tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316743682011-08-16T11:56:24.410-06:00Hi, I'm Jasmine - America's T-Girl. How can I call myself that, you ask? I can because I did it first, that's how. I write mostly about transgender issues, but I will also cover politics, religion, and whatever else comes to mind.<br/>My other sites are <a href="http://www.smoothjazzy.com">www.smoothjazzy.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/jasmine1971">www.myspace.com/jasmine1971 </a>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618734526176282409noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31674368.post-57192745530341352722007-10-31T13:13:00.000-06:002007-10-31T13:22:20.743-06:00

Lately I've gotten into RC aircraft in a pretty serious way. Here's some videos from my planes and there's a new blog about RC airplanes here: Jazzy's Flight Deck

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This is a letter I sent to McDonalds Why can't you guys ever get things right? When I worked at McDonald's we had pride in our store. We had pride in our service. We held the drive-thru speed record for a couple years, and you know what... that was with 100% order accuracy. You have nothing to be proud of, and will not be setting any service records any time soon. I visit your store at least

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NOTE: I've made some changes to the plane since I first wrote this, so please read the comments! So, I wasn't going to write this, because I figured it out OK, but I realized when looking through the forums, that many people have trouble assembling the Slow Stick, and that beginners are not sure of what to buy for a flight pack. I also think it's important to delineate somewhere what the total

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Every woman who has any online presence at all knows that men are, for the most part, really dumb about communicating. I get a lot of email that completely wastes my time, and I really don't know what to say to people sometimes. I wrote this for Myspace a while back, but it bears repeating. I like to make friends or I wouldn't be here, but you need to realize a few things before you send me a

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(Note: this article is really long, but every word of it is important. Follow along and learn the topic with me.) I had an interesting conversation with another programmer the other day about how to learn a new programming skill. He's a very smart guy, but he was having trouble getting started learning new topics. Programming topics are built up in layers, and you can't understand high-level

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This is one of those things that reminds you that the cheap video camera actually is a positive addition to society. When I was a kid, capturing something like this on 8mm would have been a rare occurrence. It was just too expensive to shoot film back then, and note that this is in a restaurant where it would have been totally rude to pull out a large, noisy movie camera. The cellphone camera is

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Just a couple photos I put text on. Some dogs just don't like to have a camera shoved in their face after they wake up. This might be funny for hackers

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Two things are happening in the development world that I really don't like. The dumbing down of programming tools, and the dumbing down of programmers themselves. Consider my latest adventure with drag-and-drop. I wanted to create a custom HttpHandler for our web site. I prefer to actually write code, but I found a nice tutorial about how to do all this GUI work in Visual Studio, and presto! a

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Here's why development projects can't be done on time, or rather, why it's impossible to estimate the time for a project unless you've already done it. You do not need to understand the tasks in italics, which are specific to my company site. This is a typical day for me - for perspective, this is 7 hours of work, with the exception of the HttpHandler issue, which spanned several days. Had to

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Wal-Mart is using a "new" software to do their employee schedules, and people are pissed off about it. Those people need a history lesson because Wal-Mart didn't invent this... they were just dumb enough to ignore the potential of it, for nearly 20 years. This is nothing new and I don't know why people are suddenly all upset about it. I suspect it's because some people out there hate anything

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This is simpler than you might think. I was very surprised that this actually worked. All you need to do to never get junk mail again, is call the places that are sending it, and demand to be removed from their lists. I called Comcast and finally got off of their "environmental onslaught", and I removed myself from ADVO mailings by going to their web site (click "About Advo" on the side, then

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I've got someone trying to convince me that Pit Bulls are ok. I say, maybe for you, but not for everyone, and laws have to apply to everyone, not just you. Look, you are an expert in Pit Bulls. Not everyone is, and a Pit Bull needs a strong alpha to keep itself under control. Telling people that Pit Bulls are OK, when you don't know the person, is risky, because they may not be the kind of

