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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... bottles and will spend some quality time in a week or three filling them with different bitters blends. This may or may not qualify ...
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12 Jun 2020: Four Ways to Eat Black Locust Blossoms (and One Way Not to Bother)
Food: Amaryllidaceae, black locust, Brassicaceae, chives, edible flowers, Fabaceae, flowers, recipes, salad, soup · no comments... the tangled hill above the parking lot. So when I found three trees near the ground, I was in the perfect frame of mind to heedlessly ... as rose petals or lilacs. Though I am grateful to The Three Foragers for their timely black locust flower post, I don't quite ...
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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... yard has three lilac bushes, and a quick taste test when they started blooming proved ...
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25 Apr 2020: Approaching New Flavors
Food: cookbooks, cooking, Food, foraging · no comments... analog that I can think of. Last weekend, after picking three grocery bags worth of knotweed shoots, I looked up the bible entry for ...
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21 May 2020: Field Vehicle Amenities
Science: cars, field work · 10 comments... hotel, and fresh from the field (where by "field" I mean "three days of driving around the mountains looking for stuff", and by "fresh" I ...
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20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 comments... the islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai, in Tonga. Three days later, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurred on the Tonga ...
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23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 comments... textbook that teaches you how to derive and solve the three-dimensional wave equation (on which much of seismology is based). Shirley ...
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13 Jan 2020: Using Ecto’s Script Feature to Post Your Delicious Links
Meta: code, del.cio.us, ecto, perl · no comments... that. Maybe some people like blogs where two out of every three posts are entitled "Links for [today's date]", but I don't. So I wrote ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 comments... you so! (Anyone else remember running that one?) At least three M5-6 earthquakes will strike California, resulting in minor property ...
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11 Dec 2020: An Open Letter to the Science Blogosphere
Meta: · 10 comments... It belongs at the beginning and you are placing it two or three paragraphs deep into your entry. I tell you this, because after a month ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... please consider donating. Below the fold, I've listed the three projects from my challenge slate where I think your donation will make ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... course, the challenge is barely beginning. There are still three weeks left, and geology - the future of which depends on your ...
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6 Oct 2020: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!
Aimless: · 11 comments... for the first time in over 30 years. During the past three decades, we've made significant progress on technology to exploit ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... was not enough to stop him from slicing and dicing two or three perfectly good stories into one confused and boring mishmash. It goes to ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... wrap from the walls to the roof in the bedroom. There are three problems with this apartment. One is that windows often break during big ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 comments... to a gas exploration borehole ... but it was also just three days after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. Could the earthquake have caused ...
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25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance
Aimless: · 3 comments... alert: one acre-foot/year is enough water to serve about three households). The City of Los Angeles says that any project resulting in a ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... the Armenian genocide. Earth Week means I've got three more days to write about the relationship of geology, as a science and a ...
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20 Apr 2020: What to Do with the Universe?
Whimsy: science fiction · 3 comments... was recently convinced that there are three possible fates for the universe. Sci-fi narrative fates, not bona fide ...
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16 Apr 2020: RIP Ed Lorenz
Aimless: · 4 comments... sent 'round to the department: [Lorenz] had published three papers in 2020, and was not sure what he would work on next. ... Talking ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... inner core of the Earth: Texturing of iron crystals from three-dimensional seismic anisotropy It's easy to see how subduction zones ...
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29 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Desert Varnish
Aimless: · 5 comments... are from a paper in the latest issue of Geology. Three scientists at Arizona State took a careful look at some sections of ...
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: Focus is a Renewable Resource
Aimless: · 5 comments... next year, but they only need to get me through the next three ...
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21 Feb 2020: And the Three Billion Dollar Grant Goes to…
Aimless: · 5 comments... particular subfield, so, for example, how would I spend three billion dollars on physics? If I had three billion dollars to throw at a single area of physics, I would obviously ...
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27 Jan 2020: Meme Time
Personal, Whimsy: memes, monkeys, national pie day, pie, writing · 5 comments... who brought a pie, brought a blueberry pie, so it was three blueberries against my lone durian. The durian, of course, lost by a ... meme is about writing. Also, it only requires you to list three things, which I think is probably the maximum number of things that ...
