Wednesday, Pre-Necronomicon Miscellany!

Happy hump day everyone! Liv and I are flying to Providence, and I'm using the plane's wifi since I can't sleep. Meanwhile, here's some miscellany for you:

• In case you wonder what Liv is up to.


• John Kasich and the promise of Empire for cheap.


• The Ashley Madison Hack data have been leaked, in CSV and MySQL export formats. Check out a sample set here. You can also search the data for email addresses here. The Hill reports that 15,000 of those emails belong to government accounts. In other news, 15,000 government jobs just opened up!


• We appear to have reached Peak Trump. Meanwhle Sanders is gaining on Clinton.


• Today the government released their account of how Jared Fogle is alleged to like his sex partners the same way he likes his sandwiches (6 and 12).

Necronomicon Providence 2015, Day Zero

Liv and I flew in to Providence today. The festivities don't start until tomorrow, and many of our friends (I'm looking at you Nikki) elected to take an ultra-red-eye trip and get here the next morning sleep deprived as shit and incoherent and unable to check into their hotels until late afternoon raring and ready to go. We're older and lamer so we chose to come in today and try to get a good night's sleep before vendor set-up starts at 8AM.

Rhode Island! I think.

Providence is hot and humid this time of year, as opposed to being hot and dry back in Oregon. To combat this, the hotel has the air conditioning cranked pretty high. The hallways are almost as humid as the outdoors, but the rooms themselves are practically freezing. Not that I'm complaining. Freezing rooms are awesome in summer!

So far we've run into a smattering of convention goers, and one Silvia Moreno-Garcia at the airport, who was kind enough to say hello. I also know that Brian and Gwen of Sigh Co Graphics have reported in, in accordance with prophecy.

Those of you who expect me to talk about politics all the time won't be too disappointed. We did run into one gent who was rather unhappy with Governor Lincoln Chafee and Democrats in general. It made me think of a joke:

Q: Is Lincoln Chaffee a Republican or a Democrat?
A: Maybe.

One of the convention-goers also mentioned that Donald Trump would, if elected President, let Carl Icahn negotiate with China. I'm not sure if this idea is brilliant or homicidal.