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Got an e-mail circular from the lead A/E guy here at the Workplace of Silliness – looks like we’re going to get 2 proposals we’ve currently got out that are closing up right now. One of our clients also just gave a glowing review of our A/E guy working in Iraq, so we’ve got kudos […]

Bush, Rumsfeld, and Powell take some time off to model for the Banana Republic catalog… Matt Cheney’s got a post up about some of the flack Strange Horizons appears to be taking for publishing a soft SF story… that’s about the sexual relationship between two women. Though I agree that the story would have been

My roomie has a date tonight, and I’m sitting here watching Rocky movies, eating Thai food, doing line edits and arguing with myself again about what a lame person I must be to be sitting here finding some kind of happiness in line edits and Rocky movies. Aren’t I incomplete? Isn’t there something wrong with

And, one more before I get started on these 700 pages of line edits (arg): check out Matt Cheney’s reflections on teaching Neil Gaiman’s American Gods to his highschool AP English class. I just think it’s damn cool he got away assigning a real book – with swearing and vagina dentate and non-white people and

Charge `em by the pound. Yea, that’s right, fat girls. What the hell is up with places like Eddie Bauer and L.L. Bean that don’t charge you for plus sizes? Who do they think they are? Hey, let’s start putting a “woman tax” on shirts. Afterall, if a woman’s got breasts bigger than a B,

I did a bad thing last night. I rented and watched Enough with Jennifer Lopez. Oh, gag me with a spoon. To be fair, I knew this was going to be a wretched movie, but I’d heard she learned a bunch of Krav Maga for it, and I’ve had a higher-than-usual interest in fighting movies

Amazon.com is sponsoring a series of rather dull, boring short movies that then try and “make money” by advertising products seen in the short. They’ve got one up with Minnie Driver called “Portrait” in which the office fat girl – who’s seen eating in *every damn scene* – at a modeling agency gets her photo

So, one of the guys in the office just forwarded all the women in the office this stupid urban legend thing, passing it off as him being this concerned male citizen of virtue. You know this one, the *677 cell phone feature (in CANADA) that’ll save a poor helpless woman who’s got an unmarked police

This one is fascinating, from New Scientist: Students who thought of Superman volunteered much less of their time than those who thought about other superheroes. Furthermore, Superman-primed subjects were significantly less likely to show up at a meeting for volunteers held three months after they were initially asked to participate. The reason, believes Nelson, is

So, almost six months into fighting classes, and I’m still loving this kicking-ass thing. Had a good class last night. Wore a newer sort of shirt that really, only waifish petite women should wear (says the media – smaller straps, more breathable material, tight-fitting), but damn I was comfortable, and when I got a look