I haven't written here lately because I've been very busy at work, and taking care of some real life stuff that came up. As they say, "stuff happens".

I did however get to travel out to Pittsburgh last weekend to work Confluence with the Dorsai Irregulars. It was a smallish science fiction con, with about 300 people in attendance. The shifts ( Read more... )

The below video is a speech made by Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern at a gathering in her district. There were 50 people present when she went on this anti-gay rant ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week for me! Between work and home, I've barely been in IM.

Work has been... work, and at home I've been playing with the nginx webserver. It's lightweight, configurable, and fast. I already have PHP and Drupal running under it at a pretty reasonable speed ( Read more... )

Seen in a Friends-only entry, so I'm keeping the source anyonmous:

PITTSBURGH -- Tourism is a multibillion-dollar business and fighting for a slice of the action means getting the word out about your city's offerings ( Read more... )

Apparently since the Brewers were in Pittsburgh during Anthrocon, they have done pretty poorly as far as winning games goes. They used to be in first place, and they have since slid down to second in their division. Here are the stats. If you look closely, they have lost 7 out of the last 10 games.

Also, if you look at their July schedule, they ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend out in Pittsburgh to do inventory of the Anthrocon storage locker. I had originally expected this to take most of Saturday afternoon, it ended up only taking about an hour and a half, thanks to our hard working volunteers: swift_fox, silaria, cadpigjr, firefoxbc, and sinha_lionThis then left us with the rest of Saturday to spend as we like. We walked around downtown ( Read more... )