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3 Jan 2020: Notes from the Iowa Frontlines
Politics: Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucuses, presidential elections · 2 comments... household is a fat, juicy political prize - three registered Democrats, all of whom intend to caucus, one of whom is ...
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28 Nov 2020: It’s “That Time” of the Science
Science: goals, the scientific lifestyle, writing · 6 comments... was ANANSI BOYS, in case you were wondering) when I got three-quarters of the way through I called my agent. I told her how stupid I ...
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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... Mrs. Whatsit has two parts of what she promises will be a three-part series, where she explains her persistent and unjustified feelings ... has some study tips. Last but not least, Mad Hatter has a three-part series on alternative careers for PhDs in academia. Part one: the ...
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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... of classic "women in science" topics. The book is in three parts, covering some history of women in science, "HR issues" and ...
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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... was rejected for an NSF training fellowship. Two of the three reviewers liked her proposal, but the third review was very negative, ... the panel, or didn't trigger the weirdo's biases, and got three good reviews as a result. Which means that adding more reviewers is not a ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... (though not gender-specific). I would not be surprised if three years from now, I feel the same way about grad school. The line between ...
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18 Feb 2020: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos
Science: cnidarians, embryos, paleontology, Precambrian · 2 comments... Precambrian Doushantuo Formation. The things have a three-coiled spiral structure and look kind of like baseballs. Less ...
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29 Sep 2020: Friday Rock Blogging, Mailbag Edition
Science: mystery rocks, rock blogging · 8 comments... and not, in fact, the sort of thing you might find in a three-year-old's nose. There is nothing in the photo for scale, but it is ~3" ...
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4 Sep 2020: Household Goodness
Personal: domesticity, gardening, photoblog · 2 comments... I was so late getting my tomatoes in, I've only gotten three ripe ones so far, from that early-fruiting stalwart Stupice. They were no ...
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11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance
Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments... it out like taffy. During the months leading up to each of three major eruption events, they found, the direction of the squeezing changed ...
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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... appreciation for my brilliance. Regardless, I see at least three of you have just subscribed to the feed - hi! If you're not too shy, ...
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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 was word of the year at New College, like, three or four years ago! Actually, no, it was five years ago, I'm pretty ...
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31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments... their husbands' names really blows (see also parts two and three of the series). Finally, I pause to note, sadly, that the latest ...
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19 Jan 2020: Lecture Zero
Personal, Teaching: grad school, time management · no comments... that I don't have to climb four flights of stairs two or three times a ...
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23 Oct 2020: Peevishness and Science
Human Fuzzies, Links: pep bands, project management · no comments... to academic project management: Wanted: Two or three smart folks, at least two familiar with C++, for a quick suite of ...
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14 Oct 2020: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel
Science: crackpots · 3 comments... into a glass funnel, with the bottom of the steam sealed. Three years were allowed for the pitch to consolidate, and in 2020 the sealed ...
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20 Sep 2020: Climate Change in Human Teeth
Science: climate change, stable isotopes, teeth · no comments... the "Little Ice Age" time frame in Lorraine. Oxygen has three stable isotopes, with atomic weights of 16, 18, and 17 (in order of ...
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24 Aug 2020: Items
Personal: co-op living, rush week · 6 comments... But now I'm living on Frat Row, during Rush Week; every three hours or so, the house across the street bursts out ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 9-12
Personal: photoblog, Scandinavia, travelogue · no comments... of the famous train line to Bergen. We had a scant three hours in Bergen before catching a ferry; I ran off to glimpse the ...
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5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... Danish navy ships have only been able to visit the island three times since 2020 because of the thick Arctic ice around it. I've been ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... win, not even in that kinda-sorta-almost way where two or three numbers match. **I am crushed that I never managed to get a good picture ...
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31 Jul 2020: Oh Yes, Minnesota
Personal: customs, Minnesota, mosquitoes, travelogue · 11 comments... found me. Having smashed half a dozen and allowed three more to escape within the space of two minutes, leaving my foot with the ...
