Oh no. This is the kind of stuff I thought I'd encounter at last weekend's Stargate Convention in Arlington. To my eternal relief, the only people in costume were the guards at the door. If you are easily insulted, or a big fan of dressing up at science fiction conventions... well, actually, you may still find this funny.

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I was watching Prometheus Unbound last night (omg! the cackling from my room probably has my roommates terrified), and there's gonna be a SG-1 Convention next weekend in Arlington. I haven't decided to go yet, honestly. Tix to get an autograph from MS are $30 alone, not including the cost of admission (photos are $50). I like him and all, but ( Read more... )

Government-enforced gender norms, coming to a female face near you:

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20963/

Adios, liberty, choice, freedom.

Ohmygod it's SO COLD in my apartment that I'm sweating. Holy god. Yesterday I went around all the windows and stuffed paper towels around the cracks and taped trash bags around the last air conditioner they didn't take out of the window. I hear the bags inflating and deflating as the drafts blow through, like the bags are breathing. One of my ( Read more... )

Wow, that's more than I thought.


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I am grinning from ear-to-ear -- techies are so weird. As a result of the LJ crash, they're letting people locate themselves in the system to find out what's happening with their journal. And so the weird, weird truth comes out -- LJ has named all its 100+ servers after, of all things, beef. For example, as of 8:08 pm, the servers "MadCow" and " ( Read more... )

60 Minutes II is running a story on girl from Uganda who got a college scholarship to a school in Connecticut, thanks to a goat from Heifer International. They're pre-empting the program here for a St. Jude's telethon (argh), but it'll run again tonight at 2:40 a.m. on Channel 9.

Doing some thinking about our foods, prompted by tinglerWe Americans eat a tremendous variety of foods without a second thought, while most of the world does not. In fact, we have so perfectly incorporated Italian and some German food into our everyday lives, we don't think of ourselves as eating a certain nation's cuisine. Mexican and Chinese are ( Read more... )

So, I've been out drinking, and lo! it's the middle of the night. I come home with the munchies and reach for... brussel sprouts.

*headdesk*

They're really, really good, tho. God, I love sprouts.

(For the record, Mum never fed us sprouts or spinach; I acquired that taste in England. She raised us on salads. Yum.)