Search Results: thought
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26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments... through the crust, causing only occasional dirty thoughts in sensitive individuals. Each time that a committed same-sex ...
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21 May 2020: Field Vehicle Amenities
Science: cars, field work · 10 comments... stuff", and by "fresh" I mean I'm still at the airport), I thought I'd do a list of amenities that I want in a field vehicle. I was ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... views, but it really isn't. I have long thought that we in the geoblogosphere do ourselves a disservice with too much ...
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14 Mar 2020: Guinness Lamb Pie
Food: beer, lamb, pie, recipes · 6 commentsThis one's for Wilkins; it's a Pi Day / St. Patrick's Day twofer. Ingredients 1 lb. stew lamb 1 onion A few tbsp diced tomatoes (whatever was left in the can you used for pasta the other night) 1 clove garlic 6-8 ice cubes of broth - I make broth ...
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9 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: blog carnivals, hydrology, resumes, sexual harassment, Wikipedia · 1 commentThoughts on Tuli v. Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Inc., et al. « Feminist Law ...
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8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... than kiwi, and together they overpowered the violet. I thought about naming it Ganymede or Europa, in honor of its mottled grayish ...
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17 Feb 2020: Teaching Engineers to Blog?
Meta: · 6 comments... explain it to them. So...I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how to introduce blogging to a classroom audience. How would you ...
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26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 comments... out with too many industrious go-getter friends... but my thoughts have turned to solving the problem, instead of just complaining about ...
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23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 commentsSince today is National Pie Day, I thought I would list a few of my favorite cookbooks. In particular, the ones ... completely screwed up that other part of the waveform you thought you had pinned down, and now there's no way of getting the one last bit ...
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16 Dec 2020: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa
Food, Science: baked Alaska, desserts, failed experiments, lava, meringue, recipes · 6 comments... for the ride. Baked Alaska is also the first thing I thought of when my old friend and Alaska resident Janessa asked for a red bean ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... for me on anything that is new or changed from previous thoughts on the nature of that moon. I just want to know what you think is ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... way for a teacher to give feedback about students' thought processes, and to show science as an ongoing process, rather than a ...
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26 Sep 2020: What Planet is my Clafoutis From?
Aimless: · 12 comments... applesauce? With more kale on the bottom? The longer I thought about it, the more delicious the pancake dome pancakes became - and by ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... Election Without Discussing Sarah Palin? I wouldn't've thought so, but Ruth Mitchell does it! She sees voting as a form of personal ...
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6 Sep 2020: You Know You’re Marrying a Geologist When…
Aimless: · 22 comments... "for scale" Who knew REI had a bridal section? Altar? I thought you said meet me at the outcrop! She asks the musicians to slow down at ...
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12 Aug 2020: OMG AMNH PONIES!!1!
Aimless: · 9 comments... watched them for more than 10 seconds), and a few things I thought actually worked quite well, like a "powers of 10" series of signs and ...
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17 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no comments... gas [methane] seeping out of the earth there. After some thought I decided this theme was just dumb.) Strike one. More fanciful ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... sneakers, I realized that the stereotypes weren't just a thoughtless way to set up the characters. I was actually supposed to be ...
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30 Jun 2020: Tunguskatennial
Aimless: · no comments... come from, how big was it, and are we more doomed than we thought? Dot Earth posted a scary animation of near-Earth orbit asteroids. ...
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24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 comments... don't even try. The result is that you can't, just as you thought. You're trapped in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Mathphobes and math ...
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18 Jun 2020: Advice for a Mathphobe?
Aimless: · 25 comments... statistics. Slowly but surely, and really faster than I thought I would, it become something that I found much joy in. Obviously I ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... readers. What's an environmentally sound habit that you've thought about cultivating, or tried to cultivate, but never managed to really ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... Criticism should be leveled only with a great deal of thought and care, both because the target of our criticism will lose face, and ... culture here) it's far more important to be original and thought-provoking than it is to be right**. You can see the tension ...
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6 Mar 2020: Repost: Larry Summers, Math, and Violence
Aimless: · 6 comments... and Kearney-Brown is planning to pursue legal action), I thought I'd dredge up an old quip on the relationship between mathematical ...
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4 Mar 2020: Oops! I’m Perjured Again
Aimless: · 7 comments... discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. My thought process was as follows: Well, that's dumb. Okay, I don't advocate the ...
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14 Feb 2020: Love Songs for Geoscientists
Aimless: · 18 comments... baby and please bring her back So for Valentine's Day, I thought I'd poke around the iTunes store and see if I couldn't find something ...
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4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 comments... work cited. 5. The blog post should report accurately and thoughtfully on the research it presents. ... 7. The post should contain ...
