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- Myrtle Beach Comic Convention
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:03:05 +0000
On Halloween weekend, there will be a comic book convention in Myrtle Beach. It will be held at the Springmaid Resort which is at the very south tip of Ocean Boulevard. This location is convenient to Market Commons, Myrtle Beach State Park and all of the Ocean Boulevard attractions. If you have friends, family or [...] - Future Shock Reminder
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:22:14 +0000
Don’t forget: the past that you think of as charming, when change was controllable and you understood the technology and society - that was someone else’s dystopic out of control pre-singularity future. Whenever things seem out of control now, in two generations it will be a Waltonesque time of placid ease to whatever hard-wired metal [...] - Morning Stories at a Crossroads
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:56:18 +0000
For those of you who listen to the Morning Stories podcast from WGBH in Boston, you know that show has come to an end. The budget ran out for the program and it is no longer being produced under the aegis of WGBH. However, my friend Tony Kahn has not yet given up, and he [...] - An Open Letter to Piggly Wiggly?s IT guys
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:57:09 +0000
While I’m airing my dirty complaint laundry, here’s one that I just sent a guy at Piggly Wiggly about their craptastic wfii. They claim to offer “free wifi”, but what they offer is “pain in the ass unusable wifi.” —– Today I made the mistake of going to the Starbucks inside the Piggly Wiggly at Carolina Forest [...] - New Reality Break Episode featuring Tobias S. Buckell
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:02:22 +0000
I’ve recently published the most recent episode of the Reality Break Podcast, and this one is an interview I particularly liked, my chat with hard science fiction author Tobias S. Buckell. We sat down in a bar in a noisy hotel lobby at Dragon*Con and it actually sounds pretty decent. I’ve certainly gotten much worse [...] - Folding a Shirt with a T-Square
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:12:34 +0000
It says something fairly predictable about me that when I saw Will Shetterly’s embed of this video about folding a shirt engineering style, my first thought was “Hell yes, I’ll be building that tonight!” For once, I care about doing laundry and once built this will be way quicker and more repeatable than the way [...] - Creating Fans the Bassackwards Way
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:19:50 +0000
I’m not sure this is how it is supposed to go, but I started listening to the Webcomics Weekly podcast first. I did not read any of the webcomics by any of the show’s principals. I had previously listened to the Blank Label comics podcast and was curious about this one. After listening for a [...] - An Open Letter to TBS
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:59:24 +0000
Below is the text of an email I just fired off to TBS. I stand behind it, so here it is on the blog as well. I’m watching the playoff baseball games and I have hit the point where the Frank TV promos have driven me insane. I started out with a neutral opinion of Frank [...] - Bosniaks
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:11:31 +0000
The fact that Joe Biden knew that “Bosniaks” is the proper term when I thought he was mispeaking proves that he knows a hell of a lot more about the Balkans than I do. However, Cokie Roberts equally did not know that but she thinks she’s correct. Will Cokie apologize for her counter-gaffe? One doubts. [...] - Limping Along
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:55:00 +0000
Thanks to those who have sent along words of encouragement. After two days of convalescing on the couch, I’m back up and well enough to go to work. I spent that time mostly asleep and watching some of the oldest movies on my DVR when I could stay conscious for 90 or 120 minutes at [...] - This Blog is On A Sick Day
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:48:33 +0000
This is my second day out of work. I’ve got one of those classic weather change colds. Yesterday was spent almost entirely on the couch sleeping with intermittent breaks to watch TV. Today will be more of the same. I have a ginormous amount of things to do for the next few weeks at both [...] - Me and The Mormons
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:10:38 +0000
This evening we had a visit from a couple of “elders” from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints. Any religion that sets loose 19 year old kids on the public and calls them “elders” is one I find a little hard to take seriously from the git go. These young gentlemen asked me [...] - Why $700 Billion?
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:27:32 +0000
I figured this out in a moment of clarity, why it is that the Bush Administration is pushing for $700 billion for bailouts. That’s a very specific number for a situation that is not at all straightforward, so why $700B rather than $500B or $850B or $1 trillion? There is a concept in poker called the [...] - Dan Conover on the Media Interregnum
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:25:57 +0000
My friend Dan Conover took a buyout at his job at the Charleston Post and Courier last month. His final assignment was to write a piece on the present day values of mass media journalism. Fittingly for the situation, they opted not to print it and gave it back to him to do what he [...] - BlogHer Greensboro is Cancelled but Show Up Anyway
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:36:00 +0000
This year’s ConvergeSouth in Greensboro NC was to be a hybrid conference, with CS on Thursday and Friday (October 16 & 17,) with the BlogHer Roadshow on Saturday (October 18.) Well, last week BlogHer cancelled all four of the southern stops on that tour, leaving a hole and leaving those who made non-refundable travel arrangements [...]
