Monday May 19th (every 3rd Monday)
6-8pm at the coffeehouse
8-10pm dinner at a nearby restaurant
possible clubbing afterwards

Muddy Waters Coffeehouse
521 Valencia St, between 16th and 17th
San Francisco

Jen, Pepper, and whomever they can pull in will be chatting, socializing, and generally getting up to wacky hijinks at the Muddy Waters coffeehouse next Monday. This is not a discussion or activism group, but rather just a regular social gathering - we will repeat this event the 3rd Monday of every month. We welcome poly and nonmonogamous people (new, curious, or experienced) under 40 years of age. Feel free to arrive late or just stop by briefly.

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To see if this email posting thingy works...

Hi Everyone!!

I'm planning my first visit to Manhattan over Memorial Day Weekend and need recommendations for a good local gay dance club.... but I'm looking for something a bit specific.

I would like the average age range to be between 25-35, I LOATHE house music so top 40 is preferable (seriously, I want to sing along ;o) and I'm not really wanting to see dozens of shirtless guys on the dance floor..... oh and I would like there to NOT be people snorting coke off the urinals.

so to sum it up....
-top 40 music
-not a huge drug scene
-everyone is clothed
-mostly people around my age (29)

is there anything like this in Manhattan... I figure there must be!?!?

Hey everyone,

I actually found this community shortly after creating the gayplusplus community. It's a place for GLBT programmers to talk about technical jargon and lines of code. I'm liking the look of this community, but it seems more end-user oriented than coder-centric.

Anyway, I'd be honored if some people would come join Gay++ as well...

Uh...<3 to everybody?

Fuck!

All of my laundry has gone missing from the laundry room.

All of it.

All of my work clothes, all my jeans, all the clothes that I wear all the time.

FUCK!

This month has been intensely tight (post tax day drop off), but this puts me way way way over the edge. I don't know what to wear to my client today. I have 1 towel.

Fuck.

Call For Submissions: “Unified Field Query”
Deadline: June 8, 2008
Show Dates: June 25 - July 6, 2008

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Good morning all.

I've been running my XPS desktop on a wireless USB key for a short time, I keep having problems with lag.

When the wireless connects it tells me that I'm running at 54Mbps but as soon as I access the internet or start running an online game it drops to 11Mbps.  I can't play any games with out serious lag.
Is this a limitation of USB2 or can I make some configuration changes?  I'll get a wireless NIC if I have to but I'm trying to avoid it.

Thanks in advance.
Greg 

 Julia Steinecke

Julia Steinecke is the author of Pink Planet, a monthly travel column in the Toronto Star (www.thestar.com/opinion/columnists/94592) which covers places as diverse as Slovenia, San Francisco and Mexico City. She is the new editor of Verge Magazine (www.vergemagazine.org). She is also half of the Zwei Teriak performance poetry duo, with Terence Go. Visit her at www.JuliaSt.net

Greg Kozdrowski

Greg Kozdrowski is the Managing Director of Toronto-based Rainbow High Vacations and the gay and lesbian travel site Conxity.com. Conxity is the first to let consumers book “mainstream” and queer travel options on a single site. Rainbow High Vacations/Conxity is located in Toronto’s old traditional gay neighbourhood at 506 Church Street. The company is owned and operated by gay men and lesbians who are experts in both gay travel options as well as the issues that gays and lesbians encounter as they travel around the world. www.conxity.com/index.php | www.rainbowhighvacations.com

 
Bump TV - Eric Blais and Polly Washburn

Bump TV (www.bumptv.com). Bump! is the world’s first gay and lesbian travel and lifestyle television series. It is unique and international in scope. In each episode Bump! presents a new gay-friendly destination in a stylish and upbeat format.

Eric Blais, Director Digital Media at Peace Point Entertainment Group Inc. and Polly Washburn a Toronto screenwriter, screenwatcher, and film-and-television-maker and Associate Producer (odyssia.blogspot.com) will show collage of DVD clips not more then 10 to 15 min.

Wild Women Expeditions

Wild Women Expeditions - Speaker TBA www.wildwomenexp.com

Panelist will speak for 5-10 minutes each, followed by questions from the audience.

THE DETAILS: Gladstone Hotel Art Bar - 1214 Queen St W at Dufferin -- FREE, fresh finger food served and soft drinks, cash bar. Event runs from 7 PM to 9 PM. Street Map Please RSVP- ASAP seating limited to 30 - Bryen javaknights@hotmail.com or Call 416-551-1709. 

http://gaywest.905host.net/files/javaknights.php

at least for the next 5 minutes.


As seen on lipsum

(or not in the Bay Area.)

There's been a big win for same sex marriage today.

And people are celebrating. Celebrating is good. I like it.

I got this from an email list I'm on.

"I woke up this morning to find that my car was not
parked in the spot that I parked it last night. I
called the cops, and they said they hadn't towed it.

"Hmm...the only logical conclusion was that someone
took it illegally.

