Friday - Saturday - Sunday I went to C2E2.  The details are fairly banal.  As cons go c2e2 has the basics down but lacks in the 'filler' material which makes cons so much fun.   I did get to sit in on The Walking Dead Q&A which was interesting. They announced Stephen King will be doing some writing on the show next season.  Following that was the ( Read more... )

1. I have reached the final stage of Curmudgeon that I've been working on for the past 39 years and take on the title Grand Master Curmudgeon ( Read more... )

Birthdays suck.  

Valloween 2.0

Love inspires grand feats, art, and music. Two men’s love for the beautiful Helen of Troy ignited a war that buried the city.  Shah Jahan in 1631 had the Taj Mahal built after the death of his wife to honor his love for her.

St. Valentine’s Day is the day on which we celebrate and honor love. St. Valentine served a prison term in ( Read more... )

 I luckily found out about this in time to toast Tolkien at 9pm

http://www.tolkiensociety.org/toast/2011/

 Just realized when I was shopping that I haven't had a solo T-Day in a long time.  It really isn't a concern as I've had many solo Thanksgivings since I've moved to Chicago ( Read more... )

 So after all the dough making, I returned to my nemesis, pizza dough.  Pizza dough is my nemesis because when I worked at Godfather's pizza I made pizza dough daily, but it was this very specific recipe and was meant to be done by a mindless idiot at 7am.  My artisan dough people haven't tackled pizza dough yet so I hunted down a different recipe ( Read more... )

I discovered this bread recipe - Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes that is so simple it is almost nuts. So simple in fact that I've memorized the recipe.

6.5 cups flour
3 cups body temp water
1.5 Tablespoons salt
1.5 Tablespoons yeast

Add water, salt, and yeast to mixing bowl, mix in the flour, put dough in a 6 quart container, lightly covered on counter for ( Read more... )

OMG! I can't even begin to believe the ridiculousness of this.

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Presented without comment.

Yeah, right, as if I could do that.

I did the 3D layer and animated camera effect again, this time with much greater success. I took my time in blending the clips so the line created by the overlap isn't noticeable at all. Or at least I am unable to see it.

The pacing in this is also better, in my opinion.

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Here in ( Read more... )