Archive for January 19th, 2010

Why girls don’t become engineers, part 2

Seriously, is this how guys learned resister codes? I refuse to repost the racist rape mneumonic here, but you can read it for yourself in the comments in this reddit post. Thanks to @janeylicious for pointing this out.

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Why girls don’t become engineers

This morning, I gave a presentation to a class of fifth graders. Just 15 minutes in the classroom in which I tutor. I began with a very simple question. “What does an engineer look like?” A couple boys raised their hands. I called on the first one. “They fix cars.” “Actually, mechanics fix cars. But [...]

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Computer retirement home

Two weeks before Christmas, I was standing in Brother K’s kitchen with Sparkles for that 36 hours in Boston. We learned that my uncle wanted to get a computer for our Meme. We thought the idea of our grandmother finally getting online was a brilliant idea. A couple years ago, we gave her an HP [...]

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