Mel is the geekiest female I've ever met. I met her at Wikimania in August, when she was one of the two people representing One Laptop Per Child, and she now acts unofficially as one of
Appropedia's software advisors. And I just discovered that she blogs:
"Why would I get highlights that don't show?" I asked. "That's like putting on makeup so you don't look like you're wearing makeup." "Of course!" they said, as if that was the entire point. There is apparently some sort of parallel twilight zone of estrogen where these things make sense. -
Where are my eyebrows? on
[M]etabrain[E]ntry[L]og That makes sense to me. But then, on the Womanian and Manian language tests on
OkCupid, I did better understanding the language of Women than Men.
Mel's previous post,
Tie an orange ribbon..., is about corruption and poverty in the Philippines. Sadly, much of it quite familiar from Indonesia.