Search Results: party
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27 Sep 2020: Reminder: Seattle Millionth Comment Party Today
Meta: · 3 comments... TODAY TODAY! Come party with me, Sandra, Dave, and GrrlScientist in the upper mezzanine at ...
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12 Sep 2020: Attention Seattle (and everyone else)
Meta: · 9 comments... be parties - and yes, that means free beer. I will be partying with Sandra Porter, Dave Bacon, and Grrl Scientist on September 27th. ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 commentOkay, I'm still trying to figure out why my del.icio.us link-posting script is broken, but it's time to get back to quasi-regular link-posting anyway. Christie at the Cape has a great post on archetypal female geologists - a counterpart to those irritati ...
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6 Dec 2020: 403 Tamed
Meta, Teaching: anti-spam, blog status updates, plagiarism · no comments... by my blog in the past couple of days. One of the third-party blacklists used by my very favorite anti-spam plugin, Bad Behavior, ...
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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 commentsLife in Our Heads Welcome to the 13th edition of Scientiae! Today I am happy to share with you what is inside of everybody's heads: BRAAAAAAINS!! Er, wait - even though I am technically writing this on Halloween, it won't appear until November 1. So I don ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... not at all jealous of everyone who's at Burning Man!" party this evening. So I'm skipping over all the in-depth personal details that ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... “unplugged.” Russia has always had a multi-party political system. Women have always been police chiefs in major ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... it's good feminist practice to tell some random woman at a party that her brains/geekery really turns them ...
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7 Nov 2020: The Last-Minute Ballot
Politics: California ballot propositions, endorsements · no comments... - she believes in paper trails. Lesser State Offices: party-line Democrat Senator: Todd Chretien - although I kind of like the good ...
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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... from any sane and competent transit district) and a Green Party endorsement. I'm not sure it'll make the buses run on time, but it works ...
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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... what I was thinking; I told him; he said yes. Expected party date: sometime after quals. No, I'm not changing my name or giving any ...
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25 Mar 2020: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist
Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments... means "have more fun than we would at a gaming industry party": As foretold, I was the only woman not hired to be there. This ... I was bombarded with the sight of all other women at the party serving the male attendees food, giving them little gizmos, being paid to ...
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12 Feb 2020: The Wages of Procrastination
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Appalachian death polka, domesticity · 3 comments... to clean the bathroom and you shoulda done it before the party. Fabulously important update! The culprit was a housemate, not a ...
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3 Feb 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Jurassic Utah Edition
Science: Friday random ten, impact structures, iTunes iChing, liquefaction, salt domes, Upheaval Dome · no comments... by an impact at Upheaval Dome? Shooka shooka! The party shuffle plays shuffleboard... The Covering: Celtic Night - Live - ...
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20 Jan 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 comments... your pseudorandom access memory knows for sure! The party shuffle parties... The Covering: Drunken Sailor/South Australia- Dust ...
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1 Nov 2020: Plebiscite Time Is Fun Time
Politics: abortion, California ballot propositions, co-op living, MediCal, teacher tenure · 9 comments... it will cause severe short-term harm to the Democratic Party. Some of the plan's specifics are poorly thought-out, and a clerical ...
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7 Oct 2020: Friday Review of Stuff
Human Fuzzies, Politics: Berzerkeley, restaurant reviews · 5 comments... as a grooming ground for tomorrow's bullshit internal party politics (a.k.a. "leadership"), so it behooves us all to make sure it's ...
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13 Sep 2020: The Devil Is In
Aimless, Meta, Personal: beer, blogtinkery, en français, Internet friends, pirates · 3 commentsGeology News is looking for guest bloggers Wait a minute - I thought hipsters drank cheap, "ironic" domestic beer? Whatever happened to PBR? If you look down to the right, you'll notice that I've put up a couple of new themes, one of which is about pir ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... we weren't able to meet his wife, a former Feminist Party MP - but we did get to hear a bit about the anthropology of Icelandic ... was good fun. But, to repeat: There was*** a Feminist Party! With MPs! News briefs in an old copy of the Reykjavik Grapevine I found ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... Bay, but would like to actually participate in a snark-party interspersed with future-dated posts full of hornpipes, and help moderate ...
