Como muchos sabréis, nunca hablo de actualidad ni me mojo en temas políticos o de territorio. Pero hoy hago una excepción. Hace ya muchos meses que en Catalunya tenemos una sequía enorme que hace que no podamos regar las plantas, o abrir las fuentes públicas. Me parecen buenas medidas, teniendo en cuenta que las restricciones fuertes aún no han llegado (y ni ganas). Por fin ha llovido este fin de semana pasado, y aprovechando que Scarlett Johansson ha sacado un nuevo disco muy parecido al estilo de Liz Phair, me apunto al carro de discos que se hacen llamar indie ...

I GOT TELEVIEW WORKING OVER TEH INTARWEBS!! Ten thousand and ten props to Martin, who has always been kind enough to test it when it wasn't working. Bazillions of times in a row over months and months. Poor Martin. But now it works! Remote CART, here I come!Comment ...

This past weekend, I found myself in a pleasantly soft 2/5 NLHE game in Atlantic City. Even better, I caught good cards for most of the seven hour session, including being dealt pocket aces four times. They held up twice. I decided the story of those four hands would make an interesting [...] ...

So the semester has been over for a while now, but I've been coasting. First I was preparing for the CCP, then meeting with my former-mentor-now-colleague to talk about the semester and demonstrate my new handheld CART system for her. (It's pretty cool: $700 Samsung Q1 from woot.com plus wireless router plus Teleview equals a portable display that my client can walk around the classroom with, have less intrusive one-on-one conversations, and search/scroll through the document at will, while I and my gear sit in the corner without having to be all up in their space.) Then I ...

Sorry for a lack of updates, dear readers. I have been trying to think up inventive ways to whore myself for the money that I'll need to move this summer. There's my previously mentioned waitressing idea, but those in my life have pointed out that I have never waitressed before. Touché! I once worked in food service, a hellacious summer working for Dairy Queen at the ripe ol' child labor exploiting age of 13. They paid me in cash and I got to wait on cranky, sunburned tourists who came from the nearby beach, one of whom told ...

My homecoming was marred by very little, namely the Missing Baggage- since recovered. I must say, British Airways treated me royally start to finish. With the bag, the owned up to the problem immediately and offered resolution. The bag arrived yesterday morning, its contents all present and mostly intact. (Two marble items cracked, but they can be repaired. I can’t complain too much at this point.) As one might expect, Bayou was positively giddy to see me. She had a rose in hand and insisted on dragging my bags around. When we got home, the first thing I wanted ...

.... No te cases ni te embarques dice el dicho. ¿casarme? Ni loca. ¿Embarcarme? Hmmm, podría ser. Quizá embarcarme en una aventura.Pero bueno, sí, puedo escuchar y leer las preguntas: cómo estás, ché? y en qué andás? Te seguís tirando minitas (vaya expresión); te siguen gustando las pendex?*suspiro profundo*. Elvirita sigue aquí, en un proceso interno que no llega a descifrar, porque su clave es el amor, es la pasión, el amor-pasión, y toda la teaoría que se puede versear al respecto.¿Ustedes se re-leen? Yo lo vengo haciendo, quizá para logra el tan famoso feed-back (¿alimentar-atrás?) No, bestia: re-troalimentación que ...

Granted, I’m already weird but I feel compelled to note a few things.

1. It feels weird to run my toothbrush under the faucet, instead of pouring bottled water on it.
2. It felt weird this morning to realize I didn’t remember what my house keys looked like.
3. It feels weird to listen to the complete lack of noise. Especially at night- all I can hear are the frogs in the wetlands behind the house.
4. It feels weird to have so much space after being in a hotel room for 6 weeks.

I’m sure there will be more things that crop up, but those are ...

I made myself a tiny bit late to work this morning because I had to fix my shawl. I worked on a few rows at some point last week, and had started the fifth repeat of my nemesis, the first row of the blossom chart. (In this chart, it tells you to turn two stitches into nine at the ends and centers of the row, and three stitches into nine on the rest of the row. It requires needle acrobatics and sticking out of the tongue. Beautiful results, yes, but still nemesis-worthy.)Well, by the time I got within the last ...

- nu vi er ved fobol: Em i Bol afvikles i perioden 07. - 29. juni - Jeg tror sgu på Portugal i år...Sendeplan TV2Random ...

