Search Results: write

• 30 Aug 2006: Block, Writer’s

  
  Personal, Politics: domesticity, sewing, sexism · 7 comments

  There 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 ...

• 10 May 2014: Desert Parsley

  
  Food: Apiaceae, desert-parsley, Lomatiums, wild herbs · no comments

  ...  I was picking, or on the young taproot. See also: Writeups from herbalists Kahlee Keane and Ryan ...

• 27 Oct 2013: Dandelion Bitter Brown Ale

  
  Food: Asteraceae, brewing, Cannabaceae, dandelions, Food, yarrow · 2 comments

  ...  ignored it for a while. FG 1.018. (And oops, I forgot to write down the initial gravity, but it was close to the 1.06 the recipe called ...

• 22 Oct 2012: Why the L’Aquila Case is NOT about Risk Communication

  
  Politics, Science: · 8 comments

  ...  direct documentation of the trial itself - Stephen Hall's writeup for Nature is a good one. If I'm wrong about either of the points above ...

• 17 May 2009: 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 ...

• 9 Mar 2009: 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 ...

• 17 Feb 2009: 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 ...

• 5 Feb 2009: Delicious Internet Noms

  
  Links: Links · 3 comments

  I 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 ...

• 26 Jan 2009: 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 ...

• 23 Jan 2009: 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 ...

• 20 Jan 2009: 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 ...

• 13 Jan 2009: 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 ...

• 11 Dec 2008: 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 ...

• 4 Nov 2008: 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 ...

• 8 Oct 2008: 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 ...

• 29 Sep 2008: New Accretionary Wedge!

  
  Links: · no comments

  ...  check from non-geologists, go read what freelance writers think is interesting about a volcano ...

• 24 Sep 2008: 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 ...

• 8 Aug 2008: Shirts Belonging to the Emperor Scientist

  
  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 ...

• 18 Jul 2008: 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 ...

• 14 Jul 2008: 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 ...

• 28 Jun 2008: 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 ...

• 19 May 2008: 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 ...

• 3 May 2008: 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 ...

• 29 Apr 2008: Confessions of a Grad School Dropout Graduate

  
  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 ...

• 25 Apr 2008: 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 ...

• 22 Apr 2008: 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 ...

• 6 Apr 2008: 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 ...

• 4 Apr 2008: Friday Rock Blogging: Halite

  
  Science: · 5 comments

  I was going to write up a proper post on marine evaporite sequences, and how they relate to ...

• 25 Mar 2008: 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 ...

• 20 Feb 2008: 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 ...

• 13 Feb 2008: 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 ...

• 4 Feb 2008: 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 ...

• 31 Jan 2008: 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. ...

• 27 Jan 2008: 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 ...

• 17 Dec 2007: 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 ...

• 28 Nov 2007: 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 ...

• 14 Nov 2007: 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 ...

• 1 Nov 2007: We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, We’re the November Scientiae!

  
  Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, feminism, gender, impostor syndrome, scientiae, sexism, zombies · 15 comments

  ...  I find these people? Humuhumu at Junkyard Clubhouse writes about Mastermind, and the female computer scientist who appears on the ...

• 22 Oct 2007: 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 ...

• 3 Oct 2007: 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 ...

• 23 Sep 2007: 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, ...

• 2 Sep 2007: 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 ...

• 30 Aug 2007: 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 ...

• 13 Jun 2007: 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 ...

• 3 Mar 2007: 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 ...

• 21 Feb 2007: 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 1992 eruption of Mt. Etna: The ...

• 30 Jan 2007: 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 ...

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

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

  ...  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 ...

• 12 Aug 2006: 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, ...

• 10 Aug 2006: 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 ...

• 15 Jul 2006: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM

  
  Politics, Science: women in science · 29 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 ...

• 17 Jun 2006: 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 ...

• 22 Apr 2006: 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 ...

• 16 Apr 2006: 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 ...

• 7 Apr 2006: 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 ...

• 29 Mar 2006: 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 ...

• 20 Feb 2006: 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 ...

• 31 Jan 2006: 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 ...

• 19 Dec 2005: 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 ...

• 1 Dec 2005: 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 ...

• 23 Nov 2005: 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 ...

• 3 Aug 2005: 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 ...

• 1 Aug 2005: Words

  
  Uncategorized: guest posts · 1 comment

  ...  meant to write about this earlier! But then I forgot, as I tend to do. Yami, so kindly, ...

• 29 Jul 2005: 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 ...

• 19 Jul 2005: 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 ...

• 29 Jun 2005: 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 ...

• 17 Jun 2005: 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 ...

• 8 Jun 2005: 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 ...

• 12 May 2005: 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 ...

• 27 Apr 2005: 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 ...

• 25 Apr 2005: Feminisms

  
  Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 7 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 ...

• 21 Apr 2005: 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 ...

• 13 Apr 2005: 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 ...

• 14 Mar 2005: 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 ...

