Search Results: great
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29 Apr 2020: Pickled Japanese Knotweed
Food: bread, knotweed, pickles, Polygonaceae · no comments... so of chopped fresh knotweed. The bread is good, but not great. This year I'm trying pickles. I did two batches of brine: One was a ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... minority viewpoints and "alternative" theories can have great pedagogical value - even if most students reject them in the end, they ...
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8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... possible to use too much zest, but this is not as great a risk as using insufficient zest and having a pie with no zing. 1-3 tsp ... ice and strain into a martini glass. It's good but not great; there was more lime than kiwi, and together they overpowered the violet. ...
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24 Feb 2020: “Something Called Volcano Monitoring”: Bobby Jindal Needs a Geology Lesson
Politics, Science: Pinatubo, US party politics, volcano monitoring, volcanoes · 32 comments... at Pinatubo (near a U.S. air force base) earned a greater than 300-fold return when the volcano erupted explosively in 2020: ...
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: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: diy, google earth, Links · no comments... a Google Earth Geology Layer -- Lots of great resources accumulating in the comments here. Magma Cum Laude: Using ...
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17 Feb 2020: Teaching Engineers to Blog?
Meta: · 6 comments... the community aspects that become addictive. Blogging is a great way to meet people who are interested in the same things you are ...
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26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 comments... jockey). So as I go through, reading the entries in much greater detail than I ever would otherwise, I'm noticing a couple of ... time and energy it would take to anthologize to write more great blog entries (and a really rational person would probably quit blogging ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... cave. Try Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, Lehman Caves in Great Basin National Park, or the caves of Kentucky or TAG (Tennessee, Alabama, ... and fossilized stromatolites (Glacier National Park is a great place to see fossil stromatolites, while Shark Bay in Australia is the ...
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6 Nov 2020: Why Proposition 8 Hurts So Much
Politics: · 3 comments... of 3 on my county judicial picks. Last night was also a great one for public transit. The Puget Sound's Proposition 1 passed, bringing ...
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27 Oct 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #152
Aimless: · 10 comments... and a whole buncha islands, but we've revealed one great big bias. We're landlubbers. I've managed to find one again - for the ...
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15 Oct 2020: Oh Look, Links
Links: · 2 comments... So here, have some slices of other people's brilliance. Great news! Seed is raffling off prizes for the Donors Choose challenge! Donate ...
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1 Sep 2020: The Science of Deliciousness
Aimless: · 9 comments... largely independent of each other, so Kitchen Mysteries is great for dipping in and out of. However the chapter titles don't always tell ...
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12 Aug 2020: OMG AMNH PONIES!!1!
Aimless: · 9 comments... processes exist purely to concentrate ore for human use, a great number of video interviews with geoscientists that provide nice glimpses ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... in science" article is just an empty link - but what a great concept! I've always assumed that the reason no one has ever marketed a ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... Dorkwad Olson and his production team would have been a great story. The crew teaches Dorkwad a valuable lesson about communication, ...
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5 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 6 commentsThis month's Scientiae is out! Hear women's voices... in science! A conversation with Mr. Mister: Should I blog about this? It's got some gender in it. Yeah, it's got a lot of gender. It's kind of awful. Attention, Southern California! On November 13 yo ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... link-posting anyway. Christie at the Cape has a great post on archetypal female geologists - a counterpart to those irritating ... price of pumice. Brian at Clastic Detritus has posted a great overview of petroleum resources on the continental shelf. More from ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments... the total energy from all earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater in the calendar years 2020-2020. This procedure falls apart on close ... So when you get one extremely large event, such as the Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, it completely swamps everything else. Its ...
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24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 comments... with a master's or PhD program that necessarily involves a great deal of mathematical analysis? And the other at All of My Faults are ...
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18 Jun 2020: Advice for a Mathphobe?
