http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/ Best Webfoot Forward is Kaitlin Duck Sherwood's blog. en-us Copyright 2005, Kaitlin Duck Sherwood. Kaitlin Duck Sherwood [ducky@webfoot.com.com] Kaitlin Duck Sherwood [ducky@webfoot.com.com] Ducky's brain http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/ http://www.webfoot.com/pictures/webfoot.gif http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/ObservationsPost20040830.html Compartmentalizing Several years ago, I did the moral equivalent of bungee jumping. I jumped off of a 20-foot tower, connected to two taller towers by bungee cords ... 2005-03-20T13:36Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/ActivismPost20040710.html Straight activism for queer rights People sometimes wonder why my husband and I are activists for gay and lesbian issues. Usually they assume that we are some flavor ... 2005-03-19T23:44Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/WhySchoolPost20041228.html Why Study? After working in the computer biz for fifteen to twenty years and being around computers for about thirty-five, I have finally started to take computer ... 2005-03-19T23:02Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/FictionToiletSpidersPost20040723.html Fiction: And God Trembled Jack Williamson's world splintered into a cubist nightmare. He saw ultraviolet trees in the distance behind him; something vaguely spoonlike ... 2004-11-10T01:12Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/PoliticsPost20041109.html Talking Past Each Other In the past week, I've heard a lot of my fellow liberals expressing frustration and bewilderment at the election results. I read columnists ... 2004-11-09T23:20Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/DrivelDishwasherPost20040712.html Unintended consequences Our new dishwasher demonstrates an enormous technical advancement over our previous, twenty-year-old model. Because new materials are better ... 2004-07-12T23:10Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/MarriagePost20040629.html Civil marriage is a contract One thing that makes it hard for people to accept marriage for same-sex couples is that "marriage" is a word that has at least four distinct ... 2004-07-10T10:08Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/MarriagePost20040216.html The Great San Francisco Marriages of 2004, part 3 After the Valentine's Day rally, Jim and I hopped on a bus with about fifteen other couples and a reporter or two ... 2004-07-03T23:07Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/ActivismPost20040627.html San Francisco Gay Pride Parade 2004 (Activism is boring, part 3) I've said that activism is boring, but that wasn't quite accurate. The process of activism is boring ... 2004-06-28T21:47Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/DrivelPost20040626.html Drive-by honkings I was walking down the street today when somebody stopped at a stop sign to my right honked. I looked. The driver was a youngish man who I didn ... 2004-06-25T22:13Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/HistoryPost20040625.html The History of the Roman Empire I recently watched a video series from The Teaching Company titled The World of Byzantum that was quite good, with a few relatively ... 2004-06-25T21:25Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/ActivismPost20040620.html Activism is boring, part 2 Three thousand, seven hundred and forty-eight. That's a really tiny number in some contexts, like in the number of stars in the sky, the ... 2004-06-22T21:40Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/MarriagePost20040214.html The Great San Francisco Marriages of 2004, part 2 For several months, my husband had helped a bit to organize a big Freedom to Marry rally in Sacramento scheduled ... 2004-06-22T21:27Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/MarriagePost20040212.html The start of the great San Francisco Marriages of 2004 Let me tell you about how it was on February 12, 2004. For the past five years or so, my beloved husband and ... 2004-06-22T21:26Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/GraduationPost20040613.html My beloved husband graduated! Seventeen years ago, my beloved husband dropped out of his masters' in computer science program to go to Japan. While he took a few ... 2004-06-22T21:04Z Ducky Sherwood http://www.webfoot.com/Blog/NewBlog20040527.html I started a blog I feel kind of funny here with my new blog, as if standing on a bare stage, addressing an empty audience. Perhaps I should have no preamble, but ... 2004-06-22T00:10Z Ducky Sherwood