I was perturbed upon learning that one of my alma maters, Washington University in St. Louis, is about to bestow an honorary doctorate (in Humane Letters!) upon the anti-feminist, anti-gay Phyllis Schlafly at this year's commencement ceremony. I suppose it's only fitting that shrill NBC commentator Chris Matthews, who has a pattern of making sexist comments when referring to women, will deliver the commencement address and also receive an honorary degree of his very own.But enough about Chris. I suppose the world won't come to a crashing halt now that WUSTL is going to honor Schlafly who, after ...

I am forwarding this from where I encountered it on TransMuslims: here's a quote from a site that has more information and a petition.The American Psychological Association (APA) recently appointed Dr. Kenneth Zucker to chair the task force responsible for updating of mental health language and treatment of diagnoses such as Gender Identity Disorder (GID) for the upcoming DSM-V (Diagnostics and Statistics Manual, Fifth Edition).Don’t let his recent appearance on NPR sounding like a nice guy fool you. At a time when the American Medical Association (AMA) is supporting stopping discriminating against and stigmatizing transgender people, Dr. Zucker is ...

I come before you to confess my sins.O friends, I did in fact rent and enjoy this horrid and tawdry film, 27 Dresses, & during the viewing of which did ogle Katherine Heigl lesboppropriately, but only whilst committing the sin of enjoying a hypertawdriclicous romance film of the genre known as "extreme heteronormative chick flick", for which my excuse of lesboögling is no excuse at all.O my friends, I compound my error by buying into the heteronormativity of said "flick" and imagining it were, in fact, me as Katherine Heigl's character, but while James Marster is in fact pretty cool ...

First, we have a couple of new writers, including “Grace Fannie,” the alter ego of the webmistress who runs the fabulous Fannie’s Room and who, like Grace Yip, is an overly-educated but underfunded sportydyke(tm) hailing from Chicago. We have another writer from NYC, and she has yet to choose a nickname, so for the time being, I shall refer to her as Grace X. They have already submitted a couple of great posts, but unfortunately and inexplicably, our web host is not allowing us to upload images, so I cannot upload their avatars. (This is what ...

Søndag den 11.maj: 1: Gring Girls of Norway 2: Dykes Galore 3: Schølle's Kortklub 4: FC Undercovers 5: Mosters Piger Søndagens bemærkning: Mosters Piger: Aldrig har et hold tabt AAXWO's fodboldturnering med så stor en målscore: 1 - 24; i 8 kampe af 15 minutters varighed. Til gengæld var 5 af holdets spillere nogen af de sidste der forlod Turbinehallen søndag nat. Så hvem vandt egentlig pinsestævnets fodboldturnering 2008? via AM ...

Hace ya algún tiempo que estoy en el mercado de la carne y la cosa no mejora. Este verano pasado tuve cambios, dejé de vivir en Terrassa con “M” para volver a Barcelona con “Mama” (la de toda la vida). Empecé a trabajar como una loca después de abandonar la ofi de siempre, monté algunos proyectos que luego resultaron un desastre,… Ya sabéis lo de la vida es un carnaval, un frenesí, una ilusión… que toda la vida es sueño… y la vida es una tómbola. Desde entonces he conocido a más de 100 chicos nuevos: Unos más altos, otros más bajos, ...

The first time I tried Second Life, it was while using Windows 2000. It was, by and large, a crappy experience. However, because I also ran Ubuntu a great deal of the time on Ginger, I figured I’d give SL a go in Ubuntu. Linden Labs provided a viewer for Linux (that didn’t have to be compiled!), and even though it was branded alpha software, I figured that I’d get much more encouraging results from it. It wasn’t dismal, but it certainly wasn’t what I was expecting from a realistic virtual world. I never did get around to finding out what ...

MSNBC reports that Obama has taken a slight lead in superdelegates, 279 to Hillary Clinton's 276.5 (I'm not sure how one can have half</a> a superdelegate, but whatever). This is significant because just 2 months ago Hillary had almost a hundred more pledged superdelegates than Obama. I know Hillary is going to win the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries, but we all know that there's no way for her to catch up to Obama at this point. But Hillary's tenacious - that's one of the things I love about her - so she probably won't give up until June. ...