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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
9:28 pm	I know that there is some great cosmic meaning behind this image about this fate of human existence. I just can't see through my frustration at how it is ruining my GIS assignment! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, August 24th, 2009
9:58 am	Ganked from Marielle, who Ganked from Erik Bill Miner's Dewey Decimal Section: 989 Paraguay & Uruguay Bill Miner = 292239458 = 292+239+458 = 989 Class: 900 History & Geography Contains: Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents. What it says about you: You're connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You've had some conflicted times in your life, but they've brought you to where you are today and you don't ignore it. Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
12:07 pm	Why are feminists so irritating sometimes. http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/141135/ I especially love the comments, such as the one: After a commenter says that the relationship is not as bad as the writer of the article says, you get this lovely response... "honey, it's simple literary criticism. you're skimming the surface and just soaking up/feeding into what stephenie meyer wanted for you to." First off, I hate the use of honey is a condescending way. It just bothers me. Second, does anyone else find it the least bit hypocritical that the responder is accusing the original commenter of "just soaking up/feeding into" what someone else says on a feminist review of a book? I wonder if the second commenter actually read the book or was she just "soaking up/feeding into" what the article's author wanted her to. I love how... If a man is being aggressive, it's sexist. If a woman is being aggressive, she's asserting herself. If a woman is being meek or a housewife, she's been indoctrinated and oppressed. If a man is being meek or a house-husband, he's spineless and a wimp. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
8:27 pm	What Big Cat Are You? You Are a Black Panther You see through people. You understand others' motives and plans. You have a knack for predicting the future. You just know what people are going to do. People are attracted to you. You are naturally able to influence other people's thoughts. You have the charisma to be a beloved guru or dictator. It's all about how you handle it. What Big Cat Are You? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 16th, 2009
11:17 am	I truly hate stupid people. So I am online, checking up on some LJ communities and google alerts (bondage) and I come across these two articles. http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/2009/01/bisexuality_real_or_bogus_1.php Tyra banks wants to find out whether bisexuality is real or not.... This makes my blood boil. It's disgusting that a sexual orientation is questioned by a national source. The other article is from Germany: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jt_J1-0hZ8GQBu6jc2SC720sX48A This one is a two-for-one deal on offensive and disgusting behavior. 1.) Not only is Merkel (the Chancellor of Germany) trying to equate violence with gun ownership (which is ridiculous to begin with), but the article says that "But Angela Merkel said she favours further restrictions, such as unannounced visits by state authorities to ensure owners have their weapons and ammunition locked away." So apparently, owning a gun is reason enough to break into someone's house and "check up on them"? Does anyone else have a problem with that logic? 2.) "Police said that during their investigation of Kretschmer's computer, they found horror films, violent video games and pornography featuring bondage. Some of the images showed naked, shackled women, police said." In other words, watching horror movies, playing "violent video games" and watching bondage porn can lead to a shooting spree. Does anyone else have a problem with that logic? (Comment on this)
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
8:58 pm	Your result for The Steampunk Style Test... The Ragamuffin 36% Elegant, 38% Technological, 50% Historical, 16% Adventurous and 51% Playful! You are the Ragamuffin, the embodiment of steampunk playfulness. Chances are, you approach the genre from a much more casual and lighthearted standpoint than most other fans. To you, there is always an element of play inherent in the genre, and you may very well enjoy fashion as much for the opportunity to dress up as for the style itself. You probably wear goggles as an accessory, and rarely as actual eye-protection. Your outfits are likely to incorporate a lot of brown or cream, and combine large boots, Victorian corsets or vests, aviator caps or bowler hats, and gypsy skirts or slacks, simply because you like them all. Try our other Steampunk test here. Take The Steampunk Style Test at HelloQuizzy Yay, I'm a ragamuffin. Impressive. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
1:01 pm	Frustration with Research As many of you know, I am currently working on paper from my sexuality class and my chosen topic is on pornography and aggression. The paper consists of a literature review and then I design an experiment. So, I am doing my lit review and I come across this study on the effect of alcohol and pornography on aggression. This line struck me: "Moreover, studies comparing rapists to other men have fairly consistently found that rapists, on average, have a greater sexual response to nonconsensual sex depictions than do non-offenders, indicating that sexual arousal to coercive stimuli may motivate some men towards sexually aggressive behavior" Does anyone else see a problem with this statement? Look again. Which comes first: the rape or the rape depiction? Therefore, which causes the other? The worst part is, the paper goes on... "Because sexual arousal to violent sexual stimuli predicts increased sexual aggression likelihood, discriminates between rapists and non-rapists, and plays a prominent role in models of sexual aggression [Barbaree and Marshall, 1991], a better understanding of factors that influence sexual arousal to violent pornography is warranted." I'm sorry, when did you prove any of that? This is why sociology is not considered to be a real sciene. You have crap like this being accepted as truth. Oh and for the record, I have yet to find a strong causal link between pornography consumption and aggression. If you have one, please let me know. Current Mood: aggravated (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
11:09 am	Yet another state coming out against LGBT and polyamory relationships.... Damn Arkansas http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/elections/elections_pdfs/proposed_amendments/2007-293_Adopt_or_Foster_parent.pdf (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
