I don’t believe you are obligated to interact with anyone you don’t want to.

That’s the only part that needs to be said. The rest of this contains no qualifications, misdirections, or explanations of “what I was really thinking” about other matters. It contains only an explanation of how it got to this point, and my apology for that.

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Due to some very late work changes, I have only now decided that I will be in NYC from:
3pm Saturday
to
7am Monday

I would love to see as many of you as are around and have free time. One on one tea, or group get together. Let me know.

So I just finished the third series of BBC’s Sherlock, and think it can only be reviewed in whole. Here there be spoilers!
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A lot of memes going around for end of the year reviews. I decided to start one*: what new friends did you make?

(Feel free to interpret this definition as broadly and liberally as you like. “New” could mean “from casual acquaintance to friend” or “reconnected with an old friend” or "they were born")

My answers below the cut:
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I enjoyed the run greatly. Thank you all who played, and helped in other ways ( Read more... )

This year looks like a surprising amount of California.

January 1-4: NYC, end of the Winter Party
January 19-21: SF, saw Eddie Izzard and friends
February 2-4: NYC, the Tony who stole HRSFAmas
March 21-25: Cambridge, MA: VeriCon 13!
April 15-18: Sonoma, CA for a summit with our database vendor ( Read more... )

Genuine question: What is to be done?
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Reading the last by Naomi Novik, it occurs to me that the Temeraire series contains a morally weighty action that I don't know which course I approve of. And I've never discussed it with my friends either.

I speak of Laurence's decision regarding the Continental dragons.

For those who don’t mind spoilers, an explanation is below the cut.

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I just had immense fun listening to http://chainsawsuit.com/podcast/2013/12/episode-33-a-christmas-carol/ , a reading of the Christmas Carol by Kris Straub and Mikey Neumann, two comedians I like. Most of it is them ignorantly riffing the play, but ( Read more... )

This is not the past time of "make a Magic: the gathering" card based on you, but the somewhat more limited "What existing magic card would you be ( Read more... )