I'm sorry, Kat.

Calli, they won't clean apartments? That seems very short-sighted of them.

I guess they don't want to schlep their stuff through lobbies.

Nope, no apartments. And I don't even have a lobby through which to schlep. Since I've been at my current place for five years now, my carpets could definitely use a thorough cleaning. Some people have suggested alternate companies. I sent an email to one of them to see if the whole "no apartments" thing is just with the first place or more widespread throughout the industry.

Spider-lamp, Spider-lamp, does whatever a Spider-lamp does....

Which is "illuminate a room."

Making a spider-lamp out of 8 cheap Ikea anglepoise knockoffs - Boing Boing

OK, time for porn!

NSFW, of course.

Typewriter Erotica, 1920s

I never would have guessed that typewriter erotica was a thing in the 1920s....

You know when you've been trying to remember something for nigh on 20 years, and you toss out some neighbouring information, and someone steps up with information you didn't even have enough data to find in google or *frame* the question?

Thanks to a poster on IO9 who's about my age and also went to high school in Britain, I now remember that it was the 380z that was our first computer in the computer room. I could remember precisely what it looked like ( [link] -- black box with handles and two floppy drives), but totally blank on the name. I need to put this down in Evernote for the next time my brain cells rot out from underneath me.

OK, no, no spider-lamps on the ceiling. I'd be half asleep and spot it at night and I'd probably shoot it.

I was walking back from a screening of Missrepresentation, a documentary about how media portrayals of women is damaging to girls (shout out to Girls, Inc at the end FYI), and walked past a dude speaking to someone else who said, "what do you expect, it was put on by the Women's Harpy Club."

It was sponsored by the Director's Advisory Council for Women.

I don't know whether I'm angrier at the dude, or myself for not speaking up. Why did I not speak up? WTF?

oh Kat, I'm sorry to hear the surgery didn't work out. That girl of yours is amazing. Sending all of you much love, plus house~ma.

And Allyson, I'm gonna go for being angrier at the dude. I know I would have shut down in the face of that kind of comment because it would either be shut down or go all Hulk on him. "Harpy?!? I'll show you what a harpy looks like!"

Damn, now I wish I were part harpy.

Why did I not speak up?

Because it takes a few seconds to recover from the impact of extreme stupid?

They should offer comeback classes in the style of Krav, where they spin you around, shut out the lights, and stick their foot up your ass while saying some sexist shit and you have to come up with awesome one-liners in 5 seconds in order to get your blue belt in street harassment comebacks.

I know I would have shut down in the face of that kind of comment because it would either be shut down or go all Hulk on him. "Harpy?!? I'll show you what a harpy looks like!"

I vote for following him to a restaurant, blinding him (with pepper juice), and stealing his food.