Search Results: trying
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29 Apr 2020: Pickled Japanese Knotweed
Food: bread, knotweed, pickles, Polygonaceae · no comments... found the treatment that will make me love them. I keep trying, because it's invasive and evil and so easy to pick. I want to love it. ... The bread is good, but not great. This year I'm trying pickles. I did two batches of brine: One was a basic white vinegar with ...
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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... don't count the parts where I was jumping off a windowsill trying to pull down a particularly flower-laden branch in a back alley, the ...
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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... bad, but it's not the overpoweringly floral this-jar-is-trying-to-have-sex-with-my-nose flavor I got with the syrup, either. I ...
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11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments... or classic car, people assume I'm on the road because I am trying to get from Point A to Point B, and not because I am out for a leisurely ...
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21 May 2020: Field Vehicle Amenities
Science: cars, field work · 10 comments... with a little "personal radio station" adapter thingie, or trying to find decent music on the radio. Although I'm sure the folks at ...
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17 May 2020: But I’m Not Dead Yet!
Meta: April fools · 4 comments... I can't be much more specific than that - not because I am trying to keep the details a secret, but because I work for a tiny, ...
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2 Mar 2020: Recent Results in Seismology
Science: academic journals, earthquakes, liquefaction, nonvolcanic tremor, seismology · 1 comment... that either, so it's a fat lot of good that does us in trying to figure out what nonvolcanic tremor really means. At least now we have ...
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26 Feb 2020: The Stimulating Effects of Monitoring Volcanoes
Politics, Science: economics, US party politics, volcano monitoring, volcanoes · 10 comments... bill. To claim that this is what Jindal was actually trying to say requires a phenomenally over-generous interpretation of his ...
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19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments... - Wegener died on an ill-fated scientific expedition trying to collect the first full year of weather data in interior ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... not saying that those of us who have blogs should stop trying to teach science through our posts. If anything, I share Blake's desire ...
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6 Jan 2020: High Femme and Geekery
Aimless: · 13 comments... date: June 24, 2020 The women-in-science-osphere has been trying to figure out what to make of this Newsweek article about "Nerdettes", ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... but it will contribute to education. If I weren't trying to win bragging rights, I would claim that the contribution to education ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... who donates to No on 8, as well. I am sick of politicians trying to redefine my marriage as a form of participation in their creeptastic ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... smoke came charging out of her ears and she was probably trying to get god to strike me down to hell where I stood. Given that, one ... because by then my head has been down for far too long trying to organize everything I was carrying and who knows where this woman ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... about money. "The biggest hurdle that I've encountered in trying to share this information is a sort of knee-jerk reaction that men ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 commentOkay, I'm still trying to figure out why my del.icio.us link-posting script is broken, but it's ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments... I paid no attention to this whatsoever. It's a bit like trying to figure out how many "1 meter" boxes I need to pack all of my stuff - ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 comments... rock started flowing into the borehole. In the course of trying to control this, the drillers sealed the top of the hole - but they put ...
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14 May 2020: Dear Seattle Landlords: Your House is Not A Craftsman
Human Fuzzies: architecture, Arts and Crafts movement, craigslist · 1 comment... up. Was it built before the sucker grad students you are trying to rent to were born? Yes? Then what the fuck, call it a Craftsman! ...
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16 Apr 2020: RIP Ed Lorenz
Aimless: · 4 comments... the MIT obituary. But back in the early 60s, when he was trying to figure out why weather prediction was so difficult, he discovered ...
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11 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Slag
Aimless: · 3 comments... for the weak blogging? No! No apologies! I am still trying to work "elusive", "obsequious", and "vapid" into a discussion of ...
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3 Apr 2020: Mud Volcano Tofu
Aimless: · 7 commentsThere is a village in Taiwan trying to build a reputation for tofu flavored with the local mud volcano. On ...
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2 Apr 2020: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation
Aimless: · 26 comments... terms are no longer useful descriptions of the world, and trying to apply them in a modern theoretical context only leads to ...
