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Today's theme: Fantasy

Please excuse if not relevant. Moderators may delete if they feel the need, with no issues on my end.

I am a fan of corsets as well as many scifi shows/movies, so occasionally I combine the two. It results in interesting moments like this one at Star Wars Celebration IV.

I wanted to do something new for Dragon*Con this year and since I'm going to be working with quite a few of the BSG crew, I've got a new corset idea bouncing around my head. The BSG corset based on the officer's duty uniform. (As if any of you needed the refresh...)

It would have the overlapping breast with buttons/holes, the pocket and the red piping trim. Trying to figure out how to include the suede shoulder pieces on the corset itself without resorting to, say, separate shoulder, collar and cuffs.

This would, of course, go over the gray t-shirt/brown tank top combo. Maybe with the duty uniform pants. And Kara's tattoo.

Any thoughts on this idea? How to detail? How to include the suede accents?

Laz.

Dear players and admin on my MUD:

Wanna know why no one cares about your character that's off a different gender than you, the players? I'll tell you.

( Telling them )Grow up, meet some people with personality, learn to emulate them (in game and out), go to some sex-themed MUD for your sexy-times and then you can play your special snowflake.

Except, I hope, you won't want to after that.

It was pointed out to me that it's been something on the order of a million years since I last posted anything at all, and even longer since I last posted anything public. Some of that is because I've been dealing with Weird Shit (and while I wouldn't call it resolved by any stretch of the imagination, I'm at least getting to a point where I can move the fuck on), but mostly it's because it's been a billion degrees out and I haven't wanted to think. Apparently the weather gods didn't get the memo that I'm not going to the Burn this year, so I didn't need the pre-event acclimation cycle this year....

I leave for Montreal in just over two weeks. This is so very Not Real.

In other news, I've apparently turned into the poster child for Zocor. I've been on simvastatin for two months, now; I went in for labwork at the beginning of the week, and my combined cholesterol count has dropped from 299 to 167. I have NEVER had a count that low (the first lipid panel I can remember having drawn, 20ish years ago, was over 200).

And now I really need to get my ass to bed, 'cause I'm supposed to be in Pacifica at 11 for a fresh coat of purple.

Dear Crappy Admin:

We've been playing together for about three years on different sites. You've been the admin on each of them and lately I've noticed a pattern. Your sites are very repetitive. They all have the same plot, the same exact forums, and the same style artwork. This in and of itself does not make you a bad admin.

What makes you a bad admin is that you abandon sites if they don't have 50 members by the end of the first week. What makes you a bad admin is that you abandon sites without ever telling the other members of your staff. That you talk behind the backs of your admin team.

You're a good role player (minus the fact that all of your characters are nearly carbon copies of one another -- brooding boys who end up in love and suddenly not so broody), but stick with sites dude. I don't understand why you have a following. I only go to your sites because the week you stick with them, they're active. But I already see another site dying.

This time, when I say this, I mean it. That was the last site of yours I'm joining. Even if all my friends are there and I'm going through withdraws, I won't be joining anymore. You're immature and fickle, and that's not the traits I look for in an admin.

Love,
Me.

((I've been wanting to get that off my chest for a very long time.))

Tomorrow I start teaching the first year courses for 'Screen and Media' and 'Game Art Development' at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment. Spent the last two weeks prepping and teaching basic 3D Animation to high schoolers (which was way more fun than it had any right to be o_O).

Never would have happened if I hadn't picked up the damn phone and started cold calling the animation departments of universities and private schools in Sydney. It took stomaching eight weeks of paralysing fear before I did it though.

There's something that you've wanted to do for a long time something that you've wanted to experience, receive or achieve. But it hasn't happened yet because you're scared. You've never done it before. You don't know if you can...

...you've got to do it. It's going to be scary, and that first step will be terrifying, but you have to take it. It's the only way you're going to get the life you want.

Breakfast at Baldies.

Transport Chris' new bike to shop for final adjustments,

Taiko for work on Hiryuu San-dan Gaeshi

Fremont Chili Cook-Off and Firefighter's Championship.
Missed out on the winning Chili as it was all gone by our arrival.

Shopping for critical need cat food.

Chris dropped me home then went out grocery shopping, then made dinner.

We've spent the evening catching up on Kings and catchup on Facebook & LJ.

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Originally uploaded by how3ird.

The photo walk was a LOT of walking, in balmy 86° sunshine, pretty blue sky with whispy clouds. We started at the silent film museum, formerly Charlie Chaplin's Essanay Studios, walked under the RR tracks to the railway depot and toured the SF Railway Museum's display of half a dozen historic cars, then hoofed it across to the other side of Niles to the dog show at the park.

There's a separate small set of photos here of the Railway Post Office car.

