Turkey City is a science fiction writing workshop where people gather and critique each others’ stories (which they have read in advance). Traditionally it’s followed…
On September 23rd, 2006, the members of the Atheist Community of Austin went on a cruise on Town Lake, and watched the bats emerge at…
Steve Jackson’s Chaos Machine is, to quote the convention program book, “a giant communal build-it-yourself project that’s a cross between an erector set, model trains,…
Austin’s own Robot Group — an organization of robotics enthusiasts — had a display of their robots at Linucon. Some robot enthusiasts also brought…
The name of this panel hints at the lack of preparedness on the part of organizers — and, given the trouble they’ve been through this…
On Friday I went to a discussion panel “Adventures in Costuming”, where the panelists were Cathy Raymond (wife of Eric Raymond of open source fame,…
The name Larval Mode comes from the Hacker’s Dictionary, where it means the state of being a novice programmer or techie. The panelists were Eric…
It’s that time of the year! Linucon 2 — a joint Linux and science fiction convention — is upon us! After spending a frustrated half…
On September 25, 2005, Book People, an independent bookstore in Austin, TX, hosted a meeting with the author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman read an excerpt from…
Pictures of various semi-interesting things I saw on in Lithuania in the summer of 2005, and other miscellaneous pictures. Seen in a supermarket in Vilnius:…