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31 Jan 2020: Moving to New Internets
Meta: · 5 comments... in here now and then. If you're interested in my thoughts on geology, the culture of science, or pie, though, you'll need to ...
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23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie
Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments... favorite baked-goods teaching analogies - but he hasn't thought of any pielike concepts in geology, maybe you can help? Brian objects ...
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17 Jan 2020: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals
Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments... download everything, and then read it offline - I thought maybe I'd stray from my old companion Bloglines, just for ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... Wilson did too many drugs in the 60s, back when people thought LSD would change the world - what's your excuse? S: This is science, ...
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4 Dec 2020: How to Earn Your Diversity Cookie Without Doing a Damn Thing
Politics: affirmative action, anti-racism, feminism, let's all preserve the status quo, white liberals who want cookies · 6 comments... meaningless way to give a shiny progressive gloss to your thoughtless continuation of the racist, sexist, etc.-ist status quo? My copy of ...
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30 Nov 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: A Randomly-Generated AGU Press Kit
Science, Whimsy: american geophysical union, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, science journalism · 20 comments... which means I'm missing all the climate stuff), but I thought it'd be fun to see how well the informed judgment of scientists ...
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23 Nov 2020: Pumpkin-Durian Pie
Food: Cucurbitaceae, durian, Malvaceae, pie, recipes · 4 comments... to honor the vegetable flavor of its contents. I thought it worked. No one else liked it. The problem wasn't with 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... zombies, I want to invoke psychologists. The theme is thoughts, inner lives, self-talk, that sort of thing. Well, maybe zombie ... hell have you been doing? Justapie worries that her thoughts aren't focused enough to do great science. Zuska, on the other hand, ...
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26 Oct 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Panspermia?
Human Fuzzies, Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, meteorites, panspermia · 2 comments... from re-entry as a barrier to panspermia? I thought we'd already settled that one, when ultra-high-resolution magnetic ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... was a total fucking crack pipe. I wasn't the only one who thought so, either. I don't have numbers, but I know there was a significant ...
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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... meaning to write a whole slew of book reviews, long and thoughtful ones that say interesting things about science and society and race ... and unenlightening, though it certainly contains enough thought-provoking material for a good book club discussion. The one epiphany it ...
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20 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #35
Science, Whimsy: glaciers, google earth, volcanoes, Where on (Google) Earth? · 8 comments... a couple weeks, to an area of geological interest... but I thought I'd pick out instead a place that I will probably never get the chance ...
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6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing
Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments... the usual indefinite amount of time before hearing what I thought of Has Feminism Changed Science? Below the fold, it's time to ask ...
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3 Apr 2020: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments... what makes me roll my eyes the most is the thought that after he had finished trashing her application, this reviewer gave ... not to imply that he should have held back, if he really thought her proposal was garbage, but he should've realized that "She's smart, ...
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13 Mar 2020: Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof
Politics, Science: science in pop culture, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · 9 comments... can we learn about science from the thought processes of t-shirt designers? Let's ask some entrants in the Seed ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... not gender-specific at all. As an undergrad, I never thought my problems were gendered at all; now that I look back on my ...
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18 Feb 2020: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos
Science: cnidarians, embryos, paleontology, Precambrian · 2 comments... Doushantuo Formation is also home to tabular structures thought to be ancestral cnidarians, closely related to Paleozoic tabulate ...
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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... a great post up at Apparent Dip outlining some thoughts and prescriptions on public outreach, including: 5. We need to find ...
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22 Jan 2020: Sediment Transport by Splashing
Science: erosion, gardening, geomorphology, rain, science is pretty · 4 comments... advising the use of prophylactic mulch. But I never thought about splashing as an important mechanism of erosion. Cue the squealy ...
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28 Nov 2020: Academic Neuropharmapsychowhatsits
Personal: coffee, mind-altering substances · 6 comments... drone, drinking too much caffeine felt like stress. I thought it was just my body gettin' old, but no: now that I'm back in academia, ...
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30 Oct 2020: Deep Thoughts Occasioned by Student Papers
Teaching, Whimsy: students say the darndest things · 4 commentsCosmology : Cosmetology :: Seismology : Seismotology But what is seismotology, and how can I become a certified practitioner? ...
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24 Oct 2020: Hawaii, the New York Times, and Triggered Seismicity
Science: earthquakes, Hawaii, lazy journalism · 9 comments... are a real (well, controversially real) phenomenon. It's thought that both the 2020 M7.4 Landers earthquake in the Mojave Desert and the ...
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25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... feel really old to the family list, and it's Friday, so I thought I'd play along. Am I too old and farty to relate to my ...
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16 Aug 2020: The Grand Compendium of Geoscience Blogs
: · no comments... geoscience mixed in with the personal content. Random Thoughts of a Confessional Lutheran - Occupation: Geotechnician Tesuji - ...
