20 Nov 09
I know it feels like the world has come a long way in accepting people’s lifestyle choices in the past years, but trans-hate crimes are still more common than many of us would like to admit.
I am taking a moment today to reflect on the lives lost to hate crimes every year (http://bit.ly/7lyInb shows the people killed in trans-hate crimes over the last year). The optimist in me hopes that next year there will be fewer deaths to mourn, but I know that it takes more than wishes and dreams to change hearts and minds.
Regardless of your personal, religious, or political views on being Transgender, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or what have you - I hope we can all agree that hate is an ugly, horrible thing. These people died because they were trying to live their lives - not because they were hurting someone, not because they were committing a crime - but because of who they were.
If you have a chance today - there are vigils going on all over the world to mourn the lives lost to trans-hate crimes. You can find one near you at http://www.transgenderdor.org/.
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18 Nov 09
I’ve been reading The Design of Everyday Things, and I suppose this post is echoing the message that Norman is trying to convey.
How do people WANT to learn to use tools available to them? They don’t tend to want to read a lot. It should just work.
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10 Nov 09
So, I won’t lie. I do not know what an Active Directory is. But the solution to her question made me giggle.
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24 Oct 09
Yeah, seriously! Don’t you know? Yeesh.
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22 Oct 09
Holy crap! That’s a giant burger!
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7 Oct 09
AIEEE! This looks pretty neat, would be great for road trips.
Unless you’re driving, I mean. Then it’d be terrible for road trips.
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6 Oct 09
Posessed 27’ Television (San Diego)
Date: 2009-10-06, 10:41AM PDT
Reply to: sale-mdspr-1409122162@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
The tv tried to burn our home down last night. Woke up and it was spinning some blue lights, making a horrid electrical sound and generally giving the impression that it was attempting to birth the descendant of beelzebub.
If you’d like an evil tv that will most certainly destroy your world beginning with the scent of burning electronics, be sure to pick this baby up.
I haven’t plugged it in since the incident last night, but based on the image on the screen, I suspect that it was either recreating “The Ring” or demonstrating the fact that it needs an exorcist. I can verify that it probably doesn’t function in any capacity as an actual television set.
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lawl
tv
fire
explosion
power surge
Eric and I woke up to an odd sound. Never a good way to wake up, IMHO.
I was still groggy and confused - thankfully Eric had his wits about him and nudged me the rest of the way awake asking if I heard that. I knew I heard SOMETHING but I didn’t know what it was. We fell asleep with our old CRT tv on in the bedroom, but there was no picture on screen - just a crackly ring, and a louder-than-normal electrical whine. It normally turns itself off around 2, but it still should’ve been on.
Suddenly he jolted out of bed and started fumbling for the TV’s plug - which is about the time I realized I smelled burning *something*, and Eric said that he could see an orange-ish glow coming from inside the TV near the bottom.
SO yeah. We woke up to a power surge, and our TV trying to burn our bedroom down. The loud electrical whine was due to too much juice going to the TV. Always a great way to wake up.
I’m just glad that Eric woke up so fast - if I’d been alone, I might not have noticed what was going on and there very well may have been a fire. Yeesh!
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5 Oct 09
Oh, Monday.
Today has been so busy! I can’t believe it’s already 1:30. I need to decide what I am making for dinner tonight - maybe something with polenta. Hm.
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3 Oct 09
So, last night we went to see Zombielan, since it just came out and we all loved Shaun of the Dead. I have to say, I wasn’t expecting much but it was really good! I was cracking up for most of the movie, and the Bill Murray cameo was hilarious!
Needless to say, after the movie I mentioned that I had never actually had a Twinkie. (One of the main characters spends most of the movie pining for a Twinkie) - so we went to the big box store near the theatre, grabbed a box of twinkies, and each had one. I have to say…
… Twinkies are gross. Bleh! I mean.. they’re not horrid, but I was underwhelmed. Meh!
However, we accidentally left the box o’ Twinkies next to the futon in our front room, and some very naughty kitties who live with us apparently decided that they wanted to try Twinkies. And did so, by tearing the box to bits, and wrasslin’ with the Twinkies in their wrapper ‘till the wrappers burst.. then trying to eat the Twinkies. Apparently they had to taste ALL of them - maybe one of them would’ve tasted better?
Bad kitties.
What do you think… Are Twinkies gross, or amazing?
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