Search Results: usually

• 8 Jun 2014: Osoberry Piquette

  
  Food: brewing, Indian plum, osoberries, Rosaceae · 1 comment

  ...  a too-big bucket combined with possibly not enough yeast - usually yeast will produce a protective blanket of CO2 which prevents aerobic ...

• 25 Aug 2013: Cleavers Seed Coffee

  
  Food: blacklight, cleavers, coffee substitutes, infusions, Rubiaceae · 3 comments

  ...  not bad. The tea was mild enough that I drank it black (usually I am a milk and sugar coffee kind of girl). I probably won't bother ...

• 24 Aug 2013: Cornel Vanilla Cream Pie

  
  Food: Cornaceae, cornels, pie · no comments

  ...  in Eastern Europe down through Iran, but in the U.S. it's usually planted as an ornamental. I've been riding by a whole grove of them on ...

• 15 Jul 2013: Yarrow-weizen

  
  Food: allspice, Asteraceae, brewing, Cupressaceae, dandelions, Food, gruit, juniper, Myrtaceae, yarrow · no comments

  ...  wort didn't taste any more ridiculously sweet than wort usually tastes, so I'm hopeful that the herbs were bitter enough to make a ...

• 2 Jul 2013: Red Elderberry Juice

  
  Food: Adoxaceae, kale, red elderberries, toxicity · 2 comments

  ...  archaeological digs. The berries are always eaten cooked - usually pit-cooked (a moist, gentle heat - you dig a pit and fill it with hot ...

• 23 Jun 2013: Osoberry Ossobucco

  
  Food: Indian plum, jam, lamb, meat, osoberries, recipes, Rosaceae · 1 comment

  ...  a time to stock the pantry for the coming dark, and I can usually muster up some enthusiasm for a well-stocked pantry. [*] As a PC ...

• 30 Apr 2013: Cleavers Cordial

  
  Food, Human Fuzzies: cleavers, Rubiaceae · 5 comments

  ...  after reading about it on some other foraging blogs. Usually, when I learn a new plant it takes me a year or so of scouting around ...

• 4 Mar 2013: Nettles!

  
  Food: Urticaceae · 3 comments

  ...  of nettles on Sunday. When I go nettle-picking, I usually wear the same thin-ish full-fingered gloves I've been biking in most of ...

• 9 Feb 2013: Oregon grape liqueur

  
  Food: Berberidaceae, liqueurs · 5 comments

  ...  deal was realizing that in the right context (by which I usually mean bourbon) it brings out a smoky flavor - almost but not quite like ...

• 17 Jul 2011: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds

  
  Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment

  ...  bowl, or the chaff would fall into the seed bowl, or both. Usually both. Since money plant is an aggressive weed I didn't want to put ...  wrong, or maybe the flattened money plant seeds are just unusually good at hiding behind their chaffy friends. Whatever, lesson learned: ...

• 11 May 2011: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk

  
  Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments

  ...  me. Places I want to visit - museums, restaurants, etc. - usually provide directions and parking information pertinent to my mode of ...  transportation. When people talk about "traffic" they are usually talking about people using my mode of transportation. If I am not in a ...

• 26 May 2009: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes

  
  Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments

  ...  pulses of gay energy, called Love waves. These Love waves usually pass harmlessly through the crust, causing only occasional dirty ...  on the font chosen by each county registrar, but it's usually Helvetica). Under normal conditions, these Love waves would also ...

• 23 Jan 2009: Cookbooks with Science

  
  Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 comments

  ...  your way to the kind of deep, intuitive understanding that usually only comes from years of fruitless head-desking at your own mistakes. ...

• 21 Jan 2009: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: Links · 1 comment

  ...  dank flavor of a “corked” wine, which usually renders it unusable even in cooking, can be removed by pouring the wine ...

• 16 Dec 2008: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa

  
  Food, Science: baked Alaska, desserts, failed experiments, lava, meringue, recipes · 6 comments

  ...  equation. The final product is tasty enough, but it is usually meant primarily as a delivery vehicle for boasts about one's l33t ...

• 9 Oct 2008: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  to non-gem-people, too, because they come from unusually deep in the mantle and are erupted very violently; I didn't know there ...

• 1 Oct 2008: In Which I Want Your Money: Donors Choose Challenge 2008

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  about the way geology is treated (and by "treated" we usually mean "ignored") in K-12 education. Well, now's our chance to fix that. ...

• 19 Sep 2008: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  seismic waves faster in one direction than another. Usually, though, the mineralogy of a sample is a source of shiny curiosities ...  called to reach well beyond my mineralogical expertise, usually by people who have a mystery rock in their hands. So the minerals I ...