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31 Dec 2020: Year in Review
Meta: clip show · no comments... few chapters might be mildly cathartic if you’re trying to make sense of your own grad school experience, but I really ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... because it is vaguely related to what you are actually trying to say and you think it sounds fancy. It's actually a sad batch of ...
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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... could be worse, though. Skookumchick's head is trying to kill her: How's those publications on your dissertation going? Oh ... the Scientiae blog. If you need more to read, I suggest trying the latest editions of the Carnival of Feminists and the Tangled ...
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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... anti-racist allies who refuse to identify as "white" are trying to accomplish: When the cashier caught sight of the paper I had ... drive me back to trashy fantasy novels. Some friends were trying to purge their groaning shelves, and brought bags and bags and bags to ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... as much as Beloit's Midwestern crop Illinois has been trying to ban smoking since the year they were born. The World Wide Web has ...
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1 Jul 2020: Leaving the Ivory Tower
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: academia, book reviews, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa · 3 comments... the first few chapters might be mildly cathartic if you're trying to make sense of your own grad school experience, but I really don't ...
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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... good long screed, but for now, I'll just say that I'm also trying to keep my ears open. First, of course, are facts and fact-like ...
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14 Dec 2020: Finals Week = Bitch About Students
Personal, Teaching: apathy · 5 comments... the sidewalk outside the bar, blocking my way when I am trying to walk home. Whatever. I consider it my job to help students make the ...
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26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie
Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 comment... the best recipes. Unless you're cooking for vegans, or trying to be healthy, because usually "best" means "contains an awful lot of ...
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29 Sep 2020: Two Cliches, As Applied to My Life
Personal, Science: grad school · 3 comments... I hope you'll excuse me if I seem a bit distracted; I'm trying to demonstrate the theoretical plausibility of the existence of ...
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4 Sep 2020: Laborious Links: Patenting, Urban Geology, and Gratuitous Toilet Analogies
Links, Science: Bay Area geology, blog carnivals, gender, patents, work vs. family · no comments... university on a possibly patentable invention. "We were trying to figure out who is interested in licensing," says Jerry Thursby. Their ...
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28 Jul 2020: These Search Requests Are What I’m Trying to Monetize
Meta: adsense, search requests · 3 commentsI've had Google AdSense up for a month now, and it's netted me a grand total of $7.05. That's not much - especially considering that at this rate, I won't see my $100 minimum check until 2020 - but it is enough to cover web hosting and domain registration, ...
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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... biggest brains around. Mathematicians may spend hours just trying to figure out a line of equations. All the while, they feel dumb and ...
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23 Jun 2020: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache
Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments... I expect this system to be somewhat irritating to anyone trying to read the script (including myself, after a week or so) but ...
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6 Jun 2020: I’ll Stick to Compost, Thanks
Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments... wrecking my life while I engage in comic salad hijinks trying to get my body back! Argh! I guess that's what I get for buying plants ...
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17 May 2020: Miss Manners vs. the Washington Post
Politics: miss manners, sexism, the walking uterus · 1 comment... potential fetus. I switched neurologists and medications, trying Topomax and Trileptal, the latter of which (plus Zonegran) I'm still on. ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... the entire blog (or pretty close) from Google's cache; I'm trying to decide if I want to go through the rigamarole of extracting all the ...
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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... of the way a lot of blogs authenticate comments, trying to share the same post script across a domain might be a bad idea. I ... that draw together several threads and synthesize them, trying to have discussion take place on the originating blog is ...
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13 Mar 2020: Quickies
Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments... sleepy to investigate, but I'm glad someone is out there trying, ...
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19 Jan 2020: Go Grey Lady Go!
Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments... be the universe where Larry Summers was just a guy trying to talk about biology in a conversation with no connection to his ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU Two
Personal: american geophysical union, beer, conference blogging · no comments... I can chat up strangers, and I can talk shop, but trying to charm new people by talking shop with them is synergistically more ...