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8 Jun 2020: Stuff for Sale and the Intertwixtion of All Oppressions
Personal, Politics: advertising, craigslist, feminism, feminisms, racism, sexism, the Ur-Oppression, torture · 6 comments... Democrats to attribute all the problems of the Democratic Party (or liberal/progressive politics generally) to a failure to adequately ...
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29 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Birthday Edition
Science: basalt, Hawaii, igneous rocks, lava, rock blogging · 6 comments... is from Wednesday: Two days off is enough for a shared party, certainly. And here's another, that's 11 years older (minus up to 20 ...
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27 Apr 2020: Defamation in the Congressional Record, hoorah!
Politics: abortion, Congressional shenanigans · 6 comments... halfway accurate failed in the Rules Committee on a party-line vote. As Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) put it: At least ...
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8 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Schist
Science: metamorphic rocks, rock blogging · 12 comments... a lump of schist. Also, check out the magma party at Revolving ...
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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... faith when regulating a classic stronghold of the opposing party? Henry argues that [i]f blogs can organize a boycott against Sinclair ...
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31 Mar 2020: Today’s RSS Zeitgeist: Cheapskates
Politics: classism, consumerism, eccentricity, money · 6 comments... and his son, and give his son $20 as a gift for a birthday party he would be attending, but what's the alternative? To look like slobs, or show up at the party with some weird homemade gift? The only way to live affordably in our ...
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22 Mar 2020: Today’s Reading
Links: American history, rhetorical tactics, socks · 5 comments... and talking past one another, disputes where neither party is ready to give up their side of the argument. I don't think it's ...
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15 Feb 2020: How to Ward Off Rapists
Politics, Whimsy: rape, satire · 7 comments... intact can detect the presence of a rapist at a college party by exhuming a couple of maxipads from the bathroom trash can. Unnaturally ... tract. If you eat too much or not enough at the party, your detection measures will become unreliable. This author would never ...
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7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments... it was in response to some remark like "That was a neat party last night!"). [...] [...] I admit that it's not normal to limit the ...
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7 Dec 2020: Old Enough to Buy My Own Candy
Human Fuzzies, Links: candy, Christmas, Hanukkah, nostalgia · 2 comments... calendar, along with the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and Eddie Vedder's ...
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6 Dec 2020: An N Things Post: N=2, Politics
Links, Politics: gender, US party politics, USDA · no comments... as Mousewords on feminism as a frame for the Democratic party: I: bouncing off the marginalization of women in the punditry and II: a ...
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3 Nov 2020: Back on the Horse
Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments... we will win elections. There was some talk at the party of a California secession - instigated, as it happened, by our very own ...
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2 Nov 2020: Election Surprise: Squid!
Personal, Politics: · 2 comments... the Gilmore Girls and heading off to the volunteer party. I feel like something the cat is currently dragging in. I bought ... I should write a reflection - but not until after the party ...
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: Fusion Tickets
Politics: California ballot propositions, California politics, elections, US party politics · no comments... "no" on both. There's lots of ways in which to reform party primariesm, many are ill-conceived, and manyI haven't heard of. Like ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... gravy train operators: registered independents vote along party lines. Democrats for Assembly, woooo! Proposition 1A: Arcane Fiscal ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... get off your ass for the Democrats - or your favored third-party alternative. You relish the thought of blogging, snarking, playing a ... with the local chapter of your favorite political party or lobby group (if you have to force yourself to watch the RNC so you'll ...
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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... tell them about your disappointment with the Democratic Party. The person on the other end doesn't necessarily like the Democratic Party any more than you do, though her feelings may or may not be accurately ...
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23 Aug 2020: John Kerry, War God
Politics: John Kerry, pacifism, presidential elections · no comments... hide under the blankets and cry and maybe join the Green Party again: It's all part of the seemingly successful plan to paint Kerry ...
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17 Aug 2020: The Goth Old Party?
Politics: · 1 commentIn my wild flailing Google for the perfect election gear, I came across a discussion forum for right-wing goths. It's two obnoxious tastes that taste, when combined, kinda like a bunch of young conservatives learning to find a voice in political satire. Wh ...
