(Please disregard the picture). You are a control freak. You love to be in charge of everything, and like to do things yourself instead of indirectly. Hands-on projects are your favorite. You like to accomplish things the hard way, even if it means getting dirty. You have high priorities and set goals for your life, which will make you very successful. However, you will have to dig deep and get rid of all the crap people throw at you in order to have a promising future.
March 19, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
3:06 PM (Pacific)
grumble... I tried blogging here yesterday and the whole post got a 500 Internal Server error. smirk I don't actually miss programming in Perl but hey, it was a sentimental moment.
March 17, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
9:50 AM (Pacific)
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!!!
I wish I was a DJ? (For those of you who have never heard of a DJ, it's the guy or gal who makes up a playlist of songs and plays them on the radio, along with some pleasant or snappy commentary in between. DJ's used to rule the world but that was quite a while ago.) Today would be All Irish Music Day. So I would have Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries, Clannad, U2...I'm sure I'm leaving out 10,000 Irish groups here but you get the idea.
Today I am reminded of an interview of the (now late) actor Richard Harris. He was relating a story of how he returned to Ireland for a visit. He was stopped at a red light and was having car problems: he couldn't get his car to move; it kept dying.
The driver behind him was trapped and couldn't get around Harris' car.
After a few cycles of traffic lights, the driver behind Harris got out of his car and went over and tapped politely at Harris' window.
Harris rolled down the window. The driver asked, also politely: "Exactly which shade of bloody green are you waiting for?"
lol--have a good one!
March 15, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
1:07 PM (Pacific)
Charles Gunn-Dangerous and strong, you hold your part of the leader role when the others back down. Cheer up though, you are the only one with a girlfriend here!
Yes, I was shooting for Fred, Cordelia or even Angel, but Gunn I am. lol! I love it...
March 13, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
8:52 PM (Pacific)
Bleh! How crappy did that sound? I'm tired. I've been working since last night...I helped snake a drain (the glamour, the glitz lol); all day today I've been doing physical work. It was okay at first but the last hour was the last hour and should have been the last hour, an hour earlier.
Now I'm doing laundry. I did mention about the drain? A few days without a washer in this household, means no one has anything to wear (except me--I'm smart enough to buy lots of socks and underwear). So, exactly when everyone's day is ending, mine is just beginning.
It does go back to why I wanted to work on a women's website to begin with. I knew it could be the sole place in my life where I wasn't the laundry-doer, or else defined by my "wiles" at getting someone else to do the laundry, or whatever. I'm sick to death of wiles; it's demeaning.
Why can't people just wash their own clothes? I say that because I know that the day men have to do laundry, the laundry robots will magically appear on the market. Hello. I did mention I was a programmer. There are solutions to problems, if one is looking for solutions. Right now the attitude is simply that women are cheaper than robots. Did I mention the word "demeaning" yet?
Hummm, what else. Outsourcing. I think it's going out of style.
What people tend to forget, is that American corporations plan ahead--for the quarter. i.e. they care about making money for this quarter. I'm not knocking it; it's a fact. It can work for you the same as it can work against you.
I mean eventually...like next year...the notion of taking every single last job away from Americans and giving it to someone else, may not be as profitable as it is now. If only because employed people spend more money than unemployed people.
You will eventually need people to buy all those things you're importing. What's holding the system in place now is people buying those things on credit. Eventually...next year...too many people will be indentured servants to their credit cards. i.e. all of their money will go into making payments. Some of them will lose their houses over it and the rest will need to work.
Does that explain the eternal optimism of Americans? If you don't like the economy, just wait a quarter?
I was sitting down here to write that the Internet is the singular "place" in the world where a woman is not defined by her role as, well, a woman...the bottom caste in a two-caste system.
Then of course I realized the sheer fiction of it. There have always been "places" where one is taken as an equal, albeit not real places.
When I was eleven or so, I started writing...the Great American Novel, which never truly materialized. Still, no one cared about the gender of writers. That was the first such "place" in my life...sitting on the floor, typing on a manual typewriter.
The second, far more important, "place" was programming.
So the Internet ranks #3 out of 3 such half-imaginary worlds.
March 8, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
12:45 PM (Pacific)
1. Grab the nearest book 2. Open the book to page 123 3. Find the fifth sentence 4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions. 5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest!
Okee dokee...got this from Carol's blog. :)
The nearest book to me is a paperback Roget's Thesaurus. I brought it from Virginia in 1985 and had had it for years before then. I'm looking at it now and realizing that the entire top section of it is missing...it's been shedding pages for years, now it's shedding entire sections, but the "meat" is still intact.
lol! The first five sentences are gibberish, out of context. It's the last lines of the "shortness" category.
Let's go for the next-nearest book.
Well worth exploiting, too, are the virtues of fruit--in either cup, compote, salad or sherbet form--as a "lightener" during as well as after a big meal.
If fruits lack flavor, serve them or prepare them with candied peels, ginger, zest or spices; or add a little lemon or lime juice to cooked fruits and fruit fillings. Vary the flavor of a particular fruit by steeping it in the juices of other fruits or in wine, or by blending it with others in a puree.
lol! From Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker
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