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28 Apr 2020: Cocktails with the House Nocino
Food: cocktails, nocino, shochu, whisky · no commentsThis is the second year in a row that my nocino has turned out to be (1) disappointing on its own, and (2) the alchemical key that opens up another disappointing bottle on my shelf. Last year's tricky spirits were the unaged, 100% rye Wry Moon - too ha ...
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18 Oct 2020: Macerate ALL the things!
Aimless: Asteraceae, Berberidaceae, dandelions, Gentianaceae, gin, Juglandaceae, Lamiaceae, lemon balm, lilac, liqueurs, Oleaceae, pineappleweed, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Simaroubaceae · no comments... variety of lavender that I picked up at a nursery a few years ago isn't necessarily the most-preferred culinary or liqueur-making ...
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11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments... I started riding my bike again two years ago, I expected to have a few scary traffic moments and a little bit of ...
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17 May 2020: But I’m Not Dead Yet!
Meta: April fools · 4 comments... notice. Blogging has been a rewarding hobby for the past 8 years and I am not going to quit entirely, though I'm thinking about if/how I ...
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25 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists? Part II
Human Fuzzies, Science: disciplinary boundaries, professional licensing, Washington · 14 comments... requirements doesn't count towards the necessary 5 years. So, assuming I have understood the requirements correctly (always a gamble!), it would take a minimum of 6 years to become a Washington professional geologist. Even if there is a way to ...
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11 Feb 2020: An Open Letter to the Environmental Geologists of the Past
Human Fuzzies, Science: cartography, environmental consulting · 11 comments... Geologists, Engineers, and Technical Illustrators of 20 Years Ago: Please remember that the real audience for your work - the ...
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23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 comments... pie I made from this recipe for Thanksgiving several years ago is what kicked off my love affair with meringue pies, and with ... deep, intuitive understanding that usually only comes from years of fruitless head-desking at your own mistakes. Or at least, you can ...
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15 Jan 2020: Manhattan Fault Line
Aimless: · 3 comments... line that runs through Manhattan and goes off "every 150 years". I was skeptical. The Eastern United States has a long and complex ...
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13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 comments... process which takes thousands to hundreds of thousands of years; since we only plan things 50-100 years in advance at best, we might as well consider these ancient aquifers to ...
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7 Jan 2020: Volcano Geodesy 101
Aimless: · 6 comments... GPS station from White Lake, Wyoming. For the past several years, it's been moving upwards at a rate of about 4 cm/yr - if it keeps going, which it obviously won't, it would take about 10 billion years to get to the moon. This is the cartoon version of what it is looking ...
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4 Jan 2020: 2020 Blogolutions
Meta: · 4 comments... resolution is, as usual, to floss my teeth every day. Two years ago I made it all the way to March on that one. During January, I will ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 commentsGeotripper always comes up with the best memes [Oh, wait, looks like Brian at Clastic Detritus might have priority on this one - sorry Brian!] He's made some psychic predictions for 2020. But I think his crystal ball must have some inclusions that are scat ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... An active mud volcano 102. Tar pits - I somehow spent 6 years in the greater Los Angeles area without ever once seeing the La Brea tar ...
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6 Nov 2020: Why Proposition 8 Hurts So Much
Politics: · 3 comments... made me absolutely heartsick. California was my home for 9 years, and is the bluest of blue states, the sort of state one expects to be ...
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27 Oct 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #152
Aimless: · 10 comments... Google Earth? competition has been going on for almost two years now, wandering the geoblogosphere from winner to winner. During that ...
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26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 comment... igneous intrusive episode in the region was 34 million years ago in the Cerrillos Hills. There are a couple of rocks I picked up in ... had to bet, I would bet that Thomas M. Rock is 1.4 billion years old, related to what was formerly the United States' primary source of ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... kids something to remind them of the fun of geology for years to come. And if the project isn't funded by Halloween, it won't ...
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9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately
Aimless: · 3 comments... chemical whimsy of a magma chamber hundreds of millions years ago could determine whether or not your house falls down tomorrow. Robert ...
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6 Oct 2020: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!
Aimless: · 11 comments... geothermal energy resources for the first time in over 30 years. During the past three decades, we've made significant progress on ... been happening in the mantle over the past 30 million years. You can see lots of tectonic features. Check out: Yellowstone and its ...
