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| Saturday, July 5th, 2008 |
anthrocon
[ antimon ]
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5:29p |
180 posts since ac ended? dang
Well We've been busy haven't we hehe.
While I'm here, Anyone know who the cute as hell spandex bat running around was and have any pics of us together? :)
So many good critters thsi con, lots fo eye candy, and Bridget is amazing :) totally suspended my desbilie, awsome performer. Probably my fav not fuzzy character |
joeygatorman
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3:59p |
A Brief Exchange ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) marauderosu: "It's 3:56. Do you know what that means?" joeygatorman: "Sure. It's only two hours and four minutes until six o'clock." Well, no. marauderosu was born that very minute on July 5, 1979. Happy 29th birthday to him! Current Mood:  happy |
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cuteoverload
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anthrocon
[ celest_jacolf ]
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2:38p |
Finally Getting To Post About AC Zahh Anthrocon has come and gone. This year wasn't as wonderful as I had expected it to be. I didn't get a table in Artist Alley the days I needed to sell, lost my ride at the last second home. Didn't get to mingle with furends I wanted to. *Lesighs* I also lost an artist I had commissioned in Artist Alley, no contact info..nothing. Maybe she'll find me, maybe I'll find her who knows v.v I also suersponsored this year since I wanted to meet my idol Floyd Norman in person since I am going to school for animation and hope to get a job with either Disney or Pixar. I had fun at the dances though. The only thing I can offer to improve for next year? Do not let people who aren't fursuiters/artists on the elevator. I cannot tell you how many times I was carrying my loads of artwork and utensils up and down stairs since rude people who weren't even fursuiters wouldn't let me onto the elevator. Their quotes were "Use the stairs we were here first." Well you could be a little more understanding and let me on the damn thing since I obviously have a harder time going up and dwn stairs. Bah.
I also had someone take my food at the supersponsor luncheon when I turned my back! I went to talk to someone right beside me and I turn back around and the same man who was beside me was gone as well as my dessert! That was my fault though since obviosly you have to watch your food like a hawk. Hopefully next year will be better besides I'll have a dealers table as well as a fursuit. I only got maybe one or two pictures, one with Kage so that is a plus.
See You All Next Year..Hopefully! Current Mood:  disappointedCurrent Music: Deftones |
anthrocon
[ coonwulf ]
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2:40p |
Westin on Fire
Apparently there was a fire today on the third floor of The Westin. |
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boingboing_net
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1:03p |
As price of fuel soars, so does a dirigible renaissance? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/327519831/as-fuel-prices-soar.html 
Snip from an article in today's New York Times about a slew of designers and firms developing new models of airships. These passenger-carrying aircraft float on the wind, rather than being propelled solely by fuel (more precise explanation here). And, ah, hopefully they don't blow up in the sky or whatever.
As the cost of fuel soars and the pressure mounts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, several schemes for a new generation of airship are being considered by governments and private companies. “It’s a romantic project,” said Mr. Massaud, 45, sitting amid furniture designs in his Paris studio, “but then look at Jules Verne.”
It has been more than 70 years since the giant Hindenburg zeppelin exploded in a spectacular fireball over Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 crew members and passengers, abruptly ending an earlier age of airships. But because of new materials and sophisticated means of propulsion, a diverse cast of entrepreneurs is taking another look at the behemoths of the air.
Mr. Massaud, a designer of hotels in California and a stadium in Mexico, has not ironed out the technical details, nor has he found financiers or corporate backers for his project — to create a 690-foot zeppelin shaped like a whale, with a luxury hotel attached, that he has named Manned Cloud.
And, heh, my favorite quote here:
“A dirigible is something magical,” said Jérôme Giacomoni, who was 25 when he founded Aerophile with a friend. “But most of the ideas are crazy.”
Why Fly When You Can Float? [NYT]
Image: Jean-Marie Massaud.
Update: most LOLlable comment in this thread, #4 posted by Chris the Tiki guy...
[I]f they're exploring whale shapes, why not other aquatic creatures, like the seacow? That way people can point and say "Oh, the huge manatee!" (...) [I]f Helium is in short supply, I doubt we'll be launching very many lighter-than-air craft any time soon, unless we can figure out how to make hydrogen just as buoyant but less explode-y.
Image: found floating (snort) around on the internet, provenance unknown.
