And hunger for BRAINS...

Sorry to worry people. I still exist. I've just been really, really busy with the incredibly wonderfulness of having starlightv around all the time. It's seriously the best thing ever. I mean it. We've been living together over a month, and we're still lovey-dovey enough to send observers into insulin shock ( Read more... )

48 new and modified web pages, including ( Read more... )

So, um, bit of a major development this weekend: starlightv moved in. We had been talking seriously about living together a few months down the line, maybe starting early next year, but a series of unexpected events on Saturday led to her suddenly finding herself in need of a new place to live, so... yeah. I helped yesterday move a bunch of her stuff from ( Read more... )

I sweep down upon the project, destroying unnecessary capitalizations with my righteous wrath, leaving a trail of serial commas in my wake.

A couple of weeks ago, Kirsten asked me how I can support Obama and still consider myself Jewish and an Israeli ( Read more... )

Suffer a politics-free post about my actual life! Bwahahaha!

First, some gushing: starlightv continues to be the awesomest person in the history of awesome. Which is a lot longer than the history of people, if you think about it. She kept nudging me to go to the doctor (see below) and finally helped me get there on Friday, when I hit the point of total ( Read more... )

Increasingly it seems like voters can be split up into two camps: those who'll vote for the sort of person who names her kids things like "Trig" and "Piper", and those who won't ( Read more... )

Thanks to Bob Altemeyer's excellent The Authoritarians, I now know that sociologists believe they have found a strong correlation between scoring highly on both of two quantifiable personality measures (right-wing* authoritarian follower traits and social dominance orientation) and being a power-hungry, unscrupulous, domineering bastard ( Read more... )

We had to become employees to eat.

Then they turned us into human resources, things to consume.

Now they've announced the Federal Human Capital Survey.

We're things to be spent.

Remember when we were people?

cnorgard e-mailed me, he's fine, he's just lost his phone and has computer trouble. So, apparently I'm contagious ( Read more... )