Aimless: · 25 comments... with geology, I'm terrified of actually studying it. I'm great with concepts, and applying things I've studied to real life. Problem ... way! You sound like you have the passion required to be a great teacher, and if you've had to struggle with the math you will be able to ...
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28 May 2020: Borrowing Geek Cred from the Mathematicians
Aimless: · 1 comment... accepted, I officially have an Erdös number of no greater than 6 - which fact I discovered using this handy-dandy search engine*. ... via the Mathematics Genealogy Project that my 10th-great-grand-advisor (to whatever extent an academic stillbirth counts as having ...
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19 Apr 2020: Earthquake in Illinois: What’s up with Wabash Valley?
Aimless: · 16 comments... are historical earthquakes (2020-2020) of magnitude 5 or greater, dots are magnitude 4.5-5, and the light gray plus signs are weer than ...
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16 Apr 2020: Women in Science Linky-Post
Links: · 3 comments... join the formal labor market, it ultimately brings about greater gender equality; when growth is based on oil and mineral extraction, it ... there was nothing preventing her from achieving scientific greatness. On the other hand, it's a bit discouraging to realize that when I ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... is a Big Deal*. Criticism should be leveled only with a great deal of thought and care, both because the target of our criticism will ...
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2 Apr 2020: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation
Aimless: · 26 comments... that the big creatures of the Mesozoic were "fearfully great lizards," and had therefore named them dinosaurs. There were festooned ...
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5 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 2 comments... of the reasons that BACK OFF, I'M A SCIENTIST makes such a great bumper sticker. Update: Geotripper is keeping a running list of all the ...
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6 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... County can't possibly be responsible for upsetting the greatest sports franchise on Earth." More on medical geophagy in chimps: ...
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10 Jan 2020: Saline Injections for Venice?
Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments... is doing about the floods (which I highly recommend as a great example of public outreach and geo-engineering porn) doesn't seem to ...
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17 Dec 2020: Aaand, the rest of AGU
Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments... bit by writing "I blame society", and turned out to be a great conversation-starter. I wish the "straight" science sessions would depart ...
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12 Nov 2020: Attn: Geoblogosphere
Links, Meta: blog carnivals · 2 comments... for the 2020 Open Laboratory? Well. There's some great geodesy, climate science, oceanography, and paleontology, and Chris ...
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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... worries that her thoughts aren't focused enough to do great science. Zuska, on the other hand, wishes that she could stop focusing on ... voice sounds less like a helpful colleague and more like a great friend: My inner voice readily adapts to the environment. Together we ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 commentsThis image, originally created by Nobuyuki Kayahara, is a great scientific personality test. If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, ...
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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... wafts up from the rock on nearby Mammoth Mountain, to the great misfortune of the mountain's trees and a couple of skiers. And of course, ...
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28 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike
Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no comments... Great and Powerful Oracle, the current contract between the United Auto Workers ...
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31 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Marriage in Iowa
Politics: Friday random ten, Iowa, iTunes iChing, same-sex marriage · 2 comments... There is great news from Des Moines - same-sex marriage is legal in Iowa! Where "legal" ... Future: "Just Between You And Me" - The Chordettes, Greatest Hits The Questioner: "Rosc Catha Na Mumhain/Arkansas Traveler/The ...
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13 Jul 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Planetary Warming
Politics, Science, Whimsy: climate change, planetary science · 1 comment... like the data-cherrypicking yahoos responsible for The Great Global Warming Swindle, will even blink. I mean, there are studies from ...
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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... And as for my teeth, well, they're amazing. My gums are great, my teeth are white and shiny, and my fillings are hanging in there ... questions about the future of American health care. O! Great and glorious iTunes! Hear my ritual invocation and query without giggling ...
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28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage
Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment... right. However, I don't want to see UNESCO fetishize the Great Men of Science who made Great Discoveries and now we can show you how their furniture was arranged. ...
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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... it is perceived by others. I started grad school with a great deal of self-confidence, and though I retain the core belief that I am ...
