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Kinky Muffins Are Crispier
Oh my god! Benjamin Blueberry!
Are you looking at pictures of...
Cranberries?!
And WALNUTS?
You kinky, kinky muffin!
Is this because I ate your wife?
By Meghan B.
This contribution to the world of literature was brought to you by our useless poetry contest. A new theme is published each week, and everyone is invited to join in the fun or vote for your favorite!
I don't really know if this is ranting or advice or what, but it's about school so I figured I'd put it here. I go to a state school in Illinois. Illinois is SERIOUSLY in debt. My school is suffering a ton! They've asked teachers to take 4 days off without pay, they're encouraging older faculty to retire, they firing a lot of non-professor faculty, and limiting our course selections by a lot. My tuition is a fixed rate (that's not to say anything is stopping them from raising it anyway), but they're cutting costs in a lot of areas. They're eliminating the "cultural centers", like the GLBT center and the Latino Cultural center. Basically anything that isn't absolutely required to run a university is being eliminated. The University of Illinois (on all three campuses) is owed $430+ dollars by the state. They have received $7 million.
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I discovered a while back that if I want to use airplanes as a baby nursery theme, I'd better like the color blue. It's true that I'm a girl, avionics engineer, darn close to finishing my pilot's license, but airplanes for kids only come in one color and it's not one we'd ever want to *accidentally* mistake as being feminine. Obviously I shook the stereotypes off but look around... you have to work at it. Play kitchens and make-up sets are packaged with pictures of calm passive girls, while microscopes and train tracks are not. The EZ Bake Oven still claims in huge letters that it a "girl's first baking experience!" Because boys can't bake? Anyway all this overload is why I completely support the Pink Stinks campaign: http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/
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Earlier this year I became the proud owner of two guinea pigs. Then we got two more! The Herd has made life pretty exciting but I've also learned a LOT, through internet research and talking to others, and I thought I'd share my advice to any other potential guinea pig owners.
First I must say that guinea pigs are fantastic. They're active, funny to watch, completely adorable, happy to stay in their pen, easy to please, soft to pet, and they make neat squeaky noises. So if you're considering a pet they're pretty awesome. But there are some things you should keep in mind, which is why I've been meaning to write this quick guide of things you should know about guinea pigs.
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Lizpoona posed an interesting question to me via PM that I said I needed lots of space to write about. It's the, "I think I want to be an engineer what kind should I be?" question. Basically. So here's my simple answer, in 5000 words or less. Kids these days are "native" to the computing environment, or so we're told. What does that really mean? Sure, they grew up on computers, in a way that I never did - we had a computer at home when I was in middle school but at best it did word processing and one game. Well, and there was Atari. And we were one of the more progressive households - many people where I grew up hadn't seen a computer until we got to 7th grade in school, whereas we had one I had the privilege of interviewing Ingrid Dahl, founding member of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in Brooklyn, New York. Dahl is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Youth Media Reporter, a program officer of youth media at the Academy for Educational Development, and a musician in the bands RadPony! and BoySkout. She told me about her inspiration to start the camp and the effect it has on girls. No, this isn't about the crappy ass fucking movie put out by the same creator of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla, etc... we've already established what a craptacular one-note director he is. This is about the fact that if one more person talks to me about how the world is going to end in 2012, I'm going to split! Thought a bit of semi-frivolous discussion might do us all good =)
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[ view 5 replies ]Girls’ Rock Camp Combats Stereotypes and Raises Self Esteem
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[ view 0 replies ]2012
Do you people hear yourselves? Your inane non-sense talk about things you don't understand? I'm sorry, but what? The earth is going to split open on the winter solstice or some garbage? Have you even done the basic research on where this 2012 crap came from?
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[ view 12 replies ]'Slashies' (NOT fanfic related!)
So I heard this term on the radio a few days ago - and no, it's got nothing to do with slash or fanfiction. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up. Apparently this term has been coined to describe celebrities who venture outside of their initial field of fame, so to speak: actors slash singers, or actors slash designers, etc etc. Mostly applied to actors, I'd say, since they're usually the ones who decide to branch out.
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