Search Results: water
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28 Apr 2020: Cocktails with the House Nocino
Food: cocktails, nocino, shochu, whisky · no comments... or sneak into a movie with. This year, there's a watery, confusing rosemary shochu from Seattle's own Sodo Spirits. There's my ...
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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... okay if you combine it with a little bit of sparkling water - a nice floral lilac flavor definitely comes through - but there are ... syrup but I adored the heck out of it mixed with soda water and a dash of rhubarb bitters. Nocino I strained and filtered the nocino ...
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17 Jul 2020: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds
Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment... conventional mustard involves soaking the seeds in cold water in order to activate the enzymes that turn a bitter flavor into a pungent ...
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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... the blossoms, and gently simmered them with equal parts water and sugar to make a simple syrup. YOU GUYS. IT TASTES EXACTLY LIKE YOU ...
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26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments... effects of sub-seismogenic quantities of gay energy on the water in the delta - which is an important source of drinking water for Southern California - have not been ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... hope you all had a wonderful April Fools Day, unmarred by water shortages, supervolcanoes, and threats to your world view. This was a ...
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20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 comments... first to observe the eruption of the just-barely-above-the-water volcano that forms the islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai, in ...
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14 Mar 2020: Blackberry Meringue Pie with Orange Bitters and Almond Crust
Food: blackberries, meringue, pie, recipes, Rosaceae · 1 comment... sugar, salt, bitters, 3/4 c. blackberry juice, and 1 c. water over medium heat. When it begins to thicken, whisk in the egg yolks two ... work on the meringue. Meringue: Mix the corn starch and water over medium heat; cook, whisking vigilantly, until it turns translucent. ...
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: Beer Meringue Pie
Food: beer, hops, meringue, pie, recipes · 6 comments... dark malt extract Boil the hops in 1/2-3/4 c. of water for 20 minutes. Line a colander with cheesecloth and pour the boiled hops ... then gather the cheesecloth and squeeze the remaining water out. Reserve the water and discard the solid hops. For the crust: Zip ...
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: Guinness Lamb Pie
Food: beer, lamb, pie, recipes · 6 comments... shortening, I added some lard, too. Small amount of ice water Heat a skillet with a small amount of oil over medium-high heat. ... low overnight. Cut the fat into the flour. Add the ice water a little bit at a time, mixing it in with a folding motion, until the ...
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9 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: blog carnivals, hydrology, resumes, sexual harassment, Wikipedia · 1 comment... are for eating -- Using oranges to measure stream flow. Water Cycle, Meet Media Cycle -- Events transpire -> Media reports condense -> ...
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2 Mar 2020: Recent Results in Seismology
Science: academic journals, earthquakes, liquefaction, nonvolcanic tremor, seismology · 1 comment... heated, to produce H2O + different clay minerals. If this water is produced inside a clay-lined fault zone, and not allowed to leave, it ... consensus about what causes these signals, either: Is it water sloshing around? Slowly slipping rocks? Something else entirely? We don't ...
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30 Jan 2020: 2020 Flood Deposits and the Johnson County Conservation Bond
Science: floods, hydrology, Iowa, unfinished drafts · no comments... periods of sustained heavy rain, the soil will become waterlogged. As soon as there is no more room in the top of the soil for the water to be absorbed, it will run off, potentially causing floods (and taking ...
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13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 comments... So I'll punt to discussion. What do you think? Is "Peak Water" a useful concept? My household's snark analysts and sarcasm experts are ... for the shock. "Peak Oil" (and by extension "Peak Water", or that eye-rolling coinage "Peak Coffee" that was making the rounds a ...
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7 Jan 2020: Volcano Geodesy 101
Aimless: · 6 comments... GPS series (and other types of survey data) to see ground water levels going up and down, the crust gradually relaxing after an ...
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16 Dec 2020: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa
Food, Science: baked Alaska, desserts, failed experiments, lava, meringue, recipes · 6 comments... whites and sugar (and cream of tartar, and corn starch and water, if you want to bolster your meringue with a bit of chemistry). Step ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... Nevada. 14. A layered igneous intrusion, such as the Stillwater complex in Montana or the Skaergaard Complex in Eastern Greenland. 15. ... North America for dividing the Atlantic from the Pacific watershed, is hardly the only continental divide in existence. I think the ...
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26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 comment... turn into $40 towards a hands-on demonstration of the water cycle for 90 students in Indianapolis. As little as $37 from you, if you ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 comments... way - the one included on technical specs for municipal water well contracts across Southern California - is to simply drop your gravel ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... make handouts. Available Matching Funds: Understanding the Water Cycle - Ms. T. in Indianapolis wants to make sure that her students have a solid understanding of the water cycle, and she's had particular trouble with the ground water portion of ...
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9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately
Aimless: · 3 comments... Sanford (2020). Origin of microbiological zoning in groundwater flows Geology, 36 (9) DOI: 10.2020/G24859A.1 Frictional strength of the ... physics. It's true that this clay lining can prevent water from flowing through a fault zone, which means that it's important to ...
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26 Sep 2020: What Planet is my Clafoutis From?
Aimless: · 12 comments... the formation of a central vent, with some kind of watery homemade applesauce concoction as the lava. Except I wasn't sure about ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... first mineral to form as a precipitate from evaporating water. That limey build-up around your kitchen faucet? Mostly calcite. ... any surface that may have been in contact with evaporating water at some point in the past million years? Go ahead and call it ...
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14 Sep 2020: The Rusty King of All Metals
Aimless: · 2 comments... that he may know how deep he must descend, and whether water can be obtained, and if attainable at all, at what spot. [...] To the ...
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21 Aug 2020: The Metamorphic Petrology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 12 comments... The edges of each ice crystal are constantly exchanging water with the sugar solution. Small crystals, which have a lot of surface ...
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20 Aug 2020: The Igneous Petrology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 26 comments... of energy involved in the transition from liquid to solid water, and a home ice cream maker can't do the heat transfer quickly enough to ... or other emulsifying agents, while sorbet is just fruit, water, and sugar. The presence of fat and emulsifiers in ice cream provides ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... "patriarchy hurts men too": "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink," says Dr. David Handelsman, an Australian ...
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22 Jul 2020: Volcanoes Are Good
Aimless: · 17 comments... the things volcanoes do for this planet: Volcanoes bring water from the Earth's interior to its exterior. What do you think your salty ...
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11 Jul 2020: Friday Earthquake Blogging: M7.9 Southeast Alaska
Aimless: · 1 comment... horizontally, not vertically, so it doesn't displace any water to speak of. This tsunami was caused by a large chunk of mountain that ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... space and fell to Earth. ... and then he throws cold water all over our panspermiac nerdgasms. Yeah, thanks. Some of the rocks in ...
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12 Jun 2020: Devonian Fossil Gorge to Become… SIlurian Fossil Gorge?
Aimless: · 9 comments... projections are fed into hydrologic models to determine water elevations during freakishly wet years. Whether we're just having a ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 comments... happening when the drill encounters highly pressurized water or oil. Drillers must constantly monitor and adjust the consistency of ... doesn't get into the hole. The day before the eruption, water from the surrounding rock started flowing into the borehole. In the ...
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21 May 2020: The Scouring of Fossil Gorge
Aimless: · 6 comments... to the 375 million year old sea floor underneath. When the water finally receded, it exposed a whole ecosystem, corals and crinoids and ...
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20 May 2020: I have a Master’s degree… in Science!
Aimless: · 18 comments... on the rheology of dense particle suspensions in a water-alcohol-strawberry solution. It's for ...
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5 May 2020: Tag Clouds for my Papers
Aimless: · 7 comments... rock seismic stress string surface trigger volcano volume water yogyakarta created at TagCrowd.com That's not too bad. It passes the ... station study surface temperature total value variations water years created at TagCrowd.com The number of tags my final paper shares ...
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3 May 2020: Another Music Meme
Whimsy: · 6 comments... all around Strange how my heart beats Cold wind on the water and rain on the road In this land of strangers Erasers impress me every ...
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25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance
Aimless: · 3 comments... the people of Sun County, California* how their ground water resources would be affected by proposed new developments. Your average ... poses a couple of different potential risks to ground water supply. One is that paving a surface which was previously covered in ...
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3 Apr 2020: Mud Volcano Tofu
Aimless: · 7 comments... (a) deposited very fast, so that there's no time for its water to gracefully ooze out while it settles in to a nice, dense arrangement ... and then (b) squeezed so hard that the sediment and water all squirts out in a mess. The fluid erupted from a mud volcano (which is ...
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2 Apr 2020: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation
Aimless: · 26 comments... know, it's a generic term for any pit in a rock that holds water, but many (most?) gnammas are created by a feedback loop in the erosion ... dimple will eventually become a deep hole, because the water that collects in the dimple accelerates the erosion of the underlying ...
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21 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: Sand Boil
Aimless: · 6 comments... be wet, all that overburden pressure is transferred to the water. Water, being incompressible, is not happy about being squeezed like this; if it ...
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19 Feb 2020: Are We Baking with Volcanic Ash?
Aimless: · 10 comments... hang the wheat stalk upside-down in a beaker of distilled water, and whack it with some ultrasonic vibration to knock the ash ...
