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18 Oct 2020: Macerate ALL the things!
Aimless: Asteraceae, Berberidaceae, dandelions, Gentianaceae, gin, Juglandaceae, Lamiaceae, lemon balm, lilac, liqueurs, Oleaceae, pineappleweed, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Simaroubaceae · no comments... ready until next spring. Pineappleweed liqueur This one started with about a cup of pineappleweed blossoms in a pint jar with 2 sprigs ...
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18 Jul 2020: This Year’s Nocino Recipe
Food: infusions, Juglandaceae, liqueurs · no comments... they are thin, they shouldn't need as much time and might start to contribute less-soluble more-yucky constituents that aren't present in ... through a Brita filter* Tradition says that you can start drinking this at Christmas (or, accounting for the fact that Seattle's ...
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23 May 2020: Drinking Lilac Two Ways: Lilac Liqueur and Lilac Syrup
Food: edible flowers, flowers, infusions, lilac, liqueurs, Oleaceae · 1 comment... has three lilac bushes, and a quick taste test when they started blooming proved that two of them are yucky and bitter. The third one ...
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11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments... I started riding my bike again two years ago, I expected to have a few scary ... at work. What I did not expect was that people would start complaining to me about other bicyclists they'd seen on the road - ... website. When I ask someone for directions, they will start by giving me directions appropriate to my mode of transportation. I can ...
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28 Oct 2020: Terminology Request: Graphic Design Fail
Whimsy: fun poll, graphic design · no comments... putting together a complicated plot, sometimes you'll start out with a carefully chosen color scheme; other times you'll use the ...
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21 May 2020: Field Vehicle Amenities
Science: cars, field work · 10 comments... and a wallet-change-keys-iPod holder... but we could start with just putting the parking brake lever on the left-hand side ...
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25 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists? Part II
Human Fuzzies, Science: disciplinary boundaries, professional licensing, Washington · 14 comments... geology/stratigraphy) and then my professional clock would start ticking - experience gained prior to completing these educational ...
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14 Mar 2020: Beer Meringue Pie
Food: beer, hops, meringue, pie, recipes · 6 comments... form, and especially in dessert form. Dark chocolate is starting to weaken that taboo, though. Once you have decided that nibbling on ... mixture simmers and turns translucent. Set it aside. Then, start whisking the eggs. When they are foamy, add the sugar and cream of ...
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2 Mar 2020: Recent Results in Seismology
Science: academic journals, earthquakes, liquefaction, nonvolcanic tremor, seismology · 1 comment... seismometers - Japan's meteorological agency has recently started to deliver earthquake alerts. (NB: This earthquake early warning system ... rupture in an earthquake. Once the earthquake has already started, though, an early warning system can use the fast-traveling but weak ...
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17 Feb 2020: Teaching Engineers to Blog?
Meta: · 6 comments... My own discovery of the blogosphere happened in fits and starts so I don't think I can rely on my own experience to explain it to ... blog a while ago, where students were given a couple of starting points for exploring science blogs (the list of this year's Open Lab ...
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29 Jan 2020: Breaking Up with the Richter Scale
Science: earthquakes, Gutenberg, magnitude scales, Mercalli Intensity, richter, sesimology, unfinished drafts · 5 comments... that seismic waves get weaker with distance that you can start to say anything meaningful about what is happening at the fault. Figuring ...
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9 Jan 2020: ScienceBlogs Down Today
Meta: · no comments... won't be able to post any new entries. The upgrade will start at 1 pm EST today (Friday), and should be done by Saturday evening... ...
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4 Jan 2020: 2020 Blogolutions
Meta: · 4 comments... reflective and renewal-minded. And I've been thinking of starting my personal calendar year on National Pie Day, anyway. So here are my ...
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27 Oct 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #152
Aimless: · 10 comments... since I moved to ScienceBlogs! - and I think it's time to start correcting this historical inequity. For new players, here's the game: ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 comments... morning, I'm pretty sure these techniques are also nonstarters for coffee grinder adaptation. Of course, the real reason people have ...
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27 Sep 2020: Reminder: Seattle Millionth Comment Party Today
Meta: · 3 comments... least, and keep going until we run out of budget. We'll start at 4 and carry on until... um, I'm not sure how long we'll carry on, but ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... of all this: Oops! Lieberman just sneaked up on me and started yelling about my diary -- he says my calling him "Joe the Jew" is ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... serpentine. If you're elsewhere in the U.S., you might start with your state's official rock or mineral. For the rest of the world... ...
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12 Sep 2020: Attention Seattle (and everyone else)
Meta: · 9 comments... a valid email address between... um, whenever the contest started, and whenever it is that the millionth comment is posted, which is ... Bacon, and Grrl Scientist on September 27th. The shindig starts at 4pm at Ozzie's, which is located near-ish the Space Needle at 105 W. ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... how long do I have to go without blogging before you start sending me solicitous letters of concern for my health, my Internet ... are a few of the gender and science things: Someone's started a geek feminism wiki. The entries are still pretty sketchy - the "women ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... weird. "Weird" is loosely defined - sometimes the geyser starts picking randomly between two possible wait times instead of one, and ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... still lacks an RSS feed. Not my uncle Mike, who has just started speaking out about the pork industry for the Minnesota Pork Board. ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments... errors. So. What's wrong with this picture? To start, let me show you what Chalko's graph is really measuring. I used the same ...
