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Hey folks I just wanted to thank everyone the staff, the security, ops and those who attended any one of my three panels at AnthroCon. I get to finish the weekend Sunday checking out the Art Show, Dealer's Annex and Artist Area (yeah I renamed them because of the sheer amount of space which was wow!).
I know the con is coming to an end but I am very grateful for the opportunity to offer something back to the convention. Sure I have other thoughts but right now I feel content and have really had a pleasurable time!
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bucky_boy
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 To start off, I would like to wish you all a very
happy and safe Forth Of July. I would also like to thank all who
have served this country in the arm forces, and to those who have stuck
their necks on the line protecting, and saving our butts weather if its
threw the fire department, police, EMTs, and who ever else that I might
have forgotten. You guys are true heroes and patriots.
This is the first 4th of July that I have spent ALONE in a very long
time, so I decided to combined a couple of projects into one.
"Notice I said along? The phone didn't even ring once here
today." Since I working on big fence silhouettes, and I had to
draw the who horse character, I might as well make it into a nice
drawing. Since it was Independence Day, I decided to use that
theme, and call it the, Patriot.
I made a copy of the image so I can fill it in, and then enlarge it
with an over head projector that I got for $12 at a garage sales.
The most time consuming part will be cutting at the plywood
forms. Then I will pant them black, and post them when I get
done. I'm hoping that I might be able to sell some, along with
different figures. Plenty of time to do lots of thinking.
Did a mention that the phone did even ring all day? None of
them. The cell or the regular one. It was pen drop quite
around here. I do get a TV for my studio room, I found out when I
had one in here, was more creative because it kept my mind busy.
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cmdr_kitsune
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Well, this has been an interesting weekend. On Thursday, I drove down to Pittsburgh to attend both Anthrocon and the Mensa Annual Gathering. I was a little nervous about the AG, but then again, I was nervous about going to my first AC too...
The AG was a blast. Friendly people. Fun conversations. And Dr. Demento as the keynote speaker on Saturday night. I've already been asked if I would do a talk on Wolf Park for next year's AG in Detroit. It seems like we have some rabid wolf fans in Mensa!!! Oh yeah, I got hit one by females there. They have a dot on the badges to indicate single and looking (sweet!). I'm looking forward to the regional gathering and the local meet and greet in a few weeks.
On Saturday morning, we did the military furries breakfast as usual (waffles... mmm). Waarhorse and I went to the convention center to make our run through the dealer's room and show off the uniforms. I had intended to just do a quick run through, head back to the Mensa hotel and do some more panels and networking. Yappy Fox asked me to carry the National Ensign at the front of the fursuit parade... in my dress uniform. As far as I was concerned, there was no way to say no on that. I was asked to do a service and they knew I'd do it properly. I was very honored to do it and had more than a few people thank me for doing that. To y'all I say, "Thank you! It's an honor to serve."
I'm under budget for the con. I've made new contacts. And this evening, I found out my old CO is the head of the US Navy Reserves. Not a bad weekend at all.
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spikedpunch
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| Mood: |  full. |
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Who needs fireworks when it feels like my stomach is about to blow. =Dp
And just to mess with your minds, I present you "Giga-Pudding!":
It's like an animated LJ Icon that lasts for 2 minutes and 11 seconds.
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thewerewolf
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Windows has four 'power down' modes: off, sleep, hibernate and hybrid (which is kind of like set up for hibernate by writing the memory out, but then go into sleep mode - which sounds goofy, but the idea is that you get the quick startup of sleep mode - but the protection against loss of power that hibernate gives you).
If you're in sleep mode, there has to be a way to wake up the laptop. Many devices have wake features including the obvious ones like the keyboard (hit key to wake up), the mouse and the lid switch for laptops. Most people don't know your network card can also wake your computer on receipt of a special packet. Other devices can wake the laptop as well. Also, most computers include a wake timer and applications can set auto-wake calls.
All of this is cool, until something sets an autowake at 4am or some other inconvenient time, or some device wakes your laptop unexpectedly in your shoulderbag or backpack without your knowing it, leaving you with a VERY hot laptop and no battery.
I just found out about an insanely useful tool built into Windows that helps diagnose these problems called powercfg. Open a command line and enter
powercfg /?
for a set of options, but the most useful ones are:
-DEVICEQUERY wake_armed
which prints a list of all devices that can wake your computer, and
-LASTWAKE
which gives you some information what woke the system the last time it was awakened.
You can use powercfg to turn off devices' ability to wake your laptop. Most of the devices have a checkbox in their property settings to do this, but going through each device and bringing up its property page to change one checkbox is tedious. This lets you do it all in one place.
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rifkafox
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Anthrocon
Why was there someone selling a Sunday paper at the diner this morning? That confused my brain.
The convention goes well. Yesterday was a busy day. Woke up and headed to the dealer's room for a couple of hours before hitting dinner with friends and just hanging out for the rest of the evening. Today we've had breakfast and are now happily sitting behind our table selling books to our many happy customers.
Not sure what the plan is for this evening yet...but the day is still young.
Until later...
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midwest_furfest
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hey all!
i recently made room reservations at the Hampton Inn and Suites and just had a few questions.
how far is it from the Hampton to the con hotel? we'll be relying on the shuttle since i've heard parking at the con hotel is a mess, so i was wondering on average how long the shuttle took to get to and from each place.
anyone mind telling me their experiences at the Hampton? did you enjoy it? :)
are the places to eat near-by good? i saw on the site the different places to eat, and a few i recognize but some are new to me. i'm always down for trying new things.
i'm looking forward to making it back to MFF this year- it's always been a favorite con of mine! hope to see a lot of you there!
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spikedpunch
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| Mood: |  curious. |
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Youngwoong Jang is a Korean student filmmaker whose short "Mirage," about a tiny cyborg who needs a drop of water to survive, is one of the most beautiful examples you'll see of CGI as art.
Their server seems to be pretty slow, so I suggest you just open the link in a different tab or window, and let it load upon in the background as you go about other things for about 15 mins. It is worth the wait.
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spikedpunch
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Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics
by Leigh Scott
So, Mark Sanford had an affair. Big deal. Who really cares? He screwed up his own life. He screwed over his wife and kids. It happens everyday. His family will deal with it. He will pay a personal price, either by losing his family, the mistress he claims to be in love with, or most likely both.
The media and the Muckadoos on the Internet think that this is once again an example of “conservative hypocrisy.” I’ve seen no less than ten news segments dedicated to discussing whether or not the GOP needs to shift focus away from family values, religion and morality because even the standard bearers of the ideology can’t stay the course.’
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spikedpunch
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This might be the last day of independence, to be soon follow by the new holiday of dependence day.
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