabinet. Drinking a toddy out of the ...

• 21 May 2009: Field Vehicle Amenities

  
  Science: cars, field work · 10 comments

  ...  slightly different requirements, mostly involving cargo space. Multiple cup holders. Constantly scrounging for the whatsit you put ...  somewhere, instead of the right, and using that console space for storage. Chevy Aveo, I'm looking at you here. Emergency kit. I don't ...

• 17 May 2009: But I’m Not Dead Yet!

  
  Meta: April fools · 4 comments

  ...  responsible enough to adopt. Apparently the time and brainspace I had previously devoted to blogging is the exact same time and brainspace required to dangle a string from the end of a stick. Who knew? This is ...

• 17 Mar 2009: “Temblor”

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: earthquakes, synonyms, temblors · 23 comments

  ...  the number of times a single word is repeated in a short space, and/or (b) use short words in headlines to satisfy layout ...

• 24 Feb 2009: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: diy, google earth, Links · no comments

  ...  geology bloggers, huh?!? (via Arizona Geology) Carnival of Space — Valentine’s Day ...

• 5 Feb 2009: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: Links · 3 comments

  ...  geologists FTW. Carnival of the Arid #1 Carnival of Space: Welcome to the Big Top -- Spaaaaace! New carnival! Diversity in Science ...

• 28 Jan 2009: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: Links · 4 comments

  ...  are worse than those of a cheap-o CD-RW? Carnival of Space #87 -- ...

• 22 Jan 2009: Flood Basalts

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  found much evidence that instantaneous disasters from space were responsible for any other mass extinctions. It's also accepted, ...

• 7 Jan 2009: Volcano Geodesy 101

  
  Aimless: · 6 comments

  ...  in Alaska: Figure source: Mattia et al., 2008 The space between the dotted lines represents 5 cm of movement. The different ...

• 30 Dec 2008: Cell Phones Make You Drive More

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  Thus the latent Luddite tendencies. But when last-minute space caseness takes root in an already car-driven culture, it doesn't just irk ...

• 29 Sep 2008: New Accretionary Wedge!

  
  Links: · no comments

  This month's geoblog carnival is on Geologeeeee.... innnn... SPAAAAAAACE!!1! - you simply must click through to see the cover. If you need more geoblog goodness, Lutz at geoberg.de is working on a complete list of the entire geoblogosphere! See it in Engl ...

• 27 Sep 2008: Reminder: Seattle Millionth Comment Party Today

  
  Meta: · 3 comments

  ...  mezzanine at Ozzie's, 105 W. Mercer St. just behind the Space Needle*. Some of the Seattle Skeptics are showing up, and later on, a ...

• 12 Sep 2008: Attention Seattle (and everyone else)

  
  Meta: · 9 comments

  ...  starts at 4pm at Ozzie's, which is located near-ish the Space Needle at 105 W. Mercer St. Seattle readers, please let me know if you ...

• 22 Jul 2008: Volcanoes Are Good

  
  Aimless: · 17 comments

  ...  What do you think your salty friends are swimming in - space unicorn pee? Volcanoes also flux out CO2, which keeps us warm and cozy. ...

• : Attention New York City

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  and drooling with my arms groping vaguely about the space in front of me, all the way across the continent to Seed's aboveground ...

• 30 Jun 2008: Tunguskatennial

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  reason to think that this wasn't a case of smashing-from-space. Scientific attention has turned towards the details of the impact: Was ...

• 12 Jun 2008: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  the same conversation: Oh hey, hardwood floors... garden space for tenants... what's the walk score?... AUGH NEVER MIND DEATH DEATH ...  with just one or two walls. This gives you lots of space for things like parking and big windows. Concrete is also horrible in the ...

• 31 Jan 2008: Hello World

  
  Meta: introduction · 31 comments

  ...  be. It'll get there in time. You can expect to see this space filled in the future with rocks, water, progressive identity politics, ...

