Showing off the awesome baby that is Luke

And showing off the friendship star quilt that Karen made for Luke, too!

BarCampSanDiego this weekend

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:

Echo Park Time Travel Mart

This is so wonderful, I have no words:

Lots and lots more timey-wimey photos at the link. (Thanks to John for the link.)

Ravenworks

Ok, this makes my pagan heart happy: my friend Raven has opened a new store in Madison, WI called Ravenworks. It features lots of pretty, pretty, shiny and happy one-of-a-kind, hand made things for everyday use, ritual, whatever. Also, books and music — including Legacy!.

the Global Spin calling card

I recently made a few calling cards for use at the Mars Society convention. I kinda like them, and they come in handy when I want to encourage random people to go to Global Spin:

Anyone interested in one of their own? I’d be happy to make up a PDF with your name and globalspin.com address [...]

RPM Challenge

(A kind of unicorn chaser, yes.) If you liked the idea of writing a novel in a month, what do you think of writing, recording, and editing an entire album in a month? Better yet, how about doing it in the shortest month of the year?
The RPM Challenge is to record 35 [...]

tales from the mash pit

(Author’s note: Chris Messina implored us to blog about Mash Pit. I didn’t want to just parrot other excellent posts, so here’s my demented version of the event.)
Four thirty. A.M., as in oh-dark-thirty. Ben and Karen will be asleep for another three hours. Uh huh. Why am I up this [...]

mark cuban would be proud

Now _that’s_ what I’m talkin’ about! I usually don’t go for over-the-top home technology projects, but the Jenkins Family Theater has serious panache. You have to give people credit when they’re willing to work hard to make something so crazy. (At least I do, with the ideas I have…)