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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.
A point which may be of interest to people here, which I didn't know about until today:
If you intend/want to contribute money to the Kerry campaign, tomorrow (Thursday, July 29) is the cutoff date. Campaign finance laws regulate candidates who are accepting public funds. After the cutoff date, he can't accept any money.
After that date, you can, of course, contribute to political organizations (the DNC, MoveOn, etc.), but not candidates.
DC-ista, Virginia-istas, and anyone who is moving to Northern Virginia: Since I'm moving to Greece in 6 weeks, my townhouse will be up for rent as of September 20. It's a nice place, quiet neighborhood, good access to things like Rt. 66 and the metro, and I'd love to find a renter who was okay with the not-white walls in the living and dining rooms.
If you're interested, or know someone who is, please drop me a note at my profile addy.
There are 2 weeks left to register for the the Browncoat Ball, which will be held in Chicago, Sept. 17-19!
On Friday, Sept. 17
And on Saturday, Sept. 18
Complete information can be found at the official Web site [link]
To register, go to [link]
If you have any questions, send us an e-mail at info at browncoatball dot com
We'd love to see you there!
If you contributed to the Nilly Fund, you should have received an email from me.
There were two people who sent a check, and a money order, respectively, but I have no email addie for you. If this means you, please drop me an e at Allyson000 at aol dot com.
Erinaceous, your email bounced.
If I don't hear from you that have received emails, I will assume all is well.
I will be sending individual emails with your transaction IDs, but not tonight, for I am so very sleepy.
Everyone that asked for an itinerary shall have one.
This is a good year for Perseids, for two reasons, explains Bill Cooke of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. First, the Moon is new in mid-August; moonlight won't spoil the show. Second, in addition to the usual shower on August 12th, there might be an extra surge of meteors on August 11th caused by a filament of dust newly drifting across Earth's orbit. ... If predictions are correct, Earth will plow through the filament on Wednesday, August 11th at 2100 UT (5 p.m. EDT). This will produce a surge of mostly-faint meteors over Europe and Asia. Observers might see "as many as 200 meteors per hour," says Cooke, who recommends getting away from city lights to watch the flurry. ... Later that night, observers in North America can see the "traditional Perseid peak" caused by the older dust from Swift-Tuttle. "Expect 40 to 60 meteors per hour, some of them bright," says Cooke.
Happy viewing! (Try to not have a major black-out this year, East Coast)
Today in history:
1944 - IBM dedicated the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
Thanks Are Due!
Not going to write down the full list of people, since there are so many of them I'd overload the board, and anyway, I haven't got permission to list names - but for every single one of you who came to play, with money or love or both, on erika's birthday prezzie?
Mission accomplished. Looks like erika and Nilly get to meet in LA after all.