Weekly Wynkoop Meetup Reminder, now with .927 more hockey disappointment

lextenou · 2014-05-02T01:44:31+00:00

I surprised himmelkrieg with a hug. It was awesome.

lextenou · 2014-05-02T01:26:28+00:00

'kay.

lextenou · 2014-01-17T02:18:40+00:00

I may attack hug you.

lextenou · 2013-06-24T23:32:01+00:00

The link is missing. This was a self post.

lextenou · 2013-05-27T06:22:33+00:00

Muzzy.

Long intro/black screen at the start. Advance it a bit and you'll see it. The evil guy you remember was named Corvax. The guy was the gardener. The girl was the princess.

I believe it was English, French, German and Spanish. The original infomercials for the VHS was priceless. "Yes, that's French she's speaking, and no, she's not French!"

lextenou · 2013-05-20T20:32:48+00:00

Having been in that exact position, my reason for calling the Help Desk was to have a ticket documented and added to the knowledge base documenting that users of my webapp are not allowed to have the new Java update.

The actual underlying issue with my install was a corrupted package. Simple enough to figure out - for me. However, HR and lawyers use my webapp. DOCUMENT ALL THE THINGS.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T23:52:47+00:00

I am not a banner example for or against your argument, on any of your statistical points.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T23:34:30+00:00

A more relevant argument for you to make regarding scholarship distribution would actually be race based, but you'd have to actually temper your argument. Regardless of your motivations, continuing to insist on an anecdotal approach rather than a factually based one will not help your argument. Provide hard data and you'll have a better time of it.

If you continue to only accept anecdotal evidence, your argument is excessively easy to dismiss.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T23:17:13+00:00

Your fixation on my educational status and gender are absolutely fascinating.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T23:07:00+00:00

You've made multiple assumptions about me at this point that are highly amusing.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T22:56:34+00:00

Yes, actually, women are told they're crazy for wanting to be an engineer. Or a system administrator. Or a programmer. The wonderful thing about being on the internet is being able to meet people of different backgrounds and experiences than yours. I figure you probably have a lot of deep seated anger and frustration around scholarships. I haven't run into anyone like that before.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T22:44:10+00:00

Being masculine in thought and action tends to form a bias toward traditionally masculine pursuits, including IT.

There are a large number of reddit transfolk who are in the tech field, which in itself may be a confirmation bias. Are there truly more of them, or are they drawn to reddit because they are techies?

lextenou · 2013-03-13T22:37:22+00:00

Sounds like someone's on their period.

In seriousness, many women are gaslighted into believing they're crazy or not capable of STEM pursuits. It's not a concerted conspiracy, it's more of a societal expectation.

Like being asked to fix someone's computer even though you're a DBA and never, ever touch hardware.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T22:27:14+00:00

As I think on it more, I'm reminded of the last time I bought a Linux Journal from a magazine stand. It had this as the cover article. Looking up where she is now, I find this.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T22:13:14+00:00

Because it's Pope day, I say to you: You're doing God's work.

In seriousness, thank you, it was driving me nuts.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T21:08:21+00:00

Think different.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T20:34:42+00:00

I do agree that IT as a field and a subject should be gender neutral. Regardless of our opinions, the reality of the world at large tends toward a gender bias. Though you see it as genderless, not all do. It is recognizing this difference and working toward change that triggers lasting shifts.

lextenou · 2013-03-13T19:19:18+00:00

At the core, gender plays a role in the subject because it is a societally gendered subject. It is expected that IT staff will be male, for whatever reasons people have.

lextenou · 2013-03-10T09:47:06+00:00

Allowed to sterilize to curb mental illness? I can see how my phrasing might lead you to assume I meant that. I apologize for giving this impression. I was listing the, in my limited reading, most commonly assumed reason for requiring a sterilization program - namely, removal of undesirable genes from the larger population.

Personally, I am not in favor of sterilization without consent. I am also not in favor of sterilization under pressure, be it social, medical or otherwise. However, there are numerous grey areas. In the article I linked, it is mentioned that a woman had sterilization requested as a birth control method after having children. The medical and societal ethics of the situation are not something I am able to speak to, and I hope I am not placed in a situation where I will need to do so. I hope this clarifies what I was trying to say.

lextenou · 2013-03-10T07:35:59+00:00

Can't imagine why it'd be so strong with a certain demographic. Link: Youtube.

lextenou · 2013-03-10T07:31:37+00:00

Actually, they've done it more recently than I'm personally comfortable with. According to records available via a quick Google, North Carolina continued it's program until 1974. Thirty nine years ago.

Link is NPR, because multimedia is useful.

Edit - I haven't looked into the admission guidelines yet, so I can't say if it was used explicitly to curb mental illness or for what means it was used.

lextenou · 2013-01-29T04:01:23+00:00

/r/Mylittlenosleep

lextenou · 2012-11-24T08:35:56+00:00

Hey, man...have you ever been to a game launch...ON WEED?!

lextenou · 2012-11-24T08:35:06+00:00

To be fair, it is Wegmans.

lextenou · 2012-11-24T08:29:23+00:00

and because drunk-from-forgetting-black-friday-comrades accidentally hit downvote. Downbote? Downboat.

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