tag cloud of the Gettysburg Address from Wordle: http://www.wordle.net

wow! that was fast- it got pulled pretty quickly this morning. hurry and catch a glimpse while you still can. (alternately you can buy a numbered DVD of this video from his site here: http://www.runwrake.com/ )

I’m sorry, but I do not get warm fuzzies remembering all those times I was trapped in the pit orchestra (to keep my music scholarship!), playing for Bye Bye Birdie, Sound of Music, Music Man and one other musical that has finally escaped my memory (thank you jeh-zus!). I am also proud to say that I’ve never seen Cats, Rent, Les Miserables, Wicked, etc. Please don’t waste your time trying to convince me otherwise, many before you have tried and all have failed.

But then, one day, along comes this clever guy, with a few of his clever friends. They get together, have a few beer, a few laughs and brainstorm on an idea which soon snowballs into a real project without a budget, funded by their own pocket change and starring one of my ‘favoritest’ actors from one of my ‘favoritest’ movies and then, before I knew it, BAM!

Damn you Joss Whedon, damn you straight to hell…

Hurry, it gets pulled on July 20th and then it’s pay to download only (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing).

So I got the pleasure of spending an hour and a half totally geeking out over scifi books and shows with Ann, Michelle, and Has. It was great talking with other folks who love those things as much as I do (kinda helps me feel like I’m not totally alone in my nerdiness! haha).

I loved Grimspace so much that I tore through it, finished it the same day and then picked it back up the next morning and read it all over again (gotta love a three day weekend! haha). So it was especially interesting to hear how she envisions her characters (Claudia Black as Jax and David Boreanzas as March) and to hear about the process of fighting to get published- with the bottom line being: Never. Give. Up. :)

I cannot wait until the new projects she’s finished up come through the publisher!! So, C’MON! hurry up Penguin!! stop the torture and publish us some more Aguirre and oh yeah… bring us some chicken wings… extra spice-eh…

This evening I took a few things out to my car at the conference center hotel and as I walked back into the lobby, I looked over just in time to see a man walk in the front doors wearing a bow tie. I thought, “Man, that guy sure looks familiar.” As our paths crossed, he looked over at me, smiled and nodded ‘hello.’ That’s when it hit me! Holy crap! It was Bill Nye the science guy!! How cool is that??! :D He looked exactly like the picture above! Of course, I was too chicken to say anything but instead just smiled and nodded back like I run into famous science geeks every day. :)

Lessig is considering a run for Congress…

hot damn, that would be just way too cool.

okay… doin’ my part: