Some reading

Well, I haven't posted recently and one person (thanks Karen!) has noticed. While I haven't been too busy to blog, the creative urge waxes and wanes. Today, I will just post links to what I have been reading over the past 24 hours. You can see how the Internet has taken over my life and yesterday I was considering having a holiday from my iPad. Anyway, I read an inspiring blog about a women who went from being over 90 kilos to running the London Marathon. Quite good timing as I am thinking of doing a 10k run in December, in Wanganui no less, and now I realise it is entirely doable. [Insert segue here - OK - you think about a connection between running and feminism]. I have been going through a phase recently of reading a bit more about feminism (thanks somewhat to a student I am helping who is doing a sociology course at Victoria University). There are many, many interesting blogs out there, but this  one looks to be very good, and I love the name The Stroppery. On the other side of the spectrum, I also enjoy reading the blog of Dilbert creator Scott Adams. He sure does get himself into trouble though, as you will see from his latest post. I am an economics geek from the past, but have never come across this essay written from the point of view of a pencil, to explain the concept of the invisible hand. This post from Kiwiblog relates, though is probably not interesting enough for you to go and see, since it just talks about the price of milk in New Zealand ; ) I like reading Kiwiblog, but would like to read a few other political blogs (preferably with David Farrar's relative openmindedness to various points of view, but with a better quality of commenter), so recommendations please. Also economic, I enjoy reading Freakonomics, this post about cheap and simple solutions, for example (thoroughly geeky and not humourous at all, I'm afraid). For humour, I enjoy Laughing Squid, which writes about various things cultural. With this post on gender reveal parties, I am concerned about the evolution of society and whether I want to be part of it, but that is just the old fogey in me, which I must suppress in order to remain hip and cool. However, I will NEVER EVER have a gender reveal party (unless Rai or Luka want to tell me something in the future, and then, it would be kinda fun).  Laughing Squid do link to useful posts though, for example, how to make bacon roses, which I should surprise Seiji with sometime (Father's Day 2011 perhaps?). I came across this interesting post by Ricky Gervais on why he is a good Christian (although athiest). On a lighter note, (since Ricky was actually a bit heavy in that post), tumblrs are an awesome new (well, new to me anyway) internet invention. Powerful for their subtlety. Or not. You decide. Chicks with Steve Buschemi eyes. You might ask "Why?". I ask "Why not?". Ditto for Ridiculous Pictures of Celine Dion. If it makes you think or happy for just a minute, it is art. I have just realised that I am only "creative" when procrastinating. Actually, I am supposed to be writing model essays for some of my IELTS students. Fortunately, though, I have found just the website that has already done that for me. Yay for the interweb.