Hey there sunset, why you so awesome?
hot child in the city
“West Coast Edition.” on Threadless.
Ever since moving to sunny California, I’ve totally been taken in by the ‘California Mythos’ - you know, California as the Golden State, laid back, beach bummin’, relaxin’, Dani California, driving down the 101. I’m not going to lie, the mythos isn’t too far from the truth.
When vegetarians eat meat, volume 1
- JS:
- the missus and I went to Incanto last weekend
- JS:
- they cure a tuna's heart and then shave it over pasta
- JS:
- kind of like carbonara
- JS:
- shit was real
How do colors affect purchases? According to KISS Metrics:
For retailers, shopping is the art of persuasion. Though there are many factors that influence how and what consumers buy. However, a great deal is decided by visual cues, the strongest and most persuasive being color.I am going through a really intense infographics phase right now. Like real intense.
Ladies in Technology
TechCrunch posted an article recently which seemed like it was just begging for trolls. Entitled, “Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men,” perennial internet instigator Michael Arrington responds to claims in the Wall Street Journal that TechCrunch (as a leading industry blog) isn’t doing enough to promote women entrepreneurs. Arrington writes:
Every damn time we have a conference we fret over how we can find women to fill speaking slots. We ask our friends and contacts for suggestions. We beg women to come and speak. Where do we end up? With about 10% of our speakers as women… [W]e do spend an extraordinary amount of time finding those qualified women and asking them to speak… A lot of the time they say no. Because they are literally hounded to speak at every single tech event in the world because they are all trying so hard to find qualified women to speak at their conference.
There aren’t a lot of lady entrepreneurs - but on the flip side, there aren’t a lot of lady developers either. I went to the jQuery conference in March and was astounded to see approximately five ladies there. I was sitting in on the twitter hashtag, and noted this, and one of the conference organizers told me that based on the last conference there should have been about 30 women there.
There were 500 people at the conference.
A dearth of ladies in technology is not news - not on any level. At work I’m one of two women on our ten person technology team; and I’m not even doing any heavy duty programming at all. In fact, I’d be hard pressed to name a single female engineer in the entire company— and the technology team accounts for approximately 50% of the employees.
I don’t really have a solution. I just know that there shouldn’t be fields dominated by men where women could do just as well.
KK should get their own tag, at this point
- KK:
- I know right?
- KK:
- I'm saying that from now on.
- KK:
- Totes amazeballs, isn't it fetch?
- Me:
- HAHAHA TOTES MCGOTES
- KK:
- STOP TRYING TO MAKE TOTES HAPPEN GRETCHEN
- Me:
- STOP TRYING TO MAKE FETCH HAPPEN GRETCHEN
- Me:
- hahahahahahahaha
- KK:
- STOP TRYING TO MAKE GRETCH HAPPEN FETCHEN!
- KK:
- I love you.
A Capella teenage dream? Rad! Save for the part when it becomes a song I don’t like and the whole changing “let’s go all the way tonight” to “let’s fall into each others arms tonight”, which totes ruins the hilarious nature of the original song. Thanks to Aphyr, yet again.
