Facebook Rio?

Facebook Rio?

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Hey, so can Spanish speaking 'ffistas give this set of Spanglish lyrics a once over to see if I and my cowriters are committing any egregious linguistic sins?

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Two Cleveland Department stores were featured - Halle's and Higbee's. To the best of my knowledge I never went to Halle's. But Higbee's, well, that was THE place to go for Christmas - familiar to holiday movie afficianados as the location of the department store in "A Christmas Story". Plus it was in the Terminal Tower, so you more or less had to go through it to go anywhere in Downtown Cleveland if you used the Rapid Transit commuter light rail to get there.

Wow sarameg, that's well... the sad part is I'm not surprised he was doing it, I'm surprised they reprimanded him at all. IME undergrads bringing sexual harassment claims against famous professors tends to penalize the student, not the professor. He must have been egregious for them to have found in the students' favor.

(Okay, I may be a little bitter about it.)

We, or well some of us, are supposed to go to JPL tomorrow. But it's going to be stinky hot. Ugh.

Oh, man. I need to try making these cauliflower tots: [link]

One of sarameg's links mentions the loss to the scientific community when harassment drives women out of the field. That's sadly one of the few times I've seen that brought up. It's awful for the women involved, but the field they stop working in also loses their intelligence, skills, and perspectives. People who claim to be all about the science and not about preserving a rotten power structure should be more up in arms about this. But, no, we usually hear "Let's not let a few unfortunate incidents cloud his scientific achievements." Such bull.

ETA: Those tots look delicious!

Oh! I forgot, during the outage yesterday morning I meant to ask astronomically-inclined Buffistas if that was Mars or Jupiter between the moon and Venus just before sunset. It made for a very striking image, just the three visible in the lightening sky.

...if that was Mars or Jupiter between the moon and Venus....

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Mars is fainter than Jupiter just now, so if you weren't seeing all three planets there then Mars is the one you were missing.

When I see two planets and the moon I always assume it's Venus and Jupiter, but that's because my knowledge of the skies is puddle deep. Based on dcp's link, at least my puddle is vaguely accurate.

Speaking of planets, sent my people off to visit JPL this morning. We decided one parent should stay and do housework, so I'm going to clean and mop the kitchen and bathrooms while they are gone. But first some breakfast and buffistas.

One of sarameg's links mentions the loss to the scientific community when harassment drives women out of the field. That's sadly one of the few times I've seen that brought up. It's awful for the women involved, but the field they stop working in also loses their intelligence, skills, and perspectives. People who claim to be all about the science and not about preserving a rotten power structure should be more up in arms about this. But, no, we usually hear "Let's not let a few unfortunate incidents cloud his scientific achievements." Such bull.

My DH and I sometimes get into fights about this, but I truly believe that people, esp men, in fields where women are underrepresented financially benefit from it, and so at the very least unconsciously and unintentionally they police that boundary by keeping women out through hostility and harassment. Because that's how institutional sexism works, it happens because the people in the field continue to perpetuate it.