Feministing.sh --verbose

I forgot to say that I struck a tiny little blow for feminism on Friday. Someone asked me to do a code review, and in a comment in the script was something like:

The user can specify which snoggles he wants to flirg.

I said,

no big deal but I'd prefer to see "which snoggles to flirg".

And the change was made.

I'm a bit tempted now to search the Slogger codebase for the words "he" and "his" and "him", to see what else is hiding in there. Bah for assumptions -- girls can run scripts, you know -- and bah to the English language for not having a neutrally gendered singular pronoun in the first place.

Acroyoga in South Boston!!

OMG, being on the grapevine is gooooood. I heard yesterday that South Boston Yoga has started offering acroyoga classes on Monday and Wednesday nights at 7:30 (their schedule). Monday is Acroyoga Basics, which is the one someone actually told me about... me, I'm going on Wednesday, either this week or next. :-)

The first drop-in is free and they're right at the Broadway T stop, all of which is too perfect for words. Anyone want to go with me??

Update: ooh! They're also doing an Acroyoga weekend thing in November, which is really just Friday night and Saturday afternoon/evening. Friday is mostly inversions and "geared toward advanced yoga students and teachers" while Saturday is mostly Thai massage and the partner work. I bet we won't really do this thing in the event ad, though...



I'm pretty much pooping my pants with excitement here, even so. islenskr, I don't know if you'll be better enough or not, but could the Saturday sessions be your excuse to come and visit? I have a couch.

An interesting hypothesis about Ms. Palin

A modest theory about Sarah Palin's psychiatric situation

My hunch is that Sarah Palin's borderline word salad is a sign of some kind of mild to moderate formal thought disorder--a condition that can sometimes be benign, but is often associated with schizophrenia.

It's a pretty interesting read and rings really true. The description and example given of circumstantiality (on Wikipedia) is VERY reminiscent of how Governor Palin answers questions. A lot of politicians do this to some extent as they try to answer the question they want to answer before getting around to answering what they were asked -- and they also have to do a lot of extemporaneous speaking, which can lead to quotes that sound a little disjointed. I will buy the premise that Palin seems much worse than average in her coherence and directness, though, when not giving a formally prepared speech. I wonder if mcbrennan is onto something.