Search Results: friends
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17 Jul 2020: Winnowing Money Plant Seeds
Food: Brassicaceae, foraging, seeds · 1 comment... are just unusually good at hiding behind their chaffy friends. Whatever, lesson learned: On the next batch I will refrain from ...
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8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... income we would be just as unbearable as some of our friends. The Jupiter cocktail is more or less a martini with creme de ...
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26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 comments... I've been hanging out with too many industrious go-getter friends... but my thoughts have turned to solving the problem, instead of just ...
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8 Aug 2020: Reminder: NYC Reader Meet-Up (FREE BEER!)
Aimless: · 3 comments... this be a fun time hanging out with your favorite Internet friends you've never met, Seed will buy the first round of booze (or not-booze, ...
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22 Jul 2020: Volcanoes Are Good
Aimless: · 17 comments... are evil and an enemy of our salty friends. Evil? Just because Earth life is too weak to handle the occasional ... interior to its exterior. What do you think your salty friends are swimming in - space unicorn pee? Volcanoes also flux out CO2, which ... provide a source of energy for all manner of exotic salty friends. Volcanoes were here before we snotty, ungrateful hydrocarbons ...
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12 Jun 2020: Devonian Fossil Gorge to Become… SIlurian Fossil Gorge?
Aimless: · 9 comments... my family is on high ground, and playing host to some friends who've been evacuated from the flood zone. Buildings in Iowa City must ...
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21 May 2020: The Scouring of Fossil Gorge
Aimless: · 6 comments... weather in July 2020, my mother took me, my sister, and friends up to the local Army Corps flood control structure, and the Coralville ...
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11 Mar 2020: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food
Aimless: · 21 comments... who brag about the racial diversity of their childhood friends are doing, but whatever it is, it smells funny. Finally, in lieu of an ... accent. The other day I was poking about with a couple of friends at the entrance to the Lawson Adit, which is a tunnel on the Berkeley ...
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6 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... offers store credit to people who successfully spam their friends. So if you are a Threadless regular, please spam me with an invitation ...
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4 Feb 2020: New LJ Feed
Meta: · no comments... who isn't on my flist... you can add the new blog to your friendslist as green_gabbro_sb. Thanks, Dalryaug! Non-LJ users, please ...
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3 Jan 2020: Notes from the Iowa Frontlines
Politics: Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucuses, presidential elections · 2 comments... register at the caucus, you know!" said an assortment of friends, acquaintances, and campaign workers. "I think that would technically ...
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28 Nov 2020: It’s “That Time” of the Science
Science: goals, the scientific lifestyle, writing · 6 comments... week they had one from Neil Gaiman, which I and all of my friends agree was truly uplifting: The last novel I wrote (it was ANANSI ...
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14 Nov 2020: Hiking the Transgondwanan Supermountains
Science: Cambrian, Cambrian Explosion, Gondwana, Neoproterozoic, orogeny, Proterozoic · 4 comments... of the story is a doozy - it involves all our funny-bodied friends from the Cambrian Explosion. But I'm going to refer you all to Joe ...
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2 Nov 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Feyerabend
Science, Whimsy: philosophy of science, unprofessional boundaries · 2 comments... can even be sadists; but again they should choose their friends not by misleading propaganda -- "you are now going to do the most ...
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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... contrast, Pat at FairerScience hasn't made friends with her inner voice. Instead, she's made friends by using her "outer" voice in the bad girl row: When you sit in the ...
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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... was enough to drive me back to trashy fantasy novels. Some friends were trying to purge their groaning shelves, and brought bags and bags ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... of explaining how she hungers for closer professional friendships, takes a quick break to worry that her hunger is unreasonable: I ... upbringing socialized me to not expect my style of friendships in professional circles, until I woke up and realized how much I ...
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24 Nov 2020: Thanksblogging
Human Fuzzies, Personal: pie, thanksgiving · 4 comments... I have to say, it's a bit weird to see the friends I've been celebrating the past several Thanksgivings with profiled in ... milk to drink with a whole bowl of mac'n'cheez. Old friends who can make me laugh so hard my sides hurt. New friends who make me feel like I fit in society, in a way I wasn't sure I would ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... 29, I'll be in those cities on those dates. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell your colleagues. Anyone who's interested in ...
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6 Jul 2020: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments... to do with Jimmy Hoffa and Malcom X being undead zombie friends. But you can't create the environment described by the complainants ...
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29 Mar 2020: Insert “In Soviet Russia…” Joke Here
Politics, Science: peaceful nuclear explosions, seismology · 23 comments... involving lots of little children singing songs about friendship? Did Pavlenkova and Pavlenkova undertake such rituals before ...
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17 Mar 2020: Friday iTunes 8Ball
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments... as happiness, but it seems good enough for me. What do my friends really think of me? Schneider TM - Masters.mp3 My friends think I am mediocre techno? Where do I even get all this crap? Stupid ...
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7 Mar 2020: Drawings of Scientists
Links, Science: kids drawings, science in pop culture · 5 comments... a lot. . . . A scientist also can hang out with their friends and have fun." I hadn't realized how pervasive the classic lab coat ...