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26 Nov 2020: My Neighbors Are Penis Zombies
Politics: Berzerkeley, rape, sexism · 4 comments... chances that she would have sex with them 20% would keep trying to have sex with someone after she says "no" I can only hope that 20% of my neighbors think "keep trying to have sex" means "whine at her about your blue balls" and not "keep ...
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23 Oct 2020: Peevishness and Science
Human Fuzzies, Links: pep bands, project management · no comments... the thing we want. [...] And at the same time, we'll be trying to discover a useful and formal agile research methodology. Hell, if ...
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21 Oct 2020: Friday Friday Friday
Whimsy: earthquake prediction, Friday random ten, search requests · no comments... the Inside, and especially the Outcome, I think iTunes is trying to hit on me. Naughty Oracle! No cookie. This Week's Search ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... of loon feathers! Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, has been trying for more than two years to name the city's main post office on Allston ... can't imagine the response to a similar hippie progressive trying to become, say, a professor of earth science in their actual ...
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12 Sep 2020: The 4th Circuit Pees on the 4th Amendment
Politics: civil liberties, fascist police states, FEMA · 2 comments... and other "well concerned citizens". [...] We are trying to protect our Louisiana friends from the criminal element and bad ...
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5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... reach the island, we will hoist a new Danish flag. We're trying to change the flags as often as possible because they are quickly torn ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... will be old news for geologists in the audience. I'm still trying to figure out how to hit the right level of popularizingness here, and ... Or a good ability to visualize, but I don't recommend trying to learn things by pure brute force mental rotation of 3-d objects, on ...
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12 Jun 2020: Chronology
Personal, Politics: fashion, feminism, plumbers, sexism · 9 comments... assurances that no, actually, there are feminists trying to get more women in skilled trades were probably not very convincing. ...
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8 Jun 2020: I am the Prince of the Air
Meta: hotlink protection, hotlinkers, persecuted Christians, satanism · 10 comments... a bunch of LiveJournal/Xanga/Myspace kidz have been trying to use my pictures as background images. Which would be all well and ...
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27 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Keiiti Aki Memorial Edition
Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, volcanoes · 1 commentI've been trying this morning to think of a pretty way to illustrate the concept of ...
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17 May 2020: Someone’s Been Waiting
Meta: fan mail, monkeys, ninjas, pirates, robots, zombies · 5 comments... at the few remaining oranges on the tippy-top of the tree, trying to get them down without breaking more than three limbs. tail A ...
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13 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Evaporites
Science: evaporites, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 3 comments... "squiggly lamination" (or "convolute lamination" if you're trying to sound professional). Like sand boils, it's formed by squirts of ...
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2 May 2020: Monday Review of Stuff
Human Fuzzies: coffee, mac'n'cheez, movie reviews · 6 comments... just simultaneously bland and over-busy as a result of trying to fit too much in. The little boxes on a list of well-loved funny bits ...
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26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments... not accept easy answers. I would spend the rest of my life trying to atone for that. I know my conscience would not let me tell myself ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... by a partner or an acquaintance than by a stranger we were trying to pick up at a bookstore. Courtship rituals may be designed to weed out ...
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7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments... the Republican leadership in the state Senate is proposing trying to entice young adults to stick around by abolishing the state income ...
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25 Jan 2020: Holy Shit Elephants Are Awesome
Science: elephants, seismology, tsunamis · 1 comment... of course, not least because you risk being squished when trying to retrieve your data. But they're much cuter than seismometers - cuter ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 comments... the difference between masculinity and femininity is like trying to draw a line between porn and erotica. It's fun 'cause you get to ...
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19 Dec 2020: Someone Has a Small Internet
Meta: fan mail, high school, Internet citizen of the world, nostalgia · no comments... in high school, one year younger and one clique removed, trying to guess who they were. After realizing that there were too many art ...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... welfare systems, but we also know that lots of people are trying to prevent abortions on the Platonic Realm of Forms. Let's take a break ...
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19 Nov 2020: Spam Stopgap
Meta: blogtinkery, comment spam · no comments... fix to restrict access to mt-comments.cgi - if you're trying to post and can't, your browser probably isn't sending a referer string, ...
