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SkennCon 2008 – High Adventure UPDATE
•October 30, 2007 • 22 Comments
It’s Go-time, folks!
We leave Lansing at 7:43 am on Saturday, January 26th.
People are welcome to stay at Lucy’s place on Friday night.
We arrive in Chicago at 11:15 am. We’ll take our luggage to the hotel (will be arranged when we have solid numbers), and have lunch at Fogo De Chao, one of the absolute best restaurants ever. Will they give me special meat for my birthday?
Plans are open from there until early evening, where our current plans are to go watch Michelle bellydance (she performed at tawneypup‘s and plasmonic_grid‘s wedding), and then any multitude of: going to a dance club, a pub, a sushi-karaoke bar, or go to our rooms and play games all night. Maybe we’ll bring Karaoke Revolution and DDR, but Apples to Apples is a certainty.
Our next day is open at the moment – breakfast in town, leave our bags at the front desk, have much fun, and get on the 3pm train back home, arriving on Sunday, January 27th at 8:20 pm
(Alternatively, you can stop in battle creek and take the bus the rest of the way, which will save you $9 dollars and get you home either at 5 pm or 12:30 am, depending on when you leave. Seriously, I’ll give you nine dollars to avoid this.)
Outbound trip: $21
Inbound trip: Non-stop $38, BC stop $29
Fogo Lunch (optional): $35 (an incredible salad buffet and meat-stravaganza)
Hotel: We’ll “hamster it up” – Lucy plans on covering a lot of the cost, but any chipping in to defray will be good.
You bring: a sleeping bag or a good reason to get a bed, fun games, and your hot self.
This is your chance to get in before the price goes up. Lucy is being amazing and will pick up the tickets in the next few days if you comment here saying that you’re in, quantity of train tickets, and whether you want to be on the non-stop train with the cool kids or the early/late bus.
People who have said they’re in so far:
| Your M.C. Skennedy netmouse flinx (sorry buddy, you were volunteered) blue_lucy silver_bits filmmaker79 |
childe jadesfire55 tawneypup plasmonic_grid urban_exotic |
Come join us!
•October 30, 2007 • 4 Comments
I really hope I get a chance to stop at The Edison Bar when I’m in Los Angeles in about two weeks.
•October 30, 2007 • 5 Comments
Livejournal now finally comes up with a log-in screen instead of an error screen if you try to view a protected entry while not logged in, and then automatically redirects you to the appropriate entry. What’s it been, six years?
Gmail to integrate contact list into other apps
•October 29, 2007 • 11 CommentsWoohoo! I’ve been waiting for this since the beginning!
I want to be able to click on a contact and see the various days I’ve planned with them. I also want to be able to say “lunch with bob ross on thursday” and if I’ve got a map associated with him, it’ll be linked in my calendar.
I have hopes that fun things like this are soon to come.
I have a new phone!
•October 29, 2007 • 14 Comments
It’s the eNV. I hate the name of it, but whatever. Circuit City is doing a deal (like, 100 bucks less than the verizon store) on them until the end of the month, so with my “new every two” from Verizon, I ended up paying $50, and with the mail-in rebate it’ll be free!
Finally, a non-broken phone. It takes fairly pretty pictures, too, and even has a little flash and “night mode”. And a keyboard. And AIM and Yahoo!
So, if you see my work IM on during non-work hours, it’s probably actually the cell. I have unlimited texts, photos, and video, so don’t be shy. :)
I can dig it.
•October 25, 2007 • 18 CommentsI think this is cool.
Don’t preserve me in a sealed coffin when I die – I won’t have need of these resources I’ve so … *pats tummy* … carefully cultivated over the years. I’d like A flat stone and a tree that will eventually entwine its roots through me.
(okay, so maybe I want a hologram like in Serenity. This is, though, the next best thing.)
The Ladies Home Journal tells it
•October 24, 2007 • 24 Comments
I must be getting boring, I went to type in “This is awesome” as my subject, and it auto-completed.
It’s a pretty amazing read. Some things are totally off-base (human lifespan being only 50 years, extermination of the insects) and some are amazingly spot-on (mass-produced fast food/delivery, and specifically that having one’s own cook would be extravagant).
It talks about the lack of coal, because of course oil isn’t king yet. And yet, the similarities are there. Transmitted color photography.
And, of course, the end of the “hello girl!” :)
EDIT: I want to see the 2001 version of this! If anyone’s aware of an article like this that’s contemporary, let me know!
Mmmm burgers.
•October 24, 2007 • 13 CommentsI grilled burgers last night on my (inherited) foreman. It was fairly delish – I broke off some fresh oregano, chopped it up, mixed it with steak seasoning, garlic salt, cracked pepper, a little cayenne, and made the burgers so most of that was in the middle, with more steak seasoning on the outside, as well as some Worcestershiresirshire sauce.
I ate one with my seven-grain bread, super-sharp cheddar cheese, claussen dill slices, and mustard. Mmm-boy! I popped the other 3 cooked patties in the freezer for a few minutes for a quick cool-down and then into the fridge.
I had another one for lunch today, and that was so, so much better than stopping at Wendy’s.
•October 24, 2007 • 5 Comments
I miss Beyond 2000.
If G4 was going to pull in old TV shows, they should have grabbed that. I’d rather see what 1989 thought was futuristic than watch yet another episode of COPS.