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Damn it's hot
Jun. 8th, 2005 09:33 pmWell, summer, it appears, is here. A lot of people get seasonal depression around wintertime...mine seems to hit more in the summer. Not actual depression depression, but as an unabashed exotherm, the heat makes me pretty miserable. That's life, though...happens every year. It's times like these when I most miss the Bay Area. Of course when I'm chillin' Cali and winter rolls around, I pine for the East Coast. The grass is always greener and all that. :)
Well, I was caught by surprise by there being another bonus money marathon this week, so I've spent the last couple days waist-deep in online poker, which has been going all right (barring yesterday, which was dismal, but I've already basically recovered from that). Today I tried out the novel approach of playing poker while trying to also handle LJ and e-mail in the background during lulls in the action. I don't think that worked out that well...I'm not a superstar multitasker. :) If I wasn't tied to online poker, I'd probably be hitting the casino a lot for their sweet, sweet air conditioning. I theorize that the swampy South Jersey summer will probably find me at the green felt more and more, despite my recent swing toward online play. We'll see how that goes.
Anyway, with my own life being fairly one-dimensional lately, let's bring on the links. :)
My attention recently was drawn to this Videogame Vixens contest. I didn't take the time to delve into it, mostly due to being horrified at the time, but (as you might imagine) it's basically a beauty pageant for video game characters. Now...as I said, my first knee-jerk reaction was disgust, but after I started mulling it over, I realized it's actually not such a bad thing. This goes along the lines of, say, my preference of animated porn over live-action. These Videogame Vixens shenanigans have all the prurient appeal of a beauty pageant, I guess, but with the added bonus of being quite firmly planted in the world of fantasy. What could be less exploitative than completely invented entities? It still may not be my cup of tea, but I have to say...I think I'd prefer this over Miss Whatever. Better to parade around a trick of the light than a human being, eh? Only tangentially related...I've heard there's a "Women of the Camarilla" calendar out from White Wolf. The less said about that, the better.
Also making the rounds has been this article from New Scientist about the genetics of female orgasms. I'm not plugging the article for any big reason...I just thought some people might find it interesting. What I did like, though, was this quote: "Unsurprisingly, more women were able to achieve orgasm through masturbation..." I love the use of the word "unsurprisingly." :) It's doubly amusing to me because the article was written by a guy. ;) It's like, "Yeah...we know."
Orgasms fascinate me. (They also wig me out, but that's my own issue.) Orgasms are, if you'll pardon the expression, kind of a hot button issue. I think it's one of the more...unusual of human experiences. That aside, though, I also think it's one of the big points of contention in the Gender Wars. There are a lot of ways that male and female perspectives can (and do) differ, many times in ways that, perhaps, can never be reconciled. How men and women relate to their respective orgasms is one of the big ones. I'm not saying across the board, of course, but it seems like one of those things that crops up from time to time. I dunno...I'm not sure where I wanted to go with this. Human sexuality is just one of those things. It's big and interesting and way problematic. Like government, but more fun.
In any case, also in the text of the article was this gem: "...as far as orgasms are concerned, women have been riding on the genetic coat-tails of male evolution, and that the female orgasm is merely an accidental echo of the male one, the equivalent of male nipples." I fucking love this. :) This is how wacky genetics is...this is an easy contender for my favorite quote from a geneticist viewpoint, running up against "teats equal spinnerets." (Yeah...that was from the spider-goat experiment.) Of all the male/female crossovers...nipples for orgasms. I dunno...that's a pretty good deal. :)
Anyway, I'm already all over the place with this post, and it's not getting any better. :) I'll leave off with this Onion article: Bush Lifts Ban on Vigilantism. Hot. :) This looks like a job for...PERVERTED JUSTICE!
Well, I was caught by surprise by there being another bonus money marathon this week, so I've spent the last couple days waist-deep in online poker, which has been going all right (barring yesterday, which was dismal, but I've already basically recovered from that). Today I tried out the novel approach of playing poker while trying to also handle LJ and e-mail in the background during lulls in the action. I don't think that worked out that well...I'm not a superstar multitasker. :) If I wasn't tied to online poker, I'd probably be hitting the casino a lot for their sweet, sweet air conditioning. I theorize that the swampy South Jersey summer will probably find me at the green felt more and more, despite my recent swing toward online play. We'll see how that goes.
Anyway, with my own life being fairly one-dimensional lately, let's bring on the links. :)
My attention recently was drawn to this Videogame Vixens contest. I didn't take the time to delve into it, mostly due to being horrified at the time, but (as you might imagine) it's basically a beauty pageant for video game characters. Now...as I said, my first knee-jerk reaction was disgust, but after I started mulling it over, I realized it's actually not such a bad thing. This goes along the lines of, say, my preference of animated porn over live-action. These Videogame Vixens shenanigans have all the prurient appeal of a beauty pageant, I guess, but with the added bonus of being quite firmly planted in the world of fantasy. What could be less exploitative than completely invented entities? It still may not be my cup of tea, but I have to say...I think I'd prefer this over Miss Whatever. Better to parade around a trick of the light than a human being, eh? Only tangentially related...I've heard there's a "Women of the Camarilla" calendar out from White Wolf. The less said about that, the better.
Also making the rounds has been this article from New Scientist about the genetics of female orgasms. I'm not plugging the article for any big reason...I just thought some people might find it interesting. What I did like, though, was this quote: "Unsurprisingly, more women were able to achieve orgasm through masturbation..." I love the use of the word "unsurprisingly." :) It's doubly amusing to me because the article was written by a guy. ;) It's like, "Yeah...we know."
Orgasms fascinate me. (They also wig me out, but that's my own issue.) Orgasms are, if you'll pardon the expression, kind of a hot button issue. I think it's one of the more...unusual of human experiences. That aside, though, I also think it's one of the big points of contention in the Gender Wars. There are a lot of ways that male and female perspectives can (and do) differ, many times in ways that, perhaps, can never be reconciled. How men and women relate to their respective orgasms is one of the big ones. I'm not saying across the board, of course, but it seems like one of those things that crops up from time to time. I dunno...I'm not sure where I wanted to go with this. Human sexuality is just one of those things. It's big and interesting and way problematic. Like government, but more fun.
In any case, also in the text of the article was this gem: "...as far as orgasms are concerned, women have been riding on the genetic coat-tails of male evolution, and that the female orgasm is merely an accidental echo of the male one, the equivalent of male nipples." I fucking love this. :) This is how wacky genetics is...this is an easy contender for my favorite quote from a geneticist viewpoint, running up against "teats equal spinnerets." (Yeah...that was from the spider-goat experiment.) Of all the male/female crossovers...nipples for orgasms. I dunno...that's a pretty good deal. :)
Anyway, I'm already all over the place with this post, and it's not getting any better. :) I'll leave off with this Onion article: Bush Lifts Ban on Vigilantism. Hot. :) This looks like a job for...PERVERTED JUSTICE!