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September 7

53 | 7.9.2010 | 9 minutes ago

guerillamamamedicine:

dominickbrady:

Clean.

rogwalker:

Student

Rog Walker

139 | 7.9.2010 | 13 minutes ago

God No Longer A "He" In Scottish Episcopal Church

baruchandroll:

atrapforfools:

kypri:

genderqueer:

“God’s above and beyond human gender,” says one reverend. “We are not saying God is not masculine. God is also feminine.”

Sweeeet.

This is really cool. I wonder what a lot of the die-hard Christians I know would say about this.

I am just waiting for the day that humans are above and beyond human gender (binaries) too.

fuck yeah scotland.

(Source: asexualadolescence)

5 | 7.9.2010 | 21 minutes ago

AIs in the kitchen | Blog | Futurismic

wildunicornherd:

Aliette de Bodard, who’s been linked here before, has a guest post on Futurismic about the Rice Cooker of the Future:

This particular one comes with all the bells and whistles: the pot is non-stick (which comes in handy to wash off the rice), it has several modes including porridge (congee/zhou), soup, and several different types of rice (white, sushi, glutinous, and brown). And it has a timer.

And (this is the part that appeals to my inner geek), it has artificial intelligence.

Specifically, what the makers call Fuzzy Logics, which allow it to handle more complicated scenarios than the one where the user has put in the correct amount of rice and the correct amount of water. As this article has it, the cooker is starting to think like a real cook, adapting its behaviour to what’s happening inside the machine. Typically, if the rice gets dry too fast, it’ll adjust the temperature downwards; if there’s too much water, it’ll boil it away, etc.

When the robots rise up and enslave us all, the rice will be perfect.

P. S. Actually I am linking this more for her description of European rice-making: “flinging a few handfuls of it into a large pot of boiling water”. D: Until now I assumed there were two ways of making rice: 1) rice cooker, 2) basically the same way, but in a pot, adjusting the temperature yourself. Never in my life had I imagined such a culinary perversion as cooking rice like frozen peas.

P. P. S. My friend X. confirms that there exists mushy “white people’s rice”. I thought I was brought up as “assimilated” as you could get, but clearly there exist realms of whiteness I am not privy to, and frankly I don’t think I’m missing much.

zuky:

I’ve eaten White People’s Rice. I won’t subject you to the horrible, horrible details, but here’s the brief: long-grained, all the starches washed out, bland but slathered with butter and salt. I’ve also eaten rice cooked up by white people which was delicious, even transcendent, so that’s out there too. Like paella and risotto. Still, I’m obviously pretty partial to the steamed rice and thin rice porridge I grew up eating, for me they’re the most comforting.

I got a fuzzy logic rice cooker as the first item in my bachelor pad kitchen when I moved to New York in 1992. The start button with the red light was actually labeled “Fuzzy Start”, which always cracked me up because the machine is kinda telling you, “Okay you ‘started’ me but this is no primitive binary on/off start trapped in the illusory confusion of duality, this is a motherfucking fuzzy start, so I’m kinda starting at my own pace, maybe I’ve started, maybe I haven’t, dig?”

It was an extravagant purchase, but you gotta understand the importance of proper rice to a Chinese guy like me. Nothing else in your life can possibly go well if you don’t have good fuel, which starts with rice. Once you’ve got a rice cooker you can trust, you can forget about it and focus on other parts of dinner and life. It was a good purchase: that rice cooker steamed away on the kitchen counter for 17 years. I finally retired it from a long, productive tour of duty last year, when I moved. I found a replacement a couple weeks ago at the Asian market, which is steaming away as I type this out.

i don’t really know anything about rice. i should investigate further.

6 | 7.9.2010 | 37 minutes ago

“ Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.
Lords And Ladies, Terry Pratchett (via curliestofcrowns) (via novazembla)

544 | 7.9.2010 | 1 hour ago

divineloser:

parakeetwednesday:

wildechild:

anakisa:

malfoydracomalfoy:

hellokatieclaire:mizzrina

oh hello.

