Sorry, it's time for me to do this, mostly because I have way too many moto projects going on that I should spend time babbling about ( Read more... )

swally@burrito:~$ traceroute 216.81.59.173 -m 56 ( Read more... )

Since I wasn't running a convention, high on pain killers, or in barking mad pain from an ear infection this weekend was actually kind of a little productive ( Read more... )

Been a couple of weeks since that little spot of craziness happened here in San Jose. 3380 people in total came together in Downtown for the 15th Futher Confusion and I was blessed with the opportunity to lead the incredibly talented and dedicated team that made it happen. It's only now that my head has stopped spinning from the madness of it all ( Read more... )

It's actually quite difficult for me to express how much pain I've been in this weekend. Physical pain, mind you. Mind numbingly, blindingly searing pain. When I think about past things in my life that have been painful well...frankly, they just seem kind of annoying in comparison. You know, things like nearly cutting off my big toe with a rusty ( Read more... )

There’s something of a love/hate relationship I have with New Year’s Resolutions. In concept I like the idea of taking specific actions to change ones being but in practice I’m just as bad as everybody else at following through on my own good intentions. Some years I don’t bother making public lists, some years I do ( Read more... )

Regretfully, I must report that it is unlikely we will have feline (or canine or human) ambassadors from Cat House of the Kings at Further Confusion 2013: The Furbidden Planet! Due to personal emergency, our representative from this very fine organization has had to take a leave of absence and a replacement representative is not available. I know ( Read more... )

Room 2005 of the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino is not the worse place in the world to wake up at six o'clock on a Sunday morning. I've woken up in worse, at least. My right shoulder ached from sleeping on it oddly most of the night, not in a painful way though and it made an enormously loud pop as I moved it for that first stretch of the ( Read more... )

While cleaning up around the house this morning I put on the documentary Get a Life fronted by William Shatner as background noise. Ostensibly about about the 45th Anniversary Star Trek convention in Vegas, when you watch it the venier of Trek melts away to make visible precicely what makes fandom and fan conventions important to peoples lives ( Read more... )

Tuesday night, almost immediately after his campaign went down in flames, [some of] the talking heads on the right started to say the stupidest thing I've ever heard: Mitt Romney lost the election because he wasn't conservative enough ( Read more... )