That Was Over Too Soon!

Last night was the big night! The "Crater on the Moon" comic book release party!
Hotness and I headed down from the mountains to brave the big city and make an appearance at the Comics Dungeon for Keith's self-published labor of love.
We were also joined by Elwood who came out to show his support.
(He has a great review of the event over on his blog if you want to check it out)
Here's him and Hotness before the festivities took place:

I acted out a couple of scenes from the story along with other CotM alumni:

(We had some technical difficulties with the first scene, but let it load for a bit and you can skip to the ACTION!)

Special thanks to Elwood for taking the video for both of these. I appreciate it!

And I also got a brief interview with the comic creator himself:

(Sorry about the music, I didn't know the microphone picked it up as much as it did)

There were some nifty door prizes being given out. One of the prizes was a hand-knitted afghan by Keith's mom! (Somebody won some cool swag, but I won't mention any names. *cough!*)

There was music, and although I did bring my Jew's harp I didn't get a chance to join in with the band. (My instrument isn't really "jazz worthy")

Since it's a long drive back home from Seattle, Hotness and I cut out after a couple of hours along with Elwood.
The three of us walked down to Dick's for a quick burger

'cause after all..... Dick's IS the place where the cool hang out!

Overall, it was a fun time and I was glad to help support a local comic.

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Coming up soon.... Thanksgiving and my brush with 'fame'!

Music Madness Monday

Thanksgiving is almost here. Only a few more days away.
So here's a video to remind us of some things to be thankful for;
Skinny ties, hair-metal bands, girls rolling around on cars.... generally everything the 80's had to offer.
Oh, and MILFS. Rawr!

Music Video:1985 (by Bowling For Soup)

Music Video Code provided by VideoCodeZone.Com

... In Which I Didn't Accomplish What I Set Out To Do

I went over to see my mom this weekend (well, Friday night / Saturday at least).

Last time I was there I was to help her get her toes wet with 21st-century technology by setting up a Paypal, eBay, and Amazon account.

We started with getting her a Paypal account and I soon discovered that she didn't have any antivirus software on her computer.

NONE!

So I immediately ceased any further account set-up information and told her we'd have to get that fixed before anything else.

That's why I was over this weekend, to get antivirus installed.

So I'm there, booting up the computer, getting things going, etc....

And one thing leads to another.

'You have updates to install. Please click to begin the download'

So I do. And it takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r.

'You must restart you system for updates to take effect'

I do that. And the system starts back up.

'You have updates to install Please click here to begin the download'

What? More?!? "Hey, mom! Do you ever get the updates when it tells you to?", I ask.

"No, I click the X on the box and close it. I never do that. I don't know what they are for", she replies.

".......", I'm thinking. So I click to get the new update and it not only takes 2 hrs but stalls in the process. So I try to start over and that makes things worse. It took another 2 hours to undo what it was trying to update.

Finally it's done and I put in the antivirus software. Then it can't download the current signatures to update itself. WHAT?!?

Try it again. No luck.

I'm working with a recycled laptop with XP installed, but it's like it's running at MS DOS speed with a 28K modem.

To cut to the chase, NOTHING worked like it was supposed to. After 6+ hours of putzing with the machine all I succeeded in doing was cursing at it.

I'm not a tech expert, so I had to leave it in other (hopefully) capable hands to solve.

All was not wasted though.

I managed to make a stop at a nearby coffee shop where they diplayed some art from a local artist. She has an anime-flair and I gave her link to Technogreek to maybe contact her for the upcoming ECCC in 2009. Hopefully she'll be there and if you're reading this blog and make it to the show, stop by and tell her you found out about her here.

Today should be a blast.

I've got the comic book release party to go to.

I'm not exactly what's all in store for when I get there, but I'll try to get pictures and post them soon afterwards.

I hope to see some of you there today. (I know some of you will be there at least!)

Did I Miss The Memo?

This struck me as odd last night when I was checking my email:
"Feds Issue Winter Weather Forecast"

What was that?
Oh they must mean about interest rates and whatnot during the winter (aka "holiday") season.

Um, no. The weather weather.
As in "Baby, it's cold outside. Better wear a jacket".

Since when did the Federal Government have anything to do with reporting and forecasting the weather?
I thought that only belonged to the realm of meteorologists and the Farmer's Almanac.

It's a good thing that Big Brother... er, the government is stepping in to tell us what the weather will be. I mean,with comments like this:
"The rest of the 48 contiguous states have equal chances of being warmer or cooler than normal, the forecast said."

We're sure to be in good hands.

Thank you Big Brother! I know I can trust you!

Music Madness Monday

Oh Snap!
You've been Rick-rolled!


Or has Rick been rolled himself? Hmmm....


Thanks to Elwood for bringing this to my attention!

Orbicularus Pacmanicus

The fossilized remains of an ancient prehistoric Pac-Man:







(Just kidding! Found out about it here.)

Death Race 2000

Well, okay maybe it's a little late for the "2000" part but you can still turn your car into an unstoppable killing machine with only a few adjustments.

Step Two:

(thanks via the Presurfer)

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Also, how to tell if your cat is planning to kill you!