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Okay, so Norwescon starts Wednesday. I'm getting ready for the daily newsletter, like usual, and for the fanzine library, which I also run.
Right now, the only significant thing left on the newsletter side is collecting random bits of SF and fantasy trivia regarding languages, communications, and communications systems. The convention theme this year is "The Language of Fantasy and Science Fiction," and I've already stripmined things like A Fire Upon the Deep and (to a lesser degree) Lost and I've got some random tidbits from This Island Earth and MST3K, and a few other small random bits.
I want suggestions, if you've got 'em. Other than Star Trek stuff, I mean, unless it's really obscure or something. Drop a comment if you've got something that I might be able topervertuse to good effect.
Other than that, one of our receipts had this interesting not-really-a-staple-but-looked-like-one-from-the-top fastener of a kind I don't use and have never seen before which totally destroyed our shredder. (Jammed it and broke off a piece of plastic; plastic then jammed in the gears; gears lost several teeth.) On the plus side, I tossed the warranty 120GB drive into our backup server and moved our tape drive to the proper bay. And I got about 3/4 of the shredding done before SURPRISE NO MORE SHREDDER FOR YOU.
Hm. What else? Last night,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annathepiper and I went by a couple of parties; a writer's-association party of Anna's and our ex-housemate Ian's birthday party. Ian's house has kind of a bit of an Andor vibe (hi lyonesse!), though part of that is no doubt the impressive hallway mural in the back. I liked the house a lot, it's just an assortment of blocks away from the first house we tried to buy when doing the monster house search last year. It would have been cool if that had worked out. His street has an amazing view of downdown, I really like it - it's in Wallingford, with a straight shot down to the north edge of Lake Union, for anybody who knows what that means.
Mostly it's been that kind of stuff this week. Oh, OS X users should more seriously investigate mplayer for divx and mp42/mp43 data sources. It's a fairly direct port of the *nix version, does fullscreen, is open, and has good performance. La.
Anyway, if you have ideas for the daily 'zine, lemmie know!
Right now, the only significant thing left on the newsletter side is collecting random bits of SF and fantasy trivia regarding languages, communications, and communications systems. The convention theme this year is "The Language of Fantasy and Science Fiction," and I've already stripmined things like A Fire Upon the Deep and (to a lesser degree) Lost and I've got some random tidbits from This Island Earth and MST3K, and a few other small random bits.
I want suggestions, if you've got 'em. Other than Star Trek stuff, I mean, unless it's really obscure or something. Drop a comment if you've got something that I might be able to
Other than that, one of our receipts had this interesting not-really-a-staple-but-looked-like-one-from-the-top fastener of a kind I don't use and have never seen before which totally destroyed our shredder. (Jammed it and broke off a piece of plastic; plastic then jammed in the gears; gears lost several teeth.) On the plus side, I tossed the warranty 120GB drive into our backup server and moved our tape drive to the proper bay. And I got about 3/4 of the shredding done before SURPRISE NO MORE SHREDDER FOR YOU.
Hm. What else? Last night,
annathepiper and I went by a couple of parties; a writer's-association party of Anna's and our ex-housemate Ian's birthday party. Ian's house has kind of a bit of an Andor vibe (hi lyonesse!), though part of that is no doubt the impressive hallway mural in the back. I liked the house a lot, it's just an assortment of blocks away from the first house we tried to buy when doing the monster house search last year. It would have been cool if that had worked out. His street has an amazing view of downdown, I really like it - it's in Wallingford, with a straight shot down to the north edge of Lake Union, for anybody who knows what that means.Mostly it's been that kind of stuff this week. Oh, OS X users should more seriously investigate mplayer for divx and mp42/mp43 data sources. It's a fairly direct port of the *nix version, does fullscreen, is open, and has good performance. La.
Anyway, if you have ideas for the daily 'zine, lemmie know!