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15 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Columnar Basalt
Aimless: · 5 commentsWaterfall and Columnar Basalt © Joe Decker. Used with permission. I finally ...
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31 Jan 2020: Hello World
Meta: introduction · 31 comments... expect to see this space filled in the future with rocks, water, progressive identity politics, primal screams of terror associated with ...
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27 Jan 2020: Meme Time
Personal, Whimsy: memes, monkeys, national pie day, pie, writing · 5 comments... typing and posting you can have a banana or a squirt of water.** Potty words are funny. I tag: Bill Bryson John McPhee Anyone who wants a banana or a squirt of water * I have no idea what the actual degree of genetic similarity is ... sort of metaphor. ** Yes, monkey experimentalists use water as a reward. If they used juice all the time, the monkeys would get ...
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21 Jan 2020: Metagabbros
Science: metamorphic rocks · 6 comments... can become when it metamorphoses. Among them: Adding water makes serpentinite plus some other junk Many major metamorphic facies ...
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20 Jan 2020: How to Make Good Cloud-Watching Weather
Science: climate change, clouds, irrigation · 2 comments... and eventually cools enough that its load of farm fresh water vapor condenses into the clouds seen outlining the fields in this ...
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17 Jan 2020: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals
Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments... - Solid Earth Reviews of Geophysics Tectonics Water Resources Research Update: Mailbucket is... suboptimal. It truncates ...
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10 Jan 2020: Saline Injections for Venice?
Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments... It used to be sinking because people were pumping water from the aquifers beneath it, but that mostly stopped in the 70s. This ... century industry and agriculture did to the city, and pump water into an aquifer underlying the city. They've just published their plans ...
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23 Oct 2020: Free and Open-Source Learnin’s
Links, Science: freebies, open source, podcasts, textbooks · 2 comments... lists two books published by the USGS - one on ground-water hydrology, the other a basic introduction to plate tectonics. The math ...
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28 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike
Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no comments... of a strike. Will it actually happen? The Covering: "Water music, No 2 - Gigue I-II" - Englisch Chamber Orchestra / Raymond Leppard, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Water Music The Crossing: "Be Here To Love Me" - Norah Jones, Feels Like ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... Five with a rock group. They have grown up with bottled water. General Motors has always been working on an electric car. Nelson ...
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6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing
Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments... on an ice wall that acted as a dam, causing it to give way.Water in the lake flowed out of the breach into a nearby fjord and then out to ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... is as basic and undeniable as the need for food and water. I've been reading The Mismeasure of Woman. Carol Tavris spent an ...
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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... figuring out how to supply us all with energy and water, closing schools because some quack predicted an earthquake, and ... good policy decisions. Ditto mineral resources. There's water in that thar ground. The geologic setting of an aquifer controls how easy ...
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26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie
Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 comment... doesn't sell citrus, move. 1/2 - 1 c. lime juice Water, enough for 2 c. total fluid 6 egg yolks 2 T. butter For the meringue: 1 T. corn starch 1/3 c. water 1/4 t. cream of tartar 1/2 c. sugar 4 egg whites 1/2 t. vanilla ...
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25 Aug 2020: Tidbits
Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, ground water, Mars, Pluto · 15 comments... us that it actually has 3 moons? Your domestic well water is quite likely to be ...
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: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... Mayor of Chicago. They grew up with virtual pets to feed, water, and play games with, lest they die. Ringo Starr has always been clean ...
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20 Aug 2020: Blackberry Pie
Food: blackberries, cooking, desserts, foraging, pie, Rosaceae · 11 comments... and as soon as we hit the yuppie part of town near the water, where blackberry brambles cover the bits of unusably hilly land at the ...
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4 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Storms on Titan
Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, methane, Titan · 3 comments... a hydrologic cycle, with liquid methane acting in place of water; methane is thought to have carved out drainage channels that look quite ...
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18 Jul 2020: One More Way in which Global Warming Can Kill You
Science: climate change, unlikely catastrophes, volcanoes · 15 comments... and just need a little extra something - added ground water from climate change or glacial melt, for example - for the top to fall ...
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8 Jul 2020: Friday Mountain Blogging: Paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada
Science: rock blogging, Sierra Nevada, stable isotopes · 6 comments... a boat weighed down with cargo, the top just barely above water. About 3 million years ago, the heavy twin may have detached from the ... course of the Yuba river. This weathering process takes water from the environment and locks it in to the clay mineral's crystal ...
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27 Jun 2020: Inconsequentialnesses
Human Fuzzies, Links: craigslist, fart jokes · 5 comments... sidewalk. Looks like it was just too heavy, what with the water and drool and urine and oil. So it's still available, simply seething ...