• 4 Jan 2008: Caucus

  
  Politics: Dennis Kucinich, Iowa caucuses, Iowa City, presidential elections · no comments

  ...  participating, and the turnout is rapidly outgrowing the space available. I don't know. I feel okay that Obama won tonight, and kind ...

• 30 Nov 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: A Randomly-Generated AGU Press Kit

  
  Science, Whimsy: american geophysical union, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, science journalism · 20 comments

  ...  data by destroying part of a spacecraft Either a story about explosive volcanic eruptions, or the launch of a new spacecraft Climate change and its effect on hurricanes Climate change and its ...

• 26 Oct 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: Panspermia?

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, meteorites, panspermia · 2 comments

  ...  A Blog linked to this BBC report of a wacky space experiment: Transformed into the size of bowler hat, [a rock] was then attached to the side of the European Space Agency's Foton M3 mission, which launched from Kazakhstan last ...  at Aberdeen, studied what effect the heat of re-entry from space had on the rock, along with Dr Stephen Bowden. Heat from re-entry as a ...

• 5 Oct 2007: Friday Rock Blogging: Berea Sandstone

  
  Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments

  The world's most generic sandstone comes from a narrow strip that runs from northern Kentucky through the town of Berea, Ohio, and then into Pennsylvania. It's an area that, 330 million years ago, was occupied by a large bay off the epicontinental sea tha ...

• 3 Oct 2007: November Scientiae Call for Posts

  
  Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments

  ...  the mission of Scientiae is to provide a space to share "stories of and from women in science, engineering, technology ...

• 29 Aug 2007: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier

  
  Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments

  ...  a latchkey kid has never been a big deal. Thanks to MySpace and Facebook, autobiography can happen in real time. They learned about ...  thing failed. Smoking has never been allowed in public spaces in France. China has always been more interested in making money than ...

• 28 Jun 2007: Science World Heritage

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

  ...  the proposed site includes Darwin's greenhouse laboratory space, and the importance of the Galápagos to his work is easily and ...  ignoring the practical realities of preserving, e.g., lab space in university buildings where everyone is jockeying for an extra foot of ...

• 11 Aug 2006: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance

  
  Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments

  ...  physical properties of the rock to vary in time as well as space, so you can see changes due to rising magma. What makes it difficult is ...

• 10 Aug 2006: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace

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

  Senior year of high school, my friend and I usually took the stairs up to our after-school astronomy analysis-monkey internships on the top floor of Van Allen hall. One day, he arrived late to lab, crowing, "I just met James Van Allen in the elevator!" - a ...

• 10 Jul 2006: Sunday, Day of Links

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 comments

  Oh for pete's sake (via): Flipping his badge open, he said, "No, not with that shirt. You're protesting and you have to go." Beginning to get his drift, I said firmly, "Not before I finish my coffee." He insisted that I leave, but still not quit ...

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

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

  ...  most or all of the original topic. It can also occur in space that is hostile to the original blogger. And a proposed solution, by ...

• 19 Jan 2006: Lecture Zero

  
  Personal, Teaching: grad school, time management · no comments

  ...  room. The first-year grad student with ample office space and a Bay view couldn't last - I'm being kicked down to the first floor, ...

• 6 Dec 2005: AGU One

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

  ...  at 8 in the morning? And at the Marriott? Let's send the space physicists over there instead, or reserve it as punishment for people who ...

• 23 Sep 2005: Friday iTunes iChing

  
  Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · 5 comments

  ...  which it will repeat in the future; meanwhile, I am in space. Looks like I'll just have to suck it up and read this paper on screen. That's what you do in space: you read about science on your computer. Search Requests national ...

• 2 Sep 2005: Suggested New Vocabulary for Disaster Newscasters

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: lazy journalism, words · no comments

  ...  which would provide more information in the same amount of space - surely useful for reporters who can't spend more than a sentence ...

• 30 Aug 2005: Piles of Minute Aggravations

  
  Personal: cars, grad school, i hate everything · 2 comments

  ...  I have four officemates, all four of them decided to claim space in the brightly-lit windowy corner, leaving me (the last one to mark ...