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13 Mar 2020: Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof
Politics, Science: science in pop culture, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · 9 comments... embodies the cultural importance of science greater than [this shirt] Science has been known to over complicate things ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... top few students. If you can do this (as in many US unis), great. A lot of students, especially women, never get told they're doing ...
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: Earthquake Folksonomy
Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments... about her girlhood in Anchorage. She survived the 2020 Great Alaska earthquake by running in switchbacks up the walls of a ditch, ...
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23 Feb 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Will Lusi Be Stopped?
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Lusi, search requests · 1 comment... great and glossy Oracle! Today, workers in Indonesia will begin dumping ...
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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... a great post up at Apparent Dip outlining some thoughts and prescriptions on ...
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14 Oct 2020: 2020 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests
Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments... Superior Court Judge Office 21: Flip a Coin It's great that the ideals of impartiality and legal access are so universally ...
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2 Aug 2020: Shorter Responses to Ben Barres
Politics: academia, gender, sexism, snark, women in science · 12 comments... to Nature) on gender discrimination in science. They're great! Steven Pinker: To say that I believe women are predisposed not to ...
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27 Jul 2020: Coming Down from the Link Rush
Links, Meta: anti-racism, blog carnivals, doing science, erase racism, NASA, panta rei, race in science, racism · 1 comment... don't want to feel stupid anymore. And they stop doing great work. Via Adventures in Ethics and Science Daniel Collins on NASA's ...
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27 Jun 2020: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril
Human Fuzzies, Politics: evolutionary psychology, marriage, wedding-industrial complex · 8 commentsPerhaps Kyso Kisaen will be a bloggy guide and muse through the Rite of Femminess otherwise known as getting hitched; she seems to have her priorities straight: I already know shit like "less booze = less money" or "borrow stuff or make it, teehee!" Any ...
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17 Jun 2020: Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege
Personal: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, wedding-industrial complex · 11 comments... and grime. Why was I ever born? Some day I will get a great bridegroom. He comes from the nether world and will not blame me for my ...
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6 Jun 2020: I’ll Stick to Compost, Thanks
Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments... grow. "Everything has a soul, you know", she said. Great. My tomatoes have souls. Now if I don't make the right propitiating ...
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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... Isn't that what the Marxists were after? OGL: That's a great thought, would you follow up on that for next time? ****Can I invoke ...
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17 Mar 2020: Friday iTunes 8Ball
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no commentsIt's a new and different fortune-telling music shuffle meme! The theme: magic eight ball, c. 12 years old. How does the world see me? Miles Davis - Will O' The Wisp Will I have a happy life? Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - The Duchess Of Bedfo ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... assignment is to think about, and make a list of, the greatest events in history. All of history. The Big Bang through my ...
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20 Jan 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 comments... Great Oracle: Were the recent glaciers on Olympus Mons fed from atmospheric ...
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19 Jan 2020: Go Grey Lady Go!
Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments... may be the more natural avengers. Men appear to get greater satisfaction than women when witnessing retribution, research ... - gender disparities uncovered by such studies are often greatly exaggerated*, but I can't find the actual study to check. But only one ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Privileged Huff
Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments... silly transphobic or whitebreadocentric shit, and with great tact and sensitivity, he smacks me upside the head for it. I still ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU Two
Personal: american geophysical union, beer, conference blogging · no comments... Wireless access was better today, though still not great. The beer line was a mile long when my poster vigil ended, so I went to a ...
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16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments... we have a formal termination procedure which allows for a great deal of flexibility to account for community judgments ("feelings") about ...
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11 Nov 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Guantanamo
Politics: Friday random ten, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, iTunes iChing · 4 comments... great iTunes, if you have not yet withdrawn your sight from Washington D.C. the ...
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: Happy Armistice Day
Politics: Armistice Day, pacifism · no comments... simply fight for peace; there are very few veterans of the Great War left to remind us of the ...
