Search Results: whatever
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17 Jul 2020: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds
Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment... just unusually good at hiding behind their chaffy friends. Whatever, lesson learned: On the next batch I will refrain from shaking and ...
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11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments... as "structural advantage" or "being in the majority", or whatever, feel free to mentally substitute your favorite phrase as needed. The ...
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14 Mar 2020: Guinness Lamb Pie
Food: beer, lamb, pie, recipes · 6 comments... lb. stew lamb 1 onion A few tbsp diced tomatoes (whatever was left in the can you used for pasta the other night) 1 clove garlic 6-8 ice cubes of broth - I make broth from whatever bones and scraps I have left over after other cooking, and freeze it ...
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8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... variations with pomegranate, green tea, lychee, or whatever else the flavor of the month happens to be. After ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... basic knowledge which creationists can't get right), but whatever basics we explain are provoked by and limited to the story to which ...
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6 Jan 2020: High Femme and Geekery
Aimless: · 13 comments... young girls that brains and beauty are mutually exclusive. Whatever the case, it is vitally important that we uncover and vigorously ...
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11 Dec 2020: An Open Letter to the Science Blogosphere
Meta: · 10 comments... (Self, You Too): Stop burying your leads. Ledes. Leads. Whatever. Your opening line - the one that draws you in to a story, that limns ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... No, wait, she'll destroy everything we've fought for! But whatever happens, at least she provides a good opportunity to talk about ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... ever again, except insofar as it can be used to back up whatever the male hero of the conference has to say. I would especially not ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... me about how the word "like" is, like, so inarticulate or whatever. More under the fold: Other blogging Brumms, continental shelf oil, ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... ends up happening is: we told the science team 'you can do whatever you want, because the only thing we are worried about was flash, we ...
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28 May 2020: Borrowing Geek Cred from the Mathematicians
Aimless: · 1 comment... Genealogy Project that my 10th-great-grand-advisor (to whatever extent an academic stillbirth counts as having ancestry) is Simeon ...
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16 Apr 2020: Women in Science Linky-Post
Links: · 3 comments... like yourself? White or male or straight or Christian or whatever? I don't know. But as this is the Internet, it should be easy to ...
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21 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: Sand Boil
Aimless: · 6 comments... layers of sand and silt underground bear the weight of whatever’s on top of them through a network of contacts between ...
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11 Mar 2020: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food
Aimless: · 21 comments... racial diversity of their childhood friends are doing, but whatever it is, it smells funny. Finally, in lieu of an actual conclusion, I ...
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17 Jan 2020: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals
Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments... missing out on the Internet 2.0 social blog bubble pie! Or whatever it is. Also, I like getting journal updates mixed in with my blog ...
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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... yourself is considered bad form. You are supposed to share whatever snarky or irreverent comment you’re thinking with the person ...
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15 Oct 2020: Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us Will Provide a Nice Soak
Personal, Science: camping, hot springs, Long Valley · 3 commentsI went camping this weekend in a natural disaster waiting to happen. Seven hundred and sixty thousand years ago, a volcano went off in Eastern California, covering the western United States with ash and leaving behind a 15 km x 30 km caldera. That volcan ...
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3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments... sucks, people can just ignore it and submit a post about whatever they've been thinking about lately. It will be awesome no matter what. ...
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13 Jul 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Planetary Warming
Politics, Science, Whimsy: climate change, planetary science · 1 comment... planets (er, four planets, a dwarf planet, and a moon, whatever) to point at! As we all know, if you point really hard, your wish ...
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3 Apr 2020: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments... or you're not using the lab technique he invented or whatever, the other two reviewers can balance that out. However, in a highly ...
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15 Jan 2020: Martin Luther King, Jr., Geologist
Politics, Science: Martin Luther King Jr., rhetorical tactics · 6 comments... this nationalist saint is a patron of their pet causes, whatever they be, I speak with assurance when I say that I have found an aspect ...
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14 Dec 2020: Finals Week = Bitch About Students
Personal, Teaching: apathy · 5 comments... the bar, blocking my way when I am trying to walk home. Whatever. I consider it my job to help students make the most of whatever limited time they want to devote to their physical science breadth ...
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14 Oct 2020: 2020 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests
Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments... fund be allowed to invest in non-dividend stocks? Sure. Whatever. Oakland Measure N (Library Bond): Tentative Abstention If this ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... of topics, with no particular intent - I just write about whatever is on my mind. I've taken a few basic steps to optimize my site for ...
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10 Aug 2020: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace
Science: Iowa City, James Van Allen, obituaries · no comments... Or else of how absurdly nerdy we both were. Whatever the reason, I'm still sad that I'll never be in an elevator with the ...
