There is a really cool convention in Las Vegas every year hosted by James Randi, The Amaz!ng Meeting aka TAM. It is not, however, the cheapest thing in the world. Registration costs $450 and a room for three nights would be $250 (not really that bad), which brings it to $700 upfront costs. Also, two …
Monthly Archive: June 2010
Jun 10 2010
World Cup: Fun with Excel
First, here’s the link to the spreadsheet on Google Docs should you want to play. Basically what I did is make a spreadsheet predicting the winners based solely on their FIFA rank. It should be immediately noted that, in the past, FIFA rank has meant nothing. The World Cup is high stakes game playing, and …
Jun 09 2010
World Cup: Links
I’m sure you Americans (aka 90% of my readership) are like in total hate with me right now. I’m sorry, this link is for you. For you other crazy kids, I’ve got the super awesome calendar. Seriously, it’s super cool, the information is so organized and sane, yet visually pleasing. Then there’s this: Running a …
Jun 09 2010
World Cup: Ashley Recommends These Games
Let us pretend I’ve spent no time on this and am merely grabbing some things out of a random hat. The following are 6 games over the next few weeks that I think will be entertaining, in order of appearance, all times PST. 6/12 11:30 England (8) v USA (14) England is hungry for another …
Jun 07 2010
Internet help?
Using the massive power of, um, asking a question on my blog in the hopes that someone who reads it knows the answer, does anyone know if there’s a place online where I can watch the world cup games after they air? As in, I have no plans to be up at 7am to watch …
Jun 01 2010
ScriptSavvy Feedback
I sent the second to newest draft of Bible Con into ScriptSavvy for their April contest. I got my feedback back, I got 56/60 which is on the low end of what their winning scripts normally score (I didn’t win). Based on the feedback, I don’t know that I can get it much higher than …
Jun 01 2010
Anti-Vaxers
Someone on my blogroll posted something anti-vaccine, citing the rise in autism cases as just one reason that we should “stop poisoning our bodies”. As someone who wouldn’t be alive if not for the radical medical intervention of the 20th century, I’m incredibly skeptical of anyone who claims that we’re poisoning our bodies with drugs …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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