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Spent the day trying to learn how to paint again. The results are below.
A lot of poeple have web-cams for their site... and I check many of them every five minutes to see if they have moved, or come home as the case may be. Some people use web-cams to broadcast porn. I'm considering making the first bird-porn site for some extra income. Awii and Guri have to work off all the damage they have done to my apartment anyway. Tomoe thought it would be a good idea to get a web-cam to point at them so we don't have to worry about them on cold days. I think that is a good idea. As of now, I don't have a web-cam. However, if I did this is what you would see.
I like to do my part in helping people with lesser computer skills than I troubleshoot their systems. So I will post this little tidbit I learned today.
If, when you start your computer, you get a "????(I forgot what kind of error) Error", the problem may be that your cockatiel has chewed through your 6000 yen mouse cord. Unplug the mouse and try again. If this doesn't work, don't ask me.
Here's an interesting self-assesment quiz about hidden bias toward or against certain groups, such as Asian American, Black, Native American, Gay Lesbian, etc...
I took a few, but not all of them yet. In the first test I was cought off-gaurd because they use the word "American", without defining what the test assumes it to mean. Does it mean having Citizenship? does it mean likes hamburgers? It then asks a series of associations for Native Americans and American. The kicker is that when you answer "wrong" and say for instance, that "Ohio" is a Native American name, when actually they consider it an "American" name, it is a mistake you will never make again... no matter how many times you are asked. Then if I answer that it is an "American" name the second time around, I seem to have become automatically biased against Native Americans. I'm not arguing with the result, as I no doubt have a bias in my image of what is an American, but in this test, rather than my own naturally existing bias, I displayed the bias they forced me to have by having "right" and "wrong" answers.
The Gay/Lesbian test was a little better, in that it didn't call for us to use a very vauge term like "American" but still, I was apparently "wrong" in my thinking that gays and lesbians have bowel movements just like anyone else.
When I have more time I lookforward to taking the Asian American test.
I am not sure really what the test proves though. If the test is to see if I consider certain groups to be American by my definition, "have American citizenship", most of the associations are irrelevant, and I am marked incorrect if I answer correctly based on that definition. If the test is to see if I consider certain groups to be a part of what is traditionally thought of by hollywood, and the media as American, surely I will have biased, since that defenition of "American" does not include all groups.
Anyway, it's interesting and makes you think, but the results should not really suprise anyone.
I will soon be opening an online store with my paintings. I figure my main competition will be this guy... http://www.derekmccrea.50megs.com/golf.html
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