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

Latest Grist: Why the public is right in preferring efficiency rules and public investment in things like trains to emissions pricing: [link]

My magazine is looking for a new science fiction columnist. We're a monthly publication for a general, nationwide audience, and the column would recommend three books a month, roughly 200 words per book. Here is the most recent column.

We don't pay a lot, but it's a steady gig, plus free books! If anyone is interested, please email me at my profile address, and include writing samples if you've got 'em. We would start you off with a trial review of one book, and go from there.

Looking for L.A.-area teachers. Of course, the awesome Kat and Kristin, but also anyone any Buffistas know in the area who you might like to send this on to. My company is doing a focus-group with educators to find out how our captioned material might be useful in a classroom. It's about an hour long, we provide snacks and the participants get a $30.00 Amazon giftcard. We will hold this at our office in Burbank, so people can see how TV shows are captioned and cool stuff like that. Please contact me or send anyone you know who might be interested my way at robin@captionmax.com

Doctor Who premieres in the US on April 17th - with limited commercial interruption.

(It premiers in the UK over Easter Weekend. . . or possibly on Easter.)