Last year's Worldcon in idyllic San Antonio was a life-changing experience, but this year's Worldcon in idyllic London was the experience of a lifetime ( Read more... )

I think I did fewer awesome things in general at this year's Comic-Con, but I think I also got more sleep and was less stressed, so it evens out.

I totally went through the TSA Pre-Check line in Oakland and it was glorious. A package from John Joseph Adams containing tons of WDSF postcards to hand out and a signed copy of Robot Uprisings was ( Read more... )

This year, I attended my very first Worldcon, home of the Hugo Awards, many famous authors, and lots of cool people in general! It was very different from Comic-Con but still totally awesome ( Read more... )

I feel pretty confident that I will never write epic posts about Comic-Con (in fact, I will probably never write epic posts again, sadly), so this will have to suffice until the Facebook albums go up ( Read more... )

A while ago, I joined Meetup.com to make more Indian friends.

I discovered a monthly comic book club at Mission: Comics and Art.

One of the girls I met there suggested I join a Meetup group called the Antisocialites.

adinarj visited last week, and we were planning on visiting the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, which I had never visited, so an ( Read more... )

I hope I can find the time to write epic posts for the three of you who will read them, but I am woefully behind on even writing down notes. So let this totally abridged narrative suffice for now ( Read more... )

Let's go all the way back to May 17, when I was in a reading of Los 7 Magnificos, an old Thunderbird show. It was a reading I was actually asked to be in! I didn't have to audition or anything! I was Jerry/Sanjay, an Indian landlord mistaken for Jerry Garcia by a bunch of hippies, so I got to break out my Indian accent, and I was also Señor Roboto ( Read more... )

So this one time I went home for a wedding, and when I flew back to San Francisco, I went to the baggage claim even though I had no baggage. Because I needed to confirm my suspicions that the man I had sat across from before boarding, the man sitting in the first row of the plane, was in fact Rizwan Manji, Rajiv from Outsourced.

It wasHe invited ( Read more... )

I joined LiveJournal in 2005, but before that, I was on another site, which is where I met Amy (etherealclarity), one of my oldest online friends. One time I called her and sang songs about cheese to cheer her up. I think that was her. I meant every cheese I sang; I just forgot who I sang it to. In any case, she got sent over here for training for a new job, so ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I wake up at 6 and am out the door by 6:30, efficient but groggy. I hit the magic deli for breakfast, and they are able to whip me up a GIGANTIC turkey/egg/cheese breakfast sandwich, and I also get a turkey sandwich for lunch later. I am so forward-thinking! Plus, for kicks, I get a smoothie.

( Pre-Panel: Chuck )