• 3 Mar 2005: 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 ...

• 27 Feb 2005: 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 ...

• 23 Feb 2005: 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 ...

• 11 Feb 2005: 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 ...

• 10 Jan 2005: 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 ...

• 19 Dec 2004: 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 ...

• 13 Dec 2004: Top Five in 2004

  
  Meta: clip show, procrastinating, skunks · 2 comments

  ...  the year ain't over yet, but hell! I hereby promise not to write anything worthwhile until 2005, so that the following posts (in ...

• 2 Nov 2004: 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 ...

• 31 Oct 2004: 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 ...

• 29 Sep 2004: 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 ...

• 15 Sep 2004: 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 ...

• 29 Aug 2004: 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 ...

• 11 Aug 2004: Best Constitutional Amendment EVAR

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  Conspirator Todd Zywicky writes: Indeed, if the expansive interpretation of the plain language [of ...

• 1 Aug 2004: 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 ...

• 25 Jul 2004: 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, ...

• 21 Jul 2004: 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 ...

• 13 May 2004: 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 ...

• 4 Apr 2004: 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 ...

• 22 Mar 2004: 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 ...

• 1 Mar 2004: hey look I’m trendy

  
  Meta: · 3 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 ...

• 10 Feb 2004: 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 ...

• 2 Feb 2004: Linky Roundup

  
  Links: · 2 comments

  ...  but modernity is not. Courier was developed for IBM typewriters, and redrawn for the IBM Selectric, circa 1960 [1] (though it didn't ...

• 23 Dec 2003: Christmas Poll

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  { $slime = key($results); $append = "$slime $key\n"; fwrite($fp, "$append"); next($results); } flock( $fp, LOCK_UN ); fclose( $fp ...

• 4 Dec 2003: 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 ...

• 25 Nov 2003: 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 ...

• 25 Aug 2003: 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 ...

• 4 Jun 2003: 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 ...

• 2 Jun 2003: 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 ...

• 17 May 2003: 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 ...

• 8 May 2003: 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 ...

• 13 Apr 2003: 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, ...

• 12 Mar 2003: Maxi Pad-Abouts

  
  Links, Personal: craftiness, menstruation · 1 comment

  ...  to write a nasty, boring paper on the life cycle of Hawaiian volcanoes (which ...

• 8 Mar 2003: 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 ...

• 21 Jan 2003: 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 ...

• 21 Dec 2002: 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 ...

• 26 Oct 2002: 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 ...

• 5 Sep 2002: Someone’s All Wet

  
  Meta: · 2 comments

  ...  writes in from an IP address in Ohio: i like oceans So what on earth are you ...

• 5 Jul 2002: 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 ...

• : 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 ...

• 9 Jun 2002: 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 ...

• 7 Jun 2002: 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 ...

• 1 Jun 2002: 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 ...

• 28 May 2002: 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 ...

• 20 May 2002: 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 ...

• 14 May 2002: E-Mail Tips and Tricks

  
  Whimsy: · no comments

  ...  high-resolution fractals in the background while you write your ...

• 8 May 2002: 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 ...

• 17 Apr 2002: 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 ...

• 7 Apr 2002: 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 ...

• 5 Apr 2002: Two Barbaric Yawps

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  as far as that goes. And don't you have a dissertation to write?  ...

• 4 Apr 2002: 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 ...

• 31 Mar 2002: Catching Up with Someone

  
  Meta, Whimsy: · 8 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, ...

• 10 Mar 2002: 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 ...

• 6 Mar 2002: 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 ...

• 21 Feb 2002: 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 ...

• 11 Feb 2002: 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 ...

• 27 Jan 2002: My Boots Keep Me

  
  Human Fuzzies: · no comments

  ...  eating in rhythm, and other signs of zombie singer-songwriter mind meld. It's ...

• 24 Jan 2002: 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 ...

• 17 Jan 2002: 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 ...

• 24 Dec 2001: 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; ...

• 15 Dec 2001: 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 ...

• 14 Dec 2001: 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 ...

• 5 Dec 2001: 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 ...

• 3 Dec 2001: My Favorite Geo-Jargon

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal, Science: etymology, jargon, words · no comments

  Write 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 ...

• 17 Nov 2001: 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 ...

• 14 Nov 2001: tuitive

  
  Personal: · no comments

  I'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 ...

• 10 Oct 2001: 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 ...

• 28 Sep 2001: 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 ...

• 25 Sep 2001: nonsense words

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  my own writing. --- [ungh... falling asleep...can't write satire... unnnngg... *snark*... ...

• 16 Sep 2001: 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 ...

• 9 Sep 2001: 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 ...

• 31 Aug 2001: 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 ...

• 14 Aug 2001: 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 ...

• 30 Jul 2001: 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, ...

• 26 Jul 2001: 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, ...

• 20 Jul 2001: 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 ...

• 16 Jul 2001: 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 ...

• 15 Jul 2001: 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 ...