Today I was recruited by one of the male technicians at my job to be part of a class to get me up to speed on software troubleshooting on Mac's. He's tall, older, white and male. Most of the people he recruited for the class are women (all of the women on the Genius team in fact), and many are POC. Having done technical work since I was 14, I was a ( Read more... )

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So I've been invited to an event where users are boycotting facebook for a day, supposedly because "rumors" are that Facebook is going to become a pay site. The idea is that the massive outflux of users for one day will show Facebook makers that they will "pay" if they make the decision to charge for using Facebook ( Read more... )

So I have this internal debate that goes on in my head. It goes something like this ( Read more... )

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So my friendster updates, myspace bulletins, and email inbox are literally falling apart under the weight of messages about voting No On Prop 8. My friends are blogging about it. Lorri Jean and Geoff Kors send me more e-mail than my parents and closest friends (and even for that matter, Barack Obama). I don't think I've been in a group of three or ( Read more... )

I so rarely respond to the random people who message me on myspace. But somehow today I felt inspired ( Read more... )

My mom, despite her feminist sentiments, for some reason raised my sister and me without ever making us cook, clean, or do housework. When I went to college, I picked up laundry and cleaning pretty quickly by neccesity, but it wasn't until junior year that I took the plunge and formed a cooking group with some of my friends. I discovered that not ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking about the next 50 years... what life might be like when I'm 80. At various meditation retreats I've been at, I've done visioning excersises where I've placed myself farther into the future-- 50 or 100 years down the line. Always the first thing that's come to me is vast change in the structure of society-- near to total decay ( Read more... )