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18 Jun 2020: John Ashcroft Hearts Democracy So Much
Politics: · no comments... Senators on the Judiciary Committee (it was a 10-9 party line vote) need to be bitten, scratched, kicked, and spat at until they ...
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2 Jun 2020: Viva Quebeckistan!
Personal: quizzes · no commentsI forgot how depressing a scrubby brown strip of land can be. By all rights things should be falling down with calm greenness, the same way you fall into a lawn chair with a beer in your hand on summer evenings. Here, it's not so much a falling down greenn ...
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16 Mar 2020: Spain, Appeasement and Multilateralism
Politics: · 2 comments... bombings, as everyone suddenly decided to vote for the party least likely to get them blown to bits, rather than the party that would be good for the economy, or implement the best environmental ...
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1 Oct 2020: Gubernatorial Goodies
Human Fuzzies, Politics: · 1 comment... gets in on the electoral action with the election-night party plans of the losers. A surprising number of candidates are teetotallers, ...
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22 Aug 2020: But You Still Have Two Kidneys, Scott!
Politics: · 2 comments... is doomed to be overshadowed by Bill Simon's selfless party line toeing. Sometimes, events happen faster than we can demand media ...
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6 Jun 2020: Bachelor Party!
Personal: · 1 commentThat's it. Finis with finals, forever. Done! I feel like a sequel to Matilda - where Matilda suddenly realizes that it was fun being able to move things with her mind, and goes back to kindergarten. ----- ...
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10 Dec 2020: Dilemma
Personal, Politics: · 6 comments... and the Great Society got the better of him. And that party featured a troupe of singing, dancing, flying pigs. But hey, if flying ...
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9 Dec 2020: 19 down, 30 to go
Personal, Politics: · 11 comments... this had that special something. Two teenagers at a house party, one girl, one boy, both taking hits off a circulating pipe. Girl is ...
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5 Nov 2020: None of the Above
Personal, Politics: California politics, Gray Davis, US party politics · no comments... voted for many Democrats. The thing about going third party is that I always have these twinges of regret once the polls are closed, ... off with a slightly flaky fuzzy man from the fuzzy flaky party. Sixty percent of Angelenos think Davis is a doody-head, apparently, even ...
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24 Mar 2020: Domestic Manners of the Americans
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... that this was owing to their being written with strong party feeling: but I - who am in the secret - know that such was not the case. ...
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10 Mar 2020: Someone Says it Again
Meta: monkeys · 1 comment... striking. A cageful of drunken monkeys is like a cocktail party. You have one who gets aggressive, one who gets sexy, one who thinks ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... D+ Ratings for Miscellaneous Other Contests Green Party candidate for Controller One of the nice things about voting with a crap little party is that most of the time, there's only one candidate so you don't have to ...
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5 Mar 2020: More Fan Mail
Meta: · 1 comment... it baby! Sorry, but the party was this weekend. You missed all my shaking... if you want me to shake ...
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24 Dec 2020: Tackiest Ever
Politics: · no comments... The advice columnist writes that a sensitive holiday party will make good use of patriotic napkins; childrens' printed letters to ...
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17 Nov 2020: uff da
Personal: Christmas, thanksgiving · no comments... inordinate quantities of food. Cheerio. *I left the party shortly after 2. Natbusser are great, and all, but they seriously crap ...
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16 Nov 2020: gobble gobble
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cooking, thanksgiving · no comments... the question now, but Rasmus is having a housewarming party tonight, and it's time to get ...
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4 Nov 2020: stop de kriminelle udlændinge
Politics: · 2 comments... put out by the Venstre ("venstre" means "left" but the party is actually on the moderately conservative side of Danish politics, if ... can't wait until the flyers from the Danish People's Party come out, I'm sure they'll be at least three times as much ...
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: two meme things
Whimsy: memes · no comments... right, the kidz on my floor are having a loud party that I don't want to join, there's no sense in me going to bed just yet, ...
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3 Nov 2020: uhh. zog.
Personal: · no comments... night, I went to a housewarming party, met some people, made them think I was cute for trying to speak Danish, ...
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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 super-geeky ...