Search Results: write
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17 May 2020: But I’m Not Dead Yet!
Meta: April fools · 4 comments... professional hats. Last week I was primarily a technical writer, this week I'll be out in the field doing preliminary ground work for a ...
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9 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: blog carnivals, hydrology, resumes, sexual harassment, Wikipedia · 1 comment... the science blogosphere. So even if you don't have time to write a fullblown profile of your own for the carnival, why not take a couple ...
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17 Feb 2020: Teaching Engineers to Blog?
Meta: · 6 comments... them to science blogging. I'm planning to have them write brief essays about classic science papers (similar to the Beginnings of ...
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5 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 3 commentsI finally have a day job! For a few weeks, anyway - I'm temping as a GIS monkey. While this is not functionally much different from generic office temp jobs, data entry using ArcGIS pays much better than data entry with Excel. Historically, day-jobbing ha ...
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26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 comments... use the time and energy it would take to anthologize to write more great blog entries (and a really rational person would probably quit ...
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23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 comments... on blueberry muffins and chocolate chip cookies. They write about the process, including their missteps, so you know that attempting ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... for this is because bloggers don't have the incentive to write the kinds of posts which are necessary. [...] Posts in categories 1 ... which we're reacting. There's no incentive to sit down and write a freshman bio textbook in blog-sized chunks, so nobody tries. Instead of ...
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13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 comments... will be much more difficult and time-consuming. If you write that down in math, you can see the "peak" in "peak oil". Technically, a ...
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11 Dec 2020: An Open Letter to the Science Blogosphere
Meta: · 10 comments... to bury the lead on her very next post, which she will write soon, she ...
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4 Nov 2020: Evelyn Julia Brumm, Rest in Peace
Aimless: · 8 comments... was 85. This is not a proper eulogy; those are hard to write. However. Grandma voted by absentee ballot early last week, before the ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... serious constraint!) I'll invent a recipe, cook it up, and write a post describing its connections to geology. Oh, and I'll name it after ... about geology? For a donation of $50, I promise to write a post on it - whether the topic is basic or advanced, fun and relevant ...
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29 Sep 2020: New Accretionary Wedge!
Links: · no comments... check from non-geologists, go read what freelance writers think is interesting about a volcano ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... Entirely Abortion Section!) Elena Perez at California NOW writes about Feminist Parenting and Fighting the Doctor: And who was she to ... ball ... actually, both of them. Is it Even Possible to Write a Feminist Post About the U.S. Election Without Discussing Sarah ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... assets after death, huh??? I've got a backlog of stuff to write about, which summer lassitude will mostly doom to obscurity... but here ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... Reader, help me out here: Did I accidentally write Tuesday's post in crazy moon-language? The response to that coordinated ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... the hours before two small earthquakes. Here's the BBC's writeup; for those of you who can sneak behind the Nature paywall, the original ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... my students are wearing these days. How Robert Sapolsky writes - a transcript from a Stanford discussion. Blogging scientists should be ...
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19 May 2020: I’d Like to Thank the Academy
Aimless: acknowledgments, gratitude, thanks, writing · 5 comments... committee members than for others. My ability to actually write the acknowledgments is limited by the heat - I lose about 5 IQ points for ... for the circumstance, I can usually avoid this form of writer's block. The problem, of course, is knowing what I want to say. My ...
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3 May 2020: Another Music Meme
Whimsy: · 6 comments... can't order beer in, and exceptionally mumbledy singer-songwriters.) She went upstairs to make her bed Fare thee well little lady Allez ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... bring it into Illustrator to clean up the formatting; write a caption and add it to the LaTeX document. Rinse; lather; repeat. I'm ...
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25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance
Aimless: · 3 comments... the time, keeping mum on the matter. What we did as EIR-writers was to flap our arms, squint a little bit, hawk up a loogie, and say ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... genocide. Earth Week means I've got three more days to write about the relationship of geology, as a science and a profession, to ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... fact-checking obligations, which apply to everything we write, mean or nice (it's actually in the ScienceBlogs contract - "use your ...
