What a wonderful event. It was fun to see so many old faces and to have such great conversations about the Old Days. Most groups try to do everything to the fullest when they're new, and then learn the corners they can cut, what they can get away with, and without. Carolingia never did that: a Carolingian event is the SCA as it should have been, ( Read more... )

Happy May Day, Anno Societatis XLVI !

So does anyone know how to download an eBook from Barnes & Noble's fictionwise.com web site to a Blackberry Curve 3G 9300? I log in, search, select, fill my cart, go to checkout...and get bounced back to the login screen. This happens with both regular checkout and PayPal. I thought maybe using another browser might work, but Firefox Mobile is only ( Read more... )

Jesus, am I the only person who actually read the appendices in Lord of the Rings? (Yeah, probably).

First, the LotR films had Smeagol and Deagol, whose names are pronounced SMEY-a-gaul and
DEY-a-gaul, but no, in the films they're pronounced "Smeegle" and "Deegle". Now pay attention
to the names of the dwarves mentioned here. It's Owe-in, and Glow ( Read more... )

themajordomo!

I note that SCA Today has an article on children's books that have been translated into Latin, including "Harrius Potter".

Seriously? "Harrius Potter"? That's the best you can do? Take the first name and hang a "-us" off the end? Make it all Latin-y like?

Harry Potter in Latin is "Henriculus Figulus".

I see a potential second career, maybe.

3.5# flat corned beef brisket ( Read more... )

My web site, which I wrote the old-school way in rudimentary HTML, went away when Geocities died. Well, I've finally mastered enough of all the "cool new tools" that are supposed to make it oh-so-much easier and are now required. So thanks (NOT!) to MS FrontPage and FileZilla, my site is coming back up at members.cox.net/mesnick (or pobox.com/~ ( Read more... )

I'm almost giving this episode a free pass[*]. The dream sequences were hilarious.

[*] The sole demerit here is the usual complaint about Zolpidem: not a capsule, and 200 mg will kill a herd of rhinoceroi.

Happy St. David's Day to all my Welsh compatriots.