Okay, so, I've got a Masters to be working on, but this is relevant, I swear. In fact, so relevant that...well, you'll see. Guilermo del Toro is an amazing director. You might remember him from such things as Hellboy, Hellboy II, Blade II and Pan's Labyrinth. He's also this massive Lovecraft fan, and there were rumours that he would make Lovecraft' ( Read more... )

I finished up at my job last Thursday and after a few days off for Easter, I'm easing myself back into full time study. I've spent the week trying to track down all my resources and gathering piles of reading to take with me when Tigger and I go away next week. It feels a bit weird, since each article I find, I say something like "Oh! This looks ( Read more... )

The hottest news on the geek network is the event at university this afternoon. I was at work so I wasn't there but it is awesome enough to repost. New Zealand's Prime Minister, John Key, turned up on campus today and Auckland Geekdom's very own Jack, as a representative of KAOS, went up to him with a paper sword and challenged him to a duel. John ( Read more... )

I think I have a tendency to overcommit. This has resulted in a frantic February. I had three major things on in a very short space of time, so I haven't actually had anything such as a free night for about three weeks. By the end of this last week I was pretty sleep deprived and in a horrible mood most of the time, so I'm very sorry that I've been ( Read more... )

So, ladies and gentlemen of my friendslist, despite all my fervent oaths to turn my back on academia and never darken the doorways of university again, I may have been seduced back. This morning I got the email from the post-grad advisor that the proposal I submitted (which I've been working pretty hard on since early January) was accepted and that ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had an odd adventure. In Kingseat, which is a suburb in the outer south of Auckland, there's an old mental hospital that got shut down a bunch of years back for, from what I understand, being a bit of a hell-hole. It was built in the thirties and is this massive sprawling complex. Spookers runs out of the old nurses' quarters but that's ( Read more... )

Okay, it's been two weeks so I really need to wrap this up. The final day of my amazing Wellington adventure!

( Wellington Anniversary Day and the Great Geek Touristing )

Part 4 of 5 of my ongoing epic recount of my Kapcon adventure. Also, I looked at my profile page to discover I have a swag of new LJ-friends. Welcome, Wellington readers ( Read more... )

Saturday Night - The Larp: REUNION

From the Kapcon website:
"The Union of Planets prospered through a system of interstellar travel gates that allowed instantaneous passage between worlds. Reunion is set centuries after the disastrous shut down of the gates. The vast distances between worlds has prevented any contact, and over time each planet has ( Read more... )

Kapcon Day 1 ( Read more... )