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4 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Halite
Science: · 5 commentsI was going to write up a proper post on marine evaporite sequences, and how they relate to ...
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25 Mar 2020: The Five Emotions of Thesis-Writing
Aimless: · 13 comments... sure it's a felony in several scientific jurisdictions to write the review I am writing without discussing a really trendy form of ...
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20 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... should know that they should be teaching you how to write grants. Advisers, you think your students should just know that they ...
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13 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no comments... wait, maybe that's not the best analogy. Anyway, please write to the Park Service and ask them to preserve the place of paleontology in ...
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4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 comments... of the paper. If I can't think of a good joke I might write a straight summary of the research, together with a blurb about why I ...
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31 Jan 2020: Hello World
Meta: introduction · 31 comments... that I must be a genius (or at least that I know how to write). I will make one concession to the professional panopticon, though. ...
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27 Jan 2020: Meme Time
Personal, Whimsy: memes, monkeys, national pie day, pie, writing · 5 comments... are my words of wisdom: Give yourself permission to write a shitty first draft. You share 95%* of your genome with a hundred ...
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17 Dec 2020: Aaand, the rest of AGU
Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments... have a participatory element. One poster asked us to write down why we haven't reduced our carbon footprint; it felt good to troll a ...
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28 Nov 2020: It’s “That Time” of the Science
Science: goals, the scientific lifestyle, writing · 6 comments... suggested that I was ready to abandon this book and write something else instead, or perhaps I could abandon the book and take up a ... yes," she said. "You do this every time you write a novel. But so do all my other clients." I'm at that point of the ...
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14 Nov 2020: Hiking the Transgondwanan Supermountains
Science: Cambrian, Cambrian Explosion, Gondwana, Neoproterozoic, orogeny, Proterozoic · 4 comments... to refer you all to Joe Meert, who had a much timelier writeup of the actual research. Because the other intersection between geology ...
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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... I find these people? Humuhumu at Junkyard Clubhouse writes about Mastermind, and the female computer scientist who appears on the ...
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22 Oct 2020: Carnivalling
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, civil liberties, scientiae · 1 comment... announcement and instructions for submission. You want to write about women in science, you know you do! Need a better concept of your ...
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3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments... be puking on someone's shoes? What about a script for when write a recommendation letter, select nominees for an award, or other ...
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23 Sep 2020: I Need Idiotproofing
Personal, Science: grad school, software · 3 comments... and plotting my data. If I were even awesomer, I would write cute little scripts in python or R or even Matlab to do my analysis, ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... with us why we study geology. I don't have much time to write today - I have a few errands to run this afternoon before heading out to ...
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30 Aug 2020: Notes From the Books Precariously Stacked on My Bedside Table
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, feminisms, history, psychology, racism, rape, sexism, trashy novels, white studies · 3 comments... been meaning to write a whole slew of book reviews, long and thoughtful ones that say ...
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13 Jun 2020: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments... been blogjammed. My decision to leave is a hard thing to write about, because so much boils down to dissecting my personality, my ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... --yami] To the supremely practical: When you write letters of recommendation for women/minorities, maybe check them against ... issue as well. Elli at Peanut Butter Cabal writes about being singled out as a woman first and a scientist second. Her ...
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21 Feb 2020: Blocking Mt. Etna
Science: volcanoes, X-treem hazard mitigation · 2 comments... the widespread skepticism prompted John Carpeneter to write to Nature with a wild story about a 2020 eruption of Mt. Etna: The ...
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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... something more interesting than simple admonishments, I'll write a good long screed, but for now, I'll just say that I'm also trying to ...
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12 Oct 2020: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments... when we had to pick someone who was our role model and write about them, I could never think of anyone, because I didn't consciously ...
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30 Aug 2020: Block, Writer’s
Personal, Politics: domesticity, sewing, sexism · 7 commentsThere are still blog entries floating around in my head, but I don't seem to have the requisite oomph to type them. My research productivity is inching slightly upward, though. Slowly. Slooooow-ly. The pace of science occasionally drives me bonkers. The ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... wide variety 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 ... and writing with carefully chosen keywords. Most of what I write is useless to the average results-oriented Googler, anyway. Nevertheless, ...