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1 Oct 2020: In Which I Want Your Money: Donors Choose Challenge 2020
Aimless: · 3 comments... mothership, has put up matching money for the past two years' challenges. I don't have details about matching funds for this year's ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... I've been a professional activist for over ten years, I should have this shit down. But I froze. Marcia Greenberger at the ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... with evaporating water at some point in the past million years? Go ahead and call it calcite. Calling something calcite will give you ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... Seriously, I am not a fashionista and it's been 4 years since I've set foot in Hollywood, but if Dennis Kucinich has really ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... article is here. A similar study was published sixteen years ago, not in Nature but in Science. The first author on the 2020 Science ... length of time between eruptions at Old Faithful for many years. Silver and Valette-Silver looked at this data, and found that while the ...
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30 Jun 2020: Tunguskatennial
Aimless: · no comments... hundred years ago today, a meteor exploded above Siberia, flattening trees over an area ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... doing science and when it works it takes two and a half years to find out that it's worked. It's a very different sort of metabolic ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments... all earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater in the calendar years 2020-2020. This procedure falls apart on close examination, and I will ...
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20 Jun 2020: Someone Punk’d the CBS Science Desk!
Aimless: · 17 comments... Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago. The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... trio of extra-solar, several-Earth-mass bodies 42 light-years away definitely merit the label of "planet". Centauri Dreams comments ...
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12 Jun 2020: Devonian Fossil Gorge to Become… SIlurian Fossil Gorge?
Aimless: · 9 comments... City is experiencing its second "500 year" flood in 15 years, and Coralville Lake has overtopped its dam... again. And the river ... models to determine water elevations during freakishly wet years. Whether we're just having a statistical freakout, or whether the amount ...
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: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... of the Big One coming to the Bay Area in the next 30 years, but the odds of it happening during the 3-5 years you're going to live in that grad student hovel are quite a bit less ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 commentsIt's been two years* since the ground opened near Sidoarjo, Indonesia, spewing mud over the ... 201 - PDF available here Footnoes *Er, technically, two years and two days. I'm not always so good at catching bandwagons. I managed ...
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19 May 2020: I’d Like to Thank the Academy
Aimless: acknowledgments, gratitude, thanks, writing · 5 comments... ok: the blandness is just a stand-in for some moment N years in the future when I finally realize what I actually learned in grad ...
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5 May 2020: Tag Clouds for my Papers
Aimless: · 7 comments... study surface temperature total value variations water years created at TagCrowd.com The number of tags my final paper shares with ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... to provide varied and interesting opportunities a few years down the road. So. Now that I've just myself seem like a really ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... of culture). I've spent more time in the past few years thinking about feminist theory than about environmentalism - not for any ...
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19 Apr 2020: Earthquake in Illinois: What’s up with Wabash Valley?
Aimless: · 16 comments... seen an awful lot of seismic action over the past 12,000 years: Estimated locations of prehistoric earthquakes in Illinois and ... as you are probably imagining. Six hundred million years ago, the former supercontinent of Rodinia was in the late stages of a ...
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16 Apr 2020: RIP Ed Lorenz
Aimless: · 4 comments... against this fact in utter frustration for the past 45 years. Quoting from an email Inez Fung sent 'round to the ...
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: Women in Science Linky-Post
Links: · 3 comments... was born on Nantucket more than a hundred and fifty years before. To add to the depression factor, I worried that uncovering ...
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24 Mar 2020: I’ve Been Subducted Again
Aimless: · 4 comments... movie and/or TV form, the science that it took me multiple years, pints of blood and continuing therapy sessions to learn, and why I can't ...
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14 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: The Bishop Tuff
Aimless: · 6 comments... an outcrop of Bishop tuff, an ash deposit created 760,000 years ago when the Long Valley Caldera exploded - though “exploded” ...
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29 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Desert Varnish
Aimless: · 5 comments... that has been sitting there untouched for thousands of years. During that time, it accumulated a thin coating of windblown gunk - ...
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: Focus is a Renewable Resource
Aimless: · 5 comments... have prevented a number of very bad earworms over the years. Anyway, this idea of returning to the manuscript sits right next to my ...