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24 Jul 2020: A Distribution of Props
Personal: pie, thanksgiving, travelogue · 4 comments... one can pick up almost where one left off four years ago: Three squillion props To Francis Strand, for en fabulofika: Two point five ...
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22 Jul 2020: Fisher’s Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3 · 1 comment... dancing on the table. The Library of Congress maintains three recordings of the Fisher's Hornpipe, all by a guy called Henry Reed: in ...
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: Friday Roch blogging: multilingual edition
Human Fuzzies: guest posts, hockey, rock blogging · no comments... of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places -- the school, the church and the skating-rink -- but our real ...
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15 Jul 2020: Attn: Skandinavisker
Personal: denmark, Scandinavia, trains, travelogue · no comments... comprise at least three (3) First World nations! Surely you can afford to buy a few fans for your ...
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30 Jun 2020: ¡Hola!
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... (if not you) will have! (I am currently in an office in Mathree in Espain, but this is a temporary condition, for sure. It'd bloody well ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... movement that produces the earthquake is described by three parameters: strike, dip, and rake. The first two, strike and dip, ...
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17 May 2020: Someone’s Been Waiting
Meta: fan mail, monkeys, ninjas, pirates, robots, zombies · 5 comments... tree, trying to get them down without breaking more than three limbs. tail A bad one to break, yes. Raise your hands, though, ...
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9 May 2020: Deconstructing Teh Funnay
Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments... to as the Intimate Financial Needs joke - is one of three that have driven me memorably up the wall in the recent past. And with ... punchline; you lose the funny. This is behind the first three strategies B. pointed out in the Rhetoric of Blog Humor, which amount to ...
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26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments... Year of the Rooster, each week I will try to eat precisely three servings of purple-aura veggies (parsnips, swiss chard, eggplant, ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... of daddy's best friend does not count. Waiting tables three nights a week and weekends so you can pay the rent and eat while you do ...
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5 Mar 2020: Science Friday on Saturday
Science: funny, hydrothermal vents, oceanography, science journalism · 9 comments... No. By the way, our research fleet is going to explode in three to five years. Not only will the ships not be replaced, the explosions ...
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27 Feb 2020: Three Parts
Links, Personal: gender, grad school, memes, nudity, sexual tension · 16 commentsPart the First: Look at how I'm defined by the Infinite Teen Slang Generator! yami n. a female, particularly a nice one. "Reggie, that yami is nice!" Awwww. Part the Second: How many times have I mentioned that I lived in a dorm with a coed nake ...
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: More WordPress Babbling
Meta: quizzes · no comments... colors the default, and declared exceptions for the other three div's on the page. Which is fine, and will work until/unless I decide I ... the default templates are set up with ID selectors? Three: Also, from Rana: You are 'growing one's own food'. You are guided by ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... get myself into real trouble. (How many men have spent three extra hours in a bookstore because they were afraid that creepy girl ...
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15 Feb 2020: How to Ward Off Rapists
Politics, Whimsy: rape, satire · 7 comments... the night, vampires and rapists alike. Below the fold: Three foolproof tricks for identifying rapists! And the things you should keep ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments... out of context from a freshman geology text": The three differences between modern theory of Plate Tectonics and the ancient ...
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4 Feb 2020: Trombones of Great Injustice
Politics: fascist police states, Geneva conventions, Joe Lieberman · no comments... it would definitely be ridiculous - I guess one out of three ain't bad. No wonder this man was almost Vice ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 comments... meaning, and not be a tautology. Any two of those three rhetorical criteria I can handle, but all three at once? Even operating under a gentlepersons's understanding of the ...
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2 Dec 2020: Thanksgiving Food Review
Food, Personal: cranberry sauce, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 4 comments... diameter, shaped like a Koch snowflake. Since it is now three days after I started writing the post, it obviously hasn't worked out as ...
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14 Nov 2020: Two-Buck Chuck Will Rise Again
Human Fuzzies: reviews of stuff, wine · 9 comments... to be involved in La Resistance du Vin and so I bought three bottles. "Good" is not particularly among the things one could say ...
