BOOO! I keep thinking I'm over the hump, and I keep finding out that it has only just begun. According to this article, the spike in women leaving science is ages 35-44. - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet
Kind of wish Woody Allen were here to offer something witty in response. Channeling those guys dressed up as sperm in that one pic of his. - Mark Forman
I may be going through a childish phase, but this is the funniest thing I've seen since I found out our Employee Assistance Program at work is called "New Directions" (say it out loud a couple times). - Clare Dibble
Daddy, why is mommy's ducky buzzing? - Tad Donaghe
Who can resist those big blue eyes? Press the back and Duckie vibrates––in your bath, pool, Jacuzzi or shower! Massage tense necks and joints...or pleasure your other erogenous zones! BATTERIES INCLUDED. Our best waterproof massager will quack you up! - Brian Sullivan
@Ginger: The video takes on new meaning if you imagine it as the vibrating duck..... - Chris Reed
Oh wow! And Clare, definitely a chuckle from your New Directions comment :D - Adam Lasnik
Turns out that using gallons per 100 miles give people a much better idea how much gas a car uses. People value improvements linearly, but MPG is an inverse measure. - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet
I read a similar post recently about the harmonic mean. To answer the question, how many Priuses (60 MPG) does it take to make up for 1 range rover (10 mpg), Using the arithmetic mean, you get an average fuel consumption of 35 mpg, which is wrong. You have to use the harmonic mean. It takes 6 priuses to compensate for one Range Rover. So much of our effort should be placed on the low end of the mpg spectrum - http://www.nerdblog.com/2008/0... - Robert Felty
p.s. I am not in any way implying that women are not real, or than women (or children) who use reel mowers will become or already are fictional. - Clare Dibble
Love the people watching, but it is time to reconsider something about your life when you find yourself saying "I'm mostly celibate. I've been celibate for a long time." as you wheel your luggage through the airport. I did a double take and the guy looked sort of surprised. - Clare Dibble
i wish that's the kind of thing i overheard at the airport. - edythe
Rob and I watched a movie called Amy and Jaguar this weekend about Nazi era German lesbians. This quote was from a very brief interlude in the story where the elderly neighbors had decided they were in love and gotten engaged. They were saying how silly it was of them, with them being old and a war going on. In response, this is the celebratory toast the doomed heroine offered. I thought it was touching as it captured both that love is kind of silly and worth fighting for. - Clare Dibble
“Like everybody else, I thought this was male behavior and female behavior, but it’s not,” he said. “That means there is a lot more hope that you can do something about it.” - Clare Dibble
"Mr. Greenman sees a new willingness to innovate among glassmakers who, until recently, usually shunned technological advances because savings in materials and energy didn’t justify the costs of introducing new designs and processes." - Clare Dibble
"The potential revolution in glass-making suggests a new model for innovation: Creators go back to the future, spending almost as much time retrieving once-discarded inventions as they do creating new ones." - Clare Dibble
this seems more like a sign something is broken than a new model of innovation. - Clare Dibble
"Overall, the strategy of attempting to exchange investment for sex is only successful about 25 percent of the time, the paper found. Some of the attempted trades included:
* tickets to the U-M versus Ohio State game;
* studying assistance;
* laundry washed;
* a Louis Vuitton bag;
* and voice lessons,
among other things." - Clare Dibble
I'm not sure I agree with the whole article, particularly that you shouldn't expect affluent college students to trade sex for stuff or that "A sample of older individuals, especially one that is more representative of the general population, would likely report higher frequencies of experiences. The assumption is an older population would have more unmet needs and would be more sexually active." But the list of things that people have exchanged for sex is hilarious. Finally, shouldn't sex outside of dating or formally committed relationshipsbe its own reward? ;) - Clare Dibble
attempts to trade were successful *only* 25% of the time?? - felix
I love Joni's music, but watching her life story makes me glad I'm not an artist. - Clare Dibble
She once broke up with a boyfriend via a telegram that ended "If you hold sand too tightly in your hands, it all slips through your fingers. " - Clare Dibble
Thank you Clare, for introducing me to Joni Mitchell. I feel my heard and mind are more open after listening to her music. - Robert Felty
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“Advice from my husband: "and remember, if someone knocks on the door (say with old mustard), just say "batin'!! go away'", which is particularly funny because yesterday my neighbor did give me her condiments before she moved out. ”
There are those that do and those that don't. Sometimes, one of those who don't can be persuaded to become one of those that do. Most often, however, the world of those that do is forever off limits to those that don't. Just do it? I just can't. - Slippy Lane
More seriously, My eye was drawn to the friendfeed post stats on your blog. How does that work? - Slippy Lane
I installed the friendfeed comments wordpress plugin. It uses the friendfeed API they released a couple months ago. There is also an option for people to post comments on friendfeed from the blog, but I don't have that enabled. I am mostly interested in pulling back comments from friendfeed into the blog. - Robert Felty
Ah yes, I've just seen a few articles on the wordpress plugin. I'm beginning to see more and more reasons to ditch blogger! - Slippy Lane
Ginger, thanks for all your advice about areas of Denver. I did really like 32nd and Lowell, but it isn't the kind of place a person can find a place to live in two days. I wound up in an apartment close to work which could accommodate my apartment search time line and has nice light. What I've seen so far makes the greater Denver area seem awesome. - Clare Dibble
Also, totally amused that I accidentally packed Rob's birkenstocks instead of my own and did not notice until I was in the coffee shop. Will have to perform a switch at some point. - Clare Dibble
Cool! I'm glad you like Denver. Let's meet up sometime. I'm going to have lots of free time after May 30. Happy birthday :-) - Ginger Makela
Ginger, I'd love to get together sometime. I would like to make it through my first week of work (which ends May 30th) before introducing too many social engagements, so the timing is perfect. My email is clare.dibble@gmail.com. and my cell phone number is (734) 717 2342. - Clare Dibble