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22 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Oil Shale
Aimless: · 12 comments... which is a series of rocks laid down about fifty million years ago when the West was wet. The shales come from a set of lakes that ...
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20 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... at All My Faults are Stress-Related, Ten Million Years of Solitude, and The Dynamic Earth. One point that hasn't been discussed ...
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14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman
Aimless: · 15 comments... eye-roller, of course, is that it's been almost 40 years since the University of Wisconsin-Madison first recognized the Teaching ...
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6 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... the takeoff in solar power in California in the last 8 years. If you know your San Francisco area geography, check out the difference ...
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1 Feb 2020: We Can Have a New Geological Epoch If We Want
Aimless: · 21 comments... example, in North America, sediments from 360-320 million years old are mostly limestones which outcrop in the Mississippi River Valley. Sediments from 320-300 million years old, by contrast, form many of the coal mines in the Eastern U.S. To ...
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31 Jan 2020: Hello World
Meta: introduction · 31 comments... my pseudonymity has been mostly a joke for most of the 6+ years I've been blogging. I've already suffered the embarrassment of a ...
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: Moving to New Internets
Meta: · 5 comments... and besides, I just renewed the domain for 2 more years. I'll keep blogging here, too, whenever inspiration strikes for a post ...
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23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie
Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments... is partly an adaptation to warming over the past 100 years." In honor of National Pie Day, Callan Bentley shares his favorite ...
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18 Jan 2020: Fred Meyer French Onion with Bacon Vegetable Dip
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: iTunes iChing, reviews of stuff, vegetable dip · 4 comments... sense of order and purpose and shiny in many years... and then I tried this vegetable dip. It tastes exactly like the floor ...
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10 Jan 2020: Saline Injections for Venice?
Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments... successful, raise the entire city by 25-30cm in about 10 years. The idea is to do the opposite of what mid-20th century industry and ...
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14 Nov 2020: Hiking the Transgondwanan Supermountains
Science: Cambrian, Cambrian Explosion, Gondwana, Neoproterozoic, orogeny, Proterozoic · 4 comments... Andes. Those mountains lived for a quarter of a billion years, all the while dumping sand and dust into the oceans. When you wanted to ...
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8 Nov 2020: Can You Read Me?
Meta: blogtinkery, datamining, flesch-kincaid, readability, reading level, writing · 2 comments... do indeed reflect life events: I've left the past two years un-annotated to protect the innocent; draw your own conclusions. The ... has gotten slightly harder to understand over the past six years. I have also been writing longer posts. If these trends continue, I will ...
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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... Don't you have to make that last over the next two years, and don't you have to buy a new computer and computers for your grad ...
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15 Oct 2020: Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us Will Provide a Nice Soak
Personal, Science: camping, hot springs, Long Valley · 3 comments... waiting to happen. Seven hundred and sixty thousand years ago, a volcano went off in Eastern California, covering the western ...
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5 Oct 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Berea Sandstone
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 1 comment... and then into Pennsylvania. It's an area that, 330 million years ago, was occupied by a large bay off the epicontinental sea that covered ...
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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... ed. This is a collection of essays from the early years of the eponymous magazine, devoted to abolishing the white race (by ...
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26 Jul 2020: Galveston Bids for Darwin Award
Politics, Science: idiocy, natural hazards, urban planning · 3 comments... - when I say "soon" I mean "in the next several thousand years" and really, who thinks that far ahead? Even if we do think that far ...
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6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing
Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments... a universal health care system in place in the next 30 years? The Covering: Harvest Tune - Mike Marshall, "Into The Cauldron" The ...
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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... you who haven't been reading this blog for the past five years might not be aware of this, but when I decided not to pursue an academic ...
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11 Apr 2020: Looking for New Earth
Science: extrasolar planets, telescopes · 6 comments... resolving Earth-like planets at a distance of 30 light-years. It's an immense technical feat, but a number of engineering challenges ...
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24 Mar 2020: Rape: Still Judged by Your Relationship to the Rapist
Politics: bravery, rape · 7 comments... to watch sports on television or play pinball. Over the years, the bar has seen a lot of incarnations. When the neighborhood was mostly ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... bugs me is that, if I decide in five or eight or ten years that I am through with academia and decide to quit in pursuit of ... not gender-specific). I would not be surprised if three years from now, I feel the same way about grad school. The line between ...
