Long, fun day yesterday. I was a little tired and cranky in the morning, but getting some BACON! helped matters. The Bacon Brunch was fun and tasty, and we hung out with some nice folks. After that I went downstairs, set up the table, and went nextdoor for my concert. Mark Peters, running sound, was pleasantly surprised by my having a pickup ( Read more... )

Leslie and I are at the Ramada just off the I-71 in Columbus, for a first-year con called Ba-Con. I think it'll be a lot of fun -- it's kinda like PenguiCon, i.e., both open source and sf/f (with a preponderance of steampunk), but with more smoked meat. And, my liaison B.J. brought me my guest bag... which included an official ThinkGeek My First ( Read more... )

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If you're like me, you get e-mailings from the wonderful nutbars at ThinkGeek. And their April Fool's edition is always amazing.

As is usual, this year they came up with something so amazing, so cool, so my god why didn't this already exist, that, by popular demand, it now does exist. A toy of such wonderment and love that you'll have to get at ( Read more... )

The Bacon AT-AT.

By comparison, the Bacon Lamp doesn't even register on the Coolness Scale.

What cool stuff ya got (especially bacon-related)?