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Stuff.

This is true, you do have to look. I know many girls who are into comics, rpgs, and movies. Pretty much ALL of my female friends are like this, minus the few who prefer other things to rpgs and comics.

[0bsessions]

Guys! I have figured out how to fix the economy!

Okay, I am proposing a massive public works project for Boston. Public works projects create jobs.

Boston City Hall was just named as the world's ugliest building. I propose we bulldoze it and build a fifteen story statue of two dudes making out with middle fingers raised towards California. Adjacent to this statue will be a seven story tall statue of another dude blowing them, his hands will be catwalks to the other buildings. We can put the City Hall municipal offices in these buildings. The two dudes will be high fiving, thus making for an excellent view of the surrounding cityscape.

Aside from the job creation of this project, people will come from the world over to see the Two Dudes Making Out statue, thus funneling money into the local economy.

Yes, we can!

[Ozymandias]

So, I'm in Austin right now for Supercomputing Conference '08 as a student volunteer.

Today was one of the most awesome days in my CS career. This year is the 20th anniversary of the conference and as such. they have a big history display- and I got to help set it up.

I got to stand in the middle of a Cray-1. Not just a Cray-1, in fact. Cray-1 S/N 1. The very first one delivered to Los Alamos in 1976.

I flipped through the pages of one of Seymour Cray's actual hand-written journals.

I hurt my knee on a blade from a Cray C90.

I deftly maneuvered a node from ASCI Purple into a class case.

I assembled a mobo from ASCI Q.

Tomorrow a triblade from Roadrunner comes in. I will simultaneously be 10 feet away from the first general-purpose supercomputer ever built and part of the fastest one running today.

I'm on a nerd high right now.

[Dazed]

0bsessions, I approve. I approve so very very much. Would be even better if the 3 guys were Boston celebs. I'm thinking Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg.

[nobo]

One of my coworkers (my old manager actually) read the book The Game, he thought it was a great way to pick up women. But when it didn't work for him, he didn't realize it was because he can be a genuinely nice guy

It doesn't work for him because the whole pick up artist thing is bullshit. Just read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Method and see what sort of person actually believes this garbage

I believe there is also a set of girls who will use a Nice Guy as an emotional punching bag, because a lot of guys will try to sit and listen to a girls problems if they think it'll help them have a relationship (because communication is key, you see). But then in the long run, it doesn't help at all.

So a guy will try to establish friendship at the chance of an attraction and then be upset when the girl doesn't want to be more than friends? that seems more selfish than what you are accusing the girls of doing.

[nobo]

that comic was fine

this one is funnier
http://theniceguycomic.com/comics.htm

[0bsessions]

Yeah, that was actually pretty crap and plays into pretty much exactly what everyone's been saying you shouldn't do.

[20 jazz funk greats]

people will come from the world over to see the Two Dudes Making Out statue

i sure would.

oh, and can we please not discuss the stupidity that is the mystery method here or anywhere else actually.

all of these discussions eventually devolve into some dude whining because it hasn't gotten his repulsive ass laid, and some other dudes being all HURRR YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. or sometimes, it will go off on a tangent regarding the hotness of the girl in question. "oh she's only a 6, no wonder it doesn't work", etc. cringe.

[Dazed]

I almost chuckled at one of those comics 

[Jimmy the Squid]

This "mystery method" makes me think of dudes putting on big black capes and swinging around the city on ropes suspended from buildings, leaving thoughtful yet intriguing gifts for the objects (not that ladies are objects) of their desire. As the ladies look up into the night sky they might see a fluttering of the cape as the gentleman in question swings gracefully away to find the a bunch of wildflowers to leave at her door. As the edge of his cape disappears behind a building the lady will think "My! He's so Mysterious!"

This is one of the most amusing thoughts I've had all week so please, please nobody tell me what the real mystery method is.

Also I've been looking for a new job that is a little bit more secure than what I'm doing now and one of the places I applied to, the place that HOUSEMATE X works at, called me yesterday and they want me to come in for an interview on tuesday. I'm a little worried about my Novembeard scruff but I'm fairly certain they will think it is "awesome" and "hip" and "out-there" (which is what the company purports itself to be) if I explain it in terms of the Movember charity thing.

[nobo]

This "mystery method" makes me think of dudes putting on big black capes and swinging around the city on ropes

haha. you don't know how accurately you've just described Mystery

[David_Dovey]

To pull the veil back that little bit more, this is Mystery:



suave

[Tom]

What a douche.

[nobo]

on a slightly different note, are any of you watching the pistons/lakers game? I never realized how awesome of a basketball player allen iverson is.

[KickThatBathProf]

Psssssssssssssssssssh.  No one watches basketball. There's only about a minute and a half of worthwhile entertainment

[nobo]

That may be true. But i'm a huge Rasheed Wallace fan, so i catch the pistons whenever i can

[Spluff]

SBS is having a Stanley Kubrick week. Yesssss

Unfortunately, I have exams during this week, but hey, they're only year 11 exams. I can afford to sacrifice them for the sake of damn good movies.

