• 18:47 Dining at Zakia on Parmer with daughter. This place is so new it's not on Brightkite yet. It doesn't have WiFi . #
• 18:50 But I'm picking up a weak WiFi signal at Zakia from ASD next door. The waitresses are friendly, food is good. #
• 21:02 Bought a Halloween costume for daughter at Goodwill. Tried to steer her towards edgy and spidery stuff, ( Read more... )

While I did not stay for the Fencon masquerade, I got to see some of the spectacular costumes on the Catwalk. It was a pre-masquarade event where the costumers discussed their creations with those who wanted to know the what, why and how behind a costume.

The Unseelie court were truly stunning. The level of detail in those costumes was jawdropping ( Read more... )

Panelists: Chuck Coshow (moderator), Mary Miller, Shaista Mohammed, Val Villareal

Description in the program book: It's light on one side and dark on the other and holds the universe together. Now you can use it to hold your costume together. Our team of guerilla costumers show tricks and techniques for non-sewn costumes using duct tape ( Read more... )

The costumes at Flipside were, alas, too much like generic Halloween costumes -- a mishmash of naughty nurses, maids, goth nurses, goth maids, etc., only with even less consideration for esthetics than one would see at, say, a workplace Halloween party. :-) Many of those costumes, I think, would have been disqualified by kgkofmel on the basis of "no ( Read more... )

Last Saturday Erika and I went to Eeyore's Birthday, to get my fill of costume-gazing for the year (because Halloween is still too far away, and ArmadilloCon does not have a masquarade!) With Erika in a stroller, I wasn't as fast as I would have been otherwise to elbow myself in front of a particularly outrageous costume to get a good shot; and I ( Read more... )

Last Monday Steve and I went to the Steampunk party "Futures Past", thrown by EFF and some other organizations as part of the South By Southwest conference. Steve had to be dragged down there kicking and screaming, although I thought he would enjoy the robot exhibit by the Robot Group, who demoed several new cool robots (new being those I haven't ( Read more... )

Yesterday being Halloween, everybody was supposed to bring sweets to work to share. I wanted to make something a bit unusual, or at least less sweet than typical American desserts, so I made something we often ate at my parents' home in the galaxy far away. It's mini-pancakes made with farmer cheese. Farmer cheese is something I didn't expect to ( Read more... )

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The last discussion panel on Friday I went to was "Adventures in Costuming" with Cathy Raymond (Eric's wife) and Jay Maynard, a.k.a The Tron Guy. He is shown in one of the pictures here in a Tron costume (with Cathy Raymond). I had to leave this panel halfway because it was late and Erika was getting tired. Anyway, it was mostly Jay Maynard talking ( Read more... )