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To cheer me up (I am having some problems with a project...)

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The East Bay SPCA is so overrun with cats and kittens that they are giving their adult cats out for FREE (and kittens half-off!!)

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TEMPTING THIS IS

:(

You just... print a cat coupon off their website.

One day... one day I will magically come into a large inheritance and buy a mansion be a crazy cat lady with a mansion full of cats. ONE DAY




In other news, I really need to learn that if I mail off a resume for a job I am perfectly qualified for, and I get a call back, and I do an interview, and the interviewer smiles and shakes my hand and seems very pleased and says she'll call me, it still probably means I didn't get it. learning slowly

I'm so so SO SICK of "but why do girls like yaoi/slash/the gay" BS. (I think I made a post about this before maybe?)

I'm sick of amateur internet psychology like
"It's because they're scared of their own heterosexuality"
"It's because they're scared of real men"
"It's because they're scared of the 'other woman'"

This woman decided she would make a movie on bisexuality, and she did some research on what appeals to women.

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“For heterosexual women,” a researcher, Meredith Chivers, says in a new documentary about bisexuality called “Bi the Way,” which was shown at the NewFest film festival in New York last Friday, “looking at a naked man walking on the beach is about as exciting as looking at landscapes.”

...

What really matters to women, Dr. Chivers said, ... is not the gender of the actor, but the degree of sensuality. Even more than the naked exercisers, they were aroused by videos of masturbation, and more still by graphic videos of couples making love. Women with women, men with men, men with women: it did not seem to matter much to her female subjects, Dr. Chivers said.

“Women physically don’t seem to differentiate between genders in their sex responses, at least heterosexual women don’t,” she said. “For heterosexual women, gender didn’t matter. They responded to the level of activity.”

I just hate how there are all these assumptions about sexuality being cut and dry, and mostly binary. Liking slash is still seen as some kind of weirdness. THANKFULLY it's been a long while since I've gotten any n00b "why do you only draw gay guys" comments, but I run into the attitude a lot on the doll forums because BJDs are so frequently beautiful men. It's nice to have some kind of science so at least I can say, dude, I'm not a freak.

We got another stray at work!

We get one about every two months. Either an employee finds it wandering around the parking lot, or someone brings it in because the SPCA is closed or they're scared to take it to Animal Services. This time a guy handed me a big gray unfixed pit bull with a messed-up leg that he found on the expressway. It had a long long rope tied to a collar and no tags. Shy but friendly. One of the employees is considering taking him home; another is already angling to swipe him if it doesn't work out.

I feel so left out! So many of our staff has taken an animal home that was dropped off here... it's such a poetic way of getting an animal (though not the best, I admit). I want my own little foundling! :p

The funny thing about people and their shared lives with dogs these millions of years is that so much of what we think we know about dogs comes from myths passed on down, conjecture, wild guesses, and unfounded comparisons to wolves. If you at all get into the "dog" scene, you'll probably hear a lot about "dominance" and pack this and alpha that... which is actually a lot of unsupported BS. It's hard to go into in just one entry but at work someone recently posted a neat and tidy list of top ten dog myths by Jean Donaldson, head of the SFSPCA training acadmy and trainer/behaviorist/teacher extraordinaire.

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The worst part about misinformation is when it gets spread, it's when people repeat it with an air of proud knowledgeability on the subject. That's when you know it would take moving a mountain to convince them otherwise. (I tried to respond to a post about a girl's cat's redirected aggression once and someone told me cats were pack animals. And when I disagreed, another person piped up to back her up. WHAT???) Whatever. If Ira can do sit, stay, down, stand, come, hand targeting, object targeting, spin, curtsy, wait, heel, get around, back up, crate, high-five, shake, belly-up, and figure-eights around our legs, I think we'reJoanna is doing something right.

One night, clicking on random links, I found a page on which a writer named Phillip Greenspun had written about having a computer how-to book published. Despite the text's monstrous size, I read nearly all in one sitting. This guy has a great writing style. I guess he was one of the first inernet superstarts but in this day and age, what does that mean anymore? I still think it's an entertaining read.

