Not Bum Rushing Out Yet, But It's Getting Close
LAST POST BEFORE DRAGON*CON
I'll still be available online somewhat, but I'm not carrying my laptop to the con, so all my internet capability will be strictly through the iPhone. Yes, poor Henry and Wayne won't be seeing live coverage from me from D*C on ACP. There'll still be plenty of pictures actually shot1, since I'm bringing a new HyperDrive (portable CF card offloader) with me. Those who need to contact me probably have my phone number (otherwise, now might be a good time to ask). I'll try to keep up on Twitter, but if I'm too plastered for anything, well, you'll know when I'm too quiet on there. :P
Those of you traveling out there or any of the number of other cons going on this weekend, or just heading out on vacation, have a safe Labor Day weekend! For the rest of you resting, have a good rest and don't get cooked outside. And to waynekaa, take a break from the evil for a weekend, huh? Even evil needs a vacation. ;)
Since I won't be close enough to a computer to say these before I go (though maybe I'll be able to say it to Katie direct at D*C):
Happy Birthday in advance to _shiya_wind and katielovespink! According to Wikipedia, _shiya_wind, on the same day as you were born, in 1991, Tim Berners Lee released a post on the newsgroup alt.hypertext, the first public posting about his little project, and making it a publicly available service. Of course, that project was the World Wide Web, responsible for countless billions, perhaps trillions of hours lost on things like TV Tropes. It's also the day in 1926 that the legend of magic performed one of his greatest feats: Harry Houdini spent 91 minutes in a glass tank full of water before escaping. Yes, I'm also ignoring the history of this day in a very broad scope, but I feel a little bit more upbeat, and I think modern history will forgive me not pointing out something that history has probably already beaten into you about that day.
Obviously I don't know my Augusts from my Septembers. Let's try that again:
1952 - Canada is blessed with the curse we call television as their first TV station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
1991 - St. Petersburg was Leningrad, now it's St. Petersburg not Leningrad. Been a long time gone, Leningrad... Err, sorry. St. Petersburg gets its old name back.
According to Wikipedia, katielovespink, your birthday is the same day in 1782 that George Washington ordered the creation of a new badge, the Badge of Military Merit, to be given to soldiers wounded in battle. Its design would be the inspiration for its successor, which we know as the Purple Heart. It's also the day in 1959 that the penny changed from the classic "wheat penny" design to a then new design, with the Lincoln Memorial in the back. This new design was used on the penny for nearly 50 years. Presently, the penny is going through a bicentennial design celebrating 200 years since Lincoln's birth, and the design starting in 2010 will actually be different. However, the Lincoln Memorial penny is probably a familiar coin to everyone.
Or maybe...
1963 - Canton, OH becomes the new home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Amongst the famous names in the hall when it's first opened: old longtime Packers coach Curly Lambeau (for which their field is named) and legendary runningback Jim Thorpe.
1970 - Horse Jockey Bill Shoemaker, easily the greatest horse jockey of his generation, became the winningest jockey of all time. That record would stand for 29 years.
Hope you both have wonderful birthdays.
1 When they see the light of day, of course. Which at my current pace, should hopefully be sometime before 2038, when computers start rolling over timestamps.
I'll still be available online somewhat, but I'm not carrying my laptop to the con, so all my internet capability will be strictly through the iPhone. Yes, poor Henry and Wayne won't be seeing live coverage from me from D*C on ACP. There'll still be plenty of pictures actually shot1, since I'm bringing a new HyperDrive (portable CF card offloader) with me. Those who need to contact me probably have my phone number (otherwise, now might be a good time to ask). I'll try to keep up on Twitter, but if I'm too plastered for anything, well, you'll know when I'm too quiet on there. :P
Those of you traveling out there or any of the number of other cons going on this weekend, or just heading out on vacation, have a safe Labor Day weekend! For the rest of you resting, have a good rest and don't get cooked outside. And to waynekaa, take a break from the evil for a weekend, huh? Even evil needs a vacation. ;)
Since I won't be close enough to a computer to say these before I go (though maybe I'll be able to say it to Katie direct at D*C):
Happy Birthday in advance to _shiya_wind and katielovespink! According to Wikipedia, _shiya_wind, on the same day as you were born, in 1991, Tim Berners Lee released a post on the newsgroup alt.hypertext, the first public posting about his little project, and making it a publicly available service. Of course, that project was the World Wide Web, responsible for countless billions, perhaps trillions of hours lost on things like TV Tropes. It's also the day in 1926 that the legend of magic performed one of his greatest feats: Harry Houdini spent 91 minutes in a glass tank full of water before escaping. Yes, I'm also ignoring the history of this day in a very broad scope, but I feel a little bit more upbeat, and I think modern history will forgive me not pointing out something that history has probably already beaten into you about that day.
Obviously I don't know my Augusts from my Septembers. Let's try that again:
1952 - Canada is blessed with the curse we call television as their first TV station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
1991 - St. Petersburg was Leningrad, now it's St. Petersburg not Leningrad. Been a long time gone, Leningrad... Err, sorry. St. Petersburg gets its old name back.
According to Wikipedia, katielovespink, your birthday is the same day in 1782 that George Washington ordered the creation of a new badge, the Badge of Military Merit, to be given to soldiers wounded in battle. Its design would be the inspiration for its successor, which we know as the Purple Heart. It's also the day in 1959 that the penny changed from the classic "wheat penny" design to a then new design, with the Lincoln Memorial in the back. This new design was used on the penny for nearly 50 years. Presently, the penny is going through a bicentennial design celebrating 200 years since Lincoln's birth, and the design starting in 2010 will actually be different. However, the Lincoln Memorial penny is probably a familiar coin to everyone.
Or maybe...
1963 - Canton, OH becomes the new home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Amongst the famous names in the hall when it's first opened: old longtime Packers coach Curly Lambeau (for which their field is named) and legendary runningback Jim Thorpe.
1970 - Horse Jockey Bill Shoemaker, easily the greatest horse jockey of his generation, became the winningest jockey of all time. That record would stand for 29 years.
Hope you both have wonderful birthdays.
1 When they see the light of day, of course. Which at my current pace, should hopefully be sometime before 2038, when computers start rolling over timestamps.