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We are getting very near to Launch. It's likely that I'll be performing this weekend.
The backpack is mostly finished.
Dave got all of the wiring straightened out,
and it's all super cool. That tube that the speaker arms are attached to is completely full of wires and such, which keeps the pack itself really roomy and organized for the computer.
The vents that I installed on the pack not only look cool- but they each have a fan mounted in them that pulls air into the pack to keep the laptop cool, since I'll be running it with the lid closed.
Tonight, I threw the rig and the pack on, and used it all powered up for the first time. On Wednesday, I'll give it a real trial run, with the computer hooked up, the costume on, and everything. I'll take pictures and post 'em.
In other news: Laura and I broke up a little over a week ago. I miss her a lot, and am waiting for time to do its healing thing. Tick tock tick tock ooch.
Time done already healed my flayed thumb, though. Now I have to keep it from getting all floppy.
Also- I had given up on hearing back from Fantagraphics about my book, but Sacto Seanno prodded me into contacting the publisher, so I did. Turns out, it was misplaced and he's gonna look for it. He seems sincerely interested in finding it. I'm not getting my hopes up, but it would be amazing if I was published by them. I mean- he did request that I send it to him after seeing a sample of it. That would be one of the greatest things that I could think of for my first book. Damn. Well- actually making some money off of it would be even better, but whattaya gonna do?
Oh yeah- and by the way: Yay for Reagan kicking off! YAY YAY YAY YAY! The whole lovefest that he's getting in the press makes me wanna puke. God, did I loathe that man. Good riddance.
The big, fat words of eeno at June 08, 2004 01:59 AM
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please fill me in. whaz da costume fer? you pimping a product?
muji's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on June 8, 2004 09:31 PM
PS: Dave looks like a evil scientist hell bent on taking over the world with his new flying death ray invention.
muji's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on June 8, 2004 09:32 PM
hasn't reagen been dead for 8 or 9 years now? what's all the fuss about?
Mark's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on June 8, 2004 09:47 PM
A few years ago, after some prodding by friends who had become familiar with my 59 word stories, I submitted a packet of 40 or more to the Sacramento News & Review's annual writing contest. I had seen the winners' stories of many years earlier printed in the paper and thought, "Ooog, those are crraap! But, hey, cool idea." So I sat down and promptly pumped out 3. The spooky part was how each one came out to be exactly 59 words, before I even word counted. I didn't really care about the whole contest thing, mostly I just liked telling them to friends here and there, but since it was the last day of the contest I figured, "Ahh, what the hell," and I hand delivered the bundle to the front desk of the News & Review. Weeks later when the winners were printed I did a quick scan and found pages of more "crraap" but not one of my stories anywhere. It just didn't make sense, I mean at least one out of the bunch should have made it in. So I called up the News & Review, thinking maybe the receptionist left my packet sitting somewhere and never delivered it to the right mailbox. I got connected to the editor who had chose the winners and she did a quick search around her office and the massive piles of entries. She found the packet but immediately apologized that by the time mine got to her she had already picked the winners, couldn't stand to see even one more and just round filed the whole bunch. She then took a moment to read a few and then apologized further commenting that these were far better than what she had chosen. I told her flat out that I thought the whole thing sucked. I didn't even want to do the contest thing to begin with but I did get them down there before the cut-off date and I felt I should have at least been given a fair shot. She tried to appease me by saying I would be welcome to join the selected authors doing a live reading of their stories at a coffeehouse. At first I thought, "Fuck 'em," but a few days later I decided to do it. I planned on reading just a couple favorites but the audience kept saying they wanted more and so I read about 12 or so, with great response. It seemed to satisfy my frustration with the contest's haphazard selection process and that was that. So I thought. About 6 months later I got a letter from a newspaper editor residing in San Luis Opisbo who was creating a book of short stories from all over the world and he had seen mine and wanted to publish at least 7 of them. Apparently he was old college chums with the News & Review editor who, as it turned out, forwarded my packet onto him. I signed a release contract and the deal was done. About 6 months later the book, titled THE WORLD'S SHORTEST STORIES OF LOVE AND DEATH, came out in stores everywhere, shortly followed by an audio book version. That's the best, hearing somebody I don't even know reading my own stories (and doing it better than me!) So long story short (but obviously not quite short enough), if I had just sat back and pissed and moaned about this stupid little local writing contest and not gotten on the horn with the people in charge and tooted my own horn a little, my packet of now published stories would have mistakenly been nothing more than dumpster fodder in a suburban Sacramento landfill. It's time for ya to go tootin', my friend. Get on the horn! You've got good stuff, someone's gonna notice.
And, by the way, there's strong evidence showing that Reagan actually died at the time of the Hinkley shooting and has been purely the product of high-tech animatronics ever since. Amazing, isn't it? You can hardly tell the difference.
Sacto Seano's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on June 9, 2004 02:15 AM
wow... this must happen all over the place, because the winning entries of every newspaper contest i've ever seen are pure crraap.
Mark's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on June 9, 2004 02:25 PM
I've figured out why Ronnie was is dang popular now... he wasn't a good Prez (in fact, he was a lousy Prez, IMHO), but he ~acted~ the part quite well. (Too bad it was Real Life instead of a circa-50s movie....)
And Neener, are you sure your thumb is ok? It looks all puffy and swollen and such.... (Don't get Floppy Thumb....)
Seed's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on June 10, 2004 03:19 AM
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