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10 Aug 2020: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace
Science: Iowa City, James Van Allen, obituaries · no comments... I too can live a decade longer than the person who pre-writes my ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... But more on that later. Right now, a science and tech writer in my extended social network just landed a book deal on women's ... interested in being interviewed can email me at linleywriter at mac dot com or call me at [phone number omitted for now, if you want ...
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17 Jun 2020: Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege
Personal: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, wedding-industrial complex · 11 comments... mushy. Not the kind of mush whose words you ever want to write down, but the kind where language quickly decays into pure ...
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22 Apr 2020: A Game
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: goofy analogies, Pablo Neruda · 2 comments... yuppies do to all the good bars in town I can't write as sexily as Pablo Neruda. Life is so hard ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... I'm not even tenured as a grad student yet! Anything I write can and will be used against me by senior academics, who are ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... knowledge on how to organize a press conference, how to write a Zine, how to talk to a congress person? Or are they sending yet ...
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29 Mar 2020: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept
Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments... posts and go, "Neat!" and take it over to their blog to write a post that will drive up and sustain their already-impressive traffic. ... blogs to host the same comment page? For example. You write an interesting post, nubian likes it, she posts it in its entirety at her ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... of Orientalism and forcing elementary school students to write bad English-language haiku about the sakura*, thousands of years' worth ...
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31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments... is slowly becoming a home for everything Bitch Ph.D. writes about the work of maintaining relationships. Part one, which is ancient ... Which probably means I should submit something. If I write something good and sciencey in the next couple weeks, remind me to ...
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19 Dec 2020: Happy Whatever
Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 comments... to give a shit. But too bad! You get what's easiest to write. And in case you're bored of Christmas, let me remind you of what's at ...
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1 Dec 2020: Happy Blog Against Racism Day!
Politics: anti-racism, blog carnivals, racism · 4 comments... I hope you'll excuse me, I have figure captions to write. *"Moustache" only outweighs "mustache" by about 10% on Google, and ...
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23 Nov 2020: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments... call fooling anyone. It's tempting to claim that I could write a better essay on science culture with a monkey tied behind my back, but ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... I were a real travel writer, this is the point at which I would segue into a digression on some ... But anyway, I'm just a lazy blogger, so rather than write my own digression I'll simply link to one - Jill at Inhabitat was in ...
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1 Aug 2020: Words
Uncategorized: guest posts · 1 comment... meant to write about this earlier! But then I forgot, as I tend to do. Yami, so kindly, ...
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29 Jul 2020: Staten Island Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3 · no comments... more Free and Democratic than it was a month ago. As I write this, Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation is blaring from the news and I am ...
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19 Jul 2020: I Hate Life Hacks
Personal: 3x5 index cards, i hate everything, Internet overload · 3 comments... behaviors to be of maximum benefit to one's future self: write down your clever thoughts, catalog your media collection, set up a Rube ...
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29 Jun 2020: Guestblogger number the two
Aimless: guest posts · no comments... content! So far I am undecided about what, exactly, I will write about, given I do most of my babbling at my very own blog. But I have a ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... people seem to like them), so any input as to how I can write better rock-based conversation starters would be welcome. The red and ...
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8 Jun 2020: I am the Prince of the Air
Meta: hotlink protection, hotlinkers, persecuted Christians, satanism · 10 comments... a little frowny face jpg and a couple of improved mod_rewrite rules. This confused the shit out of some innocent teenagers. I almost ...
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12 May 2020: Fun with htaccess
Meta: anti-spam, blogtinkery, htaccess · 7 comments... the spammed URLs with a little extra bandwidth: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^(http://www.)[a-z]+-[a-z]+- [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/ [R=301,L] I'm still getting a few ...
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27 Apr 2020: Defamation in the Congressional Record, hoorah!