So, I'm going to try this for a time.
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Waynes-Games-and-Comics
Of course now I see it shows me something from the old shipping prferences I had and I can't find a way to change it. Sigh.

http://www.peterdavid.net/index.php/2009/07/18/potato-moon-part-70-origins-and-revelations-by-robert-fuller/

“The wot, milady?” asked the confused vole.

“Never mind!” snapped the Potato Goddess. “Which direction did they go?”

“Well… that is… I don’t rightly know.” The vole quavered as he shut his eyes, certain that something unpleasant was about to befall him, probably involving chives.

Fortunately, they were ...

http://www.roleplayingtips.com/readissue.php?number=455

Issue #455: Mess with Your Players' Heads --- Plus Let It Ride - A Technique For Entertaining Sessions; Strolen's Feature Article: Use of Constellations.

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/a6b17dIyLLo/san-francisco-muni-crashes-several-injured-world-maybe-ending

Jesus. Two San Francisco MUNI light rail trains collided earlier this afternoon; officials are counting over 44 to 60 injured.

It doesn't look too bad; there don't appear to be any fatal injuries. People are reporting different stories about the train's conductor, which some said were waving his hands (as if he had no control over the car), the other noting that he was slumped over. Authorities have yet to comment.

The accident occurred just before 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon when a westbound Metro line-L Taraval train slammed into the back of a Metro line-KT Ingleside/Third Street train that was stopped in the station. The front of the L car was totally smashed in, the car itself bent and its windshield shattered from the impact.

This is the third trainwreck in less than a month on fairly famous lines, one which happened in front of a bunch of families and children at Walt Disney World on the Monorail, killing an employee, the other at the DC Metro which killed nine people. There's the idiom about bad things coming in threes; hopefully, this'll be the last trainwreck we see for a while. Then again, three train crashes in a month? Really? In the recent (trainwreck of a) Nicolas Cage movie, Knowing, there's a subway crash and soon thereafter the world ends. But only one subway crash. Three: you think we're being told something?

Dozens Injured In MUNI Crash [KCBS]

I plan to make a movie.

More realistically, I plan to make a trailer, akin to Grayson or Pac Man.

To make this movie, I will need lots of things, most of which I know how to buy, borrow, make, or fake. The one thing I haven't been able to find is an anti-aircraft tank. There are a few outlets that rent demilitarized tanks for filmmaking and other events, but none of them have anything close to the layout I'm looking for.

So. Does anyone know who I'd call to rent an AA tank?

I like to do this periodically: reply to this post with a picture of yourself. I like to know what my readers look like -- and if I know what you look like, I'd like to see what kind of crazy-ass pictures y'all put up. *grin*

Here's one of me at the dojo during my promotion from advanced green belt to brown belt in February 2008:

I'm not sure what amazes me more, the fact that apparently the dog found a tomato my roomie must have dropped out of the grocery bag and was playing catch with it (Alcatraz style) or the fact that in the process, he managed to do it no harm except for inflicting a single toothmark.

He has a very soft mouth. Between this and the ball-fetching, I might confuse him with a retriever.

Does anyone know why the episode numbers on the Star Trek DVDs are weird, out of order, and seemingly random? I have season one of TNG here; the first episode is listed as being episode number 721, the second is listed as # 103, third as 104. This isn't the first Star Trek DVD collection I've seen with weird numbers, either.

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/haLa3EGsxLc/nyts-error+prone-alessandra-stanleys-splashy-return-to-bad-form-with-cronkite-death

Oh, Alessandra Stanley. As far as newspaper idols go, you're my dreamboat. I loved your shoot-first, fact-check-over-the-dead-body-last approach to writing, but then you stopped doing it. But coming back to old-school-you over Walter Cronkite's appraisal? You're the prodigal-daughter of error.

And the Times isn't happy about the three errors you made, either. Especially since today was Walter Cronkite Day, and you know, journalism's kinda fucked and all. Better pay fellas like him the res-pekt they deserve, yeah? Well, "peep" the correction, emphasis mine:

An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to a news organization for which Walter Cronkite worked. At the time, it was called United Press, not United Press International. The earlier version also misstated the date of the first moon landing; it was July 20, 1969, not July 26. And it misspelled Telstar.

Wow. They even started a sentence with a conjunction, which is akin to being slapped with something silly, like a squeak toy. Anyway: Stanley-Watch has [sic] returnxed! Good to have you back for the first time, babes.

Cronkite's Signature: Approachable Authority [NYT]

Update: Oh, wow. NYTPicker points out three more errors-one about the broadcasting team Cronkite did-or didn't-work with, one about Cronkite's first words when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon-they actually just landed in the lunar module-and one about his ratings. They also corrected a spelling mistake in my headline. Error terror begets error! According to them, this brings her into a 10 error-year, slightly under the 50 error-year they'd predicted. Is there somewhere we can place a wager on this kind of thing?

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Today's theme: Space