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21 Oct 2020: Friday Friday Friday
Whimsy: earthquake prediction, Friday random ten, search requests · no comments... see if, in addition to being uncool, I'm also doomed: O great and glorious iTunes, will there be a major (M>6) earthquake on the ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... a hero for America." Once upon a time, I thought the Great State of Iowa wanted my young, educated ass back on the prairie, to prop ...
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23 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · 5 comments... great and powerful algorithms! Will my print job ever actually print? Or will ...
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16 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Human Fuzzies: academic politics, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · no comments... great iTunes pseudorandomizer, help us lowly ones! What shall happen with the ...
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9 Sep 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-N
Whimsy: co-op living, Friday random ten, Germany, Nutella, search requests, welfare · 4 comments... Return Again Perfect Strangers - Perfect Strangers - The Greatest Midwestern Fear Loretta Kelley - Amerikaspel - Nummer Ein ABBA - ...
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: Anecdotes
Personal, Politics: academia, co-op living, feminism, rhetorical tactics, sexism · 4 comments... the male-dominated groups' presentations, and said "okay, great, next" to the female groups. Said friend intends to speak to the ...
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2 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests, Sierra Nevada · no comments... great iTunes, you who have pulled me from the depths of petty irritation by ... whose beneficent pseudorandomizing is second only to the Great Mother Mandelbrot, I pray that you do my research for me answer my query: ... Blackwater) The Outcome: When I'm Up I Can't Get Down - Great Big Sea I'm not sure if the shuffle wants me to identify with the ...
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19 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Personal, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · 2 comments... great randomizer: will I ever get my house all clean and empty, and make it up ...
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18 Aug 2020: A Book and Two Movies
Human Fuzzies: bears, book reviews, charles darwin, movie reviews, penguins, pirates · 2 comments... Appeal of Pirates. Grizzly Man - this might have made a great one-hour television special (with commercials), but it was a piss-poor ...
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5 Aug 2020: Shark vs. Bear
Whimsy: bears, cultural appropriation, hipsters, sharks, yuppies · 1 comment... from 2020, in a discussion about - *sob* - golf, and the "Great White Shark" Greg Norman: On the Bear vs Shark debate. When I see ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... out our karma, while my parents and aunt (I have the greatest extended family in the world) prepared to spend the night driving to ... - like driving through an unpopular stretch of the Great Basin, or on the moon. There are sheep and a few ponies, plus the odd ...
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24 Jun 2020: Friday Hangover Blogging
Personal: search requests · 4 comments... playing through one (1) earbud while driving, which is a great help to those of us whose cars don't have any sort of stereo ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... picture which is somewhat simplified but good enough for a great deal of interesting analysis. The actual movement that produces the ... sense and the other will be absurd. The beach ball for the great Sumatra earthquake looks like the fault might've been nearly vertical, ...
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1 Jun 2020: Academic Insecurity Builds Character
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 6 comments... is still the one with more work and less pay speaks to a greater problem with the relationship between academia and industry. I think it ...
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16 May 2020: I Wish I Were Covered in Fuzzy Knobs
Links, Meta, Personal: anti-spam, cnidarians, hyperopia, myopia, vision · 4 comments... of badly-distilled moonshine of the kind that killed my great-great-great-grandfather. I am so very vincible. Installed IO ERROR's Bad ...
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9 May 2020: Work a Mile in My Shoes
Science: job openings · 2 comments... know fits that description and is looking for work in the greater Los Angeles area, let me know and I'll give you the ...
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4 May 2020: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!
Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments... expect Senate Bill 5 to greatly ease my passage through the hallowed halls of the University of ...
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: Penis-Talk Redux
Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments... daylights out of a good portion of the population. The greatest fear I have of an unwanted pregnancy (and the reason I would have an ...
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23 Mar 2020: Where Are All the Earth Science Bloggers?
