Geek Kon 2011 photos

Sorry, put this post in the wrong place. Let me try this again.

For those of you not on Facebook, here's the pics I took at Geek Kon 2011:

Ooh, it slideshows all by itself! Nifty!

Anyhow, the convention was awesome--got to meet Sonny Strait, Jerry Jewell, John Kovalic and loads of wonderful folk of all kinds. I didn't get around nearly as much as I wanted to though--the hotel was horribly hot and I kept getting sick from it, so I spent a lot of time in our room guzzling water, sucking on ice and looking for the lightest things in my suitcase so I could eventually go have some fun my damned self.

There's also a great clip floating around the Net:

Daleks Chase Tortoise Through Hotel Lobby

I'm not embedding it--I haven't found a standard Blogger template that doesn't break on YouTube embeds so screw it. You Doctor Who fans will love it though.

I could babble on, but I'd like to get some of this up in other places too--the hardworking people on the staff of Geek Kon deserve all the kudos I can give them so I want to spread the fun.

laters!

They ALWAYS send you a letter-Jury Duty Scams

Great. It's supposed to snow 8-15 inches here before 7 pm tomorrow night.


And the Internet is icky too--turns out this scam really is a scam.


Someone calls your house and tells you that you missed Jury Duty you never knew you had and that there's a bench warrant out for your ass. THEN they tell you they can "clear it up" if you prove who you are, by giving a Social or a major credit card number plus your birthdate and don't be shocked if they ask for your mother's maiden name.


Just hang up.


Yep.


As per usual, it's a scam. Anytime someone's called for jury duty they get the letter. If you don't turn up then, MAYBE they call or come to the house. But not with a warrant unless they can prove you've dodging it. Which is hard to do so it's easier to just wait for you to turn up. But no one is calling your fine self first thing.


So hang up. To verify, call your Clerk of Courts in your county seat--they will have that information for you, if you really DID miss the letter, and they won't have you arrested. They'll just add you to the next pool, which if you ask me might just be worse. Yes, jury duty is a necessary obligation, but there is nothing in the law that declares that it must be either fun or fair, especially if you get paid $20 a day for it while your job at McD's pays BETTER. Lame, but that's life.


Verifying links:


http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp


http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

And everyone said my black cat was possessed...

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Cymbalta? There's a better way

Now that I have thyroid problems not solved by standard treatment, I have doctors once again trying to push me into taking crap from the Prozac family, like the one in the title--they pick that one because of the claims in advertising connecting it to chronic pain.

Well, I read a website that says there's a better way to do it. Check this out:


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I bet there are fewer side effects too.

Wish I could do this

I'm not into mornings. That's the understatement of the year--I dread them, I hate them, they hate me and most days just go uphill from there simply because there IS no downhill from waking up yelping from either my back, my shoulder or both.

I do like this pic--I just wish doing this worked for me:


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HT: Senor Gif

If I could see the days that go downhill from flopping out of bed, it might help. It wouldn't help on, say, next Tuesday. I KNOW that one will go downhill--up at 6, at the hospital at 8 with a doctor ready and waiting, scope in hand. I hate gastroscopies. Wish me luck.

More firms withdraw from Tokyo anime fair in ordinance protest › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

The damage caused by censorship isn't limited to restricting freedom of speech or supression of ideas not necessarily flattering to a given group or government, as illustrated in this article in Japan Today:

More firms withdraw from Tokyo anime fair in ordinance protest › Japan News and Discussion

Most who know me know I am more than a little irritated when I run across the use of censorship, but this isn't typically the reason. However, it does illustrate that the harm caused by strictly limiting the expression of concepts goes quite a ways beyond impairing the freedom of thought and expression so important to most arts. Most of the time the discussion of censorship and its effects doesn't include a mention of financial harm, even considering that burning books could be considered a waste of the money spent on the books, but today it's possible to put a monetary figure on the damage censorship causes.

Please do post your comments--I would love to hear what you all think on this one.

Paula Deen perverts the Late Late Show. Again.

Not only is the NSFW, it's NSFYP (Not safe for your pants--you stand a good chance of pissing yourself while watching this). Thanks to CBS for letting us embed this.

My mom has said more than once, "I bet she's a bawdy lady when she's not on the show".

This proves she's right.



There's another one from this year already where she's just as bad as this one. Maybe I'll post it another time.