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Blatant Plug - "Chicks Dig Gaming" Release Date Set
Coming in time for Xmas! Buy copies for your friends!
Perhaps you'll be unsurprised to hear that my contribution to this fine tome is about LARPing (although I don't rate a mention alongside the real writers ;)).
Anyways, here's the blurb:
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Casting Into The Ether - 1
This week's (short) free reading is available on the Simply I Ching page.
Or, if you like, download the PDF of the "long" versionThe difference between the two? About 500 words. The "long" reading goes into a lot more detail about the changing lines, the path described by changing gua and even takes a glimpse at the "hidden" hexagrams ( Read more... ) -
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I've created a Meetup group in the hopes of bringing together Welsh language learners in the SF Bay Area*. All very early days but it's my hope that enough interested persons can be found to support a regular study group.
SF & East Bay Welsh Language Learners' GroupPlease join the group (it's free!) if you'd like ( Read more... ) -
Whew.
Copied out my basic princess sloper, added ease, copied some details from the Vogue pattern and ran up a muslin - which doesn't sound like much four hours' work, but there you go.
Tried on the muslin, decided that I'd added too much ease in the back, as I rather suspected I would. Also decided to hell with the double-breasted closure, I was going ( Read more... ) -
Femmy!10 Coat Mk 2 - Blather
As I've told you ad infinitum already, I picked up Vogue 8346 - below - with the intention of making it over into a new coat for Femmy!10. The short bolero thing just didn't work with the long skirt of the new version of the costume, you see ( Read more... ) -
On bodices and heads meeting desks
This is really only meant for two people to see - one is a non-LJer, hence this post being public. It will probably go away as soon as advice is acquired. But if you fancy offering some advice, heck, I'm listening. ( What's going wrong with this Idris bodice mockup? ) -
Um, Happy Birthday?
Alex always loved the fact that he shared his birthday with HP Lovecraft.
Further sadness because Alex's b-day was when we celebrated the pets' birthdays, too, and Jack's been gone for two weeks, now.
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Idris - Updates and Whatnot
Right then. Even though I've promised myself I'll hold off the actual construction (because my waist measurement is currently what my bust measurement was, 20 years ago and I know it's a long way from 21 to 41 but I can get rid of at least SOME of that, dammit) I've made a lot of progress in the materials manipulation for Idris. Details behind the ( Read more... ) -
Signal Boosting
It seems that ReaderCon also rocks at genderfail. Sigh.
By rax: Readercon: This Isn't The Only Reason Not To Go. -
On Conventions, Safety, Etc - Pt. 2
Filter: public
In the comments to my entry of last night, kest reminded me of an anecdote I wanted to share ( Read more... )