Search Results: wrong

• 18 Jul 2020: This Year’s Nocino Recipe

  
  Food: infusions, Juglandaceae, liqueurs · no comments

  ...  relative to Italy's, on National Pie Day) but tradition is wrong. I'm still figuring out how to tell when a liqueur needs more time on the ...

• 17 Jul 2020: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds

  
  Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment

  ...  I just have unrealistic expectations, maybe I was doing it wrong, or maybe the flattened money plant seeds are just unusually good at ...

• 12 Jun 2020: Four Ways to Eat Black Locust Blossoms (and One Way Not to Bother)

  
  Food: Amaryllidaceae, black locust, Brassicaceae, chives, edible flowers, Fabaceae, flowers, recipes, salad, soup · no comments

  ...  overnight. The results taste good but the texture is all wrong - the flowers are too small to sink your teeth into, so it just feels a ...  brain while I was cooking the soup. You can't go too far wrong with brown butter (unless it ...

• 11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk

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

  ...  to hear from people about where I've gotten things wrong, and what should be on this list that I've ...

• 29 Jan 2020: Breaking Up with the Richter Scale

  
  Science: earthquakes, Gutenberg, magnitude scales, Mercalli Intensity, richter, sesimology, unfinished drafts · 5 comments

  ...  it's from the New York Times last November). Don't get me wrong, I love the Richter scale - but I love it like you will always love the ...  to be in Southern California, or everything would go wrong. Similar amplitude/distance relationships were found for other regions; ...

• 27 Jan 2020: Academic Citation

  
  Aimless: · 1 comment

  ...  initially set out to test X, but something went horribly wrong. However, we have salvaged from the mess a couple of wishy-washy ...

• 13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?

  
  Aimless: · 12 comments

  ...  because I convinced myself that I was probably maybe sorta wrong, and not just because we are mining the Ogallala... but now I can't ...

• 12 Jan 2020: Listen to Earthquakes

  
  Links: · 3 comments

  ...  clicking noises. Obviously I'm still doing something wrong in the processing necessary to translate from a 10 minute seismogram, ...

• 8 Jan 2020: How to Fight Global Warming at Night with your Fists

  
  Politics, Science: climate change, environmentalism, sustainability, unfinished drafts · 6 comments

  ...  but when I saw this, I immediately wanted to prove T-rex wrong. Wear Gloves - Last night we gave in and ran the heater for the first ...

• 6 Jan 2020: High Femme and Geekery

  
  Aimless: · 13 comments

  ...  lots of us uneasy because they're somehow making the wrong choice. They make us uneasy because they remind us that we have no ...

• 16 Dec 2020: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa

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

  ...  Please see the comments for an explanation of why this is wrong. A baked Alaska also relies on timing, and the slow speed of heat ...

• 24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65

  
  Aimless: · 9 comments

  Welcome to the 65th biweekly showcase of the feminist blogosphere! Here's just a taste of what's inside: Owning privilege is not about feeling ashamed, it is about acknowledging the benefits that one receives without having to work for them. And now today ...

• 8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the Emperor Scientist

  
  Aimless: · 12 comments

  ...  but when some slobberfaced lecher looks at you the wrong way in the afternoon they are revealed to have been unprofessionally ...  drawn with very fine camel-hair brushes, but you would be wrong. Mostly, from a long way off they look like ...

• 27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release

  
  Science: · 14 comments

  ...  a few of his more beguiling errors. So. What's wrong with this picture? To start, let me show you what Chalko's graph ...

• 17 Jun 2020: Another Lusi Update

  
  Aimless: · 4 comments

  ...  from the drilling well is based on a study that used the wrong data and assumption," Edy Sutriono, drilling expert at Lapindo, told a news conference. "Wrong data"? That, my dear readers, is a mentita. It's also hilarious. While I ...

• 12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  and San Simeon, California - we already knew what was wrong. The real problems are social, political, and economic: We have lots of ...

• 25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  motor oil, pesticides) and if the soil is configured just wrong, those chemicals can potentially make it down to the water table and ...

• 6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism

  
  Aimless: · 10 comments

  ...  the world, and even though everyone makes mistakes, being wrong is a Big Deal*. Criticism should be leveled only with a great deal of ...  of our criticism will lose face, and because we might be wrong and boy wouldn't that be embarrassing. Bloggers, on the other hand, ...

• 25 Mar 2020: The Five Emotions of Thesis-Writing

  
  Aimless: · 13 comments

  ...  bleeps and bloops whenever I figure out what exactly is wrong with someone else's work. The ability of "robot" to blend what would ...

• 23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie

  
  Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments

  Happy National Pie Day, and welcome to the fifth edition of the Accretionary Wedge, the Internet's premier blog carnival for the earth sciences! First, I have some news for you. Make sure you're sitting down before you read this: Diamonds are not made f ...

