Aug. 28th, 2002
piers anthony
Aug. 28th, 2002 06:13 pmexcerpt from the author's note at the end of the book firefly, that i found particularly profound
The roots of the abuse lie in our family, religion, and society. We condemn prostitution, yet it serves an obvious need; were it eradicated, I fear that rape and molestation would drastically increase. Perhaps if male and female prostitution were legitimated, sexual crimes would diminish. I doubt that much progress will be made until the nature of the problem is understood. We need spot-specific programs to clarify and deal with abuse, and education to diminish abuse in the future. Certain fundamental attitudes need to be revised, such as the notion that women are inherently inferior to men, or that might makes right, or that sex is sinful, and because these may be embedded in religion the problem of reform is monstrous.
it's a petty night
i noticed then a couple people had forgotten they knew about other journals i had access to (not mine, but close friends' journals) and had not removed them at the various times these various people removed me.
so i log in, read about, and see that i'm ignored but not forgotten
snickering my ass off
in one instance the least inane and pointless things i'd posted that week were what was chosen to mock.
gods, the stupid things i look at when i'm avoiding sleep
tired as fuck too
i noticed then a couple people had forgotten they knew about other journals i had access to (not mine, but close friends' journals) and had not removed them at the various times these various people removed me.
so i log in, read about, and see that i'm ignored but not forgotten
snickering my ass off
in one instance the least inane and pointless things i'd posted that week were what was chosen to mock.
gods, the stupid things i look at when i'm avoiding sleep
tired as fuck too
i swear i've linked to this before
What is Eris?:
Eris is a whiteboard that uses web access. It is used in the context of image processing as a communication medium between the customer who has an image processing problem, and the image processing expert who develops the resulted application. Only, text and schema are available, and Eris keeps the history of the communication in order to produce an experimental corpus of dialogue.