This might sound cruel and judgemental, but...  So around a week ago I went to the Orange County, California Geekdom meetup http://www.meetup.com/OC-Geekdom/, as I had went a few times in 2011, too.  This time while attending I got the distinct impression I had walked into some sort of Mensa event.  Please put in a sort of foreboding, scary and ( Read more... )

Here's the deal!  Been going to fan conventions regularly since around 2002, and since around mid 2007 I've attended more than a couple anime conventions.  There are a few things fandom could really learn from anime conventions, and a few of this items are referencing process and some are content issues!  Registration, please the ole fashioned way ( Read more... )

I know regular watchers of the McLaughlin Report and David Brooks and Mark Shields commentaries on NPR's News Hour, who sincerely and earnestly believe that if different sides start yelling at each other, in other words turning up the intensity and volume of the rhetoric, that the respective content does not matter who says what.  Therefore, when ( Read more... )

So on Saturday October 1, 2011, I visited the http://www.lapl.org/index.php
Central Library of the Los Angeles City Library, 630 W. 5th St..  First time I'd visited there since I'd been in High School.  OMfG, what a cool and awesome place.  The outside architecture as you walk up Hope Street is pretty impressive, reminds me a bit of the Chicago BoT ( Read more... )

I infrequently order a frappucino from Starbucks. However, when I do I order it with one or two extra shots of espresso, and is it possible that sometimes when I order this special order they staff just ignore the request and make the drink without the espresso shots? Because, sometimes I cannot tell if it's been added or not.

So earlier on my FB I read something, from the San Jose Mercury News, it discussed how the ultra conservative religious right wing has hijacked religion in America? Beginning with Roe v. Wade, and I'm using that as a starting point since Frances Schaefer became a huge darling to the political wing and from that point the political right wing and ( Read more... )

So there's a Starbucks I go to fairly regularly in Redlands. The area in front of their cash registers is divided into two aisles, one for approaching the register and ordering, one for pass through, egress and entrance. The pass through aisle is not for extra or overflow seating; therefore it's inappropriate to park your chair to block this ( Read more... )

OMfG!!  My facebook troll is back!

 Previous in this LJ http://taras-wizard.livejournal.com/57614.html I told what I lbelieved to be GOP's covert, or it might be their overt, agenda.  Based on recent statements, since last Friday July 22, 2011, by GOP leadership in House of REpresentatives, I think one can see some ttruth ( Read more... )

 There's this radio right wing gas bag Dennis Praeger, carried nationally on Salem Network, I happen to have been listening to his schtick since the 1970s when he was local only and I have older entries in my LJ about this buffon.  This a.m. he gassed on for two hours about how the NY legislature's decision regarding same sex marriage was ( Read more... )