As anybody in the SCA already knows, but for the rest of you, the ( Read more... )

I sit on a board of trustees and was recently added to the bylaws committee. (Finally somebody listened to me when I said "I write precise ( Read more... )

Overheard from a Diablo game: "...as long as you resurrect faster than they heal..." Um, yeah. :-)
I didn't know about the Netflix prize until siderea posted about it. Nifty! Improve their predictions by 10%; win a million bucks. It'll be interesting if the psychologist ends up beating the mathematicians.
I recently attended a religious service that ( Read more... )

Yesterday after I got home from services we went up to Cooper's ( Read more... )

The situation I'm writing about occurred in an SCA context, but the principles generalize at least to any "unusual" community.
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Aside: LJ has been really crawling for me for the last several days. Is this happening to other people too, or do I have a local problem? (LJ is blocked at work, so I can't collect that data point.)
I've got a lot of stuff accumulating in browser tabs on a wide variety of topics, so...
The (spam)bot wars heat up, by jducoeur.
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For the last several years there's been a gradual decline in the number ( Read more... )

At Pennsic I attended the vigil of Duncan Blackwater, who was elevated ( Read more... )