tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306944822011-11-27T16:25:31.693-08:00P.J.noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-19890019399929194812008-08-16T16:55:00.003-07:002008-08-16T16:56:59.746-07:00

Yet another cuddly viral cross-species surrogate mothering video. Can't help it: this is the attitude that would save the world if we let it. :-D

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-35715576980743760292008-08-04T10:40:00.000-07:002008-08-04T10:45:32.044-07:00

I never quite get over stories like these. Even better, the video:

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-9051917916312329642008-06-14T18:11:00.000-07:002008-06-14T18:31:34.769-07:00

My SO (of many, many years) has been generous and patient enough over the years to point out to me when I need to be more mindful of my audience in my speaking and writing. It's a tough habit for a geek-grrl who is deeply attracted to the complexities in people, and objects, and especially language. I'll admit that his advice has helped a LOT as I've waltzed into the academy with a skillset (

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Courtesy of Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond blog: The NYT reviews works that take stock of the 20th Century Multimedia Wars, noting in particular the eminent silliness of ghettoizing "genre" fiction.Posted using ShareThis

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Thx to Current. Shows that there are still good... and brave... and un-sold-out... journalists in this world:(We're in Iraq for $20/barrel oil... I'd completely forgotten Murdoch had said that! TYVM Bill!)

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Courtesy of Tim Ferriss's blog: a-whole-nother perspective on globalization and the outsourcing thing. It's worth a look if you've got about 40 minutes (commercials excluded except for the evocative "priceless"-ness of Spurlock's voiceovers).Trading Places with Indian OutsourcersPosted using ShareThis

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For your consideration:The 2008 AfterEllen.com Hot 100 | AfterEllen.comPosted using ShareThisMy concerns: Why is Naomi Watts so low on the list? And WTF is Nicole Kidman still doing on it? (Sorry, but I find her - her being - incredibly unconvincing sexually.)Wait. Where the hell is Anne Hathaway? Hmmph... maybe next year...

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What more can be said? ...Tragedy as Drunk Driver Collides With Cyclists in Mexico : TreeHuggerPosted using ShareThis

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-70076067059291831932008-05-29T13:25:00.001-07:002008-05-29T13:28:33.340-07:00

greensmvOriginally uploaded by PeejsterCheck this out :-)For the nitty-gritty about this symbol's development and purpose, please click on it to go to the Flikr page.Note the CC license and tell me what you think.

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-17275934670763712642008-05-09T12:57:00.001-07:002008-05-09T12:57:47.948-07:00

.. but thank you for the compliment. Or, at least, the surprising web search result . But he's a he and he's holding his guitar the wrong way. Better luck next time.Blogged with the Flock Browser

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-47173555485450065512008-05-09T10:34:00.001-07:002008-05-09T10:34:25.848-07:00

When it comes to the environment, I've discovered that food is a really, really fraught subject: foodways + individual psychologies + politics + those awful, terrible commercials with the barbecue sauce just dripping off the chicken (hang on, tummy, it's almost lunchtime) = the ultimate tinderbox. And the fires that so easily ignite are not good for the environment, people.So bear with me. I'm

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ROTFLMAO!McSweeney's Internet Tendency: (IM)agna Carta. Blogged with the Flock Browser

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A myth, huh? People don't get lost, huh? So, tell me... why is the Coleman company headquartered there?30 Years Of Man's Life Disappear In Mysterious 'Kansas Rectangle'CHICAGO—The last known communication from Kevin Corcoran made reference to plans to marry a large blonde woman and enroll in a local technical college..onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65

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Dying Newspaper Trend Buys Nation's Newspapers Three More WeeksWASHINGTON—A recent glut of feature stories on the death of the American newspaper has temporarily made the outmoded form of media appealing....onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom:

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My very first upload. Aww, isn't it cute...

