There's a senator named Anthony Wiener who didn't understand that twitter, like all social media and most electronic communications, is completely public. He used twitter to broadcast some some of his less popular personal choices to everyone and lost his senate seat over it. It's silly, it's senseless and I find myself wishing for what seems like ( Read more... )

Do you find yourself less than perfectly excited about the world naked bike ride tonight? Would you like to come play games at the Monster Palace instead? I'd certainly like to see you here.

So you know that boring job with a terrible commute that I took because the hours were reasonable? Well, they're firing off the management staff and replacing them with people who believe in long hours and impossible deadlines also called, as I'm coming to understand, normal tech shop business practices. Needless to say, I'm REALLY grumpy about ( Read more... )

 I just saw this as an internet add... Are the 90s coming back?
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What a great weekend. Thanks to everyone who was in it! :) 

First, the salient details:
What: Sam Harris in a room talking
When: Thursday Oct 21 at 7:00 PM
Where: First Unitarian Church, 1211 SW Main St., Portland
Link: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/portland/events/sam_harris_lecture/
Cost: ***FREE*** (first come first served, seating may be tight)

My intellectual hero is coming to talk about his new book. I ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: For those of you who don't know me well enough to pick this up from the tone, this is a tongue-and-cheek post whose main purpose is to say, "hooray, things are going well for me." That being said, I really do want suggestions because I think it could be funny.

So apparently today marks the beginning of Horace-Phair. It's a big party with ( Read more... )

So we have three houses on our short-list right now and we've given them names to help us remember them. I think the names are pretty funny, so I want to share them with you:

• Frat House (WOOO! 1973 FOREVER, BABY!)
• Second Best House
• Short Sale House

The really far away house I posted about last night is, sadly, not on the list. The poll was my attempt ( Read more... )

We've found the world's most perfect, beautiful house, but it's fairly far north, and we're worried about social-ness. Would you come to visit us if we moved so far North?


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the diaspora project launches sometime in October. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it's an open source project designed to kill Facebook by providing an alternative that gives us both legal and cryptographic control of our own data. They also say they're working hard on a UI that makes it easy to decide what content goes to your ( Read more... )