Category Archives: 21st century

And once again I save your lives.

I was fine worrying excessively about my everyday problems- pregnancy, medical bills, a sniffly toddler, black widows in my home… but then I was introduced to a project that a company named Vivos is working on, and my anxiety has turned towards the end of the world.  There really could be a zombie apocalypse, people.  And if there isn’t, it’s still a real possibility that some crazy person is sitting around with nuclear weapons and their finger on the red button, or that mother nature will finally decide to unleash all her natural disasters on us at once.

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A brief geek out on the Singularity.

The Singularity is an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today—the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity. –from singularity.com

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I thought I was open minded, but Montana’s confusing the sh*t out of me.

My two year old son says penis, and I’m okay with that.

The ongoing recent debate about Helena, Montana’s Sex Education plans has, of course, caught my attention. If you haven’t heard, there is a proposed health curriculum guide for grades K-12 that has some parents very riled up. The 62 page proposal is, in short, a health, nutrition, anatomy, and disease prevention program. But it’s the very small section on sex education that has Montana in a tizzy.

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Text speak immersion therapy.

I spend a lot of time online, but just can’t bring myself to embrace the “net lingo.”  I’m a texter who hates text speak.

I feel like it’s cheating, or maybe I just love words so much, that I don’t want to cut them off at the limbs. That’s what it feels like to me.

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Whoa- there’s an app for this.

Whoa-
I just discovered the WordPress app for my somewhat new iPhone.

Yes, I have been living in a cave. Why do you ask?

I can write a post from my phone!
See, look at me doing it right now. I’m lying in bed right now at a ridiculously late hour, posting from my phone. I can even take a picture of Hot Nerd trying to sleep.
Whooty whoot whoot.

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