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24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 comments... hinders further progress. The problem is that once failure starts, it soon generalizes by self-blame to all of mathematics. Similar processes are at work with technology. The vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... 40-year history. Hurrai, hurrai, for LPI! But as Starts with a Bang reminds us, we can do science and celebrate all we like, ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... the layers of bricks; just mortar. This is fine until you start to shake the wall from side to side - mortar doesn't put up much of a ... is that car culture came into full swing, and people started designing apartment buildings that sit on top of parking spaces. You ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 comments... day before the eruption, water from the surrounding rock started flowing into the borehole. In the course of trying to control this, the ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... I was thinking about grad school. And within a year of starting grad school, I was thinking about leaving. This time, I'm swearing ...
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16 Apr 2020: RIP Ed Lorenz
Aimless: · 4 comments... about the stability of the atmosphere. Who wants to start a betting pool on the number of obituaries that will make cheesy jokes ...
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2 Apr 2020: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation
Aimless: · 26 comments... a word ugly enough to replace "miogeosyncline". I'll start with tiphon, the loser in a late 19th Century competition to describe ... by a feedback loop in the erosion process. What that starts as a small dimple will eventually become a deep hole, because the water ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... on the basis of this murky press release. But if you start revising your middle-school earth science textbooks based on just a ...
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5 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 2 comments... pictures of yourself doing something very dumb. Geotripper started it, Chris, Kim, Ron, and The Lost Geologist have all joined in. Mine's ...
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22 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Oil Shale
Aimless: · 12 comments... oil prices on the rise, several companies have started pilot projects in the Green River Formation to test methods of ...
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18 Feb 2020: Repost: A Puzzle
Aimless: · 4 comments... starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel that is grad school. I give it ... I'll kick things off by posting a puzzle/meme I tried to start back in aught-one, which never caught on - probably because back then, we ...
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8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Aimless: · 19 comments... take a bit of the Earth's mantle, heat it until it just starts to melt, and then store the resulting liquid someplace where it can cool ...
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2 Feb 2020: Lusi Lecture
Links: · no comments... for your weekend housecleaning. The good science bits start about 15 minutes in. Now, I've got a dog in the science debate here, ...
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1 Feb 2020: We Can Have a New Geological Epoch If We Want
Aimless: · 21 comments... of whether or not a new geologic epoch has "really started" is precisely as stupid as the question of whether or not Pluto is ...
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4 Jan 2020: Caucus
Politics: Dennis Kucinich, Iowa caucuses, Iowa City, presidential elections · no comments... became restive. By the time things were actually ready to start, we'd been in a hot, overstuffed elementary school gymnasium for 45 ... relieved - they'd all been playing "not it". So then they started playing "not it" about who would have to count, as each candidate's ...
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3 Jan 2020: Notes from the Iowa Frontlines
Politics: Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucuses, presidential elections · 2 comments... figures decided at the last minute to endorse Obama), and started hanging up on anyone we didn't recognize from the caller ID. I didn't ...
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17 Dec 2020: Aaand, the rest of AGU
Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments... science radio superstardom. I think I am finally starting to figure out how schmoozing networking works. Except I still need to ... blame society", and turned out to be a great conversation-starter. I wish the "straight" science sessions would depart from the standard ...
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10 Dec 2020: Monday AGU Accomplishment Checklist
Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging, geoblogosphere · 4 comments... digital cameras present. If you find that your blog posts start to grow unstable, lacking any remaining reason or coherent narrative ...
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6 Dec 2020: 403 Tamed
Meta, Teaching: anti-spam, blog status updates, plagiarism · no comments... used by my very favorite anti-spam plugin, Bad Behavior, started throwing false positives like candy at a parade. I've updated the ...
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23 Nov 2020: Pumpkin-Durian Pie
Food: Cucurbitaceae, durian, Malvaceae, pie, recipes · 4 comments... it for yours, and freeze the rest for later. Cook until it starts sputtering, then stir in the milk and cream. Turn the heat down to a ... ones, and then pre-bake the crusts at 400º until they start to turn golden brown. Meanwhile, scramble your eggs. When the pie ...
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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... money for the page charges for that, at $100 a page? Your start-up? Don't you have to make that last over the next two years, and don't ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 comments... and over. But if I move my speakers around a little I also start to hear "burp", "rainbow", "wanker", and the name of the guy in the ...
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25 Sep 2020: Geek Ink
Science, Whimsy: diffusion, equations, tattoos · 5 comments... than a week at a time; if I still like it when I'm 30 I'll start looking for an artist. Why is this such an appealing concept? ...
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30 Aug 2020: Notes From the Books Precariously Stacked on My Bedside Table
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, feminisms, history, psychology, racism, rape, sexism, trashy novels, white studies · 3 comments... attention. The Mismeasure of Woman - Carol Tavris. I started this book hoping it would cover more neurobiology and medicine than it ... loud, crisp voice, "You must think I'm white." She was startled. But within seconds she came to realize that these simple words ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments... partisan, I like to make at least a token nod at "hey they started it!" - but not on the 4th of July. Today I feel an urge to be not just ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... how many. This habit becomes excruciatingly obvious when I start talking about my decision to cut and run with the MS - whenever I'm about ...