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boingboing_net
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12:44p |
Body armor developer shoots himself (video) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/327504549/body-armor-developer.html
This video is not new, but a friend just pointed it to me. It is noteworthy because it shows a dude shooting himself in the chest and not dying. Also, because it includes mock-pizza-boxes crafted for a robbery enactment on television. The mock pizzas appear to be made of palm thatch. How do they do that?
Richard Davis, former U.S. Marine and onetime pizza delivery guy in Detroit, survived a gun shootout (he killed three armed robbers when they attacked him during a delivery). He went on to develop new forms of concealable body armor using kevlar. Those products are now widely used by military and law enforcement personnel, and private sector folks who have reason to believe they will be shot. This video tells a bit of his life story.
Richard Davis: video
[ YouTube, via, thanks, Susannah Breslin ]
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hascheezburger
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6:00p |
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anthrocon
[ tauakhera ]
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12:55p |
Hey-o Captain Jack Ahoy everyone...Captain Jack Sparrow/Tau Akhera here. Just sending in my obligatory gushing of the con and everyone involved. I'm exhausted, but I had an utter blast meeting everyone who came up to me, and I apologize if it seemed like I was shirking people occasionally. It was getting pulled eight different directions all the time it seemed, and even my Disney training couldn't keep me up to snuff. I NEED A CHARACTER ATTENDANT. :[
But yeah, thanks to everyone who was genuinely kind and bought me drinks here and there. I'm aware some folk are annoyed by the fact my attire isn't 'furry', and that I placed third in a Dance Contest for Fursuits, but aside from that you were all splendid. It turns out now I'm getting a fursuit made, so I blame all of you for that influence. <3
Anywho, if you would all be so kind as to link me to photos of myself either alone, with suiters, with regular people, with my buddy Beetlejuice, any of the aforementioned...I would be incredibly appreciative.
Also, any videos that aren't on Youtube would be great ( especially the one where I come in at the end of Floyd Norman's panel ) . And if I could get the website of the professional photographer that was there? I know he put up a link earlier in this community but I couldn't find it.
So again, thanks, and I love you all. Here's a bonus clip of Jack and Uncle Kage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ndQhh6pXE
Edit: When FA comes back, here are my pages. Watch me and I'll watch back!:
www.furaffinity.net/user/tauakhera www.furaffinity.net/user/captjacksparrow
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bikerwalla
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9:55a |
Fox News Posts Caricatures Instead Of Photographs Someone reported the latest TV ratings, and made the observation that FOX News was within range of its cable competitors, and may have to fight for the #1 top slot. In return, the FOX News Channel devoted a minute of air time to making fun of the reporters, and instead of posting pictures of the reporter and editor... they enlarged their noses, yellowed their teeth, and erased their hair. This. Looks. Shopped.
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Jacques Steinberg, reporter for the Television section, New York Times |
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Steve Reddicliffe, Television section editor, New York Times |
These people still call themselves a News Network. Current Mood:  infuriated |
anthrocon
[ fenris_lorsrai ]
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12:38p |
Con report on art, games, and the mystery of the missing cookies I'll tease you with one photo from con from the voice auction of a fursuit runner... and Kage looking awfully evil in the background. What IS he planning? (click to see full size to truly see that EVIL expression. He should be going Mwahahaha)  (the piece of art in the runners paws is by Aimme Tyr Skee. Who can resist the adorableness of a fox holding a fox?) The Con report of the missing cookiesI have no use for these WORD things, gimme the pictures already! |
makuus
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11:55a |
[Offbeat] Adventures in disk cleaning
I am currently wending my way through a stack of hard drives that have been taking up shelf space for as long as I can remember. I'm getting stuff off of them, doing a DoD wipe on them and getting them formatted to give away. And, in this, I've learned one lesson: For heaven's sake, just junk anything older than fifteen years. Among drives I have tried to recover, I have an old Seagate ST351A/X that Vista just said "what the shit?!" (or the driver controller hardware finally gave up the ghost) and a Western Digital Caviar 2340 that almost started a fire (gotta love the smell of short). While I cannot ascertain the exact age of the Seagate (there's a large 3.5" floppy disk sticker over the label), the WD's May 1993 manufacture date pretty much tells me that the short was a 'good' thing. |
anthrocon
[ tamarik ]
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10:41a |