Politics: abortion, Congressional shenanigans · 6 comments... a minor across state lines for medicinal purposes, and rewrite the summary to say the amendments are all about protecting rapists and ... that amendment aims to accomplish. To falsify and rewrite that description as a political attack, is not only unprecedented, it is ...
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25 Apr 2020: Feminisms
Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments... other ways, it sucked. One of the things I wanted to write about last week was Andrea Dworkin's death, the discussion hos Hugo where ...
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21 Apr 2020: Brain Asplode
Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 comments... doubt it's a worthwhile tradeoff. Remind me sometime to write about Hoity-Toity School privilege vs. male privilege, it's a potentially ...
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13 Apr 2020: Bah
Meta: blog status updates · 16 comments... an email, prepare for a slow response... but I swear I'll write eventually! Two questions for discussion: Names for shiny aluminum ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... it's neither polite nor helpful to make assumptions, don't write the middle class off so quickly. Honestly, it reminds me of nothing so ...
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3 Mar 2020: Ugh Zog
Meta, Personal: cubicle living, WordPress · 4 comments... support threads: 1 2 3 - looks like I might have to write a plugin) Today's Cubicle Survival Game is brought to you by ...
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27 Feb 2020: More WordPress Babbling
Meta: quizzes · no comments... sidebar. At that point, it seems my only option is to rewrite all my HTML templates (based on the default WordPress theme) to use class ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... I just owe it to myself, I don't know. Anyway I'd like to write one, but I've found myself unable to articulate it yet. Distinguishing ... - a geophysicist turned high school science teacher - writes in the voter guide that "I believe in using my Caltech-science sense to ...
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11 Feb 2020: Blah Blah Blah
Meta, Whimsy: paint, quizzes, science fiction · 5 comments... any of them? I don't know. Which science fiction writer are you? I'm Hal Clement. [via]. I'm also Long Drugs "Goth Black" matte ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 comments... that makes me think: Eh? Do I have wax in my ears? Write louder, sonny boy! - 'cause all I'm gettin' is burble blah ...
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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... Does this mean a batallion of robot monkeys will write my grad school applications? Pretty please? 'Cause that's what I promised ...
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13 Dec 2020: Top Five in 2020
Meta: clip show, procrastinating, skunks · 2 comments... the year ain't over yet, but hell! I hereby promise not to write anything worthwhile until 2020, so that the following posts (in ...
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2 Nov 2020: Election Surprise: Squid!
Personal, Politics: · 2 comments... this invested in an election before. Eeeeeeek! I should write a reflection - but not until after the party ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... leads to a dead end. I'm voting no, but I'll also write my state representatives if the measure fails, asking for a more ...
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29 Sep 2020: Moral Leadership A La Dennis Hastert
Politics: · 1 comment... for sure. Obsidian Wings has more. Halfway Sane Readers, write your representatives, friends, family, and editors. (via Kevin ...
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15 Sep 2020: California Performance Review for Geologists
Politics: California politics, environmentalism, urban planning · no comments... EIRs. They should be well publicized, for use by EIR-writers and for public scrutiny. They should be, but in many cases, they aren't ...
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29 Aug 2020: Weekend Review
Personal: capitalism sucks, consumerism, dishware, grad school · 4 comments... anyone with my sparkling snarky comments; instead, had to write WHO BUYS THIS SHIT??? in the free-response box after viewing a commercial ...
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11 Aug 2020: Best Constitutional Amendment EVAR
Politics: · no comments... Conspirator Todd Zywicky writes: Indeed, if the expansive interpretation of the plain language [of ...
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1 Aug 2020: Pimp Mah Blawg!
Meta: blogtinkery · 1 comment... very dull. Create a LazyBlog, for quick links. Write up sidebar boxes as files for php includes. Implement collapsing ...
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25 Jul 2020: Education Reform Blah Blah
Politics: · 2 comments... a student to the office or issuing an administrative write-up, the two classic measures of last resort when I was in high school, ...
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21 Jul 2020: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... of any such explanation would be severly compromised. I write more-or-less competently, but not quickly. The time required to swallow ...
