My Own Thoughts

When your wife says, “Not tonight, honey. I have a headache.” you can tell her that an active sex life makes a woman look four to seven years younger than they are. So having sex frequently is good for everyone. (Assuming you are in a committed monogamous relationship.) This article says that having sex keeps [...]

First it was brown. Then red. Then black. Today I thought I would dye my hair blonde, but my hair, and my hairdresser, disagreed. My hair had to be stripped. You can't just lighten black. Then color had to be added back on. My sister and my hairdresser chose a light brown/dark blonde color which, [...]

This is Unwirer, a collaborative story written on a blog by Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross. I'm listing it here so you can go read it because their names came up again and again at the sci fi convention I went to this weekend.

I saw a wooden mirror on Boingboing. That was cool. But it isn't why I am posting. It's 'cause the post said “using dated 1999 technology” the wooden mirror worked. Man, all my technology is that old. (My software is newer, but …) If you want to see a wild wooden mirror go to boingboing [...]

World Net Daily adds the information that the academics of the study felt that Castro and Stalin are conservatives. “From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination,” they wrote, according to a press release issued by the University of California at [...]

Fear and aggression Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity Uncertainty avoidance Need for cognitive closure Terror management These are the characteristics which the Berkeley study on conservatives found were consistent among the people they studied. Guess what? They are consistent across all people. This study was fundamentally flawed in two ways. One, the study labeled as [...]

PittsburghLIVE carried an article about the Berkeley study on conservativism. A snippet from the article: Anyway, Jack Glaser, one of the lead authors of the Berkeley study, acknowledged in a media release that a study focused solely on why right wingers aren't right in the head might seem “partisan.” But, he explained, there is a [...]

The study was conducted by four American university researchers, and its findings were reported in an article in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin, titled “Political Conservatism as Motivated by Social Cognition.” It purports to show psychological links among Ronald Reagan, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Rush Limbaugh and other “political conservatives” The enlightened professors concluded [...]

“Academics define the literary debate and have contempt for the genre [of science fiction]. You taint the dialogue when you violently hate what you discuss,” stated the purple haired woman. “Like that Berkeley study on conservatives?” another panel member asked. End of that discussion.

The snakeskins were blue and rode up her legs, over her hips, and way above her waist. Her ribs stopped the blue snakeskins abruptly and a little too late. Her high heels were open backed and sexy. They contrasted dramatically with the snakeskin slacks. Even as I thought of writing the snakeskins down, the Dracula [...]

You know the rhyme “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” What a lie! Bones will repair, given time and minimal help. Words take a long time to get over and we don't really know the physics to make them go away. I had a nightmare last night in [...]

“Knowing nothing about fantasy stories and being unable to write a book myself, I am confident that I will be an indispensable book critic for you.” That's how my dad started off his critique. It made me laugh, which is a good way to start off with a critique. I started a novel fourteen months [...]

Blogs are the new refrigerators of the world. We can post stuff up here we need to remember. You can all read it when you come by “my house.” And I don't have a piece of paper in the dump reminding me what presents to buy. E will be 12 this month. His wish list [...]

One of the things about writing is that you need someone to read your work. I don't mean you want it published and read, although you do. I mean you need someone to read it and tell you what's good, what's bad, what's close but not quite there. That's a critique. Yesterday I got a [...]

Bookmarks: Okay, I obviously figured them out enough to get a list going. However, I don't know how to edit the title of the list so that it says “homeschool” and I am almost afraid to try anything for fear it will undo what I've done. (Managed that twice while getting the list up as [...]

I was kidding about the serial killers in my last post (I hope). However, you don't really know who is going to commit murder and who isn't. I teach college. One semester I had a class of about 20 students, freshman remedial English. I had 17 year olds for whom English was a second language [...]

Tonight we had company. You know how you tell your kids not to give out their address to people on the internet? We just had folks over for dinner that my husband met on the net. We had a great time. Well, I had a great time and I know my husband enjoyed it. Hopefully [...]

I've lived in this house for three years and one week. That's a record for me. Growing up my family moved every two to two and a half years. I guess I was stuck in that mode. I went to college and transferred to a less expensive one. Went back to the more expensive one. [...]

Some of the things I couldn't figure out how to do in the past, but have since mastered: 1. Make a list of bookmarks that actually showed up on my page. I spent a couple of hours one day organizing my blog into what I thought were bookmarks, so that if you wanted to follow [...]

If I weren't married to a programmer, I never would have blogged. Even married to one, I have a lot of challenges others seem to think are equal to turning on a faucet in complexity. It's a bit of a pain to want to do something and not know how. It's even worse to have [...]