A Young Girl's Strange Erotic Journey From Milan to Minsk

What a Laugh

2009-11-10T13:51:27Z

I just heard about this project to create a more conservative translation of the Bible.

This is being spearheaded by the person responsible for conservapedia, which, by the way, lambasts the theory of relativity. It does, after all, reject the certainty of the Newtonian world, and relies too much on mathematical formulas. We need to get back to the more pure science of 500 years ago.

Appearing Out of Nowhere

2009-11-08T03:57:06Z

1. I was running and suddenly there was a dead deer right in my path. I couldn't see any blood anywhere, so I am not sure how it died, but that is definitely not what I wanted to see. *shudder*

2. My dad called and asked me, "What is your opinion on the construct of masculinity?"
What is my opin- what? ???
"Is it useful? Is it valid? Is it coherent?"
"Um. It is, as you said, a construct, so I don't know what you mean by 'valid,' and sure, it's useful. If you are trying to subjugate women."
"But I mean, in reality, the traits that people have are very variable, right? So the idea of 'masculinity' is not universally applicable to all men. There's variation, right?"
"Yes.... Did a group of men tell you that you weren't masculine?"
So, it turns out that he went to some "Men's Group" at church, and they kept talking about tools and hunting and sports, and were constantly emphasizing their manliness (Saying things like, "As men..."). My dad was put off by this, felt out of place, and came to the conclusion that gender must be a social construction.

It was a weird conversation.

Bad Arrangement

2009-10-22T13:23:23Z

On CNN.com, the first headline is: "Missing Florida Girl's Body Found in Georgia Landfill"
This is followed by: "Here's the dirt on how to compost"

ingridthehun @ 2009-10-20T07:52:00

2009-10-20T11:54:27Z

"...the joint should easily withstand the 100 million steps that a 50-year-old can be expected to take by their 100th birthday, says investigator Professor John Fisher."

I really look forward to the 100th birthday I will have as a 50-year-old.

Memory Gaps

2009-10-13T00:23:17Z

You know what's weird? I can't remember when wikipedia or youtube were new. I have memories from after I had already become completely dependent on them, and memories of the time before I ever heard of them, but I don't remember discovering them or thinking of them as new. I can't even figure out when I started using them! I am pretty sure that I did not know about either when I was in highschool. And I definitely know that I was a regular wikipedia user by my senior year of college (I specifically remember that Tekla relied on it to pass a course). I can't remember if Tekla and I watched any youtube videos when we were living together. Was I using youtube then? At any rate, I suppose that I started using both at some point during my first three years of college. Why I can't I remember more clearly? I remember our first computer, when I first heard of the internet, when I got my AOL account, the first time I used the internet to find info for school, when I learned about Napster, the beginning of Facebook, etc. etc. Why not wikipedia or youtube?

EDIT: I do remember watching the Evolution of Dance with Tekla at the end of senior year (2006)... and I thought there was something else too. Anyway, I was using youtube by the beginning of 2006.

ingridthehun @ 2009-10-09T10:07:00

2009-10-09T14:07:34Z

Funny: www.blackpeopleloveus.com

ingridthehun @ 2009-10-08T23:20:00

2009-10-09T03:27:23Z

"It is as if one was to prophesy that a little four-year-old girl would become a mother, and when at twenty she did so one said: 'I guessed that she would' - overlooking the fact, however, that when she was four years old one had tried to rape the girl, in the belief that she would become a mother even then."

Wow. Gramsci, you're hot, but you have to work on your analogies. Not that I don't enjoy thinking about proletarian revolutions in terms of child molestation...

ingridthehun @ 2009-10-04T10:41:00

2009-10-04T14:46:58Z

In Wikipedia's "Influence and Interpretations of The Matrix" entry, there is a whole section devoted to science, wherein the scientific basis of the movie is evaluated and all sorts of attempts are made to improve it's scientific accuracy (e.g. the characters didn't realize that the machines were not really using their bodies for energy, but were using their brains to create a neural network computer). Are you kidding me??? Who actually thinks like this? You're totally trapped in the matrix, dude! Open your mind!

ingridthehun @ 2009-09-24T19:28:00

2009-09-24T23:40:19Z

I'm addicted to these videos of the P.S. 22 school chorus on youtube. Partly, I just love watching the faces of these little kids as they sing, but they're also very impressive. My middle school chorus could barely harmonize.