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13 May 2020: Life of the Mind
Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments... these training programs [for musicians, artists, writers, etc.], not to disparage them, do not meet American culture's broader ...
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4 Apr 2020: In Which I Am Excited About Compost
Links, Personal: · 3 comments... a particular local hotel re: Item 1, but they refused to write it down (in Cyrillic or otherwise) and leave it under the door. It's way ...
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22 Mar 2020: Al Qaeda Wuvs Widdle Georgie-poo?
Politics: · 2 comments... your victory, Bush the criminal] Of course any schmoe can write a letter and sign it "Brigades Abous-Hafs Al Masri/Al Qaida" but if we ...
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1 Mar 2020: hey look I’m trendy
Meta: · 2 comments... automagically generated hotlinking-protection, but until I write myself a better set of .htaccess files, that's how it's gonna be. If you ...
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10 Feb 2020: Crappy Superpowers
Whimsy: · 7 comments... talents for that. No, here's what I want to know: Do I write down the license plate, look the guy up, and introduce myself hoping to ...
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2 Feb 2020: Linky Roundup
Links: · 2 comments... but modernity is not. Courier was developed for IBM typewriters, and redrawn for the IBM Selectric, circa 2020 [1] (though it didn't ...
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23 Dec 2020: Christmas Poll
Aimless: · no comments... { $slime = key($results); $append = "$slime $key\n"; fwrite($fp, "$append"); next($results); } flock( $fp, LOCK_UN ); fclose( $fp ...
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4 Dec 2020: Foul Putrid News Organization
Politics: · no comments... a plebiscite on the issue until March. Until then, I'm'a write my elected representatives, and maybe my appointed ones as well. I don't ...
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25 Nov 2020: Pie Is Fightin’ Words
Food, Human Fuzzies: book reviews, Iowa City, pie, pie shakes · 2 comments... pies are not particularly old-fashioned (Ms. le Draoulec writes 368 pages on pie, and not once does she mention the graham cracker ... by ear; maybe rustle up a posse of disgruntled Writer's Workshop dropouts. We'll bake a pie to end all pies, and put it in a ...
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25 Aug 2020: Someone’s Been Shitting in My Toilet!
Personal: · 3 comments... booth: English, motherfuckers! Do you write it? While in theory we are in favor of using new and incoherent dialects ...
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4 Jun 2020: Exploded Your Mom’s Cambrian Energy Drinks
Personal, Science: · 4 comments... Six pages written, 10 required, and three more hours to write. Done with plankton poo, have moved on to viciously mocking geneticists ...
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2 Jun 2020: Real Ultimate Molluscs!!! (and stuff on my door)
Aimless: · 3 comments... "find job" and "pack up shit" to the bottom. Or possibly "write insightful blog entry on graduation-related dubiousness, with reference ... of my best friend Mark. He's a lot older than me and writes papers on ammonites, which is bragable. (with apologies to the official ...
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17 May 2020: If I Were A Matrix: Reloaded Focus Group
Human Fuzzies: movie reviews, sci-fi · 1 comment... car. The blog police would levy a big fat fine if I didn't write a review. Before I put in a spoiler barrier, I'll just say that the ... drums? You could make them out of metal. Studio Executive writes something down on his ...
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8 May 2020: Last Midterm EVAR
Personal: · 8 comments... entering the market for a car and a job. It's time to write resumes and research repair histories and gas mileage. And if you've got ...
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13 Apr 2020: The REAL Real Ultimate Power
Links: · 1 comment... ALL the time. The purpose of the EE is to flip out and write matlab code. Yup. It's all true. I knew a EE once, she was eating pie, ...
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12 Mar 2020: Maxi Pad-Abouts
Links, Personal: craftiness, menstruation · 1 comment... to write a nasty, boring paper on the life cycle of Hawaiian volcanoes (which ...
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8 Mar 2020: I Love Working
Personal: · no comments... I counted three lavas with your momma last night. Must write shoddy popular science article. Must graduate. Must acquire a biodiesel ...
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21 Jan 2020: Hmm
Meta: · 3 comments... was put into 'danger'. That's better. you say you write about your breakfast...but you never do!!! isn't that false ...
