Fiat Lux

Foster Update

Pansy and Marcy have hit their weight requirement and are now old enough to be spayed & put up for adoption. We'll be returning them to the SPCA tomorrow morning. With any luck, by this time next week they'll both be in good, loving, forever homes and being petted, played with, and cuddled by their new families.


It's been fun having them around and I'm sad to see them go. Not so sad that I want to keep them, but still sad.


The good news is that we'll probably pick up some more kittens to foster after we drop Marcy and Pansy off - possibly even a mommy-cat and her litter. I'll update when I know more.

Sometimes the seriousness of life gets me down, and I want to just think of cats.

Technorati Tag: cats

down the avenue

Blogging Tech Fashion Trend Now Mainstream?

While they don't source the study, they refer to a "recent one" that suggests that 32 million Americans now read blogs and "many thousands" write them. Hmmmm, a little vague.


Ask a taxi driver (I keep doing that) or the guy behind the jewelery counter at Macys what a blog is and fat chance that they know. To suggest that blogs have hit mainstream, the article is remarkably Blogs 101, i.e., describing what they are, how they gained their popularity (campaign and beyond) and so on.

Technorati Tag: blogging

Women issues ...

Women Kossacks

Women's caucuses in the Democratic Party did not happen because a bunch of women got together and said, "Hey, let's have a social club" or "Hey, we're all women, let's get together as a group and join the Democratic Party." The women were already in the party and then one day realized the people running the party weren't quite prepared to listen to their views, so they decided to get together to confer.

Technorati Tag: women

Becks & Posh

Can The English Make 'Champagne' ?

Regular readers know that I am often fighting my own little self-made war to try and convince the rest of the world that English food isn't all bad. Despite recent news that the French are invading England in an attempt to buy up all the British vineyards, my own recent, but less than exhaustive research has revealed that although the Champagne region doesn't have to worry too much about the competition from Blighty just yet, it might have a little trouble from somewhere else.

Please continue reading the post. This site is is definitely for the hungry and thirsty. And if you aren't, you soon will be.

And I'm choosing this post as a celebration of not only my own birthday, but of her's as well, so please stop by and wish her a happy birthday.

And one last note, not only does this terrific female blogger have this site to call her own, but she has another as well, --- Sam Francisco.

Technorati Tag: champagne

The Lesbian Lifestyle

So Much More than Pride.

It is June, the season of the great queer holiday known as Pride, but I am one lesbian who doesn't get the concept. Pride? Just for being queer? I stare confusedly at anyone who broaches the subject with me. Sometimes, I engage in conversation, even debate, with anyone who sings the virtues and praises of Pride to me. I don't begrudge anyone their festivities, but it always comes down to one fine point for me: I have a hard time with Pride because there is so more for me to be proud of than just my queerness.

Technorati Tag: lesbian

Econ anyone?

Women Do Economics, Do They Do Economics Blogs?

It's great to read about a brilliant woman making her way in economics. I've been looking for more blogs written by female academic economists or by female armchair economists like myself. I sometimes read Jane Galt's Asymmetric Information. Jane (Megan McArdle) is of the armchair variant--she has an M.B.A. Virginia Postrel at Dynamist takes a economic-like approach to some of her work such as The Substance of Style.


So what's the deal? Why aren't more women blogging about economics? Or are they, and I just haven't hit upon the network of blogs yet?

Technorati Tag: economics

My Boyfriend is a Twat

How to be a proper lady

At first sight of a mouse I will freeze, for up to half an hour, and stare, and go a bit numb. OR I will scream my head off, and swear a lot. The first is probably lady-y. The second is probably not. I will then cry, loudly, for a matter of hours. I will go through a period of blame, and then veer into the desire for quick and violent retribution. None of these - particularly after the crying, are very pretty states to be in.

Out of all her posts, why did I pick this one? Simple. I am having ant issues right now. I don't like ants. I am terrified of ants. And I want someone to come over and save me. NOW!

Technorati Tag: lady

Perhaps something for the coming weekend ...

Carolyn Tillie

As a freelance writer, Carolyn regularly contributes to the internationally renown Gault Milleau-owned Gayot.com. She also writes for the Napa Register, Hugh Johnson's World of Fine Wines magazine, and is a regular correspondent to the wine-devoted Gang of Pour. In an attempt to taste and review at every winery in California, she is running a daily blog, The Ultimate California Wine Blog and is also blogging the growth of a vineyard on her Ultimate California Vine Blog. She works at wineries in both Napa and Sonoma and in her copious amount of free time, she is writing a book on The Eating Habits of the Victorian Gentry.

Technorati Tag: wine

A bit of humor ...

"Strip Search"

You can imagine what I THOUGHT this TV show was going to be about, lol, but the premise for this VH1 program turns out to be, "Men compete for a contract with a traveling male strip revue troupe." That sounded promising (hey, I'm married, not DEAD), so I watched it... and ran head-on into human nature.


Everyone knows what male strippers look like; tall, tan (or non-white), muscular, handsome. Everyone also knows what strippers need to be able to do to allow them to BE strippers rather than, say, models; dance and exude sexual energy. Why, then, were the applicants for this competition primarily homely, flabby, pasty, sporting guts and love handles, unable to dance, and with no clue whatsoever as to what to do with their bodies to project a sexual vibe? What went through these men's heads that made them think that, although they possessed NONE of the qualifications to be male strippers, they still had a shot? Are they CRAZY?

How did I miss seeing this show?? (yes, I realize it's due to the fact that it wasn't shown on the Sci Fi channel)

Technorati Tag: strippers

Hamburg, Sex, and Myers Brigg

She took a trip to Hamburg Germany and shares great pictures.

Rated X. I was there for awhile.

Ever wanted to know about Myers Briggs?