Once again, those models aren't perfect, either.
Digg for videos?
Friday, February 10, 2006
Thursday, February 09, 2006
I still wish I knew why PostSecret doesn't have an accessible archive. This hit me a little hard. It's different, I'm pretty sure, though.
This is random but worth a read if you're at all curious about what real BDSM lifestyling is all about. Adult, not safe for work, covers sensitive adult issues, etc., etc. And he's got a point--if you're going to get into something and portray yourself as part of it, you should know what it's about. Anyway, for lifestyle or just sexual blogs, LordStar and his partner, Mim Redbeard, are worth reading.
I vote for #7 (first paragraph). Let's all be fat and happy and live as we will.
I can't imagine. I also can't imagine, as in the comments, that "what they lose in numbers, they make up in wattage." If I gained "wattage" I'd totally lose consciousness in the middle of sex. The really powerful orgasms still don't have a "refractory period" for me, though for me to get another one in the next few minutes requires someone else who cares to do all the work, because while the nerves there still work, I'm too weak to actually do anything to work for it.
This is random but worth a read if you're at all curious about what real BDSM lifestyling is all about. Adult, not safe for work, covers sensitive adult issues, etc., etc. And he's got a point--if you're going to get into something and portray yourself as part of it, you should know what it's about. Anyway, for lifestyle or just sexual blogs, LordStar and his partner, Mim Redbeard, are worth reading.
I vote for #7 (first paragraph). Let's all be fat and happy and live as we will.
I can't imagine. I also can't imagine, as in the comments, that "what they lose in numbers, they make up in wattage." If I gained "wattage" I'd totally lose consciousness in the middle of sex. The really powerful orgasms still don't have a "refractory period" for me, though for me to get another one in the next few minutes requires someone else who cares to do all the work, because while the nerves there still work, I'm too weak to actually do anything to work for it.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Cat meets... bunny?
I want to work at Google. Anyone there need an eclectic soul who's great with numbers and paperwork and general archive-type research, but somewhat undereducated and not great at coding?
This might be worth a download. Probably after I set up an external drive to free some space.
Speed-reading
CG water. I'd like to watch this side-by-side with a real slow-motion video of water poured similarly into a glass.
But is remarkably good prose an excuse for proselytizing in the middle of an otherwise-good story?
Too cool. Only, warm.
The world's other Trekkies ain't rich enough for this.
Cthulego
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
More awwwww--scroll down for a baby aardvark and some penguin chicks.
Veggie Liberation Army manifesto
Mmmmmmmm, nuts. Something about this part of the winter makes me depressed and munchy. If I move up North I'll either need to exercise a *lot* to curb both impulses or be downright roly-poly through the spring.
While we're on junk food, I could go for some pie.
Gotta buy the kid new shoes tomorrow. His feet grew again. Other shoes only about 2 months old but he's fussing that they hurt again.
This is strange.
Second Life really is something else.
I hear this game is cool. I can't actually play it as that flash makes my computer stop doing anything. Took me 25 minutes just to shut the window and get back here. Still, if you're on something faster, have a look.
Posh porn (erotica)
I want to work at Google. Anyone there need an eclectic soul who's great with numbers and paperwork and general archive-type research, but somewhat undereducated and not great at coding?
This might be worth a download. Probably after I set up an external drive to free some space.
Speed-reading
CG water. I'd like to watch this side-by-side with a real slow-motion video of water poured similarly into a glass.
But is remarkably good prose an excuse for proselytizing in the middle of an otherwise-good story?
Too cool. Only, warm.
The world's other Trekkies ain't rich enough for this.
Cthulego
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
More awwwww--scroll down for a baby aardvark and some penguin chicks.
Veggie Liberation Army manifesto
Mmmmmmmm, nuts. Something about this part of the winter makes me depressed and munchy. If I move up North I'll either need to exercise a *lot* to curb both impulses or be downright roly-poly through the spring.
While we're on junk food, I could go for some pie.
Gotta buy the kid new shoes tomorrow. His feet grew again. Other shoes only about 2 months old but he's fussing that they hurt again.
This is strange.
Second Life really is something else.
I hear this game is cool. I can't actually play it as that flash makes my computer stop doing anything. Took me 25 minutes just to shut the window and get back here. Still, if you're on something faster, have a look.
