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To all the ladeez in the world
Sep. 8th, 2008 08:32 pm"...because it's all about brunettes, not fighter jets".
Yeah, baybeh, meaningful lyrics we can all get behind. *koff*
Yeah, baybeh, meaningful lyrics we can all get behind. *koff*
Indexed hits it on the button again (I don't know whether the card is directly referencing it, but I think the timing is auspicious if not).
Probably not applicable to 50% of the population but, hey, I'm all about accumulating useful information: How to hide an unwanted erection. It's notable for the number of synonyms that poms can come up with for "trouser snake". Tee hee.
(Actually, I was on this site looking up gardening tutorials - it's pretty good for all kinds of info, although the "How to fold a shirt" one seemed crap).
While I'm on the topic of PSAs, here're Trix's handy hints on how not to get a cold over winter:
(Actually, I was on this site looking up gardening tutorials - it's pretty good for all kinds of info, although the "How to fold a shirt" one seemed crap).
While I'm on the topic of PSAs, here're Trix's handy hints on how not to get a cold over winter:
- Personal hygiene. Wash your hands lots, especially after touching other people (particularly the known germ-infested ones and children), money, doorknobs, things at work, and public transport. I'm not suggesting anyone get all OCD about it, but getting off as many greeblies as you can before touching yourself (especially your face, you filthy-minded people) is good sense.
- Breathe through your nose as much as possible. This may sound a bit odd, but the nose has a lot more hair and mucous and suchlike up there designed to trap particles and germs. It's also relatively easy to keep it clean, and it tends to be self-draining anyway when it's a bit chilly. Breathing through your mouth means that any germs have a much more direct path to your lungs, and also the air is not as conditioned as it is when you breathe through your nose.
- Common sense - stay away from people who are obviously sick, or smokers. If your resistance is lowered because of the stress cold weather puts on your body, don't add to it by breathing in second-hand smoke. If you're walking around on the street, and someone is coughing and spluttering, give them plenty of room, and remember the nose-breathing (I confess that I tend to hold my breath until I'm well out of the blast zone). If you need to shake hands with someone who's showing symptoms, have a good scrub of the hands as soon as possible.
- Eat decent food (lots of veges and protein) and sleep enough. I need 8½ hours minimum myself - know what you need and take it. Also take a vitamin supplement (see below) if you're feeling run down or under physical siege (but I wouldn't take one routinely - it's not a substitute for eating properly).
- If you feel symptoms coming on, step up the good food (dose up with garlic, ginger, chilli and suchlike - it may do nothing, but a psychological effect is probably helpful in any case) and the rest. Go home an hour early. Go to sleep earlier.
- Finally, if you're surrounded by dying people, or your throat is definitely feeling a bit scratchy or the nose is running, take the magic potion, Blackmore's Echinacea ACE + Zinc. I don't know if it's the echinacea, the vitamins or the zinc, or a nice synergistic effect, but it's clobbered threatening colds each time for me. I take one a day if I'm surrounded by sick people at home or work, or I take three a day with meals if I feel something seriously coming on (I've not had to take it for more than 2-3 days max - I don't think herbs, or anything, should be taken by rote if they're not actively needed).
Eating a hot Asian-style soup, popping some magic potion, and heading off to bed by 9 has helped me avert disaster at least twice this winter, and I hope it continues to work when necessary.
One thing I'll add
Aug. 4th, 2008 10:32 pmThere was a fantastic lemon tart that we had for dessert with our overpriced dinner, and the sugar rush made me want to engage in some interpretative dance at the height of the Bargiel. Something a bit like the following could have been quite appropriate, if it were done at about twice the speed:
Via SBTB.
Via SBTB.
