You may have noticed the new buttons at the end of my posts and wondered what on earth is flattr? Flattr is a way to pay people quickly, easily, and in reasonable amounts for content that you think is awesome.
When you’re registered to flattr, you pay a small monthly fee. You set the amount yourself. At the end of the month, that fee is divided between all the things you flattered. You’re always logged in to the account. That means that giving someone some flattr-love is just a button away. And you should! Clicking one more button doesn’t add to your fee, it just divides the fee between more people!
I’ve been looking for a micropayment service like this for a really long time. Hopefully all the newspapers and bloggers I love will start using it so I can start paying them for great work. And I imagine I’ll find out just how much you all actually like my posts!
You may have noticed the new buttons at the end of my posts and wondered what on earth is flattr? Flattr is a way to pay people quickly, easily, and in reasonable amounts for content that you think is awesome.
When you're registered to flattr, you pay a small monthly fee. You set the amount yourself. At the end of the month, that fee is divided between all the things you flattered. You're always logged in to the account. That means that giving someone some flattr-love is just a button away. And you should! Clicking one more button doesn't add to your fee, it just divides the fee between more people!
I've been looking for a micropayment service like this for a really long time. Hopefully all the newspapers and bloggers I love will start using it so I can start paying them for great work. And I imagine I'll find out just how much you all actually like my posts!
I’m too busy today to post the usual link list, but not too busy for some serious procrastination. I discovered a strange and silly tool called “I Write Like” that analyzes your writing, does some fancy statistical thing (nonsense?), and tells you what famous author you write like.
It’s not very consistent. My results based on several different blog posts:
So, either my word choice and writing style are wildly different in each of these posts, or the tool is very terrible at what it says it does. Or both. Regardless, that was a very fun way to avoid my web programming duties for 15 minutes.
I'm too busy today to post the usual link list, but not too busy for some serious procrastination. I discovered a strange and silly tool called "I Write Like" that analyzes your writing, does some fancy statistical thing (nonsense?), and tells you what famous author you write like.
It's not very consistent. My results based on several different blog posts:
Femmes and Femininity is like Stephen King
Archeopteris is like Dan Brown [I'm not sure whether to be insulted or amused]
The Crisis: Put Down the Pruning Shears is like Margaret Atwood
Forgot? is like Chuck Palahniuk
The combination of Forgot?, Archeopteris, and Happy Blog Anniversary! is like David Foster Wallace
So, either my word choice and writing style are wildly different in each of these posts, or the tool is very terrible at what it says it does. Or both. Regardless, that was a very fun way to avoid my web programming duties for 15 minutes.
There’s a lot of stuff over in my sidebar, and I’m wondering if it needs to be there. Help me out and answer my questions in the comments (feel free to answer anonymously).
- How often do you use anything in the sidebar?
- If the sidebar disappeared, what would you miss?
- If the sidebar disappeared, what would be glad was gone?
- Is there anything that you like in the sidebar that you think should be presented differently?
There's a lot of stuff over in my sidebar, and I'm wondering if it needs to be there. Help me out and answer my questions in the comments (feel free to answer anonymously).
How often do you use anything in the sidebar?
If the sidebar disappeared, what would you miss?
If the sidebar disappeared, what would be glad was gone?
Is there anything that you like in the sidebar that you think should be presented differently?
I’d like to stay home this morning with my coffee and a novel, or maybe finish up some blog posts I’ve started, but not finished, in the last few weeks. But you’ll have to wait to hear what I think about The Wild Trees
, to analyze February’s migraine data, and to find out what music I’ve been particularly enamored with lately.
Because today, I’m going to work, and I’m going to stay there much later than I’d like. I’ve got a meeting tomorrow about my research, and I want to have some exciting new model runs to show off!
I'd like to stay home this morning with my coffee and a novel, or maybe finish up some blog posts I've started, but not finished, in the last few weeks. But you'll have to wait to hear what I think about The Wild Trees, to analyze February's migraine data, and to find out what music I've been particularly enamored with lately.
Because today, I'm going to work, and I'm going to stay there much later than I'd like. I've got a meeting tomorrow about my research, and I want to have some exciting new model runs to show off!
I started blogging 6 years ago today. I’ve blogged for a lot of different reasons, but the desire to share and connect with other people, to be part of a larger conversation, has always been a part of it (though sometimes I’ve really identified with Jamie here and felt like quitting). I count many of the people I’ve met through blogging as dear friends.
During many of the years that I’ve blogged, I haven’t consistently kept a real journal, but some rather large changes have happened in my life. I’m grateful to have at least some sort of record of my thoughts. Six years ago, I was partway through my first (somewhat miserable) year of college and my livejournal is full of cringe-inducing and confusing posts that reflect the havoc migraines and medications were wreaking in my life. My second blog documents the painful end of my time at UNC, my poorly thought out stint as a nanny, the odd & sometimes lonely experience of teaching English in China, and my first very happy year living in the southwest.
I’ve been writing here since 2007 and I don’t think I’ll be moving again anytime soon. In general, I think my blogging has become less personal now than it used to be, but I still write about plants, politics, shoes, books, and living with migraines. You all don’t comment very often, but I’d love to know why you read my blog and what kinds of posts you particularly look for.
I started blogging 6 years ago today. I've blogged for a lot of different reasons, but the desire to share and connect with other people, to be part of a larger conversation, has always been a part of it (though sometimes I've really identified with Jamie here and felt like quitting). I count many of the people I've met through blogging as dear friends.
