NietzscheDerp: A Highly Sane and Literate Idea Whose Time Has Come
November 11, 2012
Last month, I tweeted this.
Then, this happened:
Why, yes, “someone” can! (The HerpDerp plugin changes all the Youtube comments to “herp derp.”)
You can download NietzscheDerp here! Thanks, Tim Loudon!
I’ve been using it for weeks. So now, when I view, say, Justin Bieber’s video, “Baby,” I see this in the comments:
Enjoy!
Bullish Q&A: When Your Success Is Based On Shadowy, Unspoken Rules
November 5, 2012
Today, we have two questions about underlying rules and structures that you have to figure out to keep from constantly banging your head into a wall.
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Bullish Life: Weight Lifting For Ladies And Unicorns
October 25, 2012
Dear Jen,
I just found Bullish/TheGloss and want to say thank you. I also want to say that when I read you were/are(?) a bodybuilder it made me that much more excited!
I’ve recently discovered weightlifting and want it to actually matter. Thank you for saying it’s okay (and GOOD) to lift heavy things.
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Bullish: Behind On A Deadline? Read This.
October 23, 2012
Are deadlines chasing you like fiery hell-demons? Do they thump from under the floor like Poe’s tell-tale heart? Do they watch you like the all-seeing eye of Sauron?
If you have an impossible deadline, here’s a quick read (it should be – you have a deadline, right?) with a few ideas, and some important questions to ask.
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Bullish Life: When To Cut Your Losses And Walk Away
October 18, 2012
The above is a still from the end of the 1988 classic Heathers, from right around the part when Winona Ryder blows up her boyfriend and declares herself the “new sheriff in town.”
Let’s see a letter from a reader who’s friend is stuck in a shrubbery-filled rut. More »
Bullish: How To Compete When You’re Young And Inexperienced
October 15, 2012
Today I’m answering two letters from women I’ve renamed Charlotte Whitton (she who said, “Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”) and Flo Kennedy, who once protested a lack of women’s bathrooms by holding a “Protest Pee-In” in Harvard Yard.
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Bullish Life: Is Dating Dead?
October 11, 2012
Apparently, dating is dead. Except that I’ve been on hundreds of dates, and so have many of you.
It’s kind of like saying that sushi is dead. I mean, a lot of people don’t eat sushi. But you can still totally get some if you want. More »
Bullish: How To Reduce (Un-) Productivity Guilt
October 5, 2012
Practically every woman I know lives in a state of near-constant guilt for not getting enough done.
Of course, I have ambitious friends.
When you look for advice on a problem like this, your ambitious friends typically say, “Me, too!” and sometimes try to compete with you about who is the most behind on their goals.
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Bullish Life: Hanging Out With People In Real Life Is Now Like Herding Cats. Cats That Suck.
October 4, 2012
Check out this question from a reader I’ve named Tai after the new girl in the 1995 classic Clueless.
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Bullish: How Formal Should You Be At Work? (XOXO LOL!)
October 4, 2012
I live near Wall Street, where we get a lot of tourists, especially Europeans.
We have old Dutch buildings, Federal Hall, and, of course, the Wall Street Bull, which bears some responsibility for the fact that this column is called “Bullish.”
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Bullish Life: What Does It Mean To Be An Adult In The Modern Age?
October 4, 2012
I have been informed that Jennifer Wright is giving up caffeine as a way to become more adult.
I don’t understand this, and fortunately I don’t work in the offices, so she can’t punch me (not that she’ll have the energy to, considering the lack of caffeine). Subsisting on only black coffee, croissants, and cigarettes seems very adult to me, if obviously unhealthy (see the Jean-Paul Sartre cookbook), because “healthy” is really not the same as “adult.” More »
Bullish: The Things I Was Trying To Say To The Women Of Dartmouth Before I Passed Out
October 4, 2012
This past Monday, I was the keynote speaker at Dartmouth College’s Words of Wisdom event for first-year women.
This is a thing I do. I give speeches. I have spoken at other universities, performed standup comedy for the U.S. troops in the Middle East (for audiences of 800 armed men sitting at picnic tables in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert!), and even taught public speaking to convicts in a Vermont prison.
I have read the statistics that most people are more afraid of public speaking than of death, and I’ve always been a bit smug about it. Public speaking is no big deal!
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September 18: ¡The Punctuation Show! (How to Use Tiny Symbols to Make Meaning Without %$^&#* Up) appears in the Brooklyn Book Festival
September 10, 2012
¡The Punctuation Show! (How to Use Tiny Symbols to Make Meaning Without %$^&#* Up)
Do you know your colon from your semicolon? Enjoy a fun-filled (and pun-filled) romp through the major punctuation marks, those that never quite took off and some unorthodox uses of punctuation. Pedantic humorist Jennifer Dziura (co-host of the Williamsburg Spelling Bee) makes those tiny symbols on the printed page mean more than you ever imagined.
Location: JACK, 505 ½ Waverly Avenue (between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue)
Time: 8:00 pm
Price: $5 suggested donation to benefit Women’s Education Project
Website: www.jackny.org
Go here for the schedule of all Bookend Events in the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Previous Posts:
I Punctuated the %^&# Out of Geek Week
Photos from the Punctuation Show at Palm Beach State
Bullish: How to Recover From Career Stagnation And Plan An Awesome Life
September 10, 2012
Today, we have a letter from someone who feels she’s planning her professional life a little later than would have been ideal.
My position is that it’s never too late to get bullish. Especially if you’re still healthy, energetic, and don’t have three kids or tens of thousands of dollars in debt. More »
Bullish: What Men Need to Know About Negotiating With Women
September 10, 2012
There are lots of books out there intended to help women negotiate with men, by being like men or at least understanding them.
But some nonzero number of men out there could use advice on negotiating with women. I can help. More »
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