Tuesday evening update . . .

1. Here's one way to make sure the newspaper gets the SCA story right -- have someone from the local group, who happens to be a state award-winning columnist, write the story, as in the case of Blood of Heroes. Read it if you can. It's a rather interesting set-up. Not traditional, but I would love to go see it some time. The kicker on the rules is that each rule actually has someone's name attached because that person was the first to try to bend the rules.

2. It seems as though a number of major newspapers (including the Washington Post) have done good, solid SCA pieces in the last few weeks.

3. Quote I saw: "If writing fiction is dessert, then copy-editing is eating all your vegetables. Blogging is snacking between meals." --Neil Gaiman.

4. evilnicola is coming up this weekend, and we expect to be at Coldwood Saturday.

5. I am rather pleased about this:

From The New York Times:

A jury ruled today that Isiah Thomas, the coach of the New York Knicks, sexually harassed a former team executive and that Madison Square Garden, the owner of the team, improperly fired her for complaining about the unwanted advances.

The jury, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, also ruled that the former executive, Anucha Browne Sanders, is entitled to $11.6 million in punitive damages from the Garden and James L. Dolan, the chairman of Cablevision, the parent company of the Garden and the Knicks.

Of that figure, $6 million was awarded because of the hostile work environment Mr. Thomas was found to have created, and $5.6 million because Ms. Browne Sanders was fired for complaining about it. Mr. Dolan’s share is $3 million; the Garden is liable for the rest.

The judge will decide later on compensatory damages, covering actual economic harm suffered by Ms. Browne Sanders, like back pay and benefits.

These people are continuing to erode what was once a proud franchise.

Please note, Mr. Thomas is the one who believes that it is not OK for a White man to call a Black woman "Bitch," but that it's OK for Black men to do so.

6. Are you ready for some hockey? Me, neither.

7. The Boston Globe reports that MIT students have been told to play nicely with other:

Causing a little mayhem is acceptable, but breaking the law is not, a top MIT official warned students in a campuswide e-mail yesterday after a series of high-profile pranks gone awry. The same goes for endangering yourself or acting irresponsibly in the process.
Since last school year, students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made headlines after breaking into the school's Faculty Club and allegedly dumping sodium metal in the Charles River. Some students said the acts were done in the spirit of the school's long-chronicled tradition known as hacking, MIT-speak for harmless pranks (not the theft of computer records.)

"Historically, hacks have been creatively and thoughtfully executed without injury, destruction of property, or public notoriety for the hackers or MIT," Phillip Clay, the school's chancellor, said in the e-mail.

Clay cited references to the hacking code, which is on display for all to see in the Stata Center, a campus building. "True hackers quickly identify themselves when they encounter the police, and they do not confront or evade the police," he wrote in the e-mail. "Hackers do not create public hazards."