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As an openly transgender person, I am constantly being told what I should think. I make my own decisions, and recently the ACLU told me I should write to my senators about Parolee Voting. Here's what I had to say. (Sent to Democratic senators in Colorado) The ACLU has recently informed me that I should support parolee voting, and that you had recently changed your stand to be against voting

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Akira has really good balance. He dances! This is a good example of how to train your dog. Just before the video starts, I issued the "up, up!" command, and you can see him turn and come to perform the trick. He gets constant reassurance with what is essentially "good noise", and he gets a few repititions of the "up, up" command. If I continue to repeat "up, up" he will stand for as long as I

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Wherever you found me... I'm positive that my resume was available to you. If you were capable of doing your job you would have seen that I am not qualified on Acme Widgets (or whatever). I get 10-20 SPAMS a day from losers like you. Do your god damn job and quit SPAMMING people. I didn't post my resume online so you could harvest the email and ignore everything else. I am a geek, I expect people

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As I mentioned in my previous post, Akira is a name meaning intelligent in Japanese. That's one of the reasons I chose it for my 6-month-old Chinese Crested puppy. After the first few days with him, I'm happy to report he's the most well-behaved and intelligent dog I've ever had, and I've had quite a few dogs over the years. He's doing so well with housetraining I can't believe it. He's done "

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This came in my inbox today: Subject: I've got a 8 inch.. cervix Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:02:59 -0500 You've Seen Them On TV... Bigger pen1s, better s3x! CHeck it out http://www.geocities.com/xxxx blight biggs jensen cervix tupelo quo birgit.blat ad. ideal job acts.turing. Now I don't know about you, but I for one, could really use a bigger cervix.

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Update: we have a winner - 明 (Akira), or Aki for shortness. It's a popular Japanese name meaning "intelligent". I think that describes him pretty well, and it's a favorite film of mine, as well as a favorite film director of mine, so it's appropriate for me too! If you like dogs, get one of these. I'm taking suggestions on his name. He's officially called "Royal's British Brass O' Ebon Will",

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OK, I'm officially tired of crashing into walls, going down in flames, and getting my head blown off by enemies that materialized from nowhere, in some cases, literally. I'm a practiced gamer and consider myself to be pretty good at video games in general. I have good reaction times, good decision-making skills, and pretty good situational awareness in some types of games. I'm best at flight sims

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Here's a quick video on how to make Penultimate Modules. You'll need to read the PDF here: http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/polyhedra.pdf There are other origami videos available on my web site

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Geeks are a little different from nerds in the sense that geeks actually get laid. We're smart and interesting and we usually have good jobs too! Here are some of the geeky things I've never said after sex. "We should try this in anti-gravity" "Was that a Dutch half-twist or a Polish 2 quarter turn?" "Don't forget to give me your playlist before you leave!" "I hope that was just the beta

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Number 1, I am allergic to cats. Cats suck. I hate them. Did I mention that? Cats won't hesitate to scratch the fuck out of you and give you a nasty infection and they don't even feel bad about it later. They shed all over the place, and they are constantly losing their hair, too. Cats make me sooo mad! They shit in the house and you have to take it outside yourself. Cats could be a lot better

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So, every woman has her "truth jeans". This is the pair of jeans that fits you exactly, but only when you are the perfect size. You use this pair of jeans to judge your weight. Everyone does it, I'm not going to hide it, I have a pair myself. Anyway, one day I was wearing them and I happened to go to the bathroom, and while I was sitting there, I looked down and saw the tag on my 100-dollar

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OK, I like statistics. I've always been interested in statistical applications and there's a good reason why. Here's a few of the interesting aspects of the problem of statistical analysis software. Most people don't understand the complexity of statistical analysis in the first place and those people will never be capable of describing their analysis needs to a tool that starts with raw data

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OK, we've all had our weird escapades in the pursuit of love, sex, or whatever. It's common for people to want talk about their sexual conquests, but I want to talk about the times that it didn't work out. These are some of the strangest stories of mine that I can legally put in writing, and I want y'all to leave yours in the comments. This might get a little dirty in places, so if you're