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7 Jun 2020: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics
Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... had a post all prepared about how clean running water is clearly more important than sex, because we put up with shit from ...
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29 May 2020: Going Underwater
Meta: blog status updates · no commentsI've signed myself up with a new web host. There are files to copy, settings to tweak, designs to fiddle with, and databases to attempt to restore. And some papers to read before the weekend is over. If the site looks funny all of a sudden, that's wh ...
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10 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Clay
Science: carbon cycle, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments... you see the same pictures of Enceladus spewing out its watery spew - but all us cool kids have been seeing these pictures for months ...
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23 Feb 2020: About Aboutas Aboutamus
Human Fuzzies: pirate jokes, words, writing · 4 comments... (I'm also cynical enough to believe that the Desert Exurb Water Management Board really is impressed by extraneous syllables, but I'm ...
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27 Jan 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Caliche
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks, stable isotopes · 4 commentsI've previously rockblogged about the crusty, water-soluble minerals known as evaporites. But you don't need open pans or ... a record of the kinds of chemical isotopes present in the water it came from. In an article in this week's Science, Prosenjit Ghosh et ...
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20 Jan 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 comments... the recent glaciers on Olympus Mons fed from atmospheric water, ground water, or both? Or are we puny humans simply imagining glacial deposits where ...
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: Scientists, Not People
Science: literature, science in pop culture · 8 comments... cooperation of the Gower Street branch of the bookseller Waterstone's in London. ... The display, initially intended to exist for only ...
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13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments... for settlement in the West did not, in fact, have enough water for conventional farming, and suggested reorganizing things around ...
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22 Dec 2020: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments... when in fact I'm just like a fish who isn't aware of the water--racism is all around me, and I'm stuck in it, breathing it, part of it, ...
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23 Nov 2020: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments... the "not made" claim has more passion behind it than the watery, can't-we-all-just-get-along, "real" conclusion. This conditional ...
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11 Nov 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Guantanamo
Politics: Friday random ten, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, iTunes iChing · 4 comments... can bring enormous men to their knees The Root: Water music, No 3 - Allegro The Past: Hedningarna - Tuuli The Future: ...
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8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs
Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments... people lie in harm's way, says paleoseismologist Brian Atwater of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Seattle, who has spearheaded many ...
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4 Nov 2020: Return of Friday Rock Blogging: Titan
Science: methane, rock blogging, Titan · 2 comments... "lump of silicates" sense; they're composed of water and hydrocarbon ice, sort of like a hard-frozen gasoline-flavored ...
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14 Oct 2020: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel
Science: crackpots · 3 comments... s, which is enormous compared to that of common liquids - water at 20°C has a viscosity of 1.0x10^-3 Pa s. It should be noted however ...
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20 Sep 2020: Climate Change in Human Teeth
Science: climate change, stable isotopes, teeth · no comments... enamel reflect higher mean delta(18)O values of meteoric water which can be attributed to an increased proportion of summer rainfall ... usefully, this favoritism is temperature-dependent: the water going in to clouds near you is heavy when it's warm, and light when it's ...
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16 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Human Fuzzies: academic politics, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · no comments... known as "molluscs" girl in a box kidnapping water table afraid of the all mighty uterus flow chart of gjetost hack ...
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: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement
Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments... and whatever-else silicates and oxides. When you add water to this, you get a bunch of calcium, sodium, and potassium hydroxides in ... - but this time it's a hydrated jumble, which means that water has been incorporated into the molecular structure in such a way that it ...
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2 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests, Sierra Nevada · no comments... research for me answer my query: can heat loss via ground water circulation really explain the observed low heat flow in the ... Hill/Dogs among the Bushes - Altan (from Blackwater) The Outcome: When I'm Up I Can't Get Down - Great Big Sea I'm not ... the top of the Sierras promotes deep circulation of ground water, it doesn't go deep enough to scavenge significant heat. Search ...
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1 Sep 2020: Lookit Me I’m So Privileged
Personal: army corps of engineers, Atchafalaya, dams, levees, Mississippi River · 1 comment... wish there were a way to find the origin of a bottle of water without using chemistry, because it drives me seriously mad bonkers to be ...
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28 Aug 2020: The Magic is Gone
Whimsy: magic arm hair, superstition · 5 comments... Charms for breakfast, mac'n'cheez for lunch and turned water into shampoo! Just now I was admiring its unique length and silkiness ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 4-8
Personal: photoblog · no comments... along the shores of glacial lakes fed by sparkling meltwater streams which tumble endearingly over every precipice they can find. In ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... sibling Strokkur that spouted for us - and the massive waterfall Gullfoss. On a tip from someone in the souvenir shop, after Gullfoss ... its effects. The "ethereal mist" that rose up from the water was nice, but not quite thick enough to hide the snogging couples in ...