[Tom]

Seeing as I have assessments all this week, I shall have to tape them.

[Dimmukane]

Beer Fiery,

I have got to stop watching so many damn depressing movies.  I have never been this consistently mopey before, it's got to stop.

[jodizzle]

Dearest thread of bloggles,

So today my parents told me that a dude in my hometown (where they still live) died in a car accident on Thursday.  He was like, a year older than me, and I have known him since  primary school.  It isn't a big deal to me though, because I havn't really seen him for like 5 years, but it has totally shaken up the whole town (there are like 300 people, like 3 giant families and everyone is really close) and I think it has affected my parents pretty badly.  they are volunteers with the rural fire brigade and the SES and so they had to help get his body out of the car etc.  Everyone down there is in like total shock, and it is the 3rd fatal vehicle accident in the area in the last month and a half.  in a place that tiny that is a Big Deal.

Apparently all the young peeps in town are completely on edge and people are expecting drunken brawls ahoy at the wake!  Sure am glad I don't live there anymore.


(Has anyone noticed the ongoing theme of death/almost death in my bloggles of late? jesus).

[0bsessions]

Also I've been looking for a new job that is a little bit more secure than what I'm doing now and one of the places I applied to, the place that HOUSEMATE X works at, called me yesterday and they want me to come in for an interview on tuesday. I'm a little worried about my Novembeard scruff but I'm fairly certain they will think it is "awesome" and "hip" and "out-there" (which is what the company purports itself to be) if I explain it in terms of the Movember charity thing.

Come work for the Two Dudes Making Out Statue public works project in Boston!

[David_Dovey]

I'm sure I will get the bug and want to go out and rave again soon (I am being abandoned by The Girl tonight and the Bang Gang Deejays are having a party so maybe tonight?).

Yeah so this sold out and also I am ooooold so here I am on the Inter net instead. I am thinkin it is a Spiritualized and Kid A and Ambient Works II and scotch kinda night.

EDIT: So I was just thinking to myself while I was poopin' just then and I came to the realisation that the only reason I am not really lazy is because I am in fact I am really really lazy i.e; I will only weasel out of doing something if it convenient for me to do so.

[valley_parade]

Psssssssssssssssssssh.  No one watches basketball. There's only about a minute and a half of worthwhile entertainment

The idea is to watch the Celtics. Even when the game is boring, Tommy Heinsohn is bound to say something that screams "senile old guy", and then give out Tommy Points.

[Lines]

Psssssssssssssssssssh.  No one watches sports. There's no real entertainment.

Better.

I had a fun night last night! And I met new people! Yaaaaay!

[valley_parade]

No entertainment in sports?

Some dude getting punched in the face ten times isn't entertaining?

(Actually, Jack Edwards' call is more entertaining than the fight)

[Lines]

The only entertainment I usually find in sports is playing them, but considering I'm horrible at most sports, no, they aren't. Watching people run back and forth is not very interesting until there's some blood.

[J-cob9000]

bwah.
Friends want me to do track with them. I'm scared of the evil dykes that do nothing but exercise. They're scary. For real. If it wasn't for them, I'd do it but I dunno. I think I'll run a bit at home first maybe.
I really want to get in shape.

Hi! If you're referring to people who're genuinely lesbians who exercise a lot and take pleasure in the pain of others, then please continue. Otherwise, please take your homophobic insults elsewhere. Thanks!

Hi! That's not what I meant.
I mean the manly, non-lesbians, straight girls who have bigger muscles than their boyfriends and run faster. They enjoy picking on out of shape people such as myself.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Thanks!

[Barmymoo]

Please don't use the word "dyke" to refer to anything other than one of these.

Today I cried at work again but I also had a good time and earned moneys and got some sleep! And tomorrow I have the day off. Things are good! That is all.

[tania]

the manly, non-lesbians, straight girls who have bigger muscles than their boyfriends and run faster

hey, that's me! i still find that kind of offensive! care to explain what exactly you have against girls like this?

[tania]

hey this is pretty good timing blog thread because today i finally lopped all my hair off and into a faux hawk and it looks pretty wicked!

i don't have a camera but just imagine a beautiful head of hair and that'll probably be accurate enough.

[0bsessions]

Hi! That's not what I meant.
I mean the manly, non-lesbians, straight girls who have bigger muscles than their boyfriends and run faster. They enjoy picking on out of shape people such as myself.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Thanks!

Dude, are you just incapable of learning a lesson? Weren't you practically run off the forum for pulling this same idiotic shit months ago? Are you and idiot or just a douche?

[Tom]

As it turns out, neither is mutually exclusive.

[Slick]

Dude just doesn't get it. Calling him a douche is not going to help.

