Off to QuahogCon in Providence, Rhode Island. Say hi if you're there! I have some free time this afternoon and welcome sightseeing advice.
New Work City is a Manhattan coworking space/group that charges $25 for a desk for a day. Floatleft: an international two-woman Drupal consulting firm that provides web development services to NGOs and nonprofits. Neat! A …
Leonard, Not-My-Ex Dan, Jacob and I saw the always-fun Kevin Geeks Out curated talk-video-slideshow-quiz fest last night. Towards the end, we saw an enticing trailer for next month's alien encounter-themed show, the soundtrack to which …
The amazing penetration of the Do-Not-Call list and cell phones means that kids growing up in the US these days will never know how annoying telemarketers used to be. They also won't know how pervasive …
Leonard & I are watching the Babylon 5 spinoff series Crusade which, like The Middleman and Firefly, got cut short at the one-season mark. And, as with Firefly, the recommended viewing order is substantially different …
I am up at 3:45am because from 5 to 7 am Leonard and I will be on Jim Freund's longrunning scifi radio show, "Hour of the Wolf," on WBAI. We'll be talking about the Thoughtcrime …
I didn't get the hint when the heat made me really cranky and tired. I didn't get the hint when I got headaches. I didn't follow all those directions printed and spoken in every health …
Two months ago, Maritza Johnson organized a trip to the NYC Yahoo! research labs for Columbia's Women in Computer Science. As a Columbia alumna, I snuck in. (Something like fifteen or twenty high-powered CS undergrads …
From conversation with my sister yesterday: "So Greyhound has this new innovation called 'Reserved Seating' --" "So you just said 'innovation' and 'Greyhound' in the same sentence. Let's just take a pause to appreciate that." …
I'm an editor and the release coordinator for GNOME Journal, which just released its 19th issue. This issue has six articles: Will Kahn-Greene introduces the GNOME Miro community, a website that brings GNOME-related videos to …