Posh porn (erotica)
Yoga--good for kids. I've been teaching the sprout to meditate to deal with his angry impulses and not wanting to sleep, so getting him into yoga is a really good idea and on my to-do list--I just need to find my good yoga tapes.
The middle of this column has a point to make about texting. Don't miss it.
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh my EYES!
"Part of the great thing about committed togetherness is the sharing of each and every germ."
The middle of this column has a point to make about texting. Don't miss it.
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh my EYES!
"Part of the great thing about committed togetherness is the sharing of each and every germ."
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Your brain and the process of maturity--I have to wonder if this is a social construct. In a culture/time/society in which adulthood is defined at an earlier age, do similar changes take place between 12 and 20? Or is this a static part of the brain-developing process in all humans?
This article is kind of useless, but the comments are a great discussion
hahahahaha
This article is kind of useless, but the comments are a great discussion
hahahahaha
Monday, February 06, 2006
You know, I wanted to try World of Warcraft, but gods curse it, if my lover and I can't go as a lesbian couple, I ain't goin' at all! (I jest--but on the square. These policies would, in fact, be a dealbreaker--and doesn't incline me to spend money on future Blizzard games. I met some very longtime 'net friends over Diablo on Battle.net back in the day, so I've generally been kindly disposed to Blizzard games until now, even when their ideas of game "balancing" broke everything that worked in D2). More details here--one of the comments I find odd is something like "2% of couples in the world are homosexual, surely fewer in game." First, that's because outside pressures keep couples from forming stably or from admitting their "couple"ness, and secondly, I don't see it being fewer in game--I've known of as many lesbian (not as many male homosexual, mind, but both stats are a product of who's likely to be playing) marriages in certain games as I have straight ones.
Sexual Intelligence--a monthly newsletter on "the sexual implications of current events, politics, technology, and the media."
Please read this if you like, or hate, Dr. Phil or Oprah. I got outright angry at a Dr. Phil episode that effectively demonized my life's choices, and it took very detailed explanation of why I was angry for my best girlfriend to realize that she had both been agreeing with Dr. Phil and with my right and ability to make the choices he was demonizing--and to realize why I was upset at all. It says more than I can say about why the American public putting so much trust in its major media figures (see Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and my comments yesterday on Judge Judy for more) is bad for us. And the thing is, it's these people who have an effect on how people think and on the way the country is run, not the much-maligned "Hollywood liberal" set--it's the people who tell you "Family Values" is about hating those who make different choices or follow different inclinations about/in regard to their bodies and their lives and their sexuality who keep us from all being allowed to be proudly, openly who we are. Everything I've seen indicates that these are decent, generous people, and I don't fault that or wish them ill--but I wish they would learn nonjudgment of those of us who choose differently. Read the article--more venomous than I'd be, but that's OK.
Since we're on sex--it isn't porn if there's a consenting adult at each end? I'd say unless they're putting on a show for a viewing audience, I agree. If I have cybersex or teledildonic sex or in-game avatar sex with a partner, it's no more inherently pornographic than it is when we're in the bedroom ('cause, you know, sex, no matter how kinky, ain't porn until there's a camera). But if there's going to be a lasting electronic record, is it porn then? Is it porn if I save the text of a cybersession and get off on it alone later though I was a participant?
Sexual Intelligence--a monthly newsletter on "the sexual implications of current events, politics, technology, and the media."
Please read this if you like, or hate, Dr. Phil or Oprah. I got outright angry at a Dr. Phil episode that effectively demonized my life's choices, and it took very detailed explanation of why I was angry for my best girlfriend to realize that she had both been agreeing with Dr. Phil and with my right and ability to make the choices he was demonizing--and to realize why I was upset at all. It says more than I can say about why the American public putting so much trust in its major media figures (see Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and my comments yesterday on Judge Judy for more) is bad for us. And the thing is, it's these people who have an effect on how people think and on the way the country is run, not the much-maligned "Hollywood liberal" set--it's the people who tell you "Family Values" is about hating those who make different choices or follow different inclinations about/in regard to their bodies and their lives and their sexuality who keep us from all being allowed to be proudly, openly who we are. Everything I've seen indicates that these are decent, generous people, and I don't fault that or wish them ill--but I wish they would learn nonjudgment of those of us who choose differently. Read the article--more venomous than I'd be, but that's OK.
