Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

right now it just displays a random quote but pretty soon it will also have a calendar…

how long before someone sets my personal website as their homepage

« We know that pencils, oil paints and brushes are 'just tools.' And yet, we appreciate that the artist's encounter with his or her tools is close and relational. It may shut people out, temporarily, but the work itself can bring one closer to oneself, and ultimately to others. In the right settings, people develop relationships with computers that feel artistic and personal. And yet, for most people, and certainly for the women I studied, this was rare. When they began to approach the computer in their own style, they got their wrists slapped, and were told that they were not doing things 'right.'

When this happens, many people drop out. »

« Lisa reacted with irritation when her high school teachers tried to get her interested in mathematics by calling it a language. 'People were always yakking at me about how math is a language—it's got punctuation marks and all that stuff. I thought they were fools and I told them so. I told them that if only it were a language, if only it had some nuance, then perhaps I could relate to it.' »

« In ‘In A Different Voice’, Carol Gilligan talks about 'the hierarchy and the web' as metaphors to describe the different ways in which men and women see their worlds. Men see a hierarchy of autonomous positions. Women see a web of interconnections between people. »

i do not in any way, shape, or form recommend you investigate this piece by Carol Gilligan; however, devoid of context i quite like this (anachronistic; this predates it) framing of The Web as Feminine in relation to the Masculine file system

i’ll spare you the knockoff freudian analysis

« First, insisting that the computer is just a tool is a defense against the experience of the computer as the opposite, as an intimate machine. It is a way to say that it is not appropriate to have a close relationship with a machine. Computers with their plasticity and malleability are compelling media. They have a psychological 'holding power.' Women use their rejection of computer holding power to assert something about themselves as women. Being a woman is opposed to a compelling relationship with a thing that shuts people out. »

« To take an analogy from the world of the computer's second cousins, the video games: it is almost impossible to learn to-play a video game if you try to understand first and play second. Girls are often perceived as preferring the 'easier' video games. When I have looked more closely at what they really prefer, it is games where they can understand 'the rules' before play begins. Both Lisa and Robin crave transparent understanding of the computer. For example, although both apologize for their behavior as 'silly,' both like to program the computer to do everything they need to build their larger programs, even when
these smaller, 'building-block' procedures are in program libraries at their disposal. It makes their job harder, but both say that it gives them a more satisfying understanding. They don't like taking risks at the machine. What they most want to avoid is error messages. »

« I ask Robin to talk to me about her relationship with her piano, a machine, but she insists that it was a completely different thing. The piano took her away from people, but then it brought her closer to them. The involvements of her male peers with the computer only shut people out. »

DID I RE·FIND THAT ONE 80s ARTICLE ABOUT GENDER IN COMPUTING THAT I THINK ABOUT CONSTANTLY?!?! stay tuned

pushed https://github.com/marrus-sh/marrus-sh.github.io/commit/b470eac5596e72d387ae2f1b75c2ef362180afdc

just uncovered a fuckton of quotes from MVC jotted down in a notebook so guess those are getting added to my ✨Fortune✨

unless you think God had an enormous schlong for some reason

isn’t the common interpretation that Adam was made in God’s image, and thus sexless, prior to the introduction of Eve

i also found Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu, which is definitely a book i forgot even existed, much less in my ownership

i found more

remember CBS News
https://youtu.be/2D9YP2-0nhg

friend every random piece of muzak went hard in 2006

the good news is that i’ve rearranged my desk so that it can fit a monitor; the bad news is that i now have no fucking place for all my empty journals

signing a card with initials because you haven’t figured out a name yet