It's Stochastic!

From my husband "I tried to understand the language of the universe and this was all I got...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:38:42 -0800

... f'n nothing" hehe

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making Christmas light decorating much easier (you can thank me later)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:46 -0800

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first photos inside Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's home, taken by Courtney Perry @CoPerryPhoto for the Dallas Morning News

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:12:30 -0800

See them here

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Aliyah (my 4 year old) while looking through the Bible talking to an imaginary friend :

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:49:06 -0800

"You need to believe God, 'but I don't understand him', of course because you can't see him or understand him but the Bible is from Mary Poppins"

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serenity comics - yep, the truth is out, I'm not as cool as you all think I am ;)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:20:38 -0800

My husband just discovered that they put out more Serenity comics and we're silly excited to get the ones we're missing.

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CHANGE + SOCIETY + STORY - curatingthejourney.org/lite

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:04:00 -0800

via tksnyder.posterous.com

Beautiful. And what we at GENERATE Magazine hope to be a part of. Tell your story!

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Discharged under 'don't ask, don't tell' - CNN.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:03:14 -0800

Since don't ask, don't tell was introduced, the military has discharged more than 13,000 lesbians, gays and bisexuals, according to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. A 2005 government report found that about 800 of them had skills deemed "critical," such as engineering and linguistics, and that it cost the military about $200 million to recruit and train their replacements.>> MORE

via cnn.com

ok, I won't claim to really be in the know about GLBTQ rights abuse stats but this number was SHOCKING to me - 13,000?! This is appalling. Be sure to read the whole story, it's about one man's discharge experience.

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What's the Alternative to Tucker Max? | The American Prospect

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:42:59 -0800

(Flickr/Lisa Norwood)

Vote for Courtney Martin in The Washington Post's Next Great Pundit contest.

"Machismo!" shouted a young college student in the third row.

"Tough!" "Violent!" "Homophobic!" shouted three other young men, sprinkled throughout the packed lecture hall. Ethan Wong, a student at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, who was dressed in a slim business suit, nodded as he wrote each word on the chalk board.

The roomful of young men was brainstorming all the qualities associated with masculinity. Wong was one of the organizers of the National Conference for Campus-Based Men's Gender Equality and Anti-Violence Groups, a long and clunky name for an unprecedented event that took place last weekend at his school. It was the first time that young guys from around the country -- guys like Wong, who recognize that the kind of masculinity they are describing is toxic for men, too -- gathered to share strategies for getting college men involved in gender-based activism and discuss the work ahead.

In attendance were about 200 individuals, representing 40 colleges and two dozen organizations, many of them sporting titles like Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse, Men Can Stop Rape, and Men Stopping Violence. Notice a trend here? This contemporary movement of gender-conscious young men is largely identifying themselves in terms of what they are against. They're not rapists. They're not misogynists.

They're also not particularly effective in imagining what they do want to be. Case in point: back to Wong at the chalkboard. The negative associations with masculinity poured off the tongues of these feminist-friendly college kids. They've taken Women's Studies 101. When their buddy says, "That's so gay," they spit back, "That's a sexual identity, not a dis." They let a few tears fall during the Take Back the Night March. They devour Michael Kimmel's Guyland and proselytize about Byron Hurt's documentary, Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. This generation is saying no to toxic masculinity.

But what are these young men saying yes too? We've all failed to envision an alternative...click link for the rest

via prospect.org

This is very good and an important discussion to be having.

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RAP for NCAP, Fort Collins

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:06:38 -0800

Fundraiser for the Northern Colorado AIDS Project (an organization for which I volunteer)

Fri 11/13 at 9pm

Schedule Aggie Theatre, Fort Collins, CO
Rap/Hip Hop,Special Event,Benefit/Fundraiser
Magnificent Wingspan; Gem-In-Eye; Hoody Bombs; Observatory; Magick N Majesstik; Die; Kurse One; Mossburg Pimp N;

16 and over
Price:$10

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MacHeist nanoBundle - get it before it's gone - FREE mac software

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:00:43 -0800

MacHeist nanoBundle

We like to think of our job as helping introduce the great indie software out there to you guys, the Mac users. Over the past 3 years, between heist prize apps and discounted software bundles, we’ve distributed over 4 million software licenses to hundreds of thousands of Mac users around the world.

