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Amanda’s got some thoughts on the latest round of the “weak Y chromosome” story at NPR. And I’ve got some counter-thoughts. I’ve heard people lamenting for awhile that the Y chromosome is “too small.” Mostly, it’s men who say this. I think this has something to do with the male preoccupation with size. Let’s be […]

Learned how to do a jump kick last night. Well, sorta. OK, I figured out how to do the basics of a jump kick last night. You know that winning move at the end of The Karate Kid that Danny uses to win the match? It’s like that. Only, without the arms. We had an

Because I wasn’t invited to today’s meeting. I have mixed feelings. That aside… here’s a yearly round-up questionairre via Vandermeer: 1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before? Took up martial arts and boxing, started a blog, got a story published in Strange Horizons, got the most “this is a great

A Perfect Circle has a remix of Lennon’s “Imagine” (and, uh… check out the very familiar propaganda posters they’ve got scrolling over their front page. I laughed and laughed) I’m usually not a fan of remixes, but I’ve had this one on repeat all day.

One of my favorite studies on caloric restriction and the effects of dieting on appetite, metabolism, and brain function is actually 50 years old. Ancel Benjamin Keys, PhD., did a groundbreaking study about the effects of a restricted calorie diet on healthy men during a 6-month period. I’m very, very thankful that he did this

Amanda regularly takes “advice” columns directed toward women and their hetero dating habits to task. If you’re not following these (particularly if you’re a guy), you should. With advice like this, it’s no wonder a lot of guys keep telling me that they find women really confusing (I’ve never found myself very confusing) and women

Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) Stumbled across this, and it reminded me of a couple of my posts: “On Merit. And Sex. Of Course” and “More On Why Power is All About Women.” Just to reiterate, once again, that there’s nothing new under the sun. Just keep saying the same damn things, over and over and over

No. I’m not watching Earthsea tonight, in all it’s whitewashed glory. Author Nalo Hopkinson and Leguin each rant about it. Remind me never to sell the rights to anything I’ve written that’s really close to my heart. I’ll end up screaming at the television (apparently, according to the director, it’s a “multicultural” adventure because there

The Big Dogs from corporate are in town today, so it’s been a bit of a “busy” (this is a relative term) morning, prepping some stuff for Blaine, my boss. I’ve got a few hours before their plane shows up, but they’ll be here all week, so things could be busy with meetings I’m invited

Yes, seriously. Really. I mean it. I’m going to go and find plots for four short stories that’ve got lots of character and setting and not much else. That’s pretty much always the story of my stories. In the mean time, check out the blogroll, rail against the idiots, snicker about power to the people