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8 Aug 2020: My Identity is a List of Links
Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments... qualifies as a porous medium. It's been a while since I thought of my head as a zero-flux boundary... Fisher Price can lick my balls, ...
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4 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Storms on Titan
Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, methane, Titan · 3 comments... with liquid methane acting in place of water; methane is thought to have carved out drainage channels that look quite similar to those ...
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27 Jul 2020: Coming Down from the Link Rush
Links, Meta: anti-racism, blog carnivals, doing science, erase racism, NASA, panta rei, race in science, racism · 1 comment... dead in its tracks. A mathematician once told me he thought this was the reason young mathematicians make the big discoveries. Math ...
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6 Jul 2020: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments... home until reading Bitch Ph.D.'s post: And my first thought was, "blog this." And then I thought, "what for? The only possible reaction is "those people suck," and it's ...
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17 Jun 2020: Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege
Personal: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, wedding-industrial complex · 11 comments... put aside my thoughts of fish and bicycles when I moved up here for school. But two weeks ...
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11 May 2020: Wine is for Men*
Human Fuzzies, Politics: lazy journalism, wine · 2 comments... Cultural Construction and not individual acts of careful thought or ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... crackpot scientific publications, etc. I already thought of a cool domain name Disadvantages: I'm not even tenured as ...
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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... zeros next to its comments links feels like dropping your thoughts into a black hole. To some extent this is a chicken and egg problem, ...
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21 Mar 2020: Thomas Kuhn and Big Historiography
Science: Berzerkeley, Big History, Kuhn, Lacan, Marxism, paradigms, philosophy of science · 4 comments... that what the Marxists were after? OGL: That's a great thought, would you follow up on that for next time? ****Can I invoke ...
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13 Mar 2020: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy
Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments... To be fair, there were some like this one from Jill that I thought about, but didn't think made good sound bites - even so, female authors ...
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10 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Clay
Science: carbon cycle, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments... (programming is never a mood-lifter for me) and I thought maybe a spot of sniffy better-than-youness would be ...
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14 Feb 2020: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy
Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments... problem, not mine. If one particular tradition of feminist thought has picked up on the word patriarchy, and has also been largely full of ...
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20 Jan 2020: Scientists, Not People
Science: literature, science in pop culture · 8 commentsBritish kids don't think scientists are normal human beings: Around 70% of the 11-15 year olds questioned said they did not picture scientists as "normal young and attractive men and women". ... Among those who said they would not like to be scientist ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Privileged Huff
Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments... have to say, this didn't initially ring true to me. Then I thought about my profound lack of knowledge about how racial othering operates ...
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19 Dec 2020: Happy Whatever
Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 comments... and religion can and should be thought of as empirically correlated, but conceptually separable and distinct ...
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8 Dec 2020: AGU Four
Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments... said, "Huh. I can see how that would be true, but I never thought of feminism as anything other than a political ...
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1 Dec 2020: Happy Blog Against Racism Day!
Politics: anti-racism, blog carnivals, racism · 4 comments... lieu of a well-thought-out post, I present two brief anecdotes about race and aesthetic ... at how fabulous she looked, and explained my theory. M. thought it made me some kind of "Black is Beautiful" revolutionary. And I hope ...
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16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments... been meaning to put together some thoughts on co-op life for a while now. While I generally adore my house, my ...
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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... from the culture, and subsequently coughed up without thought, always sound so whiny? Other than, y'know, the obvious reasons, I ...
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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... Democratic Party. Some of the plan's specifics are poorly thought-out, and a clerical error in the submission process could mean that the ...
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23 Oct 2020: Peevishness and Science
Human Fuzzies, Links: pep bands, project management · no comments... (or gave the slightest shit about genetic programming, or thought it would be a good career move to do so) I'd sign up myself, if only to ...
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19 Oct 2020: My Favorite Cop-Out
Links: depression, museums · 6 comments... and something sweet from the cafe." I read that, and thought "Uh oh. That's me, always has been, likely always will be!" I asked ...
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14 Oct 2020: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel
Science: crackpots · 3 comments... famous feathered dinosaurs from China. Birds are commonly thought to have evolved from this group. The authors say the discovery ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... that he was a hero for America." Once upon a time, I thought the Great State of Iowa wanted my young, educated ass back on the ...
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13 Sep 2020: The Devil Is In
Aimless, Meta, Personal: beer, blogtinkery, en français, Internet friends, pirates · 3 comments... News is looking for guest bloggers Wait a minute - I thought hipsters drank cheap, "ironic" domestic beer? Whatever happened to ... since some of you are stalking me with keen obsession, I thought you might like to know. Speaking of stalking, I came back from group ...