Tam's Anthrocon Report So I got run over by the Mack Truck that is Anthrocon. And I had a fucking blast. Five straight days of meet-and-greet, awesome artwork and networking with like-minded and genuinely funny people. It's three days since the convention ended and I still feel like I've been hit with a truck. Final counts for attendance were 3,390, making AC '08 the largest furry convention ever. We also raised a considerable sum of money for this year's charity: Pittsburgh Parrot Rescue... although I can't find an exact number just yet. Some of the highlights of my weekend were meeting up with people that I'd known for years but have never actually met face to face. Hell, some of them I hadn't spoken to in years. Several names from the past reached up and NOSTALGIA BOMB'd me right in the face: Metoo, Cubbi and others from The Lion King fandom that I hadn't talked to in years. Then there was MattRat, Jacob O'Hare, Jessie Tracer and all the Transformation peeps that I also hadn't seen since TSA-Bash '02. Also spending the weekend as the token straight guy in the hotel room was a riot. Especially when one of the guys got drunk for the first time in his life and we had to shove him under the shower at 3:15 AM to shut his chatty ass up. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. To Max Blackrabbit, gNAW, Drake Fenwick, Frisket, DCRabbit, Roxikat... all the artists I got commissions from and finally got to spend some time with: you guys fucking rock. I'll have your hi-res scans to you by the end of this weekend. Oh, and come to Furry Weekend Atlanta, guys! Pweeeeese? Caroo, you are supar awesome even though I was always trying to mimic your accent when you were talking with me. I'll get you that contact info so you can get that stuff to me. You know, that thing we talked about in that place? <i>Yeah.</i> I still don't really know what hit me. AC '08 was easily the best time I've ever had in my life. I managed to meet and spend some time with a lot of the people in the community that I really respect. More than anything, I suppose it's that which has really got me buzzing over the last few days. I love the furry fandom so much... I can't really put it into words very well, so I'm just going to quote cargoweasel said on their LJ: quote: It's always a little jarring, walking into a con hotel on the first day, seeing the assorted groups of misfits and odd eggs that make up this thing of ours and going, at least on some level, "what am I doing here".. but by the first night, it all comes together and I know in my heart that these are my peeps. You won't find a closer community than furry fandom, and I've been in other geeky fandoms, anime, gaming, comics.. furry trumps them for sheer acceptance and love and spirit and creative energy. This fandom is truly what one makes of it, we bring in our own joy and our own pain, you can bring the party or bring the drama, it's up to you, that's what keeps me coming back. I watched Axiom get up on stage and deliver a standup routine at the open mic panel, and proceed to lay out not just the audience but the panel host just by calmly telling a few anecdotes. I danced at a furry con dance party with superior lighting, DJing and performance to many professionally run nightclubs and raves I've been to. I didn't have anything to do this con, for the first time in a long while, no dance, no Capsule, no nothing. Just socializing. Just experiencing. It was what I needed, a spur of the moment vacation, too short and just long enough.
I've got my raw dump of pictures up at http://tamarik.errantventure.org/anthrocon08/gallery/. There's no commenting system on there so if you see yourself in one of the pics, lemme know which pic it is in a post to this journal entry or on my own tamarik journal. Big thanks to Uncle Kage and all the con operations for putting on a weekend to remember. Sorry I couldn't follow you guys to Philly to finish up unloading the trucks and whatnot; I did have a plane to catch. :) I will lie, cheat and steal if I have to in order to make it to AC '09, rest assured. :) Current Mood:  energetic |
dibranchia
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11:59a |
Farmer's Market This morning I wasn't feeling so great (liver pain - not sure why. I ended up not even eating my bratwurst last night because I filled up on black bean salsa beforehand so I can't even blame it on the sausage) as Miko did her empty stomach heaves before 7:30 am. *sigh* As Miko and I stepped out for our Morning Constitutional (her with a full belly) it started to pour down rain. Lucky the pain changed to a dull roar by 8 and I got my shower and decided to head over to the Goochland Farmer's Market - leaving hubby still in bed and the rain changed to intermittenet drizzle. I hoped the market was still on, and when I got there it still was. There was quite a few people milling about! I did my normal, a loop around the "exhibits" checking out what everyone had, deciding what I was going to buy. I was hoping someone would have some green tomatoes, but no luck. The tomatoes are just starting to come out though. I stopped by Amy's booth "She Knits" (her blog is http://knitsimplyknit.blogspot.com/ ) since for the first time there wasn't a hoard of people around and I got to see her stuff up close. It was really nice. I wish I had some kids that I could give the stuff to, I'd buy something for