No maps for these territories

Also! The 2007 Wikimania Bid Jury (including yours truly) met this weekend; after some rather heart-wrenching debate because all the bids were so good, we came to a decision:
Wikimania 2007 will be in Taipei, Taiwan next summer. Taipei offered an enthusiastic and experienced team, a great venue, and the chance to network with the [...]

More or less out of the blue (as of last week), and pretty much at the last minute, I am heading off to the Frankfurt Book Fair next week. I’ll be supporting the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project as a volunteer.* We’ll be talking to publishers, handing out endless flyers, learning more about [...]

So, a professor finally asked me to teach in one of her freshman classes. Hurrah! It only took nearly a year of poking the professors I am very happy and feel like I am finally doing my job ‘properly.’ However, there’s just one downside:
It’s a freshman seminar at 8 in the morning.
Ugh, [...]

…HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON PDT TODAY… …WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 4 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING MAINLY FOR AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 5 IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY AND DELTA AREA UNTIL NOON [...]

man, I’ll tell you what, retouching photos is a hell of a lot easier with a big monitor. huzzah! says the person who finally got the scanner hooked up.

no actual content this evening, because I am grumpy, and any *real* content would probably reflect just that, alas. We’ll resume regularly scheduled service tommorow.

How about [...]

This is an old post from Mr. Mad_Eponine, but it makes me nostalgic. I used to live mere steps from this. Though it opened after I left, I miss it. Hurrah, the never-ending Seattle cafe scene.
Someday I’ll be back, I tells ya.

Account of the Di3tz0rs, day four 2.75ish:
I am attempting to modify my wretched eating habits. Tonight I still ate too much at dinner (though it was salad! graced with protein! per Springstreet’s recommendation — not my fault if it was also at a Mexican place and graced with sour cream and chips), but at [...]