By girl.

While most videos I see with similar titles to this one tend to be from the male’s perspective and totally sexist, I tend to agree with this one for the most part and it’s told from a girl’s point of view. Knowing pretty simple ways a guy works I think will definitely yield you better results in the relationship. I know I’ve struggled from being an aggressive girl and getting jealous when boyfriends have gone off with the guys to do geek things (for after all, it’s usually those same geek things that attracted me to the man in the first place), but I’ve learned over time a few of these general principles. Also, even though I was almost outraged when my mom told me this, ask guys about themselves the first few times you meet. I don’t think it has anything to do with the fact that you are lesser as a girl, but more that you’re just letting him setup camp for the ride once your brilliance turns on ;]

And for good measure, a link to the Simpson’s Star Wars opening.

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Via the Diggmonster, I came across this article entitled “Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math, and Science.” I’ve rewritten what I’ve wanted to say about this article about five times now. I guess the only reasonable thing I can say about it is to read it, think about it, and when you have the chance, encourage a girl you know (even older) to learn more about math and science. Also, if you know one of the “stereotypical” woman talked about in the article (maybe more dull, boring, only about the facts), give her a break. A lot of woman who were early to get into “men’s” fields had to give up part of themselves to compete.

Also, when I did a Google image search for “scientist”, there was only 3 images of woman in the first 5 pages. =/

By girl.

**Set to auto-post. Go WordPress.

The world wide web became The Internet became the interwebs/internets became the cloud.

Bacn was just coined to reference all those emails that fill up your mailbox but aren’t quite spam. ex: Facebook notifications, registration info, confirmation emails, etc.

Now, I might be one of the only/few people to use this, but from time to time I re-purpose words or make ones up. My new phrase came when I left a slightly intoxicated voicemail message for my friend and told him my I/O tower wanted to talk to him (Tron reference). The next day I was like, THAT WAS CLEVER. Now all cell phones, pagers, things used for any sort of communication are now I/O devices. You can also use I/O’ing as a verb. “I need to go I/O with my friend!” “Catch me later and we’ll I/O” Ooh, good ole input/output.

You can see Tron (to the left), using the I/O beam on the front of the poster to communicate with his user and we ain’t talking drugs. Just bits and bytes.

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I am headed up to San Fransisco tonight (well tomorrow, publishing this tomorrow) where I will join 7 of my 8 close friends that live up there. I will only be gone about 4 days and it doesn’t make much sense to bring a WHOLE suitcase to cart around. So, I made a really big decision to NOT take my laptop with me and it already pains me to think about it. Having your own computer to crawl into bed at night, while on vacation, always makes wherever you are seem like home. You have you OS color scheme, your bookmarks, your playlist, all your email filters right there… just like home. However, with the advent of smaller wi-fi ready devices, it begs the question if it is worth a whole laptop taking up space and weight in your bag when in it’s place you can fit more shoes.

Shoes are important in this instance of LAX-SFO travel (well, when are shoes NOT important?). Whenever I travel to San Francisco, I always end up buying new shoes. Such as this pair, this pair, and this pair. I’m all for utilitarian packing in a very geek sense and figuring out one pair of jeans that will match three tops and one pair of shoes for all four days I’m there, but this makes my growing inner girly girl cry. Hence, the cutting of the laptop-umbicord in the name of shoes.

What devices allowed for this transition? I would say iPhone, but I don’t have one yet. So I bring with me my Nokia e70 (does wi-fi and mapping w/ GPS), my $100 Woot.com Nokia 770 Internet tablet (better to curl up with on your pillow and quickly check your 3 most important email accounts), and my Nintendo DS. While I don’t have the cloud add-on (refer to tomorrow’s post on new vocab… tomorrow), it provides for some decent gaming while I am away from WoW. Along with me on this trip I will be lvl’ing my Druid on PuzzleQuest (this doped up Bejeweled is proving to need more strategy that I anticipated), Zelda: A Link to the Past, and good ole Tetris.

You too can make room for more shoes if you switch over to a new fancy wi-fi device… and let the device lead you to more shoes. Heaven.

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Now, this is a question I really wouldn’t expect to hear come out of anyone’s mouth in the United States from someone aged 10-50, but alas it did happen. I was house sitting for a bit / crashing on their couch while I looked for a new place to live. The week they were gone, I decided to bring my 24″ iMac into the room I was staying / office… it just happened to get sammiched between TWO mounted 30″ displays. Needless to say, this confused a family friend of theirs. A little blurry, but you get the idea.