Schroedinger's Oreo

We Did It

CostumeCon26, is over, it is a thing of the past.

We not only finished our costumes, although there was some hand finishing in the hotel room, but our presentation was fabulous, none of us ended up killing each other, our music had the green room conga-ing, and the our pun got at least minutes worth of groans.  Oh and we even won an award acknowledging our evil work.  All in all "The Evil Satinist Cult" was a success.

In other news My Sweet Thomas got an award (that he so richly deserved, cough cough WorldCon) at the Mad Science Fair: A Prop Show, for his Smoke Effect back pack, from "Red Badge of Courage"

Sadly there wasn't that much programming, and what programs I did want to see were scheduled against a panel I was on. A panel I had been shanghaied into, and one that had the wrong title, no program description, was in a room that wasn't set up for lectures, and was against all the other Scifi panels.  We ended up with 3 audience members, which is embarrassing enough, but add that to the fact we were in a huge empty ballroom, and yeah it sucked.

My Sweet Thomas and I have been telling various mundanes about our weekend, and when we tell them that we "won", they always say, "That's great what did you win, cash, a prize?"  We are left grinning really hard and saying, "Well it's not that kind of competition, really.  It's more about the fun."  Then the mundanes give us that, oh how sad for you to be so crazy,  look and grin real hard as they back away.

I wish I could have gotten WoW on my Laptop, that way I could have at least have attended the AIE guild craft faire, maybe I would be less cranky.

Hopefully all the fun and people I missed at CC26,  will be at BayCon.

On a side note....
I'm not a big fan of all the ribbon-ing that happens at Cons, in fact I'm getting weirdly curmudgeonly about it, to the point where I poopoo any and all ribbons, and plot fantastic anti ribbon antics.  I know it's weird, who cares let it go move on,  blah blah blah....

That being said I really liked my badge and ribbons for CC26.  Not quite a epitaph, but perhaps not a bad bio in a forum.

It's such a lovely place

I think I'll go work in my garden.

Some things I like

Small convenient stores filled with all sorts of yummy stuff.  The prices are good and the small packages are the antidote to Costco.  Since the place is called Fresh & Easy, they mark all the “fresh” stuff down a couple of days before it “dates” out, so you can pick up some great bargains. You should try the tiramisu or the crème caramel puddings or the frozen Indian meals.   It won’t replace all your marketing, but it’s a great place for day to day stops and meal planning.

I love the fact this even exists.  Forget a safe place for the jewelry, or a humidor for the Cohibas, I need a safe place for my chocolate!

I really enjoy Podcasts, I love the fact that anybody can throw one together, and like the internet, whatever your passion you will find a Podcast too fit.  Since I'm a big ol' geek all of my favorite podcasts are geeky

ExtraLifeRadio
Major Spoilers
GeeksOn
The Instance
How I WoW

Star Wars in the streets.

20 something years too late, I’m obsessed with D&D

The countdown to Tiki Oasis begins

Ravelry, yet one more reason the kitchen floor does not get scrubbed

My cat will get in any box you place on a solid surface

My dress and headpiece for CostumeCon 26 is finished!

I love the Olympics and plan on watching them this summer. Here is a very good article about the torch controversy.

You know what? Forget the Olympics, The Grilled Cheese Invitational,  that’s the best competition ever!

A very good Online book club for SciFi and Fantasy books.

Why I married and engineer.

They really do think like this.

Gotta love 'em

p.s. we can now make Sophia Princess Tiki,  yodel

Dancing like a fool = Weightloss

Saw this website on AOTS on G4 last night.  It's fun, kind of a small very pop/current, what the RIAA thinks you want, collection to choose form, but fun none the less.

Tight Sleeves

So I was in Target the other day, legitimately looking for a mop, and I cruised by the sales rack in the womens department, I do love me a sale. 

They had a large selection of nice things, many of which were ridiculously cheap.  Being a good little American I decided to do my part and buy something.  I mean face it, changing our light bulbs to LCFs and having a compost heap hasn't fixed all of our country's problems,  maybe buying a nice little summer-ie shirt would.

So I take a few choice items, all under $10 bucks to the dressing room of doom.  Long ago I gave up being a "small" I but hang on tight to being a "medium" DAMNIT!!!  So mediums in hand I strip down and start trying on.  The first time I get stuck, in a bizarre contorted position, trying to stuff my arms in a sleeve, I assume the tops were made for skinny little teenagers, and go back to grab some larges.  Once again I strip down, this time I get into a top, and the sleeves are really really tight, just from the elbow to the shoulders, everything else in on the okeydokey side.  I think that this must be a fluke, with this one top and move on to top 2, again really really tight sleeves, and no big surprise the same with the rest.  Harumph!

