Finally got around to ordering my Lifetime Subscription reward from the "Help Save Radio Comix!" campaign ( Flayrah article). Looks like they've been plenty busy, judging by the recent comments, which makes me feel a little better about waiting.

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Anyone heading to Rainfurrest this year and got a room slot open? I'm hoping to be at the con Wednesday night to Sunday afternoon, though I can probably find another slot for Wednesday if necessary. Ideally main hotel, but doesn't have to be.

One of my more bizarre dreams: the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, as depicted by anthropomorphic shopping carts, squabbling over national produce as they raced down the timeline of history.

A while back I was reading an artists' journal revolving around the issue of just value for their services. This response is so late that I figured I'd just post it here instead. So, here you go:

Of course art is worth more than a minimum wage job doing some menial task like flipping burgers or ringing up groceries. Art involves the heart and the ( Read more... )

Chromecast looks perfect for watching artists on LiveStream. I have a TV I only use as a test PC monitor, and it has a spare HDMI port. Would free up my real monitors on my main box for apps (and there'd probably be less crashing due to overheating - Texas is killer on my RAM). The three months of free Netflix is great, too ( Read more... )

Fun story in The Atlantic which includes pumping molasses into Silicon Valley's water table to clean up high-tech pollution.

Goodness. What's up with LinkedIn?


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Flayrah's been hopping this month. I figured out how to auto-post newsbytes to Twitter (filtering the posts to links by contributors, grabbing the first URL and posting stripped text+URL through the Twitter module) and Facebook (adapting the same tool to create an RSS feed and posting that via RSS Graffiti, like our main one). Also added a feed ( Read more... )

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I missed the whole "IBM's Watson on Jeopardy" thing the first time around (probably in part because I don't watch TV). Caught up on the coverage this weekend - just before attending a furry event where I'm pretty sure nothing happened that was illegal in Texas.

It was all interesting, but the piece I liked the most was how they constructed Watson' ( Read more... )