"let's begin with a discussion of the original role-playing game, the edition of Dungeons & Dragons that started the role-playing game craze in 1974. It might not seem relevant to the discussion, but there are some things about the RPG genre that only really make sense when viewed in comparison with this particular game."
- isaac
"I am a 47-year-old woman whose commitment to monogamy, at the very end, came unglued. This turn of events was a surprise. I don’t generally even enjoy men; I had an entirely manageable life and planned to go to my grave taking with me, as I do most nights to my bed, a glass of merlot and a good book. Cataclysmically changed, I disclosed everything. We cried, we rent our hair, we bewailed the fate of our children. And yet at the end of the day—literally during a five o’clock counseling appointment, as the golden late-afternoon sunlight spilled over the wall of Balinese masks—when given the final choice by our longtime family therapist, who stands in as our shaman, mother, or priest, I realized … no."
- Jim Norris
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Here's the problem :) "My domestic evenings have typically revolved around five o’clock mac and cheese under bright lighting and then a slow melt into dishes and SpongeBob … because yet another of my marital failings was that I was never able to commit to a nanny. Even though my husband and I both drew full-time incomes, I, as a writer, worked at home and hence was ambivalent, because...
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- Paul Buchheit
It's also amusing to me that neurotransmitters have now replaced astrological signs as the psudeo-scientific personality types (page 4).
- Paul Buchheit
paul, what exactly is lazy, undisciplined attachment parenting and what's the alternative?
- ௸ (k2g)
"The harm comes, Cherlin argues, from parents continually coupling with new partners, so that the children are forced to bond, or compete for attention, with ever-new actors. These are the youngsters who are likely to suffer, according to a measurable matrix of factors such as truancy, disobedience in school, and teen pregnancy. Instead of preaching marriage, Cherlin says, we should...
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- Clare Dibble
Marriage is for the kids. Stay married, have affairs.
- isaac
k2g, I was referring to the no nanny and "secretly worried that using domestic help was exploitative—recall Barbara Ehrenreich’s dictum that she’d never let another woman scrub her toilets" part -- that old-timey feminism is crazy. Having your kids sleep with your is also a mistake though, in my opinion.
- Paul Buchheit
What's wrong with having your kids sleep with you? I think that's what families have been doing for many millenia before people were able to afford separate beds for children.
- Gabe
I remember thinking when I learned of Ehrenreich's dictum that it didn't make sense at all--it was just a privileged woman coming up with an excuse to judge other women negatively. She's neither in the position of a woman needing household help, nor in the position of a woman *honestly* needing a job (not posing as one, as Ehrenreich did for _nickel and dimed_) who may be perfectly...
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- Ruchira S. Datta
I wonder what Ehrenreich intends to do if she develops knee and back problems and physically cannot scrub toilets.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Gabe, it's not "wrong" -- I just think it's a mistake. It's nice to have some space from the kids, and in practice I think they get better at dealing on their own if there isn't a parent there to give attention every time they fuss a bit. I also found it very difficult to sleep as deeply if I knew there was a baby there, because I kept worrying that it might be getting smothered, etc.
- Paul Buchheit
Kim Rosen is fantastic! the article content is not nice!
- Geer
"At Twyman's psychic fairs for children, kids are persuaded to believe that sticking a lightweight spoon to their forehead is a result of psychokinetic power. The fact is that everyone can stick a lightweight spoon to their forehead if they first rub the spoon on their skin, especially the forehead and chin, coating the spoon with slightly sticky sebum."
- ௸ (k2g)
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that Indigo stuff is starting to get creepy
- isaac
I wrote a script that downloaded everything over 500MB posted to alt.binaries.movies.divx and several others, and everything on the movies and mac RSS feeds from nzbmatrix.com
- isaac
The video is available now. I think Lars and Jens are my new heroes, because I have wanted to make something like this for the last 5 years.
- moo. bye.
Watching the video, I can see how this obviates our product.
- moo. bye.