SOSS: Po-po Does Whatever?

My friend Charlie and I were at Best Buy in Tampa and couldn't help notice the irony of this. Maybe the Tampa police deparment is allowed to park on the sidewalk/block sidewalk traffic, since they're technically not parked in from of the sign? We don't know. All we saw was the irony.

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Charity Via Cell

Much to the chagrin of many college professors, Wikipedia has become a prime destination for people looking to research any topic.
If you've used it more than once, you've probably noticed the link that's always at the top soliciting donations to keep it going. Today I came across a new way to donate and I thought I'd share. To donate $10, just text "WIKI" to 25383. The picture below is just a screenshot I took on my phone showing where the solicitation is at the top.

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This Blog's Forgotten Birthday

Image by grahamcase via Flickr

I don't know how I completely neglected to remember my blog's birthday, but I did. As of November 3, this blog has been around for a year. I appreciate those of you that read it regularly, have ever read, commented on it or followed me on Twitter.

Thanks,

Sapphic O

Girl on Girl Gone Wrong

Nowadays people can normally spot sexual harassment fairly easily. Men
are normally thought to be the perpetraters, but it's increasingly
women. An interestingly enough,there seems to be more woman-on-woman
sexual harassment. In these cases what people often suspect is that
the harasser is some androgenic, feet up on her desk dyke tormenting
the unassuming straight girl.
In my experince,the reverse is true more than is realized.

I came out at seventeen. As an avowed lesbian during my senior year of
high school, I turned down no less than a dozen solicitations from
straight girls to do dirty things to them. One was even a PK
(preacher's kid). This PK routinely asked me about my then-girlfiriend
and I. She also routinely tried coaxing me into making out with
her...at school...whether or not we were within earshot of other
people. Was it the most offensive thing I had ever experienced? No.
Did I find it to be a bit much? Yes? Would it have been considered
sexual harassment had a male student been doing the same thing?
Absolutely.

Within the last year I experienced this again. The straight girl
thought nothing of it, until I notified an authority. She was livid
and had apparently never thought it would be a big deal... Or that if
someone overheard me joking back with her (which I never did), that it
could be taken the wrong way, and that I could end up in trouble for
sexually harassing her.

Now that wasn't even the most offensive thing to happen to me, but it
was quite jarring. It made me quite uncomfortable (something that
requires a lot of effort).
It also reminded me that despite the increasing acceptance gay and
bisexual people are receiving, it's quite easy to get in trouble, if
only because of others' perceptions of a situation that I happen to be
involved in as a gay person. Had I made sexual jokes with the young
woman who started with me, they would probably have sounded quite
inappropiate to the casual observer. Had they repeated that to an
authority before I stepped forward, I'm positive I would have been the
one reprimanded. I'm the out dyke with a close haircut that dresses in
men's clothes, the prowler. At least that's how heteronormal society
views me. Society doesn't give a second thought about labeling my type
the aggressor.

To be truthful, very frequently, the reverse is true. Femme lesbians
and straight women pursue us with a passion. I don't think I started
the initial pursuit of any girlfriend or woman I've been involved
with, and they've all been femme.

That's neither here nor there in the case of woman-on-woman sexual
harassment. It's still an underreported occurence and I presume will
remain such for a while.

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My Random iPhone Post

Now you may or may not now this, but I am a hardcore iPhone fan girl. I had one on AT&T and I moved to T-Mobile for financial reasons. I thought I could be without one. Turns out I didn't like the G1 or MyTouch3G as much as I thought I would. I ended up selling my G1, buying an iPhone2g, using an upgrade on one of my lines to get a MyTouch and trading it, so that I could reunite with the iPhone3g. I gave my little sister my 2g to show my appreciation for her doing well in school. 
For the record she got nothing less than one "C" on her report card and has gotten no less than a "B" on her math tests. 


While perusing my favorite phone blog, The iPhone Blog, I came across a thread in the forum soliciting members' five favorite applications. That got me to thinking about what mine were and I decided to share them here. I know this has no relation to the subject matter of most of my posts, but I'm a real tech geek, so it's pertinent to me. And my blog is about me, isn't it?


App Store 
Facebook-No explanation necessary. The 3.0 updates made it even better than before. If you use Facebook, I also suggest MyPhone+. It searches for overlaps in your contacts and Facebook friends and updates their contact info, complete with birthdays and contact photo for you. I got it when it was free, but I honestly I think it's worth the $2.99 price tag. It's kept me from a lot of manual updates to my contacts.
Tweet Deck- What would a top five be without mentioning a Twitter client? I love having columns to differentiate tweets, direct messages (DM's), and mentions. In Tweet Deck for iPhone, they're just a slide away and the fact that it shows you how many unread  DM's, mentions and tweets there have been since the last login is useful. I've tried Twetie, Echofon (the former Twitterfon), qTweeter (a jailbroken hack), Twitterific and at least half a dozen apps/widgets for the AndroidOS. Tweet Deck is most pleasing to me. The color scheme also matches my blog. :]
Remote- Controlling my or someone else's iTunes from anywhere in the house saves time/energy/encourages laziness. It's especially useful for when I'm studying or laying down.
Shazam-I never have to not know what song I'm listening to, ever again. It's getting increasingly good and identifying indie/mixtape songs, I'm guessing because of it's integration with lyric engines and YouTube.
Epocrates- Looking up drugs, their interactions, prices etc. Perfect for medical professionals or even someone who just happens to be on a few medications. I'm a budding med professional AND happen to be on a handful of meds, which I like to check before taking something OTC or certain foods and this is invaluable. It's also useful for deciding whether I should buy prescriptions from an outside or VA pharmacy when money's kinda tight.
Last.fm- I find it better than Pandora and the ability to look at my profile and see what I was listening to, even on the go is great. It also helps my memory, much in the same way that Twitter does.
 
Jailbroken
Qik-This is an app that could easily be sold in the App Store for $5. It's basically a YouTube that you can stream to your own channel, live. When I'm not sure how long something I'm gonna record is gonna be or I don't feel like plugging in to get a video from Cycorder, I just record directly to my page and use a Firefox extension to rip the video to my desktop.
Winterboard- Customize your iPhone or iPod Touch. 'Nuff said.
SBsettings- Quick toggles, hiding apps.
Cycorder- Recording video.
Five Icon Dock- It's not so much an app as it is a hack. Having an extra icon at the bottom is nothing dire, but, it's cool.

Apparently, 2012 is not when the world will end. According to a religious pamphlet I found on my bus ride home, it will end next year.

 

An Inappropiately Funny Tweet I Love

My asthma has been acting up all weekend, so I really didn't need to be doing any hardcore laughing today. I just could not help myself once I came across ThisGirlSaid on Twitter, though. Her tweets might be funnier than YouTweetedWhat, in my opinion. This find is fairly insignificant, but life is too serious not to laugh at such silliness. Please join me in laughing at her tweets.