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Locs, part deux
About a month ago, I started down the journey to locs again. The comb coils from a couple of months back hadn’t worked, but this time I tried a technique I hadn’t seen on the internet: I just rubber-banded my hair into sections. They looked like little puffs (or even bantu knots) for a while, and I got a lot of Matrix comments. About a week ago, there was enough growth for me to start latching, although I needed to keep the rubber bands on. I latched. Yay. I couldn’t get them clean, however. I workout almost daily, and I just couldn’t shampoo enough to get the roots clean (the…
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A fat rant
The visible comments on YouTube for this comment are not enlightening — your typical array of, “Yeah, don’t hate fat people!” “Fat people are all going to die at age 30 of heart attacks!” and “Fatty fatty fat fat!” Yeah. Anyway. I think she raises some valid points. A lot of people do put their lives on hold for an arbitrary weight. Plenty of people who’ve been overweight for years or decades have no realistic idea of what their “ideal” weight should healthily be, but they get fixated on some number (usually around 130 lb. for women) and strive to hit it, closing their eyes to how they look or…
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This Week’s Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Irrsinn Weighted Sissy Squat — Weighted or unweighted, this is one of my favorites in terms of difficulty. Tagged as: [health exercise]
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News(?) from Georgia Tech
After not hearing a damn thing from the Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. Program for months, I emailed them to ask if there was some problem. All my documents show as being in, all letters of recommendation done months ago, etc. The response? “A first round of offers was made, and all other applicants were placed on a waiting list. Unfortunately, it appears that the class will fill up and no offers will be made to applicants on the waiting list.” So presumably, I’m on that waiting list. Which is really a rejection list, since no offers are being made to them. Regardless, I’m questioning further, just in case I was offered…
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This Week’s Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Irrsinn Make your own protein bars — I totally need to try this! It sounds yummy and is less creepy than the stuff buyable in stores. Tagged as: [food] monkeybicycle.net – Can I just point out how racist I’m not being right now? — Funny stuff. Tagged as: [racism] krustukles: Yesterday, wasting a little time… — On a post beginning with the phrase, "I’m not racist, so…" Krustukles lays it all out rather nicely. Tagged as: [racism]