Jon Gabriel wrote:
>
> >From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie
> >Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:17:14 -0500
> >
> >Jon Gabriel wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html
> > >
> > > Very cool, even though it got the two graphs I ran wrong.
> >
> >My mom *just* got hold of this one.
>
> Typical. I often get links from friends weeks after I've spotted them. In
> fact, someone sent me the WMD 404 error page today. :)
>
> >She used the same sort of technique for feeding it passages, i.e.,
> >cutting and pasting something already written.
> >
> >She participates on a website with a lot of message boards. What she
> >found was that it was more or less accurate depending on which board
> >she'd posted the passage to -- a message on board for which she's an
> >admin was more likely to come up male, while messages to another
> >particular board were more likely to come up female.
>
> Interesting. So from this we might be able to extrapolate that more
> authoritative language would be considered male?
Possibly. But that's not the only sort of posting she does there; that
board gets more analytical stuff going on than the other ones. Plus,
one of the things they go on are inclusion of numbers in a passage, and
in at least one of the posts from there, she was throwing a few numbers
around.
> >(I'm guessing she got the link from someone's post there, actually....
> >I've fallen out of the habit of sending her cool links while she's using
> >my computer. Make of that what you will.)>
>
> That's the primary reason I started my blog. I got sick of trying to pass
> links around.
Oh, with me right now, it's more a matter of not wanting to encourage
her to spend a lot more time on the computer than she would anyway, give
me a better crack at it. ;)
Now, she's up around 5AM most mornings, and gets stuff done then, but
there are other times of day when whoever happens to sit down at the
computer first gets it for the next half hour. I *can* kick her off,
but I prefer not to unless there's something urgent I need to
communicate to Dan upstairs. (Instant messaging beats yelling up the
stairs beats *climbing*. In a pinch, I've been known to call his work
line from the home line.) And she goes to bed before 9 most nights, so
I can have some computer time after that without interruption. At
least, no interruption until Dan points out that I really ought to go to
bed....
> Glad to hear you're doing ok, by the way. Been insanely busy here, but my
> wife and I are keeping up with your progress. Hopefully you're not too
> uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable enough, anyway. :) I now have back pain which is
asymmetrical, and I'm trying to figure out, is that because I'm lying on
one side more than the other, or is it because the way the babies are
positioned, the weight is not distributed symmetrically? (I'm guessing
it's the latter.)
Sammy has learned something about the limits if he wants to snuggle with
me. He finds them unreasonable, but he knows what they are, pretty
much. One thing I'm really looking forward to is to be able to pick him
up again, which will be some time after I give birth, not sure just
when.
> My sister-in-law is having hers by appointment on the 10th.
Best of luck to her!
Julia
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