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21 Jul 2020: Why I am so very slack
Personal: guest posts · no comments... Warren Street tube, where we like to get off for the Big Waterstones near the main University of London buildings, since Goodge Street ...
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12 Jul 2020: Another Tale From The Dreamtime…
Whimsy: dreams, guest posts · no comments... a beach, as the incoming tide was causing tiny rivlets of water to leak under the glass doors of both buildings that were facing the ...
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8 Jul 2020: Stop to smell the roses…
Politics: guest posts, monkeys · no comments... especially; their entire annual life is devoted to storing water and sunlight into cellulose so at that frisky time of year, they can get ...
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29 Jun 2020: Stop to smell the roses…
Politics, Science: guest posts, monkeys · no comments... especially; their entire annual life is devoted to storing water and sunlight into cellulose so at that frisky time of year, they can get ...
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: Can’t Even Sweat
Meta, Personal: travelogue · 3 comments... here I am in Iowa, where the water content of the atmosphere actually violates the laws of physics and ...
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12 Jun 2020: Chronology
Personal, Politics: fashion, feminism, plumbers, sexism · 9 comments... I probably should get out more. Earlier This Week The water heater started leaking. There are times when renting is just ducky, as ... do the work (because you have to lift stuff, and lifting a water heater while pregnant could be harmful to the baby) were sympathetically ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gnammas
Science: Australia, rock blogging, Yosemite · 3 comments... term for a hole in rock, particularly one which is full of water. The one shown here is from Yosemite again, but unlike so many other ...
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3 Jun 2020: Friday Random Nineteen
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments... - Capernaum - Captain Ward/ The Streaker Altan - Blackwater - Tá Mé 'Mo Shuí Noe Venable Trio - Down Easy - Six Prayers, No. ...
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16 May 2020: I Wish I Were Covered in Fuzzy Knobs
Links, Meta, Personal: anti-spam, cnidarians, hyperopia, myopia, vision · 4 comments... of the landscape are muted, giving way to a sublime watercolor of spring hues, bleeding into one another and creating a world free ...
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13 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Evaporites
Science: evaporites, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 3 comments... today. Mmm, salt! Even what we typically think of as fresh water contains loads of it; if you've ever noticed crusty white deposits around ... professional). Like sand boils, it's formed by squirts of water; unlike sand boils, the formative squirts happen when the sediment is ...
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12 May 2020: Friday Random 15
Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes, search requests · 7 comments... - Arrow - La Sanconette Altan - Blackwater - An Gasúr Mór/Bunker Hill/Dogs among the Bushes Boulder Acoustic ...
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6 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Sedimentary Concretions
Science: Mars, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments... a sedimentary rock, after the material has been laid down. Water circulating within the rock will pick up and dissolve chemicals from the surrounding rock (or anywhere, really, ground water is kinda slutty like that); these chemicals then precipitate out around ...
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15 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Sand Boils
Science: liquefaction, rock blogging · 7 comments... be wet, all the overburden pressure is transferred to the water. Water, being incompressible, is not happy about being squeezed like this; if it ...
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1 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Hypertufa
Science: April Fool, rock blogging · 2 comments... calcium carbonate. Tufa is precipitated from calcium-rich water in low-energy environments (lakes, ocean-bottom sediments, etc.) - and ...
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14 Mar 2020: What I Hate About Menstruating
Personal: menstruation, TMI · 49 comments... strand of goo that connects your vagina to the toilet water. If you get up with it just hanging there like that, what are the chances ...
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27 Feb 2020: More WordPress Babbling
Meta: quizzes · no comments... my googleju rule to be !important, it was dead in the water. I don't like to use !important - it's poor form. So I rewrote the ...
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18 Jan 2020: The Joys of Nasal Irrigation
Personal: bodily fluids, colds, home remedies, medicine · 11 comments... and out the other, thereby flushing out loads and loads of watery snot clumps! Even on a good day, there is way more snot in my sinuses ...
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11 Jan 2020: Mmmm Rocket Fuel
Politics, Science: earthquakes, ground water, perchlorate, pollution · no comments... hurt me to pee into it, or wash my clothes with it. Ground water contamination is putting a pretty severe cramp on many communities' available water supply, Pasadena included. Since imported water supplies are considerably less than infinitely plentiful, it would ...
