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Teaching myself Photoshop here at work. The logo’s a work in progress. I’m having oodles of fun over here, so watch for changes and logo clean-up.

Whu-pah. I’m so confused at how guys like Santorum can say this stuff with a straight (ha ha) face. It’s a step away from saying people who have sex with people of the same sex aren’t actual people, they’re fake people. I find it incredibly surreal. I don’t know how long people can just nod

Oh, the shock, oh the horror. I bet that without the manly label, it would have cost 50 cents more.

Condensation clouds: The clouds appear for the same reason that clouds always form, namely, that the air has cooled to the point that the ambient water vapor condenses. Flows around bodies and wings always change the temperature and pressure of the fluid. It is well known that lift is caused by pressure differences on top

You know those annoying communting days when you’re stuck on a train platform and wishing to hell you knew of a public toilet that was open that early in the morning? Or, have you ever been a tourist stuck in the middle of a tourist trap, wondering how the hell to navigate through the hawkers

Should I feel bad that I pretty much have experienced all of these? Put a star by the one about getting angrier… You have a lot on your mind, just not work. The work doesn’t challenge you and time hangs. “Boredom is a big factor,” Hollander said. “When it’s just a job, it’s time to

With regular gym workouts comes, once again, regular aches and pains. When I first started taking martial arts classes, I was sore for three months. No kidding. Let’s hope the recovery’s quicker this time. In any case, hot damn, it’s nice to be moving again. I really like being strong. I’ve missed this.

As a woman who travels a lot and has well meaning parents, I get these “you should be scared shitless!” e-mails all the time, you know: I allude to those rape-avoidance-tips emails, the kind written by “the police department” and sent by your well-meaning friend, warning you to always look under your car for attackers

Why are there so many tampons in our house? I was digging around for more pads in our bathroom cabinet this morning, trying to clear space around the boxes and boxes of tampons tumbling out of the cabinet and spilling onto the floor. Why are there so many tampons in our house? I don’t use

Do you really need to listen to sports scores and track the minute by minute countdown (from 60 minutes) of the shuttle launch on the speakers of your computer without using headphones and then narrate your experiece for the rest of us at 8 o’clock in the morning when some of us, who require 8-10