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[01 Oct 2009|10:26pm] |
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Anyone going to Steamcon in Seattle this year?
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| Brain Droppings |
[18 Apr 2009|07:02pm] |
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Perfection is easy, but no fun at all. Just remove any chance of failure and beat yourself up when it happens anyway. I think I'm done being perfect. It wasn't working out so well.
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| Whoa! |
[25 Sep 2007|02:28pm] |
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The Vatican has a seat in the U.N. Whose idea was that? I can't quite put my finger on why, but I find this disturbing.
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| More from dresden |
[15 Sep 2007|04:04am] |
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
You must spend the entire day in costume and character. The only rule is that you cannot actually tell anyone that you are a time traveler. Other than that, anything's game.
There are three possible options:
1) Utopian/cliché Future - "If the Future did a documentary of the last fifty years, this is how badly the reenactors would dress." Think Star Trek: TNG or the Time Travelers from Hob. Ever see how the society in Futurama sees the 20th century? Run with it. Your job is to dress with moderately anachronistic clothing and speak in slang from varying decades. Here are some good starters:
- Greet people by referring to things that don't yet exist or haven't existed for a long time. Example: "Have you penetrated the atmosphere lately?" "What spectrum will today's broadcast be in?" and "Your king must be a kindly soul!"
- Show extreme ignorance in operating regular technology. Pay phones should be a complete mystery (try placing the receiver in odd places). Chuckle knowingly at cell phones.
2) Dystopian Future - This one offers a little more flexibility. It can be any kind of future from Terminator to Freejack. The important thing to remember is dress like a crazy person with armor. Black spray painted football pads, high tech visors, torn up trenchcoats and maybe even some dirt here or there. Remember, dystopian future travelers are very startled that they've gone back in time. Some starters:
- If you go the "prisoner who's escaped the future" try shaving your head and putting a barcode on the back of your neck. Then stagger around and stare at the sky, as if you've never seen it before.
- Walk up to random people and say "WHAT YEAR IS THIS?" and when they tell you, get quiet and then say "Then there's still time!" and run off.
- Stand in front of a statue (any statue, really), fall to your knees, and yell "NOOOOOOOOO"
- Stare at newspaper headlines and look astonished.
- Take some trinket with you (it can be anything really), hand it to some stranger, along with a phone number and say "In thirty years dial this number. You'll know what to do after that." Then slip away.
3) The Past - This one is more for beginners. Basically dress in period clothing (preferably Victorian era) and stagger around amazed at everything. Since the culture's set in place already, you have more of a template to work off of. Some pointers:
- Airplanes are terrifying. Also, carry on conversations with televisions for a while.
- Discover and become obsessed with one trivial aspect of technology, like automatic grocery doors. Stay there for hours playing with it.
- Be generally terrified of people who are dressed immodestly compared to your era. Tattoos and shorts on women are especially scary.
And that's it. Remember, the only real rule is staying in character and try to fit in. Never directly admit you're a time traveler, and make really, really bad attempts at keeping a low profile. Naturally, the dystopian future has a little more leeway. And for the record, I've already tried out all of these in real life, in costume. It is so much fun you want to pee yourself.
Linked from here.
Pencil it into your calendars and pass it on!
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| Motorcycle madness |
[12 Sep 2007|09:51pm] |
So i ordered this great electric bike. It should have come with a warning:
Some assembly required. Not all parts included. Other parts do not fit properly. Incomplete directions written by Hannibal Lechter.
So, yeah, got it together. . .ish. No front wheel mudguard, no cargo box, not sure if the front wheel is too tight. Instructions said "adjust to torque levels as detailed in this manual". You guessed it, no such information is anywhere in the book. Not that I have a torque wrench to check with anyway. Will charge it up tonight. It SHOULD be running tomorrow.
Update: Adjusted the front wheel and turned the little bugger on. Got it up to 30 in the parking lot. I have gone from frustrated to pretty impressed. Lugged the battery inside to charge, it weighs at least 30 pounds. Looks like I'm deiving to work tomorrow.
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| Pictures |
[12 Sep 2007|07:30pm] |
From New York New York's 9/11 memorial last night, in no particular order.
