I've been getting an increasing amount of robo-calls in Spanish. Which is frustrating, because I don't speak the language and cannot tell what they're selling or if there's some way to get them to stop calling.

Last night they called at midnight. Freaking midnight on a Saturday night. ARGH!!!

Only in Boston does parking somewhere for a little over two hours mean you have to pay the ALL DAY rate.

I drove into town today, paid all day parking at the garage near the office, drove across town for a Meetup that lasted about two and a half hours and had to pay the all day parking rate again. OUCH ( Read more... )

One of my uber-authentic history buff friends posted a link to a photo album. I gather that one of the big SCA events (possibly coronation?) happened at the old Higgins Armory yesterday. And I'm flipping through the photos, and while a lot of them are great, a lot of them aren't ( Read more... )

I'm watching Man of Steel on cable. I knew it wasn't going to be a movie that I liked, but there's really nothing else on the tube tonight, and I figured why not see what all the fuss is about?

It's about gratuitous special effects. So, we've got another filmmaker who confuses spending wads of money on special effects with actual storytelling ( Read more... )

I'm totally breaking my Facebook fast this weekend. =P ( Read more... )

This morning I headed off to the movie theater to see if I could get tickets for the 11:30 a.m. showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The only seats they had left were in the very front row, and I’m not fond of a cricked neck, so I bought tickets for the 12:30 show and then went to Starbucks to get a nibble and write down a great story idea I ( Read more... )

They’re re-sealing the parking lot and re-striping it this week. Tuesday they did half the parking lot, but didn’t get the striping done like they were supposed to do. Today they did my half of the parking lot, so I had to vacate the premises. So I made plans to drive down to Provincetown with my former co-worker Meryl. When I pulled out of the ( Read more... )

I just saw someone "trigger warn" for rape on a post. When the only mention of rape was to say that "so and so has been accused of rape." No details of the crime, no mention of any specific sex acts, no gory details. I thought trigger warnings were for graphic depictions of things that could trigger someone's post traumatic stress? Not just ( Read more... )

What The Fuck?

Will the sexism never cease? Hasbro is releasing 24 Star Wars toys, and only one of them is female (Padme). How the hell can you release 24 Star Wars toys and NOT have a Princess Leia figure?!?!?! There are two Lukes, two Boba Fetts, three stormtroopers, and three droids that are NOT Threepio or R2-D2 ( Read more... )

I’ve read a lot of horrible things about Uber in the press lately, like how a woman in India was raped by an Uber driver. And about how an Uber executive had suggested digging up dirt on journalists who wrote unflattering stories about the company.

But I think the scariest story that I’ve read about the company lately was this one: Will Uber and ( Read more... )