'Bred Crumbs
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03.16.01
10:43 AM
An oldish Wired News piece I just caught up to reassures me, sort of, that it's not just me who doesn't get All Your Base mania (although the song part is catchy). Then again, I never really enjoyed Mahir, either. (Link via Xkot.)
09:55 AM
Hallelujah, religion worth getting: Betty Bowers Is a Better Christian Than You. Make sure to check out the ex-gay ministry and its new celebrity spokesperson. (Thanks, Rachel, for the link.)
12:08 AM
Oh, that naughty San Francisco Chronicle. On its online front page Thursday, it coyly presented this headline and news combo:
The beret story is fabulous; I dare you not to think of Monty Python's "Mary Recruitment Office" sketch while reading it.
The beret story is fabulous; I dare you not to think of Monty Python's "Mary Recruitment Office" sketch while reading it.
03.15.01
11:12 PM
New favorite bumper sticker:
Note the power of the negative: the result of either proposition is no. (Mathematical version: a negative number times a positive number yields a negative number.)
This is neither an endorsement of nor a warning about the negative. Merely an observation.
Youngsters today have the attention spans of rocks.
The box is rotten.
Though later in the game, the latter bit of dialogue was presented again, with an addendum:
The box is rotten. Well, that's what it said in Japanese.
Note the power of the negative: the result of either proposition is no. (Mathematical version: a negative number times a positive number yields a negative number.)
This is neither an endorsement of nor a warning about the negative. Merely an observation.
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Odd turns of phrase from dialogue text in the PlayStation game Rhapsody:Youngsters today have the attention spans of rocks.
The box is rotten.
Though later in the game, the latter bit of dialogue was presented again, with an addendum:
The box is rotten. Well, that's what it said in Japanese.
03.14.01
10:25 PM
Finally! I have said aloud for several years now to anyone who would listen, and to a lot of people who would rather not have, that if someone would just look into it they'd find that there is a greater proportion of left-handers among gays than among straights. At last, someone did, and did. Not coincidentally, I am both. (Thanks to David for pointing out the news via Evhead.)
03.13.01
01:04 PM
While driving home from work last night, I inadvertently sucked down the last stubborn kernel of a coffee-flavored Nestlé Nip in one ill-timed inhalation. Though this caused only the very slightest physical discomfort, I still wondered for a while if I might suddenly die the way one character does from an olive in The World According to Garp. But this was 18 hours ago, so I guess I won't.
03.12.01
06:56 PM
"The fact that you feel out of place has nothing to do with being straight or gay," said my brother, Randy, reminding me he falls squarely into the straight and out-of-place camps. His laughter rose. "It's because you're related to us!"
03.11.01
09:50 PM
This mini-essay has been brewing in the back of me tiny mind for a while now, and it hasn't been finished largely because I'm struggling for a conclusion. But the latest gay test has brought it to the front burner again, so I'll go with it before another meme gets moldy.
(I want to join in on the spreading audio craze, too, but that'll have to wait until I have something useful to say. As this entry shows, that could be a while.)
My gay-test result: I'm 45% percent gay. Of course, this isn't quite true; I'm nearly 100% gay. What the test is really testing is how gay-seeming I am -- how I fit the stereotypes and social traditions. Which puts the test in the same boat as the one at Straight Acting. And while I understand Keith's aversion to the term "straight-acting" -- it still makes me cringe sometimes, too -- I find the test there as tongue-in-cheek as any.
And, tellingly, my 45% result on the British site matches my Straight Acting finding: Level 5, on a scale of 0-10. And both confirm my suspicions that I inhabit a behavioral (not sexual) middle ground between Straight and Gay, at least as far as societal expectations go.
But wait, there's more! The guess-your-gender test at thespark.com confirms that I am indeed a man -- but it does so by an apparent digital flip of the coin. The test stats put me smack in the middle of the findings:
Not to put too much stock in online for-your-own-amusement tests, but I find all this fence-straddling uncomfortable. It doesn't make me fit in both worlds as often as it makes me fit in neither. When I finally figured out I'm gay, I thought that explained why I so often felt out of place. Then I moved to San Francisco and, while I love it here, I found that I just as often -- perhaps more often -- I feel out of place in gay surroundings.
The good news is, some of my social circles land me in places where straight and gay mingle fluidly. (No, that's not another way of saying "orgy.")
I don't have a solution, a resolution, or a better ending. Sorry.
(I want to join in on the spreading audio craze, too, but that'll have to wait until I have something useful to say. As this entry shows, that could be a while.)
My gay-test result: I'm 45% percent gay. Of course, this isn't quite true; I'm nearly 100% gay. What the test is really testing is how gay-seeming I am -- how I fit the stereotypes and social traditions. Which puts the test in the same boat as the one at Straight Acting. And while I understand Keith's aversion to the term "straight-acting" -- it still makes me cringe sometimes, too -- I find the test there as tongue-in-cheek as any.
And, tellingly, my 45% result on the British site matches my Straight Acting finding: Level 5, on a scale of 0-10. And both confirm my suspicions that I inhabit a behavioral (not sexual) middle ground between Straight and Gay, at least as far as societal expectations go.
But wait, there's more! The guess-your-gender test at thespark.com confirms that I am indeed a man -- but it does so by an apparent digital flip of the coin. The test stats put me smack in the middle of the findings:
Not to put too much stock in online for-your-own-amusement tests, but I find all this fence-straddling uncomfortable. It doesn't make me fit in both worlds as often as it makes me fit in neither. When I finally figured out I'm gay, I thought that explained why I so often felt out of place. Then I moved to San Francisco and, while I love it here, I found that I just as often -- perhaps more often -- I feel out of place in gay surroundings.
The good news is, some of my social circles land me in places where straight and gay mingle fluidly. (No, that's not another way of saying "orgy.")
I don't have a solution, a resolution, or a better ending. Sorry.
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Mike Nelson fans of the world, unite!
01:20 AM
At Dave & Buster's in Milpitas, I went to the bar to get a rum and Coke three times. Each time, the price was different.*
* $4, then $3.75, then $4.25. I got a different bartender each time.
* $4, then $3.75, then $4.25. I got a different bartender each time.
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Week of 03.04.01
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Hidden Deadly Productions makes short films, including CrossWalk (2003) and The Point of Boxes (coming in 2006?).
Pictured: Rubble from the destruction of the Central Freeway, San Francisco, April 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Views from San Francisco Bay, July 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Videogames projected onto a wall from an Atari 2600, July 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Ranch near Hollister, New Year's Day 2003. Photos by the author.
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