“Why should your right to freedom of speech trump a trans person’s right not to be offended?”
"Because in order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive. I mean, look at the conversation we’re having right now. You’re certainly willing to risk offending me in the pursuit of truth. Why should you have the right to do that? It’s been rather uncomfortable.”
“Well, I’m very glad I’ve put you on the spot.”
"Well you get my point. You're doing what you should do, which is digging a bit to see what the hell is going on. And that is what you should do. But you’re exercising your freedom of speech to certainly risk offending me, and that’s fine.”
— Jordan B. Peterson reminds reporter that it goes both waysSomeone to watch over me...
I’ve had a Jiji plush in my cube for years, but last week I decided I needed a more powerful presence to protect me from evil…
The Twitter Police
“I try to sleep, they’re wide awake, they won’t let me alone. They don’t get paid to take vacations or let me alone. They spy on me, I try to hide, they won’t let me alone. They persecute me, they’re the judge and jury all in one.”
It’s official: on Twitter, disagreement is harassment. Unless you’re disagreeing with those people, of course; then anything goes.
(via, at least until that account gets banned, too)
Anyone else going to Merge?
Due to a combination of company growth, whiny devs, and SOX compliance, I’m off to the Perforce Conference, aka “Merge”, April 11th-15th.
My dinner plans for the week mostly consist of “avoiding aggressive bums who piss on the sidewalk”, so unless I run into someone I know, I’ll either eat at the hotel or send out for pizza.
RIP Vanity
Denise Matthews is the latest casualty of 2016. Not as politically significant as Antonin Scalia or as beloved as Abe Vigoda, but an important piece of my youth.
(via; as much as I preferred her sexy pics, I’ll leave that for another time out of respect for her beliefs)
[I don’t know who this young whippersnapper who turns up in iTunes searches is, but there will only ever be one Vanity.]
My new favorite cosplayer
Nice to see some people still remember the good stuff.
(via the never-safe-for-work Sankaku Complex)
Sous Vide and the Accidental Paleo Diet
A couple of weeks ago I bought the Anova Precision sous vide immersion circulator. Then I stopped off at Dong Vinh Restaurant Supply for some large plastic bins to hold the water, and Ikea for a few cheap accessories.
Since then, I’ve made terrific steak, roast beef, burgers, chicken breasts, eggs, and wings, all in convenient single-guy-living-alone serving sizes, and the larger bin will be filled with steaks for friends this weekend.
And, hey, it’s on sale on Amazon today for $140 instead of the usual $180:
Carry on, kitty
There’s nothing I hate more than a web site filled with animated GIFs that takes forever to load and spins up your CPU fans. So this one goes after the jump, even though it’s completely safe for work.