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3 Nov 2020: Back on the Horse
Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments... is still in the fridge. Unopened, it'll last for three years, but I don't want to keep politicized apple cider through a move. ... They find every single drop of jam on the counter within three minutes, not because they have a grand plan for doing so but because ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... say, we should all vote for 1A instead. Proposition 66: Three Strikes Reform: Yes Honestly, I just can't get excited about locking ... punishment by prison rape), and the effectiveness of three strikes laws in reducing crime is too debatable. Proposition 67: ...
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20 Oct 2020: AAA Pays Off
Personal: American Automobile Association, driving, jalopies · 2 comments... for any reasonable choice of design storm. The fact that three lanes were flooded out of commission can therefore be blamed on civil ...
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11 Oct 2020: Weekend: Music, Injuries
Human Fuzzies, Personal: harmonic numbers, prickly pear jelly, righteous indignation, sugar syrup · 4 comments... Three-Toed Sloth via Crooked Timber, it's a cat research review. Saturday ... for a couple hours (sugar syrup is hot). Now I've got three little jars of jelly (which really did gel!) in the fridge, rather than ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... or barf trying. Nonsense, I say! There are only three good reasons to watch the RNC: The Republicans (or protesters) might ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... must be grouped in a way that wins states. The Yankees won three blowouts (16-3, 10-0, 12-0), but they couldn't come up with the runs they ...
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13 Jul 2020: Memo to the Guy in the Escalade
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cars, driving, etiquette, SUVs · no comments... as possible. Many gas stations are configured with three pumps per row. Effective pump usage requires that all three pumps be occupied at all times, with minimal time losses during maneuvers ...
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13 May 2020: Life of the Mind
Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments... It's quite an involved discussion to plunge into after three days in the field, so I hope all y'all can bear with me as I try to catch ...
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10 May 2020: Aaah Generation Overload
Personal: · 2 comments... nerdy) adolescents tell me how to use computers. I had three-cycle semilog graph paper, but three cycles is not enough! Six cycles constructed of two sheets is not enough! ...
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4 May 2020: Garden Post
Personal: car repair, cars, container gardening, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, tomatoes · no comments... make it to work, but it started crying and overheating three miles out on the freeway... limped in to the mechanic, who replaced all ...
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16 Mar 2020: Spain, Appeasement and Multilateralism
Politics: · 2 comments... pledge from an anonymous donor in Colombia. The next three callers from South or Central America will have their contributions ...
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15 Mar 2020: The Creeping Nursery Begins
Personal: dead baby jokes, gardening · no comments... 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! ...
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8 Feb 2020: Narrative Coherence Can Suck A…
Human Fuzzies, Links: · no comments... has clean water to drink and will never be afflicted with three-foot-long worms developing in his body and then penetrating his skin to ...
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22 Jan 2020: Sonnet to Foraminifera
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... when you thought, what did you think of truth? Three points for nerdy subject matter, no bonus for the occasionally strained ...
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: Three-Coffee Morning
Uncategorized: dreams · no comments6:32 AM: I hit the brakes just a little too late, and poke Howard Dean in his squishy pot belly (with my car, natch). He was campaigning with the parking lot attendant. I must apologize profusely until I wake up, because I'm not even one of his supporters. ...
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30 Nov 2020: Umami = Love
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... turducken stuffed into a pig and pit roasted for three days as the next step in ultimate gratitude. There are obvious logistical ...
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27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke
Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 comments... a dry lake" actually meant "get the car stuck in sand three miles from anywhere". We passed a couple of hours jacking the car up, ...
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10 Sep 2020: Epic Immuno-Suppressing Battles
Human Fuzzies: · 6 commentsSomeone stuck my voodoo doll into a bottle of Benadryl, probably about forty-five minutes ago. I am all woozy and vapid. Last night I set about arranging our two bookshelves to reflect two epic battles: Monkey vs. Robot, and Hipster vs. Nerd. Monkey vs. ...
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2 Sep 2020: Jellyfish Ward
Personal: · 1 comment... up a room. I'm slowly coming to terms with the carpet; three or four more bookcases in the living room should do it. The unpacking is ...
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25 Aug 2020: Someone’s Been Shitting in My Toilet!
