Posted in personal on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
hi everyone. there was an incident this morning that revealed a little situation to me. here’s the deal. my email address is *not* kristinab @ gmail . com (w/o spaces of course). however, there’s another kristina out there who does possess that email address, and apparently i’m not her favorite person! please don’t email her [...]
Posted in political on March 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
my husband the delegate
Originally uploaded by Kristina B.
michael spent 12 hours at our county convention today, where thousands of delegates congregated to propel the mechanism of texan democracy onward. here he is just getting home, sun burnt and exhausted from getting up at like 6:00 this morning.
Posted in blogging on March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As I commented over at Shrinking Isaac, I think that the woman with the nipple piercing has a point. Despite this gaffe from one of their employees, apparently the TSA is not run by no dummies. They have a blog, with amusing and informative video content. I found this while researching blogging, which turns into [...]
Posted in austin, literati on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Hey Austinites - If you’re looking for something fun to do tonight, head on over to Cafe Caffeine for the launch party of New Belleville Press. My friend Maxine will be reading from her new book Neurotica. She’s is what you might call “a piece of work,” and her readings are great fun! [...]
Posted in productivity, tagged leechblock on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Taking Jeremy’s lead, I’m using Leechblock. If you, like me, ever find yourself mindlessly clicking away from your work into GMail or Bloglines (or whatever your particular distractions are), and then “coming to” only to find that 30 minutes (or more!) have passed, Leechblock is a great tool for you. It’s awesome in [...]
Posted in political on March 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
ed. note: woops - i posted the video and then got distracted before i could add the rest of the post. so my commentary has been added after some people already commented. sorry about that. anyway, here it is:
Check out this reaction to Obama’s race speech. [via Lisa from Sociological [...]
Posted in random on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
an explanation! or at least a theory. i’m talking about why the hell stuff white people like has exploded like LOLCats (which I also absolutely love and have no idea why).
by the way, michael, this one goes out to you (3rd paragraph).
Posted in political on March 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
i am asking you to spend the next 37 minutes of your life watching this. or, you know, first available. they will be 37 well-spent minutes, even if you are not an obama supporter. it’s his “more perfect union” speech, delivered this morning. note: he wrote it, not a speech writer.
Posted in academia, blogging on March 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This post is dedicated to all the socio-bloggers who have mused about quitting lately, as it seems like there are a few. Becoming Dr. Warner seems to be closed down, Radio Free Newport is considering quitting, as is New Soc Prof… and many others have talked about quitting in comments.
You know, when I was [...]
Posted in sociology on March 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure,” Ms. Richards said, “and teenage girls are paying the real price.”
["Sex Infections Found in Quarter of Teenage Girls," NYT]
It’s just like D.A.R.E.! Woo!
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