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19 Jul 2020: Is_Googler
: · no comments... if is_googler() { ?> Welcome, Web Searcher! (or whatever) <?php } ...
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11 May 2020: Wine is for Men*
Human Fuzzies, Politics: lazy journalism, wine · 2 comments... writing for a deadline, you conjure your folksy lead from whatever cultural cesspool is convenient. Even if your gratuitous second-person ...
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17 Apr 2020: Dear ASUC Candidates
Personal: Berzerkeley · no comments... needs, and frankly, I'm just too pretty to worry about whatever financial shell games my department plays on my behalf. No, I don't ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... or post-docs with visible lives outside work, or whatever. I'd feel obliged to limit my use of the word "ass" and maybe omit ...
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13 Mar 2020: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy
Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments... sex/gender oppression, systemic gender whatchamacallit, whatever. Using a term that connotes something structural and pervasive is ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... but again, impossible to omit. So, gentle readers, at whatever scale you feel most comfortable with - what would you add to this ...
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14 Feb 2020: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy
Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments... or indistinguishable from other zero-sum power games, or whatever. I've never been much for the idea that etymology is destiny. If ...
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20 Jan 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 comments... Davis (from Sketches of Spain) The Outcome seems clear: whatever mechanism it is, is dominated by solar radiation, and probably these ...
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19 Jan 2020: Go Grey Lady Go!
Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments... the gender differences found in the study, which, whatever - gender disparities uncovered by such studies are often greatly ...
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: Lecture Zero
Personal, Teaching: grad school, time management · no comments... just cleaning up after post-colloquium parties. Something. Whatever it is, I should probably pick a class to audit/drop to make ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Privileged Huff
Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments... props for one's superficially anti-racist attitudes, whatever other mechanism(s) you care to advance (they're mostly mutually ...
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19 Dec 2020: Happy Whatever
Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 commentsNow that finals are over, why not allow the cultural crazies to determine my entire blogging agenda? My officemate (certifiably not a crazy) wrote a manifesto about how people should stop using Judaism as an excuse to put up a tree and call it a "holiday t ...
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14 Nov 2020: Eaten the First Time
Links: anti-racism, Barack Obama, blog carnivals, new holiday, pirates, student parents, women in science, work vs. family · 1 comment... Second, we grant our opponents the freedom to think whatever they like: it's the effects that count. Society needs to have this ...
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1 Nov 2020: Plebiscite Time Is Fun Time
Politics: abortion, California ballot propositions, co-op living, MediCal, teacher tenure · 9 comments... are fully empowered to further my financial interests in whatever way they deem best, up to and including attempts to influence the ...
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16 Sep 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement
Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments... is a jumble of calcium, aluminum, sodium, potassium, and whatever-else silicates and oxides. When you add water to this, you get a bunch ... cement sets, it turns back into a jumble of calcium and whatever-else silicates, oxides, and hydroxides - but this time it's a hydrated ...
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13 Sep 2020: The Devil Is In
Aimless, Meta, Personal: beer, blogtinkery, en français, Internet friends, pirates · 3 comments... - I thought hipsters drank cheap, "ironic" domestic beer? Whatever happened to PBR? If you look down to the right, you'll notice that ...
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5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... Turnpike Bjork - Vespertine - Unison Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen - Missing the War Chumbawamba - She's Got All the ...
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9 Jul 2020: Found The Key Under The Rock By The Back Door…
Meta: blog status updates, guest posts · no comments... I have Miles David going on the CD player) -- well, for whatever reason, I have apparently (we'll see if this posts, won't we?) ...
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9 May 2020: Deconstructing Teh Funnay
Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments... some kind of meta-ironic awareness of society's flaws or whatever. To tell it to a sexist audience acts to affirm that sexism, even if ...
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3 May 2020: Two Tuesday Links
Links, Personal: Brazil, masculinity · 6 comments... Hey, don't guys ever bond about their testicles or whatever? Him: Not really. Me: Why not? Him: Dunno. Me: 'Cause it seems ...
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21 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-that’s-it
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: Friday random ten · 11 comments... - Naked Highwayman Statistics! Pfah! Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever Amen - Brick Pixies - Doolittle - There Goes My Gun Cherish ...
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15 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Sand Boils
Science: liquefaction, rock blogging · 7 comments... of sand and silt and crap underground bear the weight of whatever's on top of them through a network of contacts between individual sand ...
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31 Mar 2020: Today’s RSS Zeitgeist: Cheapskates
Politics: classism, consumerism, eccentricity, money · 6 comments... eating, or conforming and paying down credit card debt, or whatever. These bullshit incentives don't just create a culture of waste and ...