Links, Science: geoblogosphere · 31 comments... prospect of an end… Geology News - The latest and greatest news in geology, from around the world. Revolving ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 commentsGreat discussion chez Hugo on PETA's dubious tactics and building uneasy coalitions. ... in the company of Islamist fascists may not be such a great idea. Now I can put my finger on why I feel uneasy at ANSWER events! ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... to make public space safe for women before we can expect greater willingness to respond to men's advances! ... and then we're having ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments... you're bending wood, you need to use steady pressure and a great deal of patience, or the wood will break. I could go on, but ...
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13 Feb 2020: Someone’s A Bit Paranoid
Meta: cladistics, ducklings, family, fan mail, mammals, monkeys · 4 comments... Flying Space Monkey Chronicles That's a pretty great commentary on the meaning of monkey, all right. i betcha trained ninja ... around looking dully at no one in particular, while Great Uncle "Goth Black" Fritz stands on a table singing ...
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4 Feb 2020: Trombones of Great Injustice
Politics: fascist police states, Geneva conventions, Joe Lieberman · no commentsGoodness, isn't Joe Lieberman a hideous piece of slime? No slimier, I suppose, than the 59 other Senators who voted to confirm Alberto "It's Not Torture If The President Approves" Gonzales - but it's much more satisfying to pick on a slug in sheep's clothi ...
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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 ...
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7 Sep 2020: Happy Arrival Day!
Politics: booze, cultural appropriation, Judaism · 4 comments... today, just as everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Great! I've always thought I'd do well in the non-practicing Reform-esque ...
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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... geology of a remote tropical paradise, writing the Next Great American Weblog, or eating a bowl of Crispix. But even the sootiest ...
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28 Jul 2020: Hieroglyphic Soup
Personal: alphabets, languages, soup · 2 comments... what language and character set of soup gives you the greatest probability of finding a word in your spoon? I'm tempted to say ...
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13 Jul 2020: Memo to the Guy in the Escalade
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cars, driving, etiquette, SUVs · no comments... the Foothill & Claremont Arco Cc: SUV owners in the greater Los Angeles area Peak pumping hours at the gas station (e.g., after ...
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11 Jul 2020: Meyers and Briggs, Chew Thoughtfully on Your Toenails!
Whimsy: psychology, quizzes · no comments... especially criticism. Your self-opinion and mood depends greatly on those around you. You think fast and have a smart mouth, is a ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... will it hurt? [1] Mining in this case means extraction greater than the annual recharge to the basin. It's important to separate out ... 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 ...
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13 May 2020: Life of the Mind
Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments... bogged down in the personal but are thinking with the greater good in mind. What is that if not being intellectuals? And the ...
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4 May 2020: Garden Post
Personal: car repair, cars, container gardening, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, tomatoes · no comments... (if you believe the tag), but mostly because it has a great hipster-style name. Momotaro! You could name a band after that. Not so ...
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23 Apr 2020: Lazy RSS Roundup
Links: dreams · no comments... comments on transitional spaces which would probably taste great together on a more thinkier day: joseph on Los Angeles (scroll down, it's ...
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18 Apr 2020: Meme, I Give In
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · 5 comments... 23, close enough. But-- do I really keep books at such great remove from my everyday life that I have a more intimate relationship ...
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25 Mar 2020: Pasadena: My Neighbors Have Nice Flowers
Human Fuzzies: intellectual elitism, Pasadena, urban planning, urban sprawl · 1 comment... if we consider its sidewalks and strip malls to be of greater import than its Rembrandts and Gamble Houses, and the Huntington is in ...
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18 Mar 2020: Because I Had A Coupon
Personal: advertising, i hate everything · no comments... health and creative fulfillment? I hope not - I expect a great deal of emotional sensitivity and empathy from all my bagel ...
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2 Mar 2020: Personalized Follow-Up
Personal: · 5 comments... be satisfied with every change. Your satisfaction is our greatest concern and customer feedback like yours is critical to our success. ...