But as we stared at this year’s bundle, thinking of ways to reach as many Mac users as we could with this collection of amazing apps, we had a crazy idea. The kind of idea that at first seems preposterous. An idea that involved, just this once, removing the only remaining barrier of any significance: the bundle’s price.

Say hello to the MacHeist nanoBundle. It’s the same bundle of quality Mac software that you know and love… but it’s entirely free.

Download it. Enjoy it. And tell your friends about it, because it’ll be gone in under a week, never to return again. Grab it now!

via macheist.com

If you have a Mac, you must already know about MacHeist but if not, check it out, get free software, enjoy! :)

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if you've been following my "learning to drive a stick" saga

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:04:00 -0800

I'm getting better. I've had some recent problems when parked on a hill, I haven't tried parallel parking yet and I still occasionally rev it or jerk a bit when starting from a dead stop but I'm not as freaked out and making steady progress (now that I'm forced to drive the blasted thing almost every day)

I go to Boulder on Wed. so that will be a big test of my progress. My friend gave me some insight into why I'm having such a hard time embracing this as a challenge (like I normally would) and that was very helpful.

*by the way, I always chuckle at the very euphemistic "drive a stick"...cuz that's just how I roll

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Aliyah's cell self portrait wearing dad's fedora

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:59:20 -0800

She also has a fun new haircut which is quite sleek and stylish but she's a bit self conscious about it (for now, I think she's getting used to it)

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Art - Julie Seltzer, Torah Scribe, Breaks Ground in Museum Project

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:47:39 -0800

via nytimes.com

Thanks to my buddy Paul Soupiset for this.

http://soupiset.posterous.com/

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Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. - Sojourner Truth

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:56:36 -0800

HT: Sonja

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I kept all your commandments...wait, you were serious about that one?!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:40:00 -0800

via 3.bp.blogspot.com

http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-bait-and-switch.html

thanks to Tia for the tip - as she said on her facebook, I love the take on selective scriptural literalism.

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MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:19:34 -0800

For the most part, the study conducted on 2,512 adults simply confirms what most of us know already: people use all this new technology to get in touch with their family and friends; for example, people call each person in their circle of closes friends on 195 days in a year, but they also see each of them face to face 210 days in a year. Same goes for Facebook () and MySpace (), as 71% of users have listed at least one member of their core network of friends as a friend on one of these services.

Here’s the fun part: internet users are far more likely (45%) to visit a café or a coffee shop than people who don’t use the internet. And not only that; the myth that frequent internet users hang out mostly at home is also busted, as people have started using it many public spaces, such as libraries, bars, coffee shops, restaurants and the like.

The full report is a very interesting read; you can find it here.

via mashable.com

...what we knew all along.

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second set of autumn self portraits, just to show how fickle colorado weather is

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:41:26 -0800

My first autumn pics were me bundled in a hat scarf and mitts ready for 40's, this day it was 70

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Outlaw Preachers podcast episode 1

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:32:11 -0800

via outlawpreachers.com

Outlaw Preachers 1: Grace Bombs and Shotgun Evangelism

with Khad Young, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Brian Yarbrough, Nar Martinez, Connie Waters, Angela Harms, and Vince Anderson

Wherein we discuss ending Christian euphemisms, Biblical idolators, the Bible as the fourth person of the trinity, dropping the grace bomb, Anchor Church versus shotgun evangelism, and the Radical Love Project versus adventures in missing the point.

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another one of my things - get born magazine

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:45:24 -0800

Another one of my little projects is as Design Director for get born magazine, an honest, raw literary magazine primarily for women but parents in general. We are always looking for content especially from "non traditional" families.

Check it out!

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timely thought from Wendell Berry via David Hayward

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:27:02 -0800

it is unfortunate for gays and the rest of us that the government has been invited to make a judgment on people’s private sexual behavior. It isn’t the government’s business, so long as the behavior is not abusive to others. The government should support “domestic partnerships” which gives the same legal protections to bachelor brothers or widowed sisters or friends or partners living together as if married. Justice for all is the government’s business (Berry, The Way of Ignorance, p. 145)

via nakedpastor.com

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