drupagliassotti @ August 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Last night I found one of my bedroom windows open and couldn’t remember opening it. This is the second time that’s happened, for the same window; there are two in the bedroom, and I only (to my memory) ever open one of them. Only the glass is open, though, not the screen, which is on [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
So, a nasty plague of bot spamming led me, in consultation with my university’s ISS wizards, to decide to nuke the Yaoi Research Wiki from orbit. It was the only way to be sure. We will, I hope, reboot it next week with considerably more restrictions designed to prevent spammers from having their evil way [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m back and finally ready to post something on this blog again! Sorry that it took me a while to get into gear again… My trip to Germany was sponsored by my Lutheran university’s “Reformation Heritage Seminar,” a semester of lectures and presentations and then nearly two weeks in the former East Germany visiting various [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 13, 2009 # One Comment
Amazon is currently facing online protests against its delisting gay- and lesbian-themed “adult” books while retaining the listing of heterosexually themed “adult” books. This event, which was swiftly dubbed #amazonfail on Twitter yesterday, is leading to some interesting protests, from the standard petition to a movement to redefine and Google-bomb the term “Amazon Rank” over [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Goldman Sachs wants to return the $10 billion it was given by the government last year, according to an article on CNN.com. The article notes, “What it really comes down to is Goldman Sachs does not have control of its own destiny,” said James Ellman, head of San Francisco-based Seacliff Capital, a hedge fund specializing [...]
drupagliassotti @ December 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I love this video! I haven’t heard of Bonfire of the Brands before, but now I intend to find out more.
drupagliassotti @ June 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A police detective testified Tuesday that a laptop computer taken from the home of a British man accused of killing his wife and 9-month-old daughter was used to search online for “how to kill with a knife” four days before the slayings. For some time now I’ve been groaning about the movement toward using one’s [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 10, 2008 # One Comment
A long time ago, when I was working on my doctoral dissertation, I picked up a piece of advice that’s lingered with me: “Treat your dissertation as a job. Work on it from 9 to 5 every day.” I was a full-time graduate student living on student loans, so that summer it would have been [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Stressed about life? Feel like you don’t have enough time on your hands? Maybe you’re a victim of emotional abuse — from your television. What is emotional abuse? Its manifestations include ignoring, rejecting, isolating, exploiting, verbally assaulting, and terrorizing its victim. Emotional abusers make their victims believe they are deficient in some way, leading to [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Fantasy author Jim Hines wrote a good post on men and rape today. He comments that rape isn’t discussed enough in society, especially among men. I agree. As a media scholar, I am well aware that depictions of sexual violence in the media — primarily in pornography, although we see the effect in music videos [...]