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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... I don't particularly want a mere job, but in some of my friends* I see horror and disgust at the idea which I've never been able to ... institution's home city would be nice. *Particularly friends from Tech. It takes a high level of privilege to turn up your nose at a ...
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16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments... one of these days I swear I'll get enough like-minded friends to settle down in the same city to create the hippie nerd commune of my ...
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12 Sep 2020: The 4th Circuit Pees on the 4th Amendment
Politics: civil liberties, fascist police states, FEMA · 2 comments... are trying to protect our Louisiana friends from the criminal element and bad people that might want harm done to ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 9-12
Personal: photoblog, Scandinavia, travelogue · no comments... for a Massive Nap. Stavanger is home to the oldest Friends Meeting in Norway, and once upon a time was the only place there where ... all the while chatting about the history of Norwegian Friends and the unique clerical tasks and tax monies accorded to Norway's free ...
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5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments... Amen - Missing the War Chumbawamba - She's Got All the Friends Mark McKay - I Know You Rider Suleskær - Over Havet - Rolling down ...
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12 Jul 2020: Another Tale From The Dreamtime…
Whimsy: dreams, guest posts · no comments... I've always been a bit of a 'nose man' -- one of my gay friends told me once that that was an expression of my latent homosexuality; I ...
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8 Jul 2020: Stop to smell the roses…
Politics: guest posts, monkeys · no comments... at the expense of SIZE. Well our big dinosaur friends ate big, innutritious plants. Their big bellies were likely ...
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29 Jun 2020: Stop to smell the roses…
Politics, Science: guest posts, monkeys · no comments... at the expense of SIZE. Well our big dinosaur friends ate big, innutritious plants. Their big bellies were likely ...
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23 May 2020: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah
Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments... before I've even entered grad school. I need lazier friends. Jealousy aside, though, I maintain that it is way classier to ...
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13 May 2020: Further Trivialities
Aimless, Links, Personal: blogular wanking, grad school, telephony · 5 comments... for anonymous sex with strangers and photographing your friends undressing in the locker room at the gym and then emailing the pictures ...
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12 May 2020: Friday Random 15
Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes, search requests · 7 comments... and kinda creepy. Which of Sara's Ex-Boyfriends Are ...
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3 May 2020: Two Tuesday Links
Links, Personal: Brazil, masculinity · 6 comments... a conversation I've had with basically all my male friends with whom it is reasonable to have such a conversation: Me: Hey, ...
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4 Apr 2020: Links to Daylight’s Rescue
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments... us to start looking at unconventional organizations. Friends with blogs! Tiny Purple Elephant is now one such, and with super ...
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21 Nov 2020: Vacation Message
Meta: thanksgiving · 3 comments... off to the Greater Bay Area tomorrow, to hang out with old friends and meet the people who might end up on my dissertation committee, if ...
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29 Sep 2020: Moral Leadership A La Dennis Hastert
Politics: · 1 comment... more. Halfway Sane Readers, write your representatives, friends, family, and editors. (via Kevin ...
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9 Aug 2020: Weekend Recap
Personal: video games · no comments... Extreme the way one would appreciate any event with friends and a zillion pinball machines on free play, to attempting to take it ...
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11 Jul 2020: Meyers and Briggs, Chew Thoughtfully on Your Toenails!
Whimsy: psychology, quizzes · no comments... think fast and have a smart mouth, is a hoot to your friends and razorwire to your enemies. You hold a grudge like a brass ring. You ...
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7 Jan 2020: Two
Aimless: · 2 comments... of the correct attitude to display towards womanly friends with cold extremeties: I think even at my cellular core, my body ...
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25 Aug 2020: Someone’s Been Shitting in My Toilet!
Personal: · 3 comments... that it must be one of my roommate's stoner basketball friends. I almost never interact with these people; I think I've exchanged ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... curriculum, it's what my academically successful friends are doing. The culture of being locked in to an academic career, ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... a relief to see waterfalls at last. I've always been good friends with streams - there was one I used to talk to on my way home from ...
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11 Mar 2020: Happy Singing Fun Friends
Links: cartoon violence · 1 commentThe mere act of violently killing off cute cartoon creatures, while it may be cathartic and fun, does not constitute cleverness. ...
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21 Dec 2020: Product Review: Oral Cleansers
Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments... oral surgery, then you find out how many of your mother's friends used to be dental hygienists. I've been rinsing, swishing, swoshing and ...
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4 Aug 2020: This Is Where Urban Legends Come From
Personal: Caltech, disease, pranks, racism · 2 comments... friends of mine bought a bunch of plastic balls - the kind they have in play ...
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5 Jul 2020: Liminal Kangaroo Courts
Meta: blogular wanking, snobbery · no comments... - I don't want a small permeable circle of internet friends, I want a large flowing crowd of admirers who are demonstrably ...
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16 Jun 2020: The Odd Couple
Uncategorized: guest posts · 1 comment... so, it doesn't need to be cleaned unless your friends are coming. When it becomes messy enough to be bothersome, that's when ...
