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Sat Jan 31 13:55:28 2004

OK, suppose for a second that you are a vegan. Now supposed for another second that you are into bondage, S&M and all that stuff. Well, the toys that go along with that are all leather, right?

What's a sadomasochistic vegan to do? Look no further - veganerotica.com

Classic example of "find a niche and fill it"...

Don't hurt the cows, but hurt me plenty, baby!

Sat Jan 31 12:04:53 2004

Ninjas are totally sweet.

Sat Jan 31 11:00:40 2004

Well, I put some serious work into the new-and-improved blog by email script. It's still not ready for primetime, though. It's logic is, well, illogical. How it works is a total mystery to anyone that tries to use it, and most likely a mystery to myself by tomorrow. Also, it is in serious need of modularization, for my own sanity and its own. Modularizing it should allow me to make it recursive (all the best scripts are recursive, are they not?) so that comments can be made to comments. But if anyone wants to play with it, it's here for now.

Sat Jan 31 08:39:03 2004

Ack! Someone other than Maxwell has read my blog! Da Goddess sent me a 'hello' as well. Wow, now I feel like I'm under pressure to actually be interesting or something. Two whole readers... who'd have thunk it?

BTW - Thanks for the support, both of you.

Fri Jan 30 16:57:14 2004

I've decided that I like Da Goddess. She's has great stories, a great writing style and, as this post clearly demonstrates, she is not afraid to talk about her sexuality. I wish more women were like that. The coy, mousy "tee-hee-hee" thing that so many women seem to do does absolutely nothing for me. I don't know why women feel they need to play all innocent-like in this day and age. It's probably has something to do with our repressed culture here in America. Anyways, I really have no point here other than trying to gather my own thoughts around what I'm looking for in a woman. Maybe I'll make a full post out of it later.

BTW - I realize my anonymity has diminished with this post. It should be obvious now that I'm either a man or a lesbian. Actually, I've always thought of myself as a lesbian trapped in a man's body. I'll let the reader make their own assumptions about what that might mean. ;)

Fri Jan 30 11:41:38 2004

I've been meaning to contest something that Maxwell has stated a couple of times in the past - that gay marriages aren't a threat to anyone. I'll tell you who is threatened by gay marriages - religious fundamentalists. The concept challenges the belief that god created man and woman with "complementary" characteristics solely for the purpose of procreation, and that sexual acts that run contrary to that purpose are somehow wrong. Well if we go down that road, not only is homosexuality wrong, but so are a great many other sexual acts, up to and including masturbation and birth-control. I think the religious elite dropped most of those arguments quite a while ago. And I think they need to drop this one, too. Sexual acts of all kinds (so long as they are exercised with the proper amount of common sense and respect) allow us to enjoy ourselves, become intimate, live and love better. And, the sex acts that aren't conducive to procreation have an added social side-benefit - no unwanted children. In my humble opinion, this is another case where common sense is being challenged by antiquated dogma. My response? Go, go, gay marriage!

Addendum: Great essay explaining how the bible doesn't actually condemn homosexuality. (In case you're into that 'bible' thing.)

Fri Jan 30 10:37:08 2004

I watched "Queer eye for the straight guy" for the first time last night. Great show. In this episode they helped a guy loose a hairpiece that he'd been wearing for 13 years. They also did a great job helping him decorate his house (he had almost no furniture prior...) But the hairpiece really needed to go. Anyone that wears one of those things has got serious self-esteem issues. His mom talked him into getting it, fer chrissakes. And she was the only one that didn't like his new look. Jessus, woman, let your poor son live his own damn life. It was blindingly obvious (that wasn't meant to be a bald joke...lol) that the guy felt so much better to not have to wear that thing anymore. All his friends and his wife totally supported him as well. His new look worked, not only because he looked good without the hairpiece, but because he could now let his self esteem develop beyond a cosmetic crutch, and it showed. Actually, now that I think about it, his mom kinda looked like she might have been wearing a wig... hmm.