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24 Feb 2020: Petty Consumer Activism
Politics: advertising, Food and Drug Administration, funny, open letters, sexism, soup · 6 comments... to Further the Sophisticated Botanical Discourse of Our Great Nation! Actually what I sent was shorter. Maybe I should've included ...
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8 Feb 2020: Narrative Coherence Can Suck A…
Human Fuzzies, Links: · no comments... list of potential names for the latest cousin-in-the-oven. Great. How long do I have to wait before I have a cousin named Cletus? You'd ...
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11 Dec 2020: Peer Review II
Politics, Science: peer review · no comments... to pick it apart to the fullest extent possible. Which is great if you're a scientist trying to improve your study, and you have the ... criticisms are important and which are absurd. Not so great if you're Senator Joe Blow who can't tell relative error from earwax. ...
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21 Nov 2020: That’s So 2020
Science: · no comments... that the K("C")retaceous-Tertiary event was the second-greatest of all time? Sure, the ammonites died at the K-T, and all ...
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28 Sep 2020: Numbered Notes
Human Fuzzies: · 3 comments... obviously the greatest food product ever invented, but deep-fried macaroni and cheese on a ...
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15 Sep 2020: Shitfaced in Des Moines
Human Fuzzies: · 2 comments... a Miami-Illinois word meaning "The Shitfaces", and not "A Great Place to Live and Do Business In, Really!" as we've been told all these ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... and I've been infected with recall mania that requires a greatly stepped-up news reading schedule. It's funny. I hate the recall - ...
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5 Aug 2020: Mandatory Events
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... night in a kiddie pool at vigorous ska-tempo was not a great way to put myself to sleep; it's a sad, early bedtime for me ...
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9 Jul 2020: The Difference Between Shit and the Internet
Whimsy: blogular wanking, feces, Internet overload, shit · 32 comments... honor. It seems that other people have also spent a great deal of effort crafting arguments on the relative beings of shit and the ... the domain internetisshit.org, I thought Hey! That'd be a great name for a blog! In some ways, blogs are the new garage bands of the 21st ...
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2 Jul 2020: eTextWhore
Meta: · 2 comments... I'm experimenting with supplemental revenue generation. No great expectations, but then again there's no great cost, and I'll be quite happy with the miserliest of pittances. For you, ...
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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 "luau bowl" that I tried to eat for lunch. Taro is a great tasting food, but almost every time I've tried to eat it, it's suffered ... teeth - there were plenty of people around missing great chunks of smile. Today of course we can blame the shitty U.S. health care ...
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23 Feb 2020: Thank You, Science
Links, Personal: · 2 comments... a trendy article: Caring for Your Introvert. It's got some great lines - Science has learned a good deal in recent years about the habits ...
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1 Feb 2020: A Sad Hole in the Internet
Aimless: · no comments... nonsense from Revelations, and some stuff in Dutch. O Great and Powerful Internet, I am sorry I doubted ...
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21 Dec 2020: Product Review: Oral Cleansers
Personal: dentistry, reviews of stuff · 3 comments... triangle outside finds its spiritual complement in the great tasting original flavor inside - the kind of great tasting original flavor that smooths and tightens the back of your throat ...
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10 Dec 2020: Dilemma
Personal, Politics: · 6 comments... cake, and his strong feelings about welfare reform and the Great Society got the better of him. And that party featured a troupe of ...
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1 Dec 2020: oh yeah, thanks
Personal: · 3 comments... too munged-up to fit in the washing machine slot. The great and powerful Rasmus is now safely ensconced on my living room couch; ...
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18 Nov 2020: Coherence is for Chumps
Personal, Whimsy: · 7 comments... for a low-cal, non-cigarette food substitute. I have a great deal of obsessive-compulsive energy invested in moving things from hand ...
