I got two samples of colon-enhancing goodness and one box of collagen-something today. :P All three of them were from companies that I had already contacted and cancelled "my" subcription with, but not fast enough to intercept the shipments. I'm calling each company for instructions on what to do with the package and returning them unopened. I'm ( Read more... )

Somebody got busy with my credit card overnight. :( I still have the card, so they must have gotten the number online. I've gotten four phone calls from car insurance and auto loan salesman, and I have an email inbox full of receipts for stuff I never ordered. I've already talked to the credit card company to replace the card and placed fraud ( Read more... )

Today be National Grammar Day! http://nationalgrammarday.com/

Last night I went to see astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Newton Free Library, who talked about his perspective on the change in Pluto's status to not being a planet, and signed copies of his book The Pluto Files. He's a really good speaker, and very funny. I also ran into Michael and Nomi Burstein (and a friend of theirs) and had a very nice ( Read more... )

Now we know how Democrats stay in shape: "And stand! And clap! And sit! And stand! And clap! And sit!" (With Nancy Pelosi as the annoyingly chipper aerobics instructor.)

This morning I went to the Alewife T station as usual and got on the next train due to go out. The doors closed... and the train failed to go anywhere. We sat there for a couple of minutes, then they announced that the train was having a mechanical failure and we should all go over to the other train. Fine, no big deal. The new train succeeded in ( Read more... )

n1jdu from http://www.bostonfandom.org was kind enough to prepare a clip from his recording of the Arisia Masquerade which shows my entry and also fellow Browncoat samuraix47's awesome pandaness. :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Here's my report on the Arisia convention this past weekend: I was a panelist on the Joss Whedon panel Friday night which went fine, then I did some other stuff blah blah blah, then I won "Best in Show" at the Masquerade Saturday night!!!!!!! :D ( Read more... )

The "My Fandom is Not Dead Yet" panel seems to have fallen off the Arisia schedule. It's not even in Zambia (the panelists' scheduling database) any more. That one was my idea -- I was looking forward to it! :(

I'll keep my fingers crossed that it might resurface in the next week, but I doubt it.

I'm on two panels at Arisia this year:

Friday at 9pm -- "Joss Whedon is our Master!" Surprise surprise. ;)

Saturday at 10am, I'll be moderating a panel called "My Fandom's Not
Dead Yet", which is about maintaining a fandom after the show's
cancelled.