My arm is still screwed up so I played exactly one game (and a sloppy game at that because I was anxious about my arm) so I’m not in here anywhere, but it was still a great trip. via raizes / See also.
Big props also to kthread for steering me to the very right place to write evals and have a beer before class (hours before class, I swear).
Drive Like A Girl airs tonight at 9 on WNYEIn 2010, the Iron Maidens at Bronx High School of Science beat over 60 male-dominated teams in a New York City FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is the organization that creates and hosts this annual game.
That year, the Iron Maidens advanced to the national competition in Atlanta, Ga., but lost before winning it all. When we filmed them in 2011, they returned as regional champions, fighting for another shot at the national competition.
They had six weeks to design, program and build a robot alongside their brother team and one of their competitors, the Sciborgs. As they worked toward a possible second win, they also taught the rookies how to become the next leaders of the team.
Mary Jamis, a lesbian woman, was ARRESTED yesterday after she and her partner sought a marriage license in North Carolina.
Fuck this world.
You won’t catch me on the barricades for a male-led revolution. Women have been pulling that strip for centuries. We’ve bled for them and have gotten nothing. Nothing. This time women are going to make history and make things different.
Kate Millet
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam
The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.”
The course, first reported by Danger Room last month and held at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College, has since been canceled by the Pentagon brass. It’s only now, however, that the details of the class have come to light.
The officer who delivered the lectures, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, still maintains his position at the Norfolk, Virginia college, pending an investigation. The commanders, lieutenant colonels, captains and colonels who sat in Dooley’s classroom, listening to the inflammatory material week after week, have now moved into higher-level assignments throughout the U.S. military.
Well fuck.
Sometimes I realize how completely cozy my bubble is.
Kind of great.
1960s Giant California Republic Bear Flag (sold)
Amanhã.
Among books you could print on our EBM, albeit in ironic Lee Lozano-esque grayscale: von Goethe’s Theory of Colors.
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Making one of these sounds like a really fun beginner project.
Schnell Style (but in Python)
If you have made a text adventure in your mind that you really like, and you’re tired of dictating it and would rather make it in a computer language, this page is for you! I’m teaching you a shortcut to make a text adventure, for those who actually know Python.
Yes.
It's Not That I Don't Want Children. Exactly. - NYTimes.com
For some reason it is bugging the shit out of me that they say in the story that “18 percent of American women are childless through age 44” and then in a correction they throw in this wierd aside, apologizing for using the number 46 percent and clarifying that 18 percent of American women between 40 and 44 have never given birth. Not the same thing.
Also, why the eff is adoption so out of the question here? Do you have any idea how many foster kids would love a mother right now? Yes, the foster care system is deeply and horribly broken and tears poor families apart while leaving wealthy kids to languish in abusive homes. But. Still. If you want to share your life with a child, you have options.
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