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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... has it and in terms of how it is perceived by others. I started grad school with a great deal of self-confidence, and though I retain ...
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18 Apr 2020: Lollinks
Links, Personal, Whimsy: cat macros, psychology, test anxiety · 4 comments... grateful for that... otherwise, I might have to start continue photoshopping weird netspeak onto scientific figures. And I ...
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18 Mar 2020: Iconic Figures: Energy Release by Earthquakes
Science: earthquakes · 10 comments... seeing a lot of lately. Here's what I've picked out to start: The energy in any given earthquake can be used to deform and ...
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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... and utterly essential isn't, really. Before I start listing the earth science messages I think are utterly essential, I'd ...
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26 Jan 2020: Bottomless Holes of Curiosity
Personal, Science: time sinks, Web of Science, xkcd · 8 comments... have dollar signs on them? Can anyone guess what my starting point ...
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26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie
Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 comment... liquid in a pan. Bring to a simmer, whisking, until it starts to turn translucent. Then, whisk in the eggs yolks 2 at a time, then the ... sugar; beat the egg whites and vanilla until frothy, then start adding bits of the sugar mixture, while beating, until it forms soft ...
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24 Nov 2020: Thanksblogging
Human Fuzzies, Personal: pie, thanksgiving · 4 comments... been twelve hours; I'm almost ready to start thinking about food again. Not eating it, but skittering my olfactory ...
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29 Sep 2020: Two Cliches, As Applied to My Life
Personal, Science: grad school · 3 comments... no idea what it is. I used to have an idea, but then I started telling people about it: "A tree!" cried the Committee Chair. "You ...
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4 Sep 2020: Household Goodness
Personal: domesticity, gardening, photoblog · 2 comments... next year we won't have any plums. The pear tree has started dropping fruit, which means (accodring to the Internets) that it's time ...
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20 Aug 2020: Blackberry Pie
Food: blackberries, cooking, desserts, foraging, pie, Rosaceae · 11 comments... of unusably hilly land at the end of every cul-de-sac, I started thinking about blackberry pie and could not stop. Seriously could ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... just the tip of the iceberg; more than once I've had to start ruthlessly deleting endless stupid bickering between small groups of ...
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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... of her favorite evolutionary just-so stories. Maushart starts by establishing that wives, on average, do more work - household labor, ... place. If you think you're not doing your fair share, start cleaning, or ask to renegotiate the division of labor so you can take on ...
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18 Jul 2020: One More Way in which Global Warming Can Kill You
Science: climate change, unlikely catastrophes, volcanoes · 15 comments... lava, these eruptions are initiated by a landslide. They start with a mountain that's already been weakened by other developments in the ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... scientific sales, science policy, IP law, etc women who started out interested in STEMM, perhaps even received a degree in it, but are ... or pursuing a career in an unrelated field women who started out interested in STEMM and are now in the social sciences women in ...
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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... down structure as easily as anything else, but when you start to ascribe monomyth meaning to the thematic elements of girls' stories, ...
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23 Jun 2020: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache
Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments... I realized that my database backups were useless, I started frantically saving cached pages from Google. I ran through searches ...
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6 Jun 2020: I’ll Stick to Compost, Thanks
Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments... the landlady's gardener mowing the wrong spot. So she started praying over the tomatoes. She invoked the sun, and the earth, and the ...
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2 Jun 2020: Friday Review of Stuff
Human Fuzzies: mac'n'cheez, pop, wordpress themes · 3 comments... ask that people keep publishing convenient, easy-to-edit starter themes for tech-heads as well? That said, props to plaintxt.org, for ...
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24 Apr 2020: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too
Politics, Science: academia, mentoring, science studies · no comments... (well, maybe not the shelter...creepy), but if you can't, start your hunting expedition. Via, umm, I forget, d'oh! Do contrarians ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... veil of pseudonymity. Ditch the pseudonym; start writing under my own name. This is actually my favorite choice, but I'm ...
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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... glad you think so....And this does seem like a starter compromise between being oblivious and being acquisitive. I was ...
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25 Mar 2020: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist
Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments... had invited me. "What? You're leaving? It's just getting started!" he exclaimed. "Yeah, it's not my thing," I said. "You're not ...
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17 Mar 2020: Friday iTunes 8Ball
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments... ("Vision") is a trip in the landscape that starts from the home mountain and continues through the frosty sky painted by ...
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22 Dec 2020: New Plugin: Recently Spammed
Meta: comment spam, plugins, WordPress · 3 comments... figured this plugin would be easy to do, given the right starting point, and boy was I ever correct. Setting up the documentation took ...
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: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments... more human law; any serious theory of justice has to start from our ordinary claims to justice and dignity, the kind of demands that ... could do it, that I would not fail. He didn't do it, and I started doubting myself. [...] I think about my current situation, all the ...
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23 Nov 2020: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments... has found an easy solution. But I will say that I should start submitting essays to ...
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16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments... temporary basis in a way that feels fair to all. Should I start throwing around the word "sabbatical"? The academic analogy is somewhat ...