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18 Aug 2020: A Book and Two Movies
Human Fuzzies: bears, book reviews, charles darwin, movie reviews, penguins, pirates · 2 comments... etc) came very close to being developed, but just when you thought the director had made up his mind to stick to a topic, whoosh! In comes ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 4-8
Personal: photoblog · no comments... places was so stark that you can't help but be dazzled by thoughts of what else is out there, equally stunning and totally unspoilt. The ...
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5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... you've all been holding your breaths to find out What I Thought About Harry Potter... and the answer is, meh. It's interesting that ...
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21 Jul 2020: Why I am so very slack
Personal: guest posts · no comments... Cross Road, which we generally walk down. You might've thought someone would've briefed them that Our Imperial Majesty is unlikely to ...
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19 Jul 2020: I Hate Life Hacks
Personal: 3x5 index cards, i hate everything, Internet overload · 3 comments... benefit to one's future self: write down your clever thoughts, catalog your media collection, set up a Rube Goldberg-style apparatus ...
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12 Jul 2020: Another Tale From The Dreamtime…
Whimsy: dreams, guest posts · no comments... that was an expression of my latent homosexuality; I kinda thought that theory was maybe his wishful thinking, but anyhoo...) Anyway, ...
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16 Jun 2020: Garbage Day
Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, classism, Dianne Feinstein, earthquakes, feminism, flag-burning, rape, welfare · 4 commentsSeriously, the garbage truck needs some new brakes; it's very squealy today - er, was very squealy yesterday Wednesday. Why are you holding out on me, internets? Why does it take so long to accumulate a linky post? This has nothing - nothing - to do wit ...
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8 Jun 2020: I am the Prince of the Air
Meta: hotlink protection, hotlinkers, persecuted Christians, satanism · 10 comments... enough of a clue - or else it wasn't working as well as I thought. I am sufficiently obsessed with reading my own site logs that I can't ...
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25 May 2020: For the Record
Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... do in the privacy of their bedrooms. Some interesting and thoughtful posts, but it doesn't really cover new ground. The dirty tangent was ...
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23 May 2020: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah
Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments... just a cliquey frat girl? Are there established schools of thought on the best methods of hiding dumb jokes inside otherwise respectable ...
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28 Apr 2020: American Knock-Knock Canon
Human Fuzzies: jokes, knock-knock jokes, literary canon · 5 comments... recognition for re-imagining literary conventions. Thoughts ...
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25 Apr 2020: Feminisms
Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments... need to frame it as something which determines one's every thought and attitude. There are just two pieces of dogma in my feminist ...
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18 Apr 2020: Reading Material
Links: anger, environmentalism, gender, kittens, motherhood, pharmacists, theology · 12 comments... in the dirt and blew us full of the breath of God and thought that we were the best thing ever. The deepest truth is not that we are ...
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20 Mar 2020: Stuffed to the Gills
Human Fuzzies: artichokes, butter, decadence · 13 comments... peels, or in this case, stripped artichoke leaves. I never thought of artichokes as either decadent or very filling until tonight - the ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 commentsNow that I drive a Mercedes-Benz, I should acknowledge the reality of my comfortable middle-class status. Which would be a much funnier thing to say if I actually had a picture of my car to go with it; I'll put one up eventually, I promise. For now, let me ...
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27 Feb 2020: Three Parts
Links, Personal: gender, grad school, memes, nudity, sexual tension · 16 comments... as the same thing that happens in meditation, letting your thoughts go and returning to your breath, again and again. Practice, isn't ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... articulate it yet. Distinguishing schools of feminist thought at Alas. A discussion on the correct application of science-fu has ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments... in this discussion: Whatever Wegener might have thought, Pangaea was not "primordial". Before there was Pangaea (c. 250 million ...
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31 Jan 2020: Laziest Entry Ever!
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: legalese, poetry, quizzes · no comments... I feel muffled and must defilter with zombie brains. Not thought! Squeak. First, the "first line of poetry" game, via LDH. The rules: ...
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24 Jan 2020: We’re All Molluscan Pornographers Here
Links, Science: blogular wanking, molluscs · no comments... cuttlefish gender-bending with the observation that "I thought peddling molluscan sex acts was my job." Indignant sniff! Here at ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 comments... sexual desire a component of masculinity, while critical thoughts and feelings of ambivalence about sex are obstacles to the full ...
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13 Dec 2020: Architeuthis sox
Whimsy: sketches, socks, squid · 1 comment...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... Handmaid's Tale and yelling about the patriarchy. A well thought-out argument on the general principle of bodily support wouldn't turn ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... like okay, so sure, whatever, good for them. ON SECOND THOUGHT: I like Mark Kleiman's arguments on the propositions generally, and ...
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11 Oct 2020: Evolutionary Psychology Goes to the Dentist
Personal, Whimsy: dissociation, evolutionary psychology, medicine · no comments... had a couple thoughts stuck up in my jaw during my root canal the other month; Rana's just ...
