The demands of work aren’t going to let me write anything substantial right now, but I thought I’d post a couple of photos from Saturday night for the benefit of the two Lizzes.
Pictured from left to right: Liz “mamamusings” Lawley (visiting Toronto and attending the AoIR conference), yours truly, and Liz “Bunny” Phillips (celebrating her 30th birthday).
We’re still a little short on diversity at tech conferences. Here’s a snippet of a conversation about BloggerCon between me and Ejovi Nuwere that we had on Joi Ito’s IRC channel earlier today:
<ejovi> were you the asian guy with the accordion at joi’s dinner?
<AccordionGuy> That was me.
<ejovi> ah, cool. i was the black guy.
I’m halfway, through Lizapalooza!, a weekend of hanging out with friends named “Liz”. Last night it was dinner with drinks with Liz “Mamamusings” Lawley and Kathleen “Planned Obsolescence” Fitzpatrick, who are here in Accordion City to attend the Association of Internet Researchers conference. Tonight it’s birthday hoopla with Liz “Bunny” Phillips as she celebrates the big three-oh.
(My advice to anyone crossing the threshold from 29 into 30 remains: “Don’t turn thirty clothed and alone.”)
Details of the weekend will follow. In the meantime, I have to go make some clients happy.
Congratulations to Richard “crysflame” Soderburg, for posting the 500th comment for this blog since I moved it over to Blogware!
Sorry Richard, I have no actual prizes to offer, but please accept this virtual high-five as a token of my appreciation.
And thank you, Blogware development team, for putting in running tallies of articles and comments!
Back when my buddy George and I were in Crazy Go Nuts University, we used to say “Yeah…girls…geez” a lot. I’ve since adopted that lament as one of the this blog’s categories. All dating-related stories will fall under this category, and you can access it by going to this blog’s main page and clicking the “Life” link under “Topics” in the left -hand column. You’ll be taken to the “Life” category. “Yeah…girls…geez” is a subcategory of “Life”; click on “Yeah…girls…geez” under “Topics” in the “Life” section to see all its stories.
From FARK: The Washington Post has a story on Modern Flirting and how women and girls are more aggressive than they used to be.
I dare you to resist visiting a site named BarBitches.com:
The BarBitches pick up where Ann Landers and Emily Post left off, providing modern-day etiquette lessons for bars and other social venues. If you’re not sure how to appropriately interact with others–people you want to talk to, people you want to sleep with, and people you want to get the hell away from–or if you’re just sick of seeing bad behavior when you go out, BarBitches.com is your new bible.
The BarBitches dream of a world where everyone knows how to properly order a drink, signal interest to an attractive stranger, figure out when and when not to make a move, politely signal non-interest, and properly conduct a hook-up from start to finish.
I’ve already finished telling the story of my worst date ever. I have four or five dates that I would consider to be my best, but one in particular is the most tellable, especially since it goes from disaster to success in a very odd way. It’s also tellable because it happened so long ago that anyone involved probably won’t mind my telling the story. Anyone want to hear it?
Nobody does funny, angsty comics quite like Derek Kirk Kim. Some goodies of his include:
If I ever wanted to put out Worst Date Ever in comic form, I’d hire Derek to draw it.
Derek’s best-known work is Same Difference, a serialized comic starring the outgoing and exuberant Nancy, and Simon, the overly-angsty sombre geek. You can read the whole thing online and you can also buy it in book form. It’s a great read.
Derek’s latest work, The Ten Commandments of Simon, features Simon from the aforementioned Same Difference. In it, Simon dispenses the secrets to becoming a 29-year-old virgin. Part one, with the first five commandments, is currently available; part two should be coming soon.