Author Archives: Cynthia

Some things should not come out of a Muppet’s mouth, ok?

There’s a little video of Martin Scorsese sound bites dubbed into the Sesame Street gang’s mouths up on YouTube called “Sesame Streets”, and even though it was funny, I did need to revisit the classic Steve Wonder performance of “Superstition” on Sesame Street back in ‘73 to get the video’s bits with Bert and Ernie [...]

followup on set your laser cannon to *smite*

Well, Forbes.com took down the offensive slide show. Thanks to Amanda at Pandagon, she managed to get the text captured.

Set the laser cannon to *smite*!

One of my lj comrades (judith_s) pointed me to a truly rage-honing slide show on Forbes.com about why marrying a career woman is not a good idea.
Basically, it’s another rehash of all the main patriarchal talking points about why half the human race shouldn’t be working outside the home, but kept working within the home [...]

Trying to finish processing BlogHer06

I’ve spent the past two and a half weeks since BlogHer06 trying to process what I learned and observed at it as well as what’s been discussed in the followup discussions on various blogs.
Second day sessions that worked well
the sex panel with Susie Bright et. al.: the usefulness of this discussion for me was [...]

Still a little wiped out from Blogher’06

I needed to do the housework that doesn’t happen during the work week, and I am still a bit wiped from the events of the last couple of days, so I wasn’t able to make it up to chez Badger today for the next round of WoolfCamp.
I was able to learn a lot of stuff, [...]

Why this weblog?

Well, I’ve had this domain since December of 2001 and haven’t done anything much with it until this year when I went to WoolfCamp in February, and got somewhat motivated to make a self-hosted weblog and sign up for Blogher’06.
At Blogher, I found out which tools I needed to get this going and also had [...]