Every once in a while, something comes along that restores my faith in humankind and makes me think that maybe some parents are doing an okay job with their kids.

Ponderings and wanderings while working on my house.

Jennifer Finney Boylan writes in today's New York Times writes regarding her worries about "What kind of men would my boys become having been raised by a father who became a woman?"

I suppose it had to happen sometime - body swaps hit the mainstream media. A Reuters news item entitled Swedish researchers create body-swap illusion tells how they fooled subjects into believing the image they saw on a video monitor was their own body. The last couple of paragraphs are intriguing:

Finally, they tried a full body swap between two volunteers and it worked.

The NPR show On The Media had a challenge for National Novel Writing Month: Write a novel in 12 word or less.

A couple examples:
"Six words into his first novel, Sam's lonely wife murdered him."

"Obituary. First five words free, she thought. Charles dead. Yacht for sale."

Hey all,

Newsweek had a pretty good article on "The Mystery of Gender", as they called it. Their website has more associated stories than were in the magazine. However, while the stories themselves are well done, you should see the comments,(or maybe not)some are a very depressing view of intolerance.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18618970/site/newsweek/

Jamie

I'm sure most eveyone has seen this before, perhaps many times. I was searching through my home directory at work and found the file (timestamped 1998) with the rules. It still gives chuckles. Enjoy!