Macmillan also surprised me by their prudishness. First they rejected my title: "How to be a (small type) WEB WHORE (big type) just like me (small type)" [see below]. Then they took exception to a part of Chapter 5:

Sometimes the referer URL will contain the query string. The very first time I ran a referer report on a server log was on a commercial site. I was all set to e-mail it to "the suits upstairs" when I looked a little more closely at one line of the report. We were giving away "Cosmo Hunk calendars" where each month there was a picture of Fabio or something. A WebCrawler user had grabbed this page and the referer header gave us some real insight into his interests

http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=hunks+with+big+dicks&maxHits=25

I decided not to use this particular report to demonstrate my powerful new logging system.

This was way over the top as far as Angela was concerned. God forbid that someone should walk into the computer book section expecting to find yet another paean to the flawless products of the American software industry and come out with a book containing the phrase "hunks with big dicks." They couldn't even believe that I'd written it. Why had I included something so shocking?

"It is true. And it is funny," was my reply.

But I could have written something "just as true" and "just as funny". She typed in the following replacement as a placeholder:

We were giving away sports car calendars where each month there was a picture of a flashy car. A WebCrawler user had grabbed this page and the referer header showed what he was looking for.

http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=red+porsche+targa&maxHits=25

Just as true? I'm not exactly a hostage to traditional journalistic ethics but I didn't understand how something made up could be "just as true." Nor did I see how the above example was anywhere close to as funny as the executives of a $3 billion publisher seeing that "hunks with big dicks" query string right at the top of their brand new HTTP referer report.

What is up with the sudden influx of Russian serial adders? Or is it an honest to goodness surge of Russian users? I know Livejournal was bought by some Russian media tycoon not long ago but I always suspect something sinister because that's more interesting to think about.

Best Line in the Dark Knight

haha One of the best, yes.

I am MESMERIZED by this movie.

I did find it awkward however, upon second viewing, that there is absolutely no blood in it. I've never been on the business end of a shotgun but I imagine it's quite messy.

From an article about evolution from NYTimes: (I was mostly skimming until I came to this part)

The fruit fly Drosophila subobscura has been evolving bigger wings in higher latitudes in North and South America; mosquitoes that live in pitcher plants hunker down for the winter later in the year than they used to; in a forest in southern England, great tits have been shrinking (great tits are songbirds).

I love that she had to clarify what she means there!

So anyway, I watched both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight yesterday. I got to watch The Dark Knight at one of the IMAX showings. It's odd to be watching a screen so large that I have to swivel my head to see different parts of it. But it was worth it! Heath Ledger as the Joker was amazing, just like everyone says.

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HOLY SH-

Yaoi-Con has the pleasure of welcoming as Guest of Honor for 2008 the wonderful and talented Nase Yamato!

I used to buy her comics in Japantown and just sort of... try to glean the story from the pictures. ^^ Haven't kept up with the licensed stuff, but what I've seen of it, it's playful and entertaining enough to merity reading. I'm very happy about this; usually I don't care about their guests.

I have been listening to Pandora for the past month. It's a free service which uses qualities of music I like to find more music I might like. It's worked like a charm! (It's free because while I listen to music, tons of valuable market research feedback is going back to whoever is paying for it.) I've found a wealth of trip-hop, electronic, synth, and new wave music. I have favorite! new bands like Ladytron, The Knife, and Yelle. Also, there's this lady who goes by Miss Violetta Beauregarde. She has one album in her discography. All the songs are under 2 minutes long, some under one minute, and I really think she made it solely to force music cataloguing sites to print the titles:

1. Flanger When You Die
2. How To Use A Good Idea Till It Turns Into A Bad Idea
3. Adolf Hitler's Emotional Side
4. Max Cance And The Cockring Industry
5. Try To Misunderstand This One
6. I'm Wolverine And You're A Walrus And I'm Kicking Your Ass
7. Albanian On Radar (Laquiete Remix)
8. I'm The Tiennamen Square Guy And You All Are The Fucking Tanks
9. Indie Bad, Gabber Good
10. We Had A Riot Doing Diacetylmorphine
11. I Can't Believe, Hedgehogs Have A Bone Inside Their Cock
12. The Dirt Between My Feet's Fingers (A.K.A. The Reverse Delay Revenge)
13. Amelie Free Youth
14. The Unbearable Lightness Of A Farm Tractor
15. Welcome To The Land Of Quality Snare
16. The Man Who Shot At The Squirrels (A Tribute To Glenn Benton)

I'm so happy for the internet. How would I have ever found this goodness on my own??

