everyone's accusing me

[lauralh]

So I have to say I'm rather disappointed with the advances of tampon technology in the past 10 years or so. Or rather, the COMPLETE LACK THEREOF. I used pads as a young girl, switched to tampons about ten years ago, and recently decided to experiment with pads again. And, damn, they're a lot better than I remember. Whereas tampons are just as crappy as they were then. We can put a man on the moon but we can't perfect a piece of cotton that you shove up your cooch?

quote of last night: "Don't you know that having dreads are about as obvious as wearing a t-shirt with a big pot leaf on it?"

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I finished Snow Crash last night. I think the ending wasn't as bad as everyone kept saying (the way it was written, not the actual stuff-that-happened), but it did just kind of stop. No John Irving anyway. Anyway the actual plot was kind of silly, but not as bad as most James Bond flicks. Feels like it would be a better movie than book, though.

Started on Shadow of the Hegemon. I think it's the last of the Ender's Friends books but I could be wrong. Well, whatever. It's a lot more interesting than Ender's Shadow was but not very much more well-written. OSC has become a parody of his own writing style. Owell.

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I had a charming boy serenade me with his violin last night. Well, ok, it wasn't exactly a serenade, hooked up to all those distortion pedals, but I still liked it once I put in my earplugs. Apparently our six-month anniversary is coming up soon. This is one of those things that I haven't thought about, since the last time I had a six-month anniversary was 1997 and I was tempted to break up with him the whole month. But I've been promised a luxurious dinner of Taco Bell and a present of some sort.

Yeah, so after that we went to Fenix Underground for Electroclash night, but it was dead so we left relatively early. Also, sleep was beckoning.

Comments

[almosttruth.livejournal.com]

Also, sleep was beckoning.

I swear you wrote "sheep were beckoning". I think i need more sleep...

[hydrozoa.livejournal.com]

dude, how could you ever prefer a pad to a tampon? what kind of low-rent third-world tampons are you using, where it's worse than using a fucking pad?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I think my love canal is not "designed" for tampons. I've had problems with them forever.

[hydrozoa.livejournal.com]

are you using like the super complicated applicator ones? the little OB plugs are one-size-fits-all.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I thought applicators were the opposite of complicated.

anyway the ring has made me slightly averse to sticking Yet More Things Up The Cooch, but I'll look into it next month.

[almosttruth.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you have a tilted cervix?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I don't know what "symptoms" that would produce, WRT tampons...

[almosttruth.livejournal.com]

i dunno, unconfortableness? just doesn't feel "right" compared to non tilted? ::shrug::

[freyja.livejournal.com]

neither is mine. with me they don't stay in very well. and nobody look at me all askance like i don't know how to insert-- i've tried everything! :P

[skipbreakfast.livejournal.com]

Electroclash night? Was the music at least good?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

as hotcrab put it, "it all sounds like Ladytron"

[skipbreakfast.livejournal.com]

Do you know if they played any Chicks On Speed or Electrocute?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

def. didn't hear any Chicks on Speed; dunno the other

i heard a blondie remix
and The Glass – Won’t Bother Me

[old-girl.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm right there with you WRT pad technology advancement. I am an OB fan, because of all the tampons I've tried they leak the least. I dig tampons because I don't like the pad-blood all rubbing against my twat, but still, pad technology has advanced so much that that's not even a big problem anymore, what with "cool-weave" or whatever it's called.

Also, applicators are complicated. OB tampons, once you get used to sticking your finger up there (not because it's gross, just because it's different), are much easier to place comfortably.

[kaaaty.livejournal.com]

http://www.softcup.com/

[ex-motel666812.livejournal.com]

"Don't you know that having dreads are about as obvious as wearing a t-shirt with a big pot leaf on it?"

Hey now. You know I don't touch weed at all, ever--never have. I consider it to be a fucked-up drug that I have no interest in.

*laughing*

Of course, you know MY preferences...and I'll go ahead and point out that most people would consider weed the lesser of two evils, but you know...at least when you're high on H you don't fucking eat an entire family-sized bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos. :)

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[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

yeah, a couple of my friends have dreads and were accosted by a street urchin asking for ganja last night... they don't smoke it either.

[ex-motel666812.livejournal.com]

Whenever that happens to me I just get really close to the askers and go FUCK OFF YOU STINKY HIPPIES BEFORE I STAB YOU WITH MY FUCKING DIRTY RIG...and they usually run.

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[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

Given the popularity of fake dreads these days... whatever.

One of my good friends has fake dreads. She's also a post-doc at JPL. AFAIK, she doesn't smoke pot at all, though if she did a little once in a blue moon, I wouldn't be horribly shocked... but that's a far cry from a pot-leaf necklace.

Re: Pads vs. tampons... dri-weave is the shit. And I'd rather pull off a pad, and replace it than worry about restroom cleanliness and hand-cleaning options in public/work toilets. I mean, dirty hands + mucus membrane... no. Instead works great for period sex, but a good pad is easier for disposal, and requires less worry about leakage. Plus, for me, the heaviness some days would require too many trips to the restroom, and others too light to warrant a tampon. And they're less than comfortable with me. I have a prolapsed uterus, apparently, so maybe there's something to the comment above.

I have a hard time reading OSC. I'll stick to Tad Williams, Stephen Brust, Le Guin, Willis, etc. There's plenty there as it is.

Snow Crash is a fun book. The Diamond Age, I liked better. Have yet to read Cryptonomicron, much less acquire either of the Baroque Cycle novels. Not read Zodiac or The Big U, either.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

I liked both Cryptonomicon and The Big U far more than Snow Crash. There's always an element of drooling fanboy loser "omfg isn't this cool wankwankwank" about Stephenson, but it's much less overt-and-pathetic in the other two; and Cryptonomicon was in general just a much better read.

In terms of "how hard do you have to work to suspend your own disbelief while reading" (and perhaps some other intangibles) I'd rank them as follows:

Snow Crash - roughly equivalent to... somewhere in between The Matrix and Wayne's World
The Big U - roughly equivalent to Real Genius
Cryptonomicon - roughly equivalent to... somewhere in between Patriot Games and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Nerdy Programmers

HTH. =)

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

Well, I enjoyed Real Genius, and in general like "college novels," so The Big U should probably join the reading list, even though adding to the reading list probably isn't wise just now.

Cryptonomicon... should be fun as well.

Quite helpful. And spot-on about Snow Crash. While fun, just a little too smugly clever. The Diamond Age was less so; its plot also stretched out over about 12-13 years, and up until the less-than-graceful denoument... had some interesting parallels in the plot that weren't nerdy-fanboy-ish stuff.

[knavish.livejournal.com]

I liked Snow Crash well enough, though to really love it you had to have read it "way back in the day" when it was fresh and new. The style at least. Now The Diamond Age; or a Young Girl's Illustrated Primer" is and AMAZING vision into a future that is far too surreal and entirely possible. I pick it up an re-read it about once every couple of years. I would highly recommend reading it. If you have trouble finding a copy (it's out of print) I'd be happy to send you a copy. I have an extra.

Have you read any Richard Grant? He wrote my favorite book of all time, Views from the Oldest House, Rumors of Spring, and Through the Heart. A trilogy of sorts that chronicles the slow decline of civilization over the course of several hundred years. The world ends with a whimper and all that. But the world is not the focus of the books, it's just a backdrop for the characters. Grants writing is very literary. Beautifully worded and phrased. Paragraphs so perfect you go back a read them over and over again. You really should pick it up.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I read Diamond Age a few years ago and was really annoyed by the lack of plot cohesion.