• 31 Jul 2005: Oh Yes, Minnesota

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

  ...  half a dozen and allowed three more to escape within the space of two minutes, leaving my foot with the most assaultingly itchy injuries ...

• 12 Jul 2005: Another Tale From The Dreamtime…

  
  Whimsy: dreams, guest posts · no comments

  ...  'codenames' for anyone I might actually know out in Meatspace-Prime (not that I haven't done anything like that in the past, of course, ...

• 8 Jul 2005: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

  Flowers invest hella energy into creating some bizarre reproductive organs. That’s what you’re giving your mom, sweetheart, sick uncle in a vase of mixed bouquet. Plant nuticles. While monkies get some colorful behinds to signal their sexy mo ...

• : Friday Rock Blog: The Unenlightened Canadian Edition

  
  Uncategorized: guest posts, rock blogging · 3 comments

  ...  I highly recommend them, by the way, if you're into open spaces and communities built on trust. But I digress: during my last trip, to ...

• 29 Jun 2005: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics, Science: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

  Flowers invest hella energy into creating some bizarre reproductive organs. That’s what you’re giving your mom, sweetheart, sick uncle in a vase of mixed bouquet. Plant nuticles. While monkies get some colorful behinds to signal their sexy mo ...

• 8 Jun 2005: I am the Prince of the Air

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

  ...  a bunch of LiveJournal/Xanga/Myspace kidz have been trying to use my pictures as background images. Which ...

• 1 Jun 2005: Academic Insecurity Builds Character

  
  Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 6 comments

  ...  patches and insecurity and self-doubt. I was in that bad space junior year, and the absolute worst thing, the thing that brought me ...

• 30 May 2005: Weighted Words v. 1.1

  
  Meta: Weighted Words, WordPress, WordPress plugins · 2 comments

  ...  URLs), you don't care about XHTML validation, and you put spaces after all your punctuation marks like a normal person, you don't really ...

• 16 May 2005: I Wish I Were Covered in Fuzzy Knobs

  
  Links, Meta, Personal: anti-spam, cnidarians, hyperopia, myopia, vision · 4 comments

  ...  I've had to take serious decongestants. My head feels like space cheese, like an attack balloon, like a mountain stream of badly-distilled ...

• 13 May 2005: Further Trivialities

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

  ...  "cinnamon and spice" and "cinnamon roll". Surely the space of possible delicious oatmeal flavors is vast, if not infinite, and in no ...

• 9 May 2005: Deconstructing Teh Funnay

  
  Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments

  ...  list of funny things women put down on the "father" space of their children's welfare applications. The list was a familiar sort of ...

• 31 Mar 2005: Today’s RSS Zeitgeist: Cheapskates

  
  Politics: classism, consumerism, eccentricity, money · 6 comments

  Two good posts on the cultural forces that discourage us from re-evaluating our vast piles of crap, one by Flea (who is, as usual, hilarious along the way): I promise, if Alex had been with us (Christopher was, but in utero form only, so he missed the w ...

• 26 Mar 2005: Iimage Gallery Test Post: Seattle

  
  Human Fuzzies: photoblog · no comments

  Though most of the WordPress-related dust has settled, the problem of What To Do With The Photoblog remains. This post is mostly to test out IImage Gallery - which could be a swell plugin. And I still have a few pictures laying around from my visit to Seat ...

• 23 Mar 2005: Cyclic Extinctions?

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

  ...  super-special proxy server in Caltech's privileged IP-space! It's very hard to pee on anyone's parade without at least reading their ...

• 17 Feb 2005: Initiative

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

  ...  sexual interest. We have to do much more to make public space safe for women before we can expect greater willingness to respond to ...

• 13 Feb 2005: Someone’s A Bit Paranoid

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

  ...  only eat grass-fed gophers, O Silly Reader! The Flying Space Monkey Chronicles That's a pretty great commentary on the meaning of ...

