impudent strumpet

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Friday, October 31, 2008

Calling adults "girls"

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Quite a few times I've heard middle-aged men (for some reason it's only ever middle-aged men) express confusion/frustration/anger th...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

How to dress Betty Suarez

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I'm not too thrilled with the wardrobe person on this season of Ugly Betty, because they have Betty dressed so ridiculously. It should ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Things They Should Study: body language a sociolinguistic perspective

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I don't wink. The best way I can describe why is to say that it isn't part of my active vocabulary (even though it isn't actual...

Pacing

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I decided to see how much I pace. I'm working at home today, so I put on my pedometer when I turned on my computer at 7:30 a.m. Now it...

Sex and gender questions in Star Trek

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1. In an early episode of DS9, Sisko gets mad at Dax and says something like "If you were still a man..." with the implication th...

I can't even get down to the gym!

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Okay, fine, here's a real election night drinking game

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I'm getting a lot of hits from people looking for election night drinking games, so I made one that's applicable to any election. In...
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Things Blogger Should Invent: Delete Draft function on the Create Post page

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I started writing a post, but it wasn't going anywhere so I stopped. However, in the meantime, Blogger had autosaved a draft. Now that...

The Daily Puppy widget on my igoogle page keeps giving me puppies that are so cute I just have to share

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Itty bitty bitty puppy standing in the grass. Awesome puppies running.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Things They Should Invent: indoctrinate children in boosting their peers' self-esteem

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When I was a kid I had no self-esteem, mostly as a result of the way I was treated by my peers. Now I have better self-esteem (I'm hesi...

Teleprompters

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On TV news shows, when the newsreader is reading off a teleprompter, who wrote the stuff that appears on the teleprompter?

Open Letter to lexicographers everywhere

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Dear lexicographers, especially lexicographers of multilingual dictionaries: You need to include profanity in your dictionaries. Why? Beca...

Shiba Inu!

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This is a Shiba Inu puppy. I'd never heard of that breed before, but I think it might be my new favourite (insofar as I might have favou...
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Things Gmail Should Invent: recognize the word "spoilers"

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In Gmail's inbox view, you can see the first line of every message. Usually this is convenient, but if the email contains spoilers you ...
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What if xmas decorations cause SAD?

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I think the earlier I see xmas stuff in stores, the more the darkness affects me. It's really getting to me this year (yes, already - y...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

An observation

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I have been told that I should cut off and donate my hair about ten times as often as I have been told that I should donate blood.
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Things They Should Invent: long hair compatible vacuums

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Whenever I vacuum, I always end up with hair entangled around my vacuum brushes, which I then have to clean off. Why can't they design a...
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Why does high school still matter to Betty Suarez?

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Several times on Ugly Betty there have been plot points involving her baggage from high school. She's mentioned a couple times like it ...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

My hair is mocking me

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My hair line is square and I hate that. Like there are actual right angles at the top corners of my face, and it looks disgusting and butch...
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