I swear, it never fails. I hear some hip hop on the radio and think, "hey, that's kinda catchy!" So I google some lyrics to see what the song is and YouTube is and it's 90% likely to be some awful shit about how nasty bitches luuurve me and I'm rich and cool and talk about ladies in terms of their sex characteristics. And in the videos these dudes spend half the time singing and the other half ogling bouncing titties, or swiping a credit card through a woman's butt cheeks.

I thought Usher's "Yeah!" was a great song until I heard the part Ludacris raps in the middle:

And WOW! These women all on the prowl, If ya hold the head steady I'm a milk the cow.
And forget about the game I'm spit the truth, I won't stop til I get em in their birthday suits.
So gimmie the rhythm and it'll be off with their clothes, So bend over to the front and touch your toes.
I left the Jag and I took the Rolls, If they ain't cuttin' then I put em on foot patrol.
How ya like me now, when my pinky's valued over three hundred thousand,
Lets drank you the one to please, Ludacris fill cups like double d's.
Me and Ush once more and we leaves em dead, we want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed

UGGHH

I couldn't even make something like that up. It made me want to throw up. I immediately stop liking the song. How can any woman bear listening to this? (Unless she doesn't understand English.)

If you can write good* music**, it's not hard to pair it with lyrics about something other than VAGINAS and how much they want you. (And make a video Agnes likes!) Hell, you can even make a video with some bouncy boobies that I'll like. Unfortunately most rappers make at least one bouncy-tit song/vid to drive up sales. It just makes me feel dirty and disrespected to watch or listen to. I know I'm not the target audience anyway because I'm white as bread and lived most of my life in suburban areas or outside of the US, but still.


*Busta Rhymes has huge nostrils!!

**I think I recognize some of these people from my bus rides X3 Certainly, yes, this is where I live. Except "Ghost-Riding the Whip" is the most mentally deficient trend to come out of here

Also the exception to this is Ol' Dirty Bastard. I like that guy but I think we can all agree he had some mental issues to work through so maybe it wasn't his fault.

During an FDA inspection of a PETCO distribution center in April, widespread and active rodent and bird infestation was found. The FDA inspected the facility again in May and found continuing and widespread infestation. ... As a precaution, consumers who have handled products originating from the PETCO distribution center should thoroughly wash their hands with hot water and soap.

ewwwww

Although on the other hand, define "extensive", as most animal places where food is stored have mice shopping at night. :\

FUCK It was 102 F outside today, and I had to work out in what is essentially a converted parking lot from 12:30 to 5:30. And we are booked past all reasonable capacity right now. I thought I was going to die. I felt bad for the dogs, too; they do a funny two-step dance when the pavement is really hot until they find a shady spot to run to. And 75% of the yard is in the sun. :( I hate the heat. I've sometimes gotten mild heat stroke on vacations and I'm always scared I'm going to start feeling sick.

And of course because this is the TEMPARATE BAY AREA and landlords (and employers) are both cheap, none of mine or my sister's apartments have ever come with air conditioning. If it were a new condo or some chi-chi renovated bazillion-dollar rent place, sure. But no air conditioning for us! We got a bay breeze! A hot, dry bay breeze that feels like someone turned the fan on in the convection oven. Tonight I am spreadinga mat out on the floor, because being lower to the ground is worth it for those few less degrees.

I have fantasies of moving to a cooler climate... except even in places way up north, in Oregon and Washington, I hear temperatures easily hit this high inland. I'd either have to move to Alaska or to another port town, preferably with a glacier located nearby.


On a different note, our neighbors across the stairs have started letting their cat out, which is not allowed by our lease (note here: this is not the norm, and I was pleasantly surprised by it). But whatever, I ain't gonna preach or tattle, I don't care what you do with your cat. Except that now he's found the birdfeeders I hung outside on our balcony, and has started coming up here to hang out. Sasha woke me up the other day with a battle cry and his attack on the window. And when that didn't work in scaring the cat off, he started pummeling Jingle and Fred instead. (If you've had indoor cats, you may have experience with this. It's called redirected aggression.) And now this little bastard keeps coming back here! Every little noise outside, and my cats are stalking on the windowsill. Fred gets a little feisty, and Jingle doesn't care, but it turns out my most benign, gentle, sweet kitty turns into a homicidial maniac when Strange Kitty appears in his heretofore unspoilt landscape. >:( And no no no way am I closing the windows. I bought some scrap slatted doors which we might try to use as barricade later but which for now function as shades in front of my window so no one can see out. But I shouldn't have to do this.

