Recently posted to Neil Gaiman's contact form, by Y.T ( Read more... )

I shall be going to GameLoop on Saturday, the BarCamp-style "unconference" for game professionals. I had a great time at its inaugural event last year, and I've been especially looking forward to it since attending Boston BarCamp in April. I appreciate these sorts of nerdly social stewpots, and the combinatorial ideas that can come out of them ( Read more... )

Larry Wall, creator of Perl, is giving two free-and-open-to-the-public talks in Cambridge next week ( Read more... )

Congratulations, Philadelphia. We remember how it feels, over here. (And then some.)

Anyone going to Ignite Boston 3, May 29 at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square? I probably will, and as usual would like to know if I'll recognize anyone there ( Read more... )

It was thundersnowing around noon. By the time I took my lunch walk it was sunny and the dampness on the ground suggested that maybe it had rained a little several hours ago. Now it is dark and thundersnowing again.

Fine with me.

I just figured out what happened by somebody driving by saying WOOOOO

I read it as a validation that the 2004 win wasn't a fluke, which is nice. I'm ready for them to go back to being tragic heartbreakers for another 80 years if they want.

Other things I forgot in my description of last weekend:

Saturday attended that art salon in Union Square, which featured paintings and prints by cthulhia (including her celebrated Surly Pink Bunny Tarot), poetry by Mary and recorder music performed by Carolyn. The funny thing was that I knew all of them were up to something but I didn't quite realize ( Read more... )

Some friends of mine are puttin on a multimedia art thingy Saturday evening in Union Square. Here is a FAQ assuring us that there will not be bad cheese. I'll be there! (Also cthulhia needs easels apparently.)

Ugh. I can't believe this is an AP headline.

"MIT coed with fake bomb 'art' arrested"

Problems here:

• Co-ed is an outmoded term. I am pretty sure that the AP style guide explicitly stated this when I studied it over a decade ago. Do they make an exception for headlines? If so, what difference does it make what gender the person was?
• There was no ( Read more... )