May 2012
20 posts
Small Men sketch show free for anyone who works for municipal government of medium sized cities →
willhines.net
Also if you blog about urban or civic issues! Small Men is a sketch show by Neil Casey and Will Hines about the municipalities of a medium-sized city in the northeast corridor.
“The producers had no means of translating the Japanese series into English, so they surmised the plots and created all-new dialogue, editing out the more violent scenes, and remixing the audio into a stereo format.”
—Voltron, Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
“Strong typing is for people with weak memories.”
—Real Programmers Don’t Write Specs
“When people sing the praises of Atlas Shrugged as a source of lessons for the real world, I always want to tell them to read it again, but this time, remember that they’re not John Galt, they’re Eddie Willers. The guy who could appreciate genius, but didn’t have any of his own — look what happened to him. Unless Paul Ryan can produce a machine of his own invention that produces unlimited electricity from the static in the air, he’s not John Galt, and he shouldn’t try to make policy as if he is.”
—Marissa Hendrickson, via Andrew Tobias
more zombies
not until you finish the ones you have
LADIES FIRST!
Reblogged in full because there isn’t a way to quote this without changing the meaning.
The first few months I volunteered at the shelter, I almost exclusively came during the day before the guests came, to do administrative stuff and building upkeep. The few times I helped with dinner I felt uncomfortable with how much attention they paid me due to being a young woman. Also, there was another young woman volunteer who was very flirtatious with them, and it put me in a bad position, like I was expected to be that way too.
Plus, there was one guy who was really disrespectful and would make a show of looking me up and down every time he saw me. If I knew the friars like I do now, I would have just told them, but I barely knew them so I felt awkward about it and never said anything.
I don’t go anywhere to look pretty or to make someone feel like a man, so for the most part I stuck to coming during the day.
Over time though, I’ve become to come at night, and greeting the shelter guests and eating with them is my favorite thing to do now. The creepy guy is gone, and so is that other volunteer I mentioned, so the dynamic is different. It’s awesome getting to know them in all their diversity, as Dorothy Day would say, “the worthy and the unworthy poor.” On good days there is a beautiful fraternal atmosphere among the guests, friars, and volunteers. (There are bad days, too. There have been fights and near-fights.)
There is one thing I really hate though. When dinner is served, they insist on “ladies first.” In the best cases, they just individually admonish me until I move to the front of the line. In the worst case, they practically chant, “LADIES FIRST!”
I maybe partially oppose it on sort of feminist grounds, but also I hate attention being on me, and I hate even more when people bring attention to the fact that I am one of one to three women in a room full of men, and it makes me uncomfortable that probably the “wealthiest” and most well-fed person in the room is the one to go first. It’s like some sort of assertion despite everything of masculinity. I don’t know, the whole thing makes me uncomfortable.
I used to avoid the dining room altogether until everyone had gotten their food, so that I wouldn’t have to deal with this situation. Lately though, I’ve let them make me go first. Who am I to let my vague objections and self-consciousness prevent these men, who have very few chances to exert power, perform an act of chivalry?
I don’t want to eat first because I’m not as hungry as they are. But they don’t want me to see them like that. They want me to see them not as people weaker than me in some way, but as “men.” So I let them.
Literally an argument on Facebook that porn and chick flicks are equally destructive and sinful.
What is this even.
ffs nothing makes me lose it like when guys claim that ~reality tv~ or ~romance novels~ are the same as porn. NO. NO. NO. NO.
I’ve heard Food Network compared to porn in similar context.
Because ladies watching Alton Brown make pancakes is just like men watching women get raped on screen. And that makes total sense. Fair is fair, ladeeez.
That’s not why. It’s because cooking shows and pornography have a lot in common with regard to framing (lots of close-up shots), editing (skipping over the boring, tedious parts), and viewing (watching someone else perform an activity that, let’s face it, you won’t be doing any time soon).
Religious People Less Driven By Compassion Than Are Atheists And Agnostics, Study Says →
huffingtonpost.com
There are people who talk about the great ideas for scripts or shows or books. Solid, original ideas. However, they are statistically less likely to ever actually work on them because of the praise they receive for just the idea.
There’s nothing to say that this is strictly the realm of creative people. It’s all people. While I do not begrudge people who pray for others, since I believe prayer is a very personal thing. A spiritual counsel (or self-counsel if you are pagan) can be an incredible comfort. However, it is just talk. No one ever became a saint for praying the hardest. There was a French monk who prayed hard enough that he flew, but he’s a monk and you are reading a blog.
I do not really care what people believe as long as it doesn’t hurt or limit other people. A lot of people do care what others believe, warning people of no faith that “there are no atheists in foxholes.” If I wanted to be as smug and dismissive, I could say that “there is no god in the operating room.” There is a surgeon and there are medical instruments and drugs, but there are no gods making you well. There’s a team of people working. But, if it makes you feel better that a god is going to heal you, then by all means, go for it. Just make sure you thank the doctor for doing the work.
who do you think this is
The question you should be asking is: how did I figure it out?
one puppies two puppies three puppies four
five puppies six puppies seven potato floor
dance
That really only works if you are pointing a gun at my feet, in a saloon, in the old west.
Is there a name for this?
You have a problem, you need to hire an expert to solve it.
To hire someone, you need to judge their skills.
But because you are not an expert, you lack the ability to judge the skills of somebody who claims to be an expert.
This happens all the time. For example, when you need to choose a doctor, lawyer, accountant, contractor, etc.
Since you can’t judge them directly, you look for other evidence, usually recommendations from people you trust.
