Also, just to remind myself to get tickets, Bruce Sterling is speaking at UW on May 21th (Thursday, 7:00 p.m.). Y'know, the last time this happened, Neal Stephenson & Alton Brown were speaking on the same night, same time. I went and saw Neal with a whole roomful of nerds (the story's somewhere in the archives, but I don't recall it being all that scintillating) & it was fun, but I'm half convinced that if I'd gone to see Alton in a tiny room full of quirky cooks, I could possibly have convinced the man to go for a beer afterwards.

Probably just wishful thinking, really.

Ah, me.