Got another Disney World trip coming up in a few weeks. Might be my last one for a while. Or not.
I wrote about that over at my little blog.
While I’m pondering that, it’s time for you to share what you’ve been pondering. Or doing. Or just share a joke, a link, or whatever. It’s Monday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
Republicans are debating whether parts of their tax-reform package should be retroactive in order to boost the economy by quickly putting more money in people’s wallets.
Yeah, time travel sounds tempting, but you know this will end with someone making out with their mother before the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance.
[Penn & Teller – The Physicist’s Deck of Cards] (Viewer #2,246,660)
You might want the lyrics to the song that gets referenced.
[High Praise! to Neatorama]
NASA is Still Tracking Voyager I and Voyager II
Yes, NASA still even has an active status page on them.
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
In New York City, a man stuck in stopped traffic in the Holland Tunnel got fed up with waiting, got out of his car, and started walking.
Good metaphor for what’ll happen to the Republican Party if Obamacare doesn’t get repealed.
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
This fall, Former President Obama plans to gain national attention by…
Can I ask you guys a favor?
Hey, I’ve blogged slightly more. You owe it to me!
So writing wise, I’ve been mainly focusing on my novel writing and hope to finally start putting those out at a regular pace. My next novel (formerly known as The Clearing though it will have a new title) will come out probably in December, and I’m very excited about it as it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever written. And I’m also several chapters in to writing the sequel to Superego.
Furthermore, I have the second draft finished for another novel, and I’m looking for beta readers (SarahK — the alpha reader — is the only one who gets to see the first draft since it’s her job to keep from embarrassment). It’s a scifi comedy called Hellbender. Yes, I know I’ve a couple times years ago tried to do that story piece by piece on this blog (just like Superego first started), but I threw all that out and I think this version is rather good. Well I hope it is. Parts of it make me laugh at least.
Anyway, if you’re interested in giving it a look, just say so in the comments and I’ll contact you through email. And I’ll owe you one. Plus you’ll get like acknowledged in the acknowledgments. That’s big time.
Thanks guys. My writing has evolved over the years — columns, humor books, script for a web series, novels — but it all started here thanks to you and your support. I won’t forget that. Unless I get really really famous.
So a Google engineer spends 10 very careful pages tentatively putting forth the possible notion that, statistically speaking, women don’t do tech because, statistically speaking, women don’t like boring, tedious jobs that involve no human contact – resulting in said engineer getting fired because he “crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes” and he “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender”.
Not that Google gave any explanation as to why his statements were “incorrect” or “harmful” or bothered to address his 10 pages of careful assertions.
Fast forward a bit, and now women are whining that they’re not getting equal pay, forcing Google to flail and cry (emphasis mine):
Google has fired back with two detailed blog posts, saying, “We were quite surprised when… the OFCCP accused us of not compensating women fairly.”
“We were taken aback by this assertion, which came without any supporting data or methodology…,” Google claims. “Our annual analysis shows no gender pay gap at Google.”
Google claims, “OFCCP has not taken sufficient steps to learn how our systems work and may not have accurately understood them.”
Sauce. Goose. Gander.
Eat it, Google.
