Public Service announcement:

The hotels are now available for booking for this summer's Worldcon in Montreal. After agonizing, cosmicdolphin and I will be at the Intercontinental. So who else is going or thinking about it?

Hey all,

Has anyone done IPSEC from z/OS on a mainframe to a Linux box successfully? (...and if you have, would you be willing to share with me how you did it?)

thx,

a puzzled (and frustrated) pxr5

Hey Chicagoland-local folks,

Would anyone be interested in playing a Dune game on August 23 or 30th? Dune the Avalon Hill board game, that is. cosmicdolphin and I have been in the mood recently, and while it's a great game, we need exactly 6 players to get the power balance right. With myself and cosmicdolphin in, that leaves us needing 4 more players. Location TBD ( Read more... )

Making a rare public post:

In case any of my flist hasn't yet bought The Omega Factor, Amazon has it for just under half off for region 1.

It's an excellent series. Well worth the $21 that Amazon wants for it. Go forth and buy.

This journal is going friends-only. If you want to see my journal and aren't already on my friends list, please comment here.

1) Alas, we lost another. I'm seeing reported that Octavia Butler died yesterday.

( bookstuff )

For moominmolly and dilletante: The Unfortunate Animal of the Month Club (gacked from autopope).

That'll be a nice addition to the wrong-plushes-that-should-not-be for little N ;-)

przed just posted a mindblowingly depressing (but good!) vid for Angel here. You should also check out some of the really funny vids that she's got on her site, such as Gay Bar and Bohemian Like YouI'm particularly interested to see what people think of Agnus Dei, though, as I betaed this vid for her. My very first ( Read more... )

I assume my friends list has seen this by now, but Sci Fi Channel have *finally* picked up Doctor Who.

See the press release here. Of course, this probably means the scifi channel will butcher it like they do everything else, and of course, the bastards pushed off the DVD release until July 4th this year. Premiere is in March.

( Perfect major memeage )