June 2012
31 posts
2 tags
I weighed a 2x4.
I was right, my friend was wrong, we’re building our boat out of wood and barrels. It’s 43 pounds heavier, and a hundred bucks cheaper, plus no shipping costs and no allen wrench.
3 tags
I feel like I'm running in circles.
I’m in the process of trying to get a copper IUD. Why? Well, I can’t use anything with estrogen because of my Leiden Factor V, and with my history of depression, there’s a distinct chance something with a 5% chance of increasing depression (read: progesterone-only devices) would need to be taken out early. And fuck minipills. I’m damn glad I don’t need to take...
3 tags
So there's no such thing as left-hand screw PVC...
Which means buying a dozen metal pipe clamps at 7.50 apeice. That’s at least a third of the boat’s cost, right there. Which means we’re checking with friends in my hometown, trying to get an investor or two. Because this is supposed to be the most cheap-ass boat two college kids ever done built. Our deck is half-burned plywood. We just need some more capital. Then we will have...
Just got back from a draft. Had the best time with friends, lost against the only grownup I played, tied to to kids, and beat a nine-year-old with a shitty deck who seemed to be playing to lose.
But I got to drive to the capital with my friends, and on the way back schemed a boat. We wanna build a boat this summer. The cheapest fucking boat we can. That we can strap to the roof of Serenity,...
A group of House Democrats have proposed... →
hidden-agender:
deliciouskaek:
abaldwin360:
underthemountainbunker:
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) pointed out would allow the wage to “catch up” with where it would be had it been allowed to grow with inflation. […] If the minimum wage had been indexed to the Consumer Price Index since 1968, it would be approximately $10.40 today. – Think Progress
It’ll never happen. :(
True story, I...
A Day in the Life of a Sexologist: Pubic Hair,... →
sexologist:
If you’ve read my book, you know about the borough of West Chester’s officials. (If you haven’t read my book- dude, get on that!)
I talk about a group of white, middle aged men, “cranky fuddy duddies sitting behind a long mahogany lectern” at public meetings for permits, and codes, collecting…
Ah,zoning laws. They’re pretty much an excuse for the government to tell...
My brother and his friends put a stereo on their raft. It’s almost like we’re related. They didn’t paint it, though, and are less than innovative in their construction. So I dunno.
I comfort myself with the fact that it’s not the first time I’ve lied to my dentist. Everybody pretends they really brush their teeth, right? It’s what you do. You brush your teeth 3-5 times a week, and pretend you do it regularly if asked. That’s just how it works. So really, I shouldn’t feel so bad. Besides, his fingers were in my goddam mouth, doing that...
2 tags
ASUS Transformer Pad (TF300), six-day review
Pretty damn good. As a netbook, it’s pretty solid. The touchpad is full of netbook craptasticness, but that doesn’t matter because you can use the touch screen while it’s docked. Which then leads to awkward moments when you try to do the same thing to your regular laptop, but hey, what’s life if you don’t look like a fool poking your laptop screen every once in a...
Petition to move CeCe to a women's facility →
hidden-agender:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
doctorqueer:
please take a moment to sign this petition and to pass it on.
It asks that CeCe serve her time in a women’s prison rather than a men’s facility, where she is currently set to serve her time.
Please freaking sign. Otherwise she will literally be doomed to two+ years of constant sexual abuse.
THIS IS IMPORTANT. And it only has about 3%...
http://www.marinarosemartinez.com/trigger-warnings-... →
This is an interesting read, if you’re not bothered by discussion of rape or domestic violence. The author does a shitty job of understanding the feeling of being triggered. Which is fine, you don’t really grok it unless you have, or have had, triggers. And sometimes not even then. For years, despite knowing what being triggered was, I couldn’t put that knowledge together with...
My tablet has already gotten me into a terrible...
I keep poking the screen of my laptop, and thinking it’ll work as a touch screen. It doesn’t. But I live in hope. Someday.
“Brought to you by the scholars who believe sperm contains tiny little people.”
– My favorite phrase of the moment. For use mocking pseudoscience, and particularly vitalistic alternative medicine.
2 tags
Role Models Are For Suckers, and Other Tales
Well, really just the first bit there.
You see, I don’t like role models. I don’t believe in ‘em. People aren’t heroes, and ain’t nobody perfect. You get a role model, you’ve got to watch them, all the time. Because they have the tendency to be human beings when your back is turned.
That is to say, they fuck up. I first formed this opinion after the girl...
Dear every manufacturer of women's clothing, ever:
hidden-agender:
lord-kitschener:
gothiccharmschool:
Faux pockets are an abomination. If you’re going to bother putting pocket flaps on something, add the G-d damn pockets.
No love,
Jilli
And make the pockets deeper, you soulless bastards.
Sham pockets are tools of the devil. Shallow pockets are almost as bad. (The thing is, some sham pockets are actually real pockets…stitched...
