unspoken creations

Social Abnormalities: Human Responses to a Man in a Dress and the Correlations of Sexual Preference

Social Abnormalities: Human Responses to a Man in a Dress and the Correlations of Sexual Preference

Carolyn Cooper, Nate Bartman, Jay Young, Talib Pirmohamed

Abstract

The area explored was involving gender roles as limited to dress of men. Dually introduced was homosexuality versus heterosexuality of men. The study consisted of a typically heterosexual man breaking a social/gender norm by wearing a dress and walking in public three separate times, once alone, once with a visible established relationship with another man, and another time with the same visual cue of an established relationship with a woman. In order to demonstrate a relationship, the two involved held hands whilst walking through a public area, specifically a mall. The findings show that when the homosexual aspect was introduced, the reactions of people became more significant, less laughing and just passing by, but more staring and talking.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Brian on Jun 11 2007 under general

Linux on a Dell Latitude D620

Setting up wireless (Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Minicard)

Posted by Brian on Apr 24 2007 under general

SunRay Madness

After many struggles with attempting to get Solaris 10 working flawlessly under x86 and failing (though I think I can if I really tried), I’ve decided to attemp and install the Sunray server on Linux to see how it compares. I’ve decided to go with Ubuntu linux. Mainly because it has the best documentation on getting the sunray server working, but also because otherwise I was going to use debian, and this just helps to streamline the process. This is mainly for me, just documenting what I did, so some if it will not apply to your setup.

I started off by installing Ubuntu 5.10. There was nothing strange in the setup, just ran through the install. After the install there were a few things I wanted to make sure were working before attempting the SunRay server:

-Setting the root password and enabling root login to GDM (this is because all my accounts are through NIS, and I didn’t want any locally)

-Adding more sources to apt*

deb http://antesis.freecontrib.org/mirrors/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free
deb-src http://antesis.freecontrib.org/mirrors/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free

-Ran apt-get update/upgrade

-Change to the latest kernel with SMP enabled (I have two processers)

Getting the Latest NVIDIA Drivers

I then followed this guide to installing SunRay server 3.1. And thats all i’ve done so far…

Posted by Brian on Mar 29 2006 under Tutorials

Fun tips for the Mac

You can pin your dock to the sides of the screen instead of it just floating in the middle, it just makes it feel more natural.
at Mac OSX

Quicksilver is an application that just helps you do normal tasks…. easier. You really just need to try it out to see what it’s like.

There a widget that will let you read *nix man pages in a nice interface. Get it here

Google Earth is now available for Mac, and runs very well.

I’ll add more later, if you have any other hints, just leave a comment.

Posted by Brian on Jan 23 2006 under computers

Do More with your Tiger!

I saw this in a magazine and found it to be widly appropriate for all the things I do. It’s great.

Posted by Brian on Oct 10 2005 under general, juggling

Juggling

Posted by Brian on Jul 14 2005 under general

Penguins!

You can now have a penguin as a pet!!! I don’t know if this is such a good idea, considering that penguins are fairly wild animals, but I still want one. I would make a large pool just for my penguin, and I would name him Linux! Too bad its a hoax…

Posted by Brian on Mar 14 2005 under general

MMmmmm tired…

I just woke up from the all nighter at Gigabits. We ended up playing until 5 something in the morning. We had a fun CS1.6 tournament, even though that I have decided that CS 1.6, is a terrible game, CS:Source is much much better. And all of the people that state that CS:Source sucks because they changed the physics, well that because you suck at it, and they just made the physics more realistic. (And I have had CS1.6 players confirm this)

Anywas, I think I may pre-order Guild Wars. Its an MMORPG that has no monthly fee, but it seems to have some wierd gameplay. Like, you only see other people while your in town, and when your out of town, your on your own, not so sure about this one. I’ll have to read up on it some more, and ask my friend’s that have beta’d it. I’m trying to decide if its worth paying monthly just to get back into it again. If I do, I’ll probaly play WOW, which is by blizzard, but I don’t know. I don’t think I have enough time to get into it, maybe once I graduate…

Posted by Brian on Mar 05 2005 under general

Protected: For my only….

Posted by Brian on Mar 03 2005 under general

Server is UP!

The UCI server is up and running. Now just to configure/secure it and I can start using it to host sites. A little background info: I have an extra dual Athlon MP 2100+ server that was just sitting at home doing almost nothing. So I asked my good friend Manny over at gigabits if I could set it up there on his T1 since he didn’t use that much bandwidth, and he said sure! So we got talking and decided that we could start our own web hosting/design business since we both have hobbies/experience with web design/server administration etc. So now all I have to do is setup Apache2, with the usuals (MySQL and PHP). I’ll also throw in a mail server and a FTP server to be complete, all of this of course is pretty easy. So it shouldn’t take too long. Maybe then I can switch my site from 1and1 ;p

Posted by Brian on Mar 03 2005 under general

unspoken creations