Through various sundry methods and illicit schemes, we have settled on a genre-busting book to kick off the action.
The first selection for The Buffista Book Club will be:
The Intuitionist, by Whitehead, Colson.
Discussion begins August 15, 2004.
I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Sunnydale Press
Having a party? Organizing a local F2F? Know something that we all really need to know? Announce it! Want to discuss anything posted here? Take it to Natter. Any natter here will be deleted.
Wolfram - Jul 15, 2004 10:41:50 am PDT #1424 of 4091
Visilurking
TomW - Jul 16, 2004 4:11:25 am PDT #1425 of 4091
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Job posting:
My company is in the market to hire one Java developer.
If you're a Java developer in the Boston area (we're based on the North Shore, about 25 miles up the coast from Boston), and you think you might be interested drop me a line at my profile address (add 'Buffistas:' to the subject line to avoid my harsh spam-filtering).
Tam - Jul 19, 2004 11:23:51 am PDT #1426 of 4091
"...Singing their heads off, protected by the holy ghosts, flying in from the ocean, driving with their eyes closed." - Patty Griffin "Florida"
A little ways up thread I posted that Amber Benson's Chance will be the feature presentation at this year's Trinoc*coN speculative fiction con in Durham, NC. I just learned the times and thought I'd post em': 1AM Saturday, 1AM and 1:30PM Sunday. Original post: Tam "Sunnydale Press" Jun 30, 2004 1:41:44 pm PDT
erinaceous - Jul 21, 2004 6:43:12 am PDT #1427 of 4091
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
I've just realized that I was over-efficient in setting up my spam filter, and that anything sent to my profile address has been getting reduced to its constituent electrons, for oh, months now.
So if you were trying to reach me, I wasn't ignoring you! I was just really, really dumb.
lisah - Jul 21, 2004 9:18:21 am PDT #1428 of 4091
Punishingly Intricate
I'm helping to organize (and my band is playing in) a great fundraising event happening Friday, July 30th in Baltimore.
WHAT--Estrofest, an all-ages, estrogen-fueled night of rock and roll to benefit House of Ruth.
WHEN--July 30, 8PM-2AM (FREE BEER at the downstairs bar from 8-9)
WHERE--The Ottobar, 2549 N. Howard Street, Baltimore
HOW MUCH--$7/$8 (for the under 21s)
WHO--Vestal Vermin, Secret Crush Society, Egyptian Sun Belly Dancers The Sirens (Northern Virginia, punk), Dawn of Man (DC, New New Wave)
WHY--House of Ruth provides thousands of battered women and their children with a safe haven and gives them needed resources to escape from domestic violence situations. In addition to offering emergency shelter, House of Ruth Maryland offers such programs as job training and legal counseling to help women end the cycle of domestic violence.
WHAT ELSE--A $2 a ticket raffle featuring prizes from Atomic Books, A Cleansing Touch (day spa), In Watermelon Sugar, Oh! Said Rose/Ma Petite Shoe, Fat Elvis, Trixie's Palace, Stickky Fingers, the Children's Bookstore, and the Baltimore Tattoo Museum.
Allyson - Jul 22, 2004 5:49:57 am PDT #1429 of 4091
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's really really real!
I'm purchasing Nilly's North American Tour ticket, today. For those who contributed, I'll be sending an accounting and Nilly's tour dates, so you can come and visit with our Nilly in one of the cities she'll be visiting.
There's more info in the F2F thread.
Many thanks to all who contributed!
Hayden - Jul 22, 2004 7:17:10 pm PDT #1430 of 4091
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
The new High Hat, she is online. Watch for our own Lyra Jane in the Labor Day supplement.
Holli - Jul 23, 2004 6:52:30 am PDT #1431 of 4091
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
DCistas! They Might Be Giants and Fountains of Wayne are playing tomorrow night in front of the National Gallery. Check out liveonpenn.com for the specifics, and e me at my profile addy if you're going.
Lee - Jul 25, 2004 5:12:42 pm PDT #1432 of 4091
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I am, as the Empress calls it, devideoing myself.
Does anyone want any of these VHS tapes, for the price of postage:
Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh version)
The Playboys
Sense and Sensibility (Thompson/Grant version)
My Best Friend's wedding
Pleasantville
The Philadelphia Story
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Cousins
Dangerous Liasons
Four Weddings and a funeral
Evita
Impromptu
Hairspray
Grease
Lawrence of Arabia
Labyrinth
Jurassic Park
Shakespeare in Love
The Commitments
What's Love got to do with it
West Side Story
The Many adventures of Winne the Pooh
Profile address is good
DCJensen - Jul 26, 2004 9:37:55 am PDT #1433 of 4091
All is well that ends in pizza.
Update your virus definitions as soon as the update for your Anti-Virus software is available, people...
Mydoom Virus Spreads Rapidly in E-Mail, Symantec Says (Update1)
July 26 (Bloomberg) -- A variant of the Mydoom computer virus that infected 300,000 computers in February is spreading rapidly through e-mail, said researchers at Symantec Corp., the largest maker of anti-virus software.
The virus may be affecting Google Inc.'s Web site, searchenginejournal.com said. The virus is hidden in an e-mail that arrives disguised as an error message at a user's desktop. Opening an attachment spreads the virus via e-mail to others.
This virus affects only Winodows computers.