This is actually kind of productive: for my language and gender class, we had to watch this video (transcript included) of Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke debating why exactly women are underrepresented in the sciences. It was a response to Lawrence Summers' asinine comments in 2005 that women as just inherently uninterested in/bad as science; ( Read more... )

Who gave Kazakhstan permission to snow more? Who was it? I DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY FROM MY WEATHER.

...yeah, left shift key is weeeeeiiiiiird. >.>

So let's talk about BASEBALL instead.

( The fantasy league that will never actually happen. )

Linkage, to clear my mind:

The Curse of Colonel Sanders is not quite as bad as the Curse of the Goat, but I hope the Hanshin Tigers play better regardless.

Saturday Morning Watchmen, in case the contents of fuckyouwatchmen didn't traumatize you enough ( Read more... )

So the grant is hammered out and Aitjamal will tell me tomorrow how I fail as a PCV.

In happier news, this may be one of the few times anyone on Earth gets to utter this phrase: FUCK YEAH, THE NETHERLANDS!

( An observation. )

( Meeeeme. )

( Some World Series thoughts--I promise I will shut up about baseball eventually. )

The Yahoo sports guys say it too!" David Eckstein, you so SCRAPPY! :-D

ETA: CUTE OVERLOAD.

You know, if David Eckstein owned a ferret, I would just fall over and die right there.

That game was not good for my blood pressure ( Read more... )

I just realized that I made a huge mistake buying this fabric. The blue stuff I got for $1/yd? Is 60". The patter is written for 45 ( Read more... )

Discourse Analysis paper: essentially done, just has to be printed ( Read more... )