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I've been decreasingly enamored of LJ for years, for any number of reasons. I only post now once every few months, but am far more active on FaceBook and Twitter. Fewer and fewer of the political conversations I want to be a part of even happen here, but on Tubmlr instead ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts from Black Hat Day 1
It's good to finally be back here doing this.
In past years, it would have also been an opportunity to see and get caught up with friends like docstrange, unclevlad, Gabe, Jayson, and so many more. Perhaps some are here, I am checking. -
STEAMPUNKS 2011 on Vimeo
So what if I was in the room but not in the camera shot? Check us out on the B.B.Fricken C!
STEAMPUNKS 2011 from Andy Gallacher on Vimeo.
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A friend asked me to write some about problematic jokes.
[Not because they want cover to tell problematic jokes, but because they want to be able to lay it out for other people why they shouldn't ( Read more... ) -
Most awesome Grandma Shiffie Story EVAH!
Today we buried my Grandmother. We had a memorial project, in which her children, nieces, and nephews shared stories about her. I found that as a Grandson I had nothing to add, just variations on the same themes ( Read more... ) -
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- Congratulations to Dream Theatre on being inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame!
- Apparently Bush the Lesser wrote his book the same way he squeaked through Yala. You'd think that after getting out of Yale with a C he'd have thought to find smarter people to crib from...
- If you're going to use the word "Kyriarchy," attribute it. Getting ( Read more... )
- Congratulations to Dream Theatre on being inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame!
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- silviamg has a Mexican Steampunk short story, Distant Deeps or Skies, in Expanded Horizons. Well worth a read.
- Speaking of Stempunk in Expanded Horizons, check out James Ng's The Key Keeper. And on back to his site for more.
- Yes, I'm a partisan in Professor Elemental's beef with Mr. B. Elemental is actually a rapper and a Steampunk. Elemental actually ( Read more... )
- silviamg has a Mexican Steampunk short story, Distant Deeps or Skies, in Expanded Horizons. Well worth a read.
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- 50 Fatwas For The Virtuous Vampire, by Pamela K. Taylor, featured in Apex Magazine's all-Muslim issue.
- Facebook and Twitter STILL get security wrong.
- fantasyecho continues her examination with whether the visual presentation of fashion can be sufficiently performative to deconstruct imperialist tokens, or if more... well... performance is needed. And if ( Read more... )
- 50 Fatwas For The Virtuous Vampire, by Pamela K. Taylor, featured in Apex Magazine's all-Muslim issue.
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Some days there's too much to give each its own post.
- One can argue whether the jury that convicted Johannes Mehserle for manslaughter with a gun enhancement should have convicted him of murder instead, but that's kind of moot at this point. When the judge elected to overturn the gun enhancement and sentence Mehserle to a paltry 2 years, with ( Read more... )