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7 Oct 2020: If Only I Could Sniffle
Personal: allergies, cubicle living · no comments... that I'm allergic to something at the office - what I thought was a combination of tiredness and post-lunch eyestrain was actually ...
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21 Sep 2020: Non-Marketing Non-Future
Aimless: · no comments... crayoned take on Repo Man-style generic branding. Then I thought, aw, geez, it's really arrogant of me to pretend I'm the only person in ...
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17 Sep 2020: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments... a blog fercrippesake so I don't need an excuse to leave my thoughts half-finished anyway, so ...
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7 Sep 2020: Happy Arrival Day!
Politics: booze, cultural appropriation, Judaism · 4 comments... is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Great! I've always thought I'd do well in the non-practicing Reform-esque tradition anyway. Hoorah ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... - or your favored third-party alternative. You relish the thought of blogging, snarking, playing a drinking game, and/or throwing things ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... of the individual State per se (it may once have been thought of that way, but we're a far more unified United States now than we ...
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1 Aug 2020: Pimp Mah Blawg!
Meta: blogtinkery · 1 comment... unacceptably ginormous. Optimize Google-ju As afterthoughts: Find/create more 12x12 icons for lazyblog categories Add new ...
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26 Jul 2020: Cruise to the Interior of the Earth!
Science: crackpots, hollow earth · 1 comment... Islands to visit skeleton remains of exotic animals thought to originate from Inner Earth. The validity of the hollow earth ...
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21 Jul 2020: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... there's an awful lot of vapid bullshit masquerading as thought-provoking nuggets of wisdom. What am I supposed to do with such ... of bringing sexual motives into other areas of human thought. More recently, feminist theory has brought sexual activity and abuse ...
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19 Jul 2020: GRE Goodness
Personal: cubicle living, grad school, i hate everything, standardized tests · 3 comments... paragraph" since I have to actually scan for breaks in thought. Everything about that test has been focus-grouped to a ...
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11 Jul 2020: Meyers and Briggs, Chew Thoughtfully on Your Toenails!
Whimsy: psychology, quizzes · no commentsI am a WRCL--Wacky Rational Constructive Leader: This makes you a golden god. People gravitate to you, and you make them feel good. You are smart, charismatic, and interesting. You may be too sensitive to others reactions, especially criticism. Your sel ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... like I should have a response, and what follows are some thoughts in that direction. There's no question that water is a tricky thing. ... ranch style architecture" - which may sound like code for "thoughtless and ugly" to most people, but that's an actual description from an ...
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24 May 2020: Someone’s An Excuse
Meta: · 1 comment... for a while) so I'm not feeling particularly funny or thoughtful. So! On with the peanut gallery. The peanut gallery ...
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18 May 2020: Sorbets I’m Dreaming Of
Food: cooking, desserts, recipes, sorbet · 6 comments... a plant with barely four hours of direct sun, but it's the thought that counts. Mint sorbet, and for safety's sake, green grape mint ...
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13 May 2020: Life of the Mind
Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments... of a non-professional intellectual class are more properly thought of as civic duties. It's quite an involved discussion to plunge into ...
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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 ...
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30 Apr 2020: Begging the Oxymoron
Human Fuzzies: languages, whorfianism · no comments... as the Last Noble Carrier of Such Meaning in Human Thought is already covered by another, equally apt phrase; particularly ...
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23 Apr 2020: Lazy RSS Roundup
Links: dreams · no comments... kinda like saying "that bear ate your son, it musta really thought the boy was tasty!" - tasty or not, it precludes heavy lifting on the ...
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12 Feb 2020: Tchotchke Fever
Personal: · 1 comment... pro-Hummel figurine crap trap. In the beginning, I thought of it as dorm-style decor. There's a certain functional equivalency; ...
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26 Jan 2020: I Don’t Like!
Links: · 3 comments... accidentally purchased a Cherish the Ladies album (they thought the Celts were a tribe of echo machines). Actually, I like! did ...
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22 Jan 2020: Sonnet to Foraminifera
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... what deep chasm did your live form dwell; And when you thought, what did you think of truth? Three points for nerdy subject matter, ...
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29 Dec 2020: Broken
Meta: · no comments... for being dull on the internet. However, I briefly thought of berating you, Dearest Reader, for being dull and avoiding the spout box. And I apologize for such dreadful thoughts! It seems the spout box is broken. If you've sent me something via ...
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27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke
Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 comments... of the burning. For forty miles as we drove back home, I thought each fire-covered hillside would be the last; and each curve brought a ...
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23 Oct 2020: Quicksilver: a partial review
Human Fuzzies: book reviews · 3 comments... they can handle before the main character (whose thoughts and feelings are told at a slowly-increasing remove) is completely ...
