Catching Ducks

An Australian newspaper recently published an article on bisexuality.

Interesting stuff, in particular that bisexuals "have less support from family and friends than do gay or straight people".

Some of the interviewed people complain about the label of "bisexual", which I've heard before and disagree with. Even if other people have weird expectations of what a "bisexual" is, I still think it best describes my orientation. The article also spends a lot of time talking to people who don't like labels, which I find annoying. We're humans; it's our nature to label and catergorize. We bi's just need to make other people accept "bisexual" as a category.

Labels: GLBT

Baking cookies you know you can't eat.

The smell alone makes me crazy!

Labels: food

From The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton:


Edward: I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while.
Anita: Did you take it?
Edward: Would I be calling you if I had?
Anita: Maybe.
Edward: True, but I'm not going to take it.
Anita: Why not?
Edward: Friendship.
Anita: Try again.
Edward: I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you.

Labels: books, scifi/fantasy

I read somewhere that the reason Seattle bus shelters have such beautiful glass artwork is to prevent vandalism. They used to have plain sheets of glass, but vandals would scratch grafitti on them. Now the glass already has pictures, so the vandals don't use it.

I think it's interesting that something so pretty could be the solution to something so ugly.

Labels: random niceness

This week: The last scene of "Lie to Me" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.



Buffy: It'd be simpler if I could just hate [Ford]. I think he wanted me to. I think it made it easier for him to be the villain of the piece. Really he was just scared.
Giles: Yes, I suppose he was.
Buffy: Nothing's ever simple any more. I'm constantly trying to work it out. Who to love, or hate; who to trust. It's just like the more I know, the more confused I get.
Giles: Well, I believe that's called growing up.
Buffy: I'd like to stop then, okay?
Giles: I know the feeling.
Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah. Does it get easy?
Giles: What do want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true; the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and we always defeat them and save the day! No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.

Labels: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A couple of days ago I went to the beach. It was quite nice. Lacking in critters, but otherwise fun.

Growing up in the Seattle area, this is my idea of what a "beach" looks like:



I took a lot of pictures. Here's one of my favorites:




I took a few pictures just for Pedicularis. Here's one for you, Ped!

Labels: travel

I put it in my mashed potatoes the other night. Yum! It made the potatoes pink!

Err... "lightish red".

Labels: food, Red vs. Blue

It's all Soto's fault. It's summer: I'm supposed to watching "The 4400" and the first season DVD of "Veronica Mars" that I got for Christmas (ironically enough, from Soto!).

Instead, I'm watching (and re-watching, and watching again) "Red vs. Blue". It's ridiculously addictive. It's insanely fun. It's ridiculous and insane. Here's a quote:


Sarge: Grif, Donut, go stand in the way of [the Blue army's] bullets while me and Simmons 2.0 sneak around the back to grab Lopez.
Donut: Sounds like a plan!
Grif: No, it doesn't. How about this time we try something that doesn't involve me being shot at or run over.
Simmons: Would electrified be ok?
Grif: No!
Simmons: Well, I'm out of ideas.

Labels: Red vs. Blue, Veronica Mars

Guilt's a funny thing.

I was invited to go somewhere tonight. I knew I didn't want to go. I knew I would be (for various reasons) very uncomfortable. I had absolutely no problem politely declining. And yet...

As I was driving home, I felt guilty for not going! My former roommate called this sort of thing "stupid guilt".

Stupid guilt. Go away! You're not wanted here anymore.

Labels: health

Recently I discovered a second-run movie theater just a couple of miles from my house. Tickets are less than half of a matinee ticket! I saw one movie tonight and I'm going to see another tomorrow.

On the subject of movie theaters, why is popcorn the traditional snack? It's very noisy.

Labels: food, movies

I've been watching a lot of "The Kids in the Hall" lately, so here's an excerpt from one of their sketches:


Darcy: So, you're Italian?
Francesca: No, I was born in Uruguay.
Darcy: Ah, you're Uruguagian.
Francesca: No. My mother, she was from Brazil.
Darcy: So you're Brazilian.
Francesca: No, my passport says "Norway".
Darcy: So you're Irish.
Francesca: Yes!

Labels: The Kids in the Hall

Happy Birthday Geographically Challenged!

I did the arithmatic so I know how old you are, but I don't believe it! I have a picture in my head of what that age is, and you don't fit it! I would guess you at least ten years younger. So, yay you! :)

Labels: family

The last two nights I was able to open my window and let the rain lull me to sleep. Awesome!

Labels: weather

I have two soap dispensers: one in the bathroom and one in the kitchen. They always seem to need refilling at the same time. I guess that means I wash my hands at each sink equally frequently. Why is that weird to me?

Labels: random weirdness