One of the strongest arguments for continuing to teach history is the incredible sense of freedom it gives an individual who’s grown up thinking that the cultural norms, the “reality” that they’ve grown up in is just “the way things are” or “the way things have always been.” Spent some time studying history, and every […]
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Great conversation over at Pandagon about advertising and breast augmentation.
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I just finished re-reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground. I read it and loved it when it first came out, lured by a stunning review of the book by Michael Moorcock. This time around, as I re-read Veniss I started to think about what draws me back to particular books. I don’t re-read a lot of
There’s an interesting conversation going on at Jed’s about gender identity. He actually asks *how* you know you’re a girl/boy, but I’m also quite interested in when? When did you know?
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The Game/Quiz. If I ever publish GW, I want to make a flash game where you go around cutting off people’s heads and collect bugs that give you special powers and healing abilities. That would be kewl.
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Gazing at the enormous organs (of male ducks), she (Dr. Brennan) asked herself a question that apparently no one had asked before. “So what does the female look like?” she said. “Obviously you can’t have something like that without some place to put it in. You need a garage to park the car.” The lower
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And, suddenly, my phone is ringing off the hook with temp agencies submitting my resume to people. Is there some kind of quarterly budget thing happening where people are eager to hire all of a sudden, or what? Hey, I’ll take what I can get…
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My credit card company, for some inane reason, decided to up my credit limit (I mean, I’m unemployed! What better reason to up my limit!). So I took the opportunity to stock up on my meds, since as soon as I can’t make that CC payment, they’re going to cut me off. This cost me:
Q: What would you say is your strongest quality?A: My ability to bullshit on the fly Q: What would you say is your biggest weakness?A: This hole in my foot. Q: What methods would you use to priortize tasks?A: I would sort them by color and shoot them. Q: Do you have any questions for
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