Ah, gender essentialism
Jul. 29th, 2008 10:51 pmNow, the original site is not being too earnest about it, but there is a tool that will have a guess of your gender depending on your browsing history (not all of it, just some weighted sites - the formula and the statistics source are explained in the post). Here are my results:
(and one more embarrassing one that I have expunged)
So, from this, we can see that women aren't interested in bittorrenting or hardware, and less interested in news than dictionaries. I'll have to go out right now and get my huntin' and shootin' gear, my season tickets to the All Blacks, start scratching my nuts more often, and acquire some bimbo girlfriend who only wants to have babeez. I still feel like I'm missing something...?
PS. All you LiveJournallers are a bunch of gurlz. So there.
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 0%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 100%
| Site | Male-Female Ratio |
| youtube.com | |
| wikipedia.org | |
| flickr.com | |
| livejournal.com | |
| merriam-webster.com | |
| huffingtonpost.com | |
| isohunt.com | |
| wired.com | |
| thepiratebay.org | |
| guardian.co.uk | |
| salon.com | |
| megaupload.com | |
| boingboing.net | |
| stumbleupon.com | |
| wordreference.com | |
| treehugger.com | |
| icanhascheezburger.com | |
| tomshardware.com | |
| tucows.com | |
| abc.net.au | |
| smh.com.au | |
| okcupid.com | |
| gutenberg.org |
So, from this, we can see that women aren't interested in bittorrenting or hardware, and less interested in news than dictionaries. I'll have to go out right now and get my huntin' and shootin' gear, my season tickets to the All Blacks, start scratching my nuts more often, and acquire some bimbo girlfriend who only wants to have babeez. I still feel like I'm missing something...?
PS. All you LiveJournallers are a bunch of gurlz. So there.
And just for the sake of silliness
Jul. 6th, 2008 09:54 pmBest GraphJam evar. Although I agree with the commentors who say "I Want To Break Free" should really be at the far right of that graph.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear
Jun. 29th, 2008 11:28 pmThat "which sex animal are you" test?
OMG (lesbian) BONOBOS!
(And was I the only one to wonder just what exactly is meant by "foreplay"?)
OMG (lesbian) BONOBOS!
(And was I the only one to wonder just what exactly is meant by "foreplay"?)
*Worldwide* literature abuse problem!
Jun. 19th, 2008 09:12 pmThis meme has been going around discussing the risk for Americans with regard to literature addiction. However, it's a worldwide problem, and should be addressed. I've included the questionnaire as provided by various sources - please excuse the bias. A discussion of the issue follows the survey questions.
LITERATURE ABUSE: AMERICA'S HIDDEN PROBLEM
SELF-TEST FOR LITERATURE ABUSERS
( Read more... )
LITERATURE ABUSE: AMERICA'S HIDDEN PROBLEM
SELF-TEST FOR LITERATURE ABUSERS
( Read more... )
Elliot Spitzer has been Urban Dictionary'd already.
[Do I care he frequented prostitutes? No. Is it any business of ours - other than wondering about his probity if he was lying to his wife - how his marriage is constructed? No. Could it happen to a better class of hypocrite, though? No, indeed.]
[Do I care he frequented prostitutes? No. Is it any business of ours - other than wondering about his probity if he was lying to his wife - how his marriage is constructed? No. Could it happen to a better class of hypocrite, though? No, indeed.]
A remake I actually want to watch
Mar. 1st, 2008 09:37 pmYes, it's very sad: I'm actually looking forward to the new Get Smart movie. I loved the original TV programme when I was a kidlet (hm, gadgets and Agent 99... I wonder why?), and it looks like they've managed to update it without losing the fun silliness of the original. As long as it doesn't tip over into outright stupidity, I'll be happy. I like Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and, um, Leslie Nielsen movies, though, so my "stupidity tolerance" is probably reasonably high.
Also,Malcolm McDowell Terence Stamp and Anne Hathaway dressed up as a Catholic schoolgirl. And gadgets. What else does one want?
Also,
For all you Doctor Who fans
Feb. 26th, 2008 09:42 pm...and Ten, aka David Tennant, aficionados (not me, alas).
Verity Stob sneaks into the rehearsals for Hamlet, soon to be portrayed by the man himself:
Verity Stob sneaks into the rehearsals for Hamlet, soon to be portrayed by the man himself:
[...]
