I've been thinking of victims and bullies lately. How culturally ingrained bullying and victimizing is, and how many thousands of different ways there are to do both. I've seen plenty of men being addicted to victimhood and plenty of female bullies..but gender culture still makes the other way around more common. Either way, being addicted to ( Read more... )

1. I played Star Wars the Old Republic a bit this spring, but became really bored and gave it away to charity. I may just not be an MMO person ( Read more... )

Rarely has the sound of rain in the Boulder area been so damn sweet ( Read more... )

If you have any hopes to send or fingers to cross, please do so now. There is another wildfire, which started from a dry thunder flash, about an hour ago. It's in south Boulder, so not so far from where we live. Zero containment as of yet. We haven't gotten any evacuation orders...yet. I desperately hope we won't. I smell smoke in the air outside ( Read more... )

Last week was eventful and mostly devoted to the arts of nerdhood and geekdom. Not entirely though. Tuesday started off with a rather badass interview for a manager position in Boulder. I don't really think I'll get it (and those of you who know details of this, remember this is an open post!), but it did go really well, in the sense that the panel ( Read more... )

Lately I've been trying to read some Russian/Slavic writers, since my Russian is barely existent and I am too slow a reader in Polish, I read them translated into those languages I am a completely fluent reader in, so that I can do it somewhat swiftly ( Read more... )

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Oscar night was spent watching red-carpet fashion of the celebs, but we who watched decided that Gertrude was cuter than any actor or supermodel and that she had a lot of fancy fashion to show off. Hence here is the fashion post for small dogs with an attitude! Don't forget to vote on your favorite outfit in the poll ( Read more... )

By now, most people have at least tangentially heard of "players" as in pick-up artists a la Neil Strauss' "the Game". Guys who have a whole sub-culture of methods on how to "pick up hot women and "get sex ( Read more... )

Swedish tv has an uneven history in my book, when they get it wrong, the crap stinks worse than any similar crap on say US tv, because it can't drown in the gigantic pot of mediocrity that is served in a country with a big tv drama production, but when Swedish tv (Stv) gets it right, it truly shines and actually often outshines many other ( Read more... )