On Life and Love
Whatever is making or breaking my day.
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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]
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“Hair Wars”
Dre posted this a little while back, but since her journal is friends-only, I figured I’d point this out. It’s an interesting and friendly discussion on black hair, particularly talking about natural vs. chemically/heat processed. The “friendly” part is the second most important aspect of the video — there tends to be a lot of condemnation when it comes to how black women should wear their hair. The most important part, of course, is that this kind of intelligent discussion is taking place. I’ve stopped reading Nappturality forums that tend to devolve into meaningless arrogance and mud slinging. As I mentioned in Dre’s comments, I question whether using chemicals permanently…
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Holy cow
I’m not surprised by the open hatred, but I am surprised that 1) the NBA was quick to snatch his fool ass out of there, and that 2) the news interviewer openly called him on that bigotry. Maybe it’s because I don’t watch television or teevee news, but I feel like America matured a big bit while I was sleeping on the media. There are always going to be bigots, but I’m always interested in the moment (whatever the hatred is toward) when the media (or the government, whatever) realize it’s bigotry and treat it as such. That seems like a massive turning point in our development, to me. For…
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What if?
What if helping someone you love means going against some of your core values? What if it means encouraging behavior you believe is damaging in the long-term? What if it means giving up your freedom? How much of yourself do you give up for a friend’s benefit? The only words I can use to describe my current predicament are scary, sad, disappointing, frustrating, and painful. I don’t respond well to feeling trapped, and I’m angry at myself for letting myself be outmaneuvered into this position. Now I just need to figure out how to fix it.
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This Week’s Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Irrsinn Coding Horror: XP Automatic Update Nagging — A very nice fix for the 10-minute nagging dialog box. No, sorry, that’s really a command box, not a dialog box. Tagged as: [windows-xp sysadmin techie]