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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Booth Babes: Living in a Geek Boys’ World, Part 2
Look, it’s pretty girls in tight clothing at a tech trade show! Now tell me what product they’re selling. Or whether it matters. I’ve never been to a trade show, like the one shown at left, or to a convention. … Continue reading
Tagged geek boys world, geekery, geeks, gender, news, technology, women
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Living in a Geek Boys’ World
I’m not really a girl gamer, because I’m not truly a gamer. I play video games, but only a very few of them, and most of them, I use more as a venue for socializing and storytelling than as games. … Continue reading
Tagged entertainment, gaming, geek boys world, technology, women
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The Wind Has a Message
I generally keep chocolate around in case of an emergency, and today I opened up the foil on a fortune chocolate. That’s what I call those little individually-wrapped bite-sized portions of chocolate that have little sayings on the insides of … Continue reading
Tagged odd, weather, wind
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Images of Absence and Presence in History
I vividly remember just one thing from reading Sartre in college, and that’s a few paragraphs about how an absence can become almost a presence–if you’re looking for a waiter named Pierre and you survey a crowd, you notice not … Continue reading
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Apostrophes
I’ve been saying it for years: the apostrophe is probably the most cruelly abused of any punctuation mark. Think about it. Unlike the semicolon, which somewhat justifiably confuses the heck out of people because it’s not used very often, the … Continue reading
Tagged apostrophe, geekery, grammar
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Ringtone Stops Symphony; Phone Owner Mortified
Generally when I go to a meeting, I put my phone on vibrate. I never feel like I can turn it off, because one never knows when there might be an ammonia leak, a catastrophic accident or a massive donation … Continue reading
Tagged entertainment, music, news, online, technology
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Hating on Iowa
While I’ve never lived in Iowa, and though my home in southwest Minnesota has a healthy rivalry with its southern neighbor, I have to admit I like the state. People there are friendly and helpful, and the lakes region features … Continue reading
The Disappearing Spoon
I received so many cool Christmas presents this year I haven’t even begun to work through all of them. “The Disappearing Spoon” is one of them. It’s a book about the periodic table of elements, but instead of a tedious … Continue reading
Tagged books, entertainment, science, spoons
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