Since we're on sex--it isn't porn if there's a consenting adult at each end? I'd say unless they're putting on a show for a viewing audience, I agree. If I have cybersex or teledildonic sex or in-game avatar sex with a partner, it's no more inherently pornographic than it is when we're in the bedroom ('cause, you know, sex, no matter how kinky, ain't porn until there's a camera). But if there's going to be a lasting electronic record, is it porn then? Is it porn if I save the text of a cybersession and get off on it alone later though I was a participant?
10 Obscure Games We'd Like to Play on Revolution (aside--I had a copy of Lester the Unlikely. Didn't get too far with it. That whinging "Ow" made it not worth it)
Does anyone think this will actually see mass-production? Technologies that improve fuel-efficiency are bought and buried.
Totally unsubstantiated rumors that I hope have some truth
Satire: A brief history of video game violence
If you have to sell something, don't go reading about it. I'm not going to be able to sell a Chocolate Thunder from Down Under with a straight face ever again.
Does anyone think this will actually see mass-production? Technologies that improve fuel-efficiency are bought and buried.
Totally unsubstantiated rumors that I hope have some truth
Satire: A brief history of video game violence
If you have to sell something, don't go reading about it. I'm not going to be able to sell a Chocolate Thunder from Down Under with a straight face ever again.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Museum of coathangers. Does anyone else have a favorite type? This is mine, for several reasons.
Have you ever gotten in that "that's-blue-no-that's-green" argument? My colors are way off the average for English speakers from the chart.
Meet Sid (heh)
Have you ever gotten in that "that's-blue-no-that's-green" argument? My colors are way off the average for English speakers from the chart.
Meet Sid (heh)
Love potion. Herbal but without the spells.
Tonight was a total waste of my time and energy. I hate Superbowl Sunday.
Tonight was a total waste of my time and energy. I hate Superbowl Sunday.
RIP Grandpa: Al Lewis dies
Also Betty Friedan--whatever you might think of modern feminism (which term encompasses so many different philosophies as to have become meaningless), in the 50s something had to give.
Uh-huh. OK then. Yeah the military hatches fast-paced relationships that can fizzle out. A military person and a civilian fall for each other, and deep in that early infatuation, where in the civilian world there would still be a few years of dating and courting ahead, someone gets orders to somewhere far away. A TDY could mean them getting killed--while making those heady, dreamy plans for the future, there's a practical side going "I love this person, and if something happens to me, at least s/he'll be taken care of if we're married," and what young couple in that infatuation stage wants to be separated indefinitely by a PCS (especially when the gulf is a distance that makes courting difficult). It might be better for those relationships to see if they can survive the TDY before marriage plays into it, but that doesn't mean it's gonna happen. Military chaplains (at least in the specific cases of which I've been aware) require counselling (like some churches) before they'll marry you anyway, but so far, at least, they have to allow regular, civil, Vegas-style marriages as legal. Key quote: "It teaches the lovestruck to pace themselves with a R.A.M. chart - the Relationship Attachment Model - which basically says don't let your sexual involvement exceed your level of commitment or level of knowledge about the other person." --so if you're going to get hitched, you need to know the other person's bad habits and really like being around them when it's not time to party or get it on? Check.
Superbowl Sunday in Iraq
I don't care about the game (flippin' Seahawks...), but I will probably tune in for the commercials. Or get tired of them after an hour and watch the usual cartoons on Fox.
Concept cars. I hate concept cars because the ones I'd love to own (not that I could afford them if they did see production) never quite seem to make it to the showroom floor or the highway. I also love them--I can't help being fascinated and reading all about them.
Oooooooooooooooooooooh.
If you're offended by "gay" being thrown around as insulting (or sounding like it), don't watch these.
These were listed as a soap opera. I was thinking like the old coffee ads, but this is just bizarre. I actually found myself interested in what was going on with the coffee people. Someone wrote a novel--anyone know how that story turned out?
Also Betty Friedan--whatever you might think of modern feminism (which term encompasses so many different philosophies as to have become meaningless), in the 50s something had to give.