• 17 Jan 2020: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals

  
  Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments

  ...  offer RSS feeds for new issues*. Dear AGU: What is wrong with you people? You are missing out on the Internet 2.0 social blog ...

• 10 Jan 2020: Saline Injections for Venice?

  
  Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments

  ...  sinking. It's sinking due to tectonic forces, being on the wrong side of the plate flexure that's lifting the Alps. It's sinking because ...

• 31 Dec 2020: Year in Review

  
  Meta: clip show · no comments

  Here, Have a Clip Show Post I Really Wanted More Comments On: What would you name as "science world heritage" sites? - Good science heritage sites should force us to consider the process of science, in addition to its results and historical characters.  ...

• 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

  ...  some of the feminist theory) about how focusing on what's wrong inside our heads functions primarily as a way to divert attention from ...

• 28 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike

  
  Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no comments

  ...  it hurts when we fall We lean another ladder against the wrong wall It's not that I don't have explicitly political union ...

• 2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist

  
  Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments

  ...  Wedge is coming soon, and the theme is what the hell is wrong with us why we study geology. I don't have much time to write today - I ...

• 20 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #35

  
  Science, Whimsy: glaciers, google earth, volcanoes, Where on (Google) Earth? · 8 comments

  ...  points will be awarded to anyone who can tell me what is wrong with me that I didn't post a picture of some nice coral atoll ...

• 4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong

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

  Happy Independence Day, Americans! Aren't you glad you live in the USA, and not in, say, Iraq? Boy, I'd sure hate to be living in Iraq right now. Or in Chile under Pinochet; hoorah for living in a country where the football stadium doesn't double as a conc ...

• 10 Apr 2020: Another Earthquake Prediction Failure

  
  Science: earthquake prediction · 4 comments

  ...  on that system is statistically useless, if not completely wrongheaded. Based on a 37-year-long record of seismicity, study author Tom ...

• 27 Mar 2020: Look What the Discovery Channel Thinks of Female Engineers

  
  Politics, Science: feminism, media, sexism, women in engineering · 22 comments

  ...  as I can get beyond "Oh, for fuck's sake, what the hell is wrong with you people?". I suggest you do the same. [via ...

• 3 Mar 2020: Earthquake Folksonomy

  
  Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments

  ...  to nitpick all the things such homebrew theories get wrong, rather than the good observations they are attempting to fit into a ...  and observation, and not stomp on it when it gets the wrong ...

• 12 Oct 2020: Seismograms from North Korea

  
  Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 comments

  ...  not impossible, of course, but the tectonic setting is all wrong, and no similar shallow events have been observed in the area before. We ...

• 16 Aug 2020: Oh That Wacky Internet

  
  Links, Science: blog carnivals, Hans Island, Pluto, transphobia · 9 comments

  ...  use of the word "ructions", but is pedantic, boring and wrong about everything else. Blogs 2, Traditional Media 0. * It is the ...

• 8 Aug 2020: My Identity is a List of Links

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

  ...  aren't mutually exclusive metaphors, and neither of us is wrong, but when there's significant tension between personal desire and social ...

• 3 Aug 2020: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way

  
  Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 comments

  ...  reactions is because their claims are seen, rightly or wrongly, as part of a larger argument about gender equity in the sciences. ...

• 6 Jun 2020: I’ll Stick to Compost, Thanks

  
  Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments

  ...  and the likelihood of the landlady's gardener mowing the wrong spot. So she started praying over the tomatoes. She invoked the sun, ...

• 24 Apr 2020: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too

  
  Politics, Science: academia, mentoring, science studies · no comments

  ...  fulfilling the needs of members of the profession. Is it wrong for me to think of mentoring as something that fills in the gaps created ...

• 23 Feb 2020: About Aboutas Aboutamus

  
  Human Fuzzies: pirate jokes, words, writing · 4 comments

  ...  sounds fancier and more professional. What on earth is wrong with the word "about"? It seems to me to be a perfectly good word, that ...

• 20 Jan 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition

  
  Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 comments

  ...  rest of this, it's likely that I'd enter the field on the wrong side of history - cruel, cruel ...

• 8 Dec 2020: AGU Four

  
  Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments

  ...  socks that said "Advances in Complexity". Maybe I'm in the wrong discipline. Wendy has a good plan for revenge on pharmacists who won't ...

• 16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments

  ...  and I haven't studied it in detail, so I could be wrong. **Member vs. resident is a deliberate word choice here; the division is ...

• 16 Sep 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement

  
  Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments

  ...  the right kind of sand and gravel, because if you use the wrong kind, your bulk material will react with the cement. Instead of forming a ...

• 1 Sep 2020: Lookit Me I’m So Privileged

  
  Personal: army corps of engineers, Atchafalaya, dams, levees, Mississippi River · 1 comment

  ...  they bleed because that'll stop the itching, etc. Is it wrong of me to wonder if the Army Corps of Engineers could just blow the Old ...

