February 2012
1 post
January 2012
11 posts
Team Valkyrie FTW: The Importance of Uhura →
teamvalkyrieftw:
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day, I’m going to signal-boost an oldie but a goodie: Nichelle Nichols remained on as Uhura in Star Trek, thanks to the encouragement of Martin Luther King Jr.
I told [Martin Luther King, Jr] I would be leaving the show, because; and that was as…
Automatic reblog - Nichelle Nichols on Martin Luther King Jr telling her not to leave...
FFFFOUND! | Yay Hooray | →
It’s cats doing funny things time. Yep.
December 2011
9 posts
November 2011
10 posts
“When human beings acquired language, we learned not just how to listen but how...”
– Douglas Rushkoff via A VC: Program Or Be Programmed
October 2011
10 posts
Man Listening To Disc
by Billy Collins This is not bad — ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft calipers of these earphones, as if he were right beside me on this clear day in March, the pavement sparkling with sunlight, pigeons fluttering off the curb, nodding over a profusion of bread crumbs. In fact, I would say my delight at being suffused with...
Loving the Wrong Person
Loving the Wrong Person “We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your...
September 2011
14 posts
Reminder: Ada Lovelace Day is Next Week!
paxvalkyrie:
http://findingada.com/
This Ada Lovelace Day on October 7, share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today. Write a blog post, record a podcast, film a video, draw a comic, or pick any other way to talk about the women who have been guiding lights in your life. Give your heroine...
Date a girl who reads - Jonathan Carroll
I liked this post of one of my favorite writers. I feel like I’ve seen some of it before somewhere, but I’m not sure. Jonathan Carroll has written The Land of Laughs, which is excellent and many other books which are gorgeously written. This is not one of his more beautifully composed posts, but… I liked it anyway. I wonder why…
CarrollBlog 9.30
Date a girl who reads....
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