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MadCat Picks
At the Margins, Fri Sept 14th, ATA, 7:30pm. Shorts. “Golden Kitchen” sounds particuarily intriguing to me.
Close to Home, Fri Fri Sept 14th, ATA, 8:30pm. In particular “Un Hombre Tranquilo”.
ID Docs, Tue Sept 18th, 6:30pm for free BBQ. El Rio.
Bujold @ Booksmith
Bujold is reading at Booksmith on Haight tomorrow night at 7pm.
“Who?”, [name redacted] asked.
Bujold.
Whose Vorkosigan books are the best long form speculation on the role and future of reproductive technology disguised as military space sci-fi headed by a coded-female male solider protagonist (with incarnated other) over 9 volumes, with apologies to Austen, ever written.
And even Larry Wall likes her.
Web 2.0 Expo
Expo Cal is up and running an instance of iCalico, the social conference calendaring app (fancy way of saying tries to answer the, “um, what should I go see?” question), Rabble and I wrote.
In other Web2Expo news, my talk for Ignite Sunday night got accepted. Ack! Um, so I’ll be speaking (for at least 6 minutes) Sunday night on “casual privacy”.
That Yak Won’t Sing
Enough frisbee, need to get a little work done this weekend. Need a good coffee shop with wifi and power on a Sunday.
Hmmm, really what I need to do is to finally get around to setting up a San Francisco WifiMug.
Which reminds me that I’m kind of unhappy with the current state of the WifiMug codebase (and it’s showing its age a bit, pre-Web 2.0!), guess I should research available Rails wiki software.
Though what I really should do is whip out that Wiki-meets-structured-data-creation-PlacesWiki I’ve been meaning to write.
But first I want to do a comprehensive survey of alternative wiki markups, the space has really fractured. Stikkit is doing good things with natural mark up, while Semantic MediaWiki steamrolls its way through the expressiveness sweet spot, and Google Code wiki has some interesting stuff going on.
But, um, um, um, I should write a new web browser and search engine to research wikis! Yeah, thats the ticket!
Kellan-Elliot-Mcrea: Laughing Meme
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Writers With Drinks in (Genre) Drag
(nb: charlie not in drag)
Absolutely fabulous event. Best of San Francisco material. Great audience, fabulous writing, and I got to observe it all while sitting in a (stationary) rickshaw. Other, the nights beneficiary is sort of a literary magazine for San Francisco, which means I passed on their most recent issue (Tron-sex and teledildonics, topics you’re already innudated with in SF) and went straight to the simian issue, which is highly recommended.
I came away with some sort of insight into the fundamental nature of SF, or so I thought, but as I’ve been utterly unable to communicate this insight, I think it might have just been contact buzz from the eloquence, alas.
Lastly, if you ever have a chance to see Kim Stanley Robinson read his poetry, go! My party was divided on whether it is better then his fiction, but its very very good. I might heckle him from the crowd at Etech to read some verse.
I’ll be at next month’s. (which I suppose is another way of saying I won’t be at SxSW after all)
Writers in Drag, this Saturday, at Writers with Drinks
see Kim Stanley Robinson read poetry! Michelle Tea read cyberpunk! Michael Blumlein read nature writing! There might be a dancing bear as well!
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The Defenestration of 2006, a San Francisco tradition
We were actually downtown in the week after Xmas, and wondering at the shredded paper everywhere. Wishing I had had a camera. via
New San Francisco specialty roaster “Meth coffee” seems interesting at first glance
Coffee spiked with mate is intriguing. But they’re charging premium coffee prices for pre-ground coffee of unspecified origin. Plus lifestyle appropriation bullshit like, “self-styled anarchist, caffeine addict, and conspiracy theorist known only as The Roaster” is just offensive.
The Defenestration of 2006, a San Francisco tradition
We were actually downtown in the week after Xmas, and wondering at the shredded paper everywhere. Wishing I had had a camera. via