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In response to whether a new object is created during a particular type of loop, I gave the following answer. It has to do with what type of variable you are using, but sometimes the CLR creates a new object when you wouldn't expect it. Strings are one well-known cause of this, but it's important to understand the reasons why. The string is a special case because of the way C# implements it as an

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I created a freeware tool that I use to check for broken links on my sites. It works quite nicely! It does the same things that Inspyder's tool does, but for free. I know there are many tools like this out there, but I ask you to try this one and let me know how you like it! Go here to download: Jazzy's Web Widgets Thanks very much! Jasmine

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It was a Box Elder Beetle (left), which is not actually a beetle (order Coleoptera) at all, but is truly a bug (order Hemiptera). I'm not here to discuss taxonomy - I'm writing today to discuss the killing of insects, spiders and other creepy-crawlies and why I think a man, if available, should carry out this task. I think men should really stop giving us so much crap about this - just do it.

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This author is pretty much correct, but I have to expand on it a bit. You can't become a good developer in 21 days, although if you are already experienced, you can learn a new language pretty fast. Probably you can't become a good developer in less than 5 years, and that's if you have a natural aptitude for it. Ten years of plugging away at something doesn't make you an expert either. I've

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This is a response to an email-list question about which is "better", C# or Java for applications, and a separate question about ASP.Net vs PHP. OK, first the easy question. If you are developing Windows applications, you use C#... never Java. If you need something that is cross-platform, you should probably use Java. The syntax of Java and C# is pretty much the same. The concepts involved are

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At 7:55am, on Dec. 7th, 1941, Japanese forces cowardly (and brilliantly) surprise-attacked US soil for the first time in history at Pearl Harbor, HI and other locations in the islands. Over 2400 people died that day, and it led to a war in which thousands were killed or injured. Since then it has happened only one other time, also leading to a war in which thousands have died. For years, I have

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I like to answer questions on Yahoo Answers, but some of them seem to get asked a bit too often. One of the most popular questions on the Health and Beauty section is simply "Am I pretty?" I understand the need to be thought of as pretty, and I understand that girls are very concerned with it, particularly at a younger age. What I don't understand is why people post this question with no photo,

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These are in no particular order. Some of them are non-English films, which I indicated. Many of these have elements of alternate sexuality and only a few of them would be appropriate for children (I marked those with a *, everything else is too weird for kids). Links go to the IMDB page for the film. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (transsexuality, adult sexuality, some violence) Run Lola Run (German

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I got this reply to my post from yesterday. I post it here completely unedited. It doesn't really need a response, but there is one at the bottom. Give a person enough rope... wrote: > > Well... you can call me whatever you want, I put no stock in it. You > can't consider my genitalia in a vaccuum, you need to consider my mind Christina -- no one has said this..you are tilting at gender

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Someone responded to this blog, by completely missing the point and deliberately trying to insult me by calling me a man. They said if I like my penis, then I'm no different from any other man. I strongly disagree, and here's my response: You can call me whatever you want, I put no stock in it. You can't consider my genitalia in a vaccuum, you need to consider my mind as well. I currently

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This is a portion of a discussion from another site. It's about customer service call centers in India... Here's what someone had to say in response to "Bill" who complained that Indian phone operators were lying about their names (in italics). My response follows. sushila wrote: Bill - just to clarify - people are not made to "lie about who they are"...it's actually part of their training in

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Transgender people sometimes get into some heated arguments over who's really a transsexual and who's not. This can be extremely frustrating to people, particularly when they are just coming out. Sometimes people are having valuable discussions and they simply disagree. That's a positive thing because it helps others figure out their own opinions. I think what makes it difficult is when someone

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Note: Games in bold I picked right, and games in italics, I biffed. Games in normal type have not been played yet. Lions over Dolphins Cowpies over Buccaneers Broncos over Chiefs Colts over Eagles Giants over Titans Ravens over Steelers Falcons over Saints Bengals over Browns Bills over Jaguars Redskins over Panthers 49ers over Rams Vikings over Cardinals Patriots over Bears Jets over Texans