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17 Sep 2020: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments... one is not teaching entry-level courses, when one is trying to think something through at a fairly high level of analysis, having to ...
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15 Sep 2020: California Performance Review for Geologists
Politics: California politics, environmentalism, urban planning · no comments... with opinions where I have them (I mostly don't but I'm trying to acquire some): Merge the State Mining and Geology Board with the ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... attention to the Republican National Convention, or barf trying. Nonsense, I say! There are only three good reasons to watch the ...
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: On What Grounds Is This Legal?
Politics: · 2 comments... of the U.S. Treasury. No, that doesn't help anyone who's trying to interpret the Wizard of Oz as a fable about the gold ...
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11 Aug 2020: Burble Tensors on Cross-Disciplinary Manifolds of Love!
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 5 comments... paradigms from the physical sciences - indeed, I'm still trying to figure out what those goals and methods actually are. But it's like ... and a mandoline? Why would anyone buy this?" I was trying to think of a good science analogy for this earlier today, and ...
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: Best Constitutional Amendment EVAR
Politics: · no comments... of the United States of America, there are terrorists trying to steal our beer. If Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to commandeer a fleet ...
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4 May 2020: Garden Post
Personal: car repair, cars, container gardening, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, tomatoes · no comments... could rock out to Stupice or Sweet Million? I've been trying for the past couple weeks to figure out why tomato variety names remind ...
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24 Feb 2020: Petty Consumer Activism
Politics: advertising, Food and Drug Administration, funny, open letters, sexism, soup · 6 comments... so we can microwave our bras in the break room); I'm just trying to explain why I was annoyed that your label was addressed to just ...
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18 Feb 2020: Spam Literary Identities
Aimless: · 1 comment... without being laughed at - I'll find one in my inbox, trying to sell me herbal viagra. These spammer databases are fabulous! Just in ...
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26 Jan 2020: I Don’t Like!
Links: · 3 comments... I've been trying I like!, which is another of those preference network databases. It ...
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11 Dec 2020: Peer Review II
Politics, Science: peer review · no comments... extent possible. Which is great if you're a scientist trying to improve your study, and you have the perspective necessary to see ...
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4 Dec 2020: Foul Putrid News Organization
Politics: · no comments... was actually two things: phone calls from the L.A. Times trying to interest me in some sort of "offer", spaced about an hour apart. The ...
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31 Jul 2020: The Vanilla Asylum
Personal: · 1 comment... atmosphere, unless they think the Fed Ex man is trying to attack our Bold Office Leader; they're more like a furry distributed ...
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14 Jul 2020: And The Internet Melted
Personal: camping, photography · no comments... and "camping is fun". It's all true at night, but after trying to walk up one hill during the day I was forced to retreat to the air ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... important thing. Grad school is not a place for wafflers trying to explore their options, but an undergraduate education is meant for ...
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7 May 2020: Vacuuming for Losers
Personal, Whimsy: cleaning, howtos, vacuums · 2 comments... Clear the accumulated dishes from your work space, while trying to convince yourself that they were mostly water glasses anyway. Except ...
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26 Apr 2020: Tenure’s No Damn Good!
Aimless: · 2 comments... I'm up in the computer lab on a Saturday afternoon, trying to finish my one remaining class from last term - not succeeding ...
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8 Apr 2020: E-I-E-I-O
Personal: garage sales, grades, Los Angeles · no comments... running around like a chicken with its head lopped off, trying to finish last term and keep up with the current one. If I had ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... I don't understand it either, it had something to do with trying to learn to play bridge) and I only have pictures on film; this was ...
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5 Mar 2020: Orders of Magnitude
Personal: · 1 comment... to. All of this was sandwiched by the funeral director trying to herd our cars into an orderly procession - and when I say orderly, I ...
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4 Feb 2020: Uh-Oh
Personal: · 1 comment... computer has been making revving noises lately, like it's trying to impress a pretty girl at a stoplight. I'm worried about what'll ...
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2 Jan 2020: Ooh, Toy
Links: · 4 comments... true;"/> I am trying to conquer Iceland by clicking on a little game image. Help me out, ...
