why feminism is still necessary. via amber.

oh my god. can we make any more lame-o stereotypical nicknames involving some retardation of yuppie? we've got the yupster, and now new york magazine gives us the grups.

...oh cripes. just reading into the article, i have discovered, though i am a 26-year-old female, i am apparently a grupster:

Let's start with a question. A few questions, actually: When did it become normal for your average 35-year-old New Yorker to (a) walk around with an iPod plugged into his ears at all times, listening to the latest from Bloc Party; (b) regularly buy his clothes at Urban Outfitters; (c) take her toddler to a Mommy's Happy Hour at a Brooklyn bar; (d) stay out till 4 A.M. because he just cant miss the latest New Pornographers show, because who knows when Neko Case will decide to stop touring with them, and everyone knows shes the heart of the band;...

except for the having of a toddler part. i have not hidden a toddler away in my shoe closet of doom, nor am i with toddler, but i totally will subject my toddler one day to the stylings of radiohead. and lo, he will be a moody adolescent.

UPDATE: oh my god. reading even more into the article, i find out that "grups" is actually a star trek reference. arghghahahahgghh! did i tell you, about the saturday night, that i spent with tommy last week, where he was flipping between star trek and anime on tv and, when those were on commercials, watching battlestar gallactica on his computer's dvd player? nothing to do with this post, really, just wanted to tell you that. although i have to admit that the anime was princess mononoke and i liked it, and BG actually seemed really good.

WHAT HAS HE DONE TO ME.

i have gotten some questions about these black leather strappy boots, and as a service to humanity, i'm letting you know they're made by seychelles. but, i cannot find them online anymore. i bought them last fall from olive & bettes when i saw them noted in, of all places, US weekly. as a result of that placement, they were pretty much sold out, and my order was placed on backorder for like two months. i almost forgot i had bought them until they showed up on my doorstep. like a present from the shoe god...anyway, i searched ebay and some other sources, but couldn't find them, so if you want to buy them, i think you might be outta luck. which might be okay, as people might be terrified of you if you wear them with a miniskirt.

UPDATE: i found them! (in brown) yes, i know, expensive. so sue me.

so here's the thing. i'm thinking about doing me some yoga.

this is very out-of-character for me. i'm a hit-the-treadmill, lift-a-few-weights, leave-the-gym sort of gal. my normal workout routine consists of 4-5 miles, stretching, and some arm weights if i'm feeling enterprising. i avoid with a passion all other machines (except when i'm on a spinning streak). i think the elliptical is the pussiest machine alive and i've never had a good workout on it (though i do appreciate that it is a good alternative for people whose joints, knees, etc won't allow them to run).

but i'm getting bored with the just running. spinning in the darkness just became too much for me, and there is no way in hell i am every taking anything resembling a step aerobic class, because i have witnessed the coordination needed for those things first-hand, and since i cannot so much do the laundry without tripping on my face, i am having none of it.

and most of all: let's face, i'm getting old. i could use some release for my stiff joints and tight muscles, and i think yoga might be just the ticket, as well as being a good complement to my running routine.

but it is scary. and foreign. and, like, omg, am i going to be a granola-eating pussy forever if i do it? i mean i can't even get a handle on the kinds of yoga out there. my gym offers ashtanga yoga? hatha yoga? forrest yoga? iyengar yoga, which "features use of props such as blocks and straps." PROPS? or heated yoga? heat? or the ever-popular offering of Yoga With Balls? do i need to buy a mat? do i need special clothes (the one part of the whole enterprise that i might not mind dealing with?) do i need to be super-bendy? yogabloggers, help!

Wow. What a spectacularly unproductive evening. I got sidetracked helping a new acquaintance set up a VNC/SSH setup, and even that didn't work.

So it's now 1AM, because god dammit I was determined to get something productive accomplished. So, here: the promised GreaseMonkey script. If you use Movable Type (and configure the include path to point at the URL for your installation(s)), this will autosave your work every five seconds, guarding against the browser crashes that we could avoid by responsibly writing entries in text editors, but don't. To restore your work, just bring up a MT entry editing screen and press the button that will magically appear near the top of the screen.

It ought to keep separate drafts for each individual MT weblog you work on, but that functionality hasn't really been tested. I'd doublecheck before relying on it.

This is for MT only, I'm afraid — it's what this site and DCist both use. It should be pretty trivial to adapt to other blogging platforms, though, if anyone's so inclined. Also, it's written for MT version 3.2 — I have no idea if it'll work with other versions, but it might be worth a shot.

UPDATE: Whoops! Found a major bug wherein a new, blank entry would overwrite your saved draft within a few seconds of bringing it up. That'd make this pretty useless, huh? Well, it's fixed now. Your in-memory draft will only be erased if you type something into one of the blank fields on a new entry form.