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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.


msbelle - Nov 08, 2016 6:02:27 am PST #3907 of 4089
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Absolutely LAST CHANCE to get in the gift exchange AND/OR let me know if you want any restriction on who you draw (like, for example, I try to exclude anyone I have ever had before). I am going to take a shower and when I get done, I AM DRAWING THE MATCHES!!!!

If you have emailed or messaged me before about restrictions, could you do a follow up? I really do not want to miss anyone's request. TA.


msbelle - Nov 19, 2016 4:33:49 pm PST #3908 of 4089
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Tis the Season for Holiday cards.

If you have moved/changed email in the last year or if you would like to get your address/email on there for the first time, we do have a B.org community list. If you are ok with your address/email being shared with active community members (and for email this means you will be included most likely in any community surprise gifting to a member that gets organized from time to time), then you can contact me with that info and I will get it or update it on the list.

There OF COURSE can be caveats. Some only share emails, some want to be notified before addresses are shared, some share everything and have provided emergency contacts in case we do not hear from them for a bit and are worried.


Frankenbuddha - Nov 27, 2016 10:35:37 am PST #3909 of 4089
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

RIP Ron Glass - you will be missed.


hippocampus - Dec 01, 2016 3:53:22 am PST #3910 of 4089
not your mom's socks.

Special board offer - I have extra bookplates and so anyone here who wants to personalize anything that has my name on it, hit me at the profile addy with "borg bookplate) in the subject line. Thank you so so much to everyone who is posting and reccing and talking up the books also - I am so grateful to you.


Volans - Dec 02, 2016 5:03:55 am PST #3911 of 4089
move out and draw fire

Hey all - I am working with HackEd, a startup focused on creating the cybersecurity experts needed now. I'm basically the DM - some big cybersurity names are providing the curriculum and I'm making the 7 weeks an immersive story-based experience. It's sort of a Cyberpunk game made real.

Applicants have to do a coding challenge and submit a fairly tough application, and we select about 12 per running of the course. Towards the end of the course we bring in companies and government who have the best jobs in cybersecurity and work to place the students. The 12 people who get in don't pay for the training; they are on scholarship. If they get hired, the company who hires them pays us.

The immersive, story-based approach gives the students the closest thing to real-world experience possible, to address the catch-22 of needing experience to get hired so you can get experience. It gives them stories to tell interviewers. And it forces them to work together, to compete, and to be creative rather than just following a manual or doing script-kiddie stuff.

So that's the sales pitch. If you are interested, yay! If you know people who might be interested in going through this, send them the link? There will be 4 runnings of the course each year, and we are hoping to expand the number of students we can accept for the last two to maybe 15-20.

Thanks!


Consuela - Dec 11, 2016 9:00:46 am PST #3912 of 4089
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

George Takei's musical Allegiance was on Broadway last year, and now is being broadcast one night only at theaters around the country, on December 13th. This would be your only chance to see it with the original cast.

[link]


Consuela - Dec 29, 2016 12:06:43 pm PST #3913 of 4089
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

If anyone still has an account on LiveJournal, you should know that its security is now at risk from the Russian government: [link]


erikaj - Dec 29, 2016 2:22:47 pm PST #3914 of 4089
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

I know everyone is asking you for money right now, but, help me out and buy our new anthology. [link]


Connie Neil - Jan 01, 2017 4:29:26 pm PST #3915 of 4089
brillig

I have S1 of Buffy on DVD, in the old fold-out-into-one-big-spread format. Any takers?


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 11, 2017 7:59:58 am PST #3916 of 4089
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Ben Browder is doing a reddit Q&A that goes live this afternoon at 3pm EST: [link]