( Read more... )
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| 364.25 |
[11 Sep 2007|11:27pm] |
The number of days on which I have an ironclad rule; I never drink alone. Tonight is the exeption. At least it doesn't taste like concrete dust and dead people tonight.
Mood: maudlin
Music: Brown Eyed Girl by the local pub band.
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| GRRRRRRRR! |
[10 Sep 2007|12:49am] |
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I've never been more happy with online banking, or more pissed at my apartment. I'm online tonight to check my balance. I've made some big purchases lately and wanted to see what I have left. Strangely, I'm almost a hundred bucks overdrawn. My overdraft protection cancelled the fee, but I'm missing a lot of money. So I go looking through to figure out where it went. Turns out my apartment charged me for rent twice, right back to back. I'm going to have some unkind words with them first thing in the morning.
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| Geek Plus Ultra! |
[04 Aug 2007|12:45pm] |
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Space Pirates invade the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton tonight at 10. Music, booze, and a tinfoil hat making contest. It promises to be more fun than being blown out the airlock in a sack full of space weasels. Oh, and Rantradio meetup at work at 7 PM.
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| Inspirational Posters |
[27 Jul 2007|01:02am] |
Its been too long since I played with photoshop. So here, for everyone's amusment is the first in what may some day be a series of inspirational posters.
and one that's not mine but too damn funny. Thanks, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6) angelus81
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| "Catastrophic event" |
[26 Jul 2007|03:08pm] |
Last night was fun. My lights started flickering about 4 AM in the classic poltergeist fashion. Shortly thereafter my TV began smoking. Rather than reporting to "America's Most Haunted" I figured the practical solution was to unplug everything not already fried, turn off the breakers and wait for maintenance in the morning. After much LOUD messing around during my usual sleep cycle they managed to figure out what happened. A wire at the power meter came loose, converting my nice 110V home to a less practical 240V system. This had the predictable effect of frying anything more complicated than a light bulb. They got everything fixed then I went to plug my surge protector back in.
ZOT!
Sparks fly and the little LED readouts go out forever. The good news, my valiant power strip did its job and protected all my gear. The bad news, it didn't survive. The good news, lifetime warranty. The bad news, this qualifies as a "catastrophic event" which ends the life and thus the warranty. The good news, the apartment complex is picking up the tab for my fried surge protector, alarm clock and so forth.
The moral of this story: we are separated from the end of civilization by one loose wire.
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| Viva Las fucking Vegas |
[23 Jun 2007|02:32pm] |
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I came home fro. a quick shopping trip Thursday night to find my window broken. All my eletronics got stolen but, thankfully, not my rifle. Like any big city the police took the report but that was about all they could do. All updates will be done via cell phone. I'm moving to a more secure location next week.
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| Roll Call |
[09 Jun 2007|04:48am] |
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I've heard enough names that I lost track. Quick, while I'm asking, if you know someone recently dead or dying, let me know.
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| ugh |
[17 May 2007|11:43am] |
Five days of 10 hour shifts. . .so tired.
In other news, the Wicked Witch of Lynchburg died. Millions of munchkins broke into a sponteousmusial number.
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| Sin City Update |
[02 May 2007|03:28am] |
What does the scary Sin City Propoganda Cop do when he's not mugging on billboards? He cluthces Sin City Propoganda Waif protectively while guarding an empty storefront in the mall.
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| Lovecraft! |
[30 Apr 2007|03:06am] |
A couple of friends got together and did a low budget adaptation of Whispers in the Darkness. Rock on. Check it out below. If you're feeling generous, repost it and give them some publicity. Also available on DVD by request.
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| Somewhere over the rainbow. . . |
[29 Apr 2007|03:03am] |
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For those whoe haven't seen HBO's "Taxicab Confessions", it starts with this punky version of 'Somewhere over the trinbow" and a montage of the NYC skyline. I miss home.
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| Have arrived in Portland. . . |
[21 Apr 2007|08:59am] |
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no sign of my ride. Guess he didn't check his e-mail last night. Only one thing for it. . .eat breakfast, take a nap, call Trish in the afternoon and meet everyone at the Expo Center. This could get excitin'.
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