April 2007 Archives
You don't have to watch the accompanying video to appreciate All the good music on Slacktivist:
Ives' routine involves lecturing about the inherent sinfulness of certain kinds of rhythm. In short, he believes "godly" music should be a march in 4/4 time. Anything else is the Devil's work.
I lost valuable productive hours of 1998 and 1999 because of Brunching Shuttlecocks. Lore Sjöberg now has a column in Wired. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Gory Realities of Nearsightedness was eerily familiar, and luckily not all that gory:
I'm lucky to be living in a time of eyeball technology. Without artificial assistance, my vision is such that I could not tell a flower stand from a bowl of miso soup at 15 paces.
Austria’s Five-Star Prison is both words and pictures. Don't miss the photo captions.
Why is the rate of burglaries in Austria a whopping 40% higher than in the U.S.? I’ll tell you why: because Austrian minimum security prisons are fucking awesome! If you’re in Austria, and have a working brain, you should be trying to get into one right now!
When You're A Jet by Barbara Card Atkinson took my breath away. It's short and precious and you should read it.
I love Coffee Break's Over on Our Kind of Parenting so much that I'm having a hard time what to put for the teaser without spoiling it. OK, how about this:
I say this for one reason only: the term "hos" is one highly offensive thing, but how many white guys do you know actually even know the word "nappy"...until now? Hugh Grant thinks it means diaper. So does Paul McCartney. Of course they do, they're English.
It's Over, but for the misconceptions, and notes on raunch culture generally on Kalidharma X Shaktidharma saved me the trouble of writing a post on censorship versus social disapproval - and bonus, it's way better than what I would have written:
Content directors and cultural creatives put stuff out there. If we don't want it: they can't sell it: it dies. And that is perfectly fair, fine, right, and just what freedom of speech means. All the ideas and styles get their test and run, and some of them make it. Not all of them make it in all contexts.Speech is contextual. You can't say just anything just anywhere. And grown-ups know that.
What creative types and programming directors also know, that most people don't, is there are Many More Ideas in the Hopper. Always. And we won't run out. So, most people also won't run out of entertainment. Relax. We're not going to make you make your own entertainment. We know that's really hard to do.
Beyond Earth Day on a garden of nna mmoy is both funny and deadly serious:
Some of the candidates will promise you the moon. They will blow fairy dust up your ass and try to convince you that they can lower taxes, improve the resource-based economy and prevent global warming without making any significant changes to how we get around, build our houses, or the price of bread or t-shirts. This is a complete and utter fabrication. They are lying to you.
Have a good weekend, people.
The Princess: I am not commenting on this post.
C-Man: Thank you, I feel so much stupider after having seen that page. I need to go listen to Mozart or some shit to undo the damage done to my brain.
The Princess: I'm just sad that there are no other words in the English language to convey weakness except for words referring to women's genitals. It's such a restriction on talented writers like this fine gentleman.
Dear The Universe,
I propose a deal.
I will not at all resent being this tired. Really. Not even a little. Even though I am almost as tired as I was during my worst insomnia, I won't be mad. I won't even complain.
In return, I ask that you make my stomach completely calm. You know, like it was before January 29th. You're over halfway there, so it shouldn't be too hard.
Please consider this arrangement. I feel it would benefit us both.
Thanks,
The Princess
Who is interviewed today on BlogHer? Me! Check out Ten Money Questions for Skye Kilaen, part of a series by BlogHer Contributing Editor Nina Smith. Nina blogs at QueerCents, a personal finance blog for the LGBT community. I enjoyed meeting her at last year's BlogHer conference, and I was delighted to participate in the Ten Money Questions series on BlogHer. Thanks, Nina!
C-Man: For $30 for a 6 pound package, that better show up tomorrow wrapped in gold leaf . . . .
The Princess: It better have a pie in it.
Do you really think a state government office building needs a vending machine full of "energy" drinks?
The Princess: I think I would like you to get that bitty laptop up and running for me.
C-Man: To take to BlogHer?
The Princess: Yes. And to put stickers all over it.
C-Man: What kind of stickers?
The Princess: I don't know. All I know is that at BlogHer, everyone had laptops with cool stickers on tham and I was SO JEALOUS.
C-Man: I'll see what I can do. It might need a wireless card.
The Princess: Actually, it probably doesn't even have to work, I could just put stickers all over it and put it on the table in front of me and pretend like I didn't feel like using it right then.
C-Man: I could definitely make it available for that purpose.
Please stop cc:ing me on that email. You know which one. I can't possibly add any value, and it just makes my head hurt.
BabyCenter.com has decided to resume giving us a reference point. The baby is the size of an avocado this week.
I hope everyone who sees this can take a quick minute to watch this, and then reflect on it as you go through the week. It's important.
The post on blackprof.com that led me to this video
A link to the video, in case this embedding thing doesn't work.
The video:
Question: What do you get when you cross a black lacquer coffee table with the visor that LeVar Burton wore as Geordi in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Answer: The Sceptre X42!
This was the next television that came to our home, after the old television was declared unfit and the new television was cast out when it didn't work with the Playstation.
The Sceptre X42 had all the right credentials. It was 1080p High Definition LCD etc. It was tested with the Playstation. It was from Costco. But the picture linked to above does not even begin to convey the ugliness of this object.
Friend: Hello! Am I waking you up?
Princess: No, I'm at work. Oh, did you think today was a holiday?
Friend: (pause) No, I don't have any idea what day it is!
Sister: Mom has some maternity clothes for you from me. Don't get too excited.
The Princess: She warned me. I told her that I was glad it was going to be summer, since your pants would be capris on me.
Sister: I actually think I only sent capris because I knew my jeans would be too short. So, I guess they'll be shorts...
Remember the emails that tell me how big the baby is? Let me pick up where we left off.
- Week 13 = jumbo shrimp
- Week 14 = lemon
- Week 15...NO COMPARISON.
So is there any food that's 4 inches long and weighs about 2 1/2 ounces? How am I supposed to visualize without a point of reference? And why discontinue the food references now that I'm moving out of the first trimester, which is the one associated with nausea? It makes no sense.
(If you're going to answer that first, mostly rhetorical question, please keep it clean. If you're gross, I will nuke your comment and put you on probation.)
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A movie about librarians battling evil? Who doesn't want to see that?
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What a train wreck. I was just fascinated. I have never had a date this bad.
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Good solution to the forced "confession" problem.
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Aw yeah.
Kathy Sierra and Chris Locke (one of the people Ms. Sierra named in her post as a contributor to the sites where she ended up receiving death threats) have released a joint statement after talking through the incident. It's clear they still have some points of disagreement, but they have discussed the situation like adults and come to a resolution.
If only more people, myself included, could work through their differences with each other in such a fashion. I'm really impressed.
