14 May 2009
30 May 2007
Geek Alert! My 2+ Days at ReaperCon
So May has been a busy month, with ReaperCon and the family vacation to Disney World on adjacent weekends. ReaperCon was an absolute blast. Went with my good buddy SpiderHam to two of the four day event.
Sadly, I have no pictures of my own, since my camera batteries were dead, and replacements weren't readily at hand. So, I stole some from SH...
Here I am painting. Note how SH cleverly hid my suckage behind the lamp.
SH and I at the Warlord Dungeon Crawl. It was a lot of fun getting to play with $1,000 worth of dungeon and accessories.
Definitely had a good time. I have a great wife, by the way. She gives me space to do my own thing, which, I think, is the only way I could do a marriage. I bought a bag full of bits, a couple t-shirts, four bottles of paint, and several chicken sandwiches from the on-site Sonic guy. In addition to painting and playing the dungeon crawl, we played a Warlord demo (I think SH is hooked and leaning toward's buying some Razig's Revenge - the undead pirate faction). I went to a couple painting classes with professional mini painters, and we both went to a "kit bashing" class where we built our own mini out of spare parts. We also did a speed painting competition, where we had 45 minutes to do a paint job on an out of production miniature (and I can see why it's no longer on the market - no offense to the sculptor). Oh, yeah, and we had to use a set of weird-ass colors they gave us.
The result of my speed painting efforts:
My self-built mini. It's not a terribly dignified pose, but he's very unbalanced...and also he falls backward.
All is well with the universe.
Sadly, I have no pictures of my own, since my camera batteries were dead, and replacements weren't readily at hand. So, I stole some from SH...
Here I am painting. Note how SH cleverly hid my suckage behind the lamp.
SH and I at the Warlord Dungeon Crawl. It was a lot of fun getting to play with $1,000 worth of dungeon and accessories.
Definitely had a good time. I have a great wife, by the way. She gives me space to do my own thing, which, I think, is the only way I could do a marriage. I bought a bag full of bits, a couple t-shirts, four bottles of paint, and several chicken sandwiches from the on-site Sonic guy. In addition to painting and playing the dungeon crawl, we played a Warlord demo (I think SH is hooked and leaning toward's buying some Razig's Revenge - the undead pirate faction). I went to a couple painting classes with professional mini painters, and we both went to a "kit bashing" class where we built our own mini out of spare parts. We also did a speed painting competition, where we had 45 minutes to do a paint job on an out of production miniature (and I can see why it's no longer on the market - no offense to the sculptor). Oh, yeah, and we had to use a set of weird-ass colors they gave us.
The result of my speed painting efforts:
My self-built mini. It's not a terribly dignified pose, but he's very unbalanced...and also he falls backward.
All is well with the universe.
04 May 2007
The bleak 2008 Field
So the campaign is underway in earnest and it's time for me to start paying a bit more attention.
This test at SelecSmart.com gave me surprising results. I can't stand McCain, mainly because of the blatantly anti free speech Incumbent Protection Act. The only person I'm more disappointed with on that front is Bush, who disagreed, but didn't have the balls to veto, assuming instead that the Supreme Court would strike down the unconstitutional provision (it didn't).
This quiz, which may be a bit more accurate, puts Romney at only a 23% match. I was a bit surprised the libertarian Ron Paul only got 25%. It's telling that no one got over 50%, and I'm not surprised with the low agreement on social issues. Here are the top contenders.
This test at SelecSmart.com gave me surprising results. I can't stand McCain, mainly because of the blatantly anti free speech Incumbent Protection Act. The only person I'm more disappointed with on that front is Bush, who disagreed, but didn't have the balls to veto, assuming instead that the Supreme Court would strike down the unconstitutional provision (it didn't).
This quiz, which may be a bit more accurate, puts Romney at only a 23% match. I was a bit surprised the libertarian Ron Paul only got 25%. It's telling that no one got over 50%, and I'm not surprised with the low agreement on social issues. Here are the top contenders.
|  | Sam Brownback Republican Sr Senator (KS) | Biographical Profile Sam Brownback's answers Sam Brownback's stances | |||||||||||
|  | John McCain Republican Sr Senator (AZ); 2000 Primary Candidate for President | Biographical Profile John McCain's answers John McCain's stances | |||||||||||
|  | Duncan Hunter Republican Representative (CA-52) | Biographical Profile Duncan Hunter's answers Duncan Hunter's stances | |||||||||||
|  | Tom Tancredo Republican Representative (CO-6) | Biographical Profile Tom Tancredo's answers Tom Tancredo's stances | |||||||||||
|  | Rudy Giuliani Former Mayor of New York City; Republican Candidate for 2000 Senate (NY) | Biographical Profile Rudy Giuliani's answers Rudy Giuliani's stances | |||||||||||
|  | Tommy Thompson Former Secretary of H.H.S.; former Republican Governor (WI) | Biographical Profile Tommy Thompson's answers Tommy Thompson's stances | |||||||||||
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