RIP Ron Glass - you will be missed.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
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.
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"
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.
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
Always Anti-fascist!
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]
Scrappy - Feb 22, 2017 2:32:35 pm PST #3917 of 4089
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My spouse has a lovely article up on Forbes about a recent trip he took. Have a read--as lots of hits might mean another trip, one I get to go along on! [link]
Burrell - Feb 22, 2017 3:03:31 pm PST #3918 of 4089
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
For the past 4 years, it has been my honor to be the director of USC's Undergraduate Writers' Conference. This year I am very excited to announce that Fran Wilde has graciously agreed to be the keynote speaker. Which means in a few weeks, I get to bogart all the Fran! I mean no, I get to share her with the wonderful USC community. link