them. She did have some nice necklaces. I did see two that I liked, but they were pink. And I know this is going to sound silly, but I'm trying to get away from pink, kinda. I know pink is my favorite, and most everything I have is pink - but at some point I really need to buy some new stufff that isn't pink based. I am just not sure what color I want to chose. Hubby would think it should be black I'm sure, but that's the basis of his closet. When I do laundry it's literally divided up into lights (mine) and darks (his). Anyway, I wanted to say something to her, but my shyness got the best of me. I don't know why, I know she doesn't bite. I'm sure she wouldn't think I was some stalker or something. It would be nice to at least have a conversation with someone on this end of town that knits since everyone else I know that knits lives in Richmond. I just hope it doesn't take me until October before I squeak out something like, "Hello" and feel like a total doofus about it and go running off to my car. I bought: -carton of chicken eggs -we actually went through almost a dozen eggs this week, that's quite a lot for us. -I also bought a whole bunch of beets. These are definately the last she told me- she dug them all up. These are without the tops. -Okra - I am not sure if I'm going to "fry" them or use them in a stew or curry -red potatoes -green beans -these will go with the red potatoes and ham for one of my favorite meals. -blueberries - one of the reasons I got there early was so I could get some. I wanted to buy a lot more than I did, because there's a Jamie Oliver recipe that looks good that calls for 1 lb 6 oz of them - it originally called for fragola grapes but since they are hard to find outside of Italy he said blueberries work well in it. I just bought 1 container - I'll just wait and get some from the grocery store. -2 Japanese Eggplant -1 regular Eggplant -2 yellow squash -2 rounded yellowish squash -not even sure what it is but we'll see- it reminds me almost like a yellow tomato but it's white with light yellowish stripes -2 ears of corn -1 eightball squash -2 yellow squash with green ends (can't remember the name) I wanted some more goat cheese, but the people said they would be there late, and I had some other stuff I wanted to do. I had also thought about getting some meats, but we don't really need any this week. So I headed out to do my other stuff: check out the Louisa Farmer's Market. We tried one week but were too late, so I decided since I still had a bit of cash let - unfortunately it was bigger bills- I would do it now. The only thing I don't like about it is that I live smack dab in between both of the Farmer's Markets. Oh well. I could have stopped and dropped off my stuff, but since it's a cool day and I knew that if I stopped I wouldn't want to go out again, I kept going. Louisa's FM is small, only about 7 people or so? But this is also their first year, and I wasn't sure if the weather kept vendors away too. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular, but figured I'd check it out. I actually ended up buying stuff! First thing I saw, green tomatoes! What I bought: -4 green tomatoes - Fried green tomatoes! YUM! -more eggs! This time I got a mixed dozen of quail, turkey and duck. I've never had these so it'll be interesting to try. I'm excited over this because of a recipe I saw in "Cook with Jamie" where you hard boil different types of eggs (he gives times for the eggs), peel them, and top with homemade mayo loosened with extra lemon and a sprinkle of pepper. Serve with watercress, anchovies, bacon and toast. I thought at the time it sounded good, but all I could find were chicken eggs. I can now try it! -Fresh fried tortillas with a quart of mild and a quart of hot salsa - I was only going to get the mild salsa but as I said I didn't have any small bills and they just had a bunch of people come through (I got there at the same time as a bunch of other people) and they were running low on change) so I bought both to help them out. Hubby likes hot, I like mild. They also have the FM on Wed, but I haven't made it to that one, since I usually try not to go out unless I have to so I can save gas, and I don't usually have a reason to go to Louisa anyway. As it was, this was kind of a special trip as it was. 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voltbang
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11:25a |
Games night tonight. See chez_turtle for details. Word. |
halfelf
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10:45a |
Laser problems So, it appears that the laser engraver is gonna be too expensive. I read a lot more about the 1600-2000 dollar ones, and well... they're crap. A couple of users said that they're okay if you want to do just straight engraving, like names and stuff, but if you want to do pictures, they're crap. Until I discover otherwise, that's shelved. The decent ones are around 7500-9000 dollars, and Shinies just doesn't have that much to invest right now. I'll go through Flying Tricycle or maybe Dragonfire Laser if I need something done. Instead, I will be focusing on stock, and maybe a point of sale terminal. Nothing too fancy. I do want a scanner for it, though. Also, my website. I like ZenCart, but it looks like I'm just going to have to make/modify my own template for the site. I'm not happy with the one on there now. I can do it myself, but I'd almost prefer to pay someone to do it for me at this point. The places I looked at want several hundred dollars, but I don't want to pay that much yet. I'm just looking for a reconfiguration of ZenCart, not some sort of total overhaul. Maybe I can find someone to do it for like 50 dollars or something. Current Mood: tired |