• 1 Sep 2008: The Science of Deliciousness

  
  Aimless: · 9 comments

  ...  of his examples from classic French cuisine. The examples usually keep things clear and practically grounded, but occasionally lead to ...

• 21 Aug 2008: The Metamorphic Petrology of Ice Cream

  
  Aimless: · 12 comments

  ...  that are better than small ones, but in rocks it is usually a different mineral phase) will tend to grow. This process is ...

• 14 Jul 2008: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever

  
  Aimless: · 6 comments

  ...  this data, and found that while the eruption interval is usually regular enough to justify the nickname "Old Faithful", every now and ...

• 27 Jun 2008: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release

  
  Science: · 14 comments

  ...  set of seismic waves, the surface waves, which are usually the most damaging waves of an earthquake. As earthquakes get really ...  of surface wave magnitude. Because of this, you don't usually see surface wave magnitudes that are larger than the low 8s. So I ...

• 18 Jun 2008: Advice for a Mathphobe?

  
  Aimless: · 25 comments

  ...  instinct, when presented with a case of mathphobia, is usually divided between a desire to soothe and coddle the poor soul who was ...

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

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  style, not "modern" meaning "recently built". I usually find this style of apartment building to be soulless and depressing, ...

• 19 May 2008: I’d Like to Thank the Academy

  
  Aimless: acknowledgments, gratitude, thanks, writing · 5 comments

  ...  to the formula expected for the circumstance, I can usually avoid this form of writer's block. The problem, of course, is knowing ...

• 3 Apr 2008: Mud Volcano Tofu

  
  Aimless: · 7 comments

  ...  are sometimes present in mud volcanoes, but not usually in very high concentrations. The Luoshan mud volcano provides a ...  ol' iodized NaCl, but I do know that salty things* are usually more delicious than the non-salty versions of the same things. Yay, ...

• 4 Mar 2008: Oops! I’m Perjured Again

  
  Aimless: · 7 comments

  ...  system in the Union, the California constitution is unusually long and riddled with detailed garbage. It includes such gems as ...  and women of integrity can never hold public office. I usually think cynical jokes about how politicians love corruption and empty ...

• 3 Jan 2008: Notes from the Iowa Frontlines

  
  Politics: Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucuses, presidential elections · 2 comments

  ...  up on our game of guessing which candidate was calling (usually Clinton, but Biden and Richardson and Dodd have all stepped up their ...

• 17 Dec 2007: Aaand, the rest of AGU

  
  Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments

  ...  to walk through the education posters - not only are there usually interesting projects, the posters are much more likely to do something ...

• 1 Nov 2007: 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

  ...  Addy! Meanwhile, Veo Claramente's inner voice is usually frenetic, but she has occasional blessed periods of calm. ...

• 4 Jul 2007: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong

  
  Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments

  ...  not the point. Something mournful, or poignant Now usually when I am feeling in-your-face and partisan, I like to make at least a ...

• 18 Apr 2007: Lollinks

  
  Links, Personal, Whimsy: cat macros, psychology, test anxiety · 4 comments

  ...  adult I've developed a related mental tic. Every so often, usually during a period of downtime in the middle of, e.g., finals, stress will ...

• 3 Mar 2007: Earthquake Folksonomy

  
  Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments

  ...  technical language possible when I'm not feeling chatty; usually it makes people stop asking questions.) People living in ...

• 26 Nov 2006: Margarita Meringue Pie

  
  Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, Rutaceae, thanksgiving · 1 comment

  ...  cooking for vegans, or trying to be healthy, because usually "best" means "contains an awful lot of butter". Ingredients 1 9" ...

• 12 Oct 2006: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning

  
  Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments

  ...  I tell myself I don't have anything to say, even though I usually have TONS of things I'd like to post about at the time, and I just fuck ...

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

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

  ...  year of high school, my friend and I usually took the stairs up to our after-school astronomy analysis-monkey ...

• 9 Aug 2006: Publication and Citation Rates of Female Earthquake Engineers

  
  Politics, Science: academia, earthquake engineering, gender, Science · 5 comments

  ...  it was a terrible oversight: the truly talented can usually overcome adversity, but when giftless female hacks regularly rise to ...

• 8 Aug 2006: My Identity is a List of Links

  
  Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments

  ...  as claims about the speaker's desire or affinity, while I usually interpret them as claims about the speaker's interactions with the ...

