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Thursday, March 29, 2012
My Close Encounter
Lots of people snapped pictures of me recently, and those people should send copies of those pictures to me! Or at least send me a link in the comment section of this article. My brief appearance in this Cliff Broadway video is thinly approved.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Mayan Theater
March 22, 2012 cell phone pictures to prove that I was there. From the floor of the
Mayan Theater Jules DeMartino playing guitar, drums, and things.
Katy White playing the cow bell. My soul is on fire and the only thing that will put this fire out is: More cow bell!
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Mayan Theater Jules DeMartino playing guitar, drums, and things.
Katy White playing the cow bell. My soul is on fire and the only thing that will put this fire out is: More cow bell!
Sunday, March 18, 2012
My Wondercon wrapup
The show is held in a cavernous building that defies belief. It was actually possible to sit in the front row for a bunch of panels. Compare and contrast Musician panel: Polite audience, moderator remains at podium, everyone listens takes a turn; .VS. Writer panel: Moderator roams around using wireless microphone, everyone listens and talks, then the audience rushes the stage at the end. When it's over the audience is supposed to leave! Or at least sit there and wave. Rant.
Rather enjoyed the Steampunk 101 panel (picture above). The panelists wore costumes! And the audience was polite which means the audience didn't rush up to the stage at the end.
Souveniers and things. Better pictures available elsewhere such as
fin.http://collider.com/wondercon-cosplay-images/152836/
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Friday, March 16, 2012
My Costume
Yes, Amy, this is a costume. I haven't worn one of these in ten years!
Shoes: Stacy Adams, Suit: Gianfranco Riffini, Shirt: Geoffrey Beene Tie: Jerry Garcia. Yes, that Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead. Good luck finding one of those ties for yourself.
Only two people recognized me all day and one of them was in the Holiday Inn Express glass elevator, you know who you are.
From the panel (ish) Quote, "TV execs want a show for boys only, not girls". What about Phineas and Ferb? Lotsa girls in that one.
Fin.
Shoes: Stacy Adams, Suit: Gianfranco Riffini, Shirt: Geoffrey Beene Tie: Jerry Garcia. Yes, that Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead. Good luck finding one of those ties for yourself.
Only two people recognized me all day and one of them was in the Holiday Inn Express glass elevator, you know who you are.
From the panel (ish) Quote, "TV execs want a show for boys only, not girls". What about Phineas and Ferb? Lotsa girls in that one.
Fin.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
My FURBOL
To begin, "FURBOL" is pronounced "Fur Ball" which is a cat joke. FURBOL is a computer language that my Windows 7 computer doesn't understand, and it comes from the Internet.
F.U.R.B.O.L.
Future
Unusable
Rotten
Business
Oriented
Language
This all started when I bought a Windows 7 computer and then got onto the internet using IE8. I found that I could see pictures in blogs from livejournal.com, but I couldn't see pictures in blogs from blogspot.com. Since I can see pictures in blogs from livejournal.com this sort-of-means that my computer is working.
Then I went to purchase tickets on-line from Ticketmaster. All went well until the anti-bot screen came up with a red frame and a red X inside of a red box. The anti-bot screen is supposed to show some weird words like this example from Frame Games:
[Frame Games picture example www.usaweekend.com web site not recommended because "Automation server can't create object" and "Script on www.usaweekend.com is making your computer run slowly" yada yada]
But then actually the anti-bot screen looks like this, a red X inside of a box.
[anti-bot screen won't show a picture]
The anti-bot wants me to type in the two words. What two words? The business transaction becomes stymied at this point, hence I can't close the deal and I have wasted my own time. I had to log out, change to a Windows XP computer, log in again, then I could actually see the anti-bot picture and then was finally able to spend my money while shopping on the internet. I was lucky that the event hadn't already sold out during the time that I had spent trying to get Windows 7 to work. I was also lucky that the Ticketmaster web site still works with Windows XP.
When I look at a web site in blogspot.com, I get results that look the same as the anti-bot results. Instead of a picture I can only see a red X inside of a box. Here is an example of what I can see on my Windows 7 computer while viewing a typical blogspot web site such as
http://warburtonlabs.blogspot.com
I can right click in the red X box and select "Show Picture" or "Open Link In New Window" but the result has always been the same, a red X inside of box. Until today! I used right click, show picture, and the internet coughed up a FURBOL. (Pronounced "Fur Ball").
[jpg picture of FURBOL code]
That FURBOL certainly isn't a picture, but it is something that came out of the internet and it got past Norton 360 on Windows 7 using IE8 on a fairly new computer. If you want the full FURBOL.txt file, send me an e-mail. (send to sumdangdik@earthlink.net )
fin.
F.U.R.B.O.L.
Future
Unusable
Rotten
Business
Oriented
Language
This all started when I bought a Windows 7 computer and then got onto the internet using IE8. I found that I could see pictures in blogs from livejournal.com, but I couldn't see pictures in blogs from blogspot.com. Since I can see pictures in blogs from livejournal.com this sort-of-means that my computer is working.
Then I went to purchase tickets on-line from Ticketmaster. All went well until the anti-bot screen came up with a red frame and a red X inside of a red box. The anti-bot screen is supposed to show some weird words like this example from Frame Games:
But then actually the anti-bot screen looks like this, a red X inside of a box.
The anti-bot wants me to type in the two words. What two words? The business transaction becomes stymied at this point, hence I can't close the deal and I have wasted my own time. I had to log out, change to a Windows XP computer, log in again, then I could actually see the anti-bot picture and then was finally able to spend my money while shopping on the internet. I was lucky that the event hadn't already sold out during the time that I had spent trying to get Windows 7 to work. I was also lucky that the Ticketmaster web site still works with Windows XP.
When I look at a web site in blogspot.com, I get results that look the same as the anti-bot results. Instead of a picture I can only see a red X inside of a box. Here is an example of what I can see on my Windows 7 computer while viewing a typical blogspot web site such as
I can right click in the red X box and select "Show Picture" or "Open Link In New Window" but the result has always been the same, a red X inside of box. Until today! I used right click, show picture, and the internet coughed up a FURBOL. (Pronounced "Fur Ball").
That FURBOL certainly isn't a picture, but it is something that came out of the internet and it got past Norton 360 on Windows 7 using IE8 on a fairly new computer. If you want the full FURBOL.txt file, send me an e-mail. (send to sumdangdik@earthlink.net )
fin.
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