I haven’t written about the legalization of gay marriage in New York. It is a big deal, obviously, but it didn’t have any sort of direct impact on me or anyone I know. Unlike Prop 8, which went down while I lived in California and which went on for a very long time, the decision …
Monthly Archive: July 2011
Jul 23 2011
Harry Potter + Google = Love
As the resident Google fan, I am happy to report that there is a whole lot of interesting Google news this week. It seems that Google doesn’t do news weeks in half measures. First up is political news — both Google and Facebook have spent more money during this quarter on lobbyists than they have …
Jul 20 2011
75 Books 41-45: George, Adams, Hines, and Tyson
41. Dragon Slippers – Jessica Day George Having read her version of 12 Dancing Princesses and liked it, I thought I’d find some of her other work. This is her first novel, and it is quite different than the Princesses, in a good way. It reminds me very much of Patricia C. Wrede’s Dealing with …
Jul 19 2011
TAM Sunday: I give a presentation to a zillion people
I got up early to get ready to see the papers, and to make sure I was there to watch everyone else’s papers because they usually aren’t crowded. TAMmers leave in droves on Sunday before the event is over and the papers were really poorly advertised this year. There was no program, there was no …
Jul 19 2011
TAM Saturday
I got up early on Saturday and headed to the Del Mar bar to meet Ginger Campbell, super awesome brain and ER doctor, to watch the 3rd place World Cup match between Sweden and France. I didn’t stay for the whole thing, but Sweden ended up winning. I missed a panel about paranormal investigation and …
Jul 16 2011
TAM Friday
First up this morning was a marginal breakfast. I don’t understand this — why do people put cooked fruit into things that don’t need cooked fruit. Cooked fruit is not chocolate. It does not make things better. It makes them measurably much worse. Croissants don’t need jelly on the inside. It’s gross. George Hrab opened …
Jul 15 2011
TAM 9 Thursday
So, yesterday I arrived in Las Vegas. It was hot, but actually less hot than it was in Columbia, SC for the last few days. I then immediately got some Baja Fresh, because brown salsa is amazing. Then iw went to the hotel. I ended up hanging out with Heidi Anderson in the speakers rooms …
Jul 14 2011
Here comes TAM9 from Outer Space
As faithful readers of the blog will know, I am going to TAM in Las Vegas this weekend. I am currently writing from the airplane because I was bored enough to shell out the $13. It is the future. Today, I will land around 1PM and then I’m going to go get food at Baja …
Jul 11 2011
Women’s World Cup: Weekend Summary: Insanity
Wow, what an insane weekend. So much overtime, so many surprises. France defeated Australia with no surprises, except that Australia’s defense is even worse than we thought. A lot of people are saying that the Matildas have it in them to be a contender next World Cup, but they’ve got to majorly change their defense …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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