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Comment on Weekly linkage by Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:22:54 +0000

Oh, cool! I think my dance instructor said she’s only had a few men in her classes over the years. I’m not sure the environment here (culturally and in the female-centric classes) would be conducive to a male’s comfort. Not that there’s much man-bashing going on or anything, but there is a fair amount of standard American sexism (e.g., “Well, you know, men always do X.”).

Comment on Tools, Consumption, and Sin-Eaters by Thom

Thom — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:16:51 +0000

On the topic of Sin Eating, I recommend checking out this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/

It was surprisingly good and had two or three nice twists.

Comment on Weekly linkage by Thom

Thom — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:15:52 +0000

Regarding male belly dancers, a girl I’ve been dating for around a year now is part of a local troupe that had a male member a few years back. They’re certainly less common, but they do exist.

Comment on I don’t use too many tabs! by Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:38:25 +0000

I think TabCandy looks pretty good also.

I am using Treestyle Tabs and it’s awesome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890/ i will look forward to using tabcandy in conjunction.

I actually started training my coworkers. It wasn’t the easiest, especially when trying to train someone who’d been around longer. egos and whatnot. also, while i am still probably too arrogant about it, i was even moreso then truly believing that there was a best way to get some of these things done. now i still believe that there are worst ways, or at least terrible ways, but i do not believe in the best way so much anymore. one thing i did was to start to try to document my behaviors that i saw were drastically different than my coworkers’. for example, they all used ffox, but very few extensions. so i started sharing this with them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/tgm

also, every one of them had a widescreen setup, and at the time i was convinced that it was extremely slow and wasteful to use a horizontal taskbar with the grouping bs. i challenged them to try it for 10 work days or something, and if they didn’t prefer task bar on the left, i’d buy them lunch (and punch them in the nuts [sausage fest up in there])

i think that worked well, i start with like, “did you know ctrl+x is cut?” and then go to “yeah actually it really helps out a lot,” and then, “oh really? let’s race! i bet you your monitor i’ll beat you unless you use ctrl+x”

same for ctrl+arrow keys and just tons of it. on the one hand, i hate that we have to learn so many different shortcuts on so many different apps, but on the other hand it feels really good to be able to get/stay in the zone easier bc of not being distracted by the interface.

i think i have been disappointed on osx with how incosistent the apps are in reusing the shortcut commands. the app devs seem to be 1 part apple devs since birth, 1 part linux devs, and 1 part windows devs, and whoever has the biggest shoes on a particular project, sees that the shortcuts from their camp are used.

being able to map shortcuts to individual apps and system level shortcuts and whatnot is a great way to fix this, but it’d also be great if some class of the shortcuts died and we just dealt with one camp…i think?

i am only starting to feel half as productive as i was on windows, and i’m trying. but i think that the multitude of tasks i’m now performing (unlike in industry) and software i’m using is forcing me to continue to encounter different apps and i have a moving target in trying to become deft. so i think i agree with nathan’s point about trained patterns.

i’m just gonna stop here. thanks for the opp to htink about this. i think you shoudl at least try to help them and if they’re unreceptive, then f it. if you’re in charge of them, give them deadlines more similar to what you could meet, and if they cannot make it, make a less optional training seminar. if you’re slowing yourself down with your inefficient practices, fine. take it easy. but if you’re holding up a team, flush your ego and take a hand

Comment on Two weeks’ linkage, ah, ah, ah by Gregory Weir

Gregory Weir — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:18:16 +0000

If his account is true, I think it’s only slightly in his favor. He still lied in such a way that she would sleep with him. I’m not sure that lying about your marital status is any different than lying about anything else, even if it pains me as a polyamourist to say so.

Comment on Two weeks’ linkage, ah, ah, ah by guyblade

guyblade — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:05:41 +0000

My initial hearing of this issue was from the guardian coverage which goes into substantially more detail as to the events. Of course, it primarily presents the accused’s argument since the accuser has yet to make a public statement on the issue. In it, the accused alleged that the only thing he actively lied about was his single status. He alleges that he made no statements about his religion or ethnic background, but that they were likely incorrectly inferred due to his “Jewish” nickname and ability to speak Hebrew fluently.

Comment on Tools, Consumption, and Sin-Eaters by Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:08:01 +0000

Pomegranate, of course. I learned from the pro.

Comment on Tools, Consumption, and Sin-Eaters by Nathan Hammond

Nathan Hammond — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:15:58 +0000

That looks delicious.

Comment on Two weeks’ linkage, ah, ah, ah by Gregory Weir

Gregory Weir — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:25:51 +0000

I’m on the fence about this one. It seems analogous to the question of whether fraud is equivalent to theft, although that comparison is oversimple and problematic itself.

An extreme example of lying-to-get-sex: suppose identical twins, Bob and Bill, so similar that you can’t tell them apart by sight or mannerism. Bob is married to Cathy. Bill poses as Bob to have sex with Cathy. Is this rape? It seems clear to me that it is.

On the other hand, what if you told a woman you were rich to get her into bed, when you really weren’t? That seems a bit more iffy. It’s certainly a sleazy, wrong thing to do, but I don’t think I’d call it rape.

The relevant issues in the Arab/Jew case seem to me to be: 1) He actively lied; it wasn’t a lie by omission, and 2) She would have objected strongly if she had known the truth. Presumably, he knew this, which is why he lied. A deliberate lie to cover up something that would make the person not have sex with you? I think that’s pretty much rape.

Comment on Two weeks’ linkage, ah, ah, ah by guyblade

guyblade — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:02:00 +0000

I had previously heard of the Arab who was convicted of rape for (essentially) being an Arab and have to say that I tend to come down on the other side. If his name had been Stevie McCrapshispants (of the New Hampshire McCrapshispants) and he was hiding this fact due to the name being embarrassing, would it still be rape? The question in my mind is this: if he were not an Arab and instead was hiding his French or German or Russian heritage, would he still have been tried? None of these questions lead to happy places.