Why is it that Web Comic Artists all seem to use Live Journal?  I'm noticing that most of my online associate's activity has moved to Facebook, and the only folks that still post to LJ seem to be the authors of awesome online art.  (And a handful of LARPers, too...)  This is not necessarily a bad thing, or any such - I just find it odd that that is ( Read more... )

So DREAMATION was this weekend. The week before, I'd come down with a cold / flu like illness - the same damn bug that's been creeping it's way around the populace. I don't think I picked it up from Katsucon the weekend before, since I A) Slept well, B) Ate well, and C) No one there had it that I know of. I suspect I picked it up from work ( Read more... )

D: "Andy, you're not eating your bacon ( Read more... )

So I got home today to two packages from the Kitchen Fairy. (This is not to be confused with the Kitchen Gnome, that is currently hanging from a hook in the ceiling in our kitchen by his belt, suffering an eternal wedgie ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I play in a fantasy-themed boffer LARP (Knight Realms). My main character there is a blacksmith, who makes ... stuff. Weapons, armor, gear, you name it.

One of the oft-overlooked aspects of the game is the "gear" category. Everyone has swords and armor, but who in the party has the ubiquitous 50' of rope? The 10' pole? The ( Read more... )

So, Garrun, your LiveJournal reveals...


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Last week was DEXCON - while it was most definitely fun, it was also a lot of running around and odd eating habits / schedules ( Read more... )

http://www.threadless.com/submission/170537/Vegan_Zombie

(Courtesy of yduras )

Not sure about all you LJers out there - who all will be at DEXCON?

Also, Usagi is back - it was the new HD I bought to replace the one I thought was dying, ironically. The old one is actually behaving after a reformat & reinstall, and thank $DEITY for OS X's Time Machine. The only data I lost was a line of data on Quicken I made after my last

My Laptop (Usagi, a 1st-gen 17" MacBook Pro) is dead as of this morning. Last night, I was fine torrenting the latest Doctor Who and offloading pictures, but when I woke up this morning, it was dead, and will not boot. I'll be taking it in for service this week, and will likely be offline for most of it.