is a blog by Brendan
Dear gentle reader: this blog has been operating continuously since I was a teenager. The writing below is at least a decade old. In that time every molecule of my body has been replaced, along with many foolish ideas and flighty beliefs. I want to keep some of those things public out of an honesty and humility I owe the world. I trust you to carry that context with you.
Afer at least a dozen different samples, the Gender Genie firmly and consistently identifies me as a girl.
Yup.
Update 1947 hrs:
Well, don’t feel anxiety about this. I went to the site and typed in a Hamlet soliloquy and guess what — Shakespeare was a girl!
Deb
Coincidentally, my farewell lunch was scheduled for the same day as Emma’s, and my last day would have been the same too–except I’m not leaving after all. I’m going to keep working here part-time, Mondays and Fridays, with class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’m counting on that break in the middle of the week forcing me to get some work done.
This wasn’t a decision lightly reached. I talked about it to three people I respect a great deal–Sumana, Maria, and (the other) Emma (from GSP 2001)–and finally came around to staying after a lot of thought. This isn’t my dream job, but it’s a good job. My next best option would be a possible opening at The Great Escape, a really neat comic / music store on Bardstown Road, but a) it’d pay less, b) I’d have to have a driver’s license and c) it wouldn’t look nearly as good on my resumé.
So I’m going to get to know the people here a little better, and I’m going to pay my crap-programming dues, and I’ll be able to breathe a little easier financially. I’m going to be putting a big chunk of my pay into a savings account every month, and that account is going to be reserved for exactly one thing–Amtrak, California, Comic Con, Stephen Maria Lisa Will (Ian?) Sumana Leonard Graham next summer. You gotta believe!
Heads up: I’m going to be moving the site soon to new digs over at PHPWebhosting. The URL and links and stuff won’t change, but if it gets weird for a while just wait, it’ll be back. Promise!
I knew this was going to happen: somebody tried to make a “good” version of the Blaster worm. Stupid dumb dumb stupid stupid! If you know enough to write a program like that, you should know a little about comp sci history, and you should know that the first worm ever created was also supposed to be “good,” and that it was a disaster that foreshadowed all the megavirus stupidity we have now.
See, there really ARE reasons to have a degree in this computer crap.
Steph W1ld Sex, As Seen 0n TV
Well, not in America, no.
(Yes, I know feng shui is so done. But as I lack any natural decorating skill, I figure it can’t really hurt to look through a free book with nice pictures.)
I’ve been lucky to have automatic deposit for my paychecks from work, because ever since we moved into the new apartment I’d been kind of worried. Living with DC, my Fifth Third branch was only a block away, but downtown I didn’t know where to find one. Eventually we learned that there was an ATM for my bank at the Kroger, maybe a couple miles away. I figured I’d just have to use that.
Then, a couple nights ago, I was looking out the darkened window of my room and finally realized what I’d been looking at for a week–the bright logo on the skyscraper that is Fifth Third’s regional headquarters, maybe a block away.
It takes me a while to catch on, sometimes, yeah.
The cool indie bookstore chain in town got bought out by Borders. The hell! This really sucks. Any bookstore in a storm, but a big nasty chain store is way down the ladder from anything locally based. I mean, Borders is the store on which Robot Stories – True Tales of Retail Hell is based. There’s not much good to say about that.
Well, actually there could be. Joseph-Beth, dude, the incumbent’s down for the count. Your move!