• 7 Jun 2006: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics

  
  Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments

  ...  which seem to (or are conventionally supposed to) feel unusually free to share their political opinions: Plumbers Taxi ...  doesn't help at all. In a long drawn-out argument I can usually hold my own (though I'm still much better at writing than talking) but ...

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

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

  ...  the theme/purpose of the blog, good writing is what usually attracts and holds my attention. The message is important, but I'll ...

• 4 Jan 2006: The Privileged Huff

  
  Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments

  ...  sensitivity, he smacks me upside the head for it. I still usually splutter at this, but slowly I am learning to accept that I can be a ...

• 19 Dec 2005: Happy Whatever

  
  Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 comments

  ...  or you deal with it having unwanted cultural resonance, usually of the kind that ruins your fun. I'm a cultural christian: yes to ...

• 8 Nov 2005: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs

  
  Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments

  ...  for geological investigation is easily overstated; it's usually easier to go the other way, and "validate" a folk tale by finding some ...

• 8 Jul 2005: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

  ...  done. Their Clark Kent pre-breeding life is usually some dull, low to the ground scrubby shrub, then they abruptly grow a ...

• 29 Jun 2005: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics, Science: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

  ...  done. Their Clark Kent pre-breeding life is usually some dull, low to the ground scrubby shrub, then they abruptly grow a ...

• 17 Jun 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls

  
  Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments

  ...  pattern of the initial ground motions). Usually if you know a little about the geology and tectonics of an area, one ...

• 9 May 2005: Deconstructing Teh Funnay

  
  Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments

  ...  audience is just irony-drenched hipster wanking, which is usually harmless and often enjoyably fatuous. So after a long post, we reach ...

• 5 May 2005: Friday Random Ten-and-Seven

  
  Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments

  ...  the current song on the menubar or something. Since I usually listen on full-library shuffle mode, I rarely have any idea what's ...

• 14 Mar 2005: Middle Klass

  
  Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments

  ...  weekend, we'll go to a cheaper restaurant!" - and this usually comes off as clueless and insensitive. So... yeah. * You'd think ...

• 5 Mar 2005: Science Friday on Saturday

  
  Science: funny, hydrothermal vents, oceanography, science journalism · 9 comments

  ...  was fabulous, and the administrative response appeared unusually reality-based. IF: So how's the funding situation, then? RW: Worst. ...

• 18 Jan 2005: Courtesy and Capitalization

  
  Human Fuzzies: grammar, writing · 19 comments

  ...  for the record: Here on the Internets I usually sign my name in lowercase out of pure typographical whimsy. I certainly ...

• 22 Oct 2004: Ketchup, Forgive Me

  
  Human Fuzzies: condiments, potatoes · 6 comments

  ...  wing it for the rest of the condiments; the office fridge usually has a good selection, often including leftover pats of butter. But of ...

• 20 Oct 2004: AAA Pays Off

  
  Personal: American Automobile Association, driving, jalopies · 2 comments

  ...  to my dashboard light, the one that says "brake" that's usually for the parking brake but was also on all yesterday, but you know how ...

• 14 Oct 2004: Ergonomics Loves My Desk

  
  Personal: cubicle living · 3 comments

  ...  people design desks who design women's shoes? I'm not unusually fidgety but man am I ever sick of banging my ...

• 19 Jul 2004: Actually I Always Expect Synchronicity

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  reminds me of walking around downtown Iowa City, where I usually meet someone I haven't seen in years; occasionally someone I know but ...

• 25 Mar 2004: The Neon Leg Warmer of the Caribbean

  
  Politics: Haiti, Somalia, tourism, war · 1 comment

  ...  be interesting, the story of wartime life is awful, and usually ends up with someone hogtied in barbed wire and raped or shot or ...

• 15 Sep 2003: Shitfaced in Des Moines

  
  Human Fuzzies: etymology, inebriation, Iowa, toponyms · 2 comments

  ...  are not tolerant of public urination, and the weather is usually much too crappy to lift your shirt and go "WHOOO!" while running down ...

• 2 Aug 2003: Housing Markets

  
  Personal, Politics: apartment hunting, capitalism sucks, hey lazyweb, Los Angeles · 3 comments

  ...  If you cannot obtain any of the dumps on the list, you usually get your money back; but if you happen to not want to live in a ...

• 9 Jul 2003: The Difference Between Shit and the Internet

  
  Whimsy: blogular wanking, feces, Internet overload, shit · 36 comments

  ...  disgust and displeasure Matte brown in most cases Can usually be disposed of with just one or two flushes Can contaminate water ...

• 24 Jun 2003: Am I an Ex-Academic?

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

  ...  curriculum here, but apart from that we undergrads are usually not involved, certainly not at ego-busting levels. Definitely not our ...