7:25 pm	It irritates me that there are still people out there like this... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/08/lesbianism (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
9:02 pm	Today in my women's sexuality class (where I'm presenting about BDSM and polyamory on tuesday, by the way) we talked about the question, "What causes homosexuality?" This is a completely unanswerable question. There is so much evidence for and against the two main theories of nature and nurture. So I was thinking of a better question that won't assume natural heterosexuality. I was looking for something that could account for heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, men in the Down Low and Str8 Dude cultures, married queer people and virgins. I came up with: What causes someone to identify as their sexual orientation? What does anyone think? Is this at least an improvement or do you have another even better idea? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
8:46 am	The Zombie Game is on the Colbert Report!!! http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/187340/october-07-2008/threatdown---zombies I'm amused. (Check out Threat Down: Zombies) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
3:05 pm	A productive way to waste time?  Just maybe Who you agree with politically? http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/MatchoMatic/fullpage?id=5542139 (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 19th, 2008
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
3:19 pm	I could survive for 54 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor In other news, I found Jesus in prison today. He was there because a technical parole violation. and I think I'm the only one in my Evolution of Women's Sexuality class who knows about anything sexually deviant (ex: BDSM, polyamory, transgender, bisexuality). (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
2:18 pm	So yeah, I got into an accident with scooter.  I was test driving the scooter, but all I remember was that I was going toward a sidewalk and thought, "well, that's not good."  Next thing I know, I'm in the hospital being pushed around on a gurney and staring at the ceiling.  Apparently I have amazing luck (shocking, I know).   The guy who was selling us the scooter was a trained EMT and there just happend to be an ambulance going by when it all happened.  Also, so I've heard, when I was being interviewed by a cop to see my mental capabilities, they asked "do you know where you are?" and I answered "On the floor of the ambulance".  This was followed by "Do you know who the President is?"  and I answered "Unfortunately, still George W. Bush".  My liberal snarky side must come out when I have a concussion.  Anyway, so I go to the hospital and after going through a battery of tests, it turns out that I have no broken bones, just scratches, bruises and a minor concussion.  I spent the night at the hospital and then this morning, and was passed off to a different team and a different are (The Transitional Trauma Unit ...joy).  It was nice to be visited by parents, Marielle and Chuckles.  Yesterday afternoon, the physical therapist wanted to have me walk, so I did...to the door and back.  I got dizzy and nauseous then went to a chair.  This was repeated two other times, further every time with less nauseous.  When the physical therapist wanted to test me on stairs, turned out that I could do them easily.  Later on, a nurse offered me a sponge bath but wanted to make sure that Marielle and I were okay with her doing it.  We opted not to do it, but it was still interesting.  Joey, Kody and Chase drove up from Baltimore, dropped the girls at the house, then came to visit.  Eventually I was released and came home.  Spent the day trying to recover.  Spent today doing the same and regretting the fact that I'm missing a week (my first) of school and of work.  Oh well, hopefully by next week I'll be up to going to school at least if not going to work.  If this seems a little confusing, blame it on the meds.  (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
9:24 am	This entertained me greatly: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1824625 (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
10:36 am	The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold – 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac . 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Total Count: 15 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
4:20 pm	Hey all, I know that in American society, there are two dominant ways of thinking about the “causes” of homosexuality, those being social and genetic. I was wondering how people think about some other orientations. In other words, do you think that people are Gay because of social upbringing or because of a genetic predisposition? And how about being Kinky or Polyamorous? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
11:21 pm	what we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as ‘unread’ by LibraryThing’s users. as in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. even if you read 'em for school in the first place. ( Read more... ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
11:35 am	SCATTERGORIES! SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! . *Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following... *they have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. 1. What is your name: ....................................Bill 2. 4 letter word:..................................................Bark 3.Vehicle: ..........................................................Boxcar 4. A city:.............................................................Bethlehem 5. Boy Name: ....................................................Baxter 6. Girl Name: ....................................................Beth 7. Alcoholic drink: ............................................Bailey's 8. Occupation:....................................................Botanist 9. Something you wear:....................................Bodice 10. Celebrity:.......................................................Brad Pitt 11. Food: ...........................................................Broccoli 12. Something found in a bathroom: .........Bath 13. Reason for Being Late: ..........................Battery 14. Cartoon Character: ....................................Bugs Bunny 15. Something you shout:…............................Batter Up! 16. Animal: ........................................................Baboon 17. Body part:.....................................................Bottom 18. Word to describe you..................................Bold (Comment on this)