So I just received my shirts from the TeeFury Grab Bag, and one of them is an American Idol "Pants on the Ground" shirt. I don't know if anybody still cares about one's pants being on the ground anymore, but I know that at some point, people here DID care, so does anyone want a men's M shirt?

(x-posted with Natter)

My company (we do software dev and project management for the gov't) is hiring like crazy these days. In the upcoming months we'll be hiring new testers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, and developers. I know the preference is to hire people to work in our office here in B'more 'burbs (or, possibly, our Iowa office) but they have recently hired people to work remotely so you never know! If you might be interested or know someone who may be, contact me at my profile address.

In other news of What recession?, Chicago Bob's company, Razorfish (ad agency for the internets), is also hiring like crazy right now mostly for their Chicago office but, again, they are hiring more people who work remotely. I don't have info on specific positions but if you or someone you know is in that field, drop me a line!

Drollerie Press is celebrating a slew of new ebook releases on Sunday in our chat at 9PM EST (link will be on the front page at [link] 3 different collections of fairy tales, a serial killer mystery set in Las Vegas, an epic f/f fantasy, a YA fantasy, and an erotic horror novella.

Sales from the mystery, The Eyes Die Last by new author Teri Riggs, will be used to support the Brenda Novak auction in support of juvenile diabetes research, so we'll also be talking about that and everyone who visits the chat and promises to blog about the auction will receive a free copy of the book. Of course, we'll also hold drawings throughout the chat to give away a copy of all the other books.

If you can come, I'd love to see you. It's always great to see my peeps pop in.

I have a new post up at Cocktail Party Physics, a little review of science books for kids:

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We have been talking about the need to settle on a time/place for this year's East Coast F2F. Many people had evinced interest in pimping their favorite eastern towns, but right now it looks like we only have active pimpers for Philly and NYC. We're trying to get initial research done by the end of this coming weekend so we can vote and move forward starting next week. If you are interested, head over to F2F. (IOW, pimp now, or forever hold your pimp. Which just sounds wrong on so many levels.)

Slacker Secret Santas and ungifted folk. I just posted in Goodbye that I will collect names of those who are on the way to the post office, those who are not able to give, those who haven't received, and those who are willing alternates. My profile addy is good.

Please let me know your "status" by Friday. I will coordinate with Nilly (since she has the master list, but we all know she is insanely busy), and try to get responses out over the weekend.

New post on Grist: building trains and regulation auto efficiency is more popular than cap-and-trade!

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Hear ye, hear ye: If you are interested in chiming in about when this year's F2F should be held, hie thee over to the F2F thread. We will hold a vote once we have a spread of dates to consider.

Historic Green's "Spring Greening" has kicked off in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. You can follow along here: [link]

Thanks again to all who voted.

Hear ye, hear ye: to gather data and make some progress in picking F2F 2010, I've put together a little survey. This is non-binding (we aren't voting yet) but will give us a better sense of which dates/places are most viable.

Take it here: Click here to take survey