• 3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3

  
  Personal: photoblog · 5 comments

  ...  rather than some drooling yokel who goggles at the wrong statues. Whenever I've read all the books I have with me plus the latest ...

• 22 Jul 2020: Friday Roch blogging: multilingual edition

  
  Human Fuzzies: guest posts, hockey, rock blogging · no comments

  ...  I read the story first, I read it as someone who got the wrong hockey shirt -- the Leafs instead of the Habs! -- but eventually I grew ...

• 9 Jul 2020: Medical things I do not know answers to

  
  Science: guest posts, medicine · 9 comments

  ...  explode. I would like to find out, unless of course I am wrong and my bladder would literally explode, in which case I am far happier ...

• 1 Jun 2020: Modern Society

  
  Links, Politics: health care, impeach Bush, Internet activism, telephony · 5 comments

  ...  about spider penises again - not that there's anything wrong with that. Lovable leftist Ampersand is interviewed by the (presumably ...

• 25 May 2020: For the Record

  
  Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments

  ...  in looking into that particular issue. It features the wrong flavor of sexism, and is inconvenient for the faithful of the "male ...  who present this as a nice happy love story, but you're wrong to confuse the producers of Access Hollywood with the High Priestesses of ...

• 26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments

  ...  afraid. For me, it's essential to reiterate that this is wrong because I need to acknowledge that it would be as wrong for me as it was for Ratzinger. It's far more important, really, than my ...

• 14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass

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

  ...  They just say "oh" in that oh, my assumption was wrong, I feel kinda silly way, and I feel like I've killed a planned or ...

• 18 Feb 2020: Friday!

  
  Links: games, puzzles · 1 comment

  Not Pr0n - best riddle game I've played in a while. I'm currently stuck on level 10... yar! Safe for work, but does have sound. Wear headphones. ...

• 17 Feb 2020: Initiative

  
  Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments

  ...  in a man, lest I be seen as inviting too much of the wrong kind of attention, and perhaps get myself into real trouble. (How many ...

• 1 Jan 2020: Extension of Radio Silence

  
  Personal: blog status updates, Christmas · 2 comments

  ...  it's okay to shop during my layover! I could choose the wrong rental car company! God forbid I ever choose the wrong rental car ...

• 9 Dec 2020: Abortion Post Omega

  
  Politics: abortion, ethics · 7 comments

  ...  a bunch of straw men a good drubbing for displaying the wrong emotions about such a universe (or possibly they're tin men in this ...

• 20 Nov 2020: Abortion Post Alpha

  
  Politics: abortion, ethics, organ donation · 22 comments

  ...  Below the fold, I am right and everybody else is wrong! Except Patricia Beattie Jung, who is way ahead of me. We all know by ...

• 17 Sep 2020: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.

  
  Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments

  ...  they're interrupted YET AGAIN, and why it is so fucking wrong for men to say patronizing things like, "don't be insulting, or you'll ...

• 26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College

  
  Politics: · 4 comments

  ...  now I think the whole Federalism argument is just flat-out wrong irrelevant: it's not about Federalism and the power of the individual ...

• 17 Aug 2020: Political Gear Extravaganza

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  Cafepress so far is the Kerry's a Commie Camisole. Alas, wrong side. John Kerry, kung fu master is a step in the right direction, but ...

• 9 Aug 2020: Weekend Recap

  
  Personal: video games · no comments

  ...  ask him to autograph my breasts. But is that really so wrong? This year, I moved from appreciating California Extreme the way one ...

• 24 May 2020: Someone’s An Excuse

  
  Meta: · 1 comment

  ...  minuet. It does not even waltz, so you're knocking on the wrong rock there. i like dogs Dogs that minuet! Inside a kaleidoscope! With ...

• 11 May 2020: Mud-Thirsty Bees

  
  Whimsy: · 1 comment

  ...  circles, some twitching, some dead. It's obvious what's wrong with the second two types, but the first type has been a mystery. Those ...

• 5 Apr 2020: Whoa

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  resembling "goat" or "tub". What in God's name is wrong with the ...

• 18 Oct 2020: Joe Jonah Euclid

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 5 comments

  ...  IF we Debate this. It does not matter IF people have the wrong opinion. It ONLY matters IF it is TRUE. Long Term. The younger ...

• 3 Sep 2020: More Maps!

  
  Aimless: · 4 comments

  ...  one another? Or perhaps "reinforce one another" is the wrong expression, if you consider maps to be means and not ends (I'm not sure I ...

• 6 Jul 2020: Loving for Jesus Years

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  is wrong for people my age to be getting married. Conservatively religious people ...

• 24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

  ...  approach was unfruitful. Apparently my instincts are just wrong. These are motivational and pedagogical problems, but I never got the ...

