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Dr. Horrible: An oral history

Posted by Deana in Blog, Culture, Events, Film, Fun, Humor, Music, Plain foolishness, Science fiction, That which is awesome on July 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

He’s here, so I’m there! Jonathan Coulton will be performing with Paul and Storm on Saturday, May 17th at Lestat’s in Normal Heights. Details (as per usual) are at Eventful.
The show’s at 9pm, and tickets are being sold at the door for an undisclosed sum somewhere around $10. I’ll probably get there around 8:30, or [...]

Posted by Chris in Events, Fun, Music on May 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

I’m way overdue in letting people know about awesome things happening in San Diego, because there are currently too many awesome things happening in San Diego. To apologize, I implore you to attend BarCamp this weekend:

Posted by Chris in Community & Activism, Events, Making Stuff, Technology, Web 2.0 on May 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »

OK, this time I’m the one who’s out of the loop. :) This weekend (Nov 10-11), San Diego revisits its very own BarCamp, and it’s shaping up to be even better than the last. (Better except in one regard: I can’t attend this time around.)
Topics so far include Rails, Twitter, college, marketing 2.0, online storytelling, [...]

Posted by Chris in Community & Activism, Events, Fun, Technology, Web 2.0 on November 5th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been negligent in my event-reporting duties. This weekend (June 2-3) San Diego gets its very own BarCamp, and I’ll be there along with lots of awesome people. Topics so far include programming, photography, yoga, knitting, metal fabrication, and monkeys.  (Yes, the last one is mine.)
If you’re in the San Diego area and have a [...]

Posted by Chris in Events, Fun, Knitting, Technology, Web 2.0 on June 1st, 2007 | No Comments »

Forty-six years ago today, a human being first went into space. And it was this guy:

Вы хлынулись, Comrade Gagarin!

Posted by Deana in Events, History, Holiday! Celebrate!, Space on April 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I don’t usually blog about my work, not because it’s boring but because it tends to strike me as advertising. I guess I assume that you couldn’t possibly be as excited about the things I do as I am. (Don’t tell me if I’m right about that.)
Today, however, I saw something on Eventful [...]

Posted by Chris in Events, Politics, Web 2.0 on March 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Hello world!

Kerrigan is having her first book published! Hooray! Publication date is May 18, 2007. You can get more info at the following links: Creatrix Books and Kerrigan’s new website!
(much credit and kudos to Chris as creator and webmaster of aforementioned new website!)

Posted by Deb in Books, Events, Feminism, Holiday! Celebrate!, Literature, Science fiction, Writing on February 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Be vewwy quiet…..

Posted by Deana in Events, Fun, Holiday! Celebrate!, Plain foolishness, Television, Would you like to play a game?, You have got to be kidding on February 6th, 2007 | 3 Comments »

You may have noticed that little demand sticker on the sidebar here. I’ve been hoping to get Jonathan Coulton to visit our little cultural backwater for a while now, and he’s finally agreed! Details:
Who: Jonathan Coulton
When: Tuesday, 20 February at 8:00 pm
Where: House of Blues San Diego
Details at Eventful, of course. So [...]

Posted by Chris in Events, Fun, Music, Web 2.0 on January 31st, 2007 | No Comments »