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21 Dec 2020: Product Review: Oral Cleansers
Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments... again. Before the Vicodin puts me back to sleep, I'll write up some of my more scintillating thoughts on the matter. Just in case you ...
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26 Oct 2020: Not Dead Yet
Meta: · 1 comment... the foundation of reality? Say it ain't so! Or at least write a rambling blog entry about the matter, quick! Papa Blog: We've got to ...
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5 Sep 2020: Someone’s All Wet
Meta: · 2 comments... writes in from an IP address in Ohio: i like oceans So what on earth are you ...
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5 Jul 2020: Someone Needs a New Brain
Meta: · 2 comments... what her mother told her, and sends in: I wanted to write something nice, but worms just ate my brain. I wanted to extend my ...
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: Liminal Kangaroo Courts
Meta: blogular wanking, snobbery · no comments... space which was formerly occupied by legions of letter-writers and is now filled with the tin-roof shantytowns of Blogistan. I had ...
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9 Jun 2020: Crapulous
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... difference between algebra and calculus? I had planned to write a post about New Zealand, the obscure little country in which I live. In ...
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7 Jun 2020: That’s not a cultist
Meta: guest posts, limericks, poetry · 4 comments... and a decapitated lizard. Meanwhile, a UK-domain reader writes: Stones taught me to fly. Love taught me to lie. Life taught me to ...
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1 Jun 2020: Someone Breaks Into Song
Meta: · no comments... in his/her heart and a spring in his/her step, someone writes to tell me the weather: "June is busting out all over..." Which is ...
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28 May 2020: Link Your Thirst
Meta: · no comments... so, if and only if we can get small Indonesian children to write our blogs at three cents an hour. Speaking of sweatshops, I have two ...
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20 May 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · 3 comments... bored. please suggest an activity. i don't want to write this paper. i would much rather do something else. but i'm feeling ...
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14 May 2020: E-Mail Tips and Tricks
Whimsy: · no comments... high-resolution fractals in the background while you write your ...
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8 May 2020: Joys of Bandwidth; Stuff
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 4 comments... that contestants get a song title, and have two weeks to write and record something grand. The results are mixed - I keep hoping I'll ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... I've ever seen it. I need to decode what you just said, write it down in a form that will make sense to me when I reread it later, and ...
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7 Apr 2020: Review Time!
Human Fuzzies: reviews of stuff, writing · 5 comments... borrowed from other people to create something to write. Why? I asked myself that same question. The only answer I could seem to come up with is that my actual life is just too boring to write about. This is the crux of the matter. An abysmal peppering of ...
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5 Apr 2020: Two Barbaric Yawps
Meta: · 4 comments... as far as that goes. And don't you have a dissertation to write? ...
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4 Apr 2020: and speaking of parody…
Links: Internet doodads, superheroes · no comments... up a tagline even half as snappy as they fight crime!, I'd write a cute parody of that ...
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31 Mar 2020: Catching Up with Someone
Meta, Whimsy: · 7 comments... on the right-hand side of the screen, yes? FYI: I'll write standards-compliant code for everyone, limited workarounds for IE 5.x, ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... in need of evaluation. The likely outcome being, that I'll write off the investment already made, if I can't reasonably expect it to ... legal, or informal - are a perfect example; you can't just write off your investment in a troubled, sulky teenager. Depending on your ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... Legislative Constitutional Amendment. I'm not sure who writes the official titles for these things, but whoever they are, they could ...
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21 Feb 2020: snide wastes of time
Links: · 3 comments... a fun one - the idea is to visit a few random blogs and write something honest - nah, snide - about most of them. I like ...
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11 Feb 2020: Sorry, try again
Personal: · no comments... want to hear that. Or maybe you do, but I don't want to write it, because it still feels nebulous and silly and I can't write a proper angsty rant until I've gotten all worked up about ...
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27 Jan 2020: My Boots Keep Me
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... eating in rhythm, and other signs of zombie singer-songwriter mind meld. It's ...
