http://www.sculpin.com/journal stargazer, muddler, muffle-jaw, cockatouch, spoonhead, hookear, gudgeon, grubby, blob, bull-rout, blue garnet, miller's thumb Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:56:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know somebody whose daughter, a very small toddler, is starting to figure out the rules of human interaction. She likes to answer the phone and say, "Hello! How you you? Blahblahblahblahblah!" Literally "blahblahblahblahblah" -- it's what she says when she runs out of words, which happens often. I ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/02/19/blahblahblah/ I swear, I'm not actually having a writer's strike. It just looks that way. For those catching up, it was about a year ago that I massively herniated a disc. Good ol' L5S1. I can't be accused of doing things by half measures; this thing was a centimeter in its smallest ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/01/19/state-of-the-me/ Mary Daly has died. It was with mixed emotions that I learned that this afternoon. When I read Gyn/Ecology and Wickedary in 1991 or so, I thought they were the biggest piles of bullshit I'd ever seen, in content and in form. Having started in on that line of thought, ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/01/04/mary-daly-1928-2010/ Glenn Greenwald reported last Thursday that the ACLU has lost a major donor who was responsible for 25% of the organization's budget. This donor, who got caught in the credit crunch, was the ACLU's largest single source of funding. This on top of the major cuts they took last year ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/12/15/aclu-loses-a-quarter-of-its-funding/ I don't quite get it. I like gingerbread houses and one of these days, I swear to myself, I'll make one just for the minor engineering challenge of it all. But they do confuse me a bit. I mean, do you actually eat such a thing? It seems to ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/12/13/please-explain-gingerbread-houses-to-me/ The most recent episode of House followed awfully close to this script. http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/11/17/more-mouse-bites/ I scan a few philosophy blogs once in a while, and every so often I see something pop up again: why are there so few women in philosophy? Wikipedia tells us that "U.S. Department of Education reports indicate that philosophy is one of the least proportionate, and possibly the least ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/11/17/how-one-woman-did-not-go-into-philosophy/ A few years ago, we decided to put in a more useful hatch to the attic so we could use it as storage space. There's a ton of room up there, all unused. My mother was moving from a three-story house to a two-bedroom apartment, and I assured her that ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/10/29/the-home-owners-club-is-awesome/ Like a lot of folks, my journal's gone pretty quiet lately. Part of it is the usual move to Facebook. But a lot of it, too, is that for the last several months I've been thinking things that I'm not quite sure are ready for prime time. Things about authority, ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/10/13/after-silence-the-ranting/ I had a bit of an unnerving morning today. I'd stayed up very late doing the Emerald City Search treasure hunt, so at about 10:15 a.m. I was still dozing when my coworker Bob pounded at my door. He'd injured his back and couldn't play his case today, the big ... http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/08/31/calming-ratatouille/