The ApolloCon 2007 opening ceremony was short and simple. The convention chair, Mark Hall said they started ApolloCon because they wanted to have a con…
ApolloCon was a speculative fiction convention in Houston, Texas. ApolloCon 2007 started with a kaffeeklatsch with the editor-legend David Hartwell. Kaffeeklatsches are a tradition at…
The geek factor at Flipside: not too high At that time I had been reading too much of Wired magazine, because it was probably there…
On Saturday morning I was really grumpy and exhausted. I could not sleep all night, both because of insomnia and because of constant noise —…
I gave this presentation at the Fiercely Frontend meetup by Women Who Code Austin, TX chapter.
Pictures of Flipside at night, and me walking into torches The most unexpected thing that happened to me at Flipside was that I walked right…
I went to Flipside, a local Burning Man-style event in the Austin area, in 2007, the year it rained almost non-stop all summer, making water,…
When E turned 2, I took her to Sears to have her photos taken at a photo studio. One of the props in the studio…
Burning Flipside, more commonly known as Flipside, is the local Burning Man-style event in the Austin, TX area. In May 2007 they had a party…
Eeyore’s Birthday is an annual keep-Austin-weird celebration in Austin, Texas. People come in costumes. In some cases, the costumes consist mostly of paint, but majority…