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10 Sep 2020: Epic Immuno-Suppressing Battles
Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments... Peter kept stubbornly bringing up Microserfs just when I thought the conversation was over. The Iliad - I met a classics major once, at ... are well aligned with the Nerds on pure wanking. Thoughts? I have Internet at home now (yay!) though I still need to purchase ...
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12 Aug 2020: Recall Candidate Blogs
Politics: · no comments... should scroll down to August 9th or so and read his thoughts on signature collection requirements. He points out some practical ... candidate with real grassroots support, so there'll be no thoughts on restructuring the voter registration system from me ...
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: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... that make blogging under the spreadsheets a less enticing thought, and I've been infected with recall mania that requires a greatly ...
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3 Aug 2020: Someone Hates Me!
Meta: · 1 comment... with hate mail! I do suspect its veracity, but it's the thought that counts. And there's also an insightful comment at the bottom of ...
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9 Jul 2020: The Difference Between Shit and the Internet
Whimsy: blogular wanking, feces, Internet overload, shit · 32 comments... when I first saw the domain internetisshit.org, I thought Hey! That'd be a great name for a blog! In some ways, blogs are the new ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... problems, but I never got the sense that many people thought they were real problems at all - so I blamed myself. The comments on ...
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4 Jun 2020: Exploded Your Mom’s Cambrian Energy Drinks
Personal, Science: · 4 comments... will (in theory) be my last scholastic all-nighter ever I thought I'd do it in style, with many different kinds of shiny energy drinks, ... The excitement hasn't gotten up to any of my higher-level thought processing yet, but it will eventually. 3:42 am Holy shit, I am not ...
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17 May 2020: If I Were A Matrix: Reloaded Focus Group
Human Fuzzies: movie reviews, sci-fi · 1 comment... nipples. MAMA: Could'a fooled me. Jackie Chan Fan: I thought the Ewok dancing cavern scene was dumb. Jackie Chan Fan's Girlfriend: ...
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30 Apr 2020: Signs of Ducklings
Meta: · 2 comments... ago, and staring down the barrel of midterms week. But I thought you should know that there's soft-core duck porn in the photoblog; ...
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22 Feb 2020: Cartoon Driving Television
Personal: dreams · no comments... a van full of money on the way to the forest today: Thought about hijacking it somehow, but decided it would be more fun to go on a ...
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9 Feb 2020: Theme of Bugs
Personal: · 4 comments... on the theme of things I think that I think are normal thoughts until I actually share them with someone, I am frequently distracted ... on something, twisted in a bad way, and died. I always thought everyone had moments like that; my housemate seems to think I'm a ...
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23 Dec 2020: Holiday Someones
Meta: · 6 comments... Ask your Mother when she gets home. We've always thought your mom was a spy. And a big slut. She had shifty bedroom eyes. Just ...
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21 Dec 2020: Product Review: Oral Cleansers
Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments... back to sleep, I'll write up some of my more scintillating thoughts on the matter. Just in case you ever need to ... as Oral-B has a factory about a mile away from my house; I thought briefly about working there for a summer, before realizing I'd rather ...
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10 Dec 2020: Dilemma
Personal, Politics: · 6 comments... pigs. But hey, if flying pigs allow us to think nice thoughts about the state of Mississippi, why ...
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22 Aug 2020: I Bamboozled Someone!
Meta: · no comments... rule would be better than democracy. I've always thought your enlightened fiscal policies and social programs would make the ...
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19 Aug 2020: Sild Tamale?
Food: fusion cooking, herring, recipes, tamales, tofu · 3 comments... kitchen cred!—but not by the filling. Initially I thought: bacon, cheese, more bacon, ham. Then I thought: I'm off red meat, what about pickled herring? Some rye flour, some ...
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1 Aug 2020: Panties Ready for Bunching
Personal: socks, trolling · 3 comments... is openly planning to post on "why socks suck". The mere thought of such a post brings me to staggering heights of flabbergasted ...
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29 Jul 2020: Hungry!
Human Fuzzies: · 3 comments... getting dull. Tonight, as lazy and hungry as I was, the thought of mac'n'cheez was just too much. I made a casserole. Peter's going to ...
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9 Jul 2020: Quality Control Freak
Personal: ants, cleaning, household pests · no comments... hint of slobbery. I say slobbery, because I never thought those ants were hungry so much as they were just batty neat freaks, on ...
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23 Jun 2020: Thoughts from Geophysical Field Camp
Personal: · 2 commentsA dry desert wind is like a continuous peck on the cheek from your great-aunt Esmeralda. Like a clam, I form pearls around tiny grains of dust caught up in my tender membranes. But my pearls are made of boogers. Romanticizing the heavy, humid, begrudgingl ...
