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Patty comes home tomorrow!

I will not be at work until 11pm tonight!

I still need to finish my WIAD! Now that that's done, can I just say that I am totally working on a Jack/Auggie (from Covert Affairs) fic?

Hey, my buddy justpat wrote a book about the science of Battlestar Galatica. He thanks me in the acknowledgments somewhere because we chatted a bit about my experience with my Harry Potter book. Pre-order now and all that.

I should apply for this. Of course, I assume that if the background check is about more than not stealing shit from the museum I'd fail, having lived a colorful and open life of not technically crime.

Portland people: Duchess is hiring. Also, they're going to update/change what's available on Scotch Basic soon, so if you've been thinking of getting a suit you should keep an eye on that. Which reminds me of two things:
1. I still need to write that testimonial, and
2. I need to think about Neal Caffrey's silhouette and if that's something that works with my suit tastes and styling to create the illusion of a masculine body for me; obviously, it seems probable that the closer cut something is on me, the more feminine I'm going to look.

Yesterday I had never heard of army worms. By the end of the day I had heard of Army Worm Wine. Yeah, it's what it says on the tin.

The good thing about the Internet is that not everyone is just like you. Or me. Or whomever. The bad thing about the Internet is the way people can be complete dumbasses in attempting to value that exposure to the world outside of their own personal bullshit by being devaluing, objectifying creeps.

I'm late to this one, but if you haven't already seen the Scottish anti-rape ad, you should check it out. Yes, it's about rape, and therefore might be triggery. But it also relies on satire and is non-graphic.

I'm not sure who here will care about this other than me, but before we moved to most electronic trading everything, EVERYTHING was done by open outcry, which involved a language of hand-signals all its own. One of the last traders to be trained exclusively in open-outcry (who has since moved to electronic trading himself) has been documenting this rapidly disappearing language of the recent past, specifically that from the futures market. And yeah, the sign for Deutsche Bank really is a finger standing in for a Hitler mustache. Sorry, guys.

The business response to gay marriage. Article is way more interesting than it could be because it mentions stuff very relevant to the queer community that I feel like the heteronormative world mostly doesn't realize are out there -- like issues of a spouse changing genders in one case and being a female-bodied person who doesn't feel like a bride or a groom in another. Of course, it's the New York Times though, so it's still about upper-middle class white people spending lots of money on a party.

Washington DC-area clinic defense needs volunteers. I used to do this back in the day, and it's important work that's very necessary in that region.

Swimming in the streets of New York.

(C)Ave Canem: help for the dogs of Pompeii.

graduate_maria, you know you want to.

Comments

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

To go with your Armyworm wine, perhaps?

"In a more real-world creepy - and crawly - note, Marcel Dicke expounded the virtues of eating insects. Not only are they rich in all the nutrients we need, but they are far more efficient to grow: 10 kilograms of feed will produce just 1 kilogram of beef, 3 kilograms of pork, and 5 kilograms of chicken. But 9 kilograms of locusts. Just on cue, worm pralines were produced at break to snack on with our coffee. I tried one before realizing what it was and as I happily munched away on my first, I greedily reached for another. Then a fellow delegate pointed out what the pink ribbed curls were. I swallowed bravely and gulped a mouthful of coffee. Worm pralines might take a while to catch on - by the end of the break, the plates weren't empty."

New Scientist on TED Global

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I wish I could've seen Marcel Dicke's presentation. I had met another man promoting entomophagy and found that the stuff he served up was pretty tasty. (link) One friend went to Mexico and had a dish that included ant pupae and some kind of larvae and said it was one of the most delicious things she had ever tasted. I have not had much luck finding much in the way of insect dishes in the US though.