bunnypip

So, not only is Tuesday the new Monday, Wednesday appears to be the new Tuesday. Thankfully, I am able to take a break from the exciting world of Tax Time™ to bring you the update, only slightly late. (Not-thankfully, I am doing so after about 20 hours of uptime and while on serious painkillers, so if I am less coherent than usual, this would be why.)

We have an action-packed, thrill-a-minute blockbuster at the box office this week (IN A WORLD ... where denise likes to make stupid jokes in the weekly update introduction....) Coming soon to a theatre near you:

( Weekly update, 16 March )

It's like coming up to Great Cosmic Bunny Festival/Spring Equinox.It's like on the 20th this year so it's the same day as God Is which is like cool.
When it's great Cosmic Bunny Festival we like normally eat chocolate bunnys. It's so you can like commune with the bunnys in their scared chocolate form(the bunnys like start as chocolate eggs and then hatch as chocolate bunnys and then tun into furry bunnys and leave us the chocolate which is like really kind of them).
But some of our People don't eat chocolate*. So how can people commune with the bunnys with out chocolate.
What's like your most favourite way to be be like close with bunnys? And have you got any like favourite things to do for Great Cosmic Bunny Festival?

*outside people. all of us eat chocolate. We've been like thinking maybe we should eat less becos the body has been getting bigger in an annoying way. But we aren't going to stop eating all chocolate ever - that's like too extreme.

First, Happyhappy Birthday to two of my favorite physicists: anarchist_nomad and tea (aka demotu). Also, Happy Pi Day, everyone! I have not yet decided which sort of pie to consume in celebration of the occasion, but I am resolved that THERE WILL BE PIE!

In other, less happy, news, I came home from the Awesome GF's Seekrit Hideaway to find water seeping into the basement. *shakes fist at the rain* Thank the Gods for sump pumps and other modern tools that help move water from point A to point B with minimal human interference or effort! But still, argh.

Later on, after I get back from rehearsal and have consumed my (currently still theoretical) pie, I will flog the hell out of our Fabulous Show here, complete with poster image and all the shiny details. Because I want to see you all there!

Stay dry, everyone! Even if I can't!

Who's got stuff for next week's update?

(See my cunning plan? This way I can have a place to note down all those "hey, mention this in the update --")

I think there's a problem with my calendar; it keeps getting stuck back on Monday. I'm fairly certain it was just Monday yesterday ...

Still, temporal distortion aside, onwards to the weekly update.

( Weekly update, 8 March )

Happy International Womens Day to everyone specially women-type-people
(though like i don't know how you get to be a international woman instead of just a local one)

The SpreadShirt people got back to me about not being able to use the word "bunny" on a t-shirt. They were nice about it and said they knew it was the name of an animal but that it's a pritected word mark for apparel (i think they don't have a spellchecker) with a link to it on the german copyright-type-thing registering place (the company i based in Germany). It's been registered by those annoying PlayBoy people which doesn't seem fair but i like wouldn't want SpreadShirt to get in trouble (they were cool and got back in touch with me quickly and explained n everything). They did like also say that sometimes a company will give you like dispensation to use a word but i don't know how to get in touch with the yucky PlayBoy people and i don't like expect even if i did it would be sorted in time to get a t-shirt done for God Is. And i don't know if the law is different in the UK or how to find out about that.

So i'm like stuck now.

Who's got stuff for the update?

Note to self, you wanted to mention:

* This week's invite code grant, along with mentioning that people who want bulk codes for RP or whatever should contact us
* Web 2.0 Expo

And oh God there were so many other things I made a mental note to mention at some point during the week. If you were one of those people to whom I said "remind me about this for the update", uh, remind me about this for the update?

i've been like trying to make my t-shirt for God Is but there make a t-shirt with your own words on thing claims that he word Bunny is copyright and won't let me use it. Which is just stupid! I'm all annoyed

oilrig is here. We went to like a drawing drop-in workshop kind of thing in Fabrica in Brighton this afternoon. And met up with plumsbitch there. There were screens all over the place up with really slow home-moves projected on them ans a dancer moving all around. And you got given big bits of paper and a bit of charcoal on the end of a big stick and you put the paper on the floor anywhere you liked and drew whatever you liked. Lots of people used the films as inspiration or the people in the space and the Dancer but we got really into the building. One time i lay on the floor and looked up at the ceiling and tried to draw it on bit of paper lying next to me - it looked kind of like a pagoda or writing in code in the end. It was like a very cool event.
We should do more drawing

12) Sherry Thomas, Delicious (New York: Bantam, 2008, ISBN 9780739498200). I don't normally read romances, but this one caught my eye when it was recommended in 50bookspoc.( Read more... )

11) Warren St. John, Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (New York: Spiegel & Glau, 2009, ISBN 9780385522039). The story of a football (soccer) team for refugee children set up in a small town in Georgia. ( Read more... )

10) Tess Ward, The Celtic Wheel of the Year: Celtic and Christian Seasonal Prayers (Winchester: O Books, 2007, ISBN 9781905047956). Morning and evening prayers for each day of the week and each month of the year, attempting to combine the Church year and folk customs linked to the changing seasons into a single cycle of prayer. ( Read more... )

9) Elizabeth Rees, Celtic Saints in Their Landscape (Stroud: Sutton, 2001, ISBN 0750926864). Short biographies of various Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, Northumbrian and Manx saints with a description of the sites associated with them. ( Read more... )

8) Lucy Winkett, Our Sound is Our Wound: Contemplative Listening to a Noisy World (London: Continuum, 2010, ISBN 97808264). Lucy Winkett was one of the first women to be ordained to the Church of England priesthood and the first to be a Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral. She was a professional musician before ordination, and as an enthusiastic amateur singer with definite contemplative tendencies, I was rather excited to see that the Archbishop of Canterbury had chosen it as his Lent Book for 2010. I read these each year as part of my Lenten discipline, and some years it can be a bit of a slog. This one certainly wasn't a slog, but it was a bit rambly, and I find I can't really summarise its argument or identify a central focus, beyond the concept of sound itself. I certainly don't feel any clearer about how to use sound in contemplation. There are a few passages I really liked, though, especially this one in a chapter entitled "The Sound of Resurrection", which alone made the book worthwhile for me: ( Read more... )

7) Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (New York: Penguin, 1977, ISBN 0140086838). A Native American war veteran tries to come to terms with the feelings of alienation caused by his experiences and the conflicting demands of multiple cultures. ( Read more... )

Who sent a ThinkGeek package to DW headquarters? BECAUSE I AM DYING OVER HERE.

Whoever it was, you made my week. ♥

Conferences I/we will be speaking at in the next few months:

LibrePlanet 2010: March 19th-21st, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Panel on Recruiting/retaining women in free software projects. Chris Ball, Hanna Wallach, Erinn Clark and Denise Paolucci.

Web 2.0 Expo SF: May 3-6, San Francisco, CA. Build Your Own Contributors (One Part at a Time). Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith.

NCWIT Summit: May 18-20, Portland, OR. Women in Open Source. Angela Byron, Denise Paolucci, Kirrily Robert.

We have also pitched several talks to this year's OSCON, but speaker sessions haven't been chosen for that yet. If you'd be interested in having us come and speak at your event, you can contact me and Mark at mark@dreamwidth.org and denise@dreamwidth.org!