Representatives Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) are circulating a "Dear Colleague" letter that is intended to demonstrate to House Appropriators how important the Sexual Assault Service Program (SASP) is and to request full funding for the program in Fiscal Year 2008. Dear Colleague letters are generally initiated by two Members ( Read more... )

Anybody want a wheel?

( .. or not! )

Happy Birthday, saraidh!

I'm sick. Jack shared his head cold, complete with nasty, scratchy throat. I'm not sure if it's worse to deal with the yuck or with the constant gag-feeling I get when I take cold medicine. I'm not sure why I get the gag-feeling, but it's there and rather annoying. *sigh* I tried taking a hot bath, and was stymied by our ( hot water heater. )

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To steal blatantly from Cate because I'm almost entirely brain dead at the moment:

So there's this guy who's doing a panel at the MLA, and he's checking to see how a meme or, depending on how you look at it, a chain letter, moves through the blogosphere. We knitters have a rather populous corner of the blogosphere, and one that I think routinely ( Read more... )

From an email from Minnesota AIDS Project:
Minnesota AIDS Project and Intermedia Arts present a unique event in observance of World AIDS Day on December 1, 2006. Am I? Are You?is an evocative photographic exhibit featuring fifty portraits thatchallenge the observer to determine which 25 of the 50 models areHIV-positive. Twin Cities photographer ( Read more... )

Photos from Caid Coronation, including a couple good ones of capnlot and one of cayswannAlso, just a general note since I just realized there are folks here who may not have been around when I first made this decision - I mostly post friends-locked posts here. It's nothing you'd be interested in if you don't know me in person, I promise. If you'd like me to add ( Read more... )

.. to the idiot who decided that 2:30 on a Friday afternoon was an appropriate time to shut down email access on campus ( Read more... )

UW-L seeks a full-time permanent IS Network Services Sr. position in Information Technology Services. The position will have primary responsibility for virtualization of the university's core servers and administration of the mass storage system, web system and back-up/restoration system. It will also be responsible for other core servers and ( Read more... )