Brian Jepson’s Weblog

LaughingMeme:
“Ocean Roasters in Providence, RI makes a mocha with unsweetened
Barvarian chocolate milk that is an experience.” mmmm… Bavarian
chocolate experience… I’ll have to give that a try sometime.

Emory clues us in to providence.craigslist.org.

CREEM
Online: “It wasn’t rock ‘n’ roll for sissies then, and you can bet
your ass it won’t be now.” (via SE–not
necessarily safe for work)

Sweet. Looks like there’s some good Lester Bangs stuff in the archive,
and a mess of stuff I could spend days exploring. Now, are they gonna
get the Mad Peck to draw comix for
them again? Don’t make me come over there…

saltdog:
“Nothing makes you feel lonelier than waking up to an empty fifth and a
robot.”

Sam’s
giving a CLR talk at the NH .NET User’s Group and is
promising plenty of Rotor and no VS.NET. Raw, naked, CLR.

Doc Searls:
“…Naturally, the big broadcasters opposed it, saying it would cause
more interference. They appealed to Congress, which severely restricted
deployment of LPFM until an interference study could be done. Now that
study has been submitted…”

Rory and I have
been planning a nerd/geek dinner for this coming Friday (March 12) at
6:30pm. We’ve settled on the Providence Place Mall food court, and you’re all
invited. Apologies for the short notice, and we promise advance warning
next time!

Update: A couple people have asked me why we’d choose the
Providence Place Mall food court. I’ve been to one of the Scoble-organized geek dinners at a food court, and it works
great for a number of reasons:

• No need for head count (scales really well)
• People can come whenever they want
• People can leave whenever they want (no waiting around for the check)
• Not a problem for out-of-work geeks
• People don’t feel that they have to eat; they can just get a coffee
• The center of attention is people, not food.

Rasmus
Lerdorf: “The little Linksys WRT54G box is a terrific generic Linux
platform to run just about any networking code on…”

Joshua
Marketos: “they could still put an eye out.”

AS220:
“AS220 is proud to announce the tenth anniversary of the Fools Ball, our
annual signature gala event, bringing five days of revelry to the Downtown
Arts and Entertainment District, from May 18th though 22nd.
Ticket prices this year are $125 for the Sponsors Reception, which begins
at 6 PM and includes dinner and a special souvenir created by RISD artists,
and $25 for the House Party, which begins at 9 PM.

…

We invite you to a premier house party, an expanded celebration jam-packed
with performances, carnival games, dancing, and sumptuous food and drink.
This year, our theme is the Harlem Renaissance, with a festival inspired by
great American artists such as Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Josephine
Baker, Paul Robeson, and James Van Der Zee, among others.”

This is a great party–quite possibly the greatest party of the year. If
you’re going to be within range of Providence the night of the House Party,
you should not be anywhere else. And if you’re not within range of
Providence, I promise it will be worth your time to visit out here.