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So I usually don't play the "Lucky Case Game" on Deal Or No Deal wtih Howie Mandel, but I realised the money is almost always in case 1 or 6, and that the votes usually fall in the standard distribution, with 1 and 6 being the least picked. Very strange considering sometimes they show the current votes in the middle of the show. Anyway, what's weird about it is that when I sent in my vote, here's

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I think Joan Collins is one of the most beautiful women to ever live. That's it. Enjoy the photos... I think all these photos are public domain. If any are not, let me know and I will take it down.

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I've won the office pool two weeks in a row, and a few times before that. On two seperate weeks I got all games correct. I've won the office pool more than anyone else in the office, so I decided to post my picks each week. Feel free to use them if you like, but keep in mind: I know nothing about football, don't check the odds, and don't know the teams. I make my picks from psychic intuition.

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This is all pretty simple really. There's two parts to it: a database to store usernames and passwords, and code to validate the user on the web page or application. This code can be used in C#.NET applications, or in the code-behind files of ASP.NET applications. It will translate to VB fairly simply, but the SQL part would remain the same whether you use VB, C# or anything else.

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So, it's now exactly 2:45AM, and I'm watching a re-run of Saturday Night Live. Not too surprising really, but I just saw the best Public Service Announcement I've ever seen. Everyone wonders about this, but I really need to know... why is this on at 2:45 AM, when nobody is going to see it? Of course, I did see it, so maybe airing these commercials at this time of night isn't completely asinine.

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Dear Boulder, Hey what's up with you, man? You used to be so cool, always coming over to hang out and being all about peace and love and groovy stuff. Now we can't even come play footbag on your lawn?! I used to love you, but now you've totally sold out. I can't even stand to see you like this anymore. You suck. Come on, man, get it together. Your best old friend, Jasmine

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This is my response from someone who thinks my previous blog is dead wrong. Here's what they had to say *sigh*...Jasmine, hon...I applaud your "standing up" for what you see as right. But *I* have to disagree with you on several points. First off, legal or political grandstanding aside, I would guess that, in fact, Danielle *was* fired for being transgendered. Does this company employ women? (.

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This is a letter I sent to the editor of the Denver Post regarding this article (opens in a new window). As a transgender American and concerned citizen, I am extremely frightened by David Harsanyi's opinion regarding the case of Danielle Cornwell. It is even more frightening that his ignorance on this subject is shared by many of my fellow Americans. He has no understanding of this case, the

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Recently in the IT job market there has been a major dry spell. Economics tells us that IT workers are in demand, but when we look for work, we see something contradictory. What is going on? I think what happened is actually that workers are facing a different type of competition than we are used to in the IT field. It used to be based entirely on coding ability, and hiring decision-makers had

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I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. I love the spacious skies, the amber waves of grain, and all that. However, the greatest reason of all to love this country is under attack, and that's why I'm here to defend it as America's T-Girl. This is a little thing I call the American Ideal, embodied in the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. These ideals are being ignored on

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If you prefer to read this on my web site, it's also posted there.I've been struggling with transgender issues all my life and I wasn't able to do anything about it for nearly 32 years, so I'm well aware that it's hard to get out of the closet. I participate in many email lists and groups designed to help various types of crossdressers with various issues. There's everything from fetish groups to

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I really didn't want to get into the heavy stuff right away, but this had to be done. I want people to get to know me, so I decided to post a little (well, not so little) introduction to myself. I decided to make this a historical photo essay of my life as a girl so far. I'll get straight into it. My journey into the transgender world started a little differently than some. I had not '

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Well... my first post... what should I say? I have some previous blogs available on myspace (the link is on the sidebar of this blog). I'm not going to bring those posts over here, so you'll have to go to myspace to read them. I have some photos and other information about myself there also. My interests include politics, religion, transgender issues, and keeping-it-real. I think many people

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