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Devil's Advocacy: Matriarchy and Male Privilege
This is a Devil's advocacy column: one written deliberately to embrace a
position opposite the general pre-conceptions. It is not meant to seriously
present the position in question, but to foster discussion about the established
beliefs.
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Too long out of touch
I feel so out of touch with everyone and everything, lately. It has been months since I've posted here or anywhere else - since the end of the Charlotte job - and I haven't said anything about my current position (contract web and mobile development) or Frolicon (which admittedly was just this past weekend) or any of the other developments in my ( Read more... ) -
Charlotte's web snaps
The Charlotte job, on which I'd placed so much hope for a month and a half, has come to an end. I'm back at my father's house, unemployed and sick with a cold, and feel miserable overall. -
Nothing could be finah...
Well, it seems I've gotten an unusual birthday gift: a job interview tomorrow morning in Charlotte, NC. It's quite some ways to go for me right now - I still don't have a car of my own, and my father will be driving me there - but it is a good opportunity right now. Hopefully I'll get it, and equally hopefully, it will last longer than the Cosairus ( Read more... ) -
Semi-ramblomatic afternoon
For no good reason whatsoever, here are a few notable Zero Punctuation episodes:
Clive Barker's Cliver Barker's Jericho by Clive Barker - "Maybe some of this could be forgiven if the seven main characters weren't all completely unlikeable. There's so much black leather on display its like someone took the goth clique from a small town high school ( Read more... ) -
Washout
My job was terminated today. It seems my performance and productivity were not up to par, and the fact that I kept missing crucial parts of the projects meant that my manager had to keep going back to re-do all of my work. -
Frolicon 2010
Well, my feet are a bit sore from walking, but I'm definitely in a good mood overall.
This past weekend was frolicon, and Dad was of course determined to make a working holiday of it. Not only did we both work security at the con in order to get in for free, since he wasn't able to get a spot in the dealer's room (he didn't try applying until it was too ( Read more... ) -
Lalalalabialala
I was reading one of panteraonca's older posts (catching up after several months of flaking, when I got to her understandably flaming about a Social Services client who needed dental surgery 'in [her] mouth', which led Becca to speculate (er, interesting choice or words) on where else this woman might need dental surgery ( Read more... ) -
Happy 2010!
And good riddance, 2009!
I spent the night at home, drinking beer and watching silly caught-on-video type shows in between attempts to get through the eighth Abelson-Sussman lecture (corresponding to Section 4.4 in The Wizard Book, if anyone cares), and watching Tami's chihuahua, Precious. Yeehaw, what an exciting life I lead ( Read more... ) -
'Tis the Saison
I'm quite glad to be brewing again, after my birthday gifts this past month. I've already bottled my first new brew, a basic English brown ale, and a week ago I brewed up a winter ale, which I've now got in the carboy finishing up the fermentation.
( Beer geekery ahoy! )