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Oct. 28th, 2006 11:29 pmIt is very, very rare for me to be intellectually intimidated by someone. However, I admit to being intimidated by a former writing classmate, Gord Sellar .
While checking out his website, I found this interesting article on the evolutionary aspects of depression .
You can also read this excellent piece about depression written by Chris Rose , a columnist for a paper in New Orleans.
While checking out his website, I found this interesting article on the evolutionary aspects of depression .
You can also read this excellent piece about depression written by Chris Rose , a columnist for a paper in New Orleans.
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Oct. 19th, 2006 08:14 amI recently found this fabulous blog Witness the World . It's a blog by Globe and Mail foreign correspondents describing their experiences.
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Feb. 28th, 2006 04:09 pm[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] just linked to this article about Getting laid while on a humanitarian mission to Uganda .
I never got any action on any of my trips, even though I did offer to make out with an American student. He turned me down, but I later found out that he was having an affair with his Mongolian teacher.
I never got any action on any of my trips, even though I did offer to make out with an American student. He turned me down, but I later found out that he was having an affair with his Mongolian teacher.
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Feb. 18th, 2006 08:23 am Haiku about each of Canada's provincial flags .
This link made me embarrassed because I couldn't immediately identify some of the flags. I think it's time for me to go back to elementary school.
(Link taken from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
This link made me embarrassed because I couldn't immediately identify some of the flags. I think it's time for me to go back to elementary school.
(Link taken from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
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Feb. 7th, 2006 10:35 amB* sent me this link to some bad science fiction and fantasy writing which has actually been published.
Editors must have been asleep at the wheel for some of these.
Examples-
Just to the south of them, the new Socket was like a titanic concrete bunker, the new elevator cable rising out of it like an elevator cable ...' -- Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
`Its voice was soft, gentle -- but repugnant. Like the breath of a diseased infant. It was a sound with halitosis.' -- John Shirley, In Darkness Waiting
``Susan awoke to an absolute silence: the traffic outside the hotel had been utterly stilled. John was in the bathroom -- she could hear the shower running.' -- Robert Charles Wilson, The Divide
I was pleased to see so many examples from Robert Jordan, who I think is the most cliched writer that I have ever attempted to read.
However, I was dismayed to see this entry from Connie Willis-
She could embroider and milk a cow - The Doomsday Book.
In a similar geeky vein, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] posted a link for Geeky Fantasies . (Sort of not work safe, if your workplace wouldn't like you to look at a girl in a bikini)
Editors must have been asleep at the wheel for some of these.
Examples-
Just to the south of them, the new Socket was like a titanic concrete bunker, the new elevator cable rising out of it like an elevator cable ...' -- Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
`Its voice was soft, gentle -- but repugnant. Like the breath of a diseased infant. It was a sound with halitosis.' -- John Shirley, In Darkness Waiting
``Susan awoke to an absolute silence: the traffic outside the hotel had been utterly stilled. John was in the bathroom -- she could hear the shower running.' -- Robert Charles Wilson, The Divide
I was pleased to see so many examples from Robert Jordan, who I think is the most cliched writer that I have ever attempted to read.
However, I was dismayed to see this entry from Connie Willis-
She could embroider and milk a cow - The Doomsday Book.
In a similar geeky vein, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] posted a link for Geeky Fantasies . (Sort of not work safe, if your workplace wouldn't like you to look at a girl in a bikini)
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Jan. 10th, 2006 05:11 pm Hot Lunch , linked to The Cosmetic Cop . This great website is the work of Paula Begoun, the author of the book Don't go to the Cosmetic Counter Without Me .
This is a great website, full of makeup advice, skin care tips and product ratings. She even has advice for sensitive skin types!
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Via Courtney , I read this Macleans article which claims that men are turned off by funny women . Apparently, most men like women to appreciate their humour but don't like women to be funny themselves.