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27 Feb 2020: Three Parts
Links, Personal: gender, grad school, memes, nudity, sexual tension · 16 comments... the categories to apply to women, or same-sex ogling, or whatever other genders and sexualities you've been streaking campus with ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments... even the reality-based participants in this discussion: Whatever Wegener might have thought, Pangaea was not "primordial". Before there ...
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25 Jan 2020: Holy Shit Elephants Are Awesome
Science: elephants, seismology, tsunamis · 1 comment... from tsunami. And carried a few tourists with them, but whatever. We already know that elephants communicate seismically, and are ...
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17 Dec 2020: Pink
Politics: cars, colors, gender · no comments... only color that pushes back at you and refuses to accept whatever implications you care to rhapsodize into it. Squealing over a pink car ...
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21 Nov 2020: Vacation Message
Meta: thanksgiving · 3 commentsI'm off to the Greater Bay Area tomorrow, to hang out with old friends and meet the people who might end up on my dissertation committee, if all goes well with admissions, and eat turkey. Lots and lots of deep-fried turkey. Feel free to invite your favo ...
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20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha
Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments... about moral weight and gravity, we still wouldn't be done! Whatever moral or legal weight we grant to fetal life, it needs to be ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... Arcane Fiscal Circus Fight Consensus Strategy: Yeah Sure Whatever This is one of those things I pay a full-time legislature for; I don't ... forged a compromise that most people like okay, so sure, whatever, good for them. ON SECOND THOUGHT: I like Mark Kleiman's arguments on ...
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28 Sep 2020: Movies Lately
Human Fuzzies: media politics, movie reviews · 1 comment... Heroine, and Genius Engineer Sidekick, blah-de-blah, whatever, costuming. A good date movie for nerds, because you can play Spot the ...
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11 Aug 2020: Burble Tensors on Cross-Disciplinary Manifolds of Love!
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 5 comments... by addressing "real" physical reality, rather than whatever kinds of reality people happen to believe in or think about. Crap ...
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25 Jul 2020: Tour de Roid Rage!
Whimsy: sports, steroids, Tour de France · 6 comments... talk of doping scandals, in cycling and in, um, whatever other sports have been having doping scandals lately - the hammer throw? Whatever. There are crazy medical risks and side effects associated with ...
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12 Jul 2020: Yay Class Warfare!
Politics: classism, health care, John Edwards, labor unions, trade, workers rights · no comments... I'm too late in the news cycle and too lazy to find 'em). Whatever happened to unemployment insurance, affordable education, and a ... the bourgeoisie, to be sure, but nowadays one has to take whatever socialism one gets and be thankful for ...
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18 May 2020: Sorbets I’m Dreaming Of
Food: cooking, desserts, recipes, sorbet · 6 comments... can be invasive. Marjoram sorbet - marjoram, oregano, whatever. Apricot sorbet Prickly pear sorbet - actually the prickly pear is ...
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16 Mar 2020: Spain, Appeasement and Multilateralism
Politics: · 2 comments... or implement the best environmental regulations, or whatever. This isn't much different from voting for Bush because you think he's ...
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10 Aug 2020: D’OH! System halt.
Meta: · no comments... a deep understanding of MT's file system arrangements for whatever other reason, please please email me. DO NOT attempt to leave a ...
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23 Jun 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · no comments... fly fly Apparently so. Ouch. I don't like flying. whatever you do, remember to drink your water. for the love of god, DRINK YOUR ...
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27 May 2020: Quiescent like a Chicken with its Head Chopped Off
Meta, Personal: · no commentsI've been doing too many things to blog, with the Ditch Day and the trip to Mono Lake to collect bacterial muck samples and the car-fixing-upping and the critical commentary with/on gay boys in West Hollywood. Then there's the extra car-fixing-upping and ...
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17 May 2020: If I Were A Matrix: Reloaded Focus Group
Human Fuzzies: movie reviews, sci-fi · 1 comment... hand, my squeaky wheel of a date scored us free tickets to whatever/whenever/wherever with the theater chain. So that was okay. So if I ...
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21 Dec 2020: Product Review: Oral Cleansers
Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments... before realizing I'd rather chew off my own leg. But whatever Amosan gains for giving me a shitty job prospect, it loses again for ... it saltier) and it's okay to swallow. You can make it be whatever temperature you want, and it contains supplemental iodine. Oh, here ...
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17 Dec 2020: None the Wiser
Personal: · 9 comments... hours later, my head feels full of gauze, or Vicodin, or whatever, and I just spent several minutes stirring a packet of powdered cheese ...
