Internet Lesson #802.11:
People are much more interested in your webcam if you have mammaries.
That’s okay, I should put the camcorder away and get a real (cheap) webcam that won’t give me a heart attack if it falls off my desk.
Thanks to Technicon’s White Elephant auction, I’ve read nearly the whole Christopher Stasheff “Warlock” series in the space of a week and a half. Good books… “what if a bunch of SCAdians founded a colony world, forgot their technological origins, then developed enough psi to have some magicians lying around?”… but one really shouldn’t read 7 of the same author’s books in a row. It tends to dull the effect a bit, as I leaned a few months back when I read all the Frank Herbert “Dune” books at once. A bit of advice – don’t do that either.
Another 45 seconds of fame
Congratulations to Chris Impink for his guest artist stint at online comic Sluggy Freelance today! (If the day you read this isn’t 4/4/02, you may have to use the calendar links to see his strip.) If they use his art in the next book, I’ll have to get him to sign it!
Things to do with technology
Cool, an expensive Sony FireWire camcorder, and right now it’s sitting here playing webcam. I finally got that to work!!
Let me know if you want to play voyeur, and see an office so deep in books and papers that the government considered hiding the Ark of the Covenant here, knowing it would never be found again. I’ll pass along the link. Sometime I’ll be live, and sometimes not :p
Sunshine Saruman
I just walked outside to take a break – it took a major effort of will to turn around and walk back in!
Just walking out and getting some fresh air made me smile. I can’t believe I’m going to be stuck inside today until well after dark. It better be this nice this weekend so I can get some walking in with my sweetie!!
Michelle Light is cool!
meiran beat me to it.. I was playing with using my Michelle Light badge sketch as an icon, but I wasn’t quite happy with my Photoshop editing yet.
I did find someone online who could make me a set of pneumatic folding/unfolding eagle wings if I ever want to do an anthro griffin costume. I’m afraid to ask what the cost is, though!
Left the geeks alone in the lab again, huh?
Looks like some folks are doing early warp dynamics studies on the upgraded Constitution-class vessels…
You can check out the results at the University of Queensland’s Laser Diagnostics site.
Darkness falls on Sanrio
Hey barb, after you’ve weaned Alex from Power Ranger checkers and Pokemon chess, you can teach him this game! (click here for a larger image)
Ready to LAN Par-tay
Blizzard Entertainment announced their OS X 1.0.9d patches for both Diablo II and the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. The carbonized patch allows gamers to play the Classic Mac OS version of Diablo II in X and introduce their Barbarians and Necromancers to the world outside Classic.
Let’s Do the Time Warp Again
Just did a Rocky Horror showing at TCon 19, thanks to Barb’s video room… now it looks like a local club will be running it midnight Friday and Saturday at the Cinema Cafe. $3.50 for tickets, $2 for a prop kit. Tolls of Madness is the link. We might go to the Saturday showing after TCon Dead Dog.
More Oscar Fallout
This was part of last night’s “Vote Early, Vote Often!” poll on As The Apple Turns, a weekday Mac news and rumors site. Some of the choices only make sense if you follow Mac stuff carefully: however…
“What did you find most disappointing about the 74th Annual Academy Awards?”
3) Boy, you’d think that Halle Berry could have mustered up at least a little emotion
4) Not nearly enough onscreen violence between the Pixarians and the Shrek team
5) After sixteen nominations, Randy Newman only finally won once he started to look eerily like Roger Ebert
