Mixed-emotion day
Jul. 13th, 2006 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptToday was a mixed-blessing sort of day. Work was work, the bills were nasty, and I found out today that going in to the University's Health Service to deal with any illness of mine that might happen out of classes is a really fugging expensive mistake. I will be getting details about why this happened. I also have a particularly good idea now of why this country should adopt a social insurance program immediately. No wonder people complain about the uninsured being a drain - with the rates that are being charged, anyone who wasn't independently wealthy would be bankrupted by seeing their doctor regularly, and heaven help them if they should actually be sick.
Texas school district bans "grillz". The model photo in that article makes me scream "Why get such things? Do you know how ugly that looks?"
Something a bit cooler, though - tank-treads snowmobile. It's only a model, though. Here's a Popular science article about this treaded snowmobile.
Wondering what to do with all the Business Reply Envelopes you get? Try this packet - Overthrowing the office Culture. Just pictures, no words, and sent at the company's expense.
IT Godesses - Pinups of geeky girls. This is a good thing, I think.
File this in with the female genital mutilation practices - "breast ironing" - applying hot metal to the breasts to try to stop them from developing. Basically to stop the girls from looking pretty. Do they not trust the boys... or perhaps, do they not trust the girls that much that someone feels the need to take an iron to their breasts in hopes of making them less attractive? Makes no sense to me. If someone's going to be a beauty, then let them be a beauty. If they want to sleep around, too, so long as they do it responsibly and safely (which could be a problem in underdeveloped countries for various reasons), then let them. Even captives of the U.S. are finally getting Geneva Convention rights.
The most overpaid White House Staff - at least for this administration, according to perceptions by the left. Although, with someone on the judiciary saying the president is always right, and through the use of signing statements to expand the President's power, maybe those perceptions aren't too far off the mark.
This is a really cool article, but I have other things to do, so I'll not read it now. You should, though.
We knew it would be only a matter of time before Jesus became a marketing shill. Nice catch-phrase, though - King of Jews, King of Beers.
Handicapped signs that get the message across.
Lastly, encouragement for those of us who still haven't found our masterpieces. It's possible that the genius we have will manifest later on in life. Perhaps age or experience will give us a new way of looking at the problem to discern its truth.
Texas school district bans "grillz". The model photo in that article makes me scream "Why get such things? Do you know how ugly that looks?"
Something a bit cooler, though - tank-treads snowmobile. It's only a model, though. Here's a Popular science article about this treaded snowmobile.
Wondering what to do with all the Business Reply Envelopes you get? Try this packet - Overthrowing the office Culture. Just pictures, no words, and sent at the company's expense.
IT Godesses - Pinups of geeky girls. This is a good thing, I think.
File this in with the female genital mutilation practices - "breast ironing" - applying hot metal to the breasts to try to stop them from developing. Basically to stop the girls from looking pretty. Do they not trust the boys... or perhaps, do they not trust the girls that much that someone feels the need to take an iron to their breasts in hopes of making them less attractive? Makes no sense to me. If someone's going to be a beauty, then let them be a beauty. If they want to sleep around, too, so long as they do it responsibly and safely (which could be a problem in underdeveloped countries for various reasons), then let them. Even captives of the U.S. are finally getting Geneva Convention rights.
The most overpaid White House Staff - at least for this administration, according to perceptions by the left. Although, with someone on the judiciary saying the president is always right, and through the use of signing statements to expand the President's power, maybe those perceptions aren't too far off the mark.
This is a really cool article, but I have other things to do, so I'll not read it now. You should, though.
We knew it would be only a matter of time before Jesus became a marketing shill. Nice catch-phrase, though - King of Jews, King of Beers.
Handicapped signs that get the message across.
Lastly, encouragement for those of us who still haven't found our masterpieces. It's possible that the genius we have will manifest later on in life. Perhaps age or experience will give us a new way of looking at the problem to discern its truth.
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Date: 2006-07-14 03:20 pm (UTC)While I'm certain there's an element of that in their society (there certainly everywhere else I've seen), it didn't seem to be a sentiment expressed by or addressed in the article.
But yeah, once again, trying to end sexual violence by changing the girls... so ridiculous!
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Date: 2006-07-14 09:28 pm (UTC)