Month: December 2024

administrivia

Gauging Interest

So there’s been talk about fandom being too decentralized as of late, and I’ve had an idea that’s been rambling around my head for a while now.  While it sounds good to me, I want to gauge interest before undertaking our Next Big Thing. Most people are at least a bit knowledgeable about Reddit – […]

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administrivia downtimes

Brief Overnight (US) Outage

So one final holiday “gift” that we got was an overnight power outage (and in this case, gift is the German translation which means poison – thank you Grimm for teaching me that!).  Power was out from about 2am until just before 6am, and there were a couple of burps that had to be resolved […]

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fundraising

It’s Giving Tuesday!

Like just about every other non-profit out there – and quite a few for-profit corporations that are trying to hijack Giving Tuesday into a capitlistic way of selling more junk – we’re here to tell you that it’s Giving Tuesday. Today is supposed to be about supporting non-profits that make a difference in your life. […]

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