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18 Feb 2020: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos
Science: cnidarians, embryos, paleontology, Precambrian · 2 comments... time the Doushantuo Formation was deposited ~550 million years ago, cnidarians had already split off from the lineage that evolved into ...
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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... we still need to prioritize. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old; anyone who says otherwise is itching for a fight. And for crying out ...
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26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie
Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 comment... but I think that pie has suffered, the past couple years, from a lack of good Meyer lemons. There's nothing quite like having a ...
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7 Nov 2020: The Last-Minute Ballot
Politics: California ballot propositions, endorsements · no comments... cop routine that Boxer and Feinstein have played over the years, I am getting sick of the centrist toadying. And she'll probably win ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... wins out by nearly two orders of magnitude). In five years of blogging, I've meandered over a pretty wide variety of topics, with no ... including a few that I'd never've expected in a million years. Top Ten Most-Googled Entries Friday Random Nineteen - I shared my ...
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11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance
Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments... The magma's movement can be observed over periods of years to days, by examining signals such as the tilt and bulge of a volcano's ... earthquakes that occurred on the island during ten years of activity at the Soufrière Hills volcano. By looking at the seismic ...
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18 Jul 2020: One More Way in which Global Warming Can Kill You
Science: climate change, unlikely catastrophes, volcanoes · 15 comments... at the dates of volcanic collapses during the last ~30,000 years and found that most of them occurred during periods of abrupt ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... studied or worked in the United States for at least five years I also need: K-12 girls who are interested in STEMM K-12 girls who ...
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8 Jul 2020: Friday Mountain Blogging: Paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada
Science: rock blogging, Sierra Nevada, stable isotopes · 6 comments... date. When dinosaurs roamed the earth 100 million years ago, these rocks were coagulating in a magma chamber several miles below. ... cargo, the top just barely above water. About 3 million years ago, the heavy twin may have detached from the Sierra granite and fallen ...
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23 Jun 2020: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache
Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments... if you're interested, here it is. Because I had 5 years of archives to contend with, and the WordPress importer can sometimes ...
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7 Jun 2020: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics
Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... vs. Climatological "Skeptic". And the thing is, after years of blogging I'm getting pretty good at figuring out the underlying ...
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17 Apr 2020: Dear ASUC Candidates
Personal: Berzerkeley · no comments... government since I dropped my ASCIT membership four years ago. Now I have the United Auto Workers for all my giving-a-shit needs, ...
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16 Apr 2020: About
: · no comments... I've changed my mind about lots of things in the last ten years. Email: criminy.crickets [at] gmail.com The Blog Green Gabbro is ...
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21 Mar 2020: Thomas Kuhn and Big Historiography
Science: Berzerkeley, Big History, Kuhn, Lacan, Marxism, paradigms, philosophy of science · 4 comments... was word of the year at New College, like, three or four years ago! Actually, no, it was five years ago, I'm pretty sure. So you see, we are woefully behind on our course ...
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17 Mar 2020: Friday iTunes 8Ball
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments... music shuffle meme! The theme: magic eight ball, c. 12 years old. How does the world see me? Miles Davis - Will O' The ...
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13 Mar 2020: Quickies
Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments... science + social science = lurve? "All the years I worked as a geophysicist, I wondered about issues like global poverty ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... bad English-language haiku about the sakura*, thousands of years' worth of human fruit cultivation, or millions of years of flowered-plant/pollinator co-evolution. Perhaps, if we are ...
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27 Jan 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Caliche
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks, stable isotopes · 4 comments... rose fast, about 1 mm/yr over a period of 4 million years, which is of tremendous interest to those of us who get paid to think ...
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8 Jan 2020: Rocks are the Mind Killer
Links, Science, Whimsy: science made stupid · no comments... is a clastic sedimentary! It is formed over thousands of years by the gradual process of erosion and deposit." "Particles of anxiety ...
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22 Dec 2020: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments... like looking a gift horse in the mouth. I had four years of feeling stupid at Tech and I don't intend to go through that ever ...
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11 Nov 2020: Happy Armistice Day
Politics: Armistice Day, pacifism · no comments... years ago, the War to End All Wars was ended. After WWII, the phrase "war to ...
