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Absurd Locutions: Never charged for it in my life
Today's entry is brought to you by a combination of this incredibly scary time we're living in and Autocorrect. Because I'm pretty sure this headline in a local political newsletter was an Autocorrect artifact:
Bill Protects Free Conception in MA.
What the bill (now passed) guarantees is free contraception. And I'm also fairly sure the writer of ( Read more... ) -
Anti-Bullying Month: A Thing I Wish
So, this Anti-Bullying Month we are having a cultural Moment about sexual harassment in the workplace, only instead of women in $industry, it's beautiful young women who one might think had a sense of self-worth and power already. Surprise! Being in your early 20s is a bitch, no matter how gorgeous you are our how sure of yourself you may appear to ( Read more... ) -
Bad Uber! No Biscuit!
So... I was in Harvard Square for Reasons, and summoned an Uber to get home. As you probably know, Uber provides its drivers with an app that gives them directions and other info. In this case, the app gave bad directions in Medford, and again in Malden. It was an Uber pool, and I don't know Medford well, so I didn't spot the problem with the first ( Read more... ) -
Health and Such
News from the Great March of Science ( Read more... ) -
Not dead yet! (On the other hand, still not queen.)
Lots on my mind, but somehow not journaling. Sorry 'bout that.
I just read a Slate interview with an author of a new book about college and sex. In it, the author of the book referred to a sociologist at NYU whose first name is "Jesse." The (male) interviewer assumed that "Jesse" was male. Slate posted the interview without independent checking, and ( Read more... ) -
A brief comment on current affairs
Remember a few months ago, when I was trying to write a set of entries called "Seeking His Face"? It was about trying to see the face of God in the face of Donald Trump.
Yeah, not finishing that anytime soon.
I feel like a small child who has been kept up too late at the circus. I don't care what the clowns are doing; they frighten me and I want to ( Read more... ) -
HASTS may not be for me.
So I met with a perfectly wonderful woman at MIT named Rosalind Williams, and came away unsure if the PhD program in History and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Society is a good fit for me. This is because the things people at MIT are interested in are not the sorts of things I care about, by and large.
My reflections since then have been ( Read more... ) -
Thesus Redux, Part 4: What a piece of work is man
Human beings, in Arendt's conception are bound both to the earth (or to the cosmos) by the cycle of life, and to the world of the human artifice. To put it another way, we are both members of our species and individuals born into specific, human-made environments, without choice as to where we land in the on-going human story. That world -- the ( Read more... ) -
Fig Jam with Lemon, Balsamic Vinegar, and Vanilla
This recipe is a combination of things from the New York Times (Martha Rose Shulman's Fig Jam) and a recipe from Cooking Madly (Balsamic Fig). I used tecnique tips from the former and ingredient tips from the latter, but cut that recipe by a third. It makes between 5 and 7 cups.
INGREDIENTS:
2 lbs figs (about 4 pints), washed, stemmed, and cut into ( Read more... ) -
Peach Ginger Tea Jam
Ingredients:
2 to 2.5 lbs firm-ripe peaches (tasty, not runny)
4 oz crystallized stem ginger
6 oolong teabags
Juice of 1/2 lemon
2 cups boiling water
1.5 packages Sure-Jell pectin, or 1 and 3/8 oz. Ball pectin. (Don't try to measure the Ball pectin by tablespoon, it will pack down too tightly.)
Jars, lids, and bands sufficient to hold 9 cups of jam
Good, ( Read more... )