Ide Cyan sent me an interesting note about recent events on Battlestar Galactica, which, unfortunatley, I haven’t been able to keep up on, as Jenn’s the one who tapes things and we’ve both been out of town a lot (I plan to catch up when it’s out on DVD). Ide noted that the two main […]
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The Wheel of Time turns, and…. Ha. Sorry. Couldn’t help it. You know, after decades and decades of listening to people harping on about women and their biological clocks and “all women want to get married as soon as possible” crap, it’s sorta funny to see the tables turned: “Dr. Harry Fisch, a urologist at
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What scares me so much about living here in the US right now, and dealing with all of the pseudo-religious hysteria is that when somebody tries to make a joke, it takes me way too long to get it. Here’s the brillant editors of Scientific American, from the latest issue’s editorial: “For years, helpful letter
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Have finally started studying for the LSATs in earnest, meaning I’ve been equally appalled at how incredibly poor my diagnostic score was, and interested in figuring out how to figure it out. It’s learning how to think another way, and it’s challenging, in its way. This is what I’ve been doing at work instead of
Enjoyed a very relaxing weekend, and am having trouble coming back to just about everything. Got some writing to work on…
Snow in March is not. Yellow came into the office at 10am yesterday and left at 3:30pm. I have no guilt about my workday habits. In other news, I’m subsisting mainly on weak echinacea tea and contemplating skipping out of work at noon today, because I’d rather be in bed. It’s been one of those…
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When I started blogging, I discovered a compulsive need to open the tattered edges of my emotional raincoat and expose the nasty parts beneath. That’s Ayelet Waldman at Salon, touching on the first of several reasons she stopped blogging. I wanted to throw this up here real quick this week because it says so much
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Well, it’s another crazy week. I’ve got lots of backlogged writing to do, and a whole house to clean, and etc. etc. So I’ll see you all on Monday. Have a great week!
Paying a woman to have a kid? You know, considering that the cost of that kid over it’s lifetime is way, way more than 10K, I think it’s a pretty bum deal.
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