I don't get virus protection programs.  I know you're supposed to have one and it's a big deal if you don't and everything, but my dirty little secret is that I usually don't have one in place.  Here's why:  Every time I've installed virus protection on my computer, everything else on the computer has slowed to such a crawl that I would rather take ( Read more... )

I rewatched this movie today, and found it very interesting.  I watched it near the time it came out and hadn't much thought of it again until it came up on Hulu recently.  So, I turned it on.  I'm a sucker for Annette Benning and she plays this total TSL chick who's uber-competent and always seems to be a half-step ahead of the protagonist (Denzel ( Read more... )

 I sort of have thoughts about it, but work is crazy and I wanted to post it before I forgot about it.  It's sorta The Smoking Gun, but more grave, I suppose, and they've posted a document hundreds of pages long detailing the army's (Marine's?)operating procedures at Guantanamo Bay's military prison... or whatever they call it.  Detainee center?

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At least be creative about it, right?

Go ahead, try it for yourself.

Today, I commented on a popular feminist blog that... I would not be commenting on the blog!  More significant, I guess, is why I said I wouldn't be commenting.  Regularly over the past few days, there was a man coming to the blog, commenting and calling various people "feminazis".  Someone else had made the point before me, but it was time to ( Read more... )

"A radio one-ten thousandth of the diameter of a human hair is now picking up local radio stations"  Crazy!

Yet another conservative anti-gay gay-sex scandal.  I'm a little tempted to do a little research to track these, but do they seem to be coming closer together to anyone but me?

This week we found three orphaned kittens in our garage.  They were cold, but alive and in very bad shape.  None the less, we picked them up, washed them and warmed them up and fed them from tiny little bottles to try to keep them alive, but they didn't make it.  It was all very sad.

One day this week I got a call from my friend, Krista, that ( Read more... )

First: I had a spider in my bra!!

I mean, it's alarming enough without embellishment, but I shall endeavor to horrify and amuse everyone.  It was in my bra, while I was sitting at my desk at work.  Here at the lab, we can't have any airborn chemicals, so when we have little friends around the lab, we pretty much just live with them or step on them ( Read more... )

I'm finding that either it's a more difficult subject than I anticipated, or my powers of procrastination are just that overhwhelming. Part three of the three part essay thingy is about halfway done.

Meanwhile, though, check out Chris's website!

This is a continuance of my response to this Guardian article.  Part 2.

This issue of harassment online, and particularly for my purposes here harassment of women, inevitably brings up the cries of ‘freedom of speech’. There are always those people who want to say “Well, it is my RIGHT to say whatever I like” And often these words are followed by ( Read more... )