Be the change you want to see.

One thing I just realized re: dating people and/or searching for a satisfying sex partner.

I'm...not hetero anymore. Hetero guys ... Hm. I think i could dig a het fella if he was a little fey/Fay, witchy or genderqueer.

But I think I might see if my crush on an adorable friend of mine has any chance of going somewhere.

Wish me luck!

So, you can still select questions for me to answer...

and you can do so here for zpdiduda (who added a few interesting additional questions to her list...)
and here for morlith
and here for bodhifox
and here for weirdodragoncat
and here for aiela
and here for tshuma
and here for dangerpudding
and herefor rightkindofme
and here for karenbynight.
and here for deedeebythebay
and here for mactavish
... and here for celticmoni


I'll keep adding these links as I find them up on my friends list, because this is an AWESOME means of doing short bits of storytelling and thinky-thoughts.

... did I miss anyone else who is perpetuating this particular meme?

the xkcd comic yesterday just confirms an question I had on Monday.

They keep trying rigid containment systems on the gulf oil spill gusher. (top hat etc, talking about explosive charges to close the hole again...)

would some science-type explain to me why a flexible containment system couldn't be dropped over the top of the gusher, and then the oil directed specifically to some other containment rig? (I mean aside from the whole it's a mile down in icy cold ocean waters and the flexible material might simply freeze and break under all the pressure...)

I'm thinking of something designed like a ginormous female condom, with weights on the wide open end to drop over the gusher, a gargantuan hose (or hoses) at the end to funnel the oil, and for the container, some of those ocean-going bags full of fresh-water that some idiot was trying to sell to southern California a few years ago.

Why can't this mess be contained & channeled, at least part of the time?

(in other related news, I just had a memory of Gary Larson's mosquito-cartoon, where one mosquito is swelled up like a balloon, and the other mosquito says, "Gladys! Pull up, you've hit an artery!" Maybe that comic is more related to this topic than I realized at first.)



Feel free to forward sciency friends here, I genuinely want to understand.

Jeff's hands are starting to bother him rather a lot.

We finally have a doctor appt for Monday, but among other things he needs to re-do his workstation at home.

Geek Friends and Family all: Where to get good Geek-desks and Chairs? He's got a flatscreen monitor currently and about 3 different system hardwares that he switches between. Current desk is set up into the corner of the room, and he wants to set up a double-monitor layout that the current desk doesn't allow for.

Edit: He wants an L-shaped desk with vertical storage and a rounded-edge to the physical desktop.

Any suggestions in the greater Bay Area welcome, or online stores that are reputable and have sturdy furniture.

THANKS!!

OK, anyone familiar with Flylady and her HotSpots, I have a question for you...

feels like sometimes my Firefox browser is like a hotspot of its own. I currently have almost 5 full rows of tabs open, and that's usual for me, even when Jeff makes gentle fun of me for doing so.

I close things when I finish tasks, commenting, posting, reading, but I always seem to have too much to remember, so it's really like my desk - lots of bits of paper (hopefully) reminding me of stuff I have to finish.


Anybody else do something like this?