last year, i planned a Wiscon recap post, wrote half of it, and got no further. i'll attempt a quick summary this time...

first of all, saw a ton of old friends and many, many people with LJs. it was a great weekend overall, but i think the stress of being "on" to promote Think GalactiCon almost constantly affected my ability to enjoy things more ( Read more... )

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FOR SALE:
2 tickets to see the Pogues at the Congress Theater next Tuesday, March 6th.

the kicker: the tix are expensive = $57 each w/all the fees

however, time being as it is, i might be flexible. next step is a posting on Craigslist.

this probably could be the last time they really tour, before any number of them die of liver failure.

spotted from miriku's ever eclectic survey of things

( cut to save your soul, not that you had one anyway )

so, tonight i finally found something i've been wanting for some time... an online calendar where you can tick off the tv shows you watch and then it displays when they have new episodes. this is hawt in ways that i'm almost embarrassed by ( Read more... )

[scooped from GalleyCat]

HBO to adapt George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice as a cable series.
i'm not a fan of the books [yet, having not read them. though y'all seem to dig them], but given that the producers have Troy and Halo to their credit, i'm not sure how it'll be.

also,
SciFi Channel will be adapting Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age ( Read more... )

if you don't have an awesome independent bookstore near you, or they don't have a good selection of SF, check out Clarkesworld's current sale.

if you're a "shopping for the holidays" person, or just want to pick up stuff for yourself, there's some good books up there, and Clarkesworld is a good outfit.

more in the "check it out, my crew has the goods" dept...

my pal in the UK, the lovely, talented, and smart-as-a-whip Julia Indelicate [of Indelicates fame, imagine that] has a very thoughtful and interesting blog about feminism located here [or, alternately, syndicated for LJ inclusion as jcl_feminism]. i've had a number of conversations with her about ( Read more... )

if you like it when it's Tachyon, they have a spankin' new website designed by jackomatik. part of this new site is a blog, which i have dutifully syndicated for LJ as tachyon_blog. check 'em out!

thanks for ckd for the head's up:

if you are a paid member on LJ, go here:
http://community.livejournal.com/paidmembers/18838.html

the recent outage [which i barely registered] has resulted in an offer of a free week to paid folks.

ok, now back to work you slackers!