You know, usually when I talk about people on stage dancing around while pretending to be animals, folks think I’m talking about the latest convention and it’s masquerade. But in this case it was a little different.

I went to the ballet this weekend and watched Swan Lake.

First off, for those who are curious: a ballet is a type of artform where the ( Read more... )

Memes don’t seem to go around much anymore, but what they hey?

Let me know if you guys find an animal name, variation, or whatnot that should be caught and I’ll add it.

The awesome art was provided by Susandeer.

The Furry ConBadge Drinking Game


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Interested in brushing up on those piano lessons you had had as a kid? Live in the silicon valley area? This person is awesome:

http://takelessons.com/profile/linda-c

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I always find these humorous. Companies, when they have a job-opening, sometimes get into “kitchen sink” mode. Where they throw every single institutional need into a single listing. Oddly enough, most companies don’t actually want to pay for what they are asking for.

I saw tons of these in Philadelphia in the bio-tech area: Little research ( Read more... )

As you might guess from the scores I mentioned when I described the conbadge drinking game, I’ve scored all of the badge names I’ve handled over the years.

I wasn’t about to review all 6500+ names by hand. I programmed something to score things. After all, I had time to kill as the badges printed.

The pattern matching got interesting. I need to ( Read more... )

Bennie drinks his milk!

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As part of the setup for registration for Anthrocon, I would print all the pre-registered badges and signup sheets. This was usually a period of several days of feeding badges through printers and checking the finish. Then there’d be a big sorting party where the badges were broken into their various bins by category.

This means that there’d be ( Read more... )

I spent some time at FC chatting with someone who helped them with their reg system. We commiserated on a few things, and talked of each others successes. It was fun.

It is funny how a simple problem can actually be quite complex. One of the most basic things a registration system does is capture peoples names to associate it with their ( Read more... )

So, for my day job I work for a large consulting job.

A lot of our work centers around VMware and the various cloud tech. I’ve done work at fortune 100 companies, done education sessions on their products, and have done integration work on their lab and production software.

Additionally, I’m a fairly extensively experienced Linux admin and have ( Read more... )

I remember a while back in here I posted my “top ten” favorite shareware applications and OS X software.

I figure and update for some of the new things would be interesting:

• Hex Fiend - A fast, simple, native Hex editor for the Mac.
• Evernote - A simple note-taking program that lets you organize written, video and other notes. It saves in remote ( Read more... )