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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... me for, but I recommend treating your sticky with soap and water. Monkeys Rule The World With Brainwaves!!! Super Robot Monkey ...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... think this is a reality-based dichotomy - in what backwater of the judicial pool will you find someone who would uphold Roe v. Wade ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... straight face that the meetings of the California Regional Water Quality Control Boards are vital national security secrets, so I could ...
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19 Sep 2020: Ahoy Me Hearties!
Links, Politics, Whimsy: arr, pirate jokes, pirates, urban sprawl · 5 comments... construction for me sainted grandmama! The bilge-waters of the Pasadena Star-News online don't have the booty, but from the ...
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15 Sep 2020: California Performance Review for Geologists
Politics: California politics, environmentalism, urban planning · no comments... should be established on a regional basis by basin watermasters and regional water quality boards, not on a case-by-case basis by the technical consultants ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... water was shut off at the office this morning, due to a broken something ... It's amazing how slowly something as simple as "there's no water" can move through one's consciousness - I kept turning the faucet ("tap") ...
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27 Jul 2020: PSA: Dental Hygiene
Personal: dentistry, saliva · 4 comments... spacing it out through the day, and rinse your mouth with water immediately afterwards, and then brush your teeth five times when you get ...
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22 Jun 2020: You Know You’re From Where You’re From When
Whimsy: jokes · 1 comment... there are two supplements to the water post laying around in draft form, I can't allow so much seriousness on ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... on Frogs and Ravens has morphed from earthquakes to water resources - which was at least partly my fault. Maybe mostly my fault. ... recipes for disaster. Having worked with the SoCal water supply for nearly a year now, I've been feeling like I should have a ... some thoughts in that direction. There's no question that water is a tricky thing. California currently sustains itself by mining ground ...
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11 Jun 2020: Water on Black Mesa
Politics: · 4 comments... an article in the L.A. Times last Sunday looked at ground water squabbles between the Navajo, the Hopi, and a coal mine; read it fast ...
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24 May 2020: Someone’s An Excuse
Meta: · 1 comment... of this evening mulching and planting (the other surviving watermelon seedling, an eggplant, and some thyme, and I hope I can curb my ...
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18 May 2020: Sorbets I’m Dreaming Of
Food: cooking, desserts, recipes, sorbet · 6 comments... in my garden" game: Provençale Herbed Tomato Sorbet Watermelon sorbet - not that I expect any actual watermelons from a plant with barely four hours of direct sun, but it's the ...
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4 May 2020: Garden Post
Personal: car repair, cars, container gardening, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, tomatoes · no comments... into their pots tonight. I've got two in 18-gal "self-watering" storage totes - with "self-watering" in scare quotes because I rigged up the systems myself without much ...
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18 Apr 2020: Meme, I Give In
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · 5 comments... that I have a more intimate relationship with Pasadena Water and Power than with the imaginative splendor of the English language? How ...
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17 Apr 2020: I Am TECSOL A-2 Solvent, Anhydrous:
Whimsy: chemistry, quizzes · 2 comments... you? A bit disappointed that I'm not one of the ground water pollutants I butt heads with at work... but you can't expect your ...
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15 Apr 2020: Oh Boy an Earthquake!
Science: · 10 commentsI must remind you all that even though I now work as a highly sophisticated GIS'n'Excel monkey, I'm still a geophysicist, god dammit. And someone's been sucking the physics right out of geophysics, to replace it with stupid not-at-all trendy math: Keilis- ...
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14 Mar 2020: Now I Need Big Pots
Personal: · 1 comment... the cucumbers. The sunny spot goes to corn, beans, and watermelon; the shade will be getting some angelica, assuming all goes well ...
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8 Feb 2020: Narrative Coherence Can Suck A…
Human Fuzzies, Links: · no comments... reminded me of our grandson Hugo, who always has clean water to drink and will never be afflicted with three-foot-long worms ...
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25 Jan 2020: Sweet Potato Soup
Food: Convolvulaceae, mushrooms, recipes, soup, sweet potatoes, tomatoes · no comments... soup. 2 cups chopped leeks 1/2 cup chopped onion water as needed 3-1/2 cups peeled, diced garnet or jewel yams 3 cups ... homemade stock, canned broth, or broth powder mixed in the water) 3/4 tsp. salt or to taste 1/8 tsp. pepper 1/4 tsp. garlic powder 1/2 ...
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14 Nov 2020: Inherent Problems
Personal: cubicle living, domesticity, old fogeyism, quilting · 5 comments... celebrate Friday with some Glenn Miller and a glass of tap water, and you can't stop me or tell me what to do, so ...
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31 Oct 2020: Tricky Treats
Personal: candy, halloween, kids today, pumpkin · 1 comment... awesome. The one is continuously vomiting fluorescent water. The other isn't doing much, and in retrospect I think the eyes were a ...
