Field Promotion
Technicon, as it is wont to do, is putting on a Whose Con Is It Anyway? show on Saturday. A week ago, I gladly accepted a request to participate. Last night, I discovered I was running it.
Err… I’m not panicking. Really. Is it a compliment to be secretly promoted from Ryan Stiles to (Clive Anderson / Drew Carey)?
Seriously, I’m cool with this, this is just the standard con surprise 🙂 The news was a bit startling, though!
(P.S. It’s now 0930 on 03/28, and the banner on the con home page says that the con starts in 14 hours. If that is indeed the case, i will be a bit late.)
Hull breach
One of the screen hinges on my battered Apple TiBook has just snapped. This can quickly lead to screen failure (and is darn inconvenient). Had this happened 3 months from now, it would have been of little import, but time and funds are short just now, and I was planning on taking the laptop to TCon.
I have rainbowsaber‘s old TiBook casing. I might try to scrounge the part from it, but it’s major surgery if I do – last time I did this, soldering and heat-shrink tubing came into play. 🙁
Random lyrics meme
I did the random opening lyrics meme. Some of ’em are pretty easy, and others I’ll be shocked if anyone works out without Googling.
Job details
To answer some of the questions from the last post:
The job’s at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton Roads – only 30 minutes’ drive from where I live now. (More if the Bridge-Tunnel’s clogged, but we are looking into solutions for that issue.) But yes, I’ll definitely be staying here on the coast.
It’s going to be Macintosh Desktop Support, much like I did for Decipher – definitely an area of my expertise, and it’ll start giving me more experience with the new Intel Macs.
I will absolutely still make TCon. In fact, this job offer is welcome to me in multiple ways, as the con was kinda financially iffy before I got this news 🙂
Thanks to everyone who’s cheering for me. There’s educational and advancement possibilities here, and I have to say I’m very excited!
Houston, we have… good news
Busy, rainy Friday… not much to talk about.
Oh, yeah, except I start work at NASA in two weeks.
Yeah, that’s all.
(Who’m I kidding? WOOOOT!!! NASA!!!! Yay mad Macintosh skillz!)
Ancient texts
Inspired by madwriter‘s entry in the Page 123 Meme, I’m running the script on The Multiverse Cycle (which happens to be the book closest to me at this second.)
1.) Turn to Page 123, or if page does not exist, Page 23. (23. Got it.)
2.) Count five lines down, and post the paragraph in which you are positioned.
Well, at least this appeared to confirm that the unknown pilot was humanoid. Come to think of it, Nebula wondered he’d be interested in a traveling companion. Any woman who wouldn’t kill for a wardrobe like this needed medical attention.
Hmm. I think if I wanted to write that last sentence now, I’d try to make it more wry… it tastes a little sexist from my current perspective. Also, I might write “wardrobe such as this”.
They’re taking the hobbits… oh, you know.
Watched the extended Two Towers and Return of the King straight through last night, staying up a bit late to do so.
We were talking a lot about book vs. movie while we watched, and the comment was made that there are a lot more elves in the Towers and King movies than in the books. While that may be annoying to purists, I have to admit that it’s an improvement for me. In the books, the Third Age ends not with the destruction of Sauron, but when the Fellowship leaves Lothlorien; after that point you don’t see a single elf or dwarf othen than Legolas, Gimli, and Arwen’s walk-on. The next two books deal exclusively with the affairs of Men (except for some Ents, Orcs, and Saruman – in other words, trees, cardboard cannon-fodder, and a Man wanna-be).
At least the movies give Weaving and Blanchett something to do after the Fellowship’s breaking. It would be a shame to get these good actors for your trilogy and not have them do anything for two-thirds of it. And is it just me, or do they change Elrond’s eyebrows after the Ring is destroyed? Does Vilya, the sapphire elven-ring, cause swoopy eyebrows while it retains power?
Middle-Earth is almost more fun in The Hobbit, when it’s chock-full of elves, dwarves, giant spiders, goblins, and a dragon.
