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Some random w00t! [Jan. 9th, 2008|01:08 pm]
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Balticon
Balticon invited me to come back. Sue Wheeler e-mailed me, "You coming? Are you going to respond to our invites?" and I thought, "what invites?" I am guessing they got eaten by the spam filters. I do plan to attend, and I do plan to do programming again. I also plan on shifting gears and being an obnoxious guest this year. I will insist on only speaking directly to the con chair, whom I will call "Squeaky" and never tell anyone why, with all my impossible needs:

"What do you mean I can't have a live camel, Squeaky? I thought it would come with the audio/video request package!! I bet you'd do it for Hal Clement if he was still alive...! Yeah... I see how it is for ol' Punkie..."

Futurama
I found, while looking up Phil Lamar's credits, that there will be at least 3 more Futurama movies. "Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009)," "Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)," and "Futurama: Bender's Game (2008)." I liked, "Bender's Big Score," so I am looking forward to a good year of Slurm and Hypnotoad.

SETI
I have been a part of the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) distributed computing program since 1999, and today I crossed over one million credits, ranking me in the 4700s for the whole world, the top 0.5% percentile, and one of the FEW single individuals with that many credits (most are companies like Sun or HP). And at an average of 1600 credits per day, I am still searching for aliens. Woo!

Lego Killing Machines
When I was a kid, my friends and I used to lament that Lego didn't have any real army men or tanks or any Lego sets where we could wage an interlocking brick horror upon the helpless mini-figs we delighted in torturing. Of course, we made our own (usually in the form of marauding spaceships), but they never seemed as cool as a real set. Lego's stance on this was they wanted to promote peace and love and creativity and... they just didn't know boys very well.

Where was this guy when Andy Oman and I were looking for mechanized juggernauts to bring a mini-fig holocaust? Holy tentacled plastic death carriage, man! The video is ever so worthwhile to see mini-figs chopped and flung aside like the helpless, frozen-smiled victim sheep they are. Mua ha ha!
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[User Picture]From: [info]ravynmaniac
2008-01-09 06:37 pm (UTC)

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Maybe we should *all* call the con chair "Squeaky". hehe
[User Picture]From: [info]daecabhir
2008-01-10 02:14 pm (UTC)

Camels... why did it have to be camels?

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Please tell me you did finally respond to Sue... she is relentless, which is a good thing, but oh my inbox.

We need to meet up sometime and discuss your thoughts on Balticon, while there is still time to "make adjustments" before 42.

Oh, and I thought you promised you wouldn't reveal my pet name, Pookie.
[User Picture]From: [info]punkwalrus
2008-01-10 03:38 pm (UTC)

Re: Camels... why did it have to be camels?

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Yes, I did respond to her, but haven't heard back (I asked for a copy of the welcome letter and any info she needed me to answer). She should really consider using a balticon.org address or something, instead of "msmonstarrawr@aol.com or whatever it was. (Don't hit me, Sue).

When's a good time to meet up for you, Sqeuaky? I am free a lot of weekends, but homebound for most.
[User Picture]From: [info]daecabhir
2008-01-12 04:15 pm (UTC)

Re: Camels... why did it have to be camels?

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I don't think Sue knows how to set up an alternate "reply to" or to change the sender address in AOL. I've been doing it for years with regular POP3/SMTP mail so I have no idea what to tell her.

We could either attempt to connect one of the first two Sundays in February, or we could try to sneak off somewhere and chat at Katsucon. I'm working the 2 PM - 10 PM shift in ops, so I'll probably be up for a bit after the shift ends. Thoughts?
[User Picture]From: [info]punkwalrus
2008-01-12 05:00 pm (UTC)

Re: Camels... why did it have to be camels?

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All those ideas are good, I think, but Katsucon seems the MOST likely. But we have to make sure we set an actual date and stick to it, otherwise we'll just keep putting it off and then it will be May again. :)