"They must be making sleeves smaller these days", I think to myself, put the to tight tops back on the rack and head off to some Pringles.

Spring is here San Diego's is weather unbelieveably fabulous, it's time to switch the sheets from flannel to cotton, head out to the garden and start the tomatoes, and pack the winter clothes away, and pull out the summer wardrobe. I pull the clothes out from under the bed and out of their space bags, and commence to culling.

Guess what?  The same person who is making all the sleeves small on this seasons fashions, went back and refashioned all my other clothes with tiny sleeves.  BITCH!!!

Or I could just be FAT!  I wanted to believe the whole refashioning fairies fairy tale, but I got on the scale today, and fairies just don't weigh that much.  Grrrrr.

Sitting here at my computer I have placed in and around my desk, Dove dark chocolate almonds, a bag of Twizzlers, Cadbury caramel eggs, Cadbury fruit & nut bar, Cacao Reserve by Hershey's Ultra-Thin squares 65% cacao. OMFG!  That's not including lord knows what in my regular household stash.

I sense exercise and salads in my future, and before you know it, it will be too hot to have chocolate just sitting around house.

If fat gave me boobs or hips I wouldn't mind so much, but big arms and a fat back aren't a look I'm going for.

Maybe I'll try jumping rope?

Two great things that go great together

Portal meets Warcraft.

WeGame.com - WoW Videos

Oh to be young again

And have a hot body, too much money and not enough sense.

I forgot where I was surfing when I found this site, but I was just mesmerized.
 

It's like my Barbie's clothes dropped some acid and went to BurningMan to score some E.  I love it, wouldn't wear it (well maybe a few pieces, but only at a Con, and it would have to be a very friendly Con) but glad some s PYT is out there all fluffy and plastic and platformed.

Now I have vague memories of video taping some of our creative expressions, way back when in my high school days.  I'm hoping Donavan has lost all that video tape.  But I don't think we ever did anything as swell as this

More Beatings for Baltar

I love, love, love, Battlestar Galactica.  Now I was already a big SciFi fan, and so unlike many people, I was not shocked that a science fiction t.v. show could tackle successfully some very difficult subjects.  I just like BSG because it is good, yes better than many SciFi shows, (damn you Flash Gordon and Bionic Woman), but not world altering as it seems to be to some.  See Battlestar Galactica: The Phenomena to understand

My Sweet Thomas and I talked about this, and I think BSG gets more credit  because it's dark and gritty and no one is wearing costumes and there are not a bunch of aliens looking silly.  When you watch BSG you don't have to apologize for being a geek.  Now why that same thing wasn't true for Firefly I don't know.  I think the idiot suits at FOX couldn't get over the fact there were horses. DBags!

All that being said, I am very excited for the final season of BSG, we have waited long enough for it.  My Sweet Thomas and I missed most of last season since they moved it to 10pm Sunday and we didn't have a tivo yet.  And why oh why was the SciFi channel not rerunning the hell out of that show!

Speaking of.... what the hell  is up with the SciFi Channel, why does it suck!  Ghosthunters!  Why the frak is that on, why are they not rerunning Blakes 7, Space 1999, old Dr Whos, the Prisoner, etc...  They should have a Friday night Drive in double feature and run Classic SciFi movies. You could run the movies twice one run straight, then after run it again but with commentary, sometimes funny ala MST3K or serious and or educational, like something on  the DVD.  SciFi cahnnel needs a talk show interviewing authors and scientists.  The people at the SciFi channel need to visit some SciFi conventions, and no not just ComicCon, some of the smaller fan driven cons, I mean we are supposedly their audience.

Back to BSG,  Baltar needs to  get beaten to death.  Sorry he has to pay, he can get redeemed so long as it is in death... after a beating... preferably with sharp pointy sticks and red hot pokers.  The whiny, sniveling little git has to pay! I hate him!   Apollo should also die, his can be noble death that saves the fleet, blah blah blah, and it doesn't have to hurt, but he should die.

How long has Tigh been a Cylon?  Was he switched out in prison on new Caprica? Everyone else in the four I could buy as a Cylon, although shouldn't the Cylons be more interested in Cheif Tyrol's kid, it is a hybrid afterall?

I think Dualla is the Final Cylon. She was the "voice" of the fleet telling everyone what to do, shes not in the "last supper" poster. Ronald Moore said the last cylon wasn't in that shot. Her intials are A.D.  Okay I'm just grasping at straws, but I want the last Cylon to be a woman, you know girl power and all that.

When it all gets too serious, remember Captain Jack Harkness is hot

Wrong show I know, but he's just too pretty.  By the way BITEME, BBC, not allowing non Brit ISPs to view you website!  One world my shiny metal ass!

Feeling kind of slow today.