Personal: · 3 comments... with these people; I think I've exchanged possibly three words with them on two separate occasions spread several weeks apart, one ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... experience. Actually, I was sure, but not for more than three months at a time, and this is an important thing. Grad school is not a ... not to become seriously disillusioned about at least three things before breakfast. I don't know. I wanted to keep this to a strict ...
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23 Jun 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · no comments... me too. But I'm not really qualified - you need at least three years experience in the pirate or monkey industries before you'll even be ...
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4 Jun 2020: Exploded Your Mom’s Cambrian Energy Drinks
Personal, Science: · 4 comments... KMX is disgusting. Six pages written, 10 required, and three more hours to write. Done with plankton poo, have moved on to viciously ... I can't flunk anthropology, but absurd essay exams on the three tenuous pieces of evidence in favor of Whorfianism are best done on no ...
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11 May 2020: No Swift For Me
Personal: · 1 comment... flunk physics and not graduate, and in any case I've got three weeks of class plus finals to deal with, and won't graduate until the ...
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7 May 2020: Think of the Old Ladies
Links: · no comments... Wish they'd done this when I lived there - back in '96 three old ladies and a bunny rabbit were killed in a stampede away from Lamar ...
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5 May 2020: Police Can’t Stop Drinking
Human Fuzzies: syntactical ambiguity · 6 comments... syntactical ambiguity. The authors claim it has "at least three" meanings, and translate two of them into Italian... the third is left as ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... professor-leaders agreed), I hobbled back to camp with three nice blisters on my left foot. Sunday - Rocks. Mauna Ulu. Foot. ...
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12 Mar 2020: Maxi Pad-Abouts
Links, Personal: craftiness, menstruation · 1 comment... slippers. And hopefully also the last thousand words to a three thousand word ...
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8 Mar 2020: I Love Working
Personal: · no comments... spend all kinds of time counting lavas. In fact, I counted three lavas with your momma last night. Must write shoddy popular science ...
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23 Dec 2020: Holiday Someones
Meta: · 6 comments... get 'round to it after Santa's Birthday (it's now been three hours without Vicodin, and I only hurt as badly as menstrual cramps, ...
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16 Nov 2020: Someone’s Dinner
Meta: · no comments... will remain forever meaningless. You should find yourself three test tubes, scissors, some cardboard, a goldfish and a ruler, and go from ...
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26 Oct 2020: Not Dead Yet
Meta: · 1 comment... trickier spots on problem sets. My prediction: knockout in three rounds, but not until the Z-transform has suffered a nose bleed and had ...
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9 Oct 2020: Modulo Alphabet Song
Human Fuzzies: alphabets, pronunciation · 4 comments... and a Canadian professor who talks about Z transforms three hours a week, I've been beaten. Outstubborned. De-vernacularized. I've ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... pop songs. If my entire academic career consisted of three-hole punching articles with impressive sounding titles and having good ... and Thursdays. Complex Analysis - the first part of a three-part series, and I've completed the second two parts (go me!). This ...
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14 Sep 2020: Strike! Yeah! Sort of.
Personal: · 2 comments... I had some help from the machinery, which ignored at least three of my turns and let me go again for the only strikes and spares I got. I ...
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8 Sep 2020: Debtor’s Prison
Uncategorized: dreams · no comments... new cameras, and I dreamed that I woke up and I had won three auctions, one for a camera, and two for horrible expensive pieces of ...
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18 Aug 2020: A Contest-Contest
Aimless: · 15 comments... or when I get tired of it, whichever comes first. Limit three entries per person. Anyone may enter, but winners outside the United ...
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8 Jul 2020: Space Battles Amongst Us
Personal: exercise, raquetball, sci-fi · 1 comment... the violent space-battle 2020s future! There were at least three distinct echoes inside that court, so everything sounded like you were ...
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11 Jun 2020: Ah, My Virgin Eyes!
Human Fuzzies: denmark, soccer · 5 comments... play with half-naked homoeroticism, I did not need to see three (three!) close-up shots of the French goalie's bum on a large-screen TV. ...
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28 May 2020: Link Your Thirst
Meta: · no comments... we can get small Indonesian children to write our blogs at three cents an hour. Speaking of sweatshops, I have two intrepid guestbloggers ...