Hamlet Our tragedy that threatened to unfold
I have, with Gallifreyan wit, cut short:
[...]
By God I'm good! And best of all is last,
(For Russell T hath touched the RSC)
A telegram from Brighton I've just read
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern... are wed!
[Exeunt singing and dancing to 'Hi Ho Silver Lining'.
I don't run a server of my own, but if I did, it's likely I'd use FreeBSD. I'm quite happy with Ubuntu on my laptop at home. But I did find a very compelling comparison on the merits of BSD vs Linux here.
[My sexism alert wasn't so much tripped due to the relative gender balance on each side. Yes, I'm pathetic.]
And really, there's nothing else I want to report about my week so far. It was long and tiring, and featured CEOs, spam, video conference resource booking fuckups, PMT and Goddess Hatchet Jobs™.
There was nice food last weekend, though. The Bear was finally able to drink her birthday wine after over a month of crappy stomach stuff, so we had to have something suitable to go with. I don't eat red meat, and the CDL isn't much on pork, but I managed to get inspiration for a nice pasta sauce.
I made it with a veal stock (veal chop and mince (tastee doggie treats after!), dried porcini, celery, onion, light garlic, bay leaves, white peppercorns, sea salt and a slosh of red wine - all boiled for about an hour, then strained and defatted after resting a bit), a pile of assorted mushrooms (@200g+ of oyster mushrooms and other weirdnesses) wilted in butter, a bit more fresh garden garlic, some duck breast (yay CDL inspiration) sautéed with olive oil and cherry tomatoes smushed into a pan with a bit of crushed dried chilli. Add the mushrooms to the duck and tomato and a cup or so of stock, a sprig of fresh garden thyme and a bit of chopped Italian parsley, and simmer for about 20 mins, adding more stock to keep it moist and simmering before allowing to reduce to the final sauce consistency (the mushrooms were very tender, but retained their shape). A bit more parsley just before serving, and the sauce went fab over the ricotta ravioli, with yummy salad leaves 'n' light dressing and wood-fired crusty bread on the side, and complemented the Central Otago (I still can't get over Otago as a wine region!) pinot noir beautifully. Of course, now I can't remember the wine-maker. D'oh!
BTW, it'd be easy to turn the sauce into a vegetarian rendition. With the stock, omit the veal (of course), use more dried porcini and supplement with a couple of shiitakes (not too many, because they have an overpowering flavour), and maybe a dsp of barley miso. The duck breast was far from being a compulsory ingredient (although it did go beautifully, and we could have had a bit more) - mushrooms, garlic, cherry tomatoes, stock and herbs make a fine sauce.
Yay team cooking and provision-providing efforts, though. It makes for much contentment. :-)
[My sexism alert wasn't so much tripped due to the relative gender balance on each side. Yes, I'm pathetic.]
And really, there's nothing else I want to report about my week so far. It was long and tiring, and featured CEOs, spam, video conference resource booking fuckups, PMT and Goddess Hatchet Jobs™.
There was nice food last weekend, though. The Bear was finally able to drink her birthday wine after over a month of crappy stomach stuff, so we had to have something suitable to go with. I don't eat red meat, and the CDL isn't much on pork, but I managed to get inspiration for a nice pasta sauce.
I made it with a veal stock (veal chop and mince (tastee doggie treats after!), dried porcini, celery, onion, light garlic, bay leaves, white peppercorns, sea salt and a slosh of red wine - all boiled for about an hour, then strained and defatted after resting a bit), a pile of assorted mushrooms (@200g+ of oyster mushrooms and other weirdnesses) wilted in butter, a bit more fresh garden garlic, some duck breast (yay CDL inspiration) sautéed with olive oil and cherry tomatoes smushed into a pan with a bit of crushed dried chilli. Add the mushrooms to the duck and tomato and a cup or so of stock, a sprig of fresh garden thyme and a bit of chopped Italian parsley, and simmer for about 20 mins, adding more stock to keep it moist and simmering before allowing to reduce to the final sauce consistency (the mushrooms were very tender, but retained their shape). A bit more parsley just before serving, and the sauce went fab over the ricotta ravioli, with yummy salad leaves 'n' light dressing and wood-fired crusty bread on the side, and complemented the Central Otago (I still can't get over Otago as a wine region!) pinot noir beautifully. Of course, now I can't remember the wine-maker. D'oh!