I'm not sure how much I agree with this. I think the type of men that I'm attracted to have to appreciate my own humour. I need to laugh at things. I appreciate someone who makes me laugh, and I like to make them laugh in return. I've often been told that I have a rather male sense of humour as I like bawdy, raunchy jokes.
Strangely, I read this article about a week after someone tried to pick me up at the bookstore. I was helping him and his friend, and he returned a few minutes later to ask me out for coffee, "because he thought I was really funny." Take that Macleans!!
(I declined his invite, but wish I'd told him that I'm in a relationship instead of simply saying, "No.". He seemed like a nice guy, and I think it takes guts to ask a stranger out.)
This is a great website, full of makeup advice, skin care tips and product ratings. She even has advice for sensitive skin types!
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Via Courtney , I read this Macleans article which claims that men are turned off by funny women . Apparently, most men like women to appreciate their humour but don't like women to be funny themselves.
I'm not sure how much I agree with this. I think the type of men that I'm attracted to have to appreciate my own humour. I need to laugh at things. I appreciate someone who makes me laugh, and I like to make them laugh in return. I've often been told that I have a rather male sense of humour as I like bawdy, raunchy jokes.
Strangely, I read this article about a week after someone tried to pick me up at the bookstore. I was helping him and his friend, and he returned a few minutes later to ask me out for coffee, "because he thought I was really funny." Take that Macleans!!
(I declined his invite, but wish I'd told him that I'm in a relationship instead of simply saying, "No.". He seemed like a nice guy, and I think it takes guts to ask a stranger out.)
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Dec. 7th, 2005 10:38 amA day without Alexis K. is like a day without Sunshine!
Sloganize yourself!
Thanks Ron !
Particularly disturbing- Have Alexis K. your way!
Devon knows how they make Alexis K. creamy!
Sloganize yourself!
Thanks Ron !
Particularly disturbing- Have Alexis K. your way!
Devon knows how they make Alexis K. creamy!
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Sep. 1st, 2005 09:19 amTaken from several users...
This is the kind of thing that drives me absolutely crazy! Check out the links from photos in New Orleans. Notice that the white couple are "Finding" some things and the black person is "looting."
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530
To quote Angry Asian man, That's racist!
Speaking of racism, I saw a racist card at the Vancouver Public library gift store, which is where I buy a lot of my cards. The card had a little tag which read, "friends" and a drawing of a stick smiley face and an asian stick smiley face with slanty eyes and a rice hat as well as a smiley face wearing a big First Nations headdress . I voiced my disapproval to the clerk.
Me(pointing to the card)- Has anyone complained about this?
Her- No.
Me- But look at it, look at him (pointing to offensive Asian Character) Just LOOK AT HIM.
Her- No one's complained.
I just bought my purchase and left. In retrospect, I should have said, "Well, consider this a complaint. I find that card offensive."
If I go back and it's still there, I might just say more. However, at least I raised the issue.
This is the kind of thing that drives me absolutely crazy! Check out the links from photos in New Orleans. Notice that the white couple are "Finding" some things and the black person is "looting."
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530
To quote Angry Asian man, That's racist!
Speaking of racism, I saw a racist card at the Vancouver Public library gift store, which is where I buy a lot of my cards. The card had a little tag which read, "friends" and a drawing of a stick smiley face and an asian stick smiley face with slanty eyes and a rice hat as well as a smiley face wearing a big First Nations headdress . I voiced my disapproval to the clerk.
Me(pointing to the card)- Has anyone complained about this?
Her- No.
Me- But look at it, look at him (pointing to offensive Asian Character) Just LOOK AT HIM.
Her- No one's complained.
I just bought my purchase and left. In retrospect, I should have said, "Well, consider this a complaint. I find that card offensive."
If I go back and it's still there, I might just say more. However, at least I raised the issue.
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Aug. 19th, 2005 11:23 amI know that some of you have seen them, but I'm amused and terrified by Wendy MacLure's collection of Weight Watchers Recipe cards from 1974. . This "food" is fucking terrifying.
