Seriously you guys - Adventure Time. I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's totes old news in internets-generation-time, but owing to the fact that I am still somewhat torrent-shy and haven't lived in the States for three years, I am just now catching up with it. Luckily, catching up is quite easy to do, as each episode is just about 15 minutes ( Read more... )

This review has been a long time coming - the boycreature loaned me his big burly three-books-in-one-volume GIANT of a sci-fi classic sometime I think in December. Finished it last week. That is so far removed from my usual reading speed I feel a bit sick with myself for admitting it, but I suppose I WAS frantically job-hunting and also caught up ( Read more... )

So the justice secretary is in hot water because he has failed to keep up with the funky youthspeak of kids these days. Like "date rape" - WHO KNEW that didn't mean sex with consenting minors! I have no sympathy for him there. And I am very NOT on board with the plan to cut prison time for early confessions. He rightly deserves censure for that ( Read more... )

So housemate's granmama is moving back in today after being abroad for more than three months. She is an utter neat-freak, so we're making best efforts to pretend we have been keeping a spic 'n' span home while she's been away. I did up the kitchen today, and it's the cleanest it's been in...probably the past three months (<.Problem with cleaning ( Read more... )

This wins the internet today.
Every time this month that my faith in humanity gets crushed out of me by the weight of varied and sundry bureaucracies, I will at least have this to make me smile.

( to be submitted to the Hack Gender project - link and all the nitty gritty after the cut )

If I were an even marginally less attentive reader, I would say Steve Jones' genetic opera is only somewhat disingenuous. As it stands, I'm now convinced he must have had several spats with faculty from the department that is soon to be my home base. And I do hope he'll be teaching in the fall, because I will gladly shove a bio major in front of ( Read more... )

J-pan TV is making me want to hit people, so I am internet-viddying instead. Because obviously the pinnacle of what a poor deaf girl can aspire to is relying on her womanly perseverance to work around her tragic flaw and become the best pretty face in Ginza who sits down, shuts up, and listens to big manry company men's important problems without ( Read more... )

I'm not sure who to point and laugh at more in this "debate," but I am leaning heavily towards the people who did the study.

Researchers: THERE'S NO CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THAT THE G-SPOT'S A BIOLOGICAL UNIVERSAL! STOP PRETENDING IT'S REAL!

Sexologists: YOUR METHODS ARE SUSPECT AND A SHIT-TON OF WIMMENS WE KNOW HAVE ONE! STOP DENYING IT!

Close readers: ( Read more... )

There are some things America just does better than Japan. Swearing, washing machines, record-setting murder rates, whole-grain bread...deodorant is also up there on the list. A few days ago I realized that my Secret stick would soon run out, so I poked around on Amazon and nearly shat kittens when I saw the $30 minimum shipping charges for $4 ( Read more... )