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23 May 2020: Tomorrow Was Yesterday
Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no comments... themed stack*, taking black and white photographs of my friends, playing Statues in the middle of a yuppie pedestrian mall, having my ...
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20 May 2020: Stack Widow
Meta, Personal: blogular wanking, Caltech, Ditch Day · 3 comments... get to class. Which is great, except that all my senior friends have vanished inside that black plastic, leaving me to sit alone, in ...
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9 May 2020: Super Someone
Meta, Whimsy: fan mail, Internet doodads · no comments... I walked down to the geology building with a couple of friends, because they were giving away a bunch of old maps. My friends were carrying sledgehammers, just because. The grad students looked at ...
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4 May 2020: Hey Wait a Minute…
Links: · no comments... of Halloween pumpkins and street signs and trees. That, my friends, is a sense of place. Tacos. Mmm. ...
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24 Apr 2020: Someone Has a Crush On Me
Meta: Internet doodads · 47 comments... you who until you send lots of annoying emails to all your friends!" messages. To which I say: you lie! If someone really had a crush on ...
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22 Apr 2020: Things We Deep Fried This Evening
Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments... duck. A chicken. It's also worth mentioning that my friends bought the chicken in Chinatown and slaughtered it themselves in the ...
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11 Apr 2020: Rampaging Hordes of Someones
Meta: · no comments... then, you can't ask for too much from your potty-mouthed friends and coworkers. I never metacognitive process I didn't like. I, on the ... your recommendation on to my caffeine-swilling alcoholic friends. i am sacramentally in vain over the coasters to the right of you, ...
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20 Feb 2020: Lonely Thrust Faults
Personal: · no comments... of lots of my angst this term: I don't have very many friends to do homework with. I'm most efficient working alongside someone, when ...
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16 Feb 2020: vapid
Links: · no comments... me, it happens over spring break. Sign up and tell your friends. Here is an excerpt from a recent email, illustrating how one might go ...
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6 Feb 2020: Where’s My Jetpack?
Personal: · no comments... - hopefully I'll get enough to do the lab. My biologist friends are all a bit on edge lately, since they've been getting up every six ...
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5 Jan 2020: Super Supermarkets
Personal: brand loyalties, butter substitute, crap, dairy section, denmark, frisbee, grocery shopping, huff, matter of minutes, netto, parents, tupperware · no comments... the crap store brand in a huff, figuring all my vegan friends can provide their own damn butter substitute and I'll just use the tub ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... goes to Mars" and other similar items... I swear I had friends when I was 13, and plenty of them even though we were nowhere near the ...
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20 Nov 2020: the 10-crown store
Personal: search requests, socks · no comments... and I also picked up a pink pair that says "girls are best friends". They were made in the U.K. Europe is so surreal ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... Of course, I didn't feel like I had a very stable group of friends until roundabout my third term at Tech, and warm fuzzy feelings about ...
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26 Oct 2020: stealing stories
Meta: plagiarism, storytelling · no comments... the same rate, and I have more than one friend, my friends are going to generate more good anecdotes than I will. As a consequence ... like much of my coolness lies in all the good stories my friends have told me and all the neat things they do. At times it turns into a ...
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10 Oct 2020: Slippery When Wet
Personal: · no comments... The things you tell someone when they're trying to make friends with your cat. I didn't, because my ex-boyfriend is not really a cat, ...
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8 Oct 2020: From the Department of Cheap Activism
Links, Politics: Internet activism, pacifism · no comments... Congressional representatives, courtesy of the American Friends Service ...
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25 Sep 2020: Whenever I look at the
Politics: · no comments... is rather limited here in Copenhagen, and that my friends and family form a small and liberal sample of public opinion - but if ...
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12 Sep 2020: some thoughts
Politics: · no comments... the Second: despite having several American friends from my language courses, I haven't felt the presence of an actual ...
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: I took a nap yesterday
Personal: · no comments... I felt like a broken Rolodex, flipping through all of my friends and family to make sure none of them had reason to be in Manhattan, ...
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3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…
Meta, Personal: · no comments... It's the same principle which leads me to a group of friends in realityland - birds of a feather and all that. Cliques happen, even ...
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2 Sep 2020: redesign
Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, introspection · no comments... lonely, really, especially since so many of my shiny new friends from Danish class had left for Prague or Budapest or Hamburg or ...
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20 Aug 2020: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments... country where I know almost nobody and am trying to make friends. As antithetical to the spirit of snotty, arrogant "take me as I am or ...
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14 Aug 2020: rødgrød med fløde
Human Fuzzies: Danish, pronunciation · 1 comment... the thunderous applause from your new, awe-struck Danish friends, and start hitting the busking circuits around Copenhagen. Of ...
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26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments... midwestern twang is softening just a little, I think. My friends here have commented on my excessive use of the word "dude" and I've ...
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24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser
Personal: · 1 comment... to get into alternative music, and prattles to all her friends about it. Someone just starting to think about the downsides of ...
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20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... hair, after a year and a half of cuddling and making our friends puke. I was going back to Iowa, and then to Denmark, and we won't see ...