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This is too good not to distribute as widely as possible: Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months BuildingIOWA CITY, IA—The mouse briskly traversed the complicated wooden maze in under 30 seconds, roughly 1/8,789,258 the time it took to secure funding for the experiment..onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-52953229241732377272008-01-27T13:07:00.001-08:002008-01-27T20:07:57.506-08:00

Not to be a complete wet blanket, I have to credit the folks at TLC who helped make last night's Miss America pageant a little more culturally relevant.I say, a little more. But in a world where the pretty girls aren't giving us much to look at - whether it's the recovering Lindsay Lohan, or the abusive Naomi Campbell, or the disintegrating Britney Spears [do your own damn web search] - I'm

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-14370412911648586452008-01-21T14:34:00.001-08:002008-01-21T14:36:11.849-08:00

The obvious location to link this would have been facebook, but the LA Times has completely jacked up the way its links appear when you attempt to post them through the "posted items" app. Anyway, when I saw this hot little story I was immediately reminded of fellow facebooker Vivian's link to blog Jezebel's assessment of the visual effect of fashion misogyny on the female form, courtesy of

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-10407549430278925532008-01-21T08:43:00.001-08:002008-01-21T09:06:56.531-08:00

Ladies and gentlemen, may I offer you one of the greatest speeches in history - and I don't think I'm exaggerating here. Advice: watch, reflect, act. And don't stop dreaming.Embedded video The full text of the speech, along with the video source, can be found here.Blogged with Flock

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It's never a good idea to horse around on moving machinery after consuming significant quantities of alcohol. But I'm telling you, there are some machines to which we have become so habituated that we easily forget how dangerous they can be.And it's never occured to me that those rubber belts on the banister could be ridden. Most of the time they don't even go the same speed as the steps. Plus,

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-66339206002699158872008-01-10T16:11:00.001-08:002008-01-10T16:13:26.149-08:00

The Internet presale started at 10 a.m., and I got my tickets at approximately 10:04, but it has just now hit me that I am truly in a position to attend the Foo Fighters concert just added to the tour schedule. In LA. It has just now hit me and, since I have the catalog (plus the typical boots) but have never seen them perform, unless you count that little program on DirecTV's channel 101 back in

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-20633261207261202402007-12-30T07:35:00.001-08:002007-12-30T07:51:57.194-08:00

For those of you who think it's really cute when my anxiety gingerly guides me on and off the escalator... It's not just a depth perception issue - this is machinery and, just like any machinery, it can malfunction too. If only they weren't so damn convenient. Kind of like freeways, huh?Blogged with Flock

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*Inspired by a pedagogy workshop.I hope this helps you.Does this answer your question?Yes and no. Maybe.

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For all of you technophobes out there, a gentle reminder at the jump:AC_FL_Run_BM("9914");If the embed doesn't work, try this link.

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Crows wield tools with human-like skill - life - 16 August 2007 - New ScientistBird brains. Ha!Humans are freaked out over ravens and crows, not necessarily because of their traditional association with death, but because they're wicked smart - and smart birds scare some people. :-) Not that Alfred Hitchcock helped matters any, I suppose.Sorry - I have a soft spot in my heart for these animals.

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-83582351665295785952007-08-15T08:17:00.000-07:002007-12-30T07:46:37.142-08:00

Busch gives Joe Gibbs Racing powerful 3-car lineup - NASCAR - Yahoo! SportsWow, what a combination of personalities. Seems to me that the next order of business is for Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin to pin young Rowdy down and give him a "welcome to the team" pinkbelly.Seems only fitting. Strangely, I think this combination is going to work out well. Not easily (LOL), but well.Note to J.J.:

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-74312252707341449562007-08-10T14:41:00.000-07:002007-12-30T07:51:57.195-08:00

Technology Review: Making Deaf Ears Hear with LightWhile this isn't earth-shattering news in terms of technological advancement, as someone sympathetic to Deaf culture, and as someone who recognizes that language isn't merely an aural thing, I was really annoyed with this title. This is perhaps one of the most troubling aspects of transhumanism and its embrace of human-"improving" technology -

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-62429338611429283992007-06-21T11:12:00.000-07:002007-12-30T07:48:31.146-08:00

Some people just need to stop being "classical" English (as if) nazis. OK, I'll admit, every day is a new adventure with Internet technology, and it takes a lot of cognitive power to keep up with the emergent jargon that comes along with it. It's one thing to deal with the anxiety - OK, a rant, a rave, a flame, maybe even taking it out on the poor machine... I can accept that.It's quite another

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-61588764010899272942007-06-16T11:05:00.000-07:002007-06-16T11:08:23.148-07:00

The kneading is the best part, tho. It reminds me of that Looney Toons where a bulldog adopts a kitten. Wait. I correct myself. It's a Merrie Melodies cartoon, but a classic all the same. :-)

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-4698717529563136902007-06-15T06:30:00.000-07:002007-12-30T07:51:57.195-08:00

