So I just had an AIM window pop up from some random person with the line, "Don't be a sourpuss!" The person denied starting the interaction, rather saying that I had. I'm not on his contact list, nor is he on mine. Nor do we apparently have any reason to have crossed paths. Anyone else experiencing anything like this? For the moment I'm ( Read more... )

A few people on my FList have already mentioned this, but just in case the rest of you haven't heard, George Carlin died yesterday.

I saw him twice, the first time was the spring of 2001 in DC, and I think the second was fall of 2003, at KU. No great stories there, so I'm gonna repost part of what mnemosyne9 said in her entry:

Before my personal George ( Read more... )

For the past two weeks I've been arguing with someone on a mailing list, and at this point it's kinda wound down. More importantly, I've finally gotten it assembled to the point that other people can see it. Assuming you care enough to look. I know that is a bit of an issue. :)

Part 1 - The others are linked in sequence, and listed on the ( Read more... )

Jim White:

From the splinter in the hand, to the thorn in the heart
to the shotgun to the head
you got no choice but to learn to glean solace from pain
or you’ll end up cynical or dead.

Boiled in Lead/Steven Brust:

How can you have lived this long, and not give in to rage ( Read more... )

Have you ever been nice to someone that you don't like, for the simple reason that they might be good for something later ( Read more... )

What's the problem with parents having "to explain why two women were kissing"? Why does it need any explanation at all? As if they don't see women making out with guys all the time - real life, network TV, whatever. Assuming they even notice, and further bring it up, just fucking acknowledge it, and let the kids get on with their lives ( Read more... )

So I'm still making progress toward finishing up at KU. I recently turned in the first draft of another large chunk of text, with (I think it ended up being) 16 figures. The part I'm currently working on isn't turning out to be nearly as large or ugly as I'd thought, so it should be done fairly soon too ( Read more... )

I've been intending to post for a while, and just keep putting it off. But this is a holy-shit breaking-news post. Right now, a 2.4 million gallon petroleum plant is on fire in Kansas City ( Read more... )

This year, Vox Magazine came out to Interfuse. This caused a bit of a flap on the mailing list when it was first announced, but they did it the right way: They checked with Zay, the guy in charge of MWB (if anyone can be said to be), bought tickets like everyone else, rather than asking for a press pass, and put in writing ahead of time that they ( Read more... )

So I headed out to Interfuse a day early, on Wednesday, to help with setup, and so that I would be there to cover a Parking Wrangler shift on Thursday. Nothing overly interesting happened to me Wednesday, though a lot of the setup had to be put on hold because Zay, the Midwest Burners bigwig was bringing components of a bunch of camps, and had ( Read more... )