Open Formats

current tune: nine inch nails - home

Massachusetts has been making the news lately over their threatening to remove microsoft office from all the state computers. Is this just Massachusetts trying to squeeze a better deal out of microsoft by threatening to switch? no. this is ...

Ahoy!

current tune: at th' sail in - pattern against user

that's right, ye're jealous, by Davy Jones' locker. i pirate-ified me entire blog. yer comments get pirate-ified, too, to be sure. linky

Apartments

current tune: bright eyes - landlocked blues
last night we went over to home depot with our soon to be roommates to get paint for our living room. like proper domestics, we brought along the pillowcase from our Ikea Couch to compare all the paint ...

Sexually Illiterate

current tune:
 POD  Open Source Sex

It seems apple has unlisted sex-related podcasts, again. it seems they're laboring under the same delusions as abstinence-only sex ed programs. somehow, teaching people about sex is a form of smut, in their minds.
this has been bugging me since ...

Standards

The Wifest has a good point. i'm copying this from her:

The average north american woman is 5' 4-1/8"
The average American woman spends over 3x as much time preparing food and cleaning up as the average American man.
standard kitchen upper cabinets top out at between 6' 6" ...