BTW, it'd be easy to turn the sauce into a vegetarian rendition. With the stock, omit the veal (of course), use more dried porcini and supplement with a couple of shiitakes (not too many, because they have an overpowering flavour), and maybe a dsp of barley miso. The duck breast was far from being a compulsory ingredient (although it did go beautifully, and we could have had a bit more) - mushrooms, garlic, cherry tomatoes, stock and herbs make a fine sauce.
Yay team cooking and provision-providing efforts, though. It makes for much contentment. :-)
via boingboing
Someone has done a hilarious blog of "Golden Age" Wonder Woman as an advice columnist. WW has always been surrounded by naughty naughty people, and she has lots of experience in making them behave. I knew there was a reason I was so fascinated by the Golden Lariat when I was a kidlet.
Q: [My best friend from school has remained single, while I'm married] She seems jealous and resentful of my marriage, and angry that she’s still single. Recently, she told me that she saw my husband at a bar kissing another woman, and has demanded that I confront him about it. I don’t believe her, but she says that if I don’t talk to him about it, she’ll break off our friendship! What should I do?
A: [Panel from Golden Age WW strip]: If girls want to be slaves, there's no harm in that.The bad thing is them submitting to a master or to an evil mistress like Paula! A good mistress could do wonders with them!
The rest of the entries are just as frickin' hilarious, and so are the panel selections. Go read them, or I'll have to find a lariat of my own, and maybe some chains and a pole to affix them to (essential items in the WW world).
Someone has done a hilarious blog of "Golden Age" Wonder Woman as an advice columnist. WW has always been surrounded by naughty naughty people, and she has lots of experience in making them behave. I knew there was a reason I was so fascinated by the Golden Lariat when I was a kidlet.
Q: [My best friend from school has remained single, while I'm married] She seems jealous and resentful of my marriage, and angry that she’s still single. Recently, she told me that she saw my husband at a bar kissing another woman, and has demanded that I confront him about it. I don’t believe her, but she says that if I don’t talk to him about it, she’ll break off our friendship! What should I do?
A: [Panel from Golden Age WW strip]: If girls want to be slaves, there's no harm in that.The bad thing is them submitting to a master or to an evil mistress like Paula! A good mistress could do wonders with them!
The rest of the entries are just as frickin' hilarious, and so are the panel selections. Go read them, or I'll have to find a lariat of my own, and maybe some chains and a pole to affix them to (essential items in the WW world).
Hello Kitty for *dykes*
Dec. 31st, 2007 03:12 pmSo, Hello Kitty have released a new line of clothing and accessories supposedly aimed at men. Personally, I think I am the target audience. Funky Hello Kitties! Not in pink! (Like wearing skirts, pink is fine, for other people.) And you can even accessorise your bike! (Engadget wonders why. Please, there are some things that are beyond crude rationalisation (or reason)).
Something a bit more cheerful
Dec. 28th, 2007 12:26 pmI hated Barbie, or any kind of doll. Loathed loathed loathed them. But I want one of these (kind of SFW, but I don't recommend it).
I'm just glad he doesn't have a soup-strainer 'tache. I've had a liking for Tom of Finland pr0n for years, but some of the mustaches can be ...distracting. Silly me, it's not the faces I should be looking at.
I'm just glad he doesn't have a soup-strainer 'tache. I've had a liking for Tom of Finland pr0n for years, but some of the mustaches can be ...distracting. Silly me, it's not the faces I should be looking at.