Uh-huh. OK then. Yeah the military hatches fast-paced relationships that can fizzle out. A military person and a civilian fall for each other, and deep in that early infatuation, where in the civilian world there would still be a few years of dating and courting ahead, someone gets orders to somewhere far away. A TDY could mean them getting killed--while making those heady, dreamy plans for the future, there's a practical side going "I love this person, and if something happens to me, at least s/he'll be taken care of if we're married," and what young couple in that infatuation stage wants to be separated indefinitely by a PCS (especially when the gulf is a distance that makes courting difficult). It might be better for those relationships to see if they can survive the TDY before marriage plays into it, but that doesn't mean it's gonna happen. Military chaplains (at least in the specific cases of which I've been aware) require counselling (like some churches) before they'll marry you anyway, but so far, at least, they have to allow regular, civil, Vegas-style marriages as legal. Key quote: "It teaches the lovestruck to pace themselves with a R.A.M. chart - the Relationship Attachment Model - which basically says don't let your sexual involvement exceed your level of commitment or level of knowledge about the other person." --so if you're going to get hitched, you need to know the other person's bad habits and really like being around them when it's not time to party or get it on? Check.
Superbowl Sunday in Iraq
I don't care about the game (flippin' Seahawks...), but I will probably tune in for the commercials. Or get tired of them after an hour and watch the usual cartoons on Fox.
Concept cars. I hate concept cars because the ones I'd love to own (not that I could afford them if they did see production) never quite seem to make it to the showroom floor or the highway. I also love them--I can't help being fascinated and reading all about them.
Oooooooooooooooooooooh.
If you're offended by "gay" being thrown around as insulting (or sounding like it), don't watch these.
These were listed as a soap opera. I was thinking like the old coffee ads, but this is just bizarre. I actually found myself interested in what was going on with the coffee people. Someone wrote a novel--anyone know how that story turned out?
Fun with movies. I got 10. Most of the rest I haven't seen.
This is one of the best comments on relationships I've ever read: "I'd rather be alone if my mate doesn't make me want to sit for an hour every morning and watch her sleep..." I can dig what the first couple comments are saying about smell, too. Not that I want to sniff someone (though I've been accused of doing so), but when you can lay your head against someone and breathe them in, you know where the chemistry lies (or doesn't).
This is one of the best comments on relationships I've ever read: "I'd rather be alone if my mate doesn't make me want to sit for an hour every morning and watch her sleep..." I can dig what the first couple comments are saying about smell, too. Not that I want to sniff someone (though I've been accused of doing so), but when you can lay your head against someone and breathe them in, you know where the chemistry lies (or doesn't).
Yes yes yes yes yes yes YES!! A new thing to hold over my kid's head on his behavior (and something to go with the other two for Spirit's dorm room)
Friday, February 03, 2006
Awesome printable paper models
cool knit scarf
I can't help wondering how these things come out in kids.
I couldn't write anything about this that isn't a curse word uttered in amazement. If you click nothing else today, click this.
This might be a good idea. The amount of time before just buying new toothbrushes at need would catch up to the cost in a small household is fairly large, though.
Italian Ramen?
Makin' bacon.
This looks cool.
More on Groundhog Day and Imbolc. Pointing out that Candlemas was an attempt to Christianize Imbolc is true enough, but putting candles in the windows is not purely Christian--a little, but the older celebrations of Imbolc involve lighting all a house's lamps or hearths.
Collectible limited edition Pez, wedding-style
cool knit scarf
I can't help wondering how these things come out in kids.
I couldn't write anything about this that isn't a curse word uttered in amazement. If you click nothing else today, click this.
This might be a good idea. The amount of time before just buying new toothbrushes at need would catch up to the cost in a small household is fairly large, though.
Italian Ramen?
Makin' bacon.
This looks cool.
More on Groundhog Day and Imbolc. Pointing out that Candlemas was an attempt to Christianize Imbolc is true enough, but putting candles in the windows is not purely Christian--a little, but the older celebrations of Imbolc involve lighting all a house's lamps or hearths.
Collectible limited edition Pez, wedding-style
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Daily rotten
Rotten library
See especially the page on witchcraft for some enlightening views on the Inquisition and the Malleus Maleficarum: "When women commit sexual excesses with demons, they are prostitute-witches. When men do the same, they are the victims of prostitute-witches." (that's not in the words of the MM but the words of the website's author).
just interesting facts
Rotten library
See especially the page on witchcraft for some enlightening views on the Inquisition and the Malleus Maleficarum: "When women commit sexual excesses with demons, they are prostitute-witches. When men do the same, they are the victims of prostitute-witches." (that's not in the words of the MM but the words of the website's author).
just interesting facts
Happy Groundhog Day! I really have to find my copy of that movie, since it doesn't appear to be airing in prime time. Six more weeks of winter? Here in SC, that means six weeks *of* winter--I haven't seen any yet.