Thu Jan 29 13:59:01 2004

I decided that my blog needs links to other blogs. Mine is sort of a leaf-node in the network of blogs. Only one other person ever linked to my site that I know of. So, I'll add a gaggle of links to other blogs that I take interest in on a semi-regular basis at the bottom of this page. However, that's an operation for when I get home. I'm also contemplating allowing readers to submit annotations to blog entries. That would be a nice feature for when and/or if I ever get any readers... lol.

Wed Jan 28 14:06:22 2004

There is a rather lively debate going on over at slashdot regarding the outsourcing of IT jobs to India. I was unable to decide where I stand on this issue because the whole time I spent reading this, I couldn't help but think over and over of a simple solution (for myself). When and if my job ever becomes threatened by outsourcing, I'll collect my unemployment, take out a student loan, and go back to school. Would I learn more technology? Hell no. I'm bored with it already, and just about everything I use at work I never learned in school anyway. I'd become a lawyer. Yep, you heard right, a lawyer. Loosing my job to India would surely put me in a foul mood, and what better way to take out my frustrations than terrorizing l4m3rs with my l33t litigation skillz. Why merely turn to the dark side, when you can skip right past it and become evil incarnate? Yeah, I'm liking that idea. Pure evil, a lawyer. Maybe I won't even wait to get laid off. Muahaha.

Wed Jan 28 09:41:49 2004

My one of my free-loading chickens has finally laid an egg. It's about time. They should have started laying in September/October. Oh well, better late than never...

Tue Jan 27 09:49:16 2004

Well, there is another worm ripping it's way through the Internet today. Once again we get to thank MS Outlook, the Typhoid Mary of the Internet. As is my usual Modulus Operandi, I'll do nothing other than blog it with a smug look on my face. Silly Microsoft.

Mon Jan 26 11:30:39 2004

Mucho snow today. Icy roads. Bad driving conditions. Many schools closed. Fun Fun. I'm working from home today (yeah, technology!) In case anyone is wondering why I haven't updated the zymurgy section lately, it's because I haven't brewed anything in that long. Zymurgy is sooo-lastyear. This year it's chickens. Yep, built myself a chicken coop and raised me some chickies. I was going to photo-document the whole coop building exercise, but after doing the platform, I was so into it that I forgot to take any pictures. Here's the few pictures that I do have - chickens

Sun Jan 25 09:27:13 2004

My intentions for dog-slow were to include absolutely no personal information about myself. I like to remain anonymous, the entity behind the curtain, so-to-speak. (Note the clever avoidance of revealing my gender there?) However, recent events have impacted my emotional state to the point where I feel I must talk about them. I was married. Technically, I still am. But I asked my significant other (again cleverly avoiding gender) to leave in October. And away they went. Let me tell you the relief was immense. So, my marital status is now "separated", much for the better.

So now, I have many questions, many choices to make. I've given up on questions like "Why can't we get along?" and "What the hell happened?" - that's all behind me now. Now my main question is, "What now?" (Asking myself.) Should I become a hermit? Should I find someone new? If so, how? A friend of mine had considerable success finding someone special on Match.com. The Internet sounded like a great place for someone like me to meet someone, so I gave it a try. So far I've sent out 14 e-mails to prospective dates. Only three responded. One offered to chat (IM - style) but never did, one I actually did IM-chat with, but the rapport just kind of fizzled. The third went so far as to actually get me a real live face-to-face date. Out of respect for that person, I'll not give any details on how that went. But I did learn something. "Separated" is not a martial state conducive to dating. Granted, the OP (other person) knew I was separated before going out with me, but it still was cause for reservation. So for now I have taken my profile off of the match.com site, until I can take care of that little detail. Once my status is "divorced", perhaps I'll give it another shot.

Sun Jan 25 08:33:37 2004

The other day someone said to me, "I'm smart, but I use my brain for other things." Brilliant!

Sat Jan 24 11:47:04 2004

I have started over with the blog. I quit updating it because the firewall nazis at work cut off my outbound ssh access. That used to be my method of updating: ssh into the webserver, hack up the file, done. Now they forced me to use stronger measures. I set up an email address at dog-slow that accepts inbound blog emails, and writes them out to the blog file. I'll post it over in the Mad Perl section later, someday, maybe.