Let's here it for my super-dooper BF and his hugely talented friends who are slowly repairing the damage that was done after one of the boxes that powers Slackers.net went boom. I've been without personal email since Saturday, and also unable to post here since then. Mail is still not back, but hopefully will be soon. If you need an answer from me, please use my work account.
There's lots for me to catch up on. I'm not quite sure where to begin.
First, I'll be spending tomorrow at the BlogHer Conference in Santa Clara. This started out as a little get together and has become huge. They have sold out and have a long wait list. Folks are coming from all over the world. It should be interesting. I've never been to a blog conference before, and I have a big feeling that I don't know what I'm getting myself into. Mostly I'm going to put faces with the names I know, and I also know a bunch of the folks who are making the whole thing happen/presenting.
Plus I'm hoping to meet her. But it appears that everyone wants to meet her, so I'm not sure I'll be able to manage. I also don't know what I would say other than the trite "ohmygodit'ssuchapleasuretomeetyouIloveyoursite" blather.
I finished reading The Blind Assassin and ohmygod it was so good. I don't care what Air Farce says (see # 2-03, Friday October 21, 1994), Margaret Atwood is a brilliant writer.
I've picked up a number of new books (I really need to stop doing that - I'm running out of shelf space), one of which is Voices from Chernobyl. It is... I don't even know how to describe it. It's so horrifying. Gut rentching, devistatingly horrible. I cannot imagine what it must have been like for those poor people. I mean, the whole book is interviews with them. So you get a feel for it. But... it's not the kind of thing you can ever express in words. You have to have experienced it. And God I hope no one ever has to go through that again.
My Ex and I used to have long arguments about nuclear power. He'd say that was the only way of the future, and Greenpeace should shut up, and we just need to build more reactors. He'd get so angry at the anti-nuclear movement.
I would sit there and say "what about Chernobyl?" What do you do when there is an accident? Until they figure out a way to deal with that waste, and to deal with the radiation, it's not an acceptable alternative. He'd say Chernobyl was a fluke. Nothing like that would happen again. It wouldn't happen here.
But, it doesn't have to happen here. And it only takes once to wipe so much out. Not for a month, not for a week. It's forever (or as good as). He needs to read this book. Everyone who supports nuclear power needs to read this book. Only once we have made sure (absolutely sure) that something like that can never, EVER happen again.