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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... most of us don't. I think it would be helpful if we started to do our share of that particular chore. I might flake out at the ... you can skip directly to a partial solution, a bill to start throwing money at real support for student parents: We focus on birth ...
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8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs
Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments... hard data. The actual success rate of myths as fruitful starting points for geological investigation is easily overstated; it's usually ...
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1 Nov 2020: Plebiscite Time Is Fun Time
Politics: abortion, California ballot propositions, co-op living, MediCal, teacher tenure · 9 comments... tradition of California budgetary nawa shibari. Until they start tying up the budget (or the legislature) with actual ropes, instead of ...
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13 Sep 2020: The Devil Is In
Aimless, Meta, Personal: beer, blogtinkery, en français, Internet friends, pirates · 3 comments... letting that project sit on the proverbial shelf. I've started piling unrefined life byproducts on a livejournal. Posts there will ...
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12 Sep 2020: The 4th Circuit Pees on the 4th Amendment
Politics: civil liberties, fascist police states, FEMA · 2 comments... gets better in the official rebuttal: We knew from the start that we needed additional security at the site so Oklahoma Highway Patrol ...
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6 Sep 2020: Berkeley Time
Personal, Politics: art, Berzerkeley, co-op living · 10 comments... Cal: Because we're laid-back West Coast hippies, we start everything just a little bit late, and it's cool. Because we have an ...
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28 Aug 2020: The Magic is Gone
Whimsy: magic arm hair, superstition · 5 comments... arm hair foul play - and just in time for school to start, too. Help me, I'm ...
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24 Aug 2020: Items
Personal: co-op living, rush week · 6 comments... excited it was to be expelling its old lining. It's a new start! it said, I'll feel fresh and sparkly - like all this cleaning you've ...
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21 Aug 2020: How Many For Just A Nice Relaxing Coma?…
Links: caffeine, guest posts, mind-altering substances · no comments... it takes quite a few less than that before the kidneys start to seize up on me, but I'll try to take the gentle hint regardless, ...
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5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... Hans Island, which's ownership is also claimed by spunky upstart Canada: The Arctic patrol cutter Tulugaq will attempt to reach the ...
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22 Jul 2020: Fisher’s Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3 · 1 comment... to dance as a group until someone has had enough beer to start dancing on the table. The Library of Congress maintains three ...
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24 Jun 2020: Friday Hangover Blogging
Personal: search requests · 4 comments... don't have any sort of stereo system. Also, oil has started leaking from the dashboard, via the warning light panel. ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... input as to how I can write better rock-based conversation starters would be welcome. The red and white circle shown here represents ...
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12 Jun 2020: Chronology
Personal, Politics: fashion, feminism, plumbers, sexism · 9 comments... should get out more. Earlier This Week The water heater started leaking. There are times when renting is just ducky, as it's the ... However, my looks of polite horror when the one plumber started going on about how women probably wouldn't want to do the work (because ...
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8 Jun 2020: Stuff for Sale and the Intertwixtion of All Oppressions
Personal, Politics: advertising, craigslist, feminism, feminisms, racism, sexism, the Ur-Oppression, torture · 6 comments... and the fact that the real moving frenzy hasn't started yet, I haven't been posting much. Since I don't have quite enough crap ... an analogy to race, insisting that if the brouhaha had started over an ad that invoked stereotypes about black people, or Hispanics, ...
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1 Jun 2020: Modern Society
Links, Politics: health care, impeach Bush, Internet activism, telephony · 5 comments... members of the Big Brass Alliance) posts on efforts to start an impeachment investigation - wouldn't that be nice? Convenient, ...
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9 May 2020: Deconstructing Teh Funnay
Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments... actual, testable hypotheses about it. And before you start thinking I've got a secret theory up my sleeve that generates actual ...
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3 May 2020: Two Tuesday Links
Links, Personal: Brazil, masculinity · 6 comments... penis, and what happens in the comments section? People start talking about the G-spot. Bephallicled readers, I confess that the ...
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28 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Twelve
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 2 comments... Break is in your heart and in your mind, every day is the start of a nine-day weekend. The Pogues - Hell's Ditch - Six to Go MC Einar ...
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25 Apr 2020: Feminisms
Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments... describing their definitions of feminism eventually start to sound like Paul writing to the Corinthians: Feminism is patient and ...
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4 Apr 2020: Links to Daylight’s Rescue
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments... irrelevant and ineffective, well, it behooves us to start looking at unconventional organizations. Friends with blogs! Tiny ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... sense of entitlement some men feel to "their" women. Starting a relationship with Mr. Unknown Bookstoreman is risky, sure. But the question isn't "do I or do I not want to start writing Mrs. Yami Bookstoreman in girly hearts on my notebooks?" - it's ...
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5 Feb 2020: Roe v. Wade: Googlebombing Abortion
Politics: abortion, Internet activism · 1 comment... Following RadGeek's suggestion, then, it's time to start pointing out more appropriate sources of information about ...
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11 Jan 2020: Mmmm Rocket Fuel
Politics, Science: earthquakes, ground water, perchlorate, pollution · no comments... less than infinitely plentiful, it would behoove us to start thinking about how to make full use of all the water we've got. In ...
