Announcements

I have been delaying this for various reasons, but I really can’t any longer. It’s time for me to get on with life.

For the benefit of my Wisconsin readers: Wendy McElroy will be speaking in Madison on Monday, 2/25. The basics of it:

To learn more about being a responsible voter or nonvoter, you can attend a forum on voting featuring Ms. McElroy and Professor Brighouse Monday, February 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, Room 5229. The event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy.

I don’t think I’ve heard her give a formal talk, but I have met Wendy in person, and read a few of her books, and found her to be a lively, clever, and engaging thinker. Given her writings on the subject of non-voting, this should be an interesting evening!

It’s officially available! B.W. mentioned it as part of his January 16th celebration, saying he thought it’d be available by February first. But I’ve gotten word that The Imaginary Bomb is on sale now, as a downloadable file or paper format. Congratulations, B.W.!

Or maybe more than one victory: that’s up to you esteemed readers.

Hurrah! After a very long time—very little of which had to do with my honed procrastination skills, for once—I am very happy to say that the domain “LRT.ORG” is ours once again, and resolves to the Liberty Round Table web site. So, all your LRT-shirts and Deadly Assault Pens are good again as advertising!

Lest I start getting backslaps, I had very little to do with this ... another KNA was watching the name, and when it came up on auction, let us know that it was for sale. In true lupine form, Lobo pounced, and scored. He has also hired someone to update the site, and add back a lot of content that has been missing far too long. Which reminds me of yet another thing I’ve been procrastinating ...

Does this mean there’ll be a resurgence of interest in the group, and its activities? I would be surprised if that happened; while there is still occasional chatter on the discussion list, most individuals there are doing their own things for freedom, and not often talking about them. I can understand that, and respect it. But some small part of me would also like to be wrong ...

If you’ve been missing my caramels and honey-roasted almonds, wait no longer! Clicking on the pretty green snake will transport you to my current offerings ... I will add more items once I am more caught up on other work. Special orders are always welcome, however; please email me to discuss your needs and ideas.

Thanks very much for your interest in my homemade, HFCS-free, old-fashioned candies and other treats!

The Classically Liberal blog hinted at this a while back, and has now posted some details in Laissez-Faire Books will continue. ISIL has bought LFB. It will be interesting to see how much—or how little—the book list changes.

That title is meant to be warbled to the tune Who Knows Where the Time Goes? ... fortunately, email isn’t as flitting and fleeting as time. I am saddened to report that I am still having problems with the eddress associated with this domain.

Speaking blogistically, that is. Mr. Endervidual has started his own blog, titled Memory, Making, Meaning. Sounds intriguing with or without the commas ...

Well, our stove doesn’t have a pilot light, but I trust you get my point. It’s almost time to start caramelling and chocolatiering again, and I invite your ideas on what flavors I should consider.

You are a pirate

and talk like a pirate day comes tomorrow.

Still a small bit of time away, until then you might check out my latest movie review at Endervidualism, which also gets linked from my latest Ender's Review.

Well, that was pretty painless—from this side of the move, anyway. All the heavy lifting was done by the all-powerful techdeity; and many thanks to him for a job very well done.

Now, off I go to reconfigure my email client for the new server ... and may I suggest that y’all go off to browse the July/August issue of Sunni’s Salon? I know it was long in coming, but I hope you’ll find it worth the wait!

... We’re in the process of moving this domain to another server, and I’d hate to lose any contributions to the conversation here. Either I or our allmighty Godemperor will post a notice when it’s safe to start chattering again.

Oh, and using my Gmail eddress [sunni.snake] during the switchover is probably a good idea too.

The first I am surprised I didn’t create from the outset, when we began our arduous migration to Drupal [the buffalo got nothing on the difficulties we faced!]: tips and tricks. Any kind of helpful hint, product or software recommendation, etc., that we post should go in this category; and I expect that an accompanying category tag will help further classify them (e.g., pood, Pengy Power), although I am not going to be the tagging police and insist upon it.

The second is a bit of inspiration that came to me yesterday, to help me be more consistent about sharing fun things I discover as I cook. “Cooking the alphabet” is intended to be a semi-regular feature, focusing upon some food or spice—one for each letter of the alphabet. Some will be commonplace, while others will be unusual. I’ll try to include at least one recipe with each letter, but won’t guarantee it. And I will probably break my loose rule of focusing on ingredients rather than final dishes at some point, but I doubt anyone here will care all that much about that. I have the first entry in mind already, but need to get this issue of Sunni’s Salon finished before I can indulge myself.

If any Conspirators want to do their own cook the alphabet series as well, I think that would be marvelous. Or you dear readers can run with the idea yourselves, too. It ain’t as though I’m going to copyright the idea.

Update: How could I have forgotten to mention “Wisdom and Inspiration”? Well, I did; sorry. As the name suggests, that category is intended to mostly be a repository of quotes and other bits of wisdom or insight. Certainly not only from “famous” people, either!

I discovered yesterday that I didn’t receive two emails that had been sent me last week. How many others have gone missing? I can’t say ... but my suspicion is that others have. I’ve told my domain host about the problem, of course, but while he’s out in the tall grass, please cc all correspondence to me at this eddress as well: sunni.snake at gmail dot com. Thanks.

And if you have sent me email and have not gotten a reply, this might explain it—although I am pretty backlogged on personal correspondence, too. If you want to be certain, please resend it, with the cc; I will do my best to acknowledge receipt ASAP but I am swamped with adventure preps and a deadline at present.

Thanks again for your patience.