So it seems good ol’ Emporia is having a bit of an employment crisis (link to the main story, here). The small town of roughly 26,000 is having one of their largest employers downsize from 2,400 to 900 (Tyson Foods, a major beef processing plant). They’re moving their slaughter operations to areas closer to the [...]

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The Symposium is heading to the Central Valley
 

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Back in October at the 15th annual Folsom Faire, the group that’s produced it all this time (St. Matthews Guild) announced that it had decided that 15 years was enough and that they would be retiring after last year’s event. They’ll still be performing at Faires as a guild, but no longer producing an event. [...]

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Anyone who ever got into producing Renaissance Faires to make a pile of cash really need to have their heads examined. Now granted you can make some money, but all it takes is a rain out, snow out, last minute permit issues, or any number of occurances that impact attendence and you can go from [...]

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By now if you’re reading this post, you’ve already heard about the stunt that the tech gizmo blogging site, Gizmodo, pulled at CES this week. A doodad called TV-B-Gone had fallen into the dolt’s hands, and they had the bright idea to wander around turning off every TV in sight. Now at CES, that’s about [...]

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