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Saturday, 2006 September 30, 19:55 — me!me!me!

something has turned up

It’s a far cry from the career I imagined at age 20, and it’s not even as lucrative as the somewhat similar job that suddenly evaporated five years ago; but it is one heck (I might even say two hecks) of a lot better than nothing.

Friday, 2006 September 29, 22:27 — futures

not all bad

In a comment at FuturePundit, Steven Horrobin chides me for supposing — though all I said was that I hadn’t yet seen a counterexample — that all bioethicists are anti-life.

Tuesday, 2006 September 26, 22:13 — cartoons

a metaphoric diode?

In Ranma ½, Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, Abstract Gender and Misfile, a boy finds himself magically transformed into a girl. In both The Wotch and El Goonish Shive, the cast includes a boy who sometimes becomes a girl for a lark. A number of webcomics including Venus Envy are about boys who yearn to become girls.

Are there no cartoons about girls becoming boys?

(See also.)

Saturday, 2006 September 16, 11:15 — drugwar

not enough lampposts

Bastards.

Saturday, 2006 September 2, 15:00 — cinema

ever wonder what a Toon funeral is like?

scene cut from Who Framed Roger Rabbit