In the age of Facebook and Twitter, Livejournal takes a lot of effort and has a dwindling audience, but I'm getting sick of writing one-line updates, and I don't want to speak along a certain theme that would make an independently hosted blog worthwhile. So, I guess it's time for a Livejournal update ( Read more... )

I've been sort of regularly attending a weekly drag show, Charlie Horse at The Cinch in SF. It's very different than the drag shows I sort of took for granted at The 90's in Minneapolis. The performers aren't so much the refined drag acts, but instead very creative with a hilariously trashy feel ( Read more... )

Watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode, "Datalore." Data meets his brother, Lor, who keeps referring to Data as, "My Brother." One of the crew members responds, "My Brother...I like the sound of that." Who was it? LaForge, the Black guy, of course. Ohhh Star Trek, and your social commentary.

So I mentioned 23andme in an earlier post, and I ended up ordering my kit! I was checking the tracking information on fedex, where I saw this:


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I was tempted to comment on a few blogs this evening, because the bloggers are just getting shit wrong today. Of course, they all require creating accounts which is an annoying hassle if I'm not going to use the site regularly (OpenID, anyone?)

First there was SFist with a post ripping apart an MSN journalist's take on SF. They argued with the ( Read more... )

Why has your quality dropped ( Read more... )

My friends know I'm pretty squeamish when it comes to the medical stuff (I *hate* Discovery Health,) and I get paranoid about getting freak medical conditions. So, when I saw that I can get a reasonable discount on 23andme's genome scan today, I started to think seriously about it ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in awhile, although I've had a few events that are post-worthy. Last week, I was in San Diego for the LISA conference. I've been wanting to see San Diego for awhile, but scheduling was tricky, and I only got to explore the city a bit. The Hotel was in a weird little valley, but I had a rental car ( Read more... )

I went across the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time yesterday, with JD. It's pretty neat, although a little scary to walk along the side...at any point a super strong wind or tsunami could have come and blown me off the side. Well, probably not (at least not likely,) but in any case I braved the edge of the walkway to get some neat photos:


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I got the California Voter Information Guide in the mail today and read through the "quick reference guide" portion of all the propositions. California is sort of fucked up with voting; I mostly don't trust politicians to make the best decisions, but I sure as fuck don't trust the public to make a good decision ( Read more... )