Category: Other People

My friends at Damnhandy and Vomitola have a new baby girl. I’ve known Vomitola since we were surly teenagers, and thinking that she’s now got a tiny human to take care of makes all my worries seem pretty trivial. Awesome.

I’m growing back the mustache. I miss it. I’ll be posting a picture every couple days to track progress.

If you are lucky, they won’t be weirdly distorted Photo Booth pictures, but you never know.

I’m watching Spain vs. Tunisia on Univision right now, for Spanish practice. The announcers talk really fast and my Spanish is rusty, but I love that they get just as excited by Tunisia’s shots as by Spain’s.

Famed Microsoft-blogger Rober Scoble just bailed from MS, and so we at Top Ten Sources updated our Scoble’s Top 10 Sources page. And while we were doing that someone asked, “Hey, can anyone find a better picture of him? He looks like Phillip Seymour Hoffman in this one.” Answer: No.

If you hate the task of stopping for food, if you find meals interfere with your video-gaming or workaholism, check out this guy’s project to subsist only on monkey chow.

Awhile ago, Becks at Unfogged posted on some contradictions of “natural family planning,” notably that it actually causes more fertilized eggs to be lost than using condoms and backing them up with abortions. She suggested that the religious right ought to come out and admit to wanting a -on Quiver-Full policy toward fertility.

The Savage Love Straight Rights Update from last month has a similar warning: the right wants to take away your right to birth control.

Sure enough, Boston Catholic hardliner Domenico Bettinelli Jr. has begun to advocate exactly that. (He’s also got a rather interesting post about how any depiction of gays that doesn’t involve anal sex and bondage is a lie because we all know that they’re all violent angry unhappy people. Or something like that.)

Next up, a campaign against self-abuse, just like the good old days.

Great story from Daily Kos about mental health care in the US.

Think-tank Mass Inc. and their IssueSource site have some other information on health care and other subjects, mostly from the perspective of political and demographic research.

So, the lesson is that If you have insurance, don’t use it, or you’ll never get insurance again. What’s the point of health insurance if you’re afraid to get care when you need it?

When I went to my unemployment seminar lo these many months ago, the one thing everyone wanted was health insurance. Most of the crowd there had been at Bay Bank or Fleet for years and was part of the giant Bank of America buyout/layoff. Many of them were getting close to retirement. They’d have been happy to retire early, but they needed insurance. For the rest, the feeling was “I don’t care how bad the job is, or what the pay is, as long as there’s insurance before my COBRA runs out.”

It’ll get worse before it gets better, especially since political discussion these days seems to consist of illiterate xenophobes advocating English-only policies when their parents should have been practicing abstinence-only policies, and social discussion is limited to Paris Hilton in a pink leopard-print sailor outfit.

I start full-time work June 1 at Top 10 Sources, as an editor and researcher.

In this job I will not be matching the earnings of my high-school clasmates like Terence or Nat. However, those guys have to wear pants when they go to work, and I don’t.

Right now I’m having trouble coming up with ten good Spanish-language baseball blogs, so I may have to switch to just blogs sobre deportes or something like that.

There’s a tsunami scheduled for the Eastern US today!.