as requested

2008.11.25

tux fitting?  check.

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camping

2008.11.14

camping/hiking left me stricken with an allergic reaction to poisin ivy.  more on that later.

otherwise it was fun 🙂

Categories : events  fun  photography

NOW LIE IN IT

2008.11.05

one of these is not like the others.

seriously though, it should be a fairly exciting four years.  let’s see how the next 2.5 months fare.

thanks for the image tmbo.

Categories : events  OMG DUDA WTF

car shots

2008.10.13

greg rode shotgun last saturday as a few drove around washtenaw county.  he managed some nifty shots of my car.  the rest of the set can be found over here

Categories : events  fun  photography  transportation

nothing changes

2008.09.14

if mccain/palin win, nothing gets better
if obama/biden win, nothing gets better
if senators x,y, and c win, nothing gets better
if representatives a,b, and c win, nothing gets better

same game.  new players trying to play the game better.

change the game instead.

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L A N

2008.07.01

mpcon!another mpcon is coming up, end of july.  you should go. 😀

my role as staff has grown over the last few events. i don’t play games much anymore, but it’s nice to help pull something like this off.  based on power, cooling, network, and internet requirements, this has been likened to setting up an adhoc datacenter for three days.

there’s a strong chance of penguicon staffers running some board/card/tabletop games, bringing additional variety to the event.

Categories : events  geek

G4G

2008.01.21

i help run this thing.  we could use your support. 🙂

Gamers for Giving

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when someone i know..

2007.06.18

…has something awesome going on, i feel compelled to share.

kate and mike have an art show at the susanne hilberry gallery in ferndale. its opening is this wednesday, 6/20/2007 @ 6pm.

art

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may day. houston we have a problem

2007.05.02

amanda brought home bear, a kitten from my brother’s litter. a tailless wonder who got sick every time she ate when we got her home.

we tried smaller doses, different food, softening it up, mixing it with different things, no success. about two weeks into it, she was losing energy and weight so we went to the vet who found nothing wrong. the vet gave us meds and feeding suggestions. still no success.

amanda took bear to another vet for the scheduled kitten shots appointment; that vet didn’t find anything but gave us some different food and scheduled her for some x-rays.

x-rays would reveal whether or not the hernia was causing her stomach problems. a barium exam (upper-GI for us humans,) would reveal any problems with her stomach or esophagus. the former exam and resulting surgery would have been cheaper, especially when performed by MSU’s vet school. the latter would have been obnoxiously prohibitively expensive for both.

food we got from the vet was a huge success. bear would eat it up and not get sick. she gained weight and her attitude improved. she acted like a kitten again!

today’s x-rays were inconclusive. the vet also said the openings in her stomach may have been too small and would only get worse as time went on.

in spite of seemingly getting better, she wasn’t. if she ate too much or we gave her too much, she would get sick. she has to be fed every hour or so, a teaspoon at a time.

i hadn’t left for work yet when amanda called me with the results. i met her at the vet because we knew what needed to be done. bear needed to be put to sleep. the vet said he would probably do the same thing.

euthanasia is a three-part process; first they give the animal an anesthetic to knock them out, followed by a stronger anesthetic, followed by a lethal dose of a barbiturate to stop their heart.

we stayed for the first shot; bear fell asleep in amanda’s arms, we put her on the examining table and walked out of the room.

it didn’t take long to get attached to the little furry bastard. rest in peace. 😥

Categories : events  OMG DUDA WTF

indies & art films?

2007.03.01

hazel showed us a flyer and schedule for the detroit film theatre, which is open again!

Categories : events  fun