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26 Oct 2020: How Homosexuality Hurts You
Politics, Science: queerness, smart-assery, yeast · 3 comments... years of pestering wacky homophobic activists to describe the precise ...
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14 Oct 2020: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel
Science: crackpots · 3 comments... a glass funnel, with the bottom of the steam sealed. Three years were allowed for the pitch to consolidate, and in 2020 the sealed stem ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, has been trying for more than two years to name the city's main post office on Allston Way for Shirek, a civil ... activist who served on the Berkeley City Council for 20 years. [...] Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, objected Tuesday to Lee's proposal and ...
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21 Sep 2020: Balancing Work and Family: Just Use Your Penis
Politics: lazy journalism, lifestyles of the privileged minority, sexism, work vs. family · 2 comments... and about half wanted to stop work for at least a few years. Yes, it's true: without the vital life-balancing tool that is the ...
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20 Sep 2020: Climate Change in Human Teeth
Science: climate change, stable isotopes, teeth · no comments... order to study climate variations during the last 2020 years in eastern France, fifty-eight oxygen isotope compositions of phosphate ...
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3 Sep 2020: Unpacking Someone
Meta: fan mail, hate mail · 1 comment... nice if someday "permanent" meant more than a mere pair of years at most. But! I get to unpack my stuff. And I have a fabulous new ...
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24 Jul 2020: A Distribution of Props
Personal: pie, thanksgiving, travelogue · 4 comments... with whom one can pick up almost where one left off four years ago: Three squillion props To Francis Strand, for en fabulofika: Two ...
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22 Jul 2020: Friday Roch blogging: multilingual edition
Human Fuzzies: guest posts, hockey, rock blogging · no comments... (like languages and people who spoke them). A few years ago, a new children's book came out, about someone growing up in rural ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... surface. *I did feel Hector Mine, but that was six years ago and has been obliterated by the shame of several smaller earthquakes ...
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16 Jun 2020: Garbage Day
Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, classism, Dianne Feinstein, earthquakes, feminism, flag-burning, rape, welfare · 4 comments... see the young earthers pile on to the idea of 150 million years' worth of plate tectonics happening in a single event. If I'd known ...
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29 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Birthday Edition
Science: basalt, Hawaii, igneous rocks, lava, rock blogging · 6 comments... a shared party, certainly. And here's another, that's 11 years older (minus up to 20 days as the photo is only dated to the life of that ...
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5 Apr 2020: Only Terrorists Go to Canada
Politics: fascist police states, Homeland Stupidity, passports · 17 comments... address in an RFID chip on a document that lasts for ten years? Even normal people change addresses on that kind of time ...
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30 Mar 2020: New Athletic Allegiances and the Advanced Study of Mud
Meta, Personal: academia, Announcements · 11 comments... your applause! Topics to be covered in the next 5+ years may include (in that nested list format that's so trendy this ...
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23 Mar 2020: Cyclic Extinctions?
Science: data mining, mass extinctions, statistics · no comments... and vanished in cycles of mass extinction every 62 million years, say two UC Berkeley scientists who discovered the pattern after a ... of fossil records going back for more than 500 million years. [...] Perhaps, [the authors] suggested, there's an unknown "Planet X" ...
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18 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Bishop Tuff
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 4 comments... an outcrop of Bishop tuff, an ash deposit created 760,000 years ago when the Long Valley Caldera exploded - though "exploded" is, if ...
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5 Mar 2020: Science Friday on Saturday
Science: funny, hydrothermal vents, oceanography, science journalism · 9 comments... our research fleet is going to explode in three to five years. Not only will the ships not be replaced, the explosions will kill any ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... correction, drum went to cal tech for two years and majored in math, but transferred to cal state long beach and ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments... not "primordial". Before there was Pangaea (c. 250 million years ago) there was Rodinia (c. 1 billion years ago). Before that, there may or may not have been other supercontinents, ...
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7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments... more than 1,000 people back to the state in four years of aggressive promotion. But that's not enough to offset Iowa's ...
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21 Dec 2020: Glædelig Jul
Meta: blog status updates, Christmas, weather · 1 comment... Snow Your attendance record in the past few years has been abysmal. You have less than twenty-four hours to materialize in ...