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17 Dec 2020: None the Wiser
Personal: · 9 comments... - I don't remember a thing about the operation, except trying and failing to stand up when it was over. Apparently I was a hoot on the ...
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18 Nov 2020: Coherence is for Chumps
Personal, Whimsy: · 7 comments... from hand to mouth as I study, you see, but if you're not trying to quit smoking, you can't just start chewing on sticks. People look at ...
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28 Oct 2020: My Kidneys Explode
Personal: · 2 comments... coffee to judges at some fancy-schmancy law conference. Trying to be sympathetic, most profs are giving out no homework next week, but ...
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7 Oct 2020: Tour de Gym
Personal: · 2 comments... to check for the competition – or possibly he was trying to flirt with someone on the exerbikes. I don't like to imagine what I ...
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24 Sep 2020: O Autumn
Personal: fire, seasons · 1 comment... have been desperately trying to convince myself that it is actually fall here in seasonless Southern ...
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19 Sep 2020: Incredible Finds
Personal: · no comments... that sort of thing. I've even got an avocado pit that I'm trying to sprout next to the microwave. But the fruits of this trip really put ...
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30 Aug 2020: Lip Molting
Personal: · no comments... I will open my mouth and waggle my jaws like I am trying to speak French into gale-force ...
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23 Aug 2020: Listen Up
Politics: · no comments... And so on ad infinitum. I get into a mode where I'm trying to convince everyone that I'm right, and that's not where I want to be. ...
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21 Aug 2020: Old Forgotten Someones
Meta: · no comments... think I've neglected some people, when they're trying to give me important advice, too: Remember darling that you can never ...
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27 Jun 2020: I’m Done! Whee!
Personal, Politics: · 1 comment... Fifteen. me: Fifteen? What, you bite off yer ma's nipple trying to suck on it after she'd been in labor for thirty-six hours to get your ...
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13 May 2020: Philosophical Questions
Meta: · 2 comments... telling other people what love is and is not, are usually trying to get them to adopt certain sexual habits. If I ever want to change ...
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8 May 2020: Joys of Bandwidth; Stuff
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 4 comments... - nothing feels quite so good as a shower when you're trying to procrastinate. But - and this is a huge but - the Salon Selectives ...
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11 Apr 2020: Rampaging Hordes of Someones
Meta: · no comments... penguin - red bull and tequila! (2-1) Actually, I've been trying to even out my sleep patterns, so I've sworn off caffeine in the ...
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8 Apr 2020: gotta pee
Personal: bathroom etiquette, gender · 16 comments... a minimal regard for privacy. So I'll be sitting there trying to poop, or drawing graffiti, or whatever, when some guy comes in a ...
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21 Feb 2020: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments... learning the science is enough for my energies without trying to reform a whole subculture, and so of course I keep making little ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... endless convincing hypotheses. So ever since, I've been trying them all on in my head. I've got a friend who routinely begins all her ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... objects in my head. But there was a greater point I was trying to make, before all that fun. I've been thinking about teaching, and ...
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24 Jan 2020: Core 1a
Personal: · no comments... than organizing your uncle's bottlecap collection. I'm trying really hard to be excited. ...
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17 Jan 2020: It Wasn’t Joan Jett
Personal, Politics: · no comments... you can tell me the answers. Why were there so few women trying out? I didn't think to count, but the ratio was noticeably worse than ...
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: …and one more thing!
Personal: · no comments... else was organizing the trip and you get a free pencil for trying. It should be both painless and fun. I do expect a friend of mine to ...
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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... the professor spent the entire organizational meeting trying to think up clever ways not to teach the class. "I haven't taught ...
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24 Dec 2020: Tackiest Ever
Politics: · no comments... stories in the tiny local paper. It seems that people are trying to refocus their Christmas celebrations, discarding some of the ... of his outdoor display. What the elvis are these people trying to accomplish? Do they think their shoddy gestures of patriotism will be ...
