Archive: August 2005
Bias
In black and white?
Black man loots, white people find.
Two comments, or, How I got over wanting to be like my father
Seeing lots of family this past weekend got me thinking about mine.
My father died at the age of 55, when I was 24. He was a Foreign Service officer, and I wanted to be like him.
When I was an undergraduate, I was very unfocused, taking courses in wildly differing areas and not doing anything very [...]
San Juan Island
Just back from a family wedding on San Juan Island. We flew to Seattle, rented a car, hooked up with family, drove to Anacortes and took the ferry to San Juan. The ferry is nicely accessible, with an elevator from the car deck up to the people deck (whatever that’s called). The hour long ferry [...]
Fucking Cobblestones
Excellent! Check out the picture at the very end of Lisy Babe’s “Give my Grandad’s teeth back”.
Nine Black Skirts
I have three kids going back to school in a week and a half, and we’re going to my nephew’s wedding next weekend. This confluence of events means that I’ve been a shopping maniac for the last several weeks.
After several false starts, I think I now have my wedding guest ensemble (thank you, Nordstrom Rack!). [...]
Trite
Phrases I don’t ever need to hear/read again:
But you look so good!
I have MS, but it doesn’t have me!
I’m gonna beat this thing!
You either give in…or fight it. I’m gonna fight it!
It’s all in the attitude.
Don’t you worry—a cure is around the corner…look how far they’ve come with cancer.
You’re still walking though, aren’t you?
It [...]
Blank Anxiety
A course based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity is sweeping my company. I haven’t taken the course, but after hearing all the raves from people who have, I got the book.
I haven’t gotten very far, but I have done what my co-workers are raving about: emptied my email inbox. [...]
Feed Me!
I’ve finally hopped on the aggregator bandwagon, and have subscribed to all the blogs I usually read (except the ones that don’t seem to have feeds :-(, see the little null signs in the sidebar).
I suspect I’m losing track of the comments part of the blogosphere, though. How does everyone else keep up with the [...]
Beyond the Pale
I’ve been out of step with modern fish eating for some time - whenever I order tuna or salmon, I hasten to add that I want it actually cooked all the way through. I had lunch with a friend recently who gave me hard time for wanting to kill my tuna again.
The Bride recently complained [...]
Which of these things is not like the other?
William Rehnquist is the Chief Justice of the United States. He is also a cancer patient, who has been able to continue working with accomodations, which have presumably included time off for chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and the ability to keep his government job at will.
Patricia Garrett is the former Director of OB/GYN/Neonatal Services at [...]
What part of accessible …
An Incident at the Induction provides a perfect description of the disconnect between what should be accessible and what the mainstream thinks is accessible:
I hate lifts, and I know Cass does, too. … I don’t know any wheelchair user who likes lifts. They endure them, but they’d much prefer a ramp. Two simple [...]
Regendered
This is pretty cool. Via Misbehaving, a gender swapper for websites. Put in a website address, and you get the site with “him” and “her” switched. Makes for some interesting reading.
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