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20 Dec 2020: Excel and the Economics of Usability
Personal: capitalism sucks, i hate everything · 4 comments... or inexplicable Windows event. Whereupon I immediately start printing at least five spurious copies of everything, every time I need ...
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2 Dec 2020: Thanksgiving Food Review
Food, Personal: cranberry sauce, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 4 comments... a Koch snowflake. Since it is now three days after I started writing the post, it obviously hasn't worked out as planned, and is ...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... here in the Realm of Forms. One is the problem of when to start giving tiny proto-humans moral weight. I'm not inclined to do this before serious brain-knitting starts, and I very much scoff at those who insist that the unique genetic code ...
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19 Nov 2020: Spam Stopgap
Meta: blogtinkery, comment spam · no comments... your comment is unfairly rejected, and you don't want to start sending a proper referer (actually any referer string will do) or don't ...
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2 Nov 2020: So Distracting
Personal, Politics: colds, presidential elections · no comments... a little, and I'm sure tomorrow will be worse. My throat started getting sore yesterday afternoon and hasn't stopped; calling up two ...
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28 Oct 2020: Cause for Optimism
Politics: · 2 comments... and phone banking. It's about five days too soon to start asking this, but how can we keep these alliances going once we no longer ...
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21 Sep 2020: Non-Marketing Non-Future
Aimless: · no comments... to try it with soda or shampoo or something. Then I started thinking about work again, tweedledum ...
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30 Aug 2020: Note to People on Political Volunteer Phone Lists
Politics: i hate everything, impeach Bush, US party politics · no comments... ask if your special talents can be put to use, but don't start in on how you're too smart to be working the phones. Your phone banker is ...
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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... to be somewhat understudied. Of course, not having started applying to grad schools yet I'm getting somewhat ahead of ...
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11 Aug 2020: Burble Tensors on Cross-Disciplinary Manifolds of Love!
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 5 comments... "real science" is interesting, especially when people start arguing about whose views are more distorted, but... It's one thing to ...
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9 Aug 2020: Weekend Recap
Personal: video games · no comments... all over everyone else's blog today. Definitely time to start thinking about egocentric comment-aggregating doohickeys so I can feel at ...
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4 Aug 2020: Dentist to the Stars?
Personal: dentistry · 4 comments... I needed that root canal after all - tooth started hurting Friday night, off and on, okay with ibuprofen but I'm not keen ...
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26 Jul 2020: Cruise to the Interior of the Earth!
Science: crackpots, hollow earth · 1 comment... to the North Pole with a bunch of crazies: Days 9-11 Start the search for the North Polar Opening to the Inner Continent. Days ...
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19 Jul 2020: GRE Goodness
Personal: cubicle living, grad school, i hate everything, standardized tests · 3 comments... is hyphenated and it's impossible to tell where paragraphs start and stop. Slows my reading speed down immensely, and makes it rather ...
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4 May 2020: Garden Post
Personal: car repair, cars, container gardening, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, tomatoes · no comments... I thought my car would make it to work, but it started crying and overheating three miles out on the freeway... limped in to ...
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28 Apr 2020: Coolant Pixies
Personal: · 5 comments... way more expensive and less fun than you realize when you start. Update 30/4: Hmm. Got home tonight after a particularly lousy run of ...
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15 Apr 2020: Oh Boy an Earthquake!
Science: · 10 comments... in the San Bernardinos or near one of those other places starting with San" but I'm not falling out of my chair to stock up on bottled ...
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8 Apr 2020: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps
Personal: · 2 comments... upteen-bajillion arbitrarily adjusted coefficients, I'll start proving theorems on the boss's dry erase board. Grad school of course ... Here's where the last comment on Amanda's post has started old marbles rolling down new tracks: Third, I'm hankering for ...
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15 Mar 2020: The Creeping Nursery Begins
Personal: dead baby jokes, gardening · no commentsWhat's blue and sits in the corner? Baby in a plastic bag. What's green and sits in the corner? Same baby three weeks later. Which is how I'm hoping these babies will turn out - green! Or even green with red blotches, which is also a good color combina ...
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14 Feb 2020: Someone Flails Wildly
Meta: · no commentsI must say, I missed the spout box while it was gone. But the misplaced search queries do make me wonder: ? growth of mung beans http://www.alexchiu.com/cell/14.htm Mung beans make our distancewise ions live forever! Actually, that four-armed octopus ...
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2 Feb 2020: Linky Roundup
Links: · 2 comments... It's not the funniest random shit in the world, but it's a start. Now if only I could get it to stop recommending programmer food... The ... leafletter himself. *Internet Starvation: The DSL started burping to death when subjected to 10 minutes of solid downloading. ...
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28 Sep 2020: Numbered Notes
Human Fuzzies: · 3 comments... to nucleate a "Metaweb" around his new novel, so he's started a wiki. It's either ambitious or pretentious, but it's probably more ... a set of annotations to my book might be one way to get it started. The idea of organizing general knowledge around a novel - any novel - ...
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10 Sep 2020: Epic Immuno-Suppressing Battles
Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments... a longer ethernet cable. Perhaps I will go back to starting, finishing and posting entries in one day rather than ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... that I've finally found a house to move into, they've started handing me actual responsibilities at work that make blogging under the ...
