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Patty continues to chug along with her comps. I continue to sleep off Dragon*Con. We have dates for when her parents are visiting before she heads to Cardiff, and things are coming together. I'm really looking forward (although her moreso, surely) to the comps getting finished so we can reconnect in some way other than propping each other up in the face of chaos.

I am continuing to make progress with my Dragon*Con recaps, but I did a lot of panels, so it's going to take a while.

Last night I went to Eataly. It's pretty cool. It reminded me not just of European food halls and not just of the smells of Italy, but also (because it's on my mind and has a huge Italian population and great Italian food), Sydney. I got a few goodies to bring home.

bifemmefatale's daughter has been found and wants to go home. So that's happening right now. Go team Internet!

Rahm Emmanuel may be the most interesting guy in politics. The narrative may be about to get more interesting, as he considers running for mayor of Chicago.

Anyone catch Meghan McCain on Rachel Maddow last night? Credit where credit is due, because she's a reminder that Republicans aren't the enemy; extremism is. Which is to say (because this has been weighing on me lately), if I've been a douche to my Republican friends lately, I'm sorry. I should not assume that the current extreme views tearing your party apart speak for you.

Apparently, Google Instant doesn't think lesbians or bisexuals exist or that the terms are too incendiary to provide immediate results. I suspect it's because of how much porn for straight, cisgendered men those terms are likely to bring up, and woah, not safe for work. But, this is not okay. via ladyofthelog in comments. And yeah, I tested it myself; these terms do not return Google Instant results.

Meanwhile the fake GallifreyOne attendee is at it again.

Comments

[sihaya09.livejournal.com]

I also wanted to add that I now have enough in the bank to cover an MRI, and any monies that don't go towards the MRI will go into treatment. Your post was a big part of that. Thank you so much.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Dude! I went back to look at the store last night, and was FLOORED by how much was gone.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Last night I went to Eataly.

Yay! How was it? Did they have any kind of GF section worth speaking of?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nooooooo. Which is annoying since Italy has such great products. Hopefully my requests will help.

[justpat.livejournal.com]

I understand your point about extremism, and not Republicans per se, being the enemy. But the "normal" Republicans let the extremists in, and let them take over, and they really need to get called down on _that_.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. But with Fox news out there feeding the extremists, I'm not even sure what a moderate, non-famous Republican would do to counteract the birthers and the bigots.

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

I don't think that they do. At least not any more than every Muslim has to spend all their energy apologizing for Muslim extremism that they are likely to hate more than the rest of us. Between fighting against the wingnuts and fighting us, they've got no time left to use their good sense to improve the world.

heads up!

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

via automaticdoor - Google Instant (the thing that lets you search in real time as you type your search term in) is displaying an empty screen when you search for "lesbian" or "bisexual." Related terms seem to be unaffected.

Relevant complaint here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=2203c58a54a86de4&hl=en

Re: heads up!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Just tested it. Confirmed. I suspect it's because of the HUGE amount of porn targets at straight men that turns up, but it's evil. Linking.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I'm profoundly conflicted on Rahm Emmanuel considering a Chicago run. I'd like to see him do cool things, but the Dems are kind of floundering and I'm leery of further destabilization.

Meghan McCain makes me happy, though.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I think as narrative Emmanuel getting to be mayor of Chicago would be gorgeous. I think it's bad for Obama. He needs people who aren't nice around him.

Also, Gally is announcing its panel schedule soon, so if you want to submit something, do it today.

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

Hi - I hope you don't mind, but I've been reading your posts on friends-of-friends for a while, and you're always interesting, so I have added you. Thanks for all the interesting posts!

[rm.livejournal.com]

No problem at all. Welcome!

[sanguinity]

Google Instant: oh, but it's fun to be walking porn. :-/

[weirdquark]

A friend of mine was Googling various race-related terms to see what came up in their image searches recently and discovered that "Latina" comes up almost entirely porn. It's a blank box in Google Instant too.

re: google

[mieronna.livejournal.com]

When using the normal search box without the new instant search thingy, there also is no drop-down box with suggestions for the terms you mentioned. I wouldn't swear to it, since I haven't googled either recently, but I think this was not the case before. /not amused

Re: google

[sanguinity]

"savage love" gives a blank screen, but the autosuggestion for "savage love mercury", suggesting that it'll start giving results again if you just keep going. Results reappear at "savage love " (with the trailing space).

The lack of autosuggest for "bisexual" or "lesbian" implies that there is no common search term starting with either phrase for which Instant will give you results. Or leastways, makes such a term very difficult to find.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I see that lesbian and bisexual don't exist, but DYKE does.

As you may or may not know

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

There are some folks trying to gather enough signatures to petition the CRTC to not allow a Fox news North onto the airwaves in Canada. We currently have a PM who is a full on bully and technocratic even with the members of his own party. He has utter disdain for the press. One of his cronies is applying to get this polarizing style of journalism on my TV using my cable fees.
The Fox family is now attacking the folks at Avaaz that are mounting the petition.

I hope they don't grant the license to such a channel as fighting such hateful propaganda is difficult and waste time away from dealing with the political issues at hand.


I read an article about Eataly on the weekend. It made me drool and filled me with big city access.

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

I don't get filtering out bisexuals or lesbians because of NSFW policies, since the default setting for search results is "moderate" filtering for sexual content anyway. So with the default settings, presumably you shouldn't get porn.

This pisses me, especially since I'm bi. And I'm totally safe for work. I wear clothes there and everything.

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

I wear clothes too. And - surprise surprise - I don't jump everything that moves. :-P

[natf.livejournal.com]

I have been wondering, what are "comps"? I have heard of finals, exams, vivas, orals, mid-terms and so on but comps is a new one to me!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Comprehensive examinations, a required hurdle for her PhD. They serve the function that orals do at many institutions (some have one or the other, some have both).

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

The thing is, if people disagree with what has become essentially the main focus of the Republican Party, why call themselves Republicans? They are choosing to affiliate themselves with the extremists.

[alt_universe_me.livejournal.com]

I linked someone on lj to this post because she wanted to know more about the google search thing, just to let you know. It's a public post, so I figured that is okay?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's always fine.