I like this one.

And this one.

Lisa will like this one.

This one only because of the little kid playing the piano.

I wish I had such a deliciously flamboyant music teacher.

Life, Limited

2009-09-19T00:33:50Z

My inner biology wants me to be happy right now. A mixture of fall weather and hormones or something. But I have to spend the evening reading a book about Islamic banking.

"If an Islamic bank is structured using profit-and-loss sharing contracts rather than interest-bearing debt, it will have a liquidity problem if depositors/investors seek to withdraw their money in a hurry..."

Sorry, whatever is inside of me wanting to be happy. You lose.

(By the way, that is a very clever subject line, but you wouldn't know unless you suffered through a book about Islamic banking....)

ingridthehun @ 2009-09-11T22:23:00

2009-09-12T02:26:10Z

Sometimes the comments people make on the internet baffle me. Like this:

Zac6230

Marked as spam

women have it made in the shade

elbob17

Marked as spam

But their eye socket is one sweet hole to fuck.

??????

ingridthehun @ 2009-09-02T16:33:00

2009-09-02T20:34:22Z

Overheard today: "Coke Zero is the like the more manly version of diet Coke."

ingridthehun @ 2009-08-29T01:12:00

2009-08-29T05:13:18Z

I was just searching for something on JSTOR, and found the following title: "College Students' Attitudes Toward Elderly Sexual Behavior." Wow.

ingridthehun @ 2009-08-25T20:32:00

2009-08-26T00:44:14Z

I had kind of decided that I wouldn't be able to go to the AAA (American Anthropological Association) annual meeting in Philly this year. I feel like I just don't have any extra money to spare, what with my teaching salary being less than my stipend last year, and all the stupid fees I now have to pay. But my advisor told me to I should really go, and just try to sneak in without paying the conference fee. Still, there's the plane ticket and everything... I need to find out if anyone's driving. I know I can't miss all the important conferences, but they don't pay me enough!!

Hot Hot Hot

2009-08-11T02:19:26Z

Yesterday some woman kept coming to my door and complaining about the noise my air conditioner (the box located behind my apartment) was making. I couldn't figure out how she could be so bothered by a noise that I couldn't even hear, even though it was much closer to me. Then, later in the evening I noticed that it was not working.

Maintenance was supposed to come by today to fix it, but clearly did not. To make matters worse, a number of days ago, just as I got out of bed and sat down with my morning cup of coffee, I heard hammering and drilling at the window I was sitting in front of. Nice way to start the day. Whatever maintenance did to my windows, I am completely unable to open them now. Needless to say, I am BOILING!

Animals

2009-08-07T13:48:46Z

The worst place for a bird to have explosive diarrhea: ALL OVER MY CAR DOOR HANDLE! Please rain.

Also, thanks to the Daily Show, this image of a squirrel with a yogurt can stuck on its head completely made my day.

I'm CURSED!

2009-08-02T18:33:51Z

I was just thinking, I sure hope I stay infestation free this fall. The fleas last year were horrible.

Then I got a call from my mom. She confirmed today that they have bed bugs. They have been having the problem since the end of June. Right around the time we got back from DC. Where we shared a room together. Yick. But the worst part is, I was just over there in Canton and got a series of odd bug bites last week. A line of three on my left leg and a line of four on my right. They turned into welts that were so itchy I had to take benedryl pills. And wouldn't you know, bed bug bites match that description. So far since I've been back in Bloomington I haven't noticed anything, but if they traveled from my parents' bed to the guest room bed, there's a good chance they could have gotten into my suitcase too.

I swear, if I have ANOTHER infestation ...

Today's "Featured Article" On Wikipedia

2009-07-09T02:00:57Z

"Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street's function, or the economic activity taking place within it."

They do have interesting choices...

ingridthehun @ 2009-06-30T16:13:00

2009-06-30T20:14:37Z

Can you report someone for bad driving? Say, severe tailgating, illegal passing, and road rage? I want people like that off the road!

ingridthehun @ 2009-06-27T16:16:00

2009-06-27T20:18:41Z

The more progress I make with my reading list, the more unoriginal my own ideas start to seem. I'm going to have nothing left pretty soon.

ingridthehun @ 2009-06-25T22:50:00

2009-06-26T03:12:06Z

Man, with Michael Jackson's death, I've never seen my NPR music gadget updated so frequently!

