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Why I am so heartbroken over Bill Cosby and Jian Ghomeshi.
Sure, I can shorthand and say: because I loved them as a kid ( Read more... ) -
What I Did This Summer
For folks who are involved in the Wiscon community and who don't know what's been going on: the Wiscon concom had close to a dozen people resign in the aftermath of the Frenkel harassment ban. Many of them were volunteers in critical jobs, who had been working the con for several decades without any clear understudies or apprentices, doing the work ( Read more... ) -
Time Burglary
Time burglar (n, slang, idiomatic) - Someone who responds to an ad with multiple requests for information, borderline-insulting counter-offers, and requests for time-consuming changes, only to disappear into thin air and never contact you again ( Read more... ) -
A Modest Proposal
Anonymous Friend: Reading the comments on Scalzi's blog, I would like to propose an informal standard for measuring a harassment policy.
Me: What, that reporting harassment should not be far worse than being harassed?
AF: "If Neil Gaiman were accused of sexual harassment, would this policy work?"
Me: Hahahah
Me: Okay, honestly, I'm not sure ( Read more... ) -
A reaction from a Wiscon concom member
Originally posted as a comment to: Comments on Wiscon, the Frenkel Decision, and Harassment, by Antarcticlust
I'm on the Wiscon concom, and I'd like to say a few words about how this post by Antarcticlust and the discussion in the comments has dramatically changed what's going on in the concom right now. The concom was initially presented with ( Read more... ) -
The rest of the 2014 Hugo Ballot.
What does it actually signify that Vox Day made it onto the 2014 Hugo ballot? Among other things, it that means running a PR campaign as the poster child for misogyny and white surpremacy will actually get you more visibility as a writer than quietly toiling through a life of literary mediocrity ( Read more... ) -
Papaya Manifesto
Dear everybody ( Read more... ) -
Free horoscope from the Astronomer Who Makes You Cry!
This week Mercury is in Retrograde. I haven't actually bothered to verify this fact, mind, I'm just reporting what everyone on my feed is complaining about. So if you are having a bad day, I'm very sorry to hear it, and I sympathize utterly. And so does Mercury. Though Mercury would like to mention that he'd appreciate some sympathy, too, because ( Read more... ) -
False Dichotomy
So I finally picked up Woman on the Edge of Time, which I think Susan sent me a year or two ago. I settled down to read it, and I promptly bounced off the blurb at the back:"...the fascinating story of Connie Ramos, a Chicana woman in her mid-thirties, living in New York and labeled insane, committed to a mental institution. But the truth is that ( Read more... ) -
Ah-hah.
This is what I want: A Couch to 10k program. With lots of advice about interval trainingBecause I can already jog a 5k, see? It's just grindingly, embarrassingly slow. My power walker friends can keep up with my 14 minute mile. And I want to be able to do the Saguaro East 8 miler one day, so I badly need a game plan for gaining distance ( Read more... )