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13 Dec 2020: Top Five in 2020
Meta: clip show, procrastinating, skunks · 2 comments... - The spoon is a puddingvore, honed by years of evolution to subsist primarily on yogurt, tapioca, and ...
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10 Nov 2020: Money in Four More Years
Politics: fiscal policy, investing, money · 3 commentsNow that we're doomed to an eternity of wailing, gnashing our teeth, and hiding our degenerate sexualities from roving mobs of angry countryfolk, we should really be thinking about building our nest eggs for an eventual flight to Canada and/or hush payment ...
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3 Nov 2020: Back on the Horse
Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments... is still in the fridge. Unopened, it'll last for three years, but I don't want to keep politicized apple cider through a move. So in ... I voted Green in 2020** - in California - and four years after the fact people are still hurling invective at Nader voters quite ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... been giving these assholes better than equal time for four years and I still think they're assholes. At some point, enough becomes more ...
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: On What Grounds Is This Legal?
Politics: · 2 comments... your ears and your eyes tightly shut to avoid the past 200 years of American jurisprudence, but I'm open to less sophisticated legal ...
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30 Aug 2020: Note to People on Political Volunteer Phone Lists
Politics: i hate everything, impeach Bush, US party politics · no comments... befouled soul aren't dark enough to wish four more years of George W. Bush on the world - not even if it does happen to be a world ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... a far more unified United States now than we were 200 years ago), it's about forcing regional majorities to obtain the consent of ...
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17 Aug 2020: Political Gear Extravaganza
Politics: · no comments... rest of this post will be about swag. Why, after 23 years of silent and effective oppression, is my inner hipster fashionista ...
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9 Aug 2020: Weekend Recap
Personal: video games · no comments... who has been playing Dig-Dug 15 hrs/day for the past ten years. He hasn't yet burst upon the world classic video game scene, but when he ... choose, and play nothing but Elevator Action for fourteen years straight. I couldn't actually see a tear in the eye of the Crystal ...
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19 Jul 2020: Actually I Always Expect Synchronicity
Personal: · no comments... Iowa City, where I usually meet someone I haven't seen in years; occasionally someone I know but don't immediately recognize (cuz, you know, years) will walk by and tell me that someone else I haven't seen in years has ...
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27 Jun 2020: Spoons
Whimsy: pudding, silliness, spoons · 3 comments... meat with a spoon? The spoon is a puddingvore, honed by years of evolution to subsist primarily on yogurt, tapioca, and applesauce. ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... mining from the "overdrafts" that often appear in dry years, when the year's use is greater than the year's precipitation; in a well-managed basin these years would be balanced out by additional recharge during wet cycles. I snagged ...
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11 Apr 2020: Someone Misses Someone Else
Meta: · 1 comment... and we have the same birthday but I haven't seen her for years! Are you stalking her, mchsi.com? I can't help you with that. Update 13 ...
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29 Mar 2020: Poppies, poppies
Personal: · 1 comment... year, so the show wasn't as spectacular as it's been in years past, but there were still some respectable shots for the ...
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31 Jan 2020: Someone Has a Riddle
Meta: · no comments... too. It's the only White House press release I've seen in years that doesn't induce vomiting! Hooray for having some ribs. chicken fried ...
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8 Dec 2020: Peer Review the Asbestos Way
Politics, Science: · 1 comment... financial interests in the matter at issue has, in recent years, advocated a position on the specific matter at issue is currently ... multiple peer reviews for the same agency in recent years, or has conducted a peer review for the same agency on the same specific ...
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25 Nov 2020: Pie Is Fightin’ Words
Food, Human Fuzzies: book reviews, Iowa City, pie, pie shakes · 2 comments... milk. --Pascale le Draoulec, American Pie Eighteen years I lived in that town. Eighteen years, and it takes some uppity woman from Santa Monica to tell me about pie ...
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21 Nov 2020: That’s So 2020
Science: · no comments... finding ingenious "evidence" of "impact scenarios" for years. So fuck the unusual petrology of the month; I'm not qualified to mock it ...
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9 Nov 2020: What I’m Reading
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... of something I would have been vituperating for years, if I hadn't been ignoring it entirely. On the other hand, it's probably ...