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5 Aug 2020: Mandatory Events
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... and attend a show with the Indecisives in your area, starting immediately and vanishing soon. They will rock your socks into a box ...
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4 Jun 2020: Exploded Your Mom’s Cambrian Energy Drinks
Personal, Science: · 4 comments... Surge. On the brighter side of things, my cerebellum has started to squirm. The excitement hasn't gotten up to any of my higher-level ...
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2 Jun 2020: Real Ultimate Molluscs!!! (and stuff on my door)
Aimless: · 3 comments... cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start biochemistry next year. I love molluscs with all of my body (including ...
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3 Apr 2020: Colossal Squid
Links: · 3 comments... things that might or might not be sponges. I'm going to start doodling dragons on my ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... serving, or it poisons you in nasty ways. But I've been starting to wonder about the condition of native Hawaiian teeth - there were ...
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23 Feb 2020: Thank You, Science
Links, Personal: · 2 comments... thing where the second half of the article loses steam and starts randomly insulting small talk. This is something I've seen lots of ...
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10 Jan 2020: Stick Up Your Etiquette
Personal: · 1 comment... drives me absolutely bonkers. I start off feeling boorish and uncultured, then I realize why, take a hearty ...
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9 Dec 2020: 19 down, 30 to go
Personal, Politics: · 11 comments... With two finals and one possible homework set left, I'm starting to really look forward to going home and having my wisdom teeth ...
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18 Nov 2020: Coherence is for Chumps
Personal, Whimsy: · 7 comments... but if you're not trying to quit smoking, you can't just start chewing on sticks. People look at you funny. You know it's going to be a long night when you start commenting your code as a dialogue between two guys called Ole and ...
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9 Oct 2020: Modulo Alphabet Song
Human Fuzzies: alphabets, pronunciation · 4 comments... I've been beaten. Outstubborned. De-vernacularized. I've started calling zee zed. It may seem trivial—even mildly advantageous, ...
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19 Sep 2020: Incredible Finds
Personal: · no comments... which probably means I need to take a step back and start reading some glossy Modernist publications. Also, my camera arrived in ...
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12 Sep 2020: Eating Glop
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... know what's going to happen to me next month. School will start, and physics will stream from my every orifice in great torrents. I'm ...
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8 Sep 2020: Debtor’s Prison
Uncategorized: dreams · no comments... night I started hunting for new cameras, and I dreamed that I woke up and I had won ...
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5 Sep 2020: Someone’s All Wet
Meta: · 2 comments... it's not bone-dry either—but real humidity doesn't start until your sweat no longer evaporates. My sweat is definitely ...
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25 Aug 2020: Confuse the Bubblebots
Personal: · 1 comment... and I went to Malibu yesterday, to start the next round of the photo competition and so I could collect my prize ...
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21 Aug 2020: Competitive Photography, Part One
Whimsy: · 4 comments... each time, it's terribly exciting. Also, I'm really starting to like this php ...
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10 Aug 2020: Happy Boys and Girls
Meta, Personal: · 2 comments... question for once: how are the jobs coming? Have you started already? Oh yes, that. I've started work, with a bit of an erratic schedule, but it's work. It's okay - ...
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9 Aug 2020: Don’t Ask Me
Meta, Whimsy: blogular wanking, email, spam · no comments... else's. It was a bit of a crunch naming parents - I started blogging after reading an article in the New Yorker, where the torrid ...
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31 Jul 2020: Someone Wonders
Meta: · 1 comment... dress like Quakers. But before you move to the moon and start dressing like a Quaker, find out which religion is right for your ...
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9 Jul 2020: Quality Control Freak
Personal: ants, cleaning, household pests · no comments... two entries in a row starting with "I have just been...". I hang my head in shame. In other news, ...
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28 Jun 2020: sweeping clean
Meta: · no comments... the guestbloggers safely out of the way, I'll be able to start on all those jizzilicious upgrade projects. First up: MT 2.21, and the ...
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13 Jun 2020: The Universe Is Expanding
Uncategorized: guest posts · 3 comments... it's starting right here. Here's something else for the physics buffs: how does ...
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5 Jun 2020: Guestbloggers Coming
Meta: blog status updates · no comments... undergrads. Which means that even though my finals don't start (in theory) until this weekend, I've got lots of fun planned for the next ...
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23 May 2020: Someone Has a Suggestion
Meta: · no comments... we're on administrative details, finals week has started to stir its ugly head and mutter in its sleep. When the term is done, ...
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: Tomorrow Was Yesterday
Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no comments... about thirty seconds to strip down to our underwear and start flinging paint at each other, dancing and smashing our paint-slick bodies ... walked by about 20 minutes before they were scheduled to start, a woman standing in a clump of Leno-people said "... now, these ...
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17 May 2020: Old Whippersnappers
Personal: · no comments... stories with loving indulgence. When she sees that you're starting to drift, she gently pulls him away for another trip to the salad bar ...
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14 May 2020: E-Mail Tips and Tricks
Whimsy: · no comments... a pointy stick. Then I added more RAM, and the sigs just started to vanish when they weren't being looked at. For reference, ITS seems ...