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15 Nov 2020: Committee Committee
Personal, Politics: bureaucracy, Caltech · 1 comment... 10 hours interviewing students to fill up our 9 latest, greatest committee creations. If I hear one more person talking about how they ...
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7 Nov 2020: Slurry of Someone
Meta: · 9 comments... bundle up in snow pants most of the time. Snow pants are great. i want Don't we ...
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5 Nov 2020: None of the Above
Personal, Politics: California politics, Gray Davis, US party politics · no comments... people to Please Disperse Immediately after you'd found a great sale on pepper spray. It was quite a disappointment to peek out the ... - a plain white van with painted windows would have made great theater. Or perhaps an armored SUV of some kind. The awkward postered ...
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28 Sep 2020: Phone Books
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... format for a different portion of the Pasadena/Foothills/Greater Metro area. They make a nice ergonomic adjustment for my monitor, but ...
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18 Sep 2020: The Bright Side of Global Warming
Politics: · 2 comments... and development activity is the one that produces the greatest impacts on indigenous people and wildlife through more increased ...
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12 Sep 2020: Eating Glop
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... start, and physics will stream from my every orifice in great torrents. I'm saving up a stock of boredom. Here's a recipe. Lentil ...
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9 Sep 2020: Expenses
Personal: · 4 comments... but beans for the rest of the year, but I will take great pictures of them. Beautiful, beautiful beans. ...
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4 Sep 2020: International Relations
Links: · no comments... of editors and fact-checkers is what made this country great. Neal Pollack has a blog. ...
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1 Aug 2020: Panties Ready for Bunching
Personal: socks, trolling · 3 comments... hunting down rants. Discarding a misguided list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters ever (Porky Pig made it in over Marvin the Martian? ...
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23 Jun 2020: Thoughts from Geophysical Field Camp
Personal: · 2 comments... wind is like a continuous peck on the cheek from your great-aunt Esmeralda. Like a clam, I form pearls around tiny grains of dust ...
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9 Jun 2020: Geophysics vs. the Universe
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... bang on the ground with sledgehammers and exclaim "great gallumphing seismic refractions! there's oil down there!" Think geology + ...
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20 May 2020: Stack Widow
Meta, Personal: blogular wanking, Caltech, Ditch Day · 3 comments... we underclassmen can navigate to get to class. Which is great, except that all my senior friends have vanished inside that black ...
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8 May 2020: Joys of Bandwidth; Stuff
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · 4 comments... crap-garage-band entries, but thus far no luck. The other great thing about exam weeks is remembering to appreciate showers - nothing ...
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24 Apr 2020: Someone Has a Crush On Me
Meta: Internet doodads · 47 comments... button to tell me about it: Ahem. I mean, that's great, I'm really ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... about an institution. I have been astonished by the great variance in teaching quality at this school; it's part of what's drawn me ...
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11 Apr 2020: Rampaging Hordes of Someones
Meta: · no comments... and yellow-brown gum on top. Disgusting. Yes, but what a great tasteless gag gift! Gummy diapers are almost certainly nicer than those ...
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30 Mar 2020: Crying Baby Airlines
Personal: · 4 comments... but a hideously boring one as well. Perhaps a greater streak of self-hatred would have ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... good student, the kind who was always destined to become a great scientist, my love of learning would overwhelm these feelings. If I were ...
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16 Feb 2020: vapid
Links: · no comments... cat an enema are incredibly boring, but this one has such great illustrations... Rasmus is starting a review project that works much in ...
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4 Feb 2020: drool… bid… drool
Links: menstruation, religion, robots · 1 comment... don't want to mess with that asian Feng-Sju, I know it has great influence on how a datamachine ...
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30 Jan 2020: I Heart Time Cube
Whimsy: crackpots, time cube · 1 comment... but Mr. Ray is still a lovable guy. Not to mention The Greatest Thinker, and above God. You should definitely invite him to come to ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... complex 3-D objects in my head. But there was a greater point I was trying to make, before all that fun. I've been thinking ...