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24 Jan 2020: Core 1a
Personal: · no comments... take before I graduate. In summary, it's this: write a paper about science, for a non-sciency audience. Hooray. Hooray. I'm so fortunate. It's not that I don't like to write, or that I can't take horrid schoolmarmish pleasure in revising my own ...
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17 Jan 2020: It Wasn’t Joan Jett
Personal, Politics: · no comments... was going to happen. I'm disappointed because I failed to write down "Joan Jett" as the answer to all the ones I missed, and because I ...
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24 Dec 2020: Tackiest Ever
Politics: · no comments... red, white and blue Christmas things. The advice columnist writes that a sensitive holiday party will make good use of patriotic napkins; ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... English language, or clever suggestions as to why I really write about my bodily fluids. Even lewd remarks from all you people who come ...
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14 Dec 2020: filthy bloggish slime
Meta: · no comments... about narcissism and the audience available to an English writer vs. someone writing in, say, Basque, I'm curious. I'll take Danish as ...
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5 Dec 2020: gopher://
Links: · 1 comment... go all jiggly. And do you realize how easy it would be to write a blog for gopher? When I'm back with my zippyfast dorm connection, I ...
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3 Dec 2020: My Favorite Geo-Jargon
Human Fuzzies, Personal, Science: etymology, jargon, words · no commentsWrite a sentence, read a blog. Write two sentences, delete one of them, isca. Write half a sentence, stare at my outline while thinking about noodles for a ...
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17 Nov 2020: jeg var…
Personal: diary, words · no comments... transient, too easy, really, I type so much faster than I write, almost faster than I can think at times, and pen is just too dark and ...
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14 Nov 2020: tuitive
Personal: · no commentsI've just (well, a couple days ago) gotten a huge file of correspondence from two years ago, and have been reading through it with the bizarre and morbid interest with which one ought to look at the corpse of a dead self, or more aptly the shed skins of bu ...
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10 Oct 2020: Slippery When Wet
Personal: · no comments... the past week that I've not had the chance to sit down and write about... and now that I have some time in a relatively warm chair, I'm not going to write about any of them. Instead, I'm going to write about the odd feeling of ...
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28 Sep 2020: Rescheduling
Personal: · no comments... and I think my ability to think social-type thoughts and write them down properly takes a particularly hard knocking, but at the same time my internal censors go on a bit of a vacation and I write more things down. By sheer chance, some of them always remain interesting ...
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25 Sep 2020: nonsense words
Aimless: · no comments... my own writing. --- [ungh... falling asleep...can't write satire... unnnngg... *snark*... ...
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16 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #2: a list
Aimless: · no comments... of Snow Crash - and I don't think the world knows how to write a decent ending either. This list is only the barest scratching at the ...
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9 Sep 2020: verbal thinker
Personal: · no comments... thinker, and yet, I am no kind of poet. I do occasionally write poetry, but never as an end in and of itself; I do it as an exercise to ...
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31 Aug 2020: recovered conversation
Personal: · no comments... that someone, somewhere, once thought enough of you to write tolerable poetry. Don't ever store things with emotional impact on a ...
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14 Aug 2020: rødgrød med fløde
Human Fuzzies: Danish, pronunciation · 1 comment... in case any of you ever travel to Denmark, I'm going to write out a pronounciation guide. Don't tell anyone, or you'll be that much ...
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30 Jul 2020: reviewed
Meta: · no comments... errors irk me in inverse proportion to how much the writer praises and/or agrees with me. I was so hoping for an irritated, ...
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26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments... thread throughout the book. I'm glad I don't have to write a paper on it, ...
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20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... I'd like to write a book entitled The Decline and Fall of the American Longhair: how those ...
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16 Jul 2020: mistaken identity
Meta, Politics: · no comments... is a coincidence for which I'm not ungrateful. (Did I just write that? *convolution overload*) My aunt's baby shower was today. It was ...
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15 Jul 2020: no hate mail yet
Meta: blog status updates · no comments... on porn spam. Perhaps when I'm more awake I'll choose to write a nice book review ...