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Friday, November 28th, 2008
4:22 pm	How the threat of sexual assault or harassment affects women's routine lives http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/10/feminism-101.html#disqus_thread (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
5:29 pm	Despite spending too much time on the internet, I had not heard of rickrolling until today. (Comment on this)
Friday, July 4th, 2008
10:56 pm	Last night, I watched on DVD The Last King of Scotland. Somehow I then desired to change my Facebook profile so that something like "Idi Aminism" would appear for the "political views" entry. I IMed Joe, whence: me: Did Idi Amin have a political philosophy? joe: Utilitastyanism (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
3:20 pm	Naive homemade mole Not wanting to bust open a jar of Trader Joe's mole (MOH-lay, the culinary item) for a meal just for myself, and having time to kill while waiting for the beans to finish, I made one myself, by looking at the ingredients in the Trader Joe's mole and just omitting things I didn't have. Mine was made with oil, balsamic vinegar, tahini, sugar, cocoa powder, and salt. There were already spices (cumin, coriander seed, oregano, chili flakes) and garlic in with the vegetables that were sauteeing, so I didn't add them to the mole. It actually turned out pretty good. For adventure, maybe I'll add some espresso next time, and maybe some honey, cuz it needed to be a little thicker and sweeter. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
8:35 pm	I'm not Seth Brown, but. . . Historical background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dawes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Listen up, children, and shutter your maws, It's time for the story of William H. Dawes. An opponent of taxes on stamps and on tea, And supportive of Adams and Hancock was he. While the Johns were in Concord, revolution a-planning, Dawes worked in Boston: his profession was tanning. But then he caught word that the Johns faced arrest, so he rode out to warn them, at Joe Warren's behest. Leaving Boston by land, he soon met a friend: 'Twas Paul Q. Revere, born in Boston's North End. They rode fast and hard, never taking a break: Revolution'ry leaders own lives were at stake! By a group of armed Redcoats, the two were accosted. Will Dawes kept his mettle, but Paul Revere lost it: "To hell with this ride, I might as well fake it. That Dawes is a trooper, I'm sure that he'll make it." So Paul, he stayed put, and accepted his luck, but Will broke away, and passed nary the buck. As William rode onward, Paul sat and chilled, not doing a thing to keep Hancock un-killed. So why is Revere so revered as a hero, while those who know Dawes number nigh on to zero? Revere, he was richer and better connected, so he and not Dawes is the one recollected. The moral of this, however unsavory Is that money and networks import more than bravery. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
10:07 pm	Think you're so smart, Edward Tufte? Let me see you represent that with a bar chart! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
1:59 pm	Unhomogenized, (non-ultra)-pasteurized milk? Does anyone in the Boston area, or who once was in the Boston area, or who is otherwise knowledgeable about these things, know how one can get hold of unhomogenized, and preferably (non-ultra)-pasteurized milk, of any fat level? Thanks. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
12:25 am	Is it just me, or does "franking privileges" sound naughty? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
11:44 am	I took one of those silly tests, borrowed from entropicangel , and here's the results: My Personality Neuroticism 0 Extraversion 82 Openness To Experience 84 Agreeableness 75 Conscientiousness 93 Find your MySpace/Xanga/Hi5 soulmate / pysch twin Test Yourself Compare Yourself View Full Report MySpace Surveys, Ugg Boots and Discount Ugg Boots by Pulseware Survey Software A minor complaint is that it only gave me a 53 out of 100 for "liberalism", which is a gross underestimate. I think it's because I answered "strongly agree" to the "Is there absolute right and wrong?" question. This is ridiculous. Liberal philosophers (Locke, Mill, etc.) were hardly moral relativists, most people who consider themselves liberal (in the U.S. sense or the everywhere-but-the-U.S. sense) also do not consider themselves relativists, and liberlism by any of the many reasonable definitions of it does not imply or even go hand-in-hand with relativism.</font> (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 21st, 2006
12:03 am	For mathematically trained LJ readers, this a cappella song. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 20th, 2006
9:09 pm	Dulcissimer Aside from "awesome", how would you describe this kind of music? (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
11:11 pm	A study on the worst times to fart. The top three: at a business meeting, on a date and in an elevator. But 78% said they have no problem letting one rip in the privacy of their homes. Only 78% have no problem farting in the privacy of their own homes?  Does that mean that there's 22% of the population that isn't comfortable farting ever? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
11:01 pm	I have long harbored a mild, often only semi-conscious, dislike of pie charts. They're not as bad, in my opinion, as using a bar chart when a line chart is called for or vice versa. Still, this piece of affirmation is nice. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
4:25 pm	Normally I'm not a test junkie, but I found this test to be particuarly good. It asks only nine questions, and gauges the importance of equality, liberty, and stability to you. While it told me what I already knew about myself, namely that I value liberty and equality roughly equally--and both over stability, what's most interesting is that 82% of the test takers scored higher than me on the "liberty" variable but only 24% scored higher on the "equality" variable , which suggests that people taking OKCupid political tests tend toward the anarchist or libertarian side. Note that "liberal" in the context of the test means what it means everywhere other than in the U.S.. Social-Liberal You scored 78 Equality, 64 Liberty, and 35 Stability! Your commitment to both liberty and equality puts you in the hazy area that exists between the Liberal and the Socialist. You value liberty particularly in cultural and personal life. You also value government intervention to promote equity in economic life while still supporting private enterprise. For you liberty and equality are two parts of the same condition. Everyone has to be free to pursue their own way-of-life but in order for that it happen everyone must start with a similar basic standard of living. My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 76% on Equality You scored higher than 18% on Liberty You scored higher than 36% on Stability Link: The Political Objectives Test written by Originaluddite on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
10:21 pm	Skating Cowboys (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 18th, 2006
7:46 pm	New Music I have realized that I have probably bought fewer than six CDs of music created after 2001, and two of those I bought only because they were put out by bands I had developed an attachment to early on, who had put out their best work in the 90s or earlier (R.E.M. and U2). What rock-ish music would people recommend if I'm going to buy six or eight CDs released in the last five years? Please limit recommendations to just one or two CDs. I'm thinking I might consider stuff like Modest Mouse or Franz Ferdinand or Bright Eyes. Why would you emphasize the one or two CDs that you do so much? Thanks. Current Mood: expectant Current Music: Mille Regretz, by Josquin, arr. Julian Bream (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 4th, 2006
12:34 pm	The perfect gift. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
3:27 pm	The Rectal Foreign Bodies Page A valuable resource for us all. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
2:02 pm	Response to Neil's post. entropicangel posts about how he took a quiz that said he was a humanist, and then talks about his development and his loss of Christian faith, but how he felt that "agnostic" was accurate but empty.  To his entry I wrote this response. ( Read more... ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 12th, 2005
6:49 pm	My pronunciation of the word "towards" is not listed in answers.com's dictionary. How do you all say it? I say it as if the "o" weren't there, so starts like "twizzler" or "twerp". It ends like "fords" or "lords". Answers.com only lists the following three pronunciations (in SAMPA): tordz tOrdz t@'wOrdz Mine is twOrdz. (The consonants are all what they seem like. The apostrophe just indicates that the next syllable is stressed. The "@" is a schwa, the lower-case "o" is the "long o" of "boat", and the upper-case "O" is the "aw" sound for those who distinguish between words like "dawn" and "don". Before an "r", though, it might appear between the "dawn" and "boat" vowels. Whatever.) (12 Comments |Comment on this)