Month: May 2002

“all-woman” team climbing everest, samsung means to come

Two links I’ve been storing up during the MT switchover:
Women turn back short of Everest summit. Quote: “The climb was billed as the first by an all-woman team attempting to summit Everest. The women were accompanied by two male guides, a male photographer and eight Nepali sherpas.”
Um, excuse me, but how in the world can that be described as an “all-woman team”? Assuming the sherpas are male, that’s five women and 11 men. My real argument here isn’t about gender: it’s about the shoddy treatment that the Nepali sherpas always get in Everest summit stories. These folks carry all the gear and climb just as far as the white folks who get the pub, but they get no attention. Sir Edmund Hillary gets the title and the fame, Tenzing Norgay gets forgotten. (Well, not forgotten, but you get my point.) Now these sherpas are evidently not even human, since it’s an “all-woman” team.
And, totally unrelated, Samsung means to come.

first post in movable type

(Warning: geektalk ahead.)
If you’re wondering why I’ve been quiet the last few days, I’ve been busy moving the software that runs this site over from Greymatter to Movable Type. It’s been a laborious switch.
Not because of any problems with MT, which is elegantly assembled and easy to use (once you get past an install a newbie might find threatening). Mena and Ben have put together a terrific program I’d recommend to anyone. My problems arose (a) because I had to hack a way to get my comments imported, since they weren’t Greymatter-native but used dotComments instead, and (b) because I used GM’s connected-files features for everything on crabwalk.com except the main blog, each page of which had to be manually transported to the new templates.
But it’s all done now. Please poke around and tell me if you see anything that looks wrong (or, more accurately, more wrong than it usually does). The only changes should be: (a) having the permalink date stamp and the comments tag on a separate line (MT, for all of its blessings, insists on wrapping posts in a P tag if you want it to convert line breaks, which means there’s no way to have other tags on the same line as the post itself unless you’re willing to manually change every P tag in all of your past posts); (b) a less attractive pop-up comments window (since to my knowledge MT can’t put comments in alternating-color table cells, at least not without some code hacking I’m not willing to get into); and (c) switching the archives from the /archives/ directory to /archive/ (I kept the old GM archives there to avoid link-rot).

man shot in scrotum sex play

I feel sorry for headline writers sometimes. They get a story like this handed to them and they can only write something like “Woman charged in husband’s shooting.”
A criminal complaint said rescuers found [Mr.] Winkler bleeding from a gunshot wound to the groin at 11:40 a.m. May 7 at their home in the 800 block of Howard Street. Winkler was wearing shoes and socks and his pants were down at his ankles.
When asked what happened, [wife] Susan Winkler told police,

you do too much, peter. you’re not superman

From the geniuses at Fametracker, some rejected Spiderman lines that nearly took the place of Aunt May’s late-movie jibe, “You do too much, Peter. You’re not Superman”:
“You can’t compel ants to do your bidding, Peter. You’re not Ant Man.”
“You can’t change into any water- or ice-based object, while your sister changes into the animal of her choice, Peter. You’re not the Wonder Twins.”
“You can’t leave a comprehensive and compelling collection of letters detailing public and private life in the heyday of the Roman Empire, Peter. You’re not Pliny the Elder.”