Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

[Portia]

The comment on that is probably meant to be lighthearted, but it's making me feel ill. For one thing, rape, by it's nature, cannot be asked for, because then it would consensual, and thus not rape. The whole point of the image is that a hemline, no matter where it is, is not consent. If the girl (or guy) doesn't say they consent, nothing else matters.

Can you come be a forum speaker at BYU?

(My MPDG wardrobe means I wear a lot of knee-length dresses, sparkly headbands/necklaces, and furry boots/ballet flats, all of which are Honor Code approved, but it still enrages me that some of the men of campus have appointed themselves to be a skirt-length brigade.)

[mic0]

Also, you should all go upvote my corrected 9gag post I made because it showed up as I was reading the article and I was ticked off.

Weirdly, I just came across this, apparently a note from the original artist. Just interesting. Looks like the picture has taken on different meanings to different people (to be expected!).

[Zedability]

Yeah, I came across that later. When I was awake. I think the original title, "Judgment," definitely gives the picture a whole different meeting than the title "What your skirt length says about you."

[Portia]

Just watched The Princess and the Frog. Wished I had seen it earlier! Good humor, jazzy score (I particularly like "Almost There"), and a female protagonist who works her butt off, has a good relationship with two great parents (yeah, never happens in Disney), and -gasp! - is actually shown to have a life post-marriage (doesn't end with wedding bells but with the fulfillment of her professional goals).

And to answer Zed, Naveen would have all sorts of problems from your perspective, from being disinherited, having next to no work ethic, and being a ladies' man (though I think the film reveals it's mostly an act). I'd be all over that action.

Best part was the art deco influences (it's set in 1926, woooo)





So flat. So awesome. And Naveen is super hot, and wears vests, newsboy caps, and plays the ukelele.

[mic0]

I think the original title, "Judgment," definitely gives the picture a whole different meeting than the title "What your skirt length says about you."

Absolutely!

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Animal Crackers by Eric Whitacre. Hilarious.

[The Happy Medium]

Portia, that is my favorite movie! I made my sister watch it the day she got home from her mission.

[Digit]

I've seen a lot of commercials from companies like Square, Intuit, and at least one other brand whose name I forget at the moment advertising their mobile device credit card swiping things and the app/service to go with it. They show people in the commercial with brick-and-mortar businesses and customers swiping their card on the proprietor's tablet getting their receipt e-mailed to them and I think to myself that I don't see many people going for this. Cash register and paper receipt for the cash paying customers and card swipe on a tablet or phone with receipt emailed for CC.
I feel OK swiping my card through something like this at a brick-and-mortar shop (and getting a real paper receipt through the cash register or card reader itself), but just something about my card getting swiped by a personal consumer device seems unprofessional to me.

[Katya]

I've seen a lot of commercials from companies like Square, Intuit, and at least one other brand whose name I forget at the moment advertising their mobile device credit card swiping things and the app/service to go with it. They show people in the commercial with brick-and-mortar businesses and customers swiping their card on the proprietor's tablet getting their receipt e-mailed to them and I think to myself that I don't see many people going for this. Cash register and paper receipt for the cash paying customers and card swipe on a tablet or phone with receipt emailed for CC.
I feel OK swiping my card through something like this at a brick-and-mortar shop (and getting a real paper receipt through the cash register or card reader itself), but just something about my card getting swiped by a personal consumer device seems unprofessional to me.

There's a Thai place near here that does this. I didn't mind it at all—I thought it was pretty cool and I had a short conversation about it with the guy who gave me my order—but it might have been different if I was purchasing something I might have wanted to return or if I'd wanted to save the receipt for any other reason.

[bobtheenchantedone]

I'm about to start using a Square pretty heavily, but I'll be selling at events where people are buying directly from me at my little table (and getting a written receipt if they want one). I never thought of them being used at actual B&Ms.

[Katya]

Maybe I should also add that the Thai place is a pretty small operation. (I think the space is a converted garage.) They don't have room for a seating area, so it's takeout only. If they were a bigger operation, I might think using the receipt app was sketchy but, like I said, I don't really mind in this case.

[mic0]

For anyone who's ever been on the nagging-someone-to-clean end of the spectrum, here is a great and funny "contract" from Kurt Vonnegut to his then pregnant wife on chores.

[Emiliana]

For anyone who's ever been on the nagging-someone-to-clean end of the spectrum, here is a great and funny "contract" from Kurt Vonnegut to his then pregnant wife on chores.

That is BRILLIANT. Marx is the first person I've lived with who has lower standards of cleanliness than myself ... we might have to devise something like this!

[Whistler]

I've seen a lot of commercials from companies like Square, Intuit, and at least one other brand whose name I forget at the moment advertising their mobile device credit card swiping things and the app/service to go with it. They show people in the commercial with brick-and-mortar businesses and customers swiping their card on the proprietor's tablet getting their receipt e-mailed to them and I think to myself that I don't see many people going for this. Cash register and paper receipt for the cash paying customers and card swipe on a tablet or phone with receipt emailed for CC.
I feel OK swiping my card through something like this at a brick-and-mortar shop (and getting a real paper receipt through the cash register or card reader itself), but just something about my card getting swiped by a personal consumer device seems unprofessional to me.

I've seen a several restaurants around Provo that use this (Sora and Black Sheep Cafe are the first two I can think of). I love it. I always throw away restaurant receipts anyway.

[Digit]

As I think about H. sapiens holding multi-billion-transistor devices for the purpose of making one database entry in one bank's server go down $12.95 and another database entry in another bank's server go up $12.95 in exchange for some chopped up pieces of chicken and noodle, I wonder if our technically advanced society could ever achieve a post-scarcity economy.

[bobtheenchantedone]

http://lousybookcovers.tumblr.com/

"Adopted Son is my version of a sci-fi novel, which probably isn’t very sci-fi because I don’t read books like that, so it’s just my approximation of the genre."

Always a good way to tell people to buy your book!

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Curse you, bob. This is why I avoid tumblr.

[Whistler]

I know Gladwell's Outliers has been out for a while now. I'm reading it now and enjoying that I hadn't already read about ALL the studies he cites, plus the way he puts things together is like "oh it all makes sense now" (although, there probably are other explanations for some of his theories).

[bobtheenchantedone]

I just watched Hugo because it happened to be streaming on Netflix. I rather enjoyed it. I think some of the attempts at depth fell a little flat, but overall a good movie.

[thatonemom]

I'm going to see Les Mis this weekend, and I'm pretty excited. I know nothing about the plot or the songs. Although I did just look up the words to "I Dreamed a Dream" and they're much sadder than I expected.