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31 May 2020: ¡Viva el Mundial!
Personal: · 1 comment... there's always late-night KMEX. And for those of you who thought Americans didn't watch soccer: we do. But we don't watch it in English, ...
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12 May 2020: Opening Lines
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · 7 commentsThought I'd copy a meme and list the first lines from my favorite books. Only, my ...
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6 May 2020: Extra Surprise
Personal: · no comments... an incredible relief to pull out what you thought was a three-hour take-home exam, only to find that it is in fact a ...
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4 May 2020: Someone Has Me Figured Out
Meta: · no comments... I am both flattered and astonished - I always thought people preferred my more feldspathic entries! It just goes to show that ...
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29 Apr 2020: Service with a Smile
Meta, Personal: · 9 comments... and punctuation from two wildly different IPs, which I thought was faintly impressive. As John Lennon so aptly put it: "They say it's ...
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24 Apr 2020: Timely Remarks
Links: · no comments... Donor Awareness Week by presenting your secretary with a thoughtful organ-shaped gift. That is ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... tangent, this article has given me a passel of interesting thoughts to chew on - it's all about the difference between deep and surface ...
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15 Apr 2020: Many Things
Aimless: · 5 comments... propaganda marathon. Her journal reinforces this creepy thought I've been having, that everyone keeps a secret online journal and we're ...
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26 Mar 2020: Outright Theft
Aimless: dreams · 2 comments... said Muda on them, I took it as a portent. Then I had a thought about the color blue, and kobolds, but I forgot what it ...
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25 Mar 2020: Someone’s Eating Well…
Meta: · 7 comments... and it clearly isn't this person: I always thought they said "Cup o' Noodles." But I've got one and it just says "Cup ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... we can't all be such saints. But I still can't shake the thought that if I really were a good person who exploded, I'd have been more ...
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14 Mar 2020: New Toy!
Meta: blogtinkery · 3 comments... for at least a week. I will, however, think a few thoughts about general design issues. I threw this place together without much thought, because I like to let things evolve for a while before making nice ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... a link to this piece of Loud Thinking. I read through it, thought it was kind of silly, and said so - now I've been challenged to repeat ... therein are silly or wrong or whatever, but I've never thought it a Bad Thing to put half-formed, silly, or wrong ideas in a blog for ...
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9 Mar 2020: Someone Bites Back
Meta: · no comments... I thought it was high time for a silly ...
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: Love That Love Dart
Links, Science, Whimsy: · 4 comments... where I'm awake for no good reason, lying in bed chewing thoughtfully on my toes and listening with fair appreciation and aplomb to ...
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7 Mar 2020: Try Optimism
Personal: · no comments... the little brochures, and see: Some attention to your thoughts and a few simple exercises to change some thoughts can help prevent the emotional exhaustion, the lack of enjoyment in ...
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6 Mar 2020: Someone’s a Commercial Whore
Meta: · 4 comments... an out-of-body experience? And if it isn't... what is? The thought frightens me. I'm'a go hide underneath a blanket ...
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1 Mar 2020: rocks and a promise
Meta: puns · 2 comments... first thought to make entry categories after rocks and minerals, in keeping with the general geogeek tone. Then I thought that was silly and confusing. Now I think I like it again, but I could ...
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: Ps and Qs and PDQ
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... swallowing our marshmallow fudge lumps. Bastards! I thought. We'll see if I ever support the quality programming on my local public ...
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22 Feb 2020: new brand of peanut gallery
Personal: · no comments... the initial rush of turning some emotion into coherent thought, writing becomes a bit like picking a scab, it's perversely satisfying ...
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21 Feb 2020: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments... that granite's life story. It was exactly what I've always thought learning should be - none of this sitting isolated in one's room, ... We were loose in an environment full of relevant, thought-provoking, instructive things, with people ready to answer all our ...
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18 Feb 2020: Guerilla Feminism
Politics: feminism, gender, sexism, stereotypes · no comments... the loud obnoxious feminists got to this time? Food for thought in the nature vs. nurture debate: we're not always aware of how early ...
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16 Feb 2020: vapid
Links: · no comments... computer lab, playing pinball, with sound effects. Cogent thought is nearly impossible under these conditions... unless of course that thought is about pinball. Zooooom. So instead, it's time to clear my system of ...
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14 Feb 2020: Heart Moon Puppy Love Muffin
Personal, Politics: doctors, hair, Valentine's Day · no comments... if you appeal to their desire to be beautiful? I always thought my mustache was mostly normal, but complicated by the fact that I've ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... and underacheivish. It's a very productive mode of thought. Luckily, sometimes all it takes is a well-timed bitch session and one ...
