Thank you for the correction! I didn’t realize insulin was an animal product, though it makes sense.

Personally, I suspect that it will go to providing the estrogen that one of their older VPs takes, now that she’s in menopause. The rest of us shouldn’t enslave horses to have artificial hormones so we can function comfortably in modern society. She should, because she is fighting for the freedom of the animals.

Yup - found it: http://kotaku.com/how-elmo-ruine…

Actually, it does matter. I was reading a thing about Sesame Street’s shift to focusing on Elmo in the last ten or so years and how damaging the author of that piece perceives this focus to be to children, because Elmo is played as basically a three year old child and doesn’t do any growing, where prior to their…

And see, if she had Angelina Jolie’s oughties attitude on the red carpet (not her wardrobe for the last few years, though) Mara would just kill the ethos behind Lisbeth Salander, who took no shit, and no prisoners, and could not possibly give a fuck what anyone thought, and that would remind us all that she is an…

Maybe? I think of Emmy Rossum who also did that monochrome thing for a long time, and I don’t know how successful it really is to look like a blank canvas. And when you contrast that with Cate Blanchett or Nicole Kidman or younger actresses like Kiernan Shipka, it doesn’t strike me that not looking like a blank canvas…

Yup! When you see her smiling, it’s so wonderful, and it just makes all the monochrome unhappiness worse.

Also, the back of Eva Longoria’s dress is a nightmare hellscape of unprecedented proportions, and I agree with the Fug Girls - it was made for someone six inches taller than her and the proportions are all fucked up on her.

If Rooney Mara is going to continue the monochrome game she started with the Girl movies, then she needs to a) work on her head-suit, and b) actually learn how to have a facial expression. She looks both dead and desperately unhappy in everything I have seen her in on red carpets. As a fellow extremely pale person,…

While there’s never really a good time to bring that sort of thing up, this sounds like possibly the worst time ever.

Holy shit. I am so sorry that is happening to you. I don’t have any other words, but I wish I did. I am so sorry. I hope the puppy helps forever.

I’m super excited for the Feast of St. Markdown on the 15th, though! ALL THE CHOCOLATE.

Oh, I know it’s good - it’s just not good enough for the amount of work it takes. And I’m in Seattle, teaching web design/development classes, so $3500 is certainly all right, but it’s nowhere near even a living wage here - the median wage, if I recall my stats correctly, is $50K/year, and of course in tech, it’s…

AHAHAHAHAHA, I’ve been adjunct faculty for about two years off and on, and I can only go about three quarters before I want to kill EVERYONE because it sounds super rewarding and on some level it is, but it is also the hell of shepherding students, prep, meltdowns, meetings, reviews, standards assessments, and all…

Your cat is still adorable. And regarding the job, remember that “looking good later” is only relevant if you are still interested in your industry when you’re done with this job. If it starts to get to you personally, better to cut your losses.

I haven’t fully thought this through, so it’s a good thing you don’t have 10 million laying around. But I would like to set up a fund for cities like Detroit that are experiencing a real change in what it means to be a city. I think part of that would be small loans for business startups and education purposes, and…

I’m beating my head on some Javascript I’m trying to learn (because I keep side-eying the program I’m using because it’s open source and I’ve found bugs so is this not working because bugs or because I suck at Javascript?) But I have to get better at Javascript, there seems to be no way around that fact if I want to…

I think for me visual appeal is about context. Like, if we’re making out and the guy gets hard, then I like seeing that dick. Even with the guys I’m dating, I don’t really want to see some random pic of them shoving their dick at something to prove how huge their penis is or whatever - it’s emotionally devoid of…

I’ve gotten a couple from guys I’ve been involved with (I don’t date online) and it’s just ... dude, it’s a dick. I’ve seen dicks before. They don’t look all that different, and they’re not particularly attractive to start with, and I don’t care what container is not big enough to contain your enormous dick, because…

STRONG.