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23 Oct 2020: Quicksilver: a partial review
Human Fuzzies: book reviews · 3 comments... fan fiction. If Isaac Newton and Mary Sue Daniel Waterhouse aren't having sex in 50 pages, though, I will attempt to hollow out ...
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18 Oct 2020: Yami, Fearsome Goddess of Mint
Human Fuzzies, Personal: gardening, weather · no comments... malevolence had destroyed the day's marine layer, and to water my garden. I water every other day, and if I forget, everything goes into a coma. The ...
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12 Oct 2020: Nitrate Pumped Nabokov
Meta: · 5 comments... a blacklist plugin coming tomorrow morning, hell or high water if you believe the entry title. I've gotten a few spam comments lately, ...
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3 Oct 2020: Happy New Water Year
Personal: driving, water years · no comments... work we do much analysis in Water Years, which begin in October. With almost-spectacular timing, the ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 commentsWater flows under bridges, leaves fall off trees, I hork my database with no recent ...
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18 Jul 2020: See ya, Soul
Personal: · 5 comments... my soul isn't a bad one, as companies go. They do ground water work, lots of contracting out to county governments and regional water boards, some expert testimony in suits against the sorts of people who ...
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9 Jul 2020: The Difference Between Shit and the Internet
Whimsy: blogular wanking, feces, Internet overload, shit · 32 comments... disposed of with just one or two flushes Can contaminate water supplies and cause outbreaks of cholera Originally produced by ...
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6 Jul 2020: Cinna-melon Good
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... made some watermelon popsicles last week, and finally opened one up today - all kinds of ... more cinnamon than God ever intended - rather like a watermelon-based horchata. Mmm. The popsicle molds (don't know where they ...
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: Loving for Jesus Years
Personal: · no comments... on the altar were glowing so brightly they made my eyes water. Their love and happiness is contagious, and I wish them all the ...
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23 Jun 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · no comments... like flying. whatever you do, remember to drink your water. for the love of god, DRINK YOUR WATER!! Look, I know an explosion can be very dehydrating, but this is just ...
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7 May 2020: Vacuuming for Losers
Personal, Whimsy: cleaning, howtos, vacuums · 2 comments... while trying to convince yourself that they were mostly water glasses anyway. Except for the leftover baked beans and spaghetti-Os and ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... drainage channels, so it was quite a relief to see waterfalls at last. I've always been good friends with streams - there was one ... *heart* olivine!) and then an afternoon at the beach. The water was incredibly warm, especially compared to the only other time I've been ...
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21 Jan 2020: Hmm
Meta: · 3 comments... from a bag of raw elbow macaroni, and drinking a glass of water. Boy, is my life pathetic. I want pancakes! You just had pancakes. You ...
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21 Dec 2020: Product Review: Oral Cleansers
Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments... full of powder, which you have to empty into tepid tap water. It fizzles rather nastily. Peroxyl You know this is a provocative, ... of my mouth with a dry, tingling chemical afterburn. Salt Water You can't go wrong with salt water. It doesn't change the taste of your ...
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8 Nov 2020: Mmmeat
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... given up and left, seeking a better future in the L.A. water treatment facility. I hope they're having fun now, wherever they are; my ...
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17 Oct 2020: Recovery?
Personal: · 6 comments... of February 2020, but there were some clever folding water bottles, a sprinkling of t-shirts and tote bags, and many nearly novel ... the government (including all the ones with clever folding water bottles or tote bags), and fully half were private contractors for the ...
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28 Sep 2020: Phone Books
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... books in L.A. follow some confused backwater eddy of economics. A new one appears on my doorstep every other month or ...
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12 Sep 2020: Eating Glop
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... lentils. Put 'em in a pot with barley and about 4 cups of water; boil. As the water boils, chop up the vegetables and add them to the pot. Let everything ...
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8 Jul 2020: Space Battles Amongst Us
Personal: exercise, raquetball, sci-fi · 1 comment... a cave and in that cave were 5,000 little men making the water drop noise, and 2,500 zinging lasers that chased after the 5,000 little ...
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4 Jul 2020: My Hat Has No Corners At All
Aimless: · no comments... save the Queen Wait. That's not right. Maybe some watermelon will straighten me out. As much as I enjoy any excuse for a picnic ...
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2 Jul 2020: Someone Makes Music
Meta: fan mail · no commentsIn a burst of enthusiasm, someone carols: Inna-gadda-da-vida, baby... Like a baby playing drums, that is, it cuts straight to the spleen. Meanwhile, someone else is just curious: Is that a didgeridoo? I assume you're referring to the latest bac ...