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21 Jan 2020: Silly Hats Only
Links: · no comments... page isn't all that entertaining on its own. What's great is that someone made a pretty decent midi version of "Stayin' Alive" ...
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13 Jan 2020: Shut Up, Artemis!
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... and hilarity which took twelve years to construct. The greatest thing about it, though, was the sense of place - landscape shots, news ...
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27 Dec 2020: so you noticed
Meta: blogtinkery · no comments... have spines coming out of my cheeks. Otherwise I'd make a great puffer fish. And also I don't have any powerful neurotoxins in portions ...
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24 Dec 2020: Tackiest Ever
Politics: · no comments... who's not quite convinced that the United States is the greatest country ever, so I'm going to go build a snowman and dress him in an ...
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17 Dec 2020: Look! It’s the Internet!
Personal: · no comments... everyday social conversation where the Web is having the greatest impact. Fact-checking's effect on talking is like a loud thud on the ...
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6 Dec 2020: I Biblioteket
Science: disasters, libraries, licorice, serendipitous discoveries · no commentsLibraries in general are good for browsing and serendipitous discoveries, but some are better than others. I'm always drawn to the ones with shelves arranged in no logical order, where if you don't constantly consult a cryptic map you're liable to stumble ...
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24 Nov 2020: oh no, not the hypothalamus!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... good health. Hell, I have memories of three of my great-grandparents, one of whom is still kicking around in her late 90s and the ...
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21 Nov 2020: Consistency? What?
Meta: blogtinkery · no comments... before bedtime. Anyway, the picture this time is of my great-great-uncle Ole, who spent most of his life herding reindeer in ...
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17 Nov 2020: uff da
Personal: Christmas, thanksgiving · no comments... left the party shortly after 2. Natbusser are great, and all, but they seriously crap out after about 2:30, so I opted to ...
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9 Nov 2020: can’t sleep, blog will eat me
Personal: · no comments... evening at 8:59 PM. Actually, it snowed a little tonight, great big globby flakes that melted as soon as they hit the ground. They were ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... to do with it than I initially thought. sex? Sex is a great way to generate artificial intimacy and coziness, but I haven't gotten ...
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29 Oct 2020: HT for kunst
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: art criticism, photography, poststructuralism · no comments... strategies from a hole in the ground, but it makes a great catch ...
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27 Oct 2020: Lots of Money
Aimless: · no comments... on the deal: "[the money] will allow us to... maintain our greatness in the many areas in which we are preeminent...". Conspiracy ...
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12 Oct 2020: Back in Copenhagen
Human Fuzzies: sandwiches, Scandinavia, smørrebrød · no comments... talking about my methods of sandwich-making. You see, a great staple of Danish food is the smørrebrød, an open-faced ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... and trapped enough most of the time to come up with some great creative outlets. The witty banter was doomed from the beginning, of ...
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13 Sep 2020: justice
Politics: · no comments... the Caltech community should remember that we work for a greater good that terrorism cannot touch, the enlightenment produced by ...
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22 Aug 2020: One True Blog
Personal: · 2 comments... fateful quests to find (or possibly restore to some former greatness) the One True Expatriate Blog. Meanwhile, I was shocked to realize ...
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7 Aug 2020: In Copenhagen
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish · no comments... great. The punctuation on the Danish keyboards has been displaced by the extra ...
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28 Jul 2020: an audience at last!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... went to the University of Iowa because it's such a great a party school. I wanted to smack them, or at least say something ...
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22 Jul 2020: Whoo!
Aimless: · no comments... sales and pick up more music at the library. Gnutella is great in theory, but in practice it's been damn hard to find my fill of illegal ...
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6 Jul 2020: corn snobbery
Food: wine · no comments... who's well on his way to becoming a wine snob. Which is great, since he's legitimately 21 (I of course am not, quite) so I can hand him ...