Corie and I spent some time this afternoon seriously discussing the double standard men and women share relating to sex. I'm referriing to the idea that when women have sex they are diminished, whereas men gain status. It is almost as if there is some metaphysical point system keeping score, which your reputation is derived from ( Read more... )

So I have engaged in a variety of interesting activities lately. I shall summarize them here ( Read more... )

This movie is better than Pirates of the Caribbean 2: http://www.pyrats.net/watch-movie.html.

And it was made by four French kids.

Young and Out of Uniform,

Big surprise here:


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So there's this crazy internet phenomena going on where people create what are called "cat macros". These are basically normal pictures of cats that people put capitalized, misspelled captions on. There's a whole internet subculture forming around these things, as evidenced by the livejournal community cat_macros. Here are a couple of examples:


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Some good things have been happening lately. The school decided to give me an extra 2,000 dollars as a grant, so I'm pretty financially secure right now. Now would be a good time to get back into my research on the FOREX market, assuming strides in technology and software make it possible to have a trading station that doesn't disconnect from the ( Read more... )

Quick post today, just to show that genetic mutants can be cooler than normal people without having super-powers.

Young and Out of Uniform,

There is a group of people protesting the funerals of the VT massacre victims. These are the same people you may have heard about protesting the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, or most famously Rosa Parks. They appear to believe that God hates America, and so is doing horrible things to us in retribution, similar to a kid with an ant farm and ( Read more... )

Check this out so we can get started. I saw this and felt really good about it. It's nice to see the military serving itself for once.

So there are some problems with the cats. Cookie is doing well, tooling around the house and dodging Sydney and Hannah. Bert and Ernie however seem to have gone to extreme lengths to hide/escape and discovered parts ( Read more... )

Ryn and I have two different opinions of why Cookie looks the way he does. Ryn claims that Cookie is a cat burglar, with the black mask over his face and the white shirt showing under his black jacket. I contend that Cookie is a Reversable Cat, with one side black and one side white. That way he can either A) hide in the shadows by pressing his ( Read more... )