• 26 Apr 2003: Tenure’s No Damn Good!

  
  Aimless: · 2 comments

  ...  are easy to track down during the week, because they're usually in their offices, working quietly and doubtless productively. These ...

• 5 Mar 2003: Orders of Magnitude

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  with jello-cool whip-fruit and pasta-mayo-mayo. I don't usually do extended crying jags when I'm alone, but seeing someone else break ...

• 21 Feb 2003: Someone’s Back

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  a penis size fight, though the penises referred to are usually tucked safely away in a bedside table. what is a google? "It's what ...

• 26 Jan 2003: Link Fest Rama Lama Ding Dong

  
  Links: · 3 comments

  ...  respectable local journalism and folksy small-town news, usually partaking of the worst of both worlds. My high school journalism ...

• 11 Jul 2002: I give in!

  
  Food: cooking, learning, pedagogy · 4 comments

  ...  these days without hearing about someone else's cooking. Usually more skillful cooking than mine, too - I have a few dishes practiced to ...

• 9 Jun 2002: Geophysics vs. the Universe

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment

  ...  math and stress tensors. Also, geological field camp usually involves a good deal of beer in the evenings, but geophysical field ...

• 20 May 2002: Stack Widow

  
  Meta, Personal: blogular wanking, Caltech, Ditch Day · 3 comments

  ...  Green Gabbro pride ourselves on being insipid and inane, usually at the same time, and often we're irrelevant to boot. We also like ...

• 13 May 2002: Philosophical Questions

  
  Meta: · 2 comments

  ...  around 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 ...

• 26 Mar 2002: Outright Theft

  
  Aimless: dreams · 2 comments

  ...  on a marble counter that glowed with inner smugness. Usually my dreams have plots from Saturday morning cartoons, and I save the ...

• 9 Mar 2002: Love That Love Dart

  
  Links, Science, Whimsy: · 4 comments

  ...  snail (a small and slimy space, to be sure, but there are usually grad students willing to do that sort of thing), the psychology of the ...

• 28 Dec 2001: More On Malls

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

  ...  lousy music piped through lousier speakers. But they're usually the quickest way for me to buy the things I need to buy, and since I ...

• 25 Dec 2001: Wine and Jellybeans

  
  Links, Personal: Christmas, molluscs, reviews of stuff, wine · no comments

  ...  give me an arbitrary constraint or three? Rules and limits usually make me more inventive. From the Department of the Coolest Things ...

• 12 Oct 2001: Back in Copenhagen

  
  Human Fuzzies: sandwiches, Scandinavia, smørrebrød · no comments

  ...  to my choice of socks, but when it was lunch time he was usually talking about my methods of sandwich-making. You see, a great staple of ...

• 5 Oct 2001: Life in Copenhagen

  
  Aimless, Personal: · no comments

  ...  it's Life in Copenhagen. When I'm being a smartass, I'll usually describe it as very Danish, which of course it is. I will go further ...

• 30 Sep 2001: Problem Set #1

  
  Aimless: · 1 comment

  ...  bar there is a 25% chance of dodgy old (or young, but usually old) men making me ick out, and that gay bars definitely do not offer ...

• 28 Sep 2001: Rescheduling

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  - which takes me at least a half hour most nights and is usually a time of fuzzy daydreams - into a much less happy time of melancholy ...

• 24 Sep 2001: Juggling Cabbages

  
  Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment

  ...  in the main walkway of a kitchen before cooking supper usually ends quickly with a loud noise and some tenderized cabbage. On the ...

• 10 Sep 2001: A Tibetan Lesson

  
  Human Fuzzies: pronunciation, tibetan · no comments

  ...  the final s, and we are left with sig; a final stop is usually voiceless even in those dialects that distinguish voice, so we have ...

• 9 Sep 2001: verbal thinker

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  that I do math. Even when I'm doing mental arithmetic, it usually boils down to the little rhymes I made up in third grade to remember ...

• 7 Sep 2001: smoke-clogged lung

  
  Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment

  ...  I do Danish) I haven't gotten that spectacularly drunk - usually, I'm not even hung over, really, but the time I wrote about in blog, I ...

• 6 Sep 2001: outside my window

  
  Personal, Politics: · no comments

  ...  my sleep cycle - in fact, all the parts except the one I'm usually in when they start up at 8 AM, at which point I've slept enough ...

• 2 Sep 2001: redesign

  
  Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, introspection · no comments

  ...  quirky, desolate thoughts. By the time I got back, I usually just went to bed and hugged the corner of my sleeping bag to my chest. ...