53 | 7.9.2010 | 1 hour ago

divineloser:

davethebrave:

aprildivine:ravenforest:learnatorium

1225013623988 (by Style Cunt)

too much? or not nearly enough??

all kidding aside, this is a solid ensemble, and i realize he’s playing it up for the camera, but dude just looks like he needs a hug. i’ve worked with this guy, and he wore hollister hoodies and skinny jeans, and he hated his dad. (and in hindsight looked an awful lot like elevensies…)

he had a chance to go live with friends on a beach in hawaii, but he felt he had to get a college degree right away to prove something or other. and i was all, i know you have to make your own choices in life, but DUDE. a beach house. in hawaii. you’ll only be twenty once.

anywho, i’ve often felt that most steampunk or bishōnen goth outfits are missing something, and i think i just worked out what it usually is - a sword.

i mean, i know 90% would get a rapier with a baroque handguard and continuously make not-left-handed-either jokes, with the other 10% split between sword canes and replicas of the dragon-head katana from fucking highlander? but still.

although, and in this i am spoiled by angel dvds, it would be nice to see a simple broadsword now and again. or a gladius. there’s a blade you don’t see often enough in modern times.

[oh man, i am nerdy about the wrong fucking shit]

0 | 7.9.2010 | 2 hours ago

[untitled] by Steelharbinger

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everything about this is awesome.

0 | 7.9.2010 | 2 hours ago

Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale - Ken Doll - Mattel - Toys “R” Us

i was going to blog this and grumble that barbie is still kind of ridiculous, but that suit actually looks pretty well made for $13. ditch the sparkley tie, go for a nice solid red. add a gun holstered under the jacket (or just ditch the jacket if the black shirt has full sleeves) add a better head, this would be a good bondian henchman.

crap.

3864 | 7.9.2010 | 2 hours ago

Reblog if you want lots of TMI questions in your ask box

novazembla:

privatesnafu:

thesciencegirl:

shouldbestudyingmedschool:

teallikethecolor:

margaretmoony:

salishere:

art-and-girls:

this would be lovely :3

No shame here.

Pretty please?

I trust y’all not to be too disgusting.

This would probably be a lot more fun if I had more than 12 followers.

But I doubt my answers will be interesting

I do not doubt my answers will be interesting.

DO IT.

i’ll take whatever. bring it on. please. anything to feel again.

24 | 7.9.2010 | 2 hours ago

stachiomaniasis:

Ah, my goodness, the other day my partner and I read and laughed at a magazine article about SHEDDING POUNDS, THE MANLY WAY! and oh goodness it was just so full of shit. The dieting industry is shitty enough, and the way the article attempted to frame dieting in a way that would apparently be appealing to their idea of men was sad and hilarious.

I have to laugh, or I’ll cry.

DUDE. GET IN THE POOL. NOBODY CARES. nobody else notices, to them that’s just the way you look. it’s fine.

1 | 7.9.2010 | 2 hours ago

Barbie Pink Glam Video Girl Barbie Doll - Mattel - Toys “R” Us

It’s Barbie doll vision with our Barbie Video Girl Doll! Create movies from Barbie doll’s point-of-view with a real video camera inside Barbie doll. The Barbie-cam camera lens is in the doll’s necklace with video screen on back. Barbie Video Girl doll includes USB plug-in cord.

(h/t to urlesque)

the barbie video girl series! being a barbie doll with a video camera embedded into her chest in an only slightly off-putting way. lens embedded in her ‘necklace’, color lcd and controls on the back. i don’t know who decided she should be wearing a hoodie that’s eternally going to fall in front of the screen, but we kind of already know that doll manufacturers don’t think very highly of little girls, so whatevs.

she specs out at a 320x240 sensor and 256mb internal memory, with two AAA batteries (which store in her thighs, this is a really skeevy camera design) she’s got about an hour of battery life, but can only record 25 minutes of video. usb out, .avi format.

i mean, for $50 at walgreens you can get at least a 2mp camera that shoots comparable or better video, records to an upgradeable memory card, with probably a rechargeable battery.

but you can’t dress that one up in all the latest styles. or, from the perspective of young girl detectives and secret agents, carry unnoticed into sensitive areas. if this had a memory card slot i could see girls using barbies to pass along messages secure from prying eyes, but as it stands, it’s still a pretty rad idea.

not quite as cool as the lego studios moviemaker set, designed to let you easily make lego stop motion films? but we’ll take it. hopefully hasbro will follow suit with a flip video camera that turns into an autobot. [as these things go, the king is still device label soundwave, who turns into a functional mp3 player. usb hub broad blast is pretty sweet as well.]

44 | 7.9.2010 | 6 hours ago

Bat(man) on Fire (by Mina Mikhael)

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2 | 7.9.2010 | 7 hours ago

protip - this book is awesome.

0 | 7.9.2010 | 9 hours ago

zoe hanging off the back of the swing

Zoe - can you do this? Me - no, i’m too big. Zoe - yeah, maybe when you get smaller you could.

0 | 7.9.2010 | 10 hours ago

the blonde boy is The Jerk.