ankhorite
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10:07a |
Fourth on the Fifth Hey, I was busy, okay? I was doing something patriotic. Friend X came over and we spent many hours agonizing over who Obama's veep choice should be. And lamenting that Jesse Helms chose that day to die. Why not July 3? or 5? *sigh* Oh, how I wish I believed in Divine Judgment at moments like this! Image swiped from the ever-clever mckennl's entry yesterday. Linked to a charming story about how giving the telecom companies retroactive immunity from civil suits might represent an unconstitutional "taking" of the funds those illegally spied upon would surely otherwise win.  I hope this theory gets lots of press, because the same conservatives who are gung-ho facists about illegal spying are, generally, the same conservatives who are gung-ho about property rights and usually frown on government "takings." OTOH, their loyalty is to corporate property rights, not individual property rights, as witness the horrific 2006 Supreme Court decision. Under Kelo, any government entity is free to exercise its confiscation rights ("eminent domain") to take land from me and give it to you, if you promise to make it more valuable... say, by turning my pig farm into an amusement park. Or Justice Souter's home into a bed and breakfast.So, to protect the property of those who own stock in the telecoms, it's possible that a court, all the way up to and including the Court, would screw over the property rights spying victims have in the assets they would obtain by suing Dubya's criminal co-conspirators (AT&T, Verizon, and so forth) in his domestic spying venture. (Yes, mes enfants, a cause of action for filing a lawsuit is considered property, and an asset, under U.S. law. It may be an asset hard to quantify, but an asset it is.) Current Mood:  bitchy |
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boingboing_net
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9:18a |
EUROPEANS! You have until MONDAY to contact your MEP and save the EU from a three-strikes copyright http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/327402678/europeans-you-have-u.html Back-room dealings in the European Parliament have resulted in a "three strikes" rule being included in a new telecoms bill -- the rule would force ISPs to kick people who've been thrice accused of copyright infringement off the Internet.
If this bill passes, then Europeans' access to the network that delivers freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, access to medicine, family, civic engagement, banking, government services, and the whole sweep of human online endeavor would last only so long as they avoided three unsubstantiated accusations of downloading music or video or software without permission.
Worse still, the bill is set to be voted upon on July 7 -- that's this Monday.
The Open Rights Group has instructions for contacting your MEP. If you live in the EU and you care about your future as a citizen of the information society, call right away and make sure your MEP knows that this matters to you.
“One week before a key vote in the reform of European law on electronic communications (”Telecom Package”), La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) denounces a series of amendments aimed at closing the open architecture of the Internet for more control and surveillance of users..
…this set of amendments creates the unprecedented mechanism known as graduated response in European law; judicial authority and law courts are vacated in favour of private actors and “technical measures” of surveillance and filtering. According to rules set forth by administrative authorities and rights holders, intermediaries will be forced to cooperate in monitoring and filtering their subscribers, or they will be exposed to administrative sanctions”
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See also: Three false copyright accusations and we'll cut off your Internet access
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boingboing_net
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9:08a |
Anatomic model puzzles of surpassing loveliness http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/327395725/anatomic-model-puzzl.html 
I just stumbled on Kikkerland's "Anatomic 3-D Puzzles" in a shop and was absolutely enthralled. These are snap-together models (calling them "puzzles" is a little weird, actually) showing the anatomy of various critters, from humans to cows, mammoths, and my favorites, beetles and snails. They're made out of plastic that feels just like the plastic they use for the anatomical models you had in senior biology class, with the same color schemes, but the sculpting is absolutely gorgeous, making them into stylish knick-knacks as well as interesting scientific instructional materials.
Kikkerland's online shop carries the whole line, albeit at about 10 percent higher prices than other webstores that carry one or two. My advice is to check out the items here, find the ones you want and google for a cheaper one at another store.
