After finals, I came home and slept a long time. Then I got up and baked and baked and baked. I went a little nuts actually. Luckily, I went to a potluck the next day, so I only ate half a pan of brownies.
icing
Stacey is moving away. So we made a cake. She likes icing more than I do.
What I’ve Noticed
A woman fights off a man who assaults her and is assaulted by bystanders in retribution, via Feministing.
The Pill Kills – a new campaign of the American Life League.
That $600 isn’t going to help our economy and it certainly won’t help people who really need it.
7.2 million families holding sub-prime mortgages, disproportionately lower-income, black and Latino are in danger of losing their little bit of the American Dream.
37 million poor people (the definition of poverty for a family of 4 is an income of less than $20,000) can receive $600 a person and $300 per child if they have an income already. If not, then not.
In a society without justice such as ours, poor people, people with one foot out of poverty, and the working class are experiencing a crisis only guessed at on Wall Street where all the mischief began.
Women do more housework than men in general. What you may not have realized, is that men create a heck of a lot more of it for women to do, via (en)Gender.
the research shows women, of all ages with no children, on average do 10 hours of housework a week before marriage and 17 hours of housework a week after marriage. Men of all ages with no children, on the other hand, do eight hours before marriage and seven hours afterwards.
Live in Flagstaff? Ride a bike? Do this!
Since arriving at Stanford as a professor in 1995, Ms. Koller has led a group of researchers who have reinvented the discipline of artificial intelligence.
photo 365, day 7
Rainy days make me feel bad.
Spring Break, day 5: Lotusland part 3
The water garden used to be a swimming pool. Ganna Walksa, the creator of the garden, kept a narrow lane as a pool and filled the rest with water lilies. We weren’t there at the right time to see them blooming, but it was still a very calm part of the garden.
Near the house, there was a mass planting of Draecena. These are monocots – so more closely related to grass than most trees. They produce no real wood, but still get very large. I love the dichotomous branching.
The fern garden was possibly my favorite part of the garden, so I had a really hard time choosing just one picture to put here. This fiddlehead was just incredible. It was bigger than a fist.
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Spring Break, day 5: Lotusland part 2
The Japanese garden had a muddy pond, some very well pruned trees and beautiful maples, but I was mostly excited about the camellias. I love these plants, and I haven’t seen one in bloom since I left North Carolina.
The aloe garden was the first truly botanically exciting part of the garden for me. I had never seen so many different kinds and had no idea of the variety in size and form. We were also fortunate to arrive when a lot of the aloes were just finishing blooming. I’d never seen any type of aloe in bloom before, so it was interesting to get a look at its flowers.