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9 May 2020: Super Someone
Meta, Whimsy: fan mail, Internet doodads · no comments... gave in and installed flash, I'll check it out once I restart mozilla. Yablonovite rocks! Mmm, yablonovite. ... and that's how long it takes to get me to start flapping my lips with my finger. Hoo ...
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28 Apr 2020: button bushes
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... herbal supplement I've been taking since the term started. Experiences like this are precisely why I don't try such things; I'm ...
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23 Apr 2020: More Decision Theory
Personal: · 6 comments... decision-making power of serendipity, I never knew until I started studying the economics of uncertainty. It seems that in order to make a ...
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14 Apr 2020: Tax Time, Fun Time!
Meta: · 2 comments... club, now would be an excellent time to get over there and start ...
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13 Apr 2020: Wizard of Bras
Personal: · 7 comments... own shape and personality, and complain loudly if any upstart fabric construction tries to keep 'em down. I occasionally impose upon my ...
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9 Apr 2020: Ankle Exploding Hi-Ho
Personal: · no comments... from the database (hi mom!). Seriously, Planet Welk has started popping up advertising for - brace yourself, gentle reader - online ...
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3 Apr 2020: Dinosaur Lecture Hall
Personal: · 3 comments... and "trivial." Every time I go to one of his lectures, I start filling my notes with the word "fuck" over and over again in the ...
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2 Apr 2020: Exploding Toilet
Uncategorized: photoblog · 5 comments... lunch and one of the upstairs toilets exploded and water started cascading down the flight of stairs leading up to my room. Which should ...
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26 Mar 2020: Outright Theft
Aimless: dreams · 2 comments... and I save the world or run away from robots. So I've started to appropriate other dreams, that I've read about or that I just made ...
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16 Mar 2020: Someone’s a Cruel Landlord
Meta: · no comments... taking one of my sock drawer as well, because I've lately started storing my socks rolled-up instead of haphazard and I think it embodies ...
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11 Mar 2020: Fruit Flies like a Banana
Personal: · 2 comments... that yes, Saturday and Sunday count for two pills so if I start counting on Friday, Monday will be roughly in the middle. This might ...
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7 Mar 2020: Try Optimism
Personal: · no comments... been pathologically avoiding, bite my tongue whenever I start to blame myself for something and everything will be perfect again. And ...
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18 Feb 2020: Guerilla Feminism
Politics: feminism, gender, sexism, stereotypes · no comments... not always aware of how early our own stereotypes can start to influence our offspring. The research cited here is all old (2020s) - ...
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16 Feb 2020: vapid
Links: · no comments... but this one has such great illustrations... Rasmus is starting a review project that works much in the style of Blogger Insider - and ...
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14 Feb 2020: Heart Moon Puppy Love Muffin
Personal, Politics: doctors, hair, Valentine's Day · no comments... noticed the shadow of fuzz on my upper lip she wanted to start me off on a higher-estrogen birth control pill. I wanted to ask, is that ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... have temporarily saved my willpower - you see, whenever I start feeling underacheivish, I immediately chastize myself for my lack of ...
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6 Feb 2020: Where’s My Jetpack?
Personal: · no comments... I'm down in the late-night greasebucket with them, they start hallucinating bugs on my food. I'm very, very glad that I'm not a ...
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5 Feb 2020: Joy of Joys
Personal: · no comments... schedules. It seems like barely an eyeblink since the term started, but it also seems like forever, and that averages out to midterms. If ...
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3 Feb 2020: Hey! You!
Meta: · no comments... of hate mail. Which I haven't gotten. So I'm going to start asking for something different: tell the people at the anti-bloggies how I tried to start a horrible new meme. After all, those of us who want fame without the ...
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27 Jan 2020: My Boots Keep Me
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... change from the usual subwoofer études. But I'm starting to see (hallucinate, maybe, but maybe not!) people tilting their heads ...
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24 Jan 2020: Core 1a
Personal: · no comments... read a bunch of clear, cogent popular science articles, I start to wonder just what exactly the core curriculum committee was smoking ...
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23 Jan 2020: Pedagogy
Personal: · no comments... going to start tutoring at a high school down the road. Algebra. I hope I can remember ...
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10 Jan 2020: the cat came back
Personal: culture shock, diary, repatriating · 1 comment... the unenthusiastic prof compared us to mangy cats. Then he started talking about some Garrison Keillor sketch involving a meat grinder, ...
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8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois
Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment... in boats is hell on my complexion. Aragorn obviously starting to find Frodo strangely attractive. Sam will kill him if he tries ...
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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... fronts of grain elevators, an occasional cow. You would start in a reasonable farming community, and pass by many reasonable ...
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27 Dec 2020: so you noticed
Meta: blogtinkery · no comments... is a good time to start the deluge of "it looks funny in Boogle Browser 1.2 for BeOS" complaints. ...
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7 Dec 2020: Gravitas
Links, Science: gravity, mapping, New Madrid · no comments... marks a zone where, 600 million years ago, the continent started to split apart. It stopped before getting anywhere interesting, of ...
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5 Dec 2020: gopher://
Links: · 1 comment... back with my zippyfast dorm connection, I might have to start running my own gopher daemon. Meanwhile, here are all the gopher servers ...
