This past weekend I had the chance to participate in something really spiffy -- a recreation of a historic coronation ceremony. Most SCA ceremony is fundamentally modern, dressed up in renaissance trappings; the chance to do more-serious recreation is pretty special ( Read more... )

Today at the Agincourt event byronhaverford received a writ for the order of the Chivalry and hildakrista received a writ for the order of the Pelican, both to be answered at baronial 12th night. Woo hoo! (These are both peerage orders, the highest honors the SCA gives out aside from the rank you earn if you sit the throne. Chivalry is for skill at arms and Pelican is ( Read more... )

For the last several days there has been an increasingly-tedious discussion on the (SCA) kingdom mailing list about an incident involving another kingdom's monarchs and the corporation. Well, was until yesterday, when a tedious discussion of chocolate milk took over the mailing list. (The prompt for that is that the dairy farm that produced the ( Read more... )

Yesterday after I got home from services we went up to Cooper's ( Read more... )

I moderate a mailing list, and I'm going to be out of town with poor net access for a while later this month. So yesterday I posted to the list asking for volunteers to be fill-in moderator. I think I even said that it's usually not much work. (The list is a "filter" on an unmoderated list, so you don't even have to deal with rejection messages ( Read more... )

Apropos of nothing... this essay by dglenn on no longer being special in the modern era resonated with me.
Tonight's D&D game was a lot of fun. The party ( Read more... )

Attention appliance manufacturers: there are correct and ( Read more... )

I run a moderated "mirror" of an unmoderated mailing list. In other words, I edit a filtered feed, cutting out the spam, off-topic posts, gratuitous HTML, duplicate postings, and misdirected personal replies ( Read more... )

Belated congratulations to dagonell for being named the kingdom bard last Saturday!

Saturday at the SCA event Rufina showed up with the "peer trading cards" (a fundraiser for the kingdom). Each package contains one chocolate frog and one card. (Obviously we have Harry Potter fans in the SCA...) It was extremely successful, and I hope she does it again so I can get more. (Due to limited supplies, I only got one. It took me ( Read more... )