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• Westword Twit of the Week - Good Lord

• In a delightful turn of events, Westword selected me as its Twit of the Week. Basically a featured Twitter user from the Boulder/Denver nexus. I did an interview with them via Twitter, which was then posted to the site. Here's a sample: Go read the whole thing. It's pure nonsense, but you'll surely love every bit of it. [...]

• World of Warcraft is Alive in Colorado (I Suppose)

• (If you don’t play WoW, you can skip right over this post, haha.)Warlock FunI have spent the last month focused on my long-abandoned 80 Undead lock. He’s my first and only 80, yet I cast him aside in early 2009 to level some alts and recede from the game a bit as I became more involved in local community antics. In my absence, my sister (rogue) and brother-in-law (DK, mage) got their toons to 80 and well geared, doing all the cool stuff that you can do at that level.So they were [...]

• Ignite Boulder 7: Ponderings

• Ignite Boulder 7 was our most successful and feverish outing yet. If you aren’t aware, I’m one of a small group of organizers of the event. We work absurdly hard to keep the whole thing in one piece so that everyone can have a nice night of listening, learning and laughing. Here are a few thoughts. If you were there, I hope you had fun. If you were not there and live nearby, please explain why you would hurt me so in the comments. Artful heckling is rad; Clumsy heckling is badNot [...]

• New York City in 140 Characters

• I returned from my first trip to NYC last week and have been sluggish about documenting it. Even while I was there, I was pretty bad at capturing the occasion. With the exception of a handful of ponderous tweets and a few iPhone pics of my hotel room, I was too busy with work to narrate my time there. So I summed it up in 140 characters instead: New York City’s variety is only exceeded by its capacity for people, hubbub and opportunity. Hailing cabs was difficult for me. [...]

• Meeting Grammar Girl in Boulder

• Last night, I attended a reading at the Boulder Book Store that I heard about on Twitter via their well-run @BoulderBooks account. Mignon Fogarty, the creator and host of the Grammar Girl podcast, was promoting her second book, "The Grammar Devotional," with a book tour. Given my huge crush on both Fogarty and grammar, I was powerless to resist her visit to Boulder. She talked about all the usual stuff - how she got started, writing and grammar, her future projects - but she truly came alive [...]

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