• 10 Jun 2020: A Strenuous Arrangement

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

  ...  when I leave the high register, and I tend to shake at the wrong frequency. I plan to compensate for this with an audience of academic ...

• 1 Apr 2020: Score One Random

  
  Links: · 5 comments

  Here's one I found through the referral logs: WebCollage, a splattered collection of random internet pictures. You'd think there'd be lots of porn, but amazingly enough, you'd also be wrong. ...

• 21 Dec 2020: Product Review: Oral Cleansers

  
  Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments

  ...  tingling chemical afterburn. Salt Water You can't go wrong with salt water. It doesn't change the taste of your mouth (except to ...

• 9 Dec 2020: 19 down, 30 to go

  
  Personal, Politics: · 11 comments

  ...  your judgement. Harmless? I mean, fuck. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure having sex with someone who is obviously too stoned ...

• 27 Aug 2020: Go Away

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  her head. I hate when people do that. What on earth is wrong with a simple, apologetic shrug? Especially when your workplace keeps ...

• 27 Jun 2020: I’m Done! Whee!

  
  Personal, Politics: · 1 comment

  ...  pop culture feminism has somewhere gone terribly, terribly wrong) ... look, just fuck off, okay? It's not so much the sexual ...

• 18 Jun 2020: stupidity does vex me

  
  Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments

  ...  is to say "sorry, we screwed up." and to make amends. The wrong response is to suggest that the customer is unreasonable to have possibly ...

• 11 Jun 2020: Ah, My Virgin Eyes!

  
  Human Fuzzies: denmark, soccer · 5 comments

  ...  mistakes. "Yorgensen" and "Yurgensen," they're both wrong, but for flying out ridiculous can't you just pick one and stick with ...

• 5 Jun 2020: Like A Virgin

  
  Meta: blogular wanking, fan mail, guest posts · 3 comments

  ...  soup awaits... I'm sorry, you've got the wrong blog: that would be here. Thank you, and do come ...

• 6 May 2020: Holland Ain’t Kansas

  
  Politics: Europe, obituaries · no comments

  ...  the one won by a dead man and his widow. You just can't go wrong with that sort of thing - who can run a smear campaign against a grieving ...

• 17 Apr 2020: surface learning

  
  Teaching: · 8 comments

  ...  teachers, but they don't quite realize what they're doing wrong. So for the love of elvis, tell them! Especially if it's an easy fix, ...

• 3 Apr 2020: Dinosaur Lecture Hall

  
  Personal: · 3 comments

  ...  nonsensical technical terminology, the emphasis on all the wrong words - especially words like "you should find" and "trivial." Every time ...

• 31 Mar 2020: Catching Up with Someone

  
  Meta, Whimsy: · 7 comments

  ...  and simple fixes for anyone who cares to tell me what's wrong, why it's wrong and exactly what I should do about it... but otherwise you're shit outta ...

• 19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  se there were many times when the mountains were in the wrong part of the sky. Magical suburb-fairies are vengeful ...

• 10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  may think 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 wrong ideas in a blog for public display; quite the contrary! Feedback is good, ...

• 20 Feb 2020: Lonely Thrust Faults

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  chug through three metric tons of algebra to find that I'm wrong. More importantly, though, I stop assuming that I'm the only one who ...

• 12 Feb 2020: Your Mom’s a Civic Duty

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  and laughing, because it knows how to pick the exact wrong time to call me in for jury duty. May God damn it. Also, one of my spams ...

• 27 Dec 2020: so you noticed

  
  Meta: blogtinkery · no comments

  ...  simply have to subtract a few hours. The only thing wrong is that my ears don't move like flippers, and also I don't have spines ...

• 24 Nov 2020: I know America

  
  Human Fuzzies: · no comments

  ...  that comes when you grow up in a place, but I was wrong. I do miss things about the States, and they're popping out of this book, ...

• 23 Nov 2020: synchronizing

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

  ...  yes, I should have known better, but god damnit what's wrong with just calling 'em romance novels? Sure, they may be targeted at ...

• 9 Sep 2020: verbal thinker

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  an exercise to enliven my prose. Intuitively, this seems wrong somehow - I live and breathe in words, automagically giving English life ...

• 20 Aug 2020: please, please

  
  Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments

  ...  horrendously mixing up and saying something completely wrong, I'm still trying. So I've been smiling a lot, and I've come to realize ...

• 22 Jul 2020: Link-O

  
  Meta: blegging, blogtinkery · no comments

  ...  a small selection of web rings on the main page. It feels wrong, and underdone somehow, as my previous web sites have all had multiple ...

• 10 Jul 2020: mmm, fake people

  
  Aimless, Personal: · no comments

  ...  hankering after that expansion pack. What the hell is wrong with me? I suppose the attraction lies in the fact that this is the ...