For your convenience, here's my version of the Anthrocon meme, copy-pasted from last year with a few minor edits on top:

Are you going?
This will be my fifth year in a row attending AC. Of course I'll be there! :D

How are you getting there?
Road trip from Philadelphia with Joel Fox and Giza.

What hotel are you staying at?I'll be at the Westin ( Read more... )

Edit 2012-06-08: Ladies and gentlefurs, the information you've all been waiting for:
My new US number is *drumroll* +1 267 629 0352. Texting is preferred over talk, as I've got unlimited amounts of the former.

My new number will be valid until the evening of the Tuesday after Anthrocon.

Edit II: As of 2012-06-19, the number has expired. Please ( Read more... )

Interesting statistical data is interesting

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Eight years ago, on election day 2000, my Modern Physics TA told the class to skip the homework that evening. "Go watch the election," he said, because regardless of who wins "that will be history in the making." And it was.
The world and I have both changed significantly in the years since that day. For one thing, I am now a TA myself. (Sadly, as ( Read more... )