What even funnier* is how I know it. In the days of Napster/Kazaa I was trying to hunt down a kid's song named "Don Gato" and all I could find were versions of the Top Cat theme (some in English, some not).


* I think

Wow, cool!

I don't know where to begin!

Square Maki???

Is that just straight up SPAM and rice and nori??

That's an excellent question. Let me know if this helps. I think I'll go to L&L and get some Musubi now.

Wow! There's a site that can help me in my quest to be even more of an insufferable bastard!

It helped me, and it can help you, too.

Cause clearly that's what we needed.

Hawaii's favorite food. It is so loved that you can even find it in most gas stations as popular grab and go food.

Chili cheese Spamburger FTW!

But not really.

Back to the issue of girls and technology/engineering/etc...

http://www.good.is/posts/why-we-need...lubs-for-girls

Just so we're all clear, if I didn't make it clear before, I'm not some feminist.

(Not that I think that's what's going on there in that story, but the fact that the person writing it was involved in being an elected official made me cautious.)

There's a strange balance to be achieved when dealing with these issues. No one has real answers on the nature/nurture debate and there is plenty of hard physical evidence that boys and girls have different BRAINS.

I'm not saying there are things girls can't or shouldn't do, but throwing a whole bunch of time, money, and resources at a population that isn't going to benefit from it as much as another population doesn't make sense.

Anyway, if I you haven't seen me mention it before, there's a fantastic book out there called The War On Boys. It's a bit dated, and the woman who wrote it is a little zealous for my tastes, but the facts she presents are scary and I'm fairly certain they've gotten worse in the interim.

The reason I keep coming back to this topic is because of my daughter (who is in her first year of college).

Her goal through high school was to become a lawyer. Not necessarily a trial lawyer. Since you don't get a bachelors in "lawyer", when it came time to choose the path to lead her to law school, she chose Mechanical Engineering. I think she chose this a little bit because of me, and lot because of her uncle (who is an engineer at SpaceX and a professor at USC).

Now that's she's actually in college and taking the classes, she's having a blast. She's now thinking of not becoming a lawyer, and just being an engineer.

So this makes me wonder, is it lack of real exposure? I pushed her towards science and technology, but she was only mildly interested in it. Now that she's actually doing it, she's loving it. So how many other girls are out there who would also fall in love with science/engineering/technology if they simply had the experience of it? So when I see groups like this code club for girls, as a dad, I feel invested to find out more.

Sweet. Good for her.

I also think girls just need to be exposed to more. That's why I'm on the frontline with the Anti-Pink/Princess Army. I just get scared by some of the strange bedfellows I find in the trenches.

And at the same time I'm on the frontline of the Anti-Feminization/Criminalization Of Boys Army, so I see that a balance must be drawn.

Where is your daughter going to school?

I know a girl who was in the class I taught for my first year of Kindergarten who is in her first year of school in a related field. Networking couldn't hurt them.

Agreed!





what?

You forgot to take out the "to" and reply with "Vell ATA FTW!"