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18 Oct 2020: Joe Jonah Euclid
Human Fuzzies: · 5 comments... flyers around the Caltech campus my freshman and sophomore years. I haven't seen any fresh material in quite some time; but whilst ... Equally Well provides the Communications. Thru some Years, there is a smaller and smaller number of people Practicing the Cosmic ...
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3 Oct 2020: Happy New Water Year
Personal: driving, water years · no comments... work we do much analysis in Water Years, which begin in October. With almost-spectacular timing, the gathering ...
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15 Sep 2020: Shitfaced in Des Moines
Human Fuzzies: · 2 comments... and Do Business In, Really!" as we've been told all these years. The Shitfaces, Iowa is not as appropriate as some other nasty ...
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2 Aug 2020: Housing Markets
Personal, Politics: apartment hunting, capitalism sucks, hey lazyweb, Los Angeles · 3 comments... Dimas, which won't be trendy for another couple thousand years) so the ultra-tiny, ultra-expensive IKEA studio is not an option. I'm ...
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8 Jul 2020: Blog Birthday II: Return of the Sleazy Googlers
Meta: · 4 comments... of meta-meta calendrical hoo-hah, I will say this: two years is both longer and shorter than you think it is. And I hope you don't ...
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6 Jul 2020: Loving for Jesus Years
Personal: · no comments... in the murk on how exactly to translate between "Jesus years" and normal time. As for the theology that was presented: every time I ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... therapeutic level with some of it; for the past four years, I've struggled to maintain health and balance while watching bits of my ...
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23 Jun 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · no comments... But I'm not really qualified - you need at least three years experience in the pirate or monkey industries before you'll even be ...
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13 Jun 2020: Heat Absorbtion Gown
Personal: · 5 comments... California, in June, with black academic hats. Four years of accumulated knowlege just sizzled away. Whee! Blogging will be light ...
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6 Jun 2020: Someone’s Unemployed!
Meta: · 1 comment... can't remember half the things I've done in the past four years that might look nice on a resume. That's bad. Someone's been sending ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... all the shitty things the U.S. did to Hawaii a hundred years ago, and their shitty socioeconomic implications. But it's still an ...
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5 Mar 2020: Orders of Magnitude
Personal: · 1 comment... order, a feat I have not been able to accomplish in 21 years of living in this family. It was impressive. However, I must insist that ...
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1 Mar 2020: Gibbs Strikes Again
Politics, Whimsy: · 1 comment... affair. After all, we got rid of Saddam ten years ago, at the end of the Gulf War; we had to use time machines to do it, ...
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23 Feb 2020: Thank You, Science
Links, Personal: · 2 comments... great lines - Science has learned a good deal in recent years about the habits and requirements of introverts. But it also does this ...
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18 Sep 2020: The Bright Side of Global Warming
Politics: · 2 comments... gas, oil, and mineral extraction may, within 40-50 years, seriously impact wildlife populations and ecosystems across 50-80% of ...
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9 Jul 2020: Quality Control Freak
Personal: ants, cleaning, household pests · no comments... them apart - and as the story goes, for the past several years they've come marching through holes in the walls at the slightest hint of ...
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19 Jun 2020: PE Class Revolution
Links: dance, exercise, guest posts · 2 comments... discovered what I'd been training for during all those years of step aerobics classes. Now, a SoCal school is letting kids play in ...
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9 Jun 2020: My fault
Science: canned goods, death, earthquakes, guest posts, Hayward Fault, san andreas · 4 comments... of a magnitude 6.7 or higher quake within the next 30 years is 32%. It runs straight through the UC Berkeley campus, and ...
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3 Jun 2020: Penicillin 6-5000
Personal: health care, TMI · 6 comments... haven't had an ear infection since I was something like 8 years old. It's absolutely undignified, to walk around pointing the opposite ...
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22 May 2020: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Personal: · 4 comments... blind-hearted old fogies insist that I'm living the best years of my life, this feeling is what I think they are missing. Not to mention ...
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17 May 2020: Old Whippersnappers
Personal: · no comments... that a particular bench has survived in the lounge for 50 years - but it's hard to maintain the interested nodding end of a conversation ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... what kind of learning I've been doing for the past three years, right? It's been incredibly frustrating to put so much time and energy ...
