I've moved! After longing a surprising amount for a blogroll, I impulsively decided to switch over to wordpress last night. It's weird to maybe be saying good by to lj...I've been here since 2004. Here's the new place. I'm not completely sure I'll be staying there, but I promise to update if I decide to move back. Until further notice, update ( Read more... )

Okay really this post could be titled "I adore Johnny Weir". Just so you know ( Read more... )

My friend Katie as recently started a great blog y'all should check out:
http://understandinganimals.wordpress.com/

A few weeks ago I posted about why I think it's important for men to stand up when women are being harassed. A little bird told me some of you were surprised by this, because I wasn't encouraging women to be strong and empowered and all that. Then this little bird proceeded to debate with me about when it would be good and when it wouldn't for ( Read more... )

A while ago I mentally split the group of people against abortion into two groups: pro-life and anti-choice.  The difference is this: a pro-life person honestly believes abortion is wrong, and hopes to change minds by discussion and protests.  An anti-choice person doesn't want to change minds, but rather to force behavior through threats and use ( Read more... )

A former student of Ara's dropped by lab late last night to catch up with people.  I found myself standing in the hallway with him and some of my (male) coworkers, chatting about life in Ara's lab.  None of these guys were the lab members I was close with, and a couple sorta rub me the wrong way.  Nothing terrible, just the sort of guys who I don't ( Read more... )

I've had a house plant in my office for a while now.  It's a good hard to kill type: Devil's Ivy (aka Pothos).  They do best when they have a lot of filtered light and little water, which means they're great for offices.  My plant is thriving ( Read more... )

So Google Buzz launched yesterday. My first response was that the name is dumb, though not as bad as iPad. Today I read this post over at Isis the Scientist. Then Ned showed me this thing, where the mobile version allows you to post your location, and read some more posts. And mentally I predicted that it'd take about 24 hours (from this ( Read more... )

Last week it was A Rant About Women and the backlash. This week it's various posts about mansplaining. Next week who knows. Through it all there's Isis the Scientist and Melissa at Shakesville insisting that women should blog about shoes if they want to, and the folks at Geek Feminism discussing what it's like to be a woman in tech and dreaming ( Read more... )

(this post motivated, in part, by this wonderfully dismissive paragraph ( Read more... )