A few things I do. Never put anything in a seat-back pocket unless you're willing to walk away from it. For me, this means magazines, snacks, and miscellaneous rubbish go in the seat-back pocket on …
Ramble ramble ramble, in rather an autumnal tradition. Leonard and I bought a new wall clock Saturday. The thing about living in a super walkable but not absolutely gentrified neighborhood (that is to say, our …
(The LiveJournal/Dreamwidth user community use this title & format a lot; am borrowing from them.) Freddie Mercury's video for "The Great Pretender" doesn't just use clips from previous Queen videos; it visually quotes them by …
By now dozens of women have stepped into open source via Outreach Program for Women, a paid internship program administered by the GNOME Foundation. I recently asked several of them whether they had been able …
From Susan McCarthy, specifically from her great book Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild. Animals learn about individuals through play. If little coyotes cheat, the other pups won't play …
Things that have crossed my screen recently and I find worth sharing. Hum de dum. Mel Chua on a single microcosm of the experience of being deaf. Sarah Sharp, very sensibly, suggesting we speed up …
It might be good for the world, though temporarily stressful for one's marriage, to edit an anthology together, as Leonard and I discovered when we created and published our speculative fiction anthology Thoughtcrime Experiments together …
Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. -- Jorge Luis Borges Goddammit why won't this work OK, fine, screw the venv, I'll …
I've been listening to podcasts recently. The ones that come to mind: I love programming/sysadmin case studies, I love women's perspectives, and I'm swinging back into listening to podcasts. Christie Koehler's and Kevin Purdy's discussions …
I'm writing these words while I ride the New York City subway. I love the subway because my fellow riders look like the world. I'm rarely the only woman and I'm never the only nonwhite …
