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I’ll be arriving late Friday the 11th and staying until late afternoon on the 13th. Graduation is Sunday afternoon.

Ah, David Brooks, how I love thee or was that “love to stab thee”

“Being a good conservative now means sticking together with other conservatives, not thinking new and adventurous thoughts.”

Definitions of conservative on the Web:

• resistant to change
• opposed to liberal reforms
• cautious: avoiding excess; “a conservative estimate”
• button-down: unimaginatively conventional; “a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business”- Newsweek

Yup, that’s exactly what it means now. Same as it always meant.

Come on over to my place for board games on Saturday, 6pm. If there’s a particularly fun game you really want to play, bring it. If you have questions, email me, or leave a comment.

Well, I’m in DC now. I suppose I should grab some dinner. Anyone up for drinks? I so need to figure out what is up with the wireless here. Grrr….

Okay, wireless fixed. But what would be really awesome is someone to watch Heroes with while chowing down on delivery.

So, if you’re into video games, and a homo in chicago, there’s a bunch of your kind meeting this evening at the pick me up cafe in boystown. 6pm. Just fyi.

go to http://maps.google.com
put NY in the from and London in the to.
Check out step 23.

I want to use a free RSS reader for Mac that seems to do everything else reasonably. Finding that was hard enough. Vienna seems to fit the bill. It will even let me authenticate with LJ and read the protected entries in other blogs I subscribe to. But LJ cannot bother to either a) make it so I won’t need to re-enter my password for each individual blog I subscribe to, or publish my subscriptions list the same way it publishes a blog. (Thanks to some special gymnastics, I can read it, but since Vienna apparently lacks cookies, I can’t read protected entries.) This makes me cranky. I want to have a real RSS aggregator.

So, things that I love about biking in pittsburgh

1. Hills.
2. Assholes in SUVs who yell “Sidewalk!” out their window because I’m taking up too much space. Excuse you, moron, have you noticed a) there’s no sidewalk here and b) that your SUV takes up several times as much space as my bike? Hint, you have no greater right to the road than I do. Please go off yourself.
3. Pittsburgh’s road maintenance crews which decide that the proper place for three foot wide signs warning of imminent construction is the middle of the fucking sidewalk.

Other than that, it’s been pretty cool. Especially after I remembered that the crippling knee pain I was experiencing was just like the pain I experienced on the bike that was too short for me and raised the seat. 45 minutes, mostly downhill to station square. 1 hour, mostly uphill, back. Very sweaty on the way back. much walking too.

Still, it’s good to be back in the seat. Muchas gracias to and .

the good news is the conference is really cool. The bad news is that I still lack focus.

Conference activities start in 20 minutes. I’ll be late. But I’m wondering what the source of my cold feet could be. Habitual lateness? Social anxiety? Fear of what I’ll discover about myself and my interest in environmental issues? The fact that it’s f’ing cold and I chose to bike? Either way, I’m hopping in the shower and getting dressed now. Hope the first part of the opening plenary session isn’t terribly important. =)