So, my roomie is outta here for the holidays (not that it’ll be all that different around the house – she and her SO have been connected at the hip for the last two weeks, so I haven’t seen much of her. They’re terribly cute), which means I’m going to be watching a lot of […]
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This morning I was forwarded an “all users” message from our health & safety department. Was this a reminder about wearing a hard hat on construction sites, or properly lifting boxes by using your legs so you don’t throw out your back? A lesson in ergonomics? Or perhaps it was just the usual holiday reminder
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How about a show of hands from everyone who gives a shit that Alien’s Ripley would be played by a 55-year-old woman? Anyone? Apparently, Hollywood’s concerned about it. Um. Hello? Sigourney Weaver, dude, ass-kicking heroine extraordinaire. Not only do I not care if she *is* 55, I’d appreciate it if she *looked* 55 and went
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Ah. Here’s a neat-o gallery of my favorite work-day inspirational posters: More at despair.com
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There’s something immensely satisfying about finding a successful author who finds their characters sitting around doing the same sorts of frustrating things that mine do, instead of furthering the plot: Dave McKean phoned me up today. I got unexpectedly testy when he commented on a couple of scenes in Mirrormask that were just two people
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“Any female[…] has had to work ten times as hard as her male counterpart to be accepted in their organization. She will be more able, will react quicker, and will generally be much more dangerous. Kill her first.” — Starr, “One Man’s War,” Preacher That’s the best quote ever. A great article on Geeky girls
Rox Populi points to this article about recommendations for the deployment of mixed-sex units alongside all-male units in the US military: The Nov. 29 briefing to senior Army officers at the Pentagon, presented as part of the service’s sweeping transformation of its 10 war-fighting divisions, advocates scrapping the military’s ban on collocation — the deployment
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