No maps for these territories

As the Te Papa Museum in New Zealand slowly thawed out and dissected one of the world’s only colossal squid specimens, they webcast and liveblogged the experience. this is by far the best picture of the experience. Now that is science done properly.

… and all I hear is blah, blah, blah. I am feeling even more snarky than usual, for many reasons*. It is a particularly bad week to ask me to do things — sorry, volunteer group that desperately needs help! I just don’t have the love right now. —- We have a book in our [...]

1. The next SuperHappyDevHouse in the Bay Area will be at Sun and will reportedly feature a Sun Blackbox. Kickass. 2. I am going to be helping out with the Wikimedia booth at Maker Faire! next weekend. If you are in anything like the area you should come. Even if you aren’t in the area [...]

ROFLCon 2008 Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid If you squint, you can see my laptop in this picture! I’ll give you a hint, it has stickers on it. This was the closing panel with Moot (4chan), Randall (XKCD), and Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics).

1) sitting in the final panel with Ryan North and Randall Munroe 2) earlier the guys from Homestar Runner –> Matt & Mike Chapman Originally uploaded by TrespassersWill asked me for directions. It’s been a pretty good, if odd, weekend.

Phoebe sells Brawndo Originally uploaded by misterbisson Attending ur conference.

Today workmen invaded my house to install central heat and air vents. I was not here. I did tidy up somewhat obssessively last night (benefit: a clean house!); but I did leave the tables in the office that are piled with papers and art supplies intact. Naturally, those are directly under where they installed the [...]