Events
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Fort Lauderdale After Hours
It’s almost 1am Saturday morning, I’m at TAM 5.5 in Fort Lauderdale, I’m pleasantly buzzed, and I’m checking in to say hello. I don’t have long because as I was leaving the pool area here at the fabulous Plantation Hotel/Motel and Conference Center, to get to my computer, one of the attendees shouted to me that his girlfriend was on her way…
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Greetings from sunny Florida
Hi all, I’m here in Ft. “Home of the JREF” Lauderdale for TAM 5.5! Not to make you all jealous or anything. Thanks to free wi-fi here at the hotel, I’m able to get up before the sun in order to buzz through 80 e-mails and give a little bloggy update. I arrived just about on time, around 3pm. Jeff…
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TAM5.5 and Random Skepchick News Updates
It’s currently about 30 degrees in Boston and the entire city is covered in permafrost. This is the warmest it’s been all week. Tomorrow, I’ll be hopping a plane and leaving it all behind for the duration of TAM5.5, located in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Florida! Well, sort of sunny. It’ll be a bit gloomy Thursday and Friday apparently, but Saturday…
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Blackberry Women in Technology Awards 2008 (UK)
Just a quick note to say the Blackberry Women in Technology Awards 2008 are still taking entries. If you are in the UK, and would like to enter or know someone who should, please see the website below. The awards are to “celebrate the achievements of women using technology, both within and beyond the IT sector, to bring their outstanding…
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Michael Shermer on Tour
Skeptic, calendar model, and friend-of-Skepchick Michael Shermer is currently touring the country promoting his latest book, The Mind of the Market. It’s a wondeful tome based upon the Snoop Dogg classic Gin and Juice, about keeping one’s “mind on [one’s] money and [one’s] money on [one’s] mind.” Anyway, he’ll be at the Harvard COOP in Cambridge, MA tomorrow (Tuesday, the…
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Moonstruck
Back when I started blogging at Masala Skeptic (nearly a year ago now!), I mentioned one of India’s religious figures, Satya Sai Baba. (pronounced “Sigh BAH Bah,” as if he were a despondent sheep). His devotees consider him a living god. Everyone else considers him an idiot. He uses sleight of hand to materialize ‘holy’ ash and other items and…
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Skepticism in stories …
A couple of weeks ago, I was in New York for work. I found out before I went, that I was going to be there at the same time that The Wolves in the Walls was playing in New York. For those of you who don’t know, The Wolves in the Walls is a children’s book, written by the most…
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The Things We Did and Didn’t Do
Much thanks to everyone who came out to my birthday drunkathon Saturday night, particularly those of you who made sure I didn’t pass out in a Cambridge gutter. We completely took over the restaurant’s back room (and then some). There were scary Chinese shrimp chips, weird snow globes, many martinis, and of course a magician entertaining the crowd. I lost…
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