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9 Jun 2020: My fault
Science: canned goods, death, earthquakes, guest posts, Hayward Fault, san andreas · 4 comments... my bookcases to the walls and stocking up on bottled water and canned goods is somewhere off the bottom of my to do list. It's ...
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: Geophysics vs. the Universe
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... mac'n'cheez, a strawberry ring pop, a few pills, and water. So when I burp, it tastes like a Thai iced tea. My stomach is ...
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3 Jun 2020: Penicillin 6-5000
Personal: health care, TMI · 6 comments... evaluation of "ibuprofen and try not to fill your ear with water," the doctor said it was pink, and it certainly feels grody. I guess ...
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23 May 2020: Tomorrow Was Yesterday
Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no comments... off early yesterday morning to reveal plywood temples, water balloons, zip cords that shriek and spark when you try to use them, and a ...
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12 May 2020: Mr. Smith Goes to Fallbrook
Personal: · no comments... minutes of teetering and tottering and splashing soapy water all over everywhere and discovering that yes, my right sandal really is ...
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15 Apr 2020: Someone Disagrees
Personal: fan mail, menstruation · 6 comments... about menstruating. Sure, that whole "soak 'em in cold water and they won't stain!" bit is a huge lie, but they wash up better than ...
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2 Apr 2020: Exploding Toilet
Uncategorized: photoblog · 5 comments... eating lunch and one of the upstairs toilets exploded and water started cascading down the flight of stairs leading up to my room. Which ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... 40: The California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of ...
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18 Feb 2020: Guerilla Feminism
Politics: feminism, gender, sexism, stereotypes · no comments... but apparently you can make your own from corn starch and water. Shouldn't be too tricky to add in some imitation cherry ...
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5 Feb 2020: Joy of Joys
Personal: · no comments... so exciting. Of course, last night as I was checking the water temperature prior to stepping in, I tried to adjust the angle of the ... points... and then finally thought to turn off the water. D'oh. So if I'm not living in constant fear, I'm at least living in ...
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: Faulty Wiring
Personal: · no comments... used to try to kill me by randomly cutting off cold water so I crack my head on the floor while leaping to avoid being scalded. ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... card, and told me to take three aspirin with a glass of water and call him in the morning. I think I got off lightly. One of my ...
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22 Jan 2020: hoom, hoom
Politics: · no comments... as a culture for not having slavery or segregated water fountains, and we can also feel superior to our neighbors because we just ...
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17 Jan 2020: It Wasn’t Joan Jett
Personal, Politics: · no comments... ones I missed, and because I didn't steal any of the hotel water glasses so fetchingly arrayed at the back of the room. Silly me. I left ...
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: …and one more thing!
Personal: · no comments... my wildest dreams I am barely knowledgeable enough for the watered-down college version. If they had lots of questions about goats then ...
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1 Dec 2020: Happy AIDS Day!
Links: · no comments... to start in on the free latex gloves, dental dams, and water-based lube, too. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any sample dental dams ...
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24 Nov 2020: oh no, not the hypothalamus!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... as vibrant individuals untainted by the stench of rosewater. But, old age eventually hits us all, and so one of my grandfathers is ...
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23 Nov 2020: synchronizing
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... to derail: sci-fi and romance are both off in the far backwaters of literary hoohah. Sci-fi has been traditionally associated with lonely ...
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13 Nov 2020: solen skinner så meget
Personal: · no comments... was inexplicably saturated with blue and there was no water coming out of it either. At first I thought I had woken up in California ...
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9 Oct 2020: Going Swimming
Personal: · 1 comment... Most of this romance vanishes when you actually get in the water and discover that it's fucking cold. So I enjoyed the experience for about two seconds between clearing the water out of my eyes and climbing up the broken ladder to run to the sauna - ...
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3 Oct 2020: A commercial for credit suisse
Aimless, Human Fuzzies: · no comments... correction for polarized light glaring off a sheet of water, I'm not certain that my life is shot through any kind of filter at all, ...
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16 Sep 2020: The Outside of My Mandala
Links: · no comments... that will either burn you or drown you. The arrows in the water are for when people try to swim across. The different color spikes are ...
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10 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #1
Aimless: · no comments... to listen to on Sunday evenings, lying in the dark on my waterbed with the room full of a deep baritone talking about nothing in ...
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20 Aug 2020: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments... of thing. Actually, I say please all the time. A glass of water, please, and oh, please, that's ridiculous, and would you please get your ...
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19 Jul 2020: grr
Personal: · no comments... as a chance to get up, stretch, and grab a fresh glass of water. You know, that 5-minute break you're supposed to have every so often if ...