During many of the years that I've blogged, I haven't consistently kept a real journal, but some rather large changes have happened in my life. I'm grateful to have at least some sort of record of my thoughts. Six years ago, I was partway through my first (somewhat miserable) year of college and my livejournal is full of cringe-inducing and confusing posts that reflect the havoc migraines and medications were wreaking in my life. My second blog documents the painful end of my time at UNC, my poorly thought out stint as a nanny, the odd & sometimes lonely experience of teaching English in China, and my first very happy year living in the southwes
For access to password protected posts, please email me at enchantressofnumbers at gmail dot com. Let me know if I know you in real life and send me a link to your blog or website if you’ve got one.
For access to password protected posts, please email me at enchantressofnumbers at gmail dot com. Let me know if I know you in real life and send me a link to your blog or website if you've got one.
A beautiful post on hierarchies and judgement within marginalized communities.
The Skeptic’s Book of Pooh-Pooh points out an awesome news story on the danger anti-vaxers create for children in their communities. The anti-vaxers hypocrisy is also on display in their support of chemical castration for autistic boys.
We can’t expect toxic products to stop coming from China anytime soon. Honesty and transparency are impossible with a government that actively represses knowledge of its own history.
Women continue to be kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered in Mexico. Despite the hundreds of victims that are likely the victims of one or more serial killers, the police aren’t doing anything about it.
As the AZ legislature slashes education funding across the state, especially at the university level, the AZ Republic has a timely article about the importance of research – even if it sounds ridiculous.
“Justice.”
Lindsay Beyerstein explains that we do still need journalists and should be paying them – most bloggers provide commentary and synthesis, not reporting.
The role of partisanship in California’s economic crisis.
Something to have nightmares about: the rise of private policing in the US.
Right wing extremists kill more law enforcement officers.
Dr. Isis’s fantastic post Boys Talk About How Girls Should Talk About Science…
It’s easy to consider a civil discourse when you’ve never had your ass grabbed by a colleague, been called “young lady” in front of your peers, or been asked about your reproductive plans. It’s easy to ask the participants to be calm, and minimize profanity, when you don’t have to keep in the back of you mind which which men to avoid at a meeting when they’ve been drinking.
Plants recognize themselves.
The representation of hetero men in conventional pornography vs. the spectrum of things hetero men actually enjoy.
FSP on “us and them.”
The next cake I’m going to bake.
Pennsylvania is starting to look like the deep south half a century ago.
Texas AND Alaska charge victims for their own rape kits.
A beautiful post on hierarchies and judgement within marginalized communities.
The Skeptic's Book of Pooh-Pooh points out an awesome news story on the danger anti-vaxers create for children in their communities. The anti-vaxers hypocrisy is also on display in their support of chemical castration for autistic boys.
We can't expect toxic products to stop coming from China anytime soon. Honesty and transparency are impossible with a government that actively represses knowledge of its own history.
Women continue to be kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered in Mexico. Despite the hundreds of victims that are likely the victims of one or more serial killers, the police aren't doing anything about it.
As the AZ legislature slashes education funding across the state, especially at the university level, the AZ Republic has a timely article about the importance of research - even if it sounds ridiculous.
"Justice."
Lindsay Beyerstein explains that we do still need journalists and
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I have several posts waiting to be written (or half written) and had grand plans of finishing at least one today. Unfortunately, I’m sick again today. For the last several weeks I’ve been nauseated for several hours almost every day for no apparent reason. It isn’t bad enough to make me miserable, but it keeps me from staring at my computer screen for too long. So instead of telling you about my trip to Sedona today, I’m going to go sit on the porch and drink ginger tea.
I have several posts waiting to be written (or half written) and had grand plans of finishing at least one today. Unfortunately, I'm sick again today. For the last several weeks I've been nauseated for several hours almost every day for no apparent reason. It isn't bad enough to make me miserable, but it keeps me from staring at my computer screen for too long. So instead of telling you about my trip to Sedona today, I'm going to go sit on the porch and drink ginger tea.
I’d apologize for the lack of blogging, but I’m pretty sure most of my readers have either experienced the end of a semester or heard me whine enough to understand exactly why I’ve disappeared the last few weeks. I don’t actually have any finals this semester, but I do have large papers and projects to turn in. Ultimately, these end up being a lot more work than a big test, but I prefer them. Most exams just require you to vomit up some large percentage of the information presented in class that semester, but a term paper or project forces me to think about what I’ve learned in different contexts, apply it, and synthesize it. Much more useful and interesting than regurgitating Ohm’s law in all its permutations for plant physiology (Dr. Isis is right about everything in physiology boiling down to Ohm’s law) or listing the advantages of a hierarchical Bayesian modeling approach.
I turn in my modeling project at 7:30 AM tomorrow and my plant physiology mock grant proposal on Thursday morning. Then I’m going to reward myself by replacing the cheap, falling apart plastic plants some of plants live in and sit on my balcony in the sunshine playing in the dirt for a few hours.
And then you might hear from me again.
I'd apologize for the lack of blogging, but I'm pretty sure most of my readers have either experienced the end of a semester or heard me whine enough to understand exactly why I've disappeared the last few weeks. I don't actually have any finals this semester, but I do have large papers and projects to turn in. Ultimately, these end up being a lot more work than a big test, but I prefer them. Most exams just require you to vomit up some large percentage of the information presented in class that semester, but a term paper or project forces me to think about what I've learned in different contexts, apply it, and synthesize it. Much more useful and interesting than regurgitating Ohm's law in all its permutations for plant physiology (Dr. Isis is right about everything in physiology boiling down to Ohm's law) or listing the advantages of a hierarchical Bayesian modeling approach.
I turn in my modeling project at 7:30 AM tomorrow and my plant physiology mock grant proposal on Thursday morning. Then I
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