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silks class at esh aerial arts: "manpretty"
omg am i going to hurt tomorrow.
since i occasionally post here about interest in exploring the space of male presentation in performance, it probably won't be surprising that this workshop description at esh aerial arts appealed to me:
ManPretty with T Lawrence-Simon ( Read more... ) -
just repeating things other people said
riffing on captchas, linked from bruce schneier's blog. i think "why did my wife leave me?" has to be the best security question ever.
also, i love everything about today's xkcd. -
day 6 of this cold
sudafed helps. being on a plane did not. when i sniffle deeply, my head explodes. trying not to breathe too much while bolting it back together.
i'm sure this has nothing to do with those immune-suppressing drugs i'm on. -
the succubus trope
i wouldn't have thought of... well, at least this particular variant... as a specific media trope until quite recently. but...
you know how rogue, the x-men character, in both the comic and the movie, had this thing where she couldn't kiss anyone because she couldn't turn off her powers, which worked by touch, which would essentially suck out ( Read more... ) -
whatever season this is
i feel like i should post something here about my grandmother's funeral, except i'm not really sure what to say except that alzheimers, though awful, is probably easier on relatives at the funeral than more-sudden ways of dying. i've had years to get used to grandma being gone, while she was still here ( Read more... ) -
starting to worry about open source code
sure, if you don't have data on a conversion rate for a particular currency, it's probably fine to silently assume it trades with the euro at 1:1, instead of throwing an error. it's just money, right? people don't get very picky about money. -
thought of the day
in the wake of the sopa/pipa fight and the takedown of megaupload, i've seen (finally!) occasional mentions of the fact that each instance of illegal file sharing represents a crime, but not every instance represents a loss to the copyright holder. which means that even if they were based on real data, industry estimates of losses due to piracy ( Read more... ) -
happy new year!
for january 1st this year i got finessed into running in a 5k race. :) moominmolly talked me into signing up, and we were going to go through the couch-to-5k training program, but then even that proved too aggressive for her ankles right now, so we stopped. but in the meantime jojotbird had also signed up, along with her brother and his s.o... so...
encouragingly, jojotbird ( Read more... ) -
then they came for the reporters
the most alarming thing i can recall seeing so far related to the "occupy" protests, which i've been following only vaguely, was that police during one of the early evictions-- oakland? seattle? i don't remember where, and can't seem to find references to it now-- told the press to go away... and they didin any case it's nice to see at last (via ( Read more... )