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23 Nov 2020: Professional Ensemble
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... rehearsals. At the concert, of course, everyone just plays whatever part is in front of them, and no one admits that they're supposed to ...
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7 Nov 2020: Slurry of Someone
Meta: · 9 comments... ross and moots! Er, yes, indeed. I'm afraid I don't watch whatever television show you're chanting at, even if television is suddenly ...
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29 Jul 2020: Hungry!
Human Fuzzies: · 3 comments... There's pasta in various shapes, with sauce from a jar and whatever vegetables. And that's it, really, for the no-wait no-think on-hand ...
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20 May 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · 3 comments... me simple-minded, honest, and prone to temper tantrums. Whatever. I trust that the insights from the breast shape personality detector ...
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6 May 2020: Holland Ain’t Kansas
Politics: Europe, obituaries · no comments... aside from pointing out all the horrible xenophobia. Whatever, time for more math. ...
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18 Apr 2020: Someone’s a Seaman
Meta: · 1 comment... like a boat's keel. I'm a prow person myself, but whatever turns you on, ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... extra recitation sessions or labs or committee meetings or whatever other crap comes up. And I'm going to suck up and deal for another ...
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8 Apr 2020: gotta pee
Personal: bathroom etiquette, gender · 16 comments... be sitting there trying to poop, or drawing graffiti, or whatever, when some guy comes in a couple stalls down to pee. This is not a big ...
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4 Apr 2020: goals
Meta: · 2 comments... of itself, it will have won. Won what, I don't know, but whatever it is I'm sure it'll be fabulous. Speaking of fabulous, I've got a ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... some of the ideas contained therein are silly or wrong or whatever, but I've never thought it a Bad Thing to put half-formed, silly, or ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... want to petition for incumbents to defy their term limits. Whatever happened to elaborate model train backdrops? D+ Ratings for ...
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6 Feb 2020: Where’s My Jetpack?
Personal: · no comments... worms and make sure their fruit flies are all virgins and whatever else people do in genetics lab. Whenever I'm down in the late-night ...
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5 Feb 2020: Faulty Wiring
Personal: · no comments... nightmares with only a faint lingering horror, etc, etc. Whatever, it's a very disturbing fugue state and will probably be the death of ...
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26 Jan 2020: Friday Five Four
Whimsy: · no comments... will automatically skip over when I look at my own blog. Whatever. What cologne or perfume do you wear? The pheromone-drenched goodness ...
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22 Jan 2020: hoom, hoom
Politics: · no comments... Martin Luther King day. Or Wellington's Anniversary day or whatever your banks are closed for this week. Try not to be a racist while you ...
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16 Jan 2020: Old Man Winter
Human Fuzzies, Personal: book reviews, rain, winter · no commentsIt's raining, it's pouring, The old man is snoring Winter in Southern California always makes me really gleeful, in part because I love rain and in part because I love to watch other people suffer through trivial indignities like getting wet. Particu ...
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28 Dec 2020: More On Malls
Politics: capitalism sucks, malls, urban sprawl · no comments... centers (churches, schools) have become less central for whatever reason, leaving a lucrative void for clever merchants. Malls are also ...
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23 Oct 2020: Mole Day Fun
Personal: · no comments... dhus tower, and so every fifteen minutes I broke away from whatever I was doing to feel just a little incomplete. That, and the sidewalks ...
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15 Oct 2020: No More Mr. Nipple
Whimsy: nipples, wtf · no comments... a sociopolitical sense) only for the men who enjoy them. Whatever. But sometime during the long process of reclaiming my body from the ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... it better in the morning anyway" 10. Apathy - "ah, whatever, fuck it" I had this taped onto my book cover for the rest of the ...
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4 Sep 2020: train tracks
Human Fuzzies, Personal: concrete walls, graffiti, keyboards, kudzu, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities, sweetness and light, trains, weeds · no comments... character set; they're a way of life. Incidentally, whatever some people might say, I am not shadowy. I am entirely sweetness and ...
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3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…
Meta, Personal: · no comments... someone's choice of top blogs deviates from this standard, whatever it might be, they are accused of being cliquish, elitist, and general ...
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27 Aug 2020: jeg kan godt tale dansk!
Human Fuzzies: Danish · no comments... you want?" isn't on that list, then you'll be happy to eat whatever kind of cheese you're given, as long as you can answer the question ...
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24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser
Personal: · 1 comment... them. Eventually, they might change their views to resolve whatever cognitive dissonance they find. Or they might revert back to ...
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5 Jul 2020: corn with pig dna
Meta: excess energy, introductions, pretentions · no comments... my excess energy, anyway. I pronounce this thing... ah, whatever. Good ...