Apparently people reporting stolen drugs happens all the time (according to the 911 dispatcher in the family). Most of them think better of it and disappear before the cops show up to take a statement.
If God really punished people so directly for their errors, this fruitcake would be at the top of the list.
AHAHAHAHAHA Pageboys--IMeanThey'reAllFineHousesFrosh!
This headline is ignorant. I'm hard to offend by usual means, and will interject with something mischievous right when people expect me to run away blushing and squeaking, but I have my own hot buttons and issues that offend me.
I have to agree that the male body can be beautiful--and if you don't believe those who say "look at Hollywood," then look at the ancient Greeks, at art through the ages.
On the end of the telegram
Review/comparisons of bittorrent clients--I like Azureus. I thought about using (mu)Torrent, but honestly it bugs the hell out of me that they use "u" for (mu), and I don't want something that drives me nuts to think about running on my computer.
This is a big issue lately, and one of the best arguments I've seen against the free-market folks. They claim free markets lead to greater innovation, yet clearly the Telcos being able to form an oligopoly have inhibited our progress compared to the rest of the world.
Blue light helps keep you alert? Sounds like something that could be useful for late-night drivers.
To Mars in an afternoon? Hells YEAH!
And some good information on relativity
In favor of hybrid autos
Wow. Someday I hope to have a house this awesome.
I guess if I had to come down on this debate I'd say to take those objects, including Pluto, off consideration for planethood.
"Can a 160-year-old man hit on a 91-year-old woman in an oxygen bar without being considered a predatory scumbag?" The answer should obviously be "yes;" a 75-year-old man hitting on a 35-year-old woman is seen as creepy and a dirty old man now, but not as a predator.
Good writeup on the SWG NGE
Remember that moment of respect I had for the prez? I'm over it.
This is so, so wrong: Brokeback to the Future
This should be wrong too, but I'm too distracted by the idea of the young Tom Cruise and the young Val Kilmer together. Damn but that's going to fuel my dreams for weeks.
Java RPG: Triglav
Apparently people reporting stolen drugs happens all the time (according to the 911 dispatcher in the family). Most of them think better of it and disappear before the cops show up to take a statement.
If God really punished people so directly for their errors, this fruitcake would be at the top of the list.
AHAHAHAHAHA Pageboys--IMeanThey'reAllFineHousesFrosh!
This headline is ignorant. I'm hard to offend by usual means, and will interject with something mischievous right when people expect me to run away blushing and squeaking, but I have my own hot buttons and issues that offend me.
I have to agree that the male body can be beautiful--and if you don't believe those who say "look at Hollywood," then look at the ancient Greeks, at art through the ages.
On the end of the telegram
Review/comparisons of bittorrent clients--I like Azureus. I thought about using (mu)Torrent, but honestly it bugs the hell out of me that they use "u" for (mu), and I don't want something that drives me nuts to think about running on my computer.
This is a big issue lately, and one of the best arguments I've seen against the free-market folks. They claim free markets lead to greater innovation, yet clearly the Telcos being able to form an oligopoly have inhibited our progress compared to the rest of the world.
Blue light helps keep you alert? Sounds like something that could be useful for late-night drivers.
To Mars in an afternoon? Hells YEAH!
And some good information on relativity
In favor of hybrid autos
Wow. Someday I hope to have a house this awesome.
I guess if I had to come down on this debate I'd say to take those objects, including Pluto, off consideration for planethood.
"Can a 160-year-old man hit on a 91-year-old woman in an oxygen bar without being considered a predatory scumbag?" The answer should obviously be "yes;" a 75-year-old man hitting on a 35-year-old woman is seen as creepy and a dirty old man now, but not as a predator.
Good writeup on the SWG NGE
Remember that moment of respect I had for the prez? I'm over it.
This is so, so wrong: Brokeback to the Future
This should be wrong too, but I'm too distracted by the idea of the young Tom Cruise and the young Val Kilmer together. Damn but that's going to fuel my dreams for weeks.
Java RPG: Triglav
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