Right. I Want to Try Something.
There’s a Welsh phrase I love very much: “Like killing snakes.” Means “very busy.” I’m like killing snakes right now. The start of the Winter Writing Season is always like throwing a grenade into the...
View ArticleAre There Any Mineralogists in the Audience?
If so, have you ever howled at silly mineralogical mistakes in a piece of fiction? Wanna prevent me from making you scream? I’m in the midst of worldbuilding, you see, and I’ve just come across the...
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Okay, Geos – We Have a Chance to Hook a 4 Year-Old On Geology
Scicurious is looking for gift ideas: #bbpBox_142051218989137922 a { text-decoration:none; color:#FF3300; }#bbpBox_142051218989137922 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }So, anyone recommend a...
View ArticleInfo Request for GRE, Quitting Update, and Kitteh Rescue
A few items on the agenda, here. Firstly, I’ve got a G+ friend named Craig DaGeek who is investigating the possibility of getting into grad school for geology. He could use some insight from those in...
View ArticleO, Computer Geeks, May I Request Your Wisdom?
I’m emerging from my sickbed – well, sickchair – for a moment to request a favor from the computer geeks in the audience. Does anyone know of a simple and preferably free way to set up your television...
View ArticleMonday Music: Help a Choir Out
Some might be surprised to find out, but I sang in concert choir in high school. It was full of personalities, so to speak, and always had some drama going on. Most of us (self included) had voices of...
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One of Our Best Bloggers Needs You
Greta Christina is one of the writers I respect most in the world. She recently became a full-time freelance writer, and it seems the world has been out to get her ever since. Her father died just a...
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Crowdsourcing Foundational Freethinkers of Color
Here’s a sad fact: my shelf of pre-1930s freethinkers is overwhelmingly white, male, and Western (WMW). They’re excellent thinkers, of course, but variety is the spice of life. Not to mention, I know...
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Attention Washington Peeps: Lawyer Recommendations Needed
Some of you may be aware that all is not happy families at my place of business. Now the family is broken, because they decided to fire my manager. Yes, the one who stood by his employees. Yes, the one...
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Halp! We Need Kittehs for Evelyn!
Our own Dr. Evelyn had quite a scare recently – some asshole broke in to her flat and stole her laptop. She wasn’t harmed, but she’s considerably shaken up and in need of an infusion of kittehs. Send...
View ArticleNow is the Time When We Come Together
Rage settles to righteous anger. Shock becomes determination. In the aftermath of a disaster, we have our chance to rise to our feet, scrub our faces dry on a sleeve, and roll up those sleeves to get...
View ArticleAtheists Giving Aid Accepting Donations for Boston
If you wish to donate, please go here. Only read the first few paragraphs of the request for donations if you’ve got enough tissue to see you through – you’ll probably end up mingling happy and sad...
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Help Give “Survival of the Fittest” a Right Proper Kick in the Arse
Our own RQ sent me pictures that will make you squee. Bebbe chickadee! Too young to walk or fly. Isn’t that precious? But wait! There’s more! Handful o’ bebbe chickadees! Now, before you start howling...
View ArticleVote for One of Our Own!
Begin super-sekrit communiqué from our own RQ: I just need your vote, via Twitter or Facebook. As I may or may not have mentioned previously, my choir is planning a trip to Canada in the summer of next...
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Who Loves Me Enough to Help Fund My Christianist Textbook and Creationist...
So, you know how I am: if I haven’t got more irons in the fire than I’ve got fire, I’m not content. Always need to ping between projects like a SuperBall (remember those?) in an octagonal room. Thus,...
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Get Your Ideas All Up in My Business!
All right, my darlings, it’s now less than two weeks until the day I hang up my shingle, and I haven’t got any idea what name to put on it. Well, I have a few ideas. You may have better ones. Think!...
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Alex Gabriel Could Use Your Kind Assistance
Is this you? You could help a writer out! Alex Gabriel is experiencing one of those horrible financial dry spells that happens to freelancers, and could use a hand. If you have a money to spare, do...
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Camcorder Advice, Por Favor?
One of the things B and I want to do is start recording videos in the field. I can show you a lot through photos and short snippets of video, but there’s so much magnificent geology around here, and...
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Help Me Decide Upon a New Computing Machine
I have decided that, even if the maclargehuge HP laptop could be resurrected, it’s time I got a desktop anyway. A laptop can’t give me the computing power I need going forward in mah bidness. I need...
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Anybody Got Studies on Water Emissions from Volcanoes?
As I’m slowly working my way through these awful Christianist textbooks, I keep running across claims that volcanoes emit lotsa water. They’re very excited about volcanoes and water. When it comes to...
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