Is it just me, or is adding #beatcancer to every tweet sounds similar to adding "in bed" to fortune cookies? Only less funny? #

Went to Kick Butt Coffee to edit my story. Instead, ended up in a conversation with strangers. Also scored a free beer from the bartender. #
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Ar galite rekomenduoti kavinių Vilniaus senamiestyje, kurios turi nemokamą WiFi ir nereikalauja vartotojo vardo ir slaptažodžio? Kol kas radau Gedimino prospekte Double Coffee ir Coffee Inn su nemokamu WiFi, o Pilies gatvėje -- ledainę Soprano. Kokių dar kavinių yra? Kiek pastebėjau, zebra.lt WiFi yra praktiškai visur, bet jis reikalauja vartotojo ( Read more... )

Leather benches at Music Cafe are actually beds. This is not a place for a laptop proletarian; it's for ancient Roman patricians to lounge. #

Finished the second draft of my Armadillocon writing workshop story; now to do critique for a near-identically sounding ApolloCon workshop. #

Now the main story-related task is to run a random name generator ( Read more... )

Back from rocket-launching, puppy-chasing, school-system-cursing fun with the Secular Family Network folks at the Brentwood park. #

going to see Star Trek at the IMAX. I dare it not to live up to my by-now-overinflated expectations! #

Star Trek movie had its good moments, but nothing in it really hooked me. Can't imagine myself going to see it ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was hanging out at a Juan Pelota coffeeshop (yay vacation!) in downtown Austin. It is a pocket-sized coffeeshop located inside a bicycle store. It has maybe 3 tables. Some pretty serious-looking cyclists, in full cycling gear, stop by there to refuel. Two such guys were sitting at one of the tables when I came in. The first thing I did ( Read more... )

• 10:43 The funnest thing at the Center For Inquiry program meetings is brainstorming names for our activities. #
• 11:06 Those names play on either the ideas of rationality and freethought, or their opposites. E.g. Margarita Delusion for happy hour. :-) #
• 12:07 Only now noticed that Austin American-Statesman has a hyphen between the 2nd and 3rd words ( Read more... )

• 10:00 Yay: finally packed and ready to go to big, beautiful Dallas, to #Fencon science fiction convention! Haven't finished all critiques, though. #
• 11:57 Am in Waco, at a "new" Starbucks on I-35 that wasn't here the last time I made the trek between Dallas and Austin, but that was years ago. #
• 12:15 Judging by the scene at #Starbucks, Waco may not ( Read more... )

My Mother's Day was as close to perfect as it gets. At my request Steve gave me the whole day off from mothering, so that I could go out and do anything I wanted. First I went to ACA regular Sunday brunch at the Romeo's restaurant. The ACA'ers, even though most of them are childless, wished happy Mother's day for me and one other woman. She is ( Read more... )

Since my company takes President's day off, I spent a couple of hours on Monday at 360 Primo. It's a good place to write: not only it is a very cool coffeeshop, it has flaky WiFi as a bonus. :-) Flaky WiFi, while annoying, is just what you need while writing. It keeps you from temptation of surfing the web. Fewer distractions ( Read more... )

Today, as my car was sitting in a shop waiting to fail its state inspection, I walked over to Jollyville Java, a small new coffeeshop in a run down parking lot on the intersection of 183 and Spicewood Springs. (For reference, it's the parking lot with Big Lots store and Sambets Cajun deli.) I was moved by extreme, almost desperate, niceness and ( Read more... )