• 7 Feb 2005: Monday Links to Stuff

  
  Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments

  ...  good, though I couldn't figure out how to use it in the space and time available). Finally, the originally cited remark was based on ...

• 17 Sep 2004: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.

  
  Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments

  ...  creating explicitly female-only or feminism-friendly "safe spaces", with tightly controlled participation: moderated invite-only mailing ...  the trolling masses, but nevertheless some are safer spaces than others. Why? I'm thinkin' 'bout rhetorical strategies for ...

• 31 Aug 2004: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC

  
  Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments

  ...  judges, and county assessors who'll be taking up all that space on the bottom of the Presidential ballot in November Volunteering with ...

• 29 Aug 2004: Weekend Review

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

  ...  dish drainer is on top of the fridge, for lack of counter space and because we can't be bothered to keep the table clear. It's taken ...

• 11 Aug 2004: Satellite Head

  
  Whimsy: hair, the alien mothership · 2 comments

  ...  that looks like a communications antenna! my head is from space! - but no matter how hard you wish neither your hair nor your teeth will ...

• 5 Aug 2004: Attention RSS Infidels

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  fixed the mysteriously-breaks-everything space at the front of the RSS+comments feed. And there's also shiny xml for the ...

• 17 Jul 2004: Someone’s Been Waiting

  
  Meta: fan mail, monkeys · no comments

  ...  a cat. i LOVE monkeys There we go! Pirate monkeys? Spaceship monkeys? MONKEYS! ilike ducks They have tasty eggs, but isn't ...

• 16 Jun 2004: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  Lake Michigan. 10:30 pm: It's bedtime. I may use this space tomorrow evening for more yapping about artificial recharge (putting ...

• 23 Apr 2004: Lazy RSS Roundup

  
  Links: dreams · no comments

  ...  a flag on it or something. Two comments on transitional spaces which would probably taste great together on a more thinkier day: joseph ...

• 8 Apr 2004: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  completely serious about this. I want a communal living space with some fertile land and some ducks and a goat, and a windmill, and a ...

• 4 Apr 2004: In Which I Am Excited About Compost

  
  Links, Personal: · 3 comments

  ...  to deplore the ubiquity of voicemail. My birthday is also Space Invaders Day; how cool is that? My odometer rolls over in ten miles, ...

• 7 Mar 2004: Investing With Your Values

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

  ...  community investing, and shareholder activism. Too much space is devoted here to a list of potential screens, including things like "Do ...  invest in an energy-efficient granola factory". Not enough space is given to the impact that different investment screens will have on ...

• 18 Feb 2004: Spam Literary Identities

  
  Aimless: · 1 comment

  ...  I need now are names for ficticious travel narrative, space operas where dashing young men awkwardly refuse to notice the complete ...

• 12 Feb 2004: Tchotchke Fever

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  people's doors in college; keeping the junk in my own space represents some kind of fundamental shift. Is it: A healthy redirection ...

• 4 Dec 2003: Foul Putrid News Organization

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  L.A. Times trying to interest me in some sort of "offer", spaced about an hour apart. The second one was some guy who had obviously not ...

• 7 May 2003: Vacuuming for Losers

  
  Personal, Whimsy: cleaning, howtos, vacuums · 2 comments

  ...  it's safe. Clear the accumulated dishes from your work space, while trying to convince yourself that they were mostly water glasses ...

• 20 Apr 2003: Shiny! Curvaceous!

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  Spaceship Makes Desert Debut - blah blah private manned space flight blah blah. The important things are the pictures. This thing is ...

• 1 Feb 2003: A Sad Hole in the Internet

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  it's very sad that the space shuttle exploded. Everyone is very very sad. Including me. Sad. Yes. But ...

• 18 Nov 2002: Coherence is for Chumps

  
  Personal, Whimsy: · 7 comments

  ...  (the anthem of the People's Republic of China) span the space of all possible national anthems. I have been searching, off and on as my ...

• 11 Sep 2002: New Moon Over Kentucky

  
  Science: moons, planetary science · 2 comments

  ...  Earth got a new moon - or else it's just another piece of space garbage, the astronomers haven't reached a consensus yet. This moon, ...