This is what happens when the FCC makes you comply with "Part 15 of the FCC rules." You know, the one that goes like this: "Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation."Well, um, duh.But what I want to know is, where can

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-65458359770681471202007-06-14T23:11:00.000-07:002007-12-30T07:51:57.196-08:00

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P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-82636763867073826352007-05-28T12:26:00.000-07:002007-12-30T07:46:06.252-08:00

Isn't this interesting... it seems as though grocery retailers are finally recognizing that grocery stores aren't exactly a cake walk for all their customers. Unsurprisingly (and a little sadly), the focus is exclusively gender-based, the implications being, men get lost, women don't. Which, of course, makes AD/HD-grrl feel a little bit more like a freak.Still, in response to the guy mentioned in

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-90885355539668346392007-05-27T15:55:00.000-07:002007-05-29T15:56:38.007-07:00

This week in our Comp Lit class on the German philosophers, we're covering Heidegger's "Origin of the Work of Art." There are moments when I feel guilty about all the studying I do, and I'm certain this contributes to my procrastination (yeah, I get housewife hangover after all these years). The only way I seem to be able to allay this anxiety is by showing Matt (el esposo) just what I have to

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-17327152377032633252007-02-24T22:29:00.000-08:002007-12-30T07:48:31.148-08:00

This has to be worth the replacement cost for the LCD. :-)

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After my lastest bout of paper-writing / cold-fighting / food-poisoning hijinks (a vegetarian salad? C'mon, I can accept getting turned inside-out by a salad, but a vegetarian salad?), apparently my resistence has been lowered to the point where I can now be infected by the Singularity meme. In the fog of a mind overcome with something looking like scattered poetry magnets dancing just outside

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-29386649102997538792006-12-16T14:53:00.000-08:002007-12-30T07:46:06.253-08:00

I'm in the zone... I'm just not sure which zone I'm in.

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-74965258693348740362006-12-12T12:06:00.000-08:002007-12-30T07:48:31.149-08:00

The late morning ritual of rolling over and turning on the news radio is supposed to be mundane. It's supposed to be my one opportunity to lie in a state of relative quiescence and listen to snarled traffic, box scores and stock market averages while I pull together something resembling consciousness.I'm not supposed to be disturbed by direct threats to my identity.So I get to wake up in a bad

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-78976253640454916112006-12-09T23:42:00.000-08:002006-12-10T15:17:39.449-08:00

Once I traveled with a retinue of journals and diaries, dedicated companions retaining the inscriptions of years of observations, some through coke-bottle filters of theory and emo, others with a fearsome clarity. Now these documents, once the bedrock on which the rest of my work rests, are gone, and I have no one to blame but myself for this crime. Worse yet, part of me has gone missing in the

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-1164431434240600162006-11-24T21:00:00.000-08:002006-11-24T21:13:36.926-08:00

Sure, I’d been told that graduate study would take me places I never imagined I’d go, but I had no idea that this would be happening in my first quarter. In Nagy’s Oral Tradition course, we’ve been exploring the relationships between oral traditions (and by extension folklore) and literatures in print. Never content to pursue a conventional line, I tried to imagine "orality" from a New Media

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-1161824717416639082006-10-25T18:01:00.000-07:002007-12-30T07:46:06.254-08:00

A fellow grad student who, recently diagnosed, is now fighting the good fight against Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), sent me an e-mail asking me for tips on how to stay on-task. As messy as my response is, I liked it so much I figured, hey, why not post it here?Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. Let me see if there's anything I can pass along to you that may work...

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-1153670905398038772006-07-23T09:05:00.000-07:002007-12-30T07:48:31.149-08:00

Last week, RacingOne columnist Shawn Akers observed something both intriguing and disturbing about the selection of new drivers for the Nextel Cup series. Is NASCAR truly "going Hollywood," making driving skill a secondary criterion to eye-candy factor?Granted, I speak as the NASCAR newbie (only having started watching in earnest last year) but since racing runs in my blood (as I look at the

P.J.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694482.post-1152120471882268412006-07-05T10:22:00.000-07:002006-07-05T10:27:51.890-07:00

I take enormous chances in establishing a blogging persona that strongly resembles my "real" self, I know, but the potential confusion between persona and person has its benefits:1) It will force me to think about what I'm posting before I hit that "publish" button.2) It will force me to think about what I'm posting before I hit that "publish" button.Can you see where this is going?Frankly, I

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