The Mandelbear's Musings

(Note: I started this one last night, but either got distracted or fell asleep before writing more than the first paragraph. So...)

I started the day discovering that resetting the broadband connection only got me about an hour's worth of good connection. Rebooting the router, OTOH, seems to have done the trick. Next time I'll start there and save myself the aggravation of navigating through AT&T's site to find the link that connects me via IM to some guy in India.

Went to Trader Joe's to stock up on lunch items for my desk. Apples, dried apricots, chocolate (1lb 72% - yum), trail mix (candied ginger, macadamias, almonds, dried cranberries - YUM!). One serving of tofu spring rolls.

Work was busy, as I'm gradually settling in to my new project.

A lot of links. Most, this time, are on the subject of rape, "date rape", and consent. To quote this article, "I always argue that anything short of an authentic, honest, uncoerced, aroused and sober Hell, yes! is, in the end, just a no in another form." That.

I'm not sure what they're teaching kids these days. Probably, now that sex education has been eviscerated by budget cuts and the Religious Right, not a whole lot more than I got in the early '60s from my parents' bookshelf. (I seem to have missed the Sexual Revolution, between the Pill and AIDS, almost completely, but attitudes were very different then.)

Just to clarify, kids, not only does "no" mean no, but no answer means no, "maybe" means no, "oh, ok" means no, and alcohol means Hell No! One party under 18 means "Hell no! and we'll talk about this again when you're old enough to know better." "Right ****ing now!" means "let's talk about it afterwards, and by the way what's our safeword?"

Go look under the cut -- there are more of them.