• 16 Jul 2002: Employment

  
  Personal: · 8 comments

  ...  is in the air, tra la, tra lee, tra la la la lay - in the space of twenty-four hours I gained a job, and another job. Both webby things, ...

• 5 Jul 2002: Liminal Kangaroo Courts

  
  Meta: blogular wanking, snobbery · no comments

  ...  comparisons to kangaroos, tree frogs, or inside-out space zebras - and Turbulent Velvet's letter analysis is no exception. On a tangent, though, he brings up the notion of liminal space between public and private discourse, space which was formerly occupied ...

• 2 Jun 2002: Priorities

  
  Links, Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, soccer · 3 comments

  ...  working on a new design which features more whitespace and, yes, a rotating tagline. "A spongiform advice column for the ...

• 28 May 2002: Link Your Thirst

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  super flair and fabulosity, but there's still plenty of space left for you to join the fun. That bit about dubious recipes was total ...

• 18 Apr 2002: Someone’s a Seaman

  
  Meta: · 1 comment

  ...  If I'd'a known that having a broken space bar constitutes a "trick" I'd'a been a huge hit on the third-string ...

• 10 Apr 2002: A Flood of Someones

  
  Meta, Whimsy: candy, Christmas, fan mail, på dansk · no comments

  ...  from the They Have Blogs! craze: you too can turn this space into a spongiform advice column for the perpetually distracted! Just use ...

• 1 Apr 2002: A Farewell

  
  Whimsy: · 21 comments

  ...  guys as well. Of course, since I won't be using the web space anymore, I'm open to suggestions for what to do with it - anyone need ...

• 19 Mar 2002: But What About Time Cube?

  
  Links: crackpots · no comments

  Depicted are energy wave shapes of colored pyramidical energy crystals that are self-constructing larger colored pyramidical crystals of matter from out of random chaos. We feel that this picture along with hundreds of others that we have taken at a Quan ...

• 9 Mar 2002: Love That Love Dart

  
  Links, Science, Whimsy: · 4 comments

  ...  we could get inside the mind of a snail (a small and slimy space, to be sure, but there are usually grad students willing to do that sort ...

• 5 Mar 2002: Someone Tries to Distract Me

  
  Meta: · 2 comments

  ...  not. what colour is your mousepad? Blue, with a clear space in the middle for me to insert my favorite 4x6 photograph. Not like you ...

• 30 Jan 2002: Thrust Faulting

  
  Personal: diary, earthquakes · no comments

  ...  I was typically out of touch, sweeping out vast areas of space with informative gestures of my entire arm, leaping up and down in front ...

• 17 Jan 2002: …and one more thing!

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  there's enough car space to get me downtown (and this is not by any means a sure thing), I'm going ...

• 28 Dec 2001: More On Malls

  
  Politics: capitalism sucks, malls, urban sprawl · no comments

  ...  Malls are also warm, sheltered places with enough open space for sundry community performances, bringing the art-fans in to shop and ...

• 17 Dec 2001: spacialization

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  word "somewhere" to describe events outside of established spacetime. I heartily disagree. Physically of course he's correct, our naive concept of "space" is completely meaningless when you're talking about jizz from a ...

• 5 Dec 2001: gopher://

  
  Links: · 1 comment

  ...  of the things Netscape 4.x is good for: browsing gopherspace. Back in the day, of course, I didn't own a modem and so much of the ...

• 7 Sep 2001: smoke-clogged lung

  
  Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment

  ...  the rest of whom are Danish. It provides a bright social space in my otherwise dim and solitary living quarters, as well as some good ...

• 24 Jul 2001: Dehydrated Agnostic

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  It's so brightly colored! Shiny! And they've got super space rocket-berry flavors! ...

• : socks

  
  Meta, Personal: fonts, socks · 1 comment

  ...  is to wear two mismatching socks, giving you twice as much space to play with even though you have to mess with people trying to tell you ...