Friday, April 21, 2006

Caitlin Flanagan - To hell with all that



Caitlin Flanagan is my new dream girl and her book “To hell with all that” I think is a brave and true account of her thoughts. In an era of pre-emptive wars, school shootings and child abuse we need to pay close attention to our social fabric. Mrs. Flanagan’s book takes us back to the joys of domestic work and the pride one should take in performing the most important and difficult job in the world (Raising kids).
The feminists are up in arms but again lesbian chicks are good for porn and that is where their usefulness stops. For those who would rather trust popular print media, this is an excerpt of her book review by the “New York Times”
No matter how vociferously they disagree with her on some things, they find themselves agreeing with much of what she writes. One suspects that were such readers to open Flanagan's essay collection, "To Hell With All That," without knowing its provenance, they would page through it eagerly, nodding and sighing and chuckling to themselves. Flanagan writes with intelligence, wit and brio. She's likable.

Peace

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Unique and Unusual women in History - Lena Soderberg.



The Lenna (or Lena) picture is one of the most widely used standard test images used for compression algorithms. 'lena' or 'lenna' is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972 which also happens to be the highest sold playboy edition to-date. Lena Soderberg (ne Sjööblom) was last reported living in her native Sweden, happily married with three kids and a job with the state liquor monopoly. In 1988, she was interviewed by some Swedish computer related publication, and she was pleasantly amused by what had happened to her picture. That was the first she knew of the use of that picture in the computer business.
Kudos to the lady who can do it all, from being a playmate to a mother. Good luck and peace out.