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22 Dec 2020: uh, I jetted your mom’s lag
Personal: · no comments... safe and sound and wrapped in fuzzy and cursing at msn and trying to remember American keyboards again. It's good. Jet lag is not so good, ...
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17 Dec 2020: spacialization
Aimless: · no comments... it'd be an interesting experiment to run around for a day trying not to use any spatial metaphor, at all. I'm not sure I could do ...
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10 Dec 2020: tuna fish sculpture
Food, Meta: cooking, groceries · no comments... it. I'm going to be playing that game in the next 10 days, trying to clean the oddments from my cupboard. In case any of you think you're ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... But I can't for the life of me imagine what I might be trying to escape - the fearsome spectre of upcoming julefrokosts? Salt ...
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16 Nov 2020: gobble gobble
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cooking, thanksgiving · no comments... here I go again, trying to plan Thanksgiving dinner for an as-yet-unknown number of people. This ... to export Valentine's Day and Halloween without ever trying to foist Thanksgiving onto other cultures as well. It's a bit of an ...
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5 Nov 2020: sinful blogging
Meta, Whimsy: · no comments... your guilty pleasures? My top three go roughly as follows: trying to imitate rabi's idiom -- am I really too stubborn to acknowlegde my influences? It feels like trying to be what I'm not. loading entries with words I think will generate ...
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3 Nov 2020: uhh. zog.
Personal: · no comments... party, met some people, made them think I was cute for trying to speak Danish, had a good time. Also, I drank some lovely red wine - ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... definitely been doing the same sort of group-switching, trying to find a match. Of course, I didn't feel like I had a very stable group ...
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25 Oct 2020: image games
Meta: · no comments... is a perfectly acceptable practice if you're not trying to impose Latin grammar on the universe, and only an idiot would ...
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15 Oct 2020: puttin’ the “lux” back in “benelux”
Personal: trains, travelogue · no comments... visit to the friendly DSB man, wherein he spent 10 minutes trying to find the name of the relevant border town, I've got myself a ...
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10 Oct 2020: Slippery When Wet
Personal: · no comments... and so on. The things you tell someone when they're trying to make friends with your cat. I didn't, because my ex-boyfriend is not ...
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3 Oct 2020: Smelling the Roses
Personal: being present, ducks, playing hooky, roses, swans · no comments... sweet sticky sludge from a gallon jug of violets. We were trying to make syrup. In the same park that housed the roses (it was the ...
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24 Sep 2020: Juggling Cabbages
Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment... you've never done any sort of two-person juggling before, trying to pass four heads of cabbage in the main walkway of a kitchen before ...
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10 Sep 2020: A Tibetan Lesson
Human Fuzzies: pronunciation, tibetan · no comments... Danish. Henceforth, I will merely be grateful that I'm not trying to learn ...
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9 Sep 2020: verbal thinker
Personal: · no comments... though I know it must happen sometimes). I've also been trying to reconcile my inherent verbosity with the fact that I do math. Even ...
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20 Aug 2020: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments... mixing up and saying something completely wrong, I'm still trying. So I've been smiling a lot, and I've come to realize two things: I ... a completely new country where I know almost nobody and am trying to make friends. As antithetical to the spirit of snotty, arrogant "take ...
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14 Aug 2020: rødgrød med fløde
Human Fuzzies: Danish, pronunciation · 1 comment... e on the end. After you've bitten the end of your tongue trying to say the d, this is easy. And once you've done that, all you have to ...
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30 Jul 2020: reviewed
Meta: · no comments... arrogance in your attitude that I have been unsuccessfully trying to get rid of for years." Blogging, of course, is an inherently arrogant ...
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26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments... according to the translator's introduction. I'm still trying to figure out what the last part of that actually means, but the trick ...
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24 Jul 2020: socks
Meta, Personal: fonts, socks · 1 comment... to play with even though you have to mess with people trying to tell you your socks don't match. Duh. So I bought four new pairs ...
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14 Jul 2020: my cat is a huge grouch
Personal: · no comments... Mom's spent the last 20 years raising my sister and I, trying to be a proper role model, and now we're finally both old enough that ...