I am taking the day off, but here are some links that crasch and Erick Todd gathered...here, let me make them into a wiki page so others can add... Ok, here it is . D'oh. That was work Oops!. Man, I'm bad at taking the day off. Turning the computer off should help. My personal favorites are the videos: The spontaneous "I'm On A Boat" rooftop dancing: Ephemerisle: We're on a Floaty Thing...

Pretty Cool Damn, I need a new userpic. UPDATE: No sooner said than done, thanks to crasch 's BM 2009 Waffle Hut photos . UPDATE2: Wait, when you change your default userpic, it changes every entry that used your default pic in the past? Weird! I guess that's a nice feature to have...but not the effect I wanted.

We already have as many people registered as came last year (45), but I'm worried that we may not make my goal of doubling from last year (90+). It's really hard to know how many people we'll get, as last year half of registrations were in the last 10 days, and there are 18 days left. Anyway, we have recruited an awesome lineup of speakers and put a lot of work into the event, and I'll be sad if...

got back from Burning Man at around noon today. Had a great time but am very worn out. All the packing & construction beforehand, 15 hours from starting to pack to arriving there, building my structure on-site and about 22 hrs from starting to pack to arriving home (we ended up having to stop and sleep), totals a shitload of work in the last week, and very little sleep. Among other things, since we...

(thanks, crasch !)

via crasch comes an article on how to read a lot of books quickly . The model of a book queue has failed for me. Books pile up for all sorts of reasons - generally that I want to have read them but not to read them. I get stuck, get bored, whatever. Plus, I don't have a lot of non-fiction reading time (unlike blogs, which can be read at red lights, I need solid blocks of time for non-fiction...

Hanging out, cuddling, and listening to people play folk music in an apt (where I saw euneeblic , traumentwerfer , laughingstone , seanlynch , integreillumine , crasch , and others whose LJs I don't know) was just my speed tonight. And when they ran out of songs, someone told my second favorite priest/rabbi joke, so I told my favorite one (there are...

faire was great yesterday. came in to see a whole booth w/ kiddie pool and build your own seastead kit that Liz made happen w/ no help from me - yay! Brochures were very popular, we went through all 200 before the end of the day, plus got 40 mailing list signups. At the booth I talked to Danny O Brien from EFF, Seth Roberts (of the Shangri-La Diet), crasch , Declan McCullagh, and numerous other...

via crasch , this is the best parkour video I've seen. It makes my knees hurt, but the rest of me gets pretty excited. I have no desire to learn the big trampoline moves, but he has a ton of cute little spins and flips that look hella fun. Plus he's obviously very creative - reminds me of Jackie Chan.

By way of crasch . Obama may be the most cynical President ever.