I don't think my body is able to handle heat very well. Its seems that near or above 100 degrees I can start feeling sick. It's been very hot in Bloomington lately, and I felt very nauseous today. I tried to drink as much as I could, but earlier in the day I could barely get any liquids down without extreme discomfort. I kept forcing myself to drink, and eventually, when I was able to drink larger amounts, I started to feel better. It reminded me of one particularly hot day in DC last year, except that time it was over 110 degrees, I think. I'll take a nice, crisp 30 degree day over this heat.

Driver's Ed

2009-06-07T03:26:03Z

I was looking at this driver's ed manual last night, and it reminded me of all the principles we learned that have subsequently proved irrelevant to my actual practice of driving for the past 9 years. For instance, there was that 5 step principle of risk assessment (named authoritatively after someone, like "Johnson" or something, as if it required any investment of intellectual labor). You were suppose to identify all hazards as you drove, evaluate the risks posed by each, decide on a course of action, and implement that decision, and then assess the effectiveness of your action. That's not for me. I use a one step process that I call instinct. I think it is more efficient than a process that requires three steps before you actually do anything. Another thing I never understood was railroad track protocol. When I had my driver's test, I was reprimanded because I did not stop and look both ways when I was on the track. But I figured, in the event that that whole warning system, with the bells and flashing lights and the giant bar that comes down, if it were to fail, and the train happened to be gliding silently along the track so that no one could hear it, and I had already made it onto the railroad tracks, I think at that point, stopping, and watching the train glide into my car would not help me. "Wow, there's a train heading right for my car! I'm so glad I stopped and looked out my window so that I can see it hit me! ...I mean, imagine if I hadn't, and was no longer on the tracks when the train passed..." Same thing with the yellow light at an intersection. Slow down? Are you kidding me? "Oh, the light's about to change! I should linger around in the intersection a while." If the light is about to turn red and other lanes of traffic are going to start moving in paths that intersect with mine, clearly, I want to hang around and obstruct it.

But the thing that really confounded me was "defensive driving." What kind of a slogan is that? What does it mean? I think it's a big misnomer. I mean, first of all, what would its opposite be? Is there really such a thing as offensive driving? "That woman looks like she might cut me off and thus put me in danger. I'll ram her off the road to prevent that from happening!!" Second, do we really want to describe good driving with a term which always implies some kind of antagonistic conflict with another person? "Defense" entails some direct, active response to the aggressive provocation of someone else. If someone threatens you and you back away or run off in another direction, thereby terminating the confrontation, no one is going to tell you, "Wow, you did a great job defending yourself!" Avoidance is not defense. But when you drive, the whole goal is avoidance! Furthermore, if you think about it in terms of sports, offense is actually preferable. Offense is working single-mindedly toward a goal. Defense has no goal, no aim, other than to thwart those of others. Is that really how you should drive? "She thinks she's going to make it to work on time? Not if I swerve in front of her and force her to hit me!!" In that sense, the only people who should drive defensively are the police when they are involved in a car chase. Intercepting the culprit's "breakaway" by laying down spikes and shooting out their tires. Now that's defensive driving! And I don't even think it's such a great idea when the police do it.

I can think of dozens of phrases that are better than "defensive driving." Safe driving. Cautious driving. Careful driving. Alert driving. Attentive driving. Who on earth would settle for defensive driving?

I Think I'm Pretty Good At This Game

2009-06-06T22:30:52Z

This totally beats my sporadic, casual musings about people who look like Foucault. http://michaelpollanormichelfoucault.blogspot.com/

ingridthehun @ 2009-06-04T19:09:00

2009-06-04T23:10:20Z

Today I saw someone on the bus who looked exactly like the Geiko caveman. It was the best day of my life.

ingridthehun @ 2009-05-18T09:55:00

2009-05-18T13:56:20Z

We were advised by the head of the department to deal with student cell phone usage like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1wxx5PPrA4