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1 Dec 2020: Happy AIDS Day!
Links: · no comments... condoms on lollipop sticks at the campus career fair, I do start to wonder. Of course, if we're going to be completely serious about this ... "free safer sex equipment" concept, we're going to have to start in on the free latex gloves, dental dams, and water-based lube, too. ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... so - my delvings into the Lord of the Rings have started to compete with daily necessities like cooking supper, and I've been ...
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11 Nov 2020: hey hey I’m a monkee
Meta: · no comments... think it actually means anything. Maybe it means I should start using more corporate buzzwords, but I'm so far out of touch with the ...
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: s-tog til hundige
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... still playing music. After that, though, the dance pit started to be a bit more believable, and it was full of people grabbing each ...
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2 Nov 2020: false hopes
Meta, Personal: minions · no comments... updated mod_auth_pgsql package to make me feel loved! I started off this morning with rather high hopes for doing a little workish ... rereading last night's entry, I realized that I've started to leave out more and more background details when I blog, assuming ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... I'm no exception - only in the last couple weeks have I started to find the people I like instead of the people I just like to hang out ...
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31 Oct 2020: It’s doing weather outside
Personal: hygge, weather · no comments... and Icelanders and members of other nations who don't start counting at "stuen") and there are leaves swirling around in the air past ...
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29 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee – part II
Human Fuzzies: liberal guilt, tourism · no comments... a second language down our throats, but if I'm going to start feeling guilty for all the failures of the American public education ...
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20 Oct 2020: Notre Dame de la Nostalgie
Personal: · no comments... admires when visiting a new cathedral, they sat down and started to sing hymns. For the most part they had quivering old-people voices, ...
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9 Oct 2020: Going Swimming
Personal: · 1 comment... is a little short on saunas - excuses, excuses. I was startled by the taste of salt in my mouth, and the slight osmotic pull on my ...
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5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen
Aimless, Personal: · no comments... here for more than two months already, and it's time to start planning a vacation for the mid-semester break. Since next week my ...
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30 Sep 2020: Problem Set #1
Aimless: · 1 comment... and exciting set of statistics problems for you to solve. Start off with the following assumptions: The city of Copenhagen can be divided ... of the time. When I go out at night, I randomly choose a starting location, either in the city center, or outside of it. 80% of the ...
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25 Sep 2020: Whenever I look at the
Politics: · no comments... I look at the polls, I always start to wonder how I can completely miss such a large segment of the ...
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24 Sep 2020: Juggling Cabbages
Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment... also cabbages. Cabbages are too large and dense to easily start juggling without assistance, and if you've never done any sort of ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... this problem!" 5. Acceptance - "oh, I suppose I should start the problem now" 6. Confusion - "what? huh? three?" 6b. Pathetic ...
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10 Sep 2020: crush kill destroy
Aimless, Meta: · no comments... started the long, bloody process of systematically destroying all remnants of ...
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: A Tibetan Lesson
Human Fuzzies: pronunciation, tibetan · no comments... z (and zh) are normally pronounced s (and sh), so we can start by changing this to spyan.ras.gsigs. Now to spyan: the s drops; py ...
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9 Sep 2020: verbal thinker
Personal: · no comments... almost any method one likes. I had a point in mind when I started writing this. Really, I did. But I can't for the life of me remember ...
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6 Sep 2020: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments... all the parts except the one I'm usually in when they start up at 8 AM, at which point I've slept enough (roughly 6-7 hours) to be ...
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2 Sep 2020: redesign
Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, introspection · no comments... anything wonky? Suddently, just this evening, I've started to feel at home again. The whole week has been a bit lonely, really, ... my sleeping bag to my chest. Now that classes are going to start, and people are coming back to town, things just have a bit more ...
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14 Aug 2020: rødgrød med fløde
Human Fuzzies: Danish, pronunciation · 1 comment... applause from your new, awe-struck Danish friends, and start hitting the busking circuits around Copenhagen. Of course, I don't ...
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13 Aug 2020: aha! an American!
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish, tourism · no comments... will take one look at me, say 'Aha! An American!' and start speaking English before I've even opened my mouth. Of course, no tourist ...
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29 Jul 2020: leftover stuff
Personal: · 1 comment... that one. Meanwhile, I think I may copy isomorphisms and start keeping track of all you participating minions in some kind of ... weeks to learn how to order beer before school actually starts. So, yeah. I'm excited. Good ...
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28 Jul 2020: an audience at last!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... sort of milestone, a mark of maturity for the journal I started three weeks ago because it seemed like a good idea at the time. I feel ...
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26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments... about them. Round about 3 in the afternoon, I'll start wishing I had some formal linguistic/phonological training, and piss the ...
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24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser
Personal: · 1 comment... into a context of personal growth. A teenybopper who's starting to get into alternative music, and prattles to all her friends about it. Someone just starting to think about the downsides of capitalism, who doesn't know exactly ...
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14 Jul 2020: my cat is a huge grouch
Personal: · no comments... model, and now we're finally both old enough that she can start to relax. I'm sure she's feeling approximately the same thing I do when I ...
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10 Jul 2020: mmm, fake people
Aimless, Personal: · no comments... after starting a shiny new project, what better thing is there than to rush out and ...