“Anyone may attend Society events provided he or she wears an attempt at pre-17th century clothing, conforms to the provisions in Corpora, and complies with any other requirements (such as site fees or waivers) which may be imposed. At business meetings and informal classes, the requirement to wear pre-17th century dress may be waived. All ( Read more... )

First some backstory as to why this has been on my mind:  At Midrealm coronation a few weeks ago I was (jokingly) given to another Pelican for a month.  This was all said in good fun by my peer, but I ran with it, immediately cutting up the other Pelicans's (Master Straum's) steak, carrying some of his gear, and just generally being an overzealous ( Read more... )

In September of 2010 I interviewed for a job at Meijer.  I showed up in a shirt and tie.  I thought about wearing a suit, but I knew there were no management positions open, so I thought it would look a little ridiculous.  The guy who interviewed right before me was in blue jeans (with some stains on them) and a T-shirt that told you his music ( Read more... )

Several times I thought “I should blog about this or that” over the past few weeks. But, I never got the gears going, subbing the long posts on my blog for quick ones on Facebook. Then I listened to Weird Al's newest CD and I knew I had to write about a song. From there I thought about Weird Al and the post changed to this:

I remember the first ( Read more... )

So there appears to be a shift to online editions of Kingdom Newsletters.  Personally I think this is a great move and wonder why it has not been done sooner but at least it seems on the horizon.  (Latest I heard it was that it was in the "planning phases.")

But this is what baffles me.  From a BoD memo dated March 22: "The newsletters will be on a ( Read more... )

I have always been a Sci Fi Geek.  I don't have one particular focus that I know all about while ignoring the rest.  While I would say my Star Trek knowledge is the most well rounded, my ability to know the back story of IG-88 or the plots to most classic Sci Fi movies is pretty good I feel.  There are very few Sci Fi shows that have been on in the ( Read more... )

Let me tell you about my brother. I hope you will indulge me here.

When my little brother (okay once he was my little brother, now he has buffed up and is just younger) was in the fifth grade a shy girl was constantly getting picked on. Though my brother was one of the youngest in his class, he was also one of the biggest. He went up to the ( Read more... )

While randomly surfing the web, I came across a wiki completely devoted to the Godzilla series.  I am ashamed to admit that the only Godzilla I had seen to that point was the terrible 1998 movie with Matthew Broderick.  I felt I owed a movie that is so important to cinema, and science fiction in general, a watch.  I went into it expecting to be ( Read more... )

So two weekends ago I went to the regional Heraldic Symposium. Wanting to get to know the heralds more and contribute to my new kingdom, I wrote up a class that I was pretty excited to teach. Some heralds at a previous event seemed intrigued by the idea, so I made up an hour long course covering period approaches to vocal heraldry, focusing on ( Read more... )

Note:  Not wanting to get to confusing, I will be giving a computer human characteristics, including using "he" and describing his abilities using words that aren't true of computers, but gets the point across ( Read more... )