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30 Mar 2020: Crying Baby Airlines
Personal: · 4 comments... and since I've been feeling altogether too much like 14 years old lately, was my school district the only one to be infested by kids ...
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23 Mar 2020: Someone Found Me!
Meta: · 1 comment... when my family moved in to our current house, and after 15 years of free monga-channel viewing my parents disconnected it themselves. ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... The registrar's office put out some figures a couple years ago showing that the women's mean grade point average at Tech was a tenth ...
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11 Feb 2020: Sorry, try again
Personal: · no commentsHere's an old, but timeless, anecdote, because otherwise I'd post something syrupy and rambling about wondering where all my scholastic enthusiasm has gone to lately and if I should just go to Mongolia instead. You probably don't want to hear that. Or mayb ...
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31 Jan 2020: Stupid Economy
Politics: · no comments... double the amount of Peace Corps service in the next five years. So I read the State of the Union address, without taking any ... Peace Corps, and am seriously thinking about doing my two years of service after graduation. It's certainly better than the Marine ...
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13 Jan 2020: Shut Up, Artemis!
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... of Zeus and some hijinks and hilarity which took twelve years to construct. The greatest thing about it, though, was the sense of place ...
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8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois
Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment... to teach the class. "I haven't taught undergraduates in 30 years," he said. "I'd also encourage everyone to go check out Introduction to ...
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28 Dec 2020: Night of the Living Dead Mall
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Iowa City, Lord of the Rings, urban sprawl · no comments... of the place as a study in retail failure. You see, a few years ago they installed a giganto-huge chocolate-covered scab complex on the ...
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7 Dec 2020: Gravitas
Links, Science: gravity, mapping, New Madrid · no comments... stripe down the middle marks a zone where, 600 million years ago, the continent started to split apart. It stopped before getting ...
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21 Nov 2020: joining my drunk…
Politics: · no comments... to slip into the White House, I vowed to spend these four years totally piss drunk. Crap political news is much easier to handle that ...
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17 Nov 2020: jeg var…
Personal: diary, words · no comments... higher standards on my part, but I'm inclined to blame two years without serious literary influences. Now all of a sudden I'm feeling ...
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14 Nov 2020: tuitive
Personal: · no comments... days ago) gotten a huge file of correspondence from two years ago, and have been reading through it with the bizarre and morbid ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... This is when I wish I had kept a diary two years ago. Thinking back on the beginnings of my frosh year, I do remember ...
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19 Oct 2020: trains
Personal: · no comments... Cologne (or Köln, if zou're zo inzlinedzz.) Three years ago, I had spent about two days there on the classic high school ...
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15 Oct 2020: I don’t know if you’ve
Politics: · no comments... that all the good cultural heritage is roughly 800 years old, plus or minus a few centuries. A function of urban erosion times, ... York City skyline, "forever" apparently means "about 40-50 years," as that seems to be the time scale for new, important buildings going ...
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9 Oct 2020: Going Swimming
Personal: · 1 comment... the point of the whole exercise. I feel alive. After two years living in California I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but this was the ...
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26 Sep 2020: Modern-Day Vikings
Whimsy: denmark, Vikings · no comments... it as a herdsman! Denmark has clearly been softened by 800 years of Christianity, and few of her citizens are fit for anything more ...
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6 Sep 2020: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments... last battle fought anywhere near my hometown was over 200 years ago, and happened mostly by way of smallpox. Like many Americans, I have ...
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31 Aug 2020: recovered conversation
Personal: · no comments... future of human artistic impulse (and we're talking two years old, now, incredible how time passes only when you're not looking, his ...
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30 Jul 2020: reviewed
Meta: · no comments... that I have been unsuccessfully trying to get rid of for years." Blogging, of course, is an inherently arrogant hobby. I'm probably ...
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24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser
Personal: · 1 comment... yeah, I was faking it. The phase lasted for almost two years, but I never really got used to it, and eventually realized that it just ...
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15 Jul 2020: no hate mail yet
Meta: blog status updates · no comments... album cover graphics, and if I'm still doing this in 10 years I might have earned the minimum amount to get a gift certificate. I've ...
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14 Jul 2020: my cat is a huge grouch
Personal: · no comments... bag-o-pot remark set me thinking. Mom's spent the last 20 years raising my sister and I, trying to be a proper role model, and now we're ...