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11 Feb 2020: Sorry, try again
Personal: · no comments... way out he mutters something along the lines of "man, I thought this was supposed to be the drug house!" - kind of halfway directed at ...
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5 Feb 2020: Joy of Joys
Personal: · no comments... to various strategic-looking points... and then finally thought to turn off the water. D'oh. So if I'm not living in constant fear, I'm ...
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31 Jan 2020: Stupid Economy
Politics: · no comments... to the glory days of aught-aught, back when companies thought they could make money by losing it and handed out fancy logo-strewn ...
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17 Dec 2020: spacialization
Aimless: · no comments... lecture out of a lingering sense of duty, and the thought that maybe I'd learn something useful about tomorrow's final. Instead, ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... after all and I just need to get out more. Heartening thought, that. *My favorite: Porno Lasse, who used to be a geology student ...
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2 Dec 2020: gender-bender
Meta: · no comments... a description: A college student records his ramblings, thought experiments, and poetry. College student? Sure. Ramblings? Oh my yes. ...
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23 Nov 2020: synchronizing
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... gimmicks, and this is such a fun gimmick. Rantlet: I thought it would be a good idea to fill my wish list with feminist theory, ... is *exclusively associated* with women. A train of thought that's doomed to derail: sci-fi and romance are both off in the far ...
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13 Nov 2020: solen skinner så meget
Personal: · no comments... and there was no water coming out of it either. At first I thought I had woken up in California and this had all been a dream, but then I thought I'd better take advantage of the afternoon and grab some pictures of ...
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9 Nov 2020: can’t sleep, blog will eat me
Personal: · no commentsTuborg lies like a dog. All the ads around town - and there are quite a lot of them - claim that the first snow will fall tomorrow evening at 8:59 PM. Actually, it snowed a little tonight, great big globby flakes that melted as soon as they hit the ground. ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... This probably has more to do with it than I initially thought. sex? Sex is a great way to generate artificial intimacy and coziness, ...
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31 Oct 2020: It’s doing weather outside
Personal: hygge, weather · no comments... leaves swirling around in the air past my window. Plus I thought I heard thunder, or maybe it was just construction noises - but either ...
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9 Oct 2020: Going Swimming
Personal: · 1 comment... is an obvious romance in the thought of thousands upon thousands of bioluminescent algae, blossoming in pale ...
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28 Sep 2020: Rescheduling
Personal: · no comments... four-day weekend has returned! I thought it was gone, sacrificed to some nebulous concept of "geodynamics ... out that Jane and I were from Caltech, and for some reason thought this meant he should look at us whenever he said the word "easy". This ... generally, and I think my ability to think social-type thoughts and write them down properly takes a particularly hard knocking, but ...
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18 Sep 2020: Those of you who are
Politics: · no comments... me off into a silly rant before I got distracted and then thought better of it, is that I've been noticing people use "females" in some ...
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15 Sep 2020: Slugs
Personal, Whimsy: denmark, molluscs, museums · no comments... I hadn't meant to post that quite yet. The gist of my thoughts, before I was rudely interrupted by a fabulous museum visit (which ...
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12 Sep 2020: some thoughts
Politics: · no commentsThought the First: generally, when I have mostly keenly felt my Americanness, I have ... it is because I feel small, and quiet, and vulnerable. Thought the Second: despite having several American friends from my language ... of "yes, I'm OK" - but that's really enough. Thought the Third: since I have been luckily spared from thousands of ...
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7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung
Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment... getting bored already by my own life (as opposed to my own thoughts, which are endlessly fascinating)... you'll have to ask nicely if you ...
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2 Sep 2020: redesign
Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, introspection · no comments... ground for all manner of paranoid, quirky, desolate thoughts. By the time I got back, I usually just went to bed and hugged the ...
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31 Aug 2020: recovered conversation
Personal: · no comments... and reminding yourself that someone, somewhere, once thought enough of you to write tolerable poetry. Don't ever store things with ...
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: bandwagon meme
Whimsy: · no comments... with a surreal level of animation. I still shudder at the thought of a federalism disad. Myself. I stink of human. Incidentally, if you ...
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30 Aug 2020: Roskilde
Personal: · no comments... important people who were probably quite excited at the thought of being commemorated for all time with a stone in the Roskilde ...
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20 Aug 2020: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments... things: I say "please" much more than I had previously thought. I've never been as please-happy as some Americans can be, and tend ...
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26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments... supposedly to "facilitate transitions between characters' thoughts and speech and to increase the distance between author and reader by ...
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24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser
Personal: · 1 comment... the same. I wanted to wear designer jeans because I thought it would make me look cool, and be superior in some way, and maybe more ...
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6 Jul 2020: corn snobbery
Food: wine · no comments... quickly as possible, and you don't stop in the middle to thoughtfully analyze what it might have been eating last month. Commentary is ...