"I think this is all just a conspiracy to keep me from
contributing to global warming. I'll just have to
thwart their efforts by breathing more.

"I plan on being late to everything, from now on.




Having a plan is good.

ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA.....


The rod of Asclepius (also known as the rod of Asklepios, rod of Aesculapius or asklepian is an ancient Greek symbol associated with astrology and with healing the sick through medicine. It consists of a serpent entwined around a staff. Asclepius, the son of Apollo, was a practitioner of medicine in ancient Greek mythology.


The rod of Asclepius symbolizes the healing arts by combining the serpent, which in shedding its skin is a symbol of rebirth and fertility, with the staff, a symbol of authority befitting the god of Medicine. The snake wrapped around the staff is widely claimed to be a species of rat snake, Elaphe longissima, also known as the Aesculapian or Asclepian snake. It is native to southeastern Europe, Asia Minor, and some central European spa regions, apparently brought there by Romans for their healing properties.
Origin

There are several different theories as to the origin and development of the rod of Asclepius, any or all of which may have contributed to its development. The symbol is named for an ancient Greek legend, although the legend could be older.

Greek mythology:

According to Greek mythology, Asclepius was said to have learned the art of healing from Chiron. He is customarily represented as a surgeon on the ship Argo. Asclepius was so skilled in the medical arts that he was reputed to have brought patients back from the dead. For this he was punished and placed in the heavens as the constellation Ophiuchus (meaning "serpent-bearer"). This constellation lies between Sagittarius and Libra. In early Christianity, the constellation Ophiuchus was associated with Saint Paul holding the Maltese Viper.


FOR ME IT MEANS:

My continued commitment in helping others through my HIV prevention work. The drop of blood represents my contribution to the fight as a Phlebotomist.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/15/same.sex.marriage/index.html

yay

http://queersunited.blogspot.com/

Hey so my group is having a GLBTQ etc prom this Saturday it's 23 and under (if you're older talk to me and we can most likely let you in)
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Inside Out Film Festival

I love this festival.
http://www.insideout.on.ca


Let's start the discussions!

What are you looking forward to seeing? Anything you've heard a buzz about yet?

As the festival gets going, what have you seen so far?


I'm lucky to have seen the closing gala film, "XXY" already and I really liked it.
I also saw "Water Lilies" at TIFF and recommend it.

I have a film in the "Hogtown Homos" program (Tranzploitation) so of course I'm excited about that screening. It's always a really good screening too, cuz there's so many friends and family there supporting.

I think I'm most excited about "Razzle Dazzle" on Friday the 23rd. It looks like a hilarious good time.

On Sunday the 18th I'm going to "On the Downlow", "Notes form South Africa", and "Dykes in the City"
Monday the 19th, I picked "Daddy's Love" and "Hot and Bothered"

I've heard a lot of good things about "She's a Boy I Knew" playing on Saturday the 24th. And later in the day it's the Queer Youth Digital Video Project which is always good.


Just for fun and to get people involved I have a ticket for "Hogtown Homos" that I'll give for free to the first person who responds with the answer to:
What anniversary is the Queer Youth Digital Video Project Celebrating this year?

Okay, first the laptop. I have a three year old Compaq Presario R3370US. Best laptop I have ever used. Only recently has the internal DVD drive failed due to sheer use. I'm thinking of most likely buying a LG dvd-burner which can be run completely off USB. Of course, I'm wondering whether I should just buy a new laptop. One with a better discrete video chip/memory (64mb nVidia just isn't cutting it all that much anymore). I mean, I know that at some point the LCD screen is going to go (not there just yet), as will the hard drive. But I don't know when that will be, and whether I should pour money into replacing parts (like the DVD drive) as they fail. Thoughts?

Also, my bf and I are looking at possibly going to CES 2009. I have a cousin who works in IT and may have connections to get tickets for us (the bf and I barely work tangentially in consumer electronics). Apart from concerns about whether we'd be able to get in with tickets but no real consumer electronics connections other than we're just geeks, is it worth it? I remember that COMDEX used to be amazing in the day, but is CES worth it for the plain geek?

last night i came out to my linux user group via IRC. :) one person knew (via my launchpad page - i'm a member of ubuntu's lgbt group), but others didn't. people were pretty cool about it, though.

i feel much better after having told them - i had been debating about how to tell them for a while. i'm going to go to the LUG meeting this saturday, and see everyone there... maybe people will talk to me about it, but i'm not sure. i just want to go there so they can see that i'm not afraid to see them after having told them.

i would have come out to them in person, but i just never seemed to find a good moment. i'd say this worked pretty well.

It's been almost a year since posted my last blog. (bad Jorge!) A lot has happened since I last posted so lets see...


1. Got health back in order..........CHECK!
2. Got my Phlebotomy License.... CHECK!
3. Returned to the workforce.......CHECK!
4. Finished my VISION QUEST..... CHECK!
5. Returning to my old self........ CHECK!?? well, still working on that one :)