To spell it out, the problem with using dyke like that is that it is often used as an extremely negative term for lesbians. When it shows up as in the phrase 'evil dykes' people are offended because it conveys a certain attitude towards homosexuals which most of us here think is entirely inappropriate. It also kind of reinforces the stereotype that women should not be muscly.
For future reference, it'd probably be better to just use call them 'butch exercisaholics' or 'sadist-masochist exercisers'.
We understand you're probably not a gay-hating woman-basher, but your choice of language coupled with the fact that you're pretty much a stranger here is causing you to look pretty bad. Sexism and homophobia are still serious issues in the world today, so some people can get upset when people use offensive terminology.

[Gemmwah]

I don't like it when people say "dyke" because it makes me feel like I should be ashamed of myself.

Okay that's totally a lie but if I was the kinda girl that ever felt shame, it would totally make me feel ashamed.

ETA: Blogga blogga bloooooggg,
My copy of Wrath of the Lich King arrived today.
See you in a few weeks.

[jhocking]

All this talk about dykes is reminding me that I haven't finished reading the New York magazine article about Rachel Maddow.

[tania]

i know some gay folk who do not object to being called dykes. however, calling someone a dyke is still up to the specific gay person in question and not you.

see to me the problem is that if someone's being a dick to you, the fact that they're also athletic ladies who (apparantly) look gay probably doesn't need to be brought up in the first place cos it doesn't really have anything to do with it. details like this kind of make you look like a sexist homophobic asshole. keep it in mind!

[jodizzle]

Tania I really badly want to see your hair, I bet it looks hot as.

[David_Dovey]

Tania. Photo thread. Now.

or as soon as is convenient for you, i guess

[tania]

no camera you guys! i know i suck. tommy even gave his old one to me when he visited last summer cos i constantly complained about not having a camera and the usb port somehow broke really shortly after while i wasn't looking. it just wasn't meant to be.
maybe i will try to steal my housemate's camera next time she is out. i will do it just for you, internet.

[jhocking]

I'm not sure I have a right to complain about anything ever again.

[Slick]

Linked to from that article: A man did not get pregnant.
I have a friend actually presently undergoing hormone therapy in preparation for becoming a man. Sometimes I stumble on how to refer to him/her but generally I am pretty thrilled for her (I still think of her as a her, presumably eventually I will think of her as a him). If someone identifies with a gender which is not that of their birth, that is their business and I don't like the kind of dismissive tone in that article towards sex-changed people, but I agree with the sentiment that it's not really big news that this person is pregnant again.
Still, with nothing but happy congratulations on their family, there are more important things out there and it's not nearly as big a deal is the headline makes it sound.

[tania]

there is a difference between sex and gender (sex referring to biological characteristics and gender referring to social constructs) and while i do agree with the point the article's making, the dismissive tone does bug me as well because there is that difference that most people don't really seem to acknowledge. biologically, this person is technically female but that doesn't mean the fact that he now identifies as male needs to be trivialized to the degree that this article did. regardless of his biological sex, the fact that he identifies as male and also had a child is frankly an absolutely remarkable societal achievement towards promoting acceptance of transgender individuals.

a friend of mine is also in the process of transitioning from female to male and initially he got heaps of comments from my friends along the lines of "well, you keep calling him a guy but he's not REALLY a guy, he's still got girl parts." in this case i ignored it and politely explained the situation cos i know most of them has never dealt with a transgendered person before. in terms of sex, he's female but in terms of gender he's male. since gender is the social construct, it's what everyone should be referring to him as. there are lots of other ways in which this gets all wishy washy and more black and white than it really should be, like how some states will not change your legal sex if you are transgender unless you get the genital surgery, even though there are quite a lot of trans individuals who really don't want genital surgery for their own reasons. i think it's neat to think about gender identity in terms of multiple dimensions instead of just the biological one.

[Slick]

I've had sex vs. gender explained to me a few times but usually forget the difference. I think of 'her' as a 'her' because when I met 'her' she was a 'her'. She's been projecting male for a good long while now.
The whole business of hims and hers throws me for a loop because I usually just want a simple factual statement that doesn't have to deal with the nuances and subtleties of gender and sex. Usually I'll just use their name instead of a him or her.

Side note: While reading on sex reassignment surgery, I crossed Billy Tipton's page. I found the first two paragraphs (all I've read) hilarious because clearly the author(s) could not decide to use a him or a her and consequently 'Tipton' appears way too many times.

[öde]

A widely accepted gender-neutral pronoun would be super.

[tania]

experience tells me that the best thing you can probably do in any scenario with someone who's transitioning is to just ask them what they'd like to be referred to as. kind of awkward but probably a lot more polite than just making your own assumption, which might be a lot more upsetting depending on how sensitive a topic it is for them.

[Slick]

I think I'm really just upset because I can't make a compound word out of she and he. Like, I wouldn't use it to actually refer to anyone, but I love compound words in speculative discussion.

[BrittanyMarie]

There's always ze! or ve!

[E. Spaceman]

I refer to people by the name they give to me. It prevents most misunderstandings!

[Scarychips]

A widely accepted gender-neutral pronoun would be super.

It?

[Tom]

Lets take a moment to think about the connotations attached to "it"....