Archives for July 2015

Fat shaming of women – I’m tired of it

Article about an overweight female blogger (opens in a new window) You go, Girl! Regular size (aka plus size) women rock, and they certainly do not need any negativity about their body size. I'm hoping more and more women start to think more positively about their bodies. Please do not be ashamed or embarrassed about your body - whatever size you are, you are beautiful. And, to those idiot males … [Read more...]

Garbage disposal

Feeling a bit dumb. Garbage disposal jammed. Immediately tried the broomstick method a couple of times, no luck. Didn't want to make it worse by frying the motor so I left it alone while I scratched my head. Finally goggled it, found a video showing the hole in the bottom of the unit, where you insert an allen/hex wench to turn the blades, which, of course, unjammed it in, like, 2 seconds - if … [Read more...]

BusinessWeek devotes double issue to “computer programming”

Not my quote: “It’s no longer acceptable to be ignorant about the ways it <BSW: "software"> works,” he said. “If everybody brought the same ignorance about software to medicine, it would be insane, we would be mocked.” “Software is a completely different discipline and we wanted to help to demystify it for the world that doesn’t think that way. What if you explain code in the same way you … [Read more...]

Gay rights, Stonewall, & President Obama

Please read this man's letter to the president dated March, 2013, and also read the president's response dated Nov, 2013. People have asked me to repost the letter that I read last night at the Pride Rally. When I finished reading it there was a tremendous round of applause. I cut them off by saying "Wait, here is the icing on the cake, President Obama wrote me back." As far as I know this is … [Read more...]