More information about The Wall Will Fall can be found at watchthefootage.com1. I use way more CAPITALS for emphasis now ( Read more... )

I read something today in which someone clearly didn't understand the etymology of the term "cisgender." The person in question was a chauvinist on some part of the internet I generally try to avoid, but the comment made me realize that there are probably a lot of people who don't fully understand the term and where it comes from, including the ( Read more... )

You know how I said there was a post I wanted to write but it was challenging? This is it. There are a few different challenges, and I'll mention them as they become relevant ( Read more... )

Okay there's another post that I'm hoping to finish today but in the meantime:

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Glee posted this today. It's their cover of "Baby Got Back" from an upcoming episode. It's an unusual cover of "Baby Got Back," sounding very little like the original, but very MUCH like...

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Jonathan Coulton's cover of "Baby Got Back." The arrangement is exactly the ( Read more... )

There's another blog post I want to write, but it's challenging and in the meantime I wanted to complain at you all. :P ( Read more... )

I was in a conversation recently in which people were discussing sleep. Specifically, they were talking about naps, and about falling asleep again in the morning after waking up. I commented that sometimes even just lying in bed with your eyes closed and not sleeping can be nice, and the response from most of them was, "Well, maybe, but that's ( Read more... )

Last night I returned to my on-campus residence for the first time in nearly a month. To enter the building (and also to enter my suite) I need to use a key card. I keep the key card in my wallet, because it's a card so where else am I going to keep it? As I approached the door to the building, I started to look for the key card, and found that my ( Read more... )

If you want to find out why I'm listing the books I finished this year, I'll direct you to the equivalent post from last year, in which I explained what the rules were and why I started listing books as I finished reading them. I decided to keep it going. It's kind of interesting to keep track ( Read more... )

I don't usually watch the news, but I was just eating breakfast and there's a TV in the hotel dining room and it's set to a news station so I just saw a portion of the NRA representative (I can't remember exactly who he is in the NRA; he's like the vice president or something) giving a speech about the recent school shooting ( Read more... )

This is just a quick note to say: I am in Santa Cruz! I'll probably be here for the better part of December, and a few days of January. Hopefully I'll get a chance to reconnect with some friends in the area ( Read more... )