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23 May 2020: Someone Has a Suggestion
Meta: · no comments... two weeks of geophysical goodness. Which all adds up to three weeks of not-much-blogging. So I'm looking for a team of hardy ... claims and test dubious new recipes for the last three weeks of June. Interested? ...
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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 two-hour take-home ...
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19 Apr 2020: Someone’s a Monkey
Meta: · no commentshttp://www.umich.edu/~uac/threeweeks/monkey/ I was the only one in the computer lab, and when I left, I left ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... guess what kind of learning I've been doing for the past three years, right? It's been incredibly frustrating to put so much time and ...
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15 Apr 2020: Many Things
Aimless: · 5 comments... have decided to revert to a primitive counting system with three many numbers: one, two, and many. It makes my homework much simpler, ...
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13 Apr 2020: Wizard of Bras
Personal: · 7 comments... I spent $70 on three new bras. Outrageous, really, but you try spending fruitless hours ...
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11 Apr 2020: Rampaging Hordes of Someones
Meta: · no comments... what kind of consideration should two give? Three? Criminy, I'm giving out ludicrous smart-ass responses. I need a nap. Or ...
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16 Mar 2020: Someone’s a Cruel Landlord
Meta: · no comments... just had to evict three people from my sneakers, they want to know if you have any room in your ...
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15 Mar 2020: War is Art
Aimless: photoblog · 2 commentsI saw the last shreds of the missile defense test from the roof. Also: It's a very humbling thing hanging in the sky tonight... violent death machines aren't supposed to be beautiful. ...
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20 Feb 2020: Lonely Thrust Faults
Personal: · no comments... feedback on my stupid ideas without having to chug through three metric tons of algebra to find that I'm wrong. More importantly, though, ...
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10 Feb 2020: Tastes Like Noodles
Personal: · no comments... days, you wake up, and it doesn't feel at all like three in the afternoon. Most of those days, that's because it's actually well before lunch, but today was a genuine three o'clock. ...
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27 Jan 2020: My Boots Keep Me
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... we all bought shiny new Noe Venable CDs and for the past three days her voice has been leaking out of rooms, through closets and ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... for a little bit, signed the card, and told me to take three aspirin with a glass of water and call him in the morning. I think I got ...
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16 Jan 2020: Old Man Winter
Human Fuzzies, Personal: book reviews, rain, winter · no comments... to boast about how I'm finally on the road to health after three weeks of random upper respiratory infections when a chain-reaction coughing fit has me paralyzed for a good three minutes. Oh well. I've still got the use of a nostril and a half, that's ...
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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... all. We'll have another meeting on Wednesday, and if only three of you show up I'll probably cancel the class altogether." The useful ...
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25 Dec 2020: Wine and Jellybeans
Links, Personal: Christmas, molluscs, reviews of stuff, wine · no comments... would you care to give me an arbitrary constraint or three? Rules and limits usually make me more inventive. From the Department ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... to those of you without blogs of your own (yes, all three of you): To me, blogging is all about finding the personal in the ... emergency). As it turned out, I could have any two of the three necessary features in my porn (Scandinavian cast, rampant lesbianism, dvd ...
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10 Dec 2020: tuna fish sculpture
Food, Meta: cooking, groceries · no comments... powder two tupperwares of frozen turkey stock three cheap sausages ketchup marshmellows remoulade half a jar of ...
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30 Nov 2020: delicious and nutritious
Politics: activism, queerness, Salvation Army · no comments... mucked up with queer rights issues, but the Harvey Milk three-dollar bill is just too cute to ...
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24 Nov 2020: oh no, not the hypothalamus!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... in exceptionally good health. Hell, I have memories of three of my great-grandparents, one of whom is still kicking around in her late ...
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17 Nov 2020: uff da
Personal: Christmas, thanksgiving · no comments... awake yet, and I most certainly should not have been awake three hours ago, after finally stumbling home at around 3:30 in the ...
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11 Nov 2020: s-tog til hundige
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... to fit in a small number of pigeonholes. You've got two or three potbellied balding men who look like refugees from a science fiction ...