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boingboing_net
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8:45a |
Stross's new novel: Saturn's Children, a late Heinlein homage http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/327387577/strosss-new-novel-sa.html Charlie Stross's new novel, Saturn's Children, is out -- this is Charlie's Heinlein tribute, and unlike everyone else who does classic, adventure -story Heinlein tributes, Charlie's written a novel in the style of the late, indulgent, sex-saturated Heinlein, from the period before a cutting-edge surgery fixed a problem with the blood-supply to his brain (seriously). Orbit, the book's UK publisher, has also put an excerpt online.
Today is the two hundredth anniversary of the final extinction of my One True Love, as close as I can date it. I am drunk on battery acid and wearing my best party frock, sitting on a balcony beneath a pleasure palace afloat in the stratosphere of Venus. My feet dangle over a slippery-slick rain gutter as I peek over the edge: Thirty kilometers below my heels, the metal-snowed foothills of Maxwell Montes glow red-hot. I am thinking about jumping. At least I’ll make a pretty corpse, I tell myselves. Until I melt.
And then –
Link, Link to excerpt,
Link to Saturn's Children on Amazon
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hascheezburger
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joshuwain
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8:58a |
CONvergence - day three, entry one Well, LiveBlogging CONvergence seems to have worked out for me, so far. A few posts a day and, well, I feel as if I'm reporting on something in Real Time and letting the world know about the narrowly contained awesomeness! This time, while not getting a full eight hours of sleep (and with my roomies still a'slumber), I'm catching up on what went down after last night's performance of THAC0 and this morning's waking up and taking a moment to write before going up to check on the 22nd Floor. After foeclan and I watched the play (with both A.J. and Mike Tschimperle with us) he headed off for a late supper with A.J., Mike went to dress up as Father Christmas, and I traveled upstairs to get ready for the evening of Fireworks and the second installment of "Bedtime Stories with th' Pods". I've never -in all my years of this convention- seen the Gaming Suites so busy! I solidly believe this has a HUGE amount to do with The Source (whose 2204 room is always busy) and the large number of new attendees this year. I'm so floored; there's barely enough space for them all! Anyway, I shut down both Gaming and the Lit Lounge at 9pm and dimmed the lights in anticipation of the southern suburbs' Fireworks displays. From the 22nd Floor, you can see forever and all of the various Independence Day celebrations show up like giant, dynamic explosions of fireflies on the midnight blue sky for miles around! The floodgates opened. Dozens -if not over a hundred non-gamers- ascended to the 22nd Floor. My co-host (and the man who had the idea of making this a scheduled event) poured out MinnStf Bhlog to the adults in the crowd (very potent stuff) as I assured people that we didn't know exactly when the fireworks would begin but that they would start up "soon". Some folk got tired of waiting (or got tired of the crowds) and departed for lower floors before things got interesting. Then, however, the nighttime sky exploded in a celebration of light and sound! Around 10pm at least twelve of the surrounding suburbs began their displays, giving us a remarkable show from high atop the Sheraton Hotel! It was beautiful and actually stirred, in me, feelings of patriotic pride. It's a celebration that actually still means something to me and I'm so happy I could share it with such a great cluster of my closest never-before-met friends! Both Wally Wingert (voice actor from "Invader ZIM") and Len Wein (creator of Swamp Thing and Wolverine) also showed up to enjoy the display and it was fun to see them having such a good time... Eventually, things quieted down and people began to depart. With some volunteers we got things back in shape in the rooms and I prepared for the late night Bedtime Stories: "The Skull-Faced Boy" and "The Run of the Fiery Horse". Sadly, this time, we only had two people and they left before the second story began. Still, I enjoyed myself and made sure the event ran its course before shutting down Lit Lounge. The only hiccup in the evening was that -once again- we had some airline pilots assigned to the hotel in the floor immediately below us and the noise of the gamers was keeping them awake. However, in true community spirit all it took was letting the folk know -room by room- of the situation, and they voluntarily quieted down. I was able to shut down my Suites on time, last night, and -then- retire for a good night's sleep. Ahhhh... Ok, that felt good! This convention -these people- can heal nearly all wounds... Now, off to find Breakfast and -then- set up the 22nd Floor for the new day! Yours, Sylvan (Dave) Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: none |
anthrocon
[ cornwalldragon ]
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7:37a |
Looking for pictures. I know everyone is looking for pictures of themselves in fursuit, but I'm looking for pictures of my little dragon buddy, Dougal.  I'm sure you may have seen me wandering around with him. Please either post links or send any hi-res photos to ledgema@yahoo.com Current Mood:  hopeful |
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hascheezburger
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hascheezburger
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