San Francisco started marrying same-sex couples yesterday, yet amongst all the festivities and wonderful photos, all I can think about is this suit.

Mocha's killing me... all of it.

So I browse craigslist again. :(

AUGHHH
$13/hr + tips working with children (pacific heights)
Reply to: sfmanager@hairfairies.com
Date: 2008-06-16, 7:14PM PDT


$13/hr + tips working with children!

Note: Please read ENTIRE ad before applying

Hair Fairies the Headlice Helpers is Now Hiring!!

We are currently looking for a Hair Fairy Technician to join our growing team in San Francisco.

Do you even need the rest of the ad? The only perk would be to watch someone's face when I say, "I'm a Hair Fairy Technician!"

I LOVE Project Runway. I love it to bits! I decided to test the waters of reality TV which before PR I had only disdain for. I ordered America's Next Top Model on Netflix. I figured, hey, PR is sassy, catty, and fabulous, maybe the model show will be like that too.

WRONG

It was terrible! The first challenge the girls had to do was a bikini shoot, on a NYC skyscraper, in the wintertime. There was SNOW on the rooftop and winds blowing from every direction. One girl was hurting so bad she began to cry during the shoot, and the people there were like, "we shoot clothing one season ahead, this is just what models have to put up with."

The girls were weighed on camera and their weights were announced in front of everyone. One girl was the "plus size" at 5'10 and 160 lbs. What?? Until they said it I had no idea, I thought she was, you know, just a regular size model. She looked hot in a bikini. I don't get it.

But after the shoot one of the judges said right off, "she should go, I don't think America's next top model will be a plus size model!" And they all sat there ripping on the girls and their bodies and faces and hair and all that, this one is too X, this one too Y. It made me so uncomfortable to hear anyone talk about women this way, especially other women, and it's presented as a normal part of a normal industry. It was so gross. I turned off the DVD player. I can't watch this crap.

And this is one of the few (if the only?) profession where women make more than men. Eww, I feel so yucky. If men ever wonder why women are so hung up on appearances, they should watch this show (wait, no, don't give it ratings, look for it on youtube). The judging segment is very blunt but we are bombarded with more indirect messages of the same nature all the time. Still, it's so offensive to hear it put forth like that. Ugh ugh ugh, get it off me

My mom called. Dusty has cancer. TAT

Dusty was the dog we adopted when I was 13 and, with Grandma's help, had finally convinced my parents to let me have a dog. I somehow also got them to get one from a shelter instead of buying one (which is great because at the time I was really enamored with fox terriers... yikes) although back then they insisted it had to be a puppy and a male dog because adult dogs don't bond well and you can't train them and a female dog will go into heat and if she's spayed without having puppies ever then she'll have terrible health problems. We didn't find a dog to fit those particulars right off and after going to a couple places I could sense they were getting impatient so I sort of glommed onto the one dog at the adoption fair that fit the bill, even though I thought he was awful ugly back then.

But he turned out to be one of the most wonderful dogs in the wooorrrllldd... He stayed with my parents when I went to college and he's become my mom's dog. She loves him to bits.

We will probably be putting him down mid-July. He is 12 and a half now. The cancer is a malignant growth in his chest, he is mostly deaf, and he also has a mystery limp in his hind leg and has been having a fever and house-soiling accidents as well lately. So... no one really wants to try chemo or anything.

We will spend extra time with him this month, and say goodbye. :( I plan on taking lots of photos and buying him a steak dinner at Applebee's or something. (Or give him some Snapple ice tea and ice cream, like we did when we were kids! :D )

Another great guru.com project!!!

Profile ID: 966771 matches...
Title: ADULT: ORIGAMI GREETING CARD
Project ID: 410418

Category: Illustration / Cartooning / Painting / Sculpting
Description:
ORIGAMI GREETING CARD

I need to produce a greeting card out of plain white card that has a pop up look - in other words it is raised off the page.

It is a RUDE card and I want three versions of the same card please:

IT MUST BE A 3D REPRESENTATION OF A WOMAN'S INTIMATE PARTS, COMPLETE WITH HAIR AND CLITORIS - the CLITORIS MUST BE THE MOST PROTRUDING PART.

thanks

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