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Hello from San Francisco! Our paper was well-received, and there have been a lot of interesting presentations this year. I’m enjoying the conference, although there have not been as many opportunities for conversation as there were last year, which is a shame.
We’ve both got a lot of thoughts on the conference which we’ll try to [...]

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Kit and Reesa made it to San Francisco for their conference!  (And Steve made it to Minnesota, which was mentioned in comments I think but might have been missed in top-level posting.)
Kit and I each wrote about our travel experiences getting here.  If you’d like to follow along, we posted about it on our personal [...]

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I’ll be missing from here for a week or so, and probably not replying to email.  Keep the place warm while I’m gone.

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In 2007 I attended the first Arse Elektronika, a conference about sex and technology. Last year’s theme was ‘pr0novation’ (see my notes on the conference here). I had a great time. I can’t help but think some conversations I had with the organizers helped inspire this year’s theme, “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?” which [...]

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Indolent: adjective. From the Hungarian indul, meaning “start, depart, set off.”  Every journey actually begins with a nap.

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I remember College Station
In the big Hurricane
We knew that when it reached us
We might get some rain
Wasn’t that a sorry day (a sorry day)
A sorry day (a sorry day)
A sorry day great God that morning
When the Aggie’s all got wet.
The gas, it all was rationed
The people screamed in fear
Refugees from Houston
Had bought up all the [...]

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Years ago, when I first became politically active, I liked to speak of reformists in general and the Democrats in particular as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It was a nice, vivid metaphor, and I was young and a sucker for anything that sounded clever. Alas, I can no longer use [...]

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If ya gots somefin to say, like, say it, dude.

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…Steve has a new book out*. :)
*with a new chapter every month…

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What if you could tell if someone could write about science just by peering at his genes? There has been speculation about the role of the hormone verbopressin in humans ever since we discovered that variations in where receptors for the hormone are expressed makes California neocons make up facts about presidents, but East [...]

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The murder mystery I wrote with my poker teacher Don Hill is being serialized on an online poker magazine called Blind Straddle.  The sample can be found here.
It’s a subscription site: you have to pay a fee to get access to the story.  I think it’s like $15.00 a year or so.   They have writers [...]

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