July 2012
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So, normally I would look to my best friend for...
To start with, about a week ago, my best friend turned into my It’s Complicated. Which is lovely. (If for some reason you haven’t been following my life, he also has a girlfriend I’m involved with, and also I have an SO in another state, but my SO isn’t actually pertinent to this story.)
There’s just this one uncomfortable emotional quirk to it all, which is hiding...
doing an experiment. Reblog if you aren't wearing...
ozyreads:
tempusfidget:
It’s for science people.
I never wear shoes. I go to hippie college.
In my house. Why would I?
I'm not an idealist but...
I’ve recently realized that the standard advice for closeted small-town queers is really fucking shitty. You see, the advice that gets given is “hide who you are until you can get the hell out of Dodge and never come back.” And, while it’s a valid survival strategy, it’s neither good nor complete.
First off, it’s the kind of advice given by the kind of people...
hidden-agender:
marththebland:
Did you know ponies aren’t the same thing as young horses? I didn’t. I am shocked and furious.
Um…watching Friendship Is Magic would disabuse you of this concept posthaste. All the characters, young and old, are referred to as ponies, with younger ones referred to as foals in general, colts and fillies specifically.
I’m still wondering, though, if ponies are...
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Mom: I got you an Alaska shirt.
Me: Size Large. We'll see.
Mom: I know, it looked pretty big, maybe it can be a pajama shirt.
Me: *puts on shirt*
Mom: Oh.
Me: I'm bigger than I look.
Need to cool an overheated iPod? Stick it in the...
God damn I can't wait for Homeland to come out →
It’s even better than I expected so far, and I really, really want it. Also, I want to try cold-brewing coffee. But basically, Little Brother was the right book at the right time, and Homeland could be more of the same.
Hulu let me watch an extended NuvaRing ad instead...
How much bitter commentary is too much? Because seriously, I could write bitter blood-clot-survivor callbacks for this shit.
“Find out what the O is all about.”—>”Ooh! Pick me! Pick me! Twice-daily injections!”
Broke.
I have officially crossed the line from living-at-home-frugally-off-my-reserves to broke. Because my reserves? Now ten bucks. Whee.
Thankfully, I have shit to sell. Like textbooks, and a pair of old riding boots. Anyone want riding boots? Size 9, with a zipper up the back real-classy-like, so you can take them on and off on your own.
Just kidding. You really don’t want those...
Thinking about it, I find that using the word...
metapianycist:
starklyinaccurate:
Are there any other non-gendered words to refer to someone that you’re in a somewhat romantic relationship with?
Significant other? Special person? These phrases don’t solely refer to romantic relationships, but they’re most often assumed to.
I use personfriend. It’s fun to say, gender-neutral and follows the same pattern as girl-/boyfriend.
Been having this weird sort of pain-tolerance-bravado going on lately. Possibly born from when I was on blood thinners and was allowed to take such tiny quantities of NSAIDs it was pretty much why bother. Possibly from some idea I’m pretty sure is wrong that your body gets used to NSAIDs. Possibly because I still feel bad for panicking and backing out of my IUD insertion and having some...
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FNM is M13 Draft.
Bugger. I love friday night trips to the Capital with my best friend and our girl, but we really can’t justify the expense of a draft is it’s A. core set, and B. with 9-year-olds.
You ever played Magic with 9-year-olds? It’s quite the crapshoot. Sometimes you get people like The Baron (seriously, this guy signed up as Baron Von Wolfenstein), and sometimes you get people...
A Queer One From The Start: If you only had 4... →
deliciouskaek:
cgdageek:
nanner:
dancingfrogger:
vanboobsenstein:
istealforksfromrestaurants:
abloodymess:
doyourwardance:
oldtobegin:
riograndegorgeous:
theybuildbuildings:
headbangingwithzombies:
…
Get your shit together.
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Thoughts on Rape Whistles
Heads up, ya’ll: I’m going to be talking about rape whistles, pepper spray, guns, and self-defense here. FYI.
I’ve never liked rape whistles. And I’ve never been able to place why exactly. Pepper spray, guns? All cool. Those weird-ass plastic stabby cat-ears things? If you think you can use it, cool.
Then a few days ago, my mother bought me a rape whistle, I...
Pervocracy Cosmocks Again! →
Really top-notch humor. Also, Toilet Paper Bondage. heh.
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Do you know what pisses me off? People who are...
Seriously. The big thing where this comes out is GMOs. They’re proven safe and regulated up the ass, and people stick their fingers in their ears and go “FRANKENFOOD! FRANKENFOOD!” instead of listening to reason. There’s legitimate concerns in terms of Monsanto, but even those concerns get framed in terms of “the evils of GMOs” and not “the evils of...
An article concerning the new otc HIV test →
You know, this guy has a point. The test has a serious false negative problem, and I absolutely believe him that people try to test ASAP after unprotected sex. There are some real problems. The increased access is a good thing, but it could easily cause some harm.
I wish they’d thought ahead with this. Robot counseling is the way to go. Stick it in a vending machine, make you fill out...
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So, earlier today, I may or may not have raced my best friend’s little brother to the Capital. And I may have won. Because I went around rush-hour traffic, and followed an 80-mph-caravan on the interstate. Considering he had a head start, I’m pretty damn proud of myself.
And then I piloted a deck I built in 70 minutes to a second-place finish in an 8-man tournament. Won 3 packs...
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Community Season 4 will crash and burn.
So. I do this thing, right? Where I create linear models. Back before the hiatus, I created a model that demonstrated the declining viewership. Tonight, I redid it using the data from the rest of Season 3. Not good.
First off, here’s some code to plot our existing data points. Makes the graph above.
plot(viewers~episode, xlab=”Episode”, ylab=”Viewers”,...
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All the Disturbing High-Profile Media Suicide...
So, a week or so ago, a woman in B-town set herself on fire at a gas station. And reading the news story did what I’ve come to recognize as triggered me. It’s been years since I’ve felt this way, nervous and rough and on edge and god damn why can’t I buy some fucking gas without being afraid.
The woman’s dead, and I’m pissed at her. Because it’s fucking selfish, you know? It’s so completely...
I keep meaning to post something...
In a good way, really. I’ve got two classes, pyro, boatbuilding, a relationship, my friends, my ex-horse, and my best friend’s girl. So I’ve got math and economics and construction and horses and all these delightful people going on. So I’m about to dump a bunch of short half-thoughts.
