It's been a pretty frakking depressing day news-wise, as Andrea summarizes/comments . And comments well, I should add. But from comments at her site, I just wanted to post this little bit from caethan : Don't succumb to despair; all is not power, and good and justice still exist. Not that the fight isn't important, as both Brett and Andrea agree. But the existence of Bad Things, while...

Saturday Managed to get on the road at exactly 10am. Having woken up at 7. Hm, didn't expect packing to take that long. Oh yeah, usually there are TWO people doing it. Rather a nice drive, actually-- did the first couple hours with the window down to get some sun and air, but after lunch decided to cave in and turn on the a/c. Arrived in LA around 3:30, including bad 405 traffic, though 5.5 hours...

Seems the latest meme-in-which-I-have-not-yet-participated is "four things you consider overrated." 1. Calamari 2. the color pink 3. Wine (maybe I'll change my mind once my tastebuds start dying, but I can't think of too many situations in which I wouldn't rather have a nice beer, or even a martini) 4. miRNA "seed region" pairing (okay, very specific and personal vendetta-- it's just that a while...

So, the good news is, I'm on my way out the door to get a shiny new computer! The bad news being that it's because my laptop bit the dust-- HARD-- yesterday. I had never seen the legendary translucent screen of death, but now I get it if I open more than one program at a time. What, I want to have Firefox AND email open? Bah, silly person. I'm not super thrilled about the expenditure, but it was...

I tend to be a fan of Maria Bamford's version of, oh, EVERY how-to-lose-weight article: "Step 1: eat less. Step 2: exercise more. Step 3: ... what was I saying? I'm so hungry...." But I have to say, I think Amy Ozols has her beat. This article is just fantastic in all ways. My favorite bit, by way of appetite-whetting (no pun intended): And, if the going gets tough, remind yourself: every person...

these always amuse me. Your Personality Profile You are happy, driven, and status conscious. You want everyone to know how successful you are. Very logical, you see life as a game of strategy. A bit of a loner, you prefer to depend on yourself. You always keep your cool and your composure. You are a born leader and business person. The World's Shortest Personality...

it seems to me i'm not the only one on earth with a justice complex. it's just that the more common form is a bit more insidious than "dammit why can't people be superheroes?!" a few recent items have caught my eye as particularly representative of this phenomenon. the first thing was the most shocking-- some idiot radio "personality" decided to run his mouth about how autism isn't real, it's just...

this is kind of a longish, complicatedish story, but i will start from the beginning. i clicked my friends page and was greeted by this delightfully fuzzy entry which led to the conversation with sal detailed in my comment to andrea's entry. however, as i was typing the comment, transcribing our previous conversation, sal was reading over my shoulder. "wait... that's how you spell gung-ho?" "uh...