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Apr 3

I'm Not Really Here: I told you to Watch This Space:

wolvensnothere:

But let me make it super clear: Atlantans, Decaturites, and Everyone else in the Metro-Atlanta Area, it is my profound pleasure to announce to you that Eagle Eye Books & NeedCoffeeDotCom Present Mr Neil Gaiman

WHAT:
The Last US Book-Signing Tour: Gaiman on My Mind

WHEN:
June 22, 2013
Saturday, 7:00pm

WHERE:
Agnes Scott College Presser Hall
141 East College Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030
DIRECTIONS

Twitters: @eagleeyebooks ; @NeedCoffeeFeed
Facebooks: http://www.facebook.com/eagleeyebooks
https://www.facebook.com/NeedCoffeeDotCom
Websites: http://www.eagleeyebooks.com/
http://www.needcoffee.com/

Tell Your Friends.

Oooooh! Atlantans, you know where you need to be on June 22, 2013.

Edited to Add Times & Descriptions

Apr 2

I told you to Watch This Space:

But let me make it super clear: Atlantans, Decaturites, and Everyone else in the Metro-Atlanta Area, it is my profound pleasure to announce to you that Eagle Eye Books & NeedCoffeeDotCom Present Mr Neil Gaiman

Presented by Eagle Eye Book Shop a nd Need Coffee Dot Com

WHERE:
Agnes Scott College Presser Hall
141 East College Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030
DIRECTIONS

Twitter: @eagleeyebooks ; @NeedCoffeeFeed
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eagleeyebooks
https://www.facebook.com/NeedCoffeeDotCom
Website: http://www.eagleeyebooks.com/
http://www.needcoffee.com/

Tell Your Friends.

Mar 19

VRIC Fundraiser: Two Days To Go

Howdy there, everybody.

We leave for France, tomorrow.

The fundraiser is going on until Thursday, so if you’d like to help with this, please do: https://www.wepay.com/donations/vric-travel-expenses-fund

Thanks.

Mar 17

VRIC Travel: John Crichton Is My Spirit Animal Edition

Plane tickets to France, On Wednesday night. That’s three fucking days.

(Don’t freak out.)

Arrive in Paris CDG Thursday at 1845 (6:45pm Paris time) and check in to the Hotel, find and eat food, and go almost Immediately to bed.

Why so, you ask? So that we can wake up on Friday at 0600 to leave at 0630, to make it to Gare Montparnasse to catch the train to Laval, and get to the conference site in time for my symposium. Train leaves at 0808 and arrives at 0947.

Friday’s events start at 0900, my symposium at 1100, and my presentation is at 1130.

After that? We have three nights and two days in Paris, some of which we can hopefully spend visiting with Rebekah.

If you’re looking for a taste of the kind of thing I’ll be talking about, while I’m in France, do remember that The Audio of my MomoCon panel from one week ago, Today, is live online: http://soundcloud.com/damien-williams7/gits-momocon-panel

As is my Guest-Post At Grinding.be.

As a reminder, the WePay Fundraiser is still in effect and taking donations until Thursday, and thus there are still many items to be claimed at Yellowprime’s Sweatshop and Salvage.

Also, there are still many many items for sale at UnknownBinaries’ Etsy, but obviously the shipment of your order will be delayed until our return, so you may just want to wait, on that,

All of these thing will help put money toward the debt I owe toward the plane tickets, so if you yourself have not purchased an Art or donated money and then claimed merch, please consider doing so. If you HAVE done either or both of those things, thank you very much. Please tell your friends. If you’ve done all of those things, more than once? You’re a saint and I love you.

None of these things would be happening without you people, or, if it was, i would be WAY more stressed out than I am right now.

So thank you thank you thank you.

Mar 16

Reminders: What We’ve Done This Week

Here’s an all in one reminder for your faces:

The audio of my MomoCon Ghost In The Shell panel is now live and available to share: http://soundcloud.com/damien-williams7/gits-momocon-panel

My Guest Post at Grinding is also now live and open for comments: http://grinding.be/2013/03/14/guest-post-damien-williams-on-the-confrontation-of-ontological-terror-squad/

And finally, though we’ve sorted the actual plane tickets, @unknownbinaries & I could also still use help with hotel and train and food costs, in the form of donations/purchases: https://www.wepay.com/donations/vric-travel-expenses-fund

Anything you can do in spreading the good word about these things would be greatly appreciated, so please tell your friends.

Thanks. :)

Mar 14

“

That Luddites exist isn’t earth-shattering news, by any stretch, but the real issue has never been that people “hate” new technology, for what it does to “humanity.” The problem with Luddism and Neo-Luddism is that it represents a perspective which takes the ever-widening aspects of our emerging future and reacts to them with blanket fear and distrust, rather than a wary hope.

