I keep answering the same questions, so it's time to write a FAQ (hehe.) You can't really use this to rob my house or hack my server, because both locations will still be monitored by other people.

2 June	Koinonea presents 2012 in San Francisco
3 June	get on a plane in the afternoon, stay on it for a long time
4-9 June	Dublin, Ireland for MAAWG
9-16 June	London, United Kingdom: working from Yahoo!'s London office, plus some sightseeing & fun
16-30 June	St. Petersburg, Russia for the first session of the Summer Literary Seminar
2 July	home again

Yes, the literary seminar is in English. It's run by folks who spend most of the year in Brooklyn.

You didn't know that I want to write because I didn't talk much about it. Well, except here on my blog. So if you're reading this, maybe you already knew. Anyway, the desire to write has only recently moved into the active file.

Yes, it'll be a big fun crazy trip.

I'll write more (and take lots of pictures) as the trip progresses.

My conversation with iGod (mildly reformatted for readability):

Me: hey
God: Can I help you?
Me: I thought I had to help myself first?
God: Why?
Me: dunno, just something I heard someplace
God: Would you like to know? What?
Me: sure, I'd like to know
God: I understand. Where would you look for the answer?
Me: inside
God: When do you think artificial intelligence will replace lawyers?
Me: maybe it already has
God: Perhaps. That would be nice, but I don't think we're there yet.
Me: when do you think artificial intelligence will replace god?
God: In your lifetime.
Me: oh good
God: I see. Alright then.
Me: um...thanks!
God: " Alright then."? um.? Don't mention it.

Overall, I'd have to say that the usenet oracle was more thought-provoking.

I stood by the ocean the day I heard
feeling the weight of the wind under deep dark clouds,
taking photographs that now you'll never see--
and I remember when you were here, and we pondered
thinking of the forests we grew up around
and the other shore, closer to there but rarely visited--
we wondered, that afternoon
whether this coast was merely another continent,
or a whole different planet.