While you were making money, I was...

My final grade in my Database Applications class: 89.250%
The professor won't give me the A. This after 14 weeks of every grade dispute being met with, "Don't worry about it, just do better on the next one!" I'm glad I went back to school instead of wasting my time making money on the web.

So I'm selling my iBook (for $1,299, $300 off list) to get a PowerBook, and I get this email in response: "I got the info from the guy and he tells me to make you an offer of $500. He said you would know what that meant." Huh?

Nerve: Robotroid Girlfriend by Matthew Rohrer
I'm usually not a big fan of poetry, especially "sexual" poetry, but I thought these pieces were cute. Here's a short excerpt. I liked the robot ones better, but didn't want to spoil them for you.

I see from the street this woman likes to snuggle:
her alcove is smothered in comforters.
I imagine being curled up in there against the wall,
watching her tonguing a cruller.

Updates should be much more frequent from here on out, as finals have finally wrapped up and I have nothing but time on my hands for a month. As importantly, I am now using Blogger to maintain and post to the site, greatly reducing the chores associated with each post. I am working on a way to integrate the old manually-produced entries with the new Blogger-produced entries. Until that happens, you can click the link at the bottom of the page for the previous several entries, and you can click the View button above for all of the archived entries. This will be smoothed out within a week.

Salon: "Dry sex" worsens AIDS numbers in southern Africa
"Many [southern African] men and women regard the smell of vaginal secretions as repulsive, the report says, plus they're embarrassed by the noise of wet sex. Dry vaginas that are swollen with friction are also tighter; this pleases the men because it makes them feel larger. One common belief holds that loose, slippery vaginas are evidence of infidelity."