Not Intended For Children
Dear Chicago Public Library, This isn’t a children’s book. You are making a terrible mistake. Via Harold’s blog Not Intended For Children from Simpson's Paradox The post Not Intended For Children...
View ArticleI Heart Chaos — New What Would I Say? app
Surprising no one, I make a pretty snarky bot. New What Would I Say? app pulls and respins your Facebook updates into new updates. Think Darius Kazemi’s @TwoHeadlines mashup bot on Twitter, but...
View ArticleSolstice Flowers
Is it spring yet? Solstice Flowers from Simpson's Paradox The post Solstice Flowers appeared first on Simpson's Paradox.
View ArticleA Little Cheating on ‘The Facebook Diet’
Very often I’ll write something that I think is perfectly clear, and be amazed by what readers take away from it. Sometimes this is educational for me, and helps me improve my work by discovering areas...
View Article“The All-You-Can-Dream Buffet” by Barbara O’Neal
The All-You-Can-Dream Buffet, by Barbara O’Neal, tells the story of four food bloggers meeting for the first time in person to celebrate an 85th birthday, although each woman is going through a rough...
View ArticleBiblical Numerology
My mom recently inherited some kind of special flatware (sorry, forks all look like forks to me) from my dad’s side of the family, and asked me to check and make sure there are enough for all the...
View Article‘School’ By Hunter Gardner
New story up on The Absolute, discussing Hunter Gardner’s School. The upcoming novel School by Hunter Gardner explains that there is so little to do in North Carolina that one might become a major drug...
View ArticleI Guess I Could Read The Walltext
I enjoy going to the museum with Harold — I like both Harold and art museums very much — but we go off in opposite directions immediately. There is almost no overlap in our interests here. I wave him...
View ArticleJPodding
So it turns out that I don’t love JPod as much as I previously thought. Sure, there was a completely genius part where our hero, Ethan, can’t quit his job because he’s been kinda-sorta-promised a...
View ArticleEnjoying It Wrong
Some days, it’s hard to like things. I’m super excited about this latte! I say, and the internet laughs back at me, a stupid (white, thirtyish) lady with my cliched Starbucks drink. Dumb for enjoying...
View ArticleStatus: It’s Complicated
My work is starting to decorate for Christmas. Most (maybe all?) of the Jewish staff happen to work in my room, so naturally we were joking around about putting up a menorah or a Hanukkah Bush. “I...
View ArticleIn Praise of Acceptable
I did some perfectly acceptable work recently, and I’m pretty thrilled about it. It’s not so difficult to write something great when I have a great topic, and time and space for creativity, and I’m...
View ArticleZe, zir, zim: An Extended Metaphor
Transgender and genderfluid identities are quite outside my experience, actually, so are most queer identities, since my own questioning phase was more about where can I find handsome boys, which boy...
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