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When: December 19, 2009 Time: 12-2:00pm Where: La Di Da Jazz Cafe Address: 500 Purissima St., Phone: (650) 712-8808 Here's a sample pack of MP3s of a bunch of my songs. More songs at lisarein.com. Special Thanks to my pal Chris Ritter for the awesome illustrations for this event! Directions: Half Moon Bay is 45 min south of San Francisco, an hour's drive from Berkeley, and 45 min/hour from the south bay. You can map your own directions to this address from your starting point. From San Francisco, take the 280 S to the 35 W/S to the 92 W. From Berkeley/Oakland, take the 880 S to the 92 W, cross the San Mateo Bridge, and keep going on the 92. From the south bay, take the 280 or the 101 north to the 92 W. When you get to the first stop light at Half Moon Bay, make a left (Main Street), then take the second right on Kelly. The cafe is near the corner of Kelly and Purissima St. Parking info: There is plenty of street parking. Public Transportation info: The timing looks tricky, but you can take the Caltrain to the "Hillside" station in San Mateo, and then take the SamTrans Route 294 bus to Purissima St. in downtown Half Moon Bay. |
A new website just launched for Veterans day: Eleven-Eleven.org.
Bottom line: What cha can do is text the word "vets" to "85944" - and then send the word "yes" back when you receive a confirmation text.
This will add $11 to your next phone bill. You can do it up to five times.
Note: This process took me less than 20 seconds to complete.
There are a bunch of veterans organizations behind this effort. I'm including the original email that was sent to me below.
This Veterans Day marks the beginning of The Eleven Eleven Campaign -- a nationwide campaign by BeyondTribute.org to change the way America honors its Veterans.
The objective of the campaign is simple: to get 11 million Americans to donate $11 to support America's Veterans. We've made giving back to our Vets easy through a national Text to Give Campaign (simply text "VETS" to 85944 to contribute).
Contributions are distributed to Beyond Tribute's 11 coalition partners, who specialize in providing direct services and advocacy for Veterans of all eras and conflicts, including World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and the present day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We're asking bloggers from around the web and across the political spectrum to join us in making this Veteran's Day a holiday not about sales in the stores, but about making a difference in the lives of our Veterans.
To that end, we'd like to invite you to a special campaign announcement call for bloggers this Monday, November 9th at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. Join Gold Star Mother Ruth Stonesifer, Democratic political consultant Joe Trippi and Powerline blogger John Hinderaker to learn more about the campaign and how you can help make this November 11th a day when bloggers come together to support our Vets.
Please RSVP to the conference call here:
http://action.eleven-eleven.org/t/5400/signUp.jsp?key=2817
Dial-in Number: 1-213-289-0500
Participant Access Code: 4670471
If you can't make the call, please consider adding an Eleven Eleven Campaign Widget to your blog from now through Veteran's Day. The widget allows your readers to easily participate in the campaign directly from your website. You can grab the widget here:
http://eleven-eleven.org/take-action/
The Eleven Eleven Campaign begins on Veterans Day, 2009 - but it continues every day until our goal is reached: bringing 11 million Americans together to change the way America honors its Veterans - moving beyond tribute to action and support.
We hope you'll join us and help spread the word about the effort to support America's Vets.
The Singularity Summit that happened a few weekends ago in New York City was quite the blast, and I had a great time covering it for h+ Magazine.
My brain is still recovering from the influx of strange and bizarre information -- combined with a cast of characters, some with goals straight out of a science fiction movie.
Anders Sandberg and Randal Keone discussed Whole Brain Emulation.
Itamar Arel covered Artificial General Intelligence.
Ben Goertzel covered AGI and Bioinformatics and Virtual Worlds.
Gary Marcus talked about How the Brain Thinks (whether we want it to that way or not :-)
Peter Thiel has something keeping him awake at night, and it's not what you might think: Peter Thiel's greatest fear.
Ray Kurzweil on Quantum Computing in the Brain and Consciousness.
Michael Nielsen gave us Quantum Computing 101 Course.
Anna Salamon kicked things off discussing how we might shape the intelligence explosion.
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Boots Riley Oct 17 - MOVIE Boots Riley Oct 17 - WAV Boots Riley Oct 17 - MP3
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Here's a radio edit of Boots' acapella performance, minus the speech before and an extra long pause in the middle. (So you can listen to it in your ipod without missing a beat - if you like it that way :)
Thanks for letting me know at lisa@lisarein.com if anything doesn't work. I'll fix it.
After he performed, he said this on his twitter account:
"Just finished performing@an anti-war protest in SF.Very low turn-out.With Obama in, more people r willin2ignore mass murder."
(Above) Boots Riley of the Coup, who's been on tour w/Tom Morello opening for NIN as "Street Sweeper Social Club," is here singing with Trent Reznor doing MC5's kick out the jams.
Boots in the crowd after his performance.