Monday's Brain Giggles Like Alice...

Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?

From the abstract:

Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia... Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.

Max Mosley faces calls to quit as Formula One chief after 'Nazi' orgy

Max Mosley, one of the most powerful men in world sport, was under pressure to resign as boss of Formula One's governing body last night after he was exposed enjoying a Nazi-style orgy with five prostitutes. … Mr Mosley was caught on video with five women in an underground "torture chamber" in Chelsea, where he spent several hours allegedly indulging in sado-masochistic sex. Speaking in German and brandishing a leather whip, he beat the women after allowing himself to be subjected to a humiliating inspection for lice and an interrogation in chains.

Oh, I dunno. Sounds kinda hawt, actually. And what the heck is a newspaper doing sneaking a camera into and S&M parlor just to bugger some rich guys sex life? At least there's no signs of incompetence in the complaint.

Nerd ADD and RII

I lost an entire day this weekend to RII (Repetitive Information Injury), a nerd-folk condition first characterized clearly by the blogger Rands. Although I managed to do things "around" my constant surfing, it was still a pretty bad weekend.

I clearly have a case of Nerd ADD (which is basically my ordinary ADD being fed by the firehose known as the Interwebs), and my usual management tools fail me at home. My "to do" notebook spent the entire weekend locked away in my beautiful new bookbag, doing me absolutely no good whatsoever. I have a number of important projects to get underway: a campaign website for one of Omaha's friends, a revision of the Pendorwright home page, the current book, managing Muse, and so on.

I did spend some time with the kids, but I feel like I worked that in "around" my internet addiction, rather than the other way around. At times I would ask myself, "What's the utility of this?" only to have the thought erased by another hit of the refresh button.

I really need to get this under control. The to-do list grows and grows. The funny thing is there have been times when I really have had it under control, and gotten a lot done, and yet somehow the satisfaction of it doesn't stick.

Bleah.

Geeks Without Coffee!

Geeks Without Coffee

This is one of the two coffee machine at work. It broke. As you can see, the notes got silly fast. The bottom two post-its are written like request memos for our bugtracker, with the bottom one indicating that quality assurance gives this a top priority, 'testing cannot proceed until this is fixed' rating.