Sooooo... hi, LiveJournal. Looks like I last posted here two years ago. I want to assure friends here that I do still read everything posted to (the slowly dwindling active fraction) of my friends' list. But I'm afraid I just don't really live here anymore ( Read more... )

I've helped out with cons a dozen times before (mostly Animazement over the years), but Contemporal 2012 was the first time I've actually been a major member of a ConCom. Running the Comics and Media track for a first-year steampunk (and sci-fi and fantasy and what else ya got) convention was quite the experience. It was exhausting, but also a ( Read more... )

So my contract was up, and tiered data plans finally aren't stupidly expensive, so I find myself with an iPhone 4. (The plan is to do any serious data stuff only on wifi, keeping cellular data to text-based things and the occasional gmap.) So I'm looking for stuff and tips ( Read more... )

Right, time for the big Dragon*Con post ( Read more... )

So I'm still slowly playing FFXIII while most other people I know are wrapping it up; I'll maybe talk about that later. I've also been playing FFI (GBA Dawn of Souls version) in bits of spare time because I wanted to do a crazy sequence-break run; it's pretty fun ( Read more... )

The other day on the way home from work I passed a cute little sports car (I think it was a Crossfire or something). It was a nice shade of very dark grey / graphite. That particular body paint made it very subtle that, right in the center of the back bumper, was a large black Decepticon symbol. It was the most tasteful display of total ( Read more... )

I was just reading an article in the Economist that was mentioning how LED lights are great, but not quite ready for widespread residential lighting use. Good ones are a bit expensive, and while you could theoretically make any perfect shade of white you want by combining red, blue, and green LEDs in practice the relative intensities tend to drift ( Read more... )

Dragon*Con! It was fun as always. Here's a quick run-down from this year ( Read more... )

*sigh*

Japan! It was awesome. Uncharacteristically, I'm not going to be lazy and just point you all to akiko's inevitable huge posts on the subject, but actually write something up myself. With pictures! Bold stuff in the post refers to the pics, which will be thumbnails linked to full-size images ( Read more... )