Monthly Archives: February 2011

I’ve realized that, as a woman with a logical mind, I have the responsibility to make this observation. A normal woman wouldn’t say it, and if a man said it, he’d be accused of sexism. But it’s true. Normal women– quit being hypocrites. Either stop begging to have babies, or stop complaining about having babies. When we’re all immortal cyborgs, you can have as many babies as you want in virtual reality simulations.

Plus, I spend most of my time with nerdy weird people, who follow gender roles much less. Most of the stereotypical male and female behaviors are very illogical, and nerds like logic.

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Abby does not fit most people’s idea of what an idiot looks like, but she also does not fit people’s idea of what an agreeable conversation partner looks like.

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I suppose vowels aren’t all interchangeable if the Spoonerism contains multiple words beginning with vowels. If I were to Spoonerize “Odor Eater,” I’d change it to “Eader Oater” rather than leaving it unchanged.

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I got in logic battles like this all the time in high school. Once we had ice cream, and someone was too grossed out to eat it because supposedly some kid had picked his nose and eaten the booger over the ice cream bowl. I said, “well, if he ate the booger, then it didn’t go in the ice cream, so I don’t see the problem.” People did not understand my point.

The same sort of stuff that happened with “sanitation” also happened with “decency.” Once, in class, I got overheated and tried to take off the sweater that was on over my t-shirt, and my para yelled at me because the action required undoing the straps of my overalls. Apparently being seen with my overall straps undone for a few seconds was “indecent,” even though I wasn’t showing any more skin than otherwise, and was still showing less skin than most of the other students in the room. Whatever.

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My hobby page has a section on Starfleet car logos. Unfortunately, neither the Honda Civic nor the Toyota Avalon is on the list.

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Ron is just here for the heck of it this time.

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Personally I think that criticizing in private is a good idea, but only if it is tactful constructive criticism. Abby should have pointed out Norma’s butt-X in private. However, if you’re going to flame someone just to be mean… well, then you’re a jerk, but I’d rather you do it in public where others can defend the person.

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I asked my husband about this prank and he said that stomping on the flaming dog poo makes perfect sense, because it’s the quickest way to put the fire out before it spreads. I dunno. If it happened to me, I would still run and get the fire extinguisher instead. I don’t usually have shoes on when I’m in the house, and putting them on would take longer than getting the fire extinguisher. And even if I had shoes on, I’d rather take some extra time than risk melting my good soles, especially considering that the average doorstep isn’t all that flammable.

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Abby only knows who Kirstie Alley is because she played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.

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I think it’s unforgivable that pretty much all child labor laws have exceptions for child actors. When digital technology makes it easy and cheap to have an adult play a child, or computer-animate a child entirely, people will look back on child acting the way we look back on slavery today.

When you think about it, technology has made human rights more possible across the board. Before industrialization, it was pretty hard to produce enough of anything to satisfy a whole city unless you had slaves. Before birth control pills, women by their very nature had less freedom than men. Maybe someday we’ll be able to synthesize meat and leather that are just like the real thing, and then people will start to think of animal farming as another kind of outdated oppression.

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