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I think I confuse them sometimes by being half-woman, half-engineer!, and that’s how I end up on these e-mail chains at work. Yes, I did say “AT WORK.”
Subject Line: FW: WOMEN AS EXPLAINED BY ENGINEERS

Continued from Part One.
My last major business trip was to Sweden. See, if I just left it at that, it would sound like, really c-o-o-l but in fact, what it was was really freaking C-O-L-D (February!) and yo, it was also really freaking b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s. The trip consisted of twelve-hour days in a mostly […]

Via.
The freedom to say ‘no’
Why aren’t there more women in science and engineering? Controversial new research suggests: They just aren’t interested.
Really, we’d much rather be changing shitty diapers, scrubbing toilets and putting out for room, board and an allowance. And that’s what choice feminism is all about!
…no, I’m not being fair. It’s just […]

I love it when the mainstream media in the US lets its liberal freak flag fly. You know you’ve found yet another true lefty when they’re writing articles about genocide abroad, the evils of Big Oil, or our health care crisis. Also, when they write an editorial titled “Why I defend President Bush […]

Right on the heels of Marc incisively questioning the distance between progressive rhetoric and action. I bring you… movies! yaay!
I saw Prince Caspian a couple of days ago. It wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t great. Mostly, it failed to make an impression on me at all beyond wondering who these people are, and why there is […]

I spent a day offsite again–my company is building a new, very large scale manufacturing facility and so we are buying all kinds of goodies for it from a whole slew of outside companies. On this occasion, the company in question was going to show us their pride and joy, a software package that […]

I spent a recent day offsite–my company hired an outside company to design and build a piece of equipment for our manufacturing plant and the outside company had asked us to come down to their fabrication shop and vet the design, see what we thought of the work in progress, etc. With me were […]

Anyone one up for a lecture on polymers? Because in about a day or so, I can provide.

Life is good when I forget askmen.com exists. I sleep better, I smile more, I believe in a brighter future for our children.
But then they write an article on video games and it shoots to the top of the charts at n4g.com, my favorite aggregator of geeknews. You might be asking […]