Entropy

Entropy: a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder Earlier this week Tish had a great post about retrosexual men. I quote: A retrosexual is somewhat different from a metrosexual. It’s all in the suit-rumple. Some time ago, I figured out that by 5pm one can easily figure out the straight [...]

Being overweight is harder on women

Sundays are sure turning into Weight Days, aren’t they? This is another one of my self peptalks. From CNN.com: NEW YORK (Reuters) — Being overweight puts a greater burden on women’s health than men’s, a new study shows. Dr. Peter Muennig of Columbia University in New York and colleagues calculated the amount of illness due [...]

Food as sensuality

Good food is–or should be–sensual. Dining is full of tastes, textures, colors and aromas which delight all our senses, creating a total experience of pleasure that’s fully present in the now. In some ways it’s like good sex. We experience it in real time, connected to both our bodies and our minds. Food is also [...]

Random bullets ala Parts-n-Pieces

Happy thing: a new job that I’ve been waiting on since March came through, a staff web design position which is going to make a huge difference for me Not so happy thing: The scope of the project is huge, probably 5 times bigger than anything I’ve ever done before, stage one deadline is 2 [...]

Java = Google?

Yesterday a web site I visited used a java (not javascript) menu. (Don’t even get me started on that kind of design ….) A box popped up telling me I needed to update my version of java. Since I haven’t done that since upgrading to XP a few years ago, I said ok. But to [...]

These words cost $90,000

Lorraine Gariboldi, executive director of the Life Center of Massapequa Long Island, New York discovered the hard way that rhetoric which may fly just fine with anti-choice zealots can cost big time if expressed in public. She opened her mouth to Newsday (Long Island, NY), then discovered that her vitriol resulted in the loss of [...]

Friday pet-blogging

Storm in a gift bag.

I need a Seattle library card

From the PI: Seattle Public Library now offers free music downloads Seattle Public Library has entered the digital download music age, with free downloads 24 hours a day on its Web site (www.spl.org). The new service, offered through Cleveland-based OverDrive, offers selections from 600 albums in a variety of genres. Those with a library card [...]

Criminal behavior

There are million stories out there. This is mine. In 1978, I was a freshman in college. During Christmas break, I got a sobbing phone call from my best friend. She was pregnant. Her boyfriend told her it wasn’t his problem. For reasons of her own, she didn’t feel she could tell her parents and [...]

The fluid of life

Since the dawn of time, menstruation has been surrounded by mystique. Early cultures, including those in Mesopotamia, India, Greece, Egypt and the western hemisphere revered it as the source of life. Later, patriarchal, cultures abhorred it. The Torah and the Christian Old Testament contain rituals for purifying women after their flow; from the 8th to [...]

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