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6 Nov 2020: things about busses
Meta, Personal: boots, maps, weather · no comments... corner. I've made such good use of that map in the past three months that now whenever I see it, I want to coo like a woman with a ...
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5 Nov 2020: sinful blogging
Meta, Whimsy: · no comments... the guiltiest of all your guilty pleasures? My top three go roughly as follows: trying to imitate rabi's idiom -- am I really too ...
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4 Nov 2020: stop de kriminelle udlændinge
Politics: · 2 comments... give statsborgerskab or asylum to criminal foreigners. [three lines of gibberish] ... because they can not find work. It is spild (a ... People's Party come out, I'm sure they'll be at least three times as much ...
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2 Nov 2020: false hopes
Meta, Personal: minions · no comments... for doing a little workish reading, but after spending three quarters of an hour wandering the massively under-construction library at ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... can't believe I've been here for three months. I knew the time would fly past like nothing when I signed on to ... student I've ever talked to has said it took about three months for them to fully adjust, and it looks like I'm no exception - ... a tricky thing to measure, but I think in both cases the three-month mark was a little bit after the time when I could comfortably find ...
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24 Oct 2020: super stalker search!
Meta: · no comments... (bonus points for getting my middle name). Any one of my three current addresses. My birthdate. Any other bits of information that might ...
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23 Oct 2020: Mole Day Fun
Personal: · no comments... lanes here, which had me looking over my shoulder every three seconds expecting to be flattened. So I feel properly at home here, at ...
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19 Oct 2020: trains
Personal: · no comments... into Cologne (or Köln, if zou're zo inzlinedzz.) Three years ago, I had spent about two days there on the classic high school ...
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5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen
Aimless, Personal: · no comments... which is fairly nice and has cheap rent, and I'm taking three classes, plus Danish. Since I finally figured out where to go to sign up ...
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30 Sep 2020: Problem Set #1
Aimless: · 1 comment... assumptions: The city of Copenhagen can be divided into three bar-hopping zones: Amager, the city center, and everywhere else. In the ...
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28 Sep 2020: Rescheduling
Personal: · no comments... in the light of day. Meanwhile, running around on three hours of sleep and a bottle of cola, I feel much more like myself and ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... I should start the problem now" 6. Confusion - "what? huh? three?" 6b. Pathetic Whimpering 7. Determination - "I am Thrag, the barbarian ...
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9 Sep 2020: verbal thinker
Personal: · no comments... argument would do the same job in less time, and at three in the morning, that can be frustrating. This is probably why I'm not a ...
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7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung
Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment... a good day to take a temporary vow of silence, of maybe three or four hours' duration. I will cavort with the world, but I will not ...
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6 Sep 2020: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments... Vienna. He mentioned that even though Budapest was a mere three hours away, he hadn't been there until just a couple months ago. Even ...
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31 Aug 2020: bandwagon meme
Whimsy: · no comments... particular bandwagon for a while, but haven't had time: three things I see Hanging fluorescent lamps, and their accompanying white ... compared to the bright yellow cheapwood of the desk. three things I hear Keyboard clackety-clack. Mostly not belonging to me. The ...
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27 Aug 2020: jeg kan godt tale dansk!
Human Fuzzies: Danish · no comments... have finished my three week intensive Danish course. To show for it, I have a nice little certificate, and three bottles of beer I snagged from the reception on my way out. But now what ...
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29 Jul 2020: leftover stuff
Personal: · 1 comment... I swear, probably. I've been genuinely tired for the past three days of oven-scrubbing. Not exhausted, and not always sleepy, but tired. ... but most classes are offered in English and I'll have three weeks to learn how to order beer before school actually starts. So, yeah. ...
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28 Jul 2020: an audience at last!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... 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 as ...
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24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser
Personal: · 1 comment... random-guestbook-signage, I ran into the same rant, twice. Three times, actually, if you count someone quoting the tail end of it. Here is ...
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14 Jul 2020: argyle sock envy
Links, Personal: · no comments... three in the morning again, and I've been visiting random other blogs, to scope ...
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5 Jul 2020: corn with pig dna
Meta: excess energy, introductions, pretentions · no comments... Three in the morning, and I still have to go job hunting during business hours ...