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Feb. 24: Nothing says "high tech" like misogynistic stereotypesMSN has released "Limited-Edition Developer Action Figures." In an attempt to not stereotype their developers, the group of seven figures has a few people with matching X chromosones and used varying shades of "flesh" plastic. Of course, the first figure is pale and male. And here's the description of one female character: ISV Super Gal comes from an ultra wealthy Texas family that made its money in the beef market. Although she has always wanted to be a cheerleader, she grew up the shy girl genius, was never popular, and had hard time mixing with the "in" crowd. As a shy girl genius who was never popular and had a hard time mixing with any crowd, I can tell you, I never wanted to be a cheerleader. At least not the "in-crowd," background-decoration kind. Now, if it were the study interpretive dance and mime to develop a new routine and win the national championship fairly kind ... Instead, I spent my summers reading and my maternity leave learning XML. And how about this gem: She also likes Sex in the City — what young, single, genius inventor gal doesn't like Sex in the City? Those of us watching Doctor Who and The Closer could give a flying fig about SitC. TV shows where the protagonists' problems aren't entirely self-made are much more interesting. Experience the horror yourself. User Friendly was pretty horrified too. Feb. 16: Sold the carTurns out thare has been a big happening: I sold my car, and I'm not replacing it. Most of you (yeah, you) stared at me like I was crazy. Except my mother. She cried. She cried because of Plan B: buy a scooter. She's convinced I'm going to die on the scooter. Feb. 4: I write about blogging and ironyToday's staff meeting's topic was blogging. Hey, I voted to skip the meeting. Instead, I gave a presentation on Why Blogs Suck. Yours Included. Probably the most important piece of information was How to Write a Sentence, for the Love of E.B. White! I thought essays were hard; turns out sentences are the real challenge. So, here are the basic rules for writing a sentence that won't make everyone want to poke their eyes out:
Now, go fry some doughnuts. Jan 14: Where the children of tomorrow dream and winScorpions, "Winds of Change," Crazy World. Who could imagine as the wall fell that we'd be invade another country that was no threat to us, and spend five years there because we had no plan beyond "play Rambo"? Jan 6: I've started my Christmas shoppingI ordered two books from Amazon, and to get the free shipping, I ordered a Christmas book for Jake that I'd had on my wish-list since Dec. 05. I refuse to shop the last week before Christmas this year. That's just insane. Whomever I haven't bought for by Thanksgiving gets gift cards. |
What I'm reading
What I'm listening toI copied 450 tracks from the server to my laptop — all stuff we'd ripped before I got my Mac (and ripped the rest of the collection in iTunes). A lot of stuff I listened to in Germany.
Guilty pleasures
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