Blind hope is a naive proposition. It is one in which we sit in optimism, absent any evidence that it might actually pay off in that direction. It is one which ignores the very real dangers and pitfalls of new situations, and the opportunities for unintended consequences to rear their heads. However, the fallacious notion of the “slippery slope” of technological progress– that it’ll cause us to descend into a dystopian future where everything we are and do is controlled by corporations, or disassembled into grey goo–is one based in blind fear. These have the same basic components, they’re just pointed in different directions. Blind fear takes something new, something unknown, and says that unknowns are terrifying and should be destroyed before they can destroy us. Blind fear says that there is nothing good which can come from the new. And while the groups in question may not see themselves as reactionary, on an even reading it’s hard to see them as anything but.

What is the nature of technology that we drive toward? Why do we drive toward it, at all? How do we apply that motivation, and what do we value in the mechanisms and effects of our creation? These are the questions that we can ask, if we don’t want to be blindly optimistic or pessimistic about our future. We can ask these questions and then seek to address them, recognising that whatever answers we find may not be–and most likely will not be–permanent solutions to our problems. There are groups working now, in academia, public policy, and practical solution-building to help people think of different things than the utopian promise and the dystopian terror of our current work at building a future for ourselves.

” Just a sample from @wolven’s guest post: grinding.be » Blog Archive » Guest Post: Damien Williams on The Confrontation-of-Ontological-Terror Squad (via grinderbot)

That’d be me.

(via grinderbot)

VRIC Fundraising Update: We’re going to France. BUT!

Thanks to two extremely generous loans, UnknownBinaries and I are going to France, one week from today.

Now, there’s still the matter of hotel rooms, transportation, food, and the paying back of said loans to consider, but the Getting There? That is Now Handled.

All of that being said: There are still many items to be claimed at Yellowprime’s Sweatshop and Salvage, and there are still many items for sale at UnknownBinaries’ Etsy, all of which will help put money toward the aforementioned remaining concerns.

So if you yourself have not purchased an Art or donated-and-claimed, please consider doing so. If you HAVE done either or both of those things, thank you very much. Please tell your friends. If you’ve done all of those things, more than once? You’re a fucking crazy person, a saint, and I love you.

Once again, we’ve still got some ways to go toward solving some logistical puzzles, but as of tonight, We Are Going To France.

So thank you, each and every one of you.

Now let’s get the rest of this done.

VRIC Fundraising Update: We’re going to France

Thanks to two extremely generous loans, UnknownBinaries and I are going to France, one week from today.

Now, there’s still the matter of hotel rooms, transportation, food, and the paying back of said loans to consider, but the Getting There? That is Now Handled.

All of that being said: There are still many items to be claimed at Yellowprime’s Sweatshop and Salvage, and there are still many items for sale at UnknownBinaries’ Etsy, all of which will help put money toward the aforementioned remaining concerns.

So if you yourself have not purchased an Art or donated-and-claimed, please consider doing so. If you HAVE done either or both of those things, thank you very much. Please tell your friends. If you’ve done all of those things, more than once? You’re a fucking crazy person, a saint, and I love you.

Once again, we’ve still got some ways to go toward solving some logistical puzzles, but as of tonight, We Are Going To France.

So thank you, each and every one of you.

Now let’s get the rest of this done.

Mar 13

VRIC Fundraising. One Week To Go

So TODAY is seven days out from when my flight would need to be. That’s a week, y’all.

I am asking you: Please, anything at all you can do to help make this happen, I will greatly appreciate it. The main donation page is here: https://www.wepay.com/donations/vric-travel-expenses-fund

Despite what the bar says, the current tally is really only about $700.

Just for donating, you get your choice of anything, here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.260221157445470.67967.187874148013505&type=1

And if donating isn’t your thing, but you still want stuff, you can always buy something from UnknownBinares, here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ravensmarket

And if none of those works for you, I’ll write a guest post on your blog, record a podcast, or give you media-, marketing-, connectivity-, or systems-theory-based consulting services. Just let me know.

I know we don’t all have disposable income, at the moment. That’s kind of why we’re having this conversation in the first place. So if you yourself cannot donate, then all I really ask is that you tell your friends.

Please. Everything helps.

Thank you.

Mar 12

VRIC Fundraising. Slightly More Than One Week To Go

Rasputina - [Trust All-Stars]—- So tomorrow is seven days out from when my flight would need to be. That’s a week, y’all.

I am asking you: Please, anything at all you can do to help make this happen, I will greatly appreciate it. The main donation page is here: https://www.wepay.com/donations/vric-travel-expenses-fund

Despite what the bar says, the current tally is really only about $700.

Just for donating, you get your choice of anything, here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.260221157445470.67967.187874148013505&type=1

And if donating isn’t your thing, but you still want stuff, you can always buy something from UnknownBinares, here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ravensmarket

Prick - [Crack]—- And if none of those works for you, I’ll write a guest post on your blog, record a podcast, or give you media-, marketing-, connectivity-, or systems-theory-based consulting services. Just let me know.

Does all of this sound a little desperate? Well, that’s an interesting coincidence.

I know we don’t all have disposable income, at the moment. That’